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  1. Re:Registration? on Washington Post Blog Shuts Down 75% of Online Spam · · Score: 1

    It's not asking me for a login (Could be as I'm Canadian and in Canada), but did you try bugmenot??

  2. Re:Have no fear! on Washington Post Blog Shuts Down 75% of Online Spam · · Score: 2, Funny

    It'll make you rock hard, but then it will crumble after a few months.

  3. Re:What is the price of US free market? on EU Council Refuses To Release ACTA Documents · · Score: 1

    That should be a "B", not an "M". And the actual number looks more like 2T and growing.

  4. Re:states rights! on Former IBM Exec Ordered To Stop Working For Apple · · Score: 1

    Apple's headquarters (presumably where a VP would work) is located in Cupertino, California.

  5. Re:I know what bone marrow transplants do to peopl on German Doctor Cures an HIV Patient With a Bone Marrow Transplant · · Score: 1

    The thing about this is, if I'm understanding it right, is that the radiation part is not needed for this, as the HIV is already keeping the immune system sufficiently suppressed, allowing for a graceful transition from the old marrow to the new marrow.

  6. Re:Yeah great and all on German Doctor Cures an HIV Patient With a Bone Marrow Transplant · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm pretty sure that mortality rate is due to the fact that they are already in bad shape (advanced leukemia, auto-immune, etc.) prior to the transplant, in addition to the fact that you need to wipe out their immune system (via radiation or some other method) prior to the transplant which results in them having no immune system until the donor marrow takes hold, which means that pretty much any kind of infection will kill them and creating and maintaining a completely sterile environment for that length of time is difficult. AFAICT, the wiping out is not needed in this case, as the virus is already suppressing the immune system, allowing a more graceful transition to the new marrow.

  7. Re:i hope they burn on Two New Class-Action Suits Against EA Over DRM · · Score: 1, Funny

    i hope they burn (Score:1, Flamebait)

    How appropriate.

  8. Re:use the cans, luke on After 4 Years, HydrogenAudio Opens New 128kbps Listening Test · · Score: 1

    It depends entirely on the room the speakers are in. If the room isn't any good (size, shape, irregularities, etc.), it doesn't matter how good the speakers are, they'll still get blown out of the water by a good pair of headphones.

  9. Re:28 MPH is not fast enough for realistic street. on Compressed-Air Car Nears Trial · · Score: 1

    Where are you? The usual in-city speed limit here is 31 mph (50kph).

  10. Re:So, what have they found? on China Hijacks Popular BitTorrent Sites · · Score: 3, Informative

    A little of each. Baidu is a publicly traded corp on NASDAQ and it also operates in Japan, though this is definitely a case of government connections.

  11. Re:"Propaganda" on Obama Launches Change.gov · · Score: 1

    Constitutional authorization is debatable. Providing health care could certainly be considered to fall under the general welfare clause, depending on who you ask. Alexander Hamilton (The Federalist Papers) would likely agree with it.

  12. Re:"Propaganda" on Obama Launches Change.gov · · Score: 1

    Look closer. It's $40 of tax credit per hour, not $40 of cash. Tax credits just reduce your taxable income. Assuming you were into the top tax bracket (35% on income over $357,700), you'd be "earning" $14/hour (35% of $40) under this deal and less as you go down the brackets, down to $4/hour if you're in the lowest bracket (10% on income under $8025).

  13. Re:"Propaganda" on Obama Launches Change.gov · · Score: 1

    $40 of tax credit per hour, not $40 of cash. The tax credit takes that much off your taxable income, so your actual "earnings" on it would be $4000*your tax rate. For the highest bracket (35%, for income over $357,700), that would be equivalent in savings to $14/hour. For a college student, they're likely in the first 2 brackets (10% on $0 to $8025 and 15% on $8026 to $32,550), so that would be from $4 to $6 per hour.

  14. Re:Anti-White Racism in the Afro Community on Obama Launches Change.gov · · Score: 3, Interesting

    From my Canadian POV, I see 3 main reasons why Mccain lost:

    1. Palin.
    2. The continuous attack ads made him seem like a jerk.
    3. His "de-mavericking" over the past few years, leading people to ask "WTF does this guy actually stand for?".

  15. Re:Credit Card Companies on Old Malware Tricks Still Defeat Most AV Scanners · · Score: 1

    UAC is a perfectly fine idea. Linux/Unix have been doing much the same with sudo (+its various GUI wrappers) for years. UAC is just a lousy implementation, which can (hopefully) be rectified.

  16. Re:Credit Card Companies on Old Malware Tricks Still Defeat Most AV Scanners · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Problem being, with lots of machines, they become infected on such a regular basis that your "unusual behaviour" is common enough that it becomes usual behaviour!

  17. Re:Sarcasm on Craigslist Agrees With State AGs To Curb "Erotic Services" Ads · · Score: 1

    I think the point has been repeatedly made here that they don't even fix the symptom.

  18. Re:Sarcasm on Craigslist Agrees With State AGs To Curb "Erotic Services" Ads · · Score: 1

    Weren't those tossed out along with sodomy laws in the Lawrence v. Texas decision?

  19. Re:I'm kind of suprised ... on Craigslist Agrees With State AGs To Curb "Erotic Services" Ads · · Score: 1

    Seems to be more anti-stupid-pointless-counter-effective-morality-police-legislation than pro-prostitution.

  20. Re:Duh on Games To Outsell Music, Video In UK · · Score: 1

    You're making the assumption that all games are single-player games. Practically every recent highly popular game has had some form of multiplayer mode, and in a lot of cases, the multiplayer is the main of the game.

  21. Re:Not very good blocking software on Australian Censorship Bypassed Before Live Trials · · Score: 1

    At my college, games.slashdot.org is blocked.

    Or a quick way to find something blocked is to simply google the title of a blocked websense category.

    Or this page is quite likely to be blocked on most configurations : http://www.peacefire.org/censorware/WebSENSE/

  22. Re:It can "work" on Australian Censorship Bypassed Before Live Trials · · Score: 1

    Well, they've listed patches for their music DRM system as such critical updates, so it doesn't seem very out of character.

  23. Re:It can "work" on Australian Censorship Bypassed Before Live Trials · · Score: 2, Interesting

    He mentioned adding it to the root certs to get around that. Just persuade Microsoft to add it as a "critical automatic update" and the majority of people won't notice a thing.

  24. Re:Not very good blocking software on Australian Censorship Bypassed Before Live Trials · · Score: 3, Informative

    My college uses websense, but Tor goes right through it, and with ready-packaged stuff like xB Browser and OperaTor, it's readily available for practically anyone as long as you can grab the program once (long live the sneakernet).

  25. Re:No restraint of free speech... on Supreme Court To Rule On TV Censorship · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Explain how that is different from the current "free speech zone" nonsense.

    Both strike me as a clear and obvious violation.