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  1. Re:Communication more than just writing on Lawyers Would Rather Fly Than Download PGP · · Score: 1

    In Slashdot, we kick the enemy messengers into a pit of spam email rather than earth and water.

  2. Re:Security not just about encryption. on Lawyers Would Rather Fly Than Download PGP · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually you don't even have to call it a hunch. You can use all sorts of things in the course of an investigation that you cannot use in court. For example intelligence gathered by one of the agencies from a foreign agent that reveals the identity of an internal mole. Generally that would be inadmissable as evidence, but its perfectly legit to use it as justification to investigate the individual to get evidence you can use in court.

  3. Re:Apple is just the new Microsoft on The Reality Distortion Field Is Real · · Score: 1

    So who is the new google?

  4. Re:Wait just a minute ... on Did Amazon Induce Vista's Premature Birth? · · Score: 1

    Methinks you do not understand the meaning of 'truthiness'.

  5. Re:Looks cool... on Gravity Lamp Grabs Green Prize · · Score: 1

    He's pathetically lazy. I mean, lifting 10 lbs five times....DAMN. Next thing you know, he might have to get off the couch too and lift all 200 lbs of his lazy posterior. Thats obscene!

  6. Re:Oh dear God... on First Amendment Ruling Protects Internet Trolls · · Score: 1

    ...and if I hadn't just typed this I'd mod you redundant.

  7. Re:No longer binary? on Intel Doubles Capacity of Likely Flash Successor · · Score: 1

    Not really. Logic circuits use binary voltage levels so the single voltage output from the pcm representing two bits has to be converted into two separate signals sent to the CPU. So it does matter how its stored, because you have to convert the base 4 to base 2 before sending it to the CPU. This isn't a challenge, but it does need to be done.

  8. Re:Fits the Profile for Standard Theft on A Torrid Tale of Plagiarizing Paleontologists · · Score: 1

    Work on something noone else cares about.

  9. Re:too bad on Spectrum Auction Could Be A Game of Chicken · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Because renting is money thrown away. Money spent on a mortgage is only partially thrown away.

  10. Re:ignorant on When Are Kids Old Enough to Play Videogames? · · Score: 1

    Snake can't die though...so heath ledger would entirely inappropriate. This is me wasting my karma.

  11. Re:thank god for small miracles on GNOME 2.20.3 for Slackware · · Score: 1

    Which is where the rest of us point and laugh at his small e-genitalia.

  12. Re:It's still a far cry better than 0% on Wii Can't Replace Actual Exercise · · Score: 1

    No its not. Given that you burn roughly 2k cal per day just sitting there, and a non-athlete would rarely ever excersize beyond an additional 200 cal per day (10% increase) getting 1/5 of that from just playing a video game is rather large.

  13. Re:Neocortex too complex on Researchers Simulate Building Block of Rat's Brain · · Score: 1

    Well in my field (theoretical stellar astrophysics) that is exactly what we do. But even there we know the fundamentals much better than we know fundamentals of neuroscience and our complex models still aren't that good. But thats the whole idea behind any computer simulation, yes.

  14. Re:Oh, I dunno. on Notebook Makers Moving to 4 GB Memory As Standard · · Score: 0, Troll

    If he actually wants to do something with his computer, why is he using windows?

  15. Re:Enforce it to the letter on RIAA Argues That MP3s From CDs Are Unauthorized · · Score: 1

    Would you add the plaintiffs to the defendants then?

  16. Re:Renewable on Former Anti-Nuclear Activist Does A 180 · · Score: 1

    Pro-tip: The sun shines for a maximum of something closer to six months at a time, depending on one's latitude. Otherwise, carry on.

  17. Re:This article is FUD on New Seagate Drives Have Real Difficulties With Linux · · Score: 1

    The correct joke at the grandparent's expense was about angular resolution, not distance.

  18. Re:Zombie Survival Guide on Evidence of Historical Zombie Attack at Hierakonpolis · · Score: 1

    Just so you know your signature is not in fact ironic. Well, except for being ironic in the sense that it isn't. Also con air reference.

  19. Re:S.E.T.I on Is SETI Worth It? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This isn't really an accurate characterization. A more correct way of stating it would be to say that all biological activity on this planet is characterized by reproductive rates exceeding what the available resources can sustain--leading to conflict over said resources. That realisation, courtesy of Thomas Malthus, is really the foundation of Darwin's theory of evolution (well, that and the notion of trait variation and heritability of traits, but whatever).

  20. Re:Why? on Call for a Presidential Debate on Science · · Score: 1

    Women started demanding those rights, and everything went to shit.

    Remember the garden of eden?

    BAW!

  21. Re:AIM on AOL Cutting 2000 Additional Jobs · · Score: 1

    Its good to see a man who has his priorities in order. Too few of those these days.

  22. Re:Feds can't be bothered to prosecute... on Racketeering Trial of MS and Best Buy Can Proceed · · Score: 1

    Oh, if only I had mod points.

  23. Re:PORN on Does Computer Use Actually Cause Carpal Tunnel? · · Score: 1

    Of course, proof by anecdote is not proof.

    That said, you are probably right in interpreting this to mean rather that PROPER computer use isn't harmful. And how many desk jockeys can be bothered to use a keyboard properly?

  24. Re:Yes, you're being silly on Replacing a Thinkpad? · · Score: 1

    Count me in that camp. I still despise myself for it too. And more despicably, I'd still do it. Of course, I live in california, so my vote still counted for john kerry, but hey, lets not split hairs. The electoral college sucks.

  25. Re:Good on ESA Seeks Money For Legal Fees From CA · · Score: 1

    Amen. I almost vomit every time I walk past the Mecha office on campus. Racist, fascist pigs.