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  1. Re:Gun Laws on Many Dead In Virginia Tech Shooting · · Score: 1

    He wouldn't have killed too many more people unless you just mean the rest of the party. I wouldn't mind mandatory frisking before entering a bar. If you're dumb enough to carry a weapon when you know your mind will not be functioning correctly, you deserve to have it taken away. I carry a knife. I leave it at home when I'm going to be drinking so I don't kill a guy for defending his brother from the other Marine who thought he had a right to hit on the brother's girlfriend without being bothered.

  2. Re:Another day in the world of near-monoculture. on Massive Spam Shot of "Storm Trojan" · · Score: 1

    My university quarantines compromised computers. I would assume the reason most ISPs don't is that while students living on campus don't have a choice in ISPs, if Joe Sixpack gets cut off by his ISP he's liable to get pissed at them and switch, even if it's his own fault and for his own good.

  3. Re:Is it really so hard to catch cheaters? on Students Sue Anti-Plagiarism Service · · Score: 1

    The problem with that is false positives. The only student I've ever seen get caught for plagiarism was, without a shadow of a doubt, innocent. He did get off, in the shortest deliberation on record for the Honor Council, but not before four weeks of wondering whether he was going to fail the course and lose his NROTC scholarship because the teacher couldn't understand why two students who barely knew each other would submit nearly identical code when he specifically taught the course such that we were all programmed to use the same solution on any problem he threw at us.

  4. Re:An Uninformed Question on How To Speed Up Linux Booting · · Score: 1

    The long delays in labs at your university is probably due to the computer having to pull down your roaming profile.

  5. Re:If you're going to blow the whistle on Randal Schwartz's Charges Expunged · · Score: 1

    Just because you've been there longer doesn't mean you get to retroactively change spelling. The -ize ending is older, and the OED prefers it.

  6. Re:Dell's laptops cost MORE w/ no OS than w/ Windo on Pre-Installed Linux On Dells Coming · · Score: 3, Informative

    The difference between the D520 and D520N you mentioned is the lack of Windows. That's what the N signifies.

  7. Re:Why the US on DoD Warez Leader Faces 10 Years in Jail · · Score: 1
    Oh and last time Puerto Rico was a US colon^H^H^H^H^H protectorate.

    They get to vote on their status every so often. Last time, I believe they had the options of being the 51st state, staying as they are, and being totally free. They picked none of the above, so what exactly were we supposed to do?

  8. Re:Dr. Schroeder is pretty hot, too! on Everything You Know About Disks Is Wrong · · Score: 1

    Except she requires a MTBF of more than 3 seconds. Sorry dude.

    You call that failure?!? I'd call it success. If you only last 3 seconds I guarantee it's a failure for her.
  9. Re:is Google REALLY highly regressive on Could Open Source Lead to a Meritocratic Search Engine? · · Score: 1

    You can kind of do #2 with the rel="nofollow" attribute. It's not explicitly bad, but at least it doesn't help the site.

  10. Re:Regardless of the release date on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Release Date Announced · · Score: 1

    Somebody here had it in their sig about a week before the book came out. He's lucky this guy never perfected his invention.

  11. Re:One can only hope. on The Death of Domain Parking? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Handier hint: Searchbar Autosizer

  12. Re:Being fat versus getting jacked at gunpoint... on Does Sprawl Make Us Fat? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There are a number of reasons why Americans prefer to live in suburbs. White flight, as you mentioned, is one. Another is that most of us like our space. I grew up in a house where the back yard was totally secluded and we had a wooded lot to one side. Lots of privacy - you didn't look out your window right into someone else's. I'm in a dorm now. I love being near my friends, but the walls are paper thin. I can hear everything that goes on in the rooms beside me, and if it's loud enough, I can hear the speakers of the guy living across the building. A third reason is that since cities tend to grow outwards, houses in the suburbs are newer and nicer than inner city ones.

  13. Re:As I said to my wife... on MySpace to Offer Spyware for Parents · · Score: 1

    I live in the US and my little brother just got his cell phone last summer shortly after he turned 14. He was one of the last kids he knew to get one. Kids are getting them earlier and earlier.

  14. Re:Like Region Coding, Then on DRM — It's Not Really About Piracy · · Score: 1

    Lucky people who don't live in places where a mere string of firecrackers will get you in trouble with the law. /me sulks off

  15. Re:Like Region Coding, Then on DRM — It's Not Really About Piracy · · Score: 2, Funny

    You say that like large explosions are a bad thing. Who are you, and what have you done with your inner pyro?

  16. Re:George Lucas has lost credibility on Harrison Ford Turned Down Han Solo Role · · Score: 1

    But at least they haven't messed with prequels, thank Spielberg!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Indiana_Jones cough, cough

  17. Re:Explanation on Adult Film Industry Moving To HD DVD · · Score: 1

    If I didn't already have a boyfriend who's figured out the same thing, I'd be asking for directions to your house.

  18. Re:Well Einstein on DIY Service Pack For Windows 2000/XP/2003 · · Score: 4, Funny
    Your average interface-jockey can certainly plug the thing into the cable modem, and plug his computers into the lan side.

    I want your users. I lost internet access three times last year because some dumbass down the hall plugged his router in backwards and was trying to NAT the whole damn building.

  19. Re:makes me wonder.. on Dead Musicians Signing Media Rights Petitions · · Score: 1

    *whoosh*

  20. Re:It's funny? Laugh? on Servers, Hackers, and Code In the Movies · · Score: 1

    The only perfectly healthy premie I've ever seen.

  21. Re:It's funny? Laugh? on Servers, Hackers, and Code In the Movies · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And obviously nobody wants to watch a real hacker sit and type code that doesn't look like it's doing anything. The point was simply that anything is going to look more realistic in Hollywood when you're not familiar with the field, but once you get into something you recognize, you can see that they decided using something easy to film and interesting was more important than realism.

  22. Re:It's funny? Laugh? on Servers, Hackers, and Code In the Movies · · Score: 1

    I have seen one episode of ER, but obviously it was the wrong one. They picked the one thing I knew anything about - premature births - and they were so far from the truth it wasn't even funny. I just turned it off when I saw a lady pick up and rock her one day old, 13 week early, 7 pound baby. My brother was only 11 weeks early but he weighed less than 3 pounds and Mom and Dad weren't allowed to pick him up out of the incubator for weeks. Little ones that early fit in your hand, not your arms.

  23. Re:Great, where do we sign up... on Linux Desktops Catching On In Education · · Score: 1

    Trendlines. Thats all I ask. I just want to be able to click on a set of data in a graph in Calc and get a linear trendline with an equation.

  24. Re:In related news... on Detecting Tailgaters With Lasers · · Score: 1

    I guarantee you nobody in Chicago is using the "two-meter" rule. "Two-yard" rule, maybe.

  25. Re:Moo on Detecting Tailgaters With Lasers · · Score: 1

    It definitely can be illegal to go under the speed limit depending on the circumstances. I know there's a law on the books in Alaska that if you have 5 or more cars lined up behind you, you must pull over at the next available opportunity to let them pass. I have also known two people in the Lower 48 that have gotten pulled a total of three times for impeding traffic by going slower than the posted speed limit on busy highways and main roads.