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  1. Re:Oh bullshit on Picasa Rolls Out 3.0 — Now With Facial Recognition · · Score: 3, Informative

    And 98% of all child sex offenses are by a family member to begin with (which leaves a couple hundred 'real' FUD predator cases)

  2. Re:Meanwhile at microsoft HQ on "Google Satellite" To Be Launched This Week · · Score: 1

    It's like some screwed-up Chinese military posturing...

  3. Re:There is no duty to recycle on Councils Recruit Unpaid Volunteers To Spy On Their Neighbors · · Score: 1

    It's all washed, so recycle it. Unless you're concerned about animals, but you could give it a quick rinse if you wanted.

  4. Dunno, should install a monitor on Typical Home Bandwidth Usage? · · Score: 1

    I'll also praise Covad, who ATT in my area acts as a reseller for. It's 30/mo but I get 3M/384K and they deliver, no caps and 20ms latency. Not even any blocked ports, but 384k is a little low for a webserver.

    And the ATT website explicitly mentions Usenet piracy (they still run a Usenet server) - they say to watch out for viruses in MP3 newsgroups. So frankly they couldn't care less, and they don't block torrents

    I know a lot of people hate ATT, and a lot will think i'm a tool/astroturfer, but I couldn't be happier.

  5. Re:There is no duty to recycle on Councils Recruit Unpaid Volunteers To Spy On Their Neighbors · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why shouldn't there be a duty to recycle? Have two bins and take the extra minute a week to bring it out, throw your cans and bottles in there.

    I'm all for less government intervention, but as things go this is pretty tame. And that's without going into the benefit of recycling.

    And you have a logical fallacy; there's no 'obviously' about using citizens to report on other's violations. That's intellectually dishonest to suggest.

  6. Re:In Communist Britain? on Councils Recruit Unpaid Volunteers To Spy On Their Neighbors · · Score: 1

    fascist communist

    ...

  7. Re:Rock bottom on In MN, Massive Police Raids On Suspected Protestors · · Score: 1

    Meh. I deserved my troll mod before (and was expecting it), but this is unjustified.

  8. Now show them why OSS is good on VIA Releases FOSS Graphics Driver · · Score: 4, Insightful

    As an act of faith, we should build something cool out of this - not to mention promote them to non-gaming computer users.

    If we can optimize a graphics driver or do new things with it, they can sell more hardware and everybody wins. God knows ATI isn't making any money off of their drivers.

    Hopefully we can use this to drive the point home.

  9. Re:Oblig. on In MN, Massive Police Raids On Suspected Protestors · · Score: -1, Troll

    You are a faggot. Just because black people used to die when their church was shot up doesn't make this unprovoked raid OK. Most societies like to advance

    Or are you pining for the good old days? I honestly can't tell.

    Bring it mods.

  10. Re:Rock bottom on In MN, Massive Police Raids On Suspected Protestors · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But this isn't a war time, we're fighting an idea. You can't have a war against terrorism more than you can have a war against the dark. What do you fight?

    You can't justify this as war time on the scale of the civil war or WWII

  11. Finally! on Microsoft Patents "Pg Up" and "Pg Dn" · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Jeez... why did it take them so long? I've been waiting for 25 years for this! This is a killer feature!

    Oh, wait.

  12. Re:Two wrongs don't make a right on Intel X58 To Be First Non-NVIDIA Chipset To Get SLI · · Score: 1

    Please think before posting. Previously, you could only get SLI with a nVidia (nForce) motherboard. nVidia is certifying Intel's X58 chipset (not a nVidia chipset) as a SLI chipset. You will be able take two nVidia cards and put them in an Intel-chipset board and run SLI.

    SLI is a nVidia technology. This doesn't have the slightest bit to do with Intel's graphics cards.

  13. Strictly speaking, they're right. on iPhone Web Claims Draw Governmental Rebuke in UK · · Score: 1

    Not out of the box, but the iPhone has the hardware and software capability to access all of the web. Whether it does with the default software is irrelevant. Anyone with a jailbroken phone probably knows that typing 'ifconfig' on it will give you a internet-routable IP address on the cell interface.

    So it's as real of a internet connection as your computer at home, just not with all the proper software.

    As much as I hate crap advertising, they never claimed that it could render Flash or Java, and the capabilities of the hardware and underlying OS allow the possibility.

    Methinks there are more important and misleading ads to fry.

  14. Re:Nice one to get on Computer Virus Aboard the ISS · · Score: 1

    Except nobody's said that yet. And I'm 7/8 of the way down the page...

  15. Re:The Register copy and paste? on Newegg Defies New York Sales Tax Law · · Score: 2, Funny

    You must be new here.

  16. Re:I'll admit, I'm a bit confused on Newegg Defies New York Sales Tax Law · · Score: 1

    OT: Hmmm. That happened to my mother, or something similar to it. She moved to NYC in November of a year, and they tried to tax all her income for the rest of the year, that she already was paying taxes on (in CT)

    She told them to stuff it and they sent her a nasty note regarding an audit, but never followed through...

  17. Re:MySQL has no common sense anyway. . . on MapReduce Goes Commercial, Integrated With SQL · · Score: 1

    As a matter of fact, it was... :/

  18. Re:iphone on T-Mobile Will Be First To Use Android · · Score: 1

    Jailbreaking it is completely not scary. You download a program, load the software update (2.0.1 firmware support is working) from the iTunes folder, and let it run. When you update your phone with the 'new' software, you get a jailbroken iPhone

    If it doesn't work, you can restore from the stock firmware. And you have a backup of all your contacts and settings for both cases.

    What's scary is unlocking the phone from AT&T, which updates the baseband firmware. That will brick the phone.

  19. Well it doesn't seem to have helped. on The US Swim Team's Secret Weapon, Science · · Score: 1

    She just came in a full second under Coventry, for the silver.

    Now those Speedo swimsuits that shape the body... those have some obvious impact. Still, this is some cool work in fluid dynamics

  20. Re:Odd on Infineon Chipset May Be Cause of IPhone 3G Issues · · Score: 1

    Or even airplane mode.

    Having said that, 3G gives much improved (read: noticeable) voice quality. It sounds a lot less 'noisy' and a lot more like a land line. 3G isn't as much of a battery sink as you'd first think, and the benefits usually outweigh the costs.

  21. Odd on Infineon Chipset May Be Cause of IPhone 3G Issues · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I've been getting better reception on my 3G iPhone than I had on my Razr (also 3g)

    Battery life is pretty crappy, have to recharge it every night. But that's all I need. I think that has more to do with the big honking screen than any chipset issue.

    I have noticed that the signal indicator likes to sit at around 1 bar, but it's a bit deceptive because it works fine for a while (feels like empty on a car... still goes for a while anyways)

    I know an anecdote isn't true for everyone... maybe he's in a bad signal area? Maybe he has a defective phone? I haven't seen what he's talking about.

  22. Alive or not? on Viruses Infected By Viruses · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Our definition of 'alive' is flawed. Virii, plasmids, prions, etc. are not alive, but they aren't just arrangements of molecules either. They're in some sort of limbo.

    Add to that the fact that this doesn't seem to infect other viruses, just uses a specific MHCI protein as a binding site that happens to be produced by another virus. In which case it's not that interesting.

    This is more interesting in and of itself than it is to 'our belief of what life is' or something. We've known that 'life' is a pretty flaky definition for a while now.

  23. Re:Bad precedent... on MySpace Suicide Charges Threaten Free Speech · · Score: 1

    I know what the law says, I'm trying to have an intelligent conversation on the merits and reasoning of said law.

    Laws aren't always right. There are a whole lot of Southern blacks who agree with me. It's quite alright to say 'yes it's a law, but it's a stupid law'. And this is a pretty stupid law

    And as far as modstalker(?) goes, I'm pretty sure I haven't moderated this story ;)

  24. Re:so short sited. on MySpace Suicide Charges Threaten Free Speech · · Score: 1

    Is "Fail" your favorite word? It's like the 4th time I've seen you use it in this discussion. And nobody takes you seriously after they read your insults, just so you know.

  25. Re:This isn't about free speech on MySpace Suicide Charges Threaten Free Speech · · Score: 1

    I'm that guy who likes to point out that shouting "FIRE" in a crowded theater is actually legal.

    Schenck was later limited by Brandenburg v. Ohio, which ruled that speech could only be banned when it was directed to and likely to incite imminent lawless action (e.g. a riot), the test which remains until this day./quote