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  1. Re:you assume obscene amounts of money aren't req' on Robot for India's Moon Mission by IIT Kanpur · · Score: 1

    Did you really expect any better from the Euro-trash and Turd Worlders? Their entire self-image revolves around mocking the US for not being just like them.

    You can be sure that if NASA didn't exist, the very same pipsqueak malcontents would be slagging us for our self-centered, materialistic disregard for the wonders of space exploration.

    Amusingly NASA does exist but the majority still have a self-centered, materialistic disregard for the wonders of space exploration.
  2. Re:Trust? on Shredded Secret Police Files Being Reassembled · · Score: 1

    You all are wasting your time. The NSA doesn't exist. That's right. Above the exit to the NSA buildings are signs which read "Guys remember, 1st and 2nd rules apply. Now GTFO"
  3. Re:Disposal? on Mercury Contamination Vs. Energy-Efficient Lightbulbs · · Score: 1

    Also, when you do find a place to dispose of these items in an environmentally responsible manner, you still have to get there.

    I already have a a couple of recycle boxes at home to store up metals, plastics, paper for recycling. But i cant be having a separate box for mercury contaminated goods and who knows what other subdivisions. So i have to take an environmentally damaging car journey each time a bulb dies (around 30kms round trip for me) to my local mercury disposal facility (city dump). Just another factor in the environmental sum.

  4. Re:Optimistically... on New Australian Laws To Censor Terror DVDs · · Score: 1

    Ruddock is a consertaive (forget which religion he was though), in Australia non-consertiatives are a majority and ussually don't take kindly to consertative types. Unfortunatlly this position is not someone can elect, he is technically ranked higher than the Prime Minister (and apparently could sack the PM whenever he wants) and he is hand picked by the Queen.

    So basically this guy is an asshole and we are stuck with him until we get rid of the poms in our ranks (No offence UK, but Ruddock is a true asshole and we NEED to get rid of him)

    And why people voted to keep us under a monach I will never know. Yup thats the Aussie way. Anything thats good and right with Australia is due to Australians. Anything thats bad about Australia is due to some legacy of the English, or due to the Monarchy, or its New Zealands fault. Its amusing in a sad kind of way.
  5. Re:Engineering building on Many Dead In Virginia Tech Shooting · · Score: 1

    England is not the only country with strict gun laws, but happens to be the exception with more homicides. England used to allow handguns up to 1997 so there are more guns than for example in germany or the netherlands that never allowed guns. The homicide rates (with guns) are an order of magnitude lower than in the US/UK. I dont know what you on about. Germany has 4 times the firearm related murder of the UK, to take one of your examples. USA is 27 times the rate of the UK. http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur_wit_fir_ percap-crime-murders-firearms-per-capita
  6. Re:Hey what's that option there? on P2P Program to Match Files to Product Origin · · Score: 1

    I really wish I'd done that before purchasing "Who Killed the Zutons?". (The answer, btw, is "The Zutons")
    Awww man, Put spoiler tags at the top of your post next time. j/k
  7. Re:Wait...? on Dungeons & Dragons and IT · · Score: 1

    You, sir, made me rofl

  8. Re:40k? on THQ Announces Warhammer 40K MMOG · · Score: 2, Funny

    40k... Apparently they already know their peak membership numbers! Thanks folks, Cybereal will be here all week. Try the veal.
  9. Re:Copyright? on MPAA Fires Back at AACS Decryption Utility · · Score: 1

    To do so you have to be privy to secret information (i.e. keys). To obtain these you must be an AACS LA licensee, or obtain them illicitly.
    Reading some bytes from memory is not an illegal act. Maybe you should go read the Doom9 boards and see how this was all done rather than assuming some terrible illegal omgHAx0r stuff was happening.
  10. Re:MAFIAA gets their way on DoD Warez Leader Faces 10 Years in Jail · · Score: 5, Insightful

    to face charges of conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement and one count of actual criminal copyright infringement. If found guilty he faces 10 years in jail & a $500,000 fine.

    Meanwhile, a drunk driver who kills someone can get off scott free, with no jail time at all. Sweet. Ah you've made the oft repeated mistake of assuming laws are created to protect people, rather than protect profits.
  11. Re:More than Australia on Australia Outlaws Incandescent Light Bulb · · Score: 2, Funny

    Being a vegan... ... I probably contribute *vastly* less to CO2 emissions than you do. Yes but probably far more to methane levels, and thats a far worse greenhouse gas I'm afraid.
  12. Re:Horseshoe racket on HD-DVD and Blu-Ray Protections Fully Broken · · Score: 1

    Am i the jello or the swimming pool? see i think you analogy fails becau... oh wait, I see what you did there.

  13. Re:All DRM implementations will be broken. on HD-DVD and Blu-Ray Protections Fully Broken · · Score: 1

    TPM can also be used to secure media delivery. However, in order to really prevent sophisticated pirates from stealing the HD content, the _entire_ data path must be encrypted. This includes all the electrical signaling up to and including the pixels themselves.

    You mean i need to decrypt the signal somewhere between the surface of the view screen and my brain? Thats gonna be an issue...
  14. Re:ugh on Porn Industry May Not Decide Format War · · Score: 1

    You don't want to see My Precious??? urgh it smells of fishes-es-es
  15. Re:Better now than later.. on Parking Attendant 2.0 · · Score: 1

    Funny you should say that. The USB spec's quite clear that electrons should only be supplied to devices that are exchanging data with the host. Well that would be somewhat of an issue with a USB powered harddrive... which comes first, the data to initiate power, or the power to allow data exchange?
  16. Re:Better now than later.. on Parking Attendant 2.0 · · Score: 1

    But does it run linux?

    Funny you should ask that. This morning I was waking up at my desk. Slurping coffee and deleting spam when a co-worker wandered past with a discharged mobile phone. He borrowed a USB cable to charge it from his PC but came back because windows tried and failed to find drivers for that type of phone and refused to supply electrons to charge it.

    He solved the problem by plugging it into a linux box, which doesn't expect to have drivers for mobile phones, but it raises an issue about the "drivers for everything, even standard things" approach of windows. Will you be told that a windows controlled car park can't accept your car because it doesn't have the drivers to interrogate your sound system to verify the validity of your CD collection?

    Thus is complete crap. USB sockets are powered or not powered but there's no driver deciding to turn power on or off for a particular device. I recharge plenty of devices via usb under windows without bothering to install drivers. Try again troll.
  17. Re:NOT Oblig on Enemy At The Water Cooler · · Score: 2, Funny

    I am an obligatory old joke you insensitive clod!

  18. Re:Why haven't these fascist assholes been impeach on US Attorney General Questions Habeas Corpus · · Score: 1

    Because Americans are full of ignorant people who don't really care. The majority of Americans really just don't care and it is sad. America just be called The new Rome. Supply the people with entertainment and people could care less about what is happening at the top. Exactly, and its not just America, but all the western English speaking countries.

    And I'll be wanting some bread with those circuses, thank you very much.
  19. Re:Seizure on IsoHunt Shut Down? · · Score: 2, Funny

    stroke? Not now dear, I'm at work
  20. Re:FrostWire on Alan Cox Files Patent For DRM · · Score: 1

    Someone forgot to take their happy medicine this morning didn't they.

    You are very entertaining. I mod you +1, Amusing Way To Pass The Working Day. You're welcome.

  21. Re:next up on George Orwell Was Right — Security Cameras Get an Upgrade · · Score: 1

    The brits dont' have it as one single statement like in the US Constitution. There is precedent all over starting with the Magna Carta, but it's a product of parliamentary and judicial case law limiting the Absolute power of the Crown, not an actual written statement. There is ultimately still the underlying idea that the "Crown" has 100% control of life or death and thru that, the state and police. It would be like allowing George Bush to just grab and try any person, on any street, at any time... our system in the USA is built specifically to NOT ALLOW that! Under US law that would be 100% State case, the President and federal agents would have no jurisdiction unless it was a federal agent or federal property. UK laws have more power that US federal laws... They're a combination National/State govt... there's not the same separation of "jurisdictions" that exist here in the USA. The Crown is the Crown all over, all the time. You know how on Slashdot, alot of non-USians make nonsense posts and show just how clueless they are of US politics and laws, well... you get my point.
  22. Re:I, For One on George Orwell Was Right — Security Cameras Get an Upgrade · · Score: 2

    Talk about a straw man: this technology makes nothing as 'omniscient as God', and it's a bad 'slippery slope' line of thought to think that it's going to lead to that.

    Lawlessness should never be tolerated. Or will you let someone kill one of your family members, since (as you say) "a free society must tolerate some lawnessness or it is no longer free"? Come on: sacrifice a loved one for the good of the nation, I dare you.

    Amusing that you should chastise someone elses strawman and then build one of your own.
  23. Re:But... on Firefly MMORPG Announced · · Score: 1

    SShhhh, don't spoil this beautiful moment....

  24. Re:The end? on BitTorrent, Inc. Acquires uTorrent · · Score: 1, Insightful

    How about just stick with the existing version and don't upgrade?

  25. Re:Tailgating on Detecting Tailgaters With Lasers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Mod -1: Asshole. You are the problem.