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  1. Re:Rodney King? on Photograph the Police, Get Arrested · · Score: 2, Informative

    Resisting arrest is usually tacked onto something else; the reason why they're arresting you. I've never seen it as a stand-alone reason for being arrest. I mean how can you resist arrest, if you're not being arrested in the first place.

  2. Rodney King? on Photograph the Police, Get Arrested · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If this was indeed a law, then incidents like the Rodney King incident would never be able to surface.

    Police also denied that they told Cruze he was breaking the law with his cell phone.

    So did I miss it or did the police never say 'why' Cruz was arrested?

  3. and I quote on Big Dig - One of Engineering's Greatest Mistakes? · · Score: 2, Funny
    from Armageddon:

    Hey Harry, you know we're sitting on four million pounds of fuel, one nuclear weapon and a thing that has 270,000 moving parts built by the lowest bidder. Makes you feel good doesn't it?
  4. Re:So if I plug enough CAT5 cables into it... on Visualizing Ethernet Speed · · Score: 1

    The comparison brought up doesn't exactly work for output. It probably can take in bits just as fast as ethernet, but when did eye balls emit bits just as fast?

  5. Re:Freedom of Association? on House Passes Ban on Social Site Access · · Score: 1

    I agree. What does Amazon have to do with this? If you're banning Amazon, or you banning every online retailer?

  6. Re:Didn't kids cry... on Can Games Make You Cry? · · Score: 1

    To further this idea, I think most people cry when they lose something that they felt a connection with. I never feel any connection with most FPS games because my goal is just to go around and destroy stuff, but if I built the best Sim City and have it burn in flames or my Nintendogs one day died (if that's possible), I can see that inducing sadness in me and depending on how strong my connection is what I've created.

    Of course with games and the ability to save at checkpoints or different stages, having a dog die or a city destroyed doesn't really mean much as long as I can return to a previous state.

  7. Didn't kids cry... on Can Games Make You Cry? · · Score: 1

    ... when their tamagotchis died? I would consider that a game and one that you control the outcome and not something pre-rendered and pre-determined.

  8. Re:Anyone have more information? on The 64% Violent Pacman · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I always thought it was like a complicated game of tag.

    There are 4 people who are it and one person running away. If he can collect all the markers before he's tagged, he wins. He gets 3 chances before he loses. There's also these bonus markers which gives him invincibility and if he tags one of the 4 when he's in invincible mode, they have to return to a spot before coming after him again.

  9. Re:Pay down any credit or loans. on Investing Tips for College Students? · · Score: 1

    really depends on the loan he took out. if it was a federal subsidized loan, there are 2 benefits.

    Interest does not start to accumulate till 6 months after you graduate.
    Interest at that point is ~3%

    So even if you put it into a money market accout or high yield savings (currently over 5% APY at HSBC, Citibank, and a couple others), even if you're paying interest immediately, you're still making 2% back.

  10. Who Killed the Electric Car? on Test Driving the Tesla Roadster · · Score: 1

    I just watched this movie yesterday: http://www.sonyclassics.com/whokilledtheelectricca r/

    I thought the movie was quite biased and didn't show enough of the other side, but I still found the the movie somewhat interesting and informative.

    Just interesting that this article came out just when the movie is in theaters.

  11. Re:My graphics haven't aged... on What if Game Graphics Never Aged? · · Score: 2, Funny

    but what if you merged duck hunt with Street Fighter?

    http://www.thatvideosite.com/view/2855.html

  12. How easy to bypass? on U.S. House to Vote on Anti-Online Gambling Act · · Score: 1

    I mean many online gambling sites already have a system/service like PayPal which acts as an intermediate bank. Of course it's not "only" for the online gambling sites. When this happens, will the government prohibit money being transferred into that institution? What if gambling sites make it easy to open a legit foreign country bank account? Are they going to block real banks too?

  13. Re:Six Degrees... on Friendster Patents Social Networking · · Score: 1

    There was also http://www.buddyzoo.com/ which appeared around the same time. It's no longer available, but it was started by a group of CalTech students where it allowed you to upload your AIM buddylist and type in any screenname and find out how many degrees of seperation there was. One drawback was that AIM only allowed a maximum of 200 buddies (or was it 150 back then?) and often times I had to delete people who I no longer chat with much to put in new people.

    It was also nice cause they group people together called niches or something like that where all the people inside shared a common set of friends.

  14. Re:10 most "common" kinds? on Want Security? Make The Switch · · Score: 1

    This was exactly what I thought. By looking at the top 10 most "common" malware, there's no way any linux or mac malware would ever reach that since market penetration isn't high enough.

    What WOULD be a good comparison would be % of all Windows infected vs % of all Macs infected. Another would be the damage it does or how fast it spreads.

  15. Re:Laws of market. on Smart Mob in China for Retailer Discount · · Score: 1

    IMHO, I think that there will actually be a decrease in prices. What used to be X number of people purchasing over Y different stores, now results into X number of people purchasing at 1 store and Y-1 stores not many any profit. At this point, I doubt increasing prices is what you want to do, which is why I believe a decrease of prices will happen to attract people to not bother with group buy. Group buy isn't as easy as *snap*. There's the chance like someone said where the group buy will fall through, discount is not high enough, which will result in the buyers to either pick it up at full price or leave empty handed wasting minutes or even hours of negotiating.

  16. Re:why the tax? on Spain Outlaws P2P File-Sharing · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think it's more like outlawing voip and then taxing cell phones.

  17. openoffice for dummy? on OpenOffice.org Newspaper Ad Mockup Released · · Score: 1

    Is it just me or does it also remind you of the _______ for dummy books. First thing that immediately came to my mind was openoffice for dummies. //krunk (^_^x)

  18. Re:What a concept! on Viral Marketing to Become the Norm? · · Score: 1

    Advertising is like money for us. Through advertising, we get free and cheap tv shows, magazines, newspapers, etc. I personally never WANT to give away money, but if by giving away money, if the price is right and I get what I want, then I'll be happy. Advertisments are the same. If you don't like to see the advertisments, you always have to option of purchasing the dvd when it comes out. Complaining about how advertisements suck or how they should be more creative is like complaining how spending money sucks.

  19. Not University of California on Shuji Nakamura Awarded the 2006 Millennium Prize · · Score: 4, Informative

    To be clear, she's a professor at University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) and not University of California, which is usually associated with Berkeley, being the 1st UC in the state.

  20. Re:simple solutions on Screenshot Accounts 'Delisted' on Flickr · · Score: 1

    You know it's a photo when you can spot someone making the V (peace) symbol with 2 of their fingers.

  21. Compared to IM? on VoIP's Security Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1

    This really depends on how open it is. I mean IM spam hasn't exactly taken off like email spam and people have claimed that IM spam would've gotten really big. And voice spamming requires an actual person on the other side. If you have an automated message, you'd get hung up immediately.

  22. Re:GRAMMAR NAZI on The End of Native Code? · · Score: 1
    According to Dictionary.com:
    http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=loosing

    v. loosed, loosing, looses
    v. tr.

          1. To let loose; release: loosed the dogs.
          2. To make loose; undo: loosed his belt.
          3. To cast loose; detach: hikers loosing their packs at camp.
          4. To let fly; discharge: loosed an arrow.
          5. To release pressure or obligation from; absolve: loosed her from the responsibility.
          6. To make less strict; relax: a leader's strong authority that was loosed by easy times.


    so Mr. Nazi would be correct in being able to say: loosing your belt.
  23. Re:For those who are loathe ... on Google Releases Google Browser Sync Extension · · Score: 1

    I mean many solutions to this have already existed:

    Bookmark Sync and Sort
    https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2367/

    Online Bookmark Manager Synchronizer
    https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2469/

    Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer
    https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2410/

    More here:
    https://addons.mozilla.org/search.php?app=firefox& q=synchronize&cat=null&type=null&appfilter=null&pl atform=null&date=null&sort=newest&perpage=10&app=f irefox

    Don't like Google or others having access to your bookmarks, the 1st one listed allows you to sync to any ftp or webdav server, so you control both the server and client. No need to manually do wgets or expose all your bookmarks to the world by putting it on a public http server.

  24. Re:Ads will conveniently follow your bookmarks on Google Releases Google Browser Sync Extension · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This can really be interpreted in 2 ways:

    We, Google Server, will use your PIN to unlock that information
    OR
    We, Google Client App, will use your PIN to unlock that information.

    I personally don't see why Google would ever need to unlock the encrypted information on their side (unless they want to be evil), and obviously, it won't be you who's unlocking the information, but the firefox extension (we, google client app) will be.

  25. Re:Bzzzzzzzzzt! on iPod More Popular Than Beer? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I personally think instead of comparing the purchase, it's comparing the usage that's more relevant. Let's rephrase the question and ask this Ph.D student, how much time he spent listening to his iPod this week and how much time, she spent drinking beer?

    I mean iPod isn't just a 1 time purchase thing, it's the ongoing usage. If I purchase a bunch of beer, but because it's to accomodate my guests that I hang out every week, it doesn't mean I'm into beer.

    Just thought it was something to think about.