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  1. Re:This just in.... on Most Torrent Downloaders Are Monitored, Study Finds · · Score: 0

    It's not a legitimate rape.

  2. Re:Just the obvious on Ask Slashdot: Rescuing a PC That's Been Hit By Scammers? · · Score: 1

    Doesn't the FBI have a cybercrime phone number or email address to contact them?

    Apparently they (and a couple of other .gov organizations) do:

    http://www.justice.gov/criminal/cybercrime/reporting.html#C4

  3. Re:Doctors in other countries disagree on US Doctors Back Circumcision · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but his name is a dead giveaway that he's just a sock puppet for a PAC (Penile Action Committee)

    van Dijk

  4. Re:Lies on US Doctors Back Circumcision · · Score: 1

    For that matter why does God make his followers cut it off? Did God make a mistake when he put the foreskin on the male? Hmmm. But he's supposed to be flawless.

    It's complicated but if it makes it easier for you to understand you can think of it as the first recorded instance of a shrinkwrap license agreement:

    This is My covenant which you shall keep, between Me and you and thy descendants after thee, every male among you shall be circumcised. And ye shall be circumcised on the flesh of your foreskin, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between Me and you.

  5. Air powered cars are no big deal on Tata Intends To Sell Air-Powered Car In India · · Score: 1

    Google "rubber powered airplanes" if you want to be really impressed!

  6. Re:It probably won't make a difference, but... on AT&T Defends Controversial FaceTime Policy Following Widespread Backlash · · Score: 2

    rate limited unlimited data

    I can see it now:

    Eat at Joe's

    All You Can Eat! *

    * 1 french fry and 1 squirt of ketchup per hour maximum; restroom is unavailable during normal seating hours

  7. DEA: Long on short term memory, short on long term on DEA Lack of Data Storage Results In Dismissed Drug Case · · Score: 1

    They say that drugs destroy one's short term memory; that's not a problem for DEA. On the other hand, they apparently have very little long term memory capacity.

  8. Re:Sixty Dollars for one line of code .. on Verizon Bases $5 Fee To Not Publish Your Phone Number On 'Systems and IT' Costs · · Score: 1, Funny

    And there's a bug in your code. Now we have to hire a consultant to fix it!

    ``Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to be maintained.''

  9. Re:What was the alternative? on Verizon Bases $5 Fee To Not Publish Your Phone Number On 'Systems and IT' Costs · · Score: 1

    They will work with law enforcement to prosecute, provided that the subscriber is willing to do so:

    http://www22.verizon.com/Support/Residential/phone/homephone/general+support/support+tools/general/95622.htm

    I'm not making apologies for Verizon for charging for unlisted status, just offering this info in response to mitreya's question involving harassment.

    To clarify, I (a) think that there should be no fee for an unlisted number and (b) agree that the various phone companies charge for this because they can and not because there's any big administrative overhead for doing so.

    When it comes to criminal harassment though I have to say that legal complaint and prosecution is an intelligent way to make it stop. It won't work all the time (nor will an "Order of Protection", in cases of physical harassment), but at least it's a direct method that threatens the harassing party with real penalties.

  10. Re:What was the alternative? on Verizon Bases $5 Fee To Not Publish Your Phone Number On 'Systems and IT' Costs · · Score: 1

    If you receive harassing calls they will (and I think are required by law to) change your number for free.

    If you do this repeatedly though I think they will require you to report the dates and times of the calls you're complaining about and make a criminal (harassment) complaint before they keep changing the number over and over again.

  11. Re:Since when is an paying on Verizon Bases $5 Fee To Not Publish Your Phone Number On 'Systems and IT' Costs · · Score: 1

    But you could opt out by telling them you wanted only pulse dial service at no additional charge :-) I did that when I was a poor grad student with a new phone number. (And my phone had a switch to use pulse or tone, so I set it on pulse.) With directory listings though they offer no such fee-free choice.

  12. Re:if you move the N... on Researchers Seek Help Cracking Gauss Mystery Payload · · Score: 1

    Aaahhhhh!!!

    That's it!!!

    It's a cookbook!!!

    Aaahhhhh!!!

  13. Re:walmart used to have KeyMan insurance on most on What Happens To Google Employees When They Die? · · Score: 1

    Didn't the Walmart insurance thing involve Walmart itself being the beneficiary to each employee's insurance?

  14. Re:Two can play at this game on White House Pulls Down TSA Petition · · Score: 2

    Agree!

    Nude sunbathers are the key to a better society.

  15. Re:Long hours coding are best avoided. on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Position To Work For Long Hours? · · Score: 1

    .. it would suddenly strike me, "wait a minute, in this function I am deleting invalid bodies, but the caller's caller of this function is looping through the body list, that is why the grandparent's loop is crashing in the next increment of the loop index"

    Reading this I conclude that either you work at a morgue or you're a hitman. Am I right?

  16. Re:CrashPlan Software on Ask Slashdot: Best On-Site Backup Plan? · · Score: 1

    That can't be a viable business plan.

    Why not? You can buy 2TB desktop hard drives for around $100 each. 8TB => 4 hard drives.

    At $5/month CrashPlan can pay that nut off in what, 7 years. After that it's pure gravy for them.

  17. "Only one infection has been found in Iran" ..hmmm on New State-Sponsored Malware "Gauss" Making the Rounds · · Score: 1

    Aside from 1,660 infections in Lebanon, 482 are in Israel and 261 are in the Palestinain territories, and 43 are in the U.S. Only one infection has been found in Iran.

    Perhaps that one infection was the source of the other 2,446 infections?

    Iran is a major player in Lebanon after all.

  18. There's a video for a companion product also! on Bedrock Linux Combines Benefits of Other Linux Distros · · Score: 1
  19. Waste of Grant Money - Results Already Published on University Receives $5 Million Grant To Study Immortality · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why are they funding research that's already been published?

    Principal Investigator

    Results and Discussion

    Sex Also!

  20. Re:Samsung can't release it's OWN designs?!? on Samsung Admonished For Releasing Rejected Evidence · · Score: 1
  21. Re:Samsung can't release it's OWN designs?!? on Samsung Admonished For Releasing Rejected Evidence · · Score: 1

    The teens pleaded guilty to those charges in late June, though Dietrich and her family told the newspaper they were unaware of the plea bargain and recommended sentence until just before it was announced in court. The attack occurred in August 2011.

    (bold/emphasis added by me)

  22. Re:Appearance matters on Ask Slashdot: Is There a Professional Geek Dress Code? · · Score: 1

    "Brian has 37 pieces of flair."

  23. Re:This is going to get worse.. on Author Claims Apple Won't Carry Her ebook Because It Mentions Amazon · · Score: 1

    There are a few books available at gutenberg.org also.

  24. Re:Freezer trick... on Can a Regular Person Repair a Damaged Hard Drive? · · Score: 1

    Probably not but freezing made it much easier to pick out the ants and bugs for a special dish.

  25. Re:work on Can a Regular Person Repair a Damaged Hard Drive? · · Score: 1

    You insensitive clod! That URL just crashed my hard drive!