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  1. Re:As a parent, I have to say on What Restrictions Should Student Laptops Have? · · Score: 1

    There are places where it is considered unsafe to pull over for a cop, as there is a risk of impersonation or even corrupt cops taking advantage of shady locations.

  2. Re:I know it's redundant to say.... but... on What Restrictions Should Student Laptops Have? · · Score: 1

    Agreed. The school network should have some filtering, and while in class the students would be on said network. At home though... that is a major WTF.

  3. Re:none on What Restrictions Should Student Laptops Have? · · Score: 1

    The Bill of Rights does not apply to minors. (not that it shouldn't)

  4. Re:none on What Restrictions Should Student Laptops Have? · · Score: 1

    Optical drives are so 90's. Just use the network instead - many new mobos even has boot-over-ethernet or boot from usb.

    But in seriousness, I purely use my optical drive for booting from disk, data-over-foot'ing things to other people, and burning the occasional DVD.

  5. Re:none on What Restrictions Should Student Laptops Have? · · Score: 1

    So the "real world" excludes poor areas? Other than that issue, I agree with what you say (although I consider tentacle porn educational).

  6. No WAY on Are Biofuels Still Economically Feasible? · · Score: 1

    It's a recession, and businesses are closing down or scaling back? Unheard of!

  7. Re:Watch out! on Researchers Test Whether Sharks Enjoy Christmas Songs · · Score: 1

    Oh no, someone shined a red laser on it! Someone get Samuel L. Jackson to a bunker!

  8. Re:But.... on Australian Court Lets Lawyer Serve Papers Via Facebook · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What kind of bitch would hear someone saying "I came up with this totally unique name for my daughter, that will be hers alone and no one else's!" and jump to "I think I'll name my daughter that!"?

  9. Re:Windows Update on Experts Say To Switch Browsers In Light of IE Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    I just checked my automatic updates (your post made me think of it) and saw this:

     

    Windows Genuine Advantage Notification
    Size: 1.3 MB

    The Windows Genuine Advantage Notification tool notifies you if your copy of Windows is not genuine. If your system is found to be non-genuine, the tool will help you obtain a licensed copy of Windows.

  10. Re:Summary wording flawed on Experts Say To Switch Browsers In Light of IE Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    The summary is certainly either wrong or badly structured. However, the article in question is outdated, quoting Microsoft spokespeople before they were aware that all versions of IE were exploitable, including with scripting turned on and security on High.

  11. No big deal, on Experts Say To Switch Browsers In Light of IE Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    The bug only affects users who "Browse webpages with IE", which MS warns you not to do in the use manual!

  12. Re:Why noone mentioned some of the classical games on Great Games To Put On a Free PC? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why? So they'll be competing with us for women? We need to make a socially illiterate next generation, so there will be young women available for us!

  13. Re:Why noone mentioned some of the classical games on Great Games To Put On a Free PC? · · Score: 1

    Go? Are you trying to cultivate the mind or scare them away from intellectual persuits!? Honestly, Go must have the most complicated strategy in existence.

  14. Re:Saline Scrotum Swelling, a Slashdot Solution on Microsoft's Thumbtack, an Answer To Google Notebook · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is how Al-Qaeda communicates. There, I typed Al-Qaeda so this will be thoroughly analyzed by some sort of government agency.

  15. Re:Sure, why not? on BitTorrent For Enterprise File Distribution? · · Score: 2, Informative

    You're talking about the difference between the provider pirates and the end-user pirates. SCENE people hate p2p. Average Joe-wants-stuff-for-free doesn't know what the "scene" is, and uses p2p (always wondering why torrents say RELOADED or RAZOR1911).

  16. Re:Dedicated Server on BitTorrent For Enterprise File Distribution? · · Score: 1

    Looks more like -1 Troll to me.

  17. Re:Make up your minds on Survival-Horror Genre Going Extinct? · · Score: 1

    If I am interpreting "cover mechanics" correctly, Gears of War definitely did not invent that. Also, reducing GTAIV to "a fps with cover mechanics" is ridiculous.

    The fact is, the number of shitty/unimaginative games that comes out doesn't matter. It is the GOOD games that get attention, become popular, etc., and should be used as the measure of the health of the industry/genre. As long as good survival horror games are coming out, the survival horror genre is doing fine.

  18. Re:Survival horror, not action horror on Survival-Horror Genre Going Extinct? · · Score: 1

    Agreed - L4D can achieve the "against all odds" feel with Expert difficulty, despite the fact that you actually must kill a majority of the enemies to have a chance (running past hordes only works in select situations).

  19. Re:Same problem as movies. on Survival-Horror Genre Going Extinct? · · Score: 1

    I disagree with your account of Doom 3's flashlight. How many people can operate a shotgun (or better yet, chaingun) holding a flashlight?

    I like Left 4 Dead's flashlight, which follows the direction your weapon is pointing, so you cannot see while reloading or doing a melee attack. (I know l4d isn't exactly survival horror).

  20. Re:Let's cut the conspiracy theory on When Teachers Are Obstacles To Linux In Education · · Score: 1

    Or else, they tell their kids that the four "main" subjects are the only important ones and therefore it doesn't matter how they perform in their elective courses.

    That reminds me of when I was in high school getting a C in wood shop. My dad was bitching me out when he saw, and I said "Dad calm down... it's WOODSHOP!"
    To which he replied something along the lines of "Why does that make it okay to get a C?".
    But then he tried to argue that it was because I was playing too much video games so...

  21. Re:Let's cut the conspiracy theory on When Teachers Are Obstacles To Linux In Education · · Score: 1

    Unless you have already been infringing for a year, and the system is installed on thousands of computers. And the patent is for the only known O(n) algorithm for solving the problem, and you have to go to an O(2^n) algorithm, making the software completely useless.

  22. Re:It's like the Traveling Knot demonstration on When Teachers Are Obstacles To Linux In Education · · Score: 1

    Blue is not a good

    A dog can totally be a good.

  23. Re:In IT we trust on When Teachers Are Obstacles To Linux In Education · · Score: 1

    The IT person at my highschool used to have his first name as his password for the school's main website CMS.

  24. Re:Who are you? on Musicians Protest Use Of Songs By US Jailers · · Score: 1

    Awww... sometimes I'm medical terminology...

  25. Re:Who are you? on Musicians Protest Use Of Songs By US Jailers · · Score: 2, Funny

    I am never a grammar either! We have so much in common! I'm also never a syntax or diction!