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  1. Re:i can imagine... on Texas Lawmaker Wants To Let the Blind Hunt · · Score: 4, Insightful
    They arent allowed to drive for the same reason.

    If the blind aren't allowed to drive, why is there Braille on drive-through ATM's?

  2. Re:With you kind permission ... on BitTorrent, Inc. Acquires uTorrent · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Azureus takes up an absolutely insane amount of RAM and runs very, very slowly. I'm very sad that uTorrent is gone down. I guess I'll be sticking with version 1.6 for quite some time now.

  3. Sign me up! on Software Used To Predict Who Might Kill · · Score: 1

    I wanna know what my score is. Think of what sort of a wonderful internet test this can be for MySpacers and other teeny bloggers. "Your homicidal tendency rating is: 76% Postal Worker. While not guaranteed to go berserk and kill a bunch of people, when you do, boy, is it one heck of a story."

  4. Re:The YouTube guy? on Steve Chen Making China's Supercomputer Grid · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Different guys.

  5. It's a cop out on UK Schools Bans WiFi Due To Health Concerns · · Score: 1

    The school administration just doesn't want students getting smart and connecting "unauthorized" devices on the network. Schools haven't seemed to be very excited about having students get access in anything less than controlled circumstances, so the rantings of one nutjob parent provide a convenient excuse.

  6. Re:the right? on US Gambling Law May Cause Flouting of IP Laws · · Score: 1
    Does our government have any constitutional right to outlaw gambling? And even if they do, doesn't the lottery exhibit gross hypocrisy?

    The United States Constitution, Article 1, Section 8

    To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;

    Actually, they kind've do. I think there's an easier case to make that online gambling is interstate/foreign commerce than it would be to use the interstate commerce clause to strike down segregation --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_Atlanta_Mo tel_v._United_States.

  7. Re:contradiction? on iPod Owners Not As Loyal To Brand As Mac Owners · · Score: 1
    Since MP3 is free of DRM, how could someone with an MP3 phone get pinched by DRM???

    By not being able to play those DRM laden songs they downloaded.

  8. Re:The real reason on Microsoft Considers Pulling Out of China · · Score: 1
    And think of all the applications that would be made available on Linux

    You can translate them out of Mandarin for us.

  9. Re:A step in the right direction on FTC's Game Teaches Social Networking Skills · · Score: 1
  10. A step in the right direction on FTC's Game Teaches Social Networking Skills · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It might not be good at all, but someone needs to teach kids about the threats and hazards of social networking sites. It might seem cheesy, but at least we're getting people working on solutions to help teach children.

  11. Re:good point on Pete Ashdown on his Run at the Hill · · Score: 1

    He retired in 1997 and died last summer.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._James_Exon

  12. Re:Not Really New on Chinese Ban Internet Rumors · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter what you think, it just matters what the Chinese government thinks.

  13. Epilepsy? on Teen Plays Videogame With Brain Signals · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why'd they mention that the teen has epilepsy? What's the importance in that detail?

  14. Re:Well on Students Protest Turnitin.com · · Score: 1
    They can't even print it in the school newspaper without the student's permission. How is giving copies to Turnitin any different?
    The student submits it him/herself.
  15. Interesting twist on Which Grad Students Cheat the Most? · · Score: 1

    I'm enrolled in a Gothic Literature class and was having troubles understanding the timeline. Instead of going to the prof first, I read the Wikipedia. The site read almost exactly like the syllabus. I emailed him asking if he contributed (also about my unanswered question), and he said he had worked on. Profs aren't that "unhip".

  16. How is that any different... on Analog Revival Means Vinyl Will Outlive CD · · Score: 5, Insightful
    ... from purchasing a CD?
    "the tactile joy of owning a physical object that represents your attachment to a band is infinitely more enjoyable than entering a credit card number into iTunes."
  17. Re:Small error on Top 10 Digital Cameras on Flickr · · Score: 1

    The 350D is the same as the Digital Rebel XT. The 300D is the same as the Digital Rebel. In Japan, they called the original the Kiss Digital and the 350D the Kiss n Digital. Now they'll have the 400D/Rebel XTi/Kiss X joining the list in a bit.

  18. Re:FREE service, PRIVATE profiles on Facebook Changes Provoke Uproar Among Users · · Score: 1

    I agree with you fully. I love being able to keep track of things easier. Turns out, one of high school classmates got engaged and I certainly wouldn't have known about it any other way. But I really don't like the way the layout is. It's just bad and needs to be fixed, along with the "options to feed" or whatever. I don't want people to easily see if I wrote on someone else's wall on my minifeed and it's just a pain to delete them all of the time. So, as I see it now, the feed system is bad and needs to be fixed. Once it's fixed, I'll be happy. Though I do think it's kind of interesting to see how everyone has become polarized over this. There're very few causes nowadays that'll cause a group of 260k+ college students to band together over (even if it is only online grouping)

  19. Lost Ad Revenue on Facebook Changes Provoke Uproar Among Users · · Score: 1

    I'm just curious, but did anyone at Facebook think about how they're going to be losing ad revenue from this? If everyone can get all the information on one page (the page you get at immediately when you login), pageviews will drop dramatically. That doesn't sound like a winning business plan, especially when everyone hates it as is. The largest group I can find against it is at 170,000, with 25k on the petiononline petition.

  20. Re:from the article, price list on Windows Vista Prices and Release Date Leaked · · Score: 1

    Newegg will let you buy an OEM copy if you buy a $.99 bag of thumbscrews.

  21. Re:A victory. 'til it's overturned on Wiretap Ruling Threatens Telecoms · · Score: 1
    When the executive branch can do what it wants without being held in check by the supreme court, the transformation to a police state is finished
    Tell that to Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln. Both blatantly ignored what the Supreme Court had to say. The Supreme Court has no power to enforce its rulings at all. If the executive wants to sidestep it, they can, illegally of course, but who's going to stop them? When this does go to the Supreme Court and if it's shot down, the government will still be able to wiretap us at will, they'll just have to use the established FISA procedures including the 72 hour warrantless period.
  22. Re:tubes on Does the NSA Need More Electricity? · · Score: 1

    The titanium for SR-71's was purchased from the USSR, at least according to the History Channel.

  23. Re:SMMMMMMART!!!!! on Domesday Book Goes Online · · Score: 1

    I don't think that many people are going to view this after they realize that it is not, in fact, a book describing various methods to destroy the world and start a utopian undersea colony.

  24. Re:Dual Discs Already FTW on Warner to Sell Music on DVD · · Score: 1

    I must say that I like DualDisc as well. When I was at the store looking at picking up Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue" and saw the option for DualDisc for like, 2 bucks more, I jumped all over it. I can use the CD side anywhere, but when I want I can plop the DVD into my home theatre setup and get pristine 5.1. It really works well, though, I can't imagine that I'd make all of my future purchases in DualDisc (even if that were a possibility), let alone in this new format.

  25. Stardust@Home on Slashback: New E3, Archimedes Webcast, Dell Wildfires · · Score: 1

    Am I the only one that this is going insanely slow for? Pages take somewhere around 1 minute to load, and I have 1.5 mbps DSL and no load on the network. Is this an isolated incident? Regardless, I must say that this excites me. It's fun when I see a track then have to wait to see if it was a calibration test or not, secretly praying that I actually find a particle and get published.