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  1. why aren't cyclists also charged? on NC Man Fined For Using Vegetable Oil As Fuel · · Score: 1
    Speaking as a cyclist in the UK. Yes this makes sense, cycle lanes and paths are not free, but:
    • cyclists don't obey any existing laws, so good luck trying to tax them.
    • government would have to build proper cycle paths, not crappy road lanes that exclude major junctions, or paths where cyclists at 15mph pass within inches of dog-walkers.
  2. To paraphrase Rummy on Teacher Julie Amero Gets a New Trial · · Score: 1

    As we know,
    There are accurate facts.
    There are things we know are facts.
    We also know
    There are accurate unfacts.
    That is to say
    We know there are some things
    We know are lies.
    But there are also inaccurate facts,
    The ones we don't know
    We don't know.

  3. Better Surveys: 15% value privacy on Online Shoppers are Willing to Pay More for Privacy · · Score: 1
    A better measure of how you value you privacy is whether you use a store card/loyalty card. Most people are willing to sell their privacy for a small discount, but it seems up to 15% value it enough to reject these cards. Reference is from 2005 but I doubt the figures have changed much.

    According to a 2004 poll conducted by Boston University's College of Communication, 86 percent of American shoppers use some form of store card or discount card, "and the majority of them say the benefits of the card are worth giving up some privacy." A Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) article in 2004 stated that 76 percent of Canadian consumers belong to at least one loyalty program. A British advertising column boasted that loyalty card programs had achieved "85% consumer penetration" in the U.K. circa March 2005 - Loyalty Cards: Reward or Threat?
  4. Re: Money talks, integrity walks. on Microsoft Slaps Its Most Valuable Professional · · Score: 1

    That's because money can afford transport.

  5. You mean "Home Page" security on Gaping Holes In Fully Patched IE7, Firefox 2 · · Score: 2, Funny

    homeland security is a fairy tale.

  6. Slashdot already has this feature on Concerns Over Microsoft's Internet User Profiling · · Score: 2, Funny

    Microsoft's new algorithms correctly guessed the gender of a Web surfer 80% of the time, and his or her age 60% of the time.
    Just include {MERGE GENDER} and {MERGE AGE} in the comment area. For example...

    Your gender is ... MALE
    Your age is ... 18-30
  7. Reputation has weaknesses on Online Reputation Is Hard To Do · · Score: 1
    1. If an account gets hacked, the hacker gets to control its reputation. You can't tell know whether I'm really giafly, or just some /b/tard who just hijacked this account, except that the latter would be funnier.
    2. A routine psyops technique is to regularly start up accounts, karma-whore for reputation, then burn each account in an orgy of inappropriate posting. This is often more efficient than using n00b accounts to troll.
  8. Fifteen. It goes all the way to 15. on New AACS Fix Hacked in a Day · · Score: 1

    Studio Exec: [pointing to the parameters] ...the numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the screen: eleven, eleven, eleven, eleven...
    Hacker: Oh, I see. And most crypto keys go up to ten?
    Studio Exec: Exactly.
    That's why there are "F"s in: "45 5F E1 04 22 CA 29 C4 93 3F 95 05 2B 79 2A B2"

    Perhaps the next version will go all the way to "Z".
  9. Watch the news spread using Google on New AACS Fix Hacked in a Day · · Score: 4, Interesting

    At the time of posting, this gives 973 results. Click the link see how much further the news has spread.

  10. You've never seen an ATM? on A Look Beneath the 'Surface' · · Score: 1

    Seriously, a "Surface" machine in a busy public place is going to be a smeared mess within an hour.
    Welcome to the 21st Century, where we have used all sorts of touch-sensitive machines for years, without this happening.
  11. Stop angering the neutrals on Sci-fi Writers Join War on Terror · · Score: 1

    There are any number of SF books where the war is mainly just the "enemy" reacting to hostility from our side. "Forever War" and "Deathworld" for example.

    If the SF authors get that message across then just maybe they could stop the War Of Terror from escalating further.

  12. Re:Sleep with dogs. Fixed 4u. on Novell Worries About GPL v3 · · Score: 1

    Dear Novell:
    Didn't anyone tell you that if you sleep with dogs, you'll get fleas.
    Dear Novell:
    Didn't anyone tell you that if you sleep with Microsoft, you'll get fleeced.
  13. Re:male version on Apple Sues Over iGasm Ads · · Score: 1

    If AnnSummers came out with a male version, I might actually shell out $300 for my first iPod.
    If AnnSummers came out with a male version, I might actually splash out on my first iPod.

    Fix'd.
  14. Can the iPhone do this? on Apple Sues Over iGasm Ads · · Score: 1

    Can the iPhone combine its "play music" and "vibrate instead of ringing" functions? Just asking.

  15. Re: pay off someone's cell phone? on Why Are CC Numbers Still So Easy To Find? · · Score: 1

    It's one thing to use a stolen credit card and max it out purchasing various items to be shipped wherever, but who in their right mind would use it to pay off someone's cell phone?
    Attackers who hate the 'phone owner. It will be much more convincing evidence for police if attackers not only use a stolen card number to buy CP (and other illegal things) for their victim, but also to pay for a bunch of everyday stuff linked to them.
  16. The Fraud Act 2006 Requires Intent on AllofMP3 Voucher Resellers Quit After Police Raid · · Score: 1

    ...so I'm not sure whether these people were potentially "guilty". See Fraud Act 2006. We need advice from a lawyer.

  17. Other uses of this list on Congress Debating "No-Work" Database · · Score: 1
    • To McDonalds it's a no-fry list
    • To Hooters it's a no-guy list
    • To Walmart it's a no-buy list
    Stopping b4 I lose the will to live.
  18. Re: Hypocrisy! You mean Inconsistency on Google Bans Ads For Essay-Writing Services · · Score: 1

    Google is taking such a moral high morals; considering that they censored searches in China.
    None of us are wholly consistent, Mr AC, but this doesn't mean we can't ever take a "moral high morals". Google seems to be better than most.
  19. Re: What shall I do tomorrow? on FBI Target Puts His Life Online · · Score: 1

    "The goal is to enable Google users to be able to ask the question such as 'What shall I do tomorrow?' and 'What job shall I take?'"
    You already can. Google says I'm going to Lake Tahoe, then heading off to my new career at Princeton. Silly Google.
  20. Windows Media Censor on Windows Media Center Restricts Cable TV · · Score: 1

    A simple search on the subject reveals that HBO programming and, in my case, Braveheart on AMC are among the many selections now restricted for playback or recording by Windows Media Censor Edition.
  21. NO: Intellectual property is EASIER to protect on The Case For Perpetual Copyright · · Score: 1

    The King of England once owned the land now called the US of A. Intellectual property is harder to protect and defend, and stand to be lost easier.
    The King "owned" a little sliver along the Atlantic coast. I think France, Spain and Russia owned more territory (Google for Louisa Purchase, USA Spanish War, and Alaska Purchase). Also the Native Americans owned all the continent.

    This shows how easy it is to lose land. But I don't recall any of the above losing IP when they lost their territory? Also I've never heard of a mugger stealing your copyrights along with your wallet.
  22. Hard disks vs Cars on 'Racetrack' Memory Could Replace Hard Drives? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ok hard drive errors do exist but I wish my car, for example, was as reliable
    If I drove a car that was as as unreliable as my hard drives, I'd be dead. Three crashes in the last 4 years, all contents lost.
  23. This is why you get tornados on Hurricane's Eye Reveals a New Power Source · · Score: 1

    The findings suggest that the flow of air parcels between the eye and eye wall -- largely believed trivial in the past -- is a key element in hurricane intensity and that there's more to consider than just the classic 'in-up-and-out' flow pattern.
    In fact it's long been known that you get tornados associated with hurricanes, here's one example with eighteen, created by with the larger of these "air parcels". So trivial is maybe not the best word.
  24. We're doomed on Botnet Mafia in Online Turf War · · Score: 4, Funny

    The really organised criminals will be using exactly the same techniques to evade capture and to protect the business of criminality as is seen in the drugs war. You can be sure that while sacrificial lambs get jail time, the gang bosses and the real botnet builders will continue to prosper. Until, that is, law enforcement, the judiciary and governments around the world start to take the spam problem as seriously as they do the drugs one.
    We're doomed
  25. Re:Global Warming Assumptions... on Could Global Warming Make Life on Earth Better? · · Score: 1

    You have to fervently believe in all four of these [global warming assumptions] to be a true believer. If you don't, you're just another mindless neanderthal who doesn't care about the planet.
    Remind me again, where the neanderthals now? They were just as intelligent as humans you know. What makes you 100% certain that we - unlike them - will survive any change to the environment?