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  1. Re:I'd support that... on South Carolina Wants To Jam Cell Phone Signals · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Last time I checked characterizing all minimum wage workers and the unsung heroes of the workforce, simply victimized by circumstance with a heart of gold, is just as misguided as characterizing all of them is incompetent.

    Of course OP only needed one sentence, so points for efficiency.

  2. Re:Text only, no html on Bush Administration's E-Mail Deluge May Overload Archive System · · Score: 1

    Or people using standardized document control systems since we already have a system for multi version documents.

    Or just removing the previous attachment when forwarding and replying.

    These are all solutions that make far too much sense when it's easier to just cause problems.

  3. Re:Text only, no html on Bush Administration's E-Mail Deluge May Overload Archive System · · Score: 1

    You're right. Doesn't help that there are still 50 versions in the single email, but it isn't multiplied by the number of people sent to.

  4. Re:I have an Idea for a lawsuit on Rock Band Creators Hit With Class Action Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    If you can listen to More Than a Feeling without stomping on the floor at 3a.m. you're just not getting the full enjoyment out of the game.

  5. Re:Text only, no html on Bush Administration's E-Mail Deluge May Overload Archive System · · Score: 5, Informative

    If it anything like our corporate mail server I would bet you the number one space filler is people making minor changes on documents then reattaching them and forwarding them back to the same 50 people who just got the previous version of the document, repeated over 100 iterations as the email soon becomes a 2GB mess.

  6. Re:Whoopde Dooo on After Columbine, Eric Holder Advocated Internet "Restrictions" · · Score: 1

    They don't write legislation, but they do determine which vaguely worded, previously existing legislation to use the overbearing force of the federal court system to enforce. If he makes it a priority for Federal prosecutors to start dropping the hammer any time an issue of questionable content on the internet comes up, possible in conjunction with laws passed by the Democratic congress and signed by the Democratic president he can be a pretty decent sized pain in the ass.

  7. Re:So what was he *really* standing in front of? on AP Suspends DoD Over Altered US Army Photo · · Score: 4, Informative

    The point of cutting out photo alterations, even cosmetics, is to prevent people from confusing truth and fabrication, no matter how small. If you can show me someone who would have been confused by this mall photobooth backdrop I'd love to meet them.

    If they added extra medals, maybe an impressive book on the desk, maybe made her teeth whiter these are all subtle alteration designed to make you believe the image they're trying to sell. That flag backdrop is less convincing than if they had photoshopped her into nazi germany riding a unicorn.

  8. Re:shouldn't be legal on The Trap Set By the FBI For Half Life 2 Hacker · · Score: 1

    I think it's a perfectly fine analogy given that the argument is that the police should not be allowed to mislead a person to revealing themselves and has absolutely nothing to do with the legal status of said person in the context of this discussion.

  9. Re:Video interview of Nymh! (1st person level 80 F on Second World of Warcraft Expansion Launched, Conquered · · Score: 1
  10. Re:Video interview of Nymh! (1st person level 80 F on Second World of Warcraft Expansion Launched, Conquered · · Score: 1

    Rickroll'd

  11. Re:Refreshing on Net Neutrality Vets Join Obama FCC Transition Team · · Score: 1

    The funny thing is that both are very beloved presidents who made some very questionable choices in office and ended up dead. If I were Obama I'd be first in line to tell people not to draw those comparisons.

  12. Re:So... on Net Neutrality Vets Join Obama FCC Transition Team · · Score: 1

    I learned about war, rape, and murder from the evening news. The real world is just as bad as any fictional one, no sense in trying to keep children blind.

  13. Re:Blind soldiers on Northrop Grumman Markets Weaponized Laser System · · Score: 1

    Same thing they do with all the dead ones?

  14. Re:It will, and does on Scientists Create Easier Way To Embed Objects Into Video · · Score: 1

    I think you're thinking of the Hamlet fire, which was not Tyson, not in Georgia, and not in the 80s, but happened exactly the way you describe but with much harsher criminal penalties. The workers were also not illegal immigrants. There's plenty of reasons to boycott Tyson, but that's not one of them. I looked for anything involving a Tyson fire in Georgia or any other state and couldn't find anything.

  15. Re:shouldn't be legal on The Trap Set By the FBI For Half Life 2 Hacker · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If the crime would have been committed either way i don't see how their dishonesty makes even the slightest amount of difference to someone who isn't trying to play the system. It's not like moving the sign caused something to be illegal that wasn't already, all it did was make enforcement stronger.

  16. Re:shouldn't be legal on The Trap Set By the FBI For Half Life 2 Hacker · · Score: 1

    Of course, because FARC, Pablo Escobar, and the Taliban are all swell guys who are just trying to make an honest buck if only we weren't so hard on them.

    Granted, drugs are in an unfortunate association with people who lust for money and power and would find other ways to do so without them, but pretending that that drug trade doesn't harm anybody is outrageous. Would legalizing stop it? The British more or legalized use of Opium by force and it didn't stop a single problem that existed when it was illegal. Looking at European countries that never had these problems to begin with as the success of legalization is a bitch far fetched.

  17. Re:shouldn't be legal on The Trap Set By the FBI For Half Life 2 Hacker · · Score: 3, Funny

    Good lord you're right! My wife told me she was going to see a friend when she was actually planning my surprise birthday party! If she lied abut that how do I know what other lies that wench has told, after all trust and honesty are the cornerstones of a good relationship.

  18. Re:shouldn't be legal on The Trap Set By the FBI For Half Life 2 Hacker · · Score: 4, Funny

    You mean like when they send letters to bail jumpers about having won a free boat if they just come pick it up?

    Wont's someone please think of the criminals?

  19. Re:Mod the above post up. on Plasma Plants Vaporize Trash While Creating Energy · · Score: 1

    Mercury is already reclaimed after incineration, and the bastards that do it still charge an arm and a leg for disposal.

  20. Re:Pyrolysis may be more useful on Plasma Plants Vaporize Trash While Creating Energy · · Score: 1

    I would bet it's not uncommon. I know all the waste products from the local vegtable cannery go straight to use as livestock feed. We're talking thousands of tons a year, none of it at all useful for human consumption.

  21. Re:makes sense, meh on Lego Loses Its Unique Right To Make Lego Blocks · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh man!

    Years on slashdot and finally something to show for it!

  22. Re:Cheap = Good for parents on Lego Loses Its Unique Right To Make Lego Blocks · · Score: 1

    Because they don't make it anymore.

  23. Re:Slashdot can shut down spammers, too on Washington Post Blog Shuts Down 75% of Online Spam · · Score: 1

    Might provide a good last chance defense for those actually browsing for child porn.

    "No your honor, I was part of a concerted effort by the internet at large to shut down these monsters. The only pleasure I took from all these downloads was watching their network burn!"

  24. Re:ISO Standard on Lego Loses Its Unique Right To Make Lego Blocks · · Score: 1

    Might not be the best time to bring up the research from earlier in the year that shows tap water is rife with prescription drugs that people have flushed down their toilets.

  25. Re:Cheap = Good for parents on Lego Loses Its Unique Right To Make Lego Blocks · · Score: 1

    Canada.

    I'd be more worried about what's in the Putine than what's in the bricks.