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  1. Re:Bet you didn't think of this on Steak-Scented Billboard Entices Drivers · · Score: 1

    Definitely isn't. In severe cases exposure to fragrance can lead to coma and even death. It doesn't affect everybody, but for those people that it does affect the consequences are potentially life threatening.

    Life threatening as in pining for the fjords, not something that a person just makes up.

    Beyond that making people smell that kind of crap is childish and immature. Perhaps it isn't the people that don't want to smell it that should grow up.

  2. Re:Bet you didn't think of this on Steak-Scented Billboard Entices Drivers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The technology should be completely banned. It's hard enough for those with chemical sensitivities to go about their lives without getting sick as it is. Having billboards distributing fragrances which may or may not make people sick is just wrong. It's bad enough for those of us that just have easily irritated noses, I feel sorry for the people that get really sick.

  3. Re:Pfff... on Time To Dump XP? · · Score: 1

    Well, of course they've been working on a single job for 10 years. It takes a really long time to hunt and peck your way through a project.

  4. Re:1990's? on Time To Dump XP? · · Score: 1

    To be fair, it's an honest mistake. XP looks like it belongs in the 90s.

  5. Re:Back to the original subject... on Time To Dump XP? · · Score: 1

    No, he almost certainly works for MS.

  6. Re:Actually... on The Star Wars Kid Is Back · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You mean like the millions of Mac fanbois that think different?

  7. Re:Didn't he get an iPod? on The Star Wars Kid Is Back · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I didn't, I thought the video was awesome.

  8. Re: Sex toy on Inventor Sues Because His Invention Is Being Used As a Sex Toy · · Score: 1

    Goatse man is not amused.

  9. Re:Eh? But we do on Violent Video Games Only Affect Some People · · Score: 1

    Guns are only used for destroying things. Anybody who says otherwise doesn't know a damned thing about them and certainly shouldn't be handling them.

  10. Re:Eh? But we do on Violent Video Games Only Affect Some People · · Score: 1

    You're not entirely correct. The reason why he wouldn't have lasted long in the US is that all our police are armed with firearms. The fact that he was seen by police committing the crime and able to walk away is evidence that there's something entirely fucked up about police officers not being properly armed. Sure criminals get away from time to time here, but law enforcement does have the tools necessary to deal with it on the seen.

    Besides, most gun deaths in the US are suicides. That and the people that are handling the weapons aren't exactly guaranteed to be emotionally stable. Nor are the guaranteed to have been through any sort of class or for that matter had to sit through the waiting period. That adds up to a potentially volatile situation where people can and do get killed as collateral damage.

  11. Re:[insert stimulus here] Only Affect Some People. on Violent Video Games Only Affect Some People · · Score: 1

    Different strokes for different folks, is something that gets discussed here most days.

  12. Re:I think on British Computer Society Is Officially At Civil War · · Score: 1

    You know, that alone would be worth 80 quid a year.

  13. Re:I liked some of them on Why Are Video Game Movies So Awful? · · Score: 1

    It really depends upon the particular game, some times I think it could work with requisite effort other times I have to consider why on earth somebody would think it was a good idea. A lot of the horror genre games would work. I tend to think that Penumbra would probably make a pretty good movie were they to take it seriously, the game due to the way it's written would probably translate well to the screen. The C&C games prior to getting super silly could work, at least as well as any war movie ever has. I'd love to see Mario Kart the movie made though, I remember seeing the parody trailer and thinking that this looks at least as compelling as the other race car genre flicks.

  14. Re:With offshoring as it is... on Olympus Digital Camera Ships With a Worm · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The problem there is that I don't think Japanese workers are any cheaper than American ones are. And in order to actually get any cost savings you have to overlook precautions and externalities. If you don't do that the price of production tends to be about the same no matter where you choose to fabricate the items.

  15. Re:Who cares? on 2 In 3 Misunderstand Gas Mileage; Here's Why · · Score: 1

    This is really only important to policy wonks. For consumers getting one with higher gas mileage will give better results. However whether it's worth the added cost or not is dependent upon the situation. But for policy reasons, getting people in the first group to trade up to a higher efficiency car is more important than getting individuals in the second grouping to upgrade. And quite frankly if you're involved in shaping the policy and can't do the math, then get the hell out of the way for people that can.

  16. Re:Forget mpg. on 2 In 3 Misunderstand Gas Mileage; Here's Why · · Score: 1

    Hmm, you're from Montana, aren't you? Around here we don't put our rods anywhere near a hogshead. Well, Mr. Hand did, and well that didn't end too well.

  17. Re:The question is still absurd... on 2 In 3 Misunderstand Gas Mileage; Here's Why · · Score: 2, Informative

    Which is a mistake. Barring the government intervening like WA has, the amount of driving tends to increase as the fuel economy does, meaning that there's a tendency for a very small decrease if any in the fuel consumption. The paradox of efficiency is pretty well established with data.

  18. Re:Little sympathy on America Versus the UFO Hacker · · Score: 1

    You can be extradited for just about any crime. It's just that it's unusual to say the least to be extradited for a misdemeanor. But that's mostly a matter of value of resources.

  19. Re:Little sympathy on America Versus the UFO Hacker · · Score: 1

    Yes, but that's bullies. Standing up to a police officer that's arresting you for something that he saw you do is hardly going to result in leniency. Same way here, I haven't heard any credible claims that he didn't do it, but rather than just plead guilty and accept what could very well be just a slap on the wrist, he's fighting tooth and nail and probably going to get the book thrown at him as a result.

    I'm not saying that it's necessarily going to be a proportional sentence, but he did break the law and he does have to answer to at least some form of punishment.

  20. Re:Aliens! on America Versus the UFO Hacker · · Score: 1

    That's actually a known fact. The UFO talk was mainly a cover for a period when the US was sending balloons over the Soviet Union to photograph. UFOs were just a convenient way of diverting attention from that real activity to something that couldn't have anything to do with us.

    http://steveblank.com/2010/01/28/balloon-wars/

  21. Re:In case anybody still took them seriously... on RIAA Says LimeWire Owes $1.5 Trillion · · Score: 1

    Well, that's probably because 999 people pirate for every 1 person that buys the album.

  22. Re:Respond appropriately on RIAA Says LimeWire Owes $1.5 Trillion · · Score: 1

    Actually, you don't have to buy the whole game, Parker brothers has for decades sold people additional money for the game without the rest of the pieces. Mainly because you're supposed to play until people are bankrupt, not until the bank runs out of money. One of the reasons why they have an electronic version now.

    At 3.19 per pack of $16550.00 you'd spend roughly $289,123,867.07

  23. Re:Only a Few Trill, Huh? on RIAA Says LimeWire Owes $1.5 Trillion · · Score: 1

    Actually, the money would come from the estate. And if the estate didn't have the money, which I can pretty much guarantee you it won't, the rest just gets written off. Unless one of his heirs is stupid enough to do something that makes them liable for some or all the remainder. Which chances are won't happen because nobody's going to voluntarily give the RIAA money without at least receiving a threatening letter.

  24. Re:Sign Sign Everywhere a Sign on BP Buys "Oil Spill" Search Term · · Score: 1

    The problem is that they weren't leaving the pump unattended, they were interfering with what the operators thought needed to be done and skimping on materials. Had they just been leaving it unattended, we probably wouldn't be in the current mess. But then again BP has a substantial history of fucking things up, and has yet to actually learn anything from past experience.

  25. Re:Multi-page articles on Safari 5 Released · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I can see the problem there. Geeks toiling in the geek mines under Apple would have time to rebel against Steve Jobs. And we can't have that, where else would we get our tightly controlled devices that ordain what we may and may not do.