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  1. Re:Automatically redacts the same content... on Xerox's 'Intelligent Redaction' Scanners · · Score: 1

    Or, assuming that getting that information is too difficult for the average office worker. You could cause some good workplace disruption by redacting every common phrase you have time to enter. Document after document would then be almost fully redacted. Hilarity ensues!

  2. Automatically redacts the same content... on Xerox's 'Intelligent Redaction' Scanners · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So, once you have marked a certain confidential information as confidential, it will do it automatically in other documents. Which means that for the low, low price of your time, you can submit a document with "fill-in the blanks" text until it redacts the same parts and BANG you know what the redacted section was...:D

  3. Re:Yet again on Is the Internet Bad For Professional Writers · · Score: 1

    HTML is bad for _______, because it takes all those ______________ that you put in a row and only shows them as one _. So, if you would say that not being represented fully is a bad thing, then the HTML part of the internet is bad for ______.

  4. Re:Er, what? on New Hope for Jackson Hobbit Film? · · Score: 4, Funny

    They can also inject the revelation that Frodo has an unusually high midichlorian count. Something has to explain the hobbits unnatural hardiness against the dark call of the ring! Why not explain it with random new science!

  5. Re:I got to know on Indiana Jones Gets Robbed · · Score: 1

    Strong encryption on the desktop? Or maybe better human security. I'm tired of strong encryption/other computer security bogging down the PC I work on, the network I use to work with files, etc...I'd rather have a security by fear (death by firing squad for offenders) so that it doesn't take me 15 minutes to open a file while anti-virus and other security software compete back and forth checking each other's attempts to check what's going on.

  6. Re:Incredibly useful for construction on Headband Gives Wearer "Sixth-Sense" · · Score: 1

    However, you would most likely remove the device, along with your hard hat, after having successfully ducked the first two swings so that you could tap on Curly's shoulder to let him know how insenstive he was being only to have him turn around wildly again and bash you brains in with that same board.

  7. Re:And so the first one dies. on Auto Assault Goes Sunset Tonight · · Score: 0, Troll

    There will be just two. The last player and last GM in the game when they pull the plug. They will have been the only two people in game for the last 2 years the game is running. The developers actually planned on taking it down December 2010, but the GM was the big boss's nephew. To keep him going they kept one player in the game with the final expansion released in January of 2011 raising the level cap to 400. The next two years the one player spent grinding 35 characters on 7 different realms to the level cap. Got half of them into wormhole riding mounts. And was just about to finish soloing She-ra (level 300 raiding boss) when the plug was pulled. Thankfully, they will only really have committed suicide in-game. It will take them nearly three weeks to realize this, however. The player will finally figure it out when his 90yo mom breaks down the basement door because the smell has gotten into the kitchen again. The GM will figure it out when the Blizzard janitor turns on the lights to mop up the urine stain the GM left when he thought it was all over.

  8. Re:Human consciousness on Computer Game Predicts Player Moves · · Score: 1

    Which is why, if you're not careful, or if you're not fully in control of your faculties (drunk) and you think about bitchslapping someone, you will bitchslap them without consciously trying to.

  9. Unfortunately.... on Computer Game Predicts Player Moves · · Score: 4, Funny

    Unfortunately the research was found to be flawed when they discovered that 99% of the test subjects were playing Night elf characters in World of Warcraft. This was pinpointed just prior to a potentially embarassing follow-up news release of a study showing the connection between frequency of spacebar usage and use of the phrase "come on flip already dammit!"

  10. Re:*yawn* on Halo 3 Has Gone Gold · · Score: 1

    But the flood really do relate quite well to hitlerian ideals. The idea that those dirty humans don't deserve to live!

  11. Re:Put down the crack pipe and pick up a book on TorrentSpy Must Preserve Data In RAM For MPAA · · Score: 1

    I'm fairly certain that most police and courts would rather not have a constant flow of "criminals" of this variety being caught and processed. It's not exactly a glorious or even profitable venture for them. They want a way to solidly prosecute a real case against someone who actually does commit a crime. The MPAA on the other hand really does want you to be instantly guilty as the less time they spend on each case, the more people they can stop from eating through their latest billion dollar movie.

  12. Re:Why not both? on The Downsides of Software as Service · · Score: 1

    Well, you see, if the main OS used by a majority of businesses suddenly goes SaS, what does it matter if other software vendors don't? You still aren't installing software on your machine. Worse, maybe you have to run SaS software packages through an SaS operating system! Holy crap can you imagine the latency issues.

  13. Re:What if the multimedia content is on the networ on Mark Russinovich On Vista Network Slowdown · · Score: 1

    You mean like how a MediaCenter PC works? I think the short answer is that MSFT is saying F U! I am usually up for defending MS decisions, but this feels a lot like some of the things I've seen R&D teams come up with when left to their own devices with no true reality check. It rubs me way the wrong way.

  14. Re:Oops! My bad! on Low-Energy Neutrinos Detected In Real Time · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not so fast! Try taking a drink from the firehose on this one. You'll see that while the main link is still there, he DID include a link back to ZDnet that got edited out!

  15. Re:Dang on Stretching Crystals Promise Bendy, Full-Color Displays · · Score: 1

    Just put a few 100W bulbs behind it in a box that you tape to the back.

  16. Re:The other advantages of using Firefox on A Campaign to Block Firefox Users? · · Score: 1

    Or he could stop being retarded and accept that a website knowing that you're running IE 7.0.1.1.3.1.5.15.1 or Firefox 2.0.1.5 doesn't actually tell them anything private about you as a person. Unless, of course, if he also has configured is webbrowser to add his SS#, Drivers License #, home address, home phone, mother's maiden name, weiner size/breast size and sexual preference onto the user agent response.

  17. Re:Funny on Manhattan 1984 · · Score: 1

    Privacy is mentioned nowhere in the oh so accurate wikipedia link you posted earlier. When I say cite a reference, I don't mean pretend to cite one by posting a founding fathers link from wikipedia. The laws we are governed by and the rights we have are explicitly called on in the constitution and bill of rights. There is absolutely nothing that guarantees your right to anonymous travel in public.

  18. Re:Funny on Manhattan 1984 · · Score: 1

    Please site your reference where privacy is a right. Also, please let me know how privacy extends to your location on a public road.

  19. Re:Funny on Manhattan 1984 · · Score: 1

    Government could potentially put the recordings to misuse, but just like any governmental body it would be subject to checks and balances. Your wonderful fellow citizens would absolutely 100% guaranteed put it to misuse and there would really be no feasible way to subject everyone to those same level of checks and balances.

  20. Re:Funny on Manhattan 1984 · · Score: 1

    This scenario you describe would be true if video surveillance were available to everyone all the time. This surveillance technology is for use by law enforcement, not the users of this site or any other random citizen. But since you brought it up, is it against the law for someone to video tape outside? No, neither would it be against the law for a group of someones to video tape all over the country. Some of that video tape may even be usable as evidence in some random crime. What is it about making it less likely for someone to get away with running a stop light that gets the privacy freak up in arms? Don't get me wrong, I'll be the first one to call shennanigans if someone in the gov't tries to use this surveillance to spy on a cheating wife, or tries to use it to breach the ACTUAL walls of privacy rather than these fake walls of privacy that some people think exist. Would it be different if it was only a real-time surveillance system? Where they could either not record everything or would only have a few seconds of record for each camera?

  21. Re:Funny on Manhattan 1984 · · Score: 1

    Whether you paid for a public road or not doesn't mean you have any RIGHT to use it with an expectation of privacy. There are laws that govern the use of roads and the means to enforce those laws should be irrelevant. You are either breaking a law or your not. If you're not, what do you have to worry about?

  22. Re:Funny on Manhattan 1984 · · Score: 1

    So it's not a crime if you're not caught doing it? That's what you're saying. And you're an idiot for saying it. Laws do not come with the caveat that they must be witnessed directly by a peace officer. Otherwise any video evidence ever used would be thrown out. I don't understand why people think they have a RIGHT to get away with crime just because there aren't enough police to watch everyone every second. It's not an invasion of privacy, it's obviously an invasion of the person's stupidity.

  23. Re:Funny on Manhattan 1984 · · Score: 1

    Wow what a great argument...make the ability to track anybody available to anyone.

  24. Re:Asimov must be spinning in hgis grave... on First Armed Robots on Patrol in Iraq · · Score: 1

    And while the guerrilla is "having fun" playing with the robot, the human part of his squadron shoots the guerrila in the noggin that was supposedly full of good grey matter stuff. Oops!

  25. Re:I think its a major achievement on Mac OS X Leopard is Now Officially Unix · · Score: 1

    specific certification whose criteria Apple has met
    is the same as

    paid for the right to use that designation