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  1. Re:Win2k, a failure? on Microsoft's Most Successful Failure · · Score: 1

    which is why it is MS's most successful failure.

  2. Re:Why not just download XP Pro, its just as illeg on Free Upgrade From XP Home to XP Pro Lite · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't recommend practicing law without a license.

    It's pretty much here. If you think you know as much law as a lawyer, you're a damned fool (and have one for a client).

    To clarify: I don't intend to actually practice law (using the standard disclaimer, "this should not be construed as legal advice.") I know I don't know as much as a lawyer, but I have studied a number of specific areas, such as copyright law. No, I don't advise clients; I admit my advice is worth as much as you pay for it.

  3. Re:Why not just download XP Pro, its just as illeg on Free Upgrade From XP Home to XP Pro Lite · · Score: 1

    Please don't dispense legal advice if you aren't a lawyer. I think you should say "don't dispense legal advice if you don't know what you're talking about." I am not a lawyer, but I will continue to dispense legal advice when I feel confident that it is correct. Going to a 3-year law school is only one way to learn the law and its application. May the day never come when no one but a lawyer can understand this stuff.

  4. Re:Yes, but.. on 60% Of U.S. Believe Life Exists On Other Planets · · Score: 1

    Kids voting? That's an excellent way to perpetuate the system. Kids, by and large, believe what they are taught by the school system, which is controlled by the same government that needs to be changed. I didn't learn to truly think for myself until I was 19 and halfway through college (even though I was schooled at home through high school).

  5. Re:YES! on Steering Wheel Checks Alcohol Consumption · · Score: 1

    darn, that sounds like the U.S. (except we have a .08 or .10% limit, which MADD is successfully trying to lower.

  6. Re:He found a *flower* on Extinct Wildflower Found In California · · Score: 1

    Perhaps they can be used to ensure that our kids don't have to work at all...

    Well, by the standards of my grandparents and even my parents, what I do hardly counts as work, because it doesn't involve the daily risk of death and dismemberment and is not brutally punishing on my body.

    It may be easier in a number of days, but we will always have ambitious, competitive, or bored workaholics.

  7. Re:Sugary snacks on Keep Fit Program For The Brain · · Score: 1

    Remember that regular, non-whole wheat bread, including a lot of supposedly multi-grain breads, also have a high glycemic index that can be even worse than sugar. The fiber in whole wheat keeps the carbs from absorbing too fast. (White potatos are bad, as well.)

  8. Re:Here we usually call that "IRV" on Does Voting Technology Affect Election Outcomes? · · Score: 1

    Actually, the first problem in American politics today is voter apathy. The second is voting according to strictly selfish, short-term intrests rather than the long-term benefit of the state/nation.

  9. Re:ACARS telemetery data on Aviation Instruments Encrypt Engine-Monitor Data · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's not hidden, you just aren't 31337 enough. It means "left engine 3045 RPM, right engine 3230 RPM, right engine chopped up 2 birds since last reset."

  10. Re:But why? on U.S. National Identity Cards All But Law · · Score: 1

    Certain activities require certain forms of id, but simply existing does not.

    I'd argue that having a job (which for most people is a requirement for existing) requires a SSN (actually, it doesn't, but you are taxed at the maximum rate of 35% without one).

    But the reason I object to this law is this: Oppressive countries like the former Soviet Russia used internal passports to monitor and limit their citizens' transportation around the country. Such ID cards are readily used to opress citizens - you can pick your reason for oppression.

  11. Re:I can prove it! on Hack IIS6 Contest · · Score: 1

    yeah, and what about this, from TFS?

    In order to qualify for winning prize, winner agrees to the following conditions:

    1. Not to reveal any mention of hack success for 24 hours to anyone but the hackiis6.com email address listed above.

  12. Re:Lightsaber Depot? on How Lightsabers Work · · Score: 5, Funny

    funny, I returned mine a few months after I bought it. The cashier had a weak mind.

  13. Re:Dumbest. Story. Ever. on How Lightsabers Work · · Score: 5, Funny

    It should cast a shadow for that reason, but you also notice the red "reflection" on the ashphalt. This should not be there - the saber should provide a slight red illumination all around. This illumination should be far less brilliant than the sun (hence still a shadow).

    The explanation, of course, is that the picture does not show an actual light saber, but a prop, for safety reasons.

  14. Re:What good is broadband if it's censored? on China to Top U.S. in Broadband Subscribers · · Score: 1

    What good is broadband if you can't even choose what you want to look at?

    It speeds up Freenet

  15. How to get publicity on New Awards To Compete With Nobel Prizes · · Score: 1

    He can get more publicity than the Nobel prize quite easily.

    He only has to put the awards show on television.

  16. Re:Of course there will be lots of comments! on The Pseudoscience of Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    Unless God has a non-cruel reason for allowing the suffering.

    Adam and Eve, as representatives of the human race, brought death and suffering into the whole world (Genesis 3). This is a just punishment for sin - justice is one of God's defining characteristics (Psalm 19:16), which explains why humans have a strong sense of justice.

    God's justice demands that sin be punished, and children are born sinners, therefore they suffer from the curse as well as the rest of us. However, God didn't stop with punishment. He gave each human a means of eternal salvation from death, requiring absolutely no effort on our part, and at great cost, the greatest possible cost, to Himself: the humiliation and death of His son. If He were cruel, would He not have withheld this grace and saved Himself a lot of pain?

  17. Re:Ptft.. on Sony's Robot Attends Pre-School · · Score: 1

    He will save us! Good think for mankind that the Gübernatör isn't a robot himself.

  18. Re:Tin Hats on! on What Ever Happened to Virtual Reality? · · Score: 1

    dratit, and I was hoping that Slashdot was just a bad dream too

  19. Re:Follow the ping packets! on FCC to Push VoIP 911 Requirements · · Score: 1

    Setting up a system that connects to the proper dispatch center when VOIP users can enter their location makes sense IMO. Requiring it is dubious, especially if it is a free service. The second mandate, informing the users of the limitations, is a common-sense requirement.

  20. In case of slashdotting.. on U.S. Wiretapping Surges 19% · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You're posting the text of a San Francisco Chronicle article, circulation +.5mil, so it isn't slashdotted? I am grateful to be able to RTFA without having to click the link, but I think they don't need to worry about slowing down from slashdotting.

  21. Marvin has one, too on The Darth Vader Blog · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Marvin the Paranoid Android has a Xanga, too.

    It appears to be a marketing ploy; I can't say that about the Vader blog.

  22. Re:Real time? on Cross-Greenland Ski Trip Tracked with Google Maps · · Score: 1

    Not Google maps. They have some sort of map integrated with their computer-aided dispatching (CAD) system.

    Flint, Michigan, for your reference, but I expect a lot of other municipalities have the same system.

  23. Re:Real time? on Cross-Greenland Ski Trip Tracked with Google Maps · · Score: 1

    Meh. The local 911 dispatch center has had that for cops for several years.

  24. Re:Neither pride nor competition on European Libraries Counter Google Digitisation · · Score: 1

    Like Yahoo?

  25. Just say it, you wuss on Email Worse Than Marijuana For Intelligence? · · Score: 1

    "spank him"