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  1. Re:Easy! on 'The Hobbit' Pub Threatened With Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    Apple Records was the Beatles record label, it has nothing to do with Apple Computer except for the fact that they sued them several times. Get your facts straight.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Records

  2. Re:This is end of democracy on European Parliament Blocks Copyright Reform With 113% Voter Turnout · · Score: -1

    Since when has the EU been anything but socialist?

  3. Re:Great! on Pay the TSA $100 and Bypass Airport Security · · Score: 1

    Where do you stick the bomb, up your butt?

  4. Re:Great! on Pay the TSA $100 and Bypass Airport Security · · Score: 1

    That was the FBI. It amazes me how few people know that the FBI supplied the explosives used in the 1993 WTC bombing. And not one of the agents involved ever faced criminal charges.

  5. Re:Great! on Pay the TSA $100 and Bypass Airport Security · · Score: 1

    Read the article, you have to be invited to join this program.

  6. Re:At face value... on New Service Lets Users Try Apple's New IPad For 30 Days Before Buying · · Score: 1

    If you drop them off with a label already on the box I assume you have an account with them. In which case they know where to find you.

  7. Re:Easy! on 'The Hobbit' Pub Threatened With Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    I know that Apple Records (previously Apple Corps) was around long before Apple Inc. (previously Apple Computer).

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer

  8. Re:At face value... on New Service Lets Users Try Apple's New IPad For 30 Days Before Buying · · Score: 1

    I recall seeing something on the form referencing a CFR that mandates this.

  9. Re:All I can say is on Pay the TSA $100 and Bypass Airport Security · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Background checks do not cost anywhere near $20k. And it only costs around $50 to have a urine test performed at a national lab.

  10. Re:All I can say is on Pay the TSA $100 and Bypass Airport Security · · Score: 1

    I thought they just had to know what the pictures mean.

  11. Re:At face value... on New Service Lets Users Try Apple's New IPad For 30 Days Before Buying · · Score: 2

    The last several times I sent something through UPS they verified the contents. They do this now because of all the people mailing packages of drugs.

  12. Re:A Pastor sued and won against the checkpoint on George "geohot" Hotz Arrested In Texas For Posession of Marijuana · · Score: 1

    I forgot to add this part.

    "And if a drug-sniffing dog is used during this unreasonable extension, the use of the dog violates the Fourth Amendment."

  13. Re:A Pastor sued and won against the checkpoint on George "geohot" Hotz Arrested In Texas For Posession of Marijuana · · Score: 1

    SCOTUS has ruled that police cannot detain you for more than a reasonable amount of time. In fact here is a quote straight from the Wikipedia article you posted.

    "the stop becomes unreasonable if it is prolonged beyond the time reasonably necessary to issue the warning."

  14. Re:Returned iPads resold as new? on New Service Lets Users Try Apple's New IPad For 30 Days Before Buying · · Score: 1

    But they do have to worry about paying for it if they should damage it.

  15. Re:The first hit is free on New Service Lets Users Try Apple's New IPad For 30 Days Before Buying · · Score: 1

    And yet they still buy each new model at release.

  16. Re:At face value... on New Service Lets Users Try Apple's New IPad For 30 Days Before Buying · · Score: 1

    I'm sure they pay for return postage and insure it. And the tracking number proves you sent it back.

  17. Easy solution on New Service Lets Users Try Apple's New IPad For 30 Days Before Buying · · Score: 1

    Wipe the device before you send it back. It's not hard to do.

  18. Re:Easy! on 'The Hobbit' Pub Threatened With Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    It's already been done.

    http://www.applerecords.com/

  19. Re:Ars Technica Lnk on FBI Tries To Force Google To Unlock User's Android Phone · · Score: 1

    In this case, they use "human trafficking" as a scare term; it appears he's actually a run of the mill pimp.

    Pimping is human trafficking, just like selling drugs is trafficking in drugs.

    Human trafficking is the illegal trade of human beings for the purposes of reproductive slavery, commercial sexual exploitation, forced labor, or a modern-day form of slavery.

  20. Re:No surprise on White House CIO Describes His 'Worst Day' Ever · · Score: 1

    Big surprise. The contract (like all government contracts) went to the lowest bidder and they surely cut corners.

  21. Re:$60 games? Luxury! on Can $60 Games Survive? · · Score: 1

    Maybe you should quit buying games at artificially inflated prices then? If people wouldn't keep buying them at those prices the greedy bastards would be forced to lower them down to a reasonable price.

  22. Re:HotS on Can $60 Games Survive? · · Score: 1

    Until they decide they have made enough off the game and shutdown the servers. Not to mention that online play is co-op only.

  23. Re:Easy! on 'The Hobbit' Pub Threatened With Lawsuit · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Are they going to sue the dictionary too?

    hobbit (hbt)

    — n
    1. one of an imaginary race of half-size people living in holes
    2. a nickname used for a very small type of primitive human, Homo floresiensis , following the discovery of remains of eight such people on the Island of Flores, Indonesia, in 2004

  24. Re:I had a similar experience once on 'Honey Stick' Project Tracks Fate of Lost Smartphones · · Score: 3, Insightful

    so I called 611 with the phone itself. After explaining the situation to a customer service rep, she very regrettably informed me that even though she had the information right in front of her on her screen, she would not tell me the name of the account holder. Go figure.

    Not only would she get fired for giving you that information it is also illegal for her to do so. You should have just dropped it off at a Verizon store.

  25. Re:Finding a phone on 'Honey Stick' Project Tracks Fate of Lost Smartphones · · Score: 4, Insightful

    At which point your step-dad really does steal their phone. And to top it off he destroys it. What an asshole, I hope he gets fired.