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  1. Re:It seems scarcely credible on Brain Scanner Can Read People's Intentions · · Score: 1

    Just guessing here, but are you German?

  2. Re:The quote espouses a fallacy on Brain Scanner Can Read People's Intentions · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is a scary, scary device.
    Don't be silly, it can't do anything that a wife can't do. Hmmm, on second thoughts...
  3. Re:Relevance? on New York To Ban iPods While Crossing Street? · · Score: 1

    The word you're looking for is 'never'. If the car is unroadworthy by not being properly maintained, it's the driver's responsibility, period.

  4. Re:While we're at it on New York To Ban iPods While Crossing Street? · · Score: 1

    Eh? Say Again?

  5. Re:Relevance? on New York To Ban iPods While Crossing Street? · · Score: 1

    someone who's brakes failed through no fault of their own
    And that happens how often?
  6. Re:Making suicide hard on New York To Ban iPods While Crossing Street? · · Score: 1

    Ummm - there isn't (much) CO in the gas until you burn it, and you can't remove the C without pumping straight H2 (bad idea).
    There isn't, but there was. In the old days they used "town gas", so-called because it was made at the municipal gasworks by passing superheated steam over coal. C + H20 -> CO + H2.
  7. Re:Irrelevant. on UK Propose Registering Screen Names with Police · · Score: 1

    If the end is not practically achievable
    Explain how life without parole wouldn't work.
  8. Re:Anonymity is the shield of the weak on UK Propose Registering Screen Names with Police · · Score: 1

    Name and address! NOW, ASSHAT! Yes, I'm talking to YOU [smack smack BZZZZZZZZ!!!!].

    Book him, Danno. Yup, resisting arrest too.

  9. Re:UK... China... ? on UK Propose Registering Screen Names with Police · · Score: 1

    No, but some people seem to be confusing "there" and "their". As to "B/c", what's all that in aid of?

  10. Re:Trusting... on UK Propose Registering Screen Names with Police · · Score: 1

    When I first saw this story, I thought the intention was that *everyone* register their screen names
    It probably is - don't confuse the stated intention with the real one.
  11. Re:Wouldn't it be easier... on UK Propose Registering Screen Names with Police · · Score: 1

    Don't know about easier, but maybe it'd be better to make sure they don't have access to children?

  12. Re:Cost Effective? on NASA May Have to Buy Trips to Space · · Score: 1

    Just remember to always allow for taxes

  13. Re:get rid of all TLDs on Outdated Domains To Meet Their End · · Score: 1
    You must have been to a different Belgium. The vast majority of Walloons can't speak Dutch at all well, and most of the Flemish, though they can usually speak French very well, won't.

    At least Google (though it guesses based on IP and silently redirects, grrr!) at least puts the language in the url so you can frig it.

  14. Re:Ah! The great unknown... on Why Software is Hard · · Score: 1

    If you poorly implement an idea your going to fail (or at least have a VERY hard time) no matter what.
    It worked for Microsoft.
  15. Re:Wait a minute on Material Tougher Than Diamond Developed · · Score: 1

    The slashdot headline actually says "tougher" - which isn't the same either.

  16. Re:Software & money on Nvidia Faces Class Action Lawsuit Over Vista Drivers · · Score: 1

    One would assume that part of the cost of the card covers driver development for a certain amount of time anyhow...
    But that's illegal! Sarbanes Oxley forbids selling an unfinished product. Bend over and get ready for subscription-only driver updates.
  17. Re:Just use the 'nv' driver on Nvidia Faces Class Action Lawsuit Over Vista Drivers · · Score: 1

    I run MVS, you insensitive clod!!!! [disclaimer: not really]

  18. Literally on Nvidia Faces Class Action Lawsuit Over Vista Drivers · · Score: 2, Funny

    A blue screen of death.

  19. Hmmm on Interview With "Switcher Girl" Ellen Feiss · · Score: 4, Funny
    From TFA:

    My image in that commercial belongs to them. The money from Ellen Frisbees and alarm clocks would have to partially go to Apple.
    And the blow-up doll?
  20. Re:get rid of all TLDs on Outdated Domains To Meet Their End · · Score: 1

    If I visit a site with the TLD from my country (.nl) I expect to see a dutch site, if I visit a website with a .fr TLD I expect a french site.
    What would you expect on a .be site?
  21. Re:A dream come true? on Uncle Sam Spoils Dream Trip To Space · · Score: 1

    Taxes do not enforce respect of private property, the police do that and that has been covered
    No, the whole judicial system, some of which is Federal, does that.

    But who stopped the Russians|Canadians|Mexicans from invading? Who chased the (red) Indians away in the first place?

  22. Re:About this taxes... on Uncle Sam Spoils Dream Trip To Space · · Score: 1

    Nope, nordic in general refers to the scandinavian nations
    I'm perfectly aware what the word means, thanks all the same, Poindexter.

    Anyone who have been both in the South of Europe and Scandinavia will tell you that culturally, the difference is quite big...
    So the Netherlands does resemble a Nordic country more than Italy does, which is what I said.
  23. Re:Because software features aren't accounted for. on Apple Charges For 802.11n, Blames Accounting Law · · Score: 1

    the regulators would look askance at the 'upgradeable' part, because that looks like an unfinished product.
    So if I buy a house without a pool & garage it isn't finished, because I might upgrade it by adding them later?

    did Apple just under-report the functionality listed in part A so it could push unfinished products out to consumers, record the revenue in this quarter's financial statements, jack up its stock price, then finish the product later?
    For five whole dollars? Pull the other one, it plays a tune.

    a volume discount that sets the price of 11 sandwiches equal to the price of 10
    It's nothing of the kind, a volume discount is usually given when you order a large quantity of goods at the same time.

    Still, what if I'm a regular at a restaurant and one day they give me a free bottle of wine? Was the meal I ate the the week before 'unfinished'?

  24. Re:The Enlightenment has only just begun: on Uncle Sam Spoils Dream Trip To Space · · Score: 1

    cohersion
    Hmmm. Is that supposed to be
    1. cohesion
    2. coherence
    3. coercion
    4. other (please specify).
    Fucktard.
  25. Re:About this taxes... on Uncle Sam Spoils Dream Trip To Space · · Score: 1

    the Netherlands is not a "Nordic" country.
    It is compared to Italy.