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  1. Re:April Fools... Not! on Webcomic Little Gamers Shut Down By MPAA · · Score: 2, Funny

    If it is a joke, I expect the MPAA to shut down the site as they are misappropriating a copyrighted image, also blatant trademark violations, and probably violating some patent.

  2. Re:DNS is good? on Government Finishes Internet Study -- 7 years late · · Score: 1

    Multiple sites will have different names for the same address. Directory yahoo will name the website for Ford USA, yahoo.ford or something. MSN will decide it will name it msn.fordNA, Google can name it google.32131231321, similar to how phone numbers work. Instead of depending on typing out URLs, they guess at, its better that they use a directory. How many people think http://www.aljazeera.com/ for example represents al jazeera the news organization.

  3. Re:DNS is good? on Government Finishes Internet Study -- 7 years late · · Score: 1

    The problem with domain names is that people try to guess what the web site is, so you have lots of confusion on the part of web surfers. www.whitehouse.com for example. Also another problem is that .com has become the default choice. So a person trying to reach nissan auto will try nissan.com adding to more confusion. A better method might be to have independent directories i.e. yahoo that index the same way a phone book is indexed. And have multiple companies doing it rather than have one entity controlling the .com domain.

  4. Re:These are not Future MIT students on High School Kids Beat MIT at Robotics Competition · · Score: 1

    By being here in America, undocumented illegal immigrants do not have the same rights as permanent residents do. They also do not have the same obligations, one being selective service registration among other things. You can choose to give illegal aliens same rights as residents, which happens when aliens choose to change their status to permanent resident status when certain criteria is met.
    The question isn't, should we as a society give benefits such as low interest loans to illegal immigrants so they can attend higher education because it's good idea. I think so, who knows if the next Einstein or whatever come out of it. But rather my comment is whether citizens, older immigrants will be affected by granting more competition for those who are of non documented status. If there are more college educated people, then there are more competition for those jobs requiring degrees. If you keep a certain sector of the population under educated then you don't have that problem. In a lot of people's minds, undocumented aliens should not get the same advantages as those who are presently in the country legally.

  5. Re:These are not Future MIT students on High School Kids Beat MIT at Robotics Competition · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Illegal immigrants generally can't apply for citizenship. They can apply to get permament resident status but that's a little tricky because it opens up the chance you can be deported. Also you need to have permanent resident status and if you are male register with the selective service to apply for Federal Financial aid. Illegal immigrants is good for America coz they provide cheap Wal*Mart labor and without the ability to go get a higher education, can't compete with other permament residents/ citizens for higher paying jobs.

  6. Re:a prof of e-marketing focussed on web usage on Professor Finds Fault with MS Grammar Checker · · Score: 1

    I read somewhere that quite a few UW English PHDs go on to work for Microsoft. It's those with master's degrees go on to work for Starbucks.

  7. Re:Greed at work? on PlayStation Sales Halted? · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's called laches and it's an affirmative defense. http://www.lectlaw.com/def/l056.htm

  8. Re:You are kidding right? on Identity Theft Victim Gets Last Laugh · · Score: 1

    Red Lion is pretty large hotel chain in the west coast. That being said I don't it would be an uncommon practice for people staying in the hotel to be different from the ones paying.

  9. Re:Authories don't care about this crime at all... on Identity Theft Victim Gets Last Laugh · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think his point was the attempted crimes is a crime in it self even if no one got hurt. Or crimes in the planning stages can be considered conspiracy. Robbery is taking of something by the use of force. Fraud is taking of something by misrepresentation. Thus in this case it's fraud, not robbery.

  10. Re:WTF on "English" Not Threatened By Webspeak · · Score: 1

    What's a young'en?

  11. Re:I want my Almost Live! on The Science Guy Returns · · Score: 1

    A SpeedWalker movie would be rock. They replay Almost Live on King at 1AM Sunday mornings. I remember gettng my love of science and High Fivin White guys from watching that show.

  12. Re:a rant.... on Students and Bodies Tracked Via RFID Tags · · Score: 1

    That's not quite random. They had cause. Random strip searches for drugs is illegal.

  13. Re:a rant.... on Students and Bodies Tracked Via RFID Tags · · Score: 1

    You have some rights of privacy in school. Otherwise, kids can be stripped searched randomly.

  14. Re:ehh? on Judge Slams SCO's Lack of Evidence · · Score: 1

    Souter was appointed by George Bush Sr. He voted to recount.

  15. Re:A buttload of Money on Mac mini Dissection · · Score: 1

    Mini-Atx is a lot bigger than a Mini Mac. Try again please.

  16. Re:Expo in Paris on New Yorker on Miyazaki · · Score: 1

    I went to the exhibit. If you have a student ID. Its only 6 Euros.

  17. Re:Headless Alternative for Less on Apple Releases Mac Mini · · Score: 1

    People do some strange things. For the price of that modified Hyundai you can probably buy a Ferrari. To put this more on topic. Sure you can play Doom 3 with a 9200, but by the time you add the CPU, hard drive, sound card ETC. Why not spend the extra 50 bucks for a better video card.

  18. Re:Headless Alternative for Less on Apple Releases Mac Mini · · Score: 1
  19. Re:Dear Apple... on Think Secret's Nick dePlume Revealed · · Score: 1

    You don't know that someone violated an NDA until they prove it in court. There are other ways for information to leak. For example an Apple employee accidently left some paperwork describing the features and price list at a McDonalds, and a person found it and posted it on Think Secret. The above example still may be misappropriation depending on several other factors.

  20. Re:Advantages in nanoseconds? on Think Secret's Nick dePlume Revealed · · Score: 1

    I have a feeling that Microsoft has many copies of Tiger as we speak. Although everybody knows Microsoft would never violate a patent or trade secret /cough eolas /cough.

  21. Re:Don't worry. They will. on Think Secret's Nick dePlume Revealed · · Score: 1

    Misappropriation of a trade secret is not a criminal offense. Therefore no jail time. What Apple wants to do, is prevent other rumor sites from doing this in the future.

  22. Re:Uh on Half-Life 2 Cookies · · Score: 1

    You need to make HL2 cookie cutters to make a HL2 cookie case mod. Duh.