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  1. Re:For every day purposes on New Connections For Stretchable, Twistable Electronics · · Score: 1

    Hey, the nerdliest of headphone designers may make great sound, but their options for replicating their DNA leave them limited to the more eccentric solutions.

  2. Re:Cisco should be careful on Cisco Mulls Adding Verbal Interview To CCIE Exams · · Score: 1

    That right there is why Cisco certifications are valuable to have; a company will pay you to be a guru for their networking equipment so they never have to call Bangalore about it.

  3. Re:What about other certs? on Cisco Mulls Adding Verbal Interview To CCIE Exams · · Score: 1

    The CCIE lab exam that this interview is being added to is an 8-hour troubleshooting session on a network of real Cisco equipment.

  4. Re:It is just WASTE. Fuck the E! on The Scope of US E-Waste · · Score: 1

    I think the poster is actually trying to demonstrate that "electronic" is an illogical catagorization of waste. How is the original purpose of the material relevant? I think that the timeline in which the waste breaks down and its toxicity are far more relevant than whether the waste was originally part of a device that performed a logic function with electricity. Classifying it as "technology" is even less sensical; a discarded ax handle is "technology", it just isn't shiny and lacks blue LEDs.

  5. Re:Fiat? on All of Vietnam's Government Computers To Use Linux, By Fiat · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Always had a soft spot for "Fucker Only Runs Downhill"

  6. Re:Taxation without representation on Oregon Governor Proposes Vehicle Mileage Tax · · Score: 1

    Rich people also spend a lot more than poor people, and thus pay more sales tax. In the corner case of someone's income far outstripping their consumption, I would argue that the sales tax is more equitable, since it measures your actual rather than potential ability to take from the overall pie. Additionally, there are typically sales tax breaks that wealthy consumption patterns don't get to take advantage of (for example, sales tax on prepared foods but not bulk foods, sales tax exemptions on cheaper clothing, etc).

  7. Re:About Time on Misdemeanor Plea Ends Norwich Pornography Case · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That was so that the justice system could point to something and say "See! She IS a deviant! We didn't incarcerate an innocent and waste everyone's time and taxdollars over something that is frivolous by inspection!".

  8. Re:its just a car. on Toyota Demands Removal of Fan Wallpapers · · Score: 1

    The people in the Jobs Bank have zero right to the profits the company produces; they sat it a room doing nothing for 8 hours a day for full pay. I have no problem with reducing executive compensation dramatically when a company performs poorly, but you need to also give management the power to reshape the workforce without massive payoffs and lengthy negotiations.

  9. Re:its just a car. on Toyota Demands Removal of Fan Wallpapers · · Score: 1

    You can buy American made, small, fuel efficient cars if you want to from the Big Three; a Focus gets like 40mpg. The financial situation is more due to ruinous union demands like the Jobs Bank.

  10. Re:Have you seen Breaking Bad? on How Regulations Hamper Chemical Hobbyists · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I grew up with a heroin lab on one side and a dog owner on the other. The dog owner was a constant irritation from day one, with the dog barking at all hours and crapping on the lawn. The heroin lab were decent neighbors who didn't really affect us until the night the cops came. Make all the meth/heroin/whatever you want, but keep your blasted dogs away, I say!

  11. Re:Why not use... on Casting Doubt On the Hawkeye Ball-Calling System · · Score: 1

    How does deformation affect the concept of "touches"? Is the ruling different if the ball splatters like an overripe tomato or ricochets like a billiard ball?

  12. Re:Anonymous Coward on Casting Doubt On the Hawkeye Ball-Calling System · · Score: 1

    Adding a fourth satellite is beneficial to allow you to solve for time. Since the system solves based on the timeshift of the signal received from each satellite, the accuracy of the receiver's clock can reduce the precision of the position solution.

  13. Re:Why not use... on Casting Doubt On the Hawkeye Ball-Calling System · · Score: 1

    I didn't understand in the article, and I don't understand now, why the deformation of the ball on impact is at all important. I was under the impression that the system is tracking the ball's position continuously; if so, why would any sort of collision simulation be necessary?

  14. Re:Jail time, that will teach him on Student Faces 38 Years In Prison For Hacking Grades · · Score: 1

    Most certainly there will be little or no jail time; as a non-violent first-offending teenager with rich parents, he's pretty safe there. The law-and-order response of "the law was broken so his life is over" just seemed inappropriate.

  15. Re:A for effort? on Student Faces 38 Years In Prison For Hacking Grades · · Score: 1

    Well, an academic comparison is generally between the 'A' students of the institutions being compared; the fellow in the article obviously wasn't taking advantage of what the school offered him. My point is just that this wasn't some daycare-style public school where he was bored and lashing out, but that there was actually the opportunity for him to get a real education there that he turned down in favor of cheating.

  16. Re:Jail time, that will teach him on Student Faces 38 Years In Prison For Hacking Grades · · Score: 1

    The guy is most certainly a criminal. The question is what will his place in society be in 38 years? A 56 year old who has spend more than 2/3 of his life in prison is going to be a waste of a person, not to mention the resources that will be needed to support them. Beyond punitive retribution for wrongs committed, there needs to be some kind of constructive correction.

  17. Re:A for effort? on Student Faces 38 Years In Prison For Hacking Grades · · Score: 4, Informative

    This guy was actually at a really expensive private school, one of the best from an academic standpoint in the country.

  18. Re:Hardly an outbreak of common sense... on SCOTUS Grants Guantanamo Prisoners Habeas Corpus · · Score: 3, Insightful

    While the Magna Carta is not a defining document of US law, it has been in effect elsewhere in the world for quite a long time. I would certify that we've tried this habeas corpus thing for long enough that if there was some danger in telling people what their crime was, it would have come up sometime in the last 800 years.

  19. Re:Sudden? on SCOTUS Grants Guantanamo Prisoners Habeas Corpus · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Just because someone is a sadistic dil-weed doesn't mean that sadistic dil-weedhood is conditionally ok. Seems kinda hypocritical to give up our nation's ideals of justice in defense of those same ideals.

  20. Re:Workaround on Federal Court Says First-Sale Doctrine Covers Software, Too · · Score: 2, Informative

    At least the site license sold to the local technical school near me requires a dial-in to validate it the first time each feature is used. It presented an interesting problem for creating restoration images, as even after validating the install on the (internet connected) master machine, the (more restricted) user machines would periodically die as the user found a feature that the administrator hadn't used before taking the image (knowing of the scheme, the master machine was worked through a series of exercises before the image was made).

  21. Re:Good God on Pidgin Controversy Triggers Fork · · Score: 1

    Certainly not all configuration options are created equal; the settings that are most commonly changed should be presented ahead of the more nit-picking ones. The problem with a lot of applications is that they just clip the options at the most used ones, and offer not even a convoluted way to alter them.

  22. Re:Good God on Pidgin Controversy Triggers Fork · · Score: 1

    In an SDI app, multiple objects open would each be represented by a different toplevel window. In the 2000 and 2003 versions of Office, there are individual toplevel windows, but they're forced to occupy the same screen space (ie, move one, they all move). It basically acts like MDI, except without the option for tiling.

  23. Re:Finally! on Comcast Proposes Self Regulation and P2P Bill of Rights · · Score: 1

    There already are contracts between every single customer and their cable company. Why is there a need for some new uniform agreement? If Comcast wants to limit the service provided to most consumers, then they can just write that down in the service agreement. This whole "bill of rights" is a charade to continue selling one thing (unlimited transfer) and providing another (a limited, filtered connection designed to minimize transfer).

  24. Re:Which is worse, Terrorism, or the RIAA on Feds Overstate Software Piracy's Link To Terrorism · · Score: 1

    It's possible I'd get off on self defense if I shot the bombing one ... so that one.

  25. Re:Car chases are going to get even better! on Aerial Drones To Help Cops In Miami · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I've always said that CVS is a lot less likely to stage a driveby shooting of Walgreens than Racially Neutral Name 1 is to stage a driveby of Racial Neutral Name 2's illicit drug operation.