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  1. Re:Opt-in website on Sony Rootkit Settlement Gets Judge's Approval · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm staying far away from this one. I do not want Sony taking a particular interest in my activities.

  2. Re:Only makes sense... on Microsoft Employees May Lose Admin Rights · · Score: 1
    I kinda like that some programs just fail with restricted accounts.

    I can fix the app (if I wrote it) or make some kind of rational decision about privs. (if I didn't) It is more work, but having a box pop up makes it too easy to not fix things properly or think things through.

  3. Re:Welcome news! on Ticketmaster to Start Online Ticket Auction · · Score: 2, Interesting
    take your hand away from your wallet, and go buy some blank CD-Rs instead.

    Ooh, bad advice. In many countries, US included, that gives $$$ straight to the whole system you're trying to avoid.

    I'm glad so many retards pay through the nose for the top few hundred acts. It keeps my preferred entertainment cheap. I can see the performances I want in cool smaller venues and not pay anything to the evil overlords.

  4. Re:Waiting in line? on Ticketmaster to Start Online Ticket Auction · · Score: 1
    Ticketmaster has been accused of abusing its monopoly.

    No venue can risk losing all ticketmaster events, and no act can risk losing all ticketmaster venues.

    Google for "ticketmaster monopoly" and pick the one you like best. There's some local venue or band fighting the good fight in most communities.

  5. Re:Curse of the Blue Gold on Scientists Search Deep Sea Reefs for Wonder Drugs · · Score: 1

    I'd say that the reef would be destroyed at a rate calculated to coincide with patent expiration.

  6. Re:lots of questions ? on New Wide-Angle Telescope to Capture Night Sky · · Score: 1

    Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes sinking to the bottom of the ocean.

  7. Re:Brave New World on Zimmermann, Encrypted VoIP, and Uncle Sam · · Score: 1
    I don't want to be blunt, but you're wrong.

    The Atanasoff-Berry computer was built 5 years before Colossus and was unrelated to decryption.

    It's true that if we gave up our freedoms a police state could catch criminals easily. That's the problem with a police state.

  8. Illegal bedtime on Zimmermann, Encrypted VoIP, and Uncle Sam · · Score: 1
    Don't be so sure it's perfectly legal. 22 states still have sodomy laws, and if you aren't performing sodomy with your SO you don't deserve to keep one.

    The supreme court recently struck down sodomy laws between consenting adults, but we still have laws on the books.

  9. Re:Less corruption on Bloggers are the New Plagiarism · · Score: 1
    The game was called Telephone.

    People don't play it anymore. There's a new game, where one person yells at another person through a box and the 2nd person hears something totally different. It's called Cellphone. Or drive-through. I hate those games.

  10. Re:Don't panic on Parasitic Infection Flummoxes Victims and Doctors · · Score: 1
    Offlabel drug use is a complicated issue.

    There are disapproved uses for drugs, e.g. valdecoxib failed to be proved effective for acute pain in clinical trials so it cannot be prescribed offlabel for acute pain.

  11. Re:Don't panic on Parasitic Infection Flummoxes Victims and Doctors · · Score: 1
    The human body is .3% sulphur. It is necessary for healthy hair growth and many amino acids. No need to supplement this essential mineral, we get plenty in our diets.

    Incidentally, there is about 1000 times as much sulphur in a serving of protein as there is in a serving of red wine. (Do not try to avoid protein in a misguided attempt to avoid sulphur)

  12. Re:Congress shall make no law... on Gonzales Says Publishing Leaks Is A Crime · · Score: 1
    It means a rational system would allocate more $$ towards automotive safety than murder investigation/incarcaration.

    Which ours does, not that we have a rational system or anything.

  13. OT link working? on Web Release of the Open Movie Elephants Dream · · Score: 1

    link works for me.

  14. Re:Plus.. PC's are open and well known architectur on Lenovo Banned by U.S. State Department · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Nobody can look at an IC chip and read the traces inside.

  15. Re:interesting question about fragile on BlueSecurity Fall-Out Reveals Larger Problem · · Score: 1

    Hm, so a non-cell person could keep a phone with no service handy for emergencies? Interesting indeed!

  16. Re:interesting question about fragile on BlueSecurity Fall-Out Reveals Larger Problem · · Score: 1
    We can deduce that our society produces 41,000 unsafe drivers per annum.

    If we could somehow accelerate the fatality rate we'd be able to reduce the death toll eventually. Plus, if unsafe driving has a genetic factor we may be able to reduce it permanently!

  17. Re:interesting question about fragile on BlueSecurity Fall-Out Reveals Larger Problem · · Score: 1
    Osama bin laden said that the 9/11 attacks were designed to harm our economy. How is that different from mugging?

    Is a mugger not a mugger if he wants society to be different?

  18. Re:interesting question about fragile on BlueSecurity Fall-Out Reveals Larger Problem · · Score: 1
    I've wanted to destroy that company. Thanks for reminding me to get on that!

    I got about 100 of them last election season, and I fear it will get a lot worse. You can't talk to anyone, you can't get off their list, and they are immune to the no-call list because they're non-profit or political.

  19. Re:Let's use some familiar units people! on Three Neptune-sized Planets Found Nearby · · Score: 1
    Wind drag will be reduced substantially, as will rolling resistance.

    In fact, once it reaches 110mph it won't need any fuel whatsoever.

    Have your brakes checked! You don't want to risk crashing into a planet at 110mph, that'll squish yer bug.

  20. Re:Plenty of Human Volunteers on Possible Antibiotic for MRSA Superbug · · Score: 1
    Strangely, I tried vinegar, tried VapoRub - no help. I asked my doctor about Lamosil and he said that it was pricey, had a low chance of helping, and caused liver damage.

    I trust my doctor a lot more now, and swimming in a hyperchlorinated pool seems to help manage my toenail problem.

  21. Re:Nature article: antibiotic may never be used on Possible Antibiotic for MRSA Superbug · · Score: 1
    Gulp, is this how things started out with Endless Copyrights?

    I'm quite wary of extending patents, especially the way pharmaceutical companies are already extending through repackaging, age groups, etc.

    We should encourage antibiotic development, but it isn't hard to imagine abuse of this proposal.

  22. Re:/. modding can sometimes suck... on Possible Antibiotic for MRSA Superbug · · Score: 1
    It's only a website. Don't take it personally.

    Throw in some links, they get modded up for a reason.

    Hopefully you'll get bored once you're stuck at karma cap and can move on to the finer things in life (if any exist) than slashdot.

    Oh, and I suggest you don't whine about moderation. It's very tempting for mods to kick you when you're down.

  23. Re:Pffft...that's why I bought an iRiver. on Apple Sues Creative · · Score: 1

    Interesting. Reminds me of another company's media player. Any chance they could both lose?

  24. Re:New Zealand on Amazon One-Click Patent to be Re-Examined · · Score: 1
    I didn't do anything either, but that included not ordering from Amazon.

    Of course, Ebay isn't a beacon of corporate warm-fuzziness, and now that they own half.com I can't feel good about buying books from a giant website anymore.

  25. Re:Key line from TFA on Well I'll Be A Monkey's Uncle · · Score: 1
    True, the classic textbook example has been shown to be false. The salamanders in California haven't, and there is a bird in the Himalayas too. Possibly a few others.

    My recollection of ring species from school wasn't that there were very many, just that is was possible and a few cases were known.