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  1. Re:Bend over on The Fine Print On Wiretapping Review · · Score: 2

    7/4 changed everything.

  2. Re:Wouldn't that be ironic. on Are Marines Censoring Web Access for Troops in Iraq? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Thanks for the "bootstraps" example. Please recognize that it is anecdotal, and that your situation does not apply to everyone.

  3. Re:It's a shame on Senate Bill To Prohibit Extra Charges For Internet · · Score: 1

    The laws that allow for limitation of liability.

  4. Re:It's a shame on Senate Bill To Prohibit Extra Charges For Internet · · Score: 1

    Laws had to be created to make companies huge, too.

  5. Re:Make fun of him all you want for the Segway on Segway Inventor Turns To Environment · · Score: 1

    I agree. I think the reason it hasn't taken off is that it's simply a more complex solution to the same problems solved by the bicycle.

  6. Re:i remember on Segway Inventor Turns To Environment · · Score: 1

    The Segway is an ingenious solution - unfortunately, it's basically a reinvention of the bicycle.

  7. Re:Only three types of entrepreneur? on Segway Inventor Turns To Environment · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What's very interesting about village microloans is the extremely low rate of default. When you have a group of people involved in ensuring that a loan is repaid, especially in small matriarchal societies, you end up with as little as a 5% default rate.

  8. Re:Make fun of him all you want for the Segway on Segway Inventor Turns To Environment · · Score: 1

    The Segway itself is in line with these goals. Moving people out of cars - if you can use a Segway for your commute instead of a car, you're saving energy and less damaging to the environment, in the long term. If you go without a car entirely - use a Segway to get to the grocery store or the train station - it's a huge net benefit.

  9. Re:In Atmosphere Elevator Glider Launcher? on Continued Success for Space Elevator Tests · · Score: 1

    Yeah, we've already got the most energy efficient method of moving goods - they're called trains.

  10. Re:you seem to think that J.K. Rowling is an Ameri on The Great HDCP Fiasco · · Score: 1

    Loki, it's by default. Take an intellectual property course.

  11. Re:120 Watts? on The World's Tiniest Power Supply Unit · · Score: 1

    Haha! No problem. Actually, you might be okay on 120W... have you tried a Kill-A-Watt?

  12. Re:120 Watts? on The World's Tiniest Power Supply Unit · · Score: 1

    Yep, for the .05% of users who have a 100W graphics card, this won't work. For the 99.95% of us who use our systems for work and could care less if the graphics was 5W and integrated, this is a manufacturing cost savings.

  13. Re:Ship unformatted dammit. on Microsoft FAT Patent Upheld · · Score: 1

    Oh, so I plug my CF card into my Canon device, and it tells me I have to format it before I can take pictures? I can imagine I'd pick a different vendor after that.

  14. Re:Timely piece on The Skylab-Area 51 Incident · · Score: 1

    Of course, this time we can see a direct link between releasing information and preserving national security. Stopping the people responsible for this mess from continuing to put us at risk by forcing them to answer for their actions.

  15. Apply this to eBay... on Felony For Refreshing a Web Page? · · Score: 2, Funny

    and you've got a new way to fill the jails!

  16. Why are we hearing from a marketer/manager on The Engineer Behind Microsoft's TV Strategy · · Score: 1

    and not the architect that really knows why design decisions were made?

  17. Re:Luser Pays. Support your original claim. Re:Wha on SCO Amends Novell Complaint · · Score: 1

    Socialize it, the same way we do medicine and roads. Everyone uses the same system, and a corporation counts as one person.

  18. Re:How can they survive non-commercially? on Wikipedia Founder Releases Personal Appeal · · Score: 1

    Considering that nobody's found a solution like what you're describing, perhaps it can't exist in our current economic system.

  19. Re:For the record on Orange Badge Culture At Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Oh, Securitas and Denali, yeah. VMC is just Volt.

  20. Re:For the record on Orange Badge Culture At Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Technical, yes. There's ABM and Grubb-Ellis that most people tend to forget about, not to mention Eurest. And after Kelly, there's Excel Data, Siemens, A-Dot, Saxon & Taylor, and many more...

  21. Re:Life as a contractor is good, why force the iss on Orange Badge Culture At Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Your freedom to do that costs a couple thousand other people the ability to get a mortgage, get many health care expenses covered, and often costs them the ability to get work for three months at a time. Nobody wants to hire an MS contractor on break, because they know they'll lose you in 100 days.

  22. Re:Bah on Apple Revolutionizing Retail · · Score: 1

    Given that you have the iPod and the service agreement, why is it an issue? You can prove with your bank statement, if need be, that you spent an amount of money at the store equal to the iPod plus service agreement, and Apple knows that.

  23. Re:haha, good ole' slashdot on Nissan and Microsoft Create Videogame Car · · Score: 1

    Guess what company I work for? IT'S TOO DANGEROUS.

  24. Re:Just checking... on Exploit Released for Unpatched Windows Flaw · · Score: 2

    Give me a break. There are thousands of unpatched flaws in every OS on the market, they just haven't been found yet. So yes, if 100 security flaws exist but are never found, it does make the OS tight.

  25. Re:Hot chicks aside, the plots have been intriguin on Time Names Battlestar Galactica Show Of The Year · · Score: 1

    The second season has 20 episodes. The next ten start airing in a few weeks.