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  1. Re:I'll let you into a secret about Britain on How Can We Convert the US to the Metric System? · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's actually 40 inches (1016 mm) long.

  2. Re:Nuke The Motherfuckers into Oblivion on North Korea's Secret Biochemical Arsenal · · Score: 1

    If you nuke the North Koreans, then you'll destroy all those citizens who are itching to welcome the liberators...

  3. Re:I'd say more than 35% on Spam Volume Jumps 35% In November · · Score: 1

    Sure, you only have to store one message, but your server gets bombarded with multiple requests to read that one message, and has to be sufficiently robust stay up to accept the requests. To spam from a botnet, you would have to spread the load further than currently done, and must effectively publish the identity of each bot for the system to work.

  4. Re:WTF? Phising and certs are different issues. on Small Businesses Worry About MS Anti-Phishing · · Score: 1

    Does that mean all pop-ups will have a navagator toolbar/url showing?

  5. Re:WTF? Phising and certs are different issues. on Small Businesses Worry About MS Anti-Phishing · · Score: 1

    A third way, of course, is for the website to open a new browser window, sans IE7 navigation toolbar. The site emulates the navigation toolbar by a web-based frames type arrangement. Now you can present the URL with any colour background you want.

  6. Re:The workaround on Australia Rules Linking to Copyright Material Also Illegal · · Score: 1

    ...the overwhelming majority of the files listed on the website were the subject of copyright... This would, by definition, be correct, since copyright is an automatically granted right. Copyright only ceases to exist when the right is deliberately waived (placed in the public domain).
  7. Re:Primary Purpose on Australia Rules Linking to Copyright Material Also Illegal · · Score: 2, Interesting

    When you say copyrighted material, are you referring to copyrighted material in general, or only that material who's copyright ownership is actively defended?

  8. Re:And the point is? on Rotating Solar-Powered Skyscraper · · Score: 1

    And by then, your circadian rhythmns would be really fucked.

  9. Re:they've pretty much proven.. on FCC Won't Release Cell Carrier Reliability Data · · Score: 1

    If your assertion is valid, then it would suggest that George should be more fiscally responsible.

  10. Re:The court doesn't recognize bad movies on World's First Jail Sentence for BitTorrent Piracy · · Score: 1

    Try and comment when you actually have a real/valid point.... what a joke. Lol. And your original point was? [making sweeping generalisations about Slashdot readers' values]
  11. Re:The court doesn't recognize bad movies on World's First Jail Sentence for BitTorrent Piracy · · Score: 1

    Grammar Nazi? Absolutely! And while you're at it, perhaps you'd like to find out the difference between principle and principal.

  12. Re:The court doesn't recognize bad movies on World's First Jail Sentence for BitTorrent Piracy · · Score: 1

    My wifes father spent 30 days in jail for not paying child support ($400 at the time). It would have been 30 days if $1200. It wasn't based on the amount, it was on what most slashdotters lack: Princpal(s). You must be part of the other Slashdot majority who can't spell.
  13. Re:Bah, I'm too busy anyways on Melting Coins Now Illegal In the U.S. · · Score: 1

    You'll get more out of dead Russians.

  14. Re:The court doesn't recognize bad movies on World's First Jail Sentence for BitTorrent Piracy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "[Appeals Judge] Beeson noted [convicting magistrate] MacIntosh, in handing out the sentence, was fully aware of the noncommercial nature of the case, but measured the seriousness of the case by the harm done to the moviemakers -- not by the gain made by the offender. So she made no judgement on the value of the movies, but still could determine that harm was done sufficient to warrant a jail term?
  15. Re:since, from on UCLA Hacked, 800,000 Identities Exposed · · Score: 1

    I'm sure all the computer security people cringe to read that. Thirteen months is an awful long time to discover a security breach. I mean, were the sysadmins snoozing on the job? Who was reading the logs?

  16. Re:Sea Level? on Arctic Ice May Melt By 2040 · · Score: 1

    Got mod points, but can't find -6 Retarded

  17. Re:Fun with Dick on Texas Lawmaker Wants To Let the Blind Hunt · · Score: 1

    1) Imagine a beowulf cluster of Cheney jokes.
    2) Pick one.
    3) Embelish joke with hot grits comment.
    4) Prepend with, in Soviet Russia.
    5) Post result on /.
    6) ????
    7) Profit!

  18. You haven't asked before on Why Do Computers Take So Long to Boot Up? · · Score: 5, Funny

    It is because until now, you haven't submitted your question to Slashdot.

  19. Re:Someone's been watching Battlestar Galactica on U.S. Refuses to Hand Over Fighter Source Code to UK · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, they didn't have any battle plans for Iraq, 'cos the Iraquis would just step aside and welcome the liberators...

  20. Re:from the should-have-read-the-EULA-first dept? on U.S. Refuses to Hand Over Fighter Source Code to UK · · Score: 1

    "Fool me once, [pause] shame on [pause] Shame on you."
    "If fooled, you can't get fooled again"

  21. Re:Now the second thing.. on Malaysia to Use RFID Number Plates Next Year · · Score: 1

    No example, except that a self-righteous driver travelling in the "overtaking lane" at what he thinks is the speed limit, will cause frustration to those behind who's speedos read with a different error. Driver frustration breeds impulsive driving behaviour.

  22. Re:Argh!!! on Professor Comes Up With a Way to Divide by Zero · · Score: 1

    You mis-spelled nudity.

  23. Re:Banning stem cell creation != banning resarch on Stem Cell Bill Passes in Australia · · Score: 1

    No cell can reproduce forever. Telomeres inside each cell dictate how many times it can reproduce. Ahhh, so DRM is a product of Intelligent Design!
  24. Re:Not a bug on How To Tell If Your Cell Phone Is Bugged · · Score: 1

    Have you ever listened to Tricka Technology by MC A Skillz and DJ Krafty Kuts?
    Whenever I heard that on the radio, I always thought that they must have gotten the inspiration for that rhythmn from the GSM interference sound.

  25. Not a bug on How To Tell If Your Cell Phone Is Bugged · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's not a bug, it's a feature!