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  1. Re:I See Your Problem on What Programming Language For Linux Development? · · Score: 1

    [Ducks rocks, stones, brickbats, flames, gunfire, flying fanboys, Steve Jobs, and moderately sized precision guided asteroids]

    [rips a fart]

  2. Nixon on Bush Demands Amnesty for Spying Telecoms · · Score: 4, Insightful
    How did Nixon say that again ?

    I'm not saying the President is allowed to do illegal things, I'm saying when the President does it, it's not illegal.

  3. Re:!Karma on Groklaw Summarizes the Lori Drew Verdict · · Score: 1

    I like to mix it up a little. A little "Equal but oppisite reaction" mixed in with some Karma, and in the end I'll just blame it all on God.

  4. Karma on Groklaw Summarizes the Lori Drew Verdict · · Score: 0

    I hope this lady gets off scott-free, then I hope a kid like the one she screwed with shoots up the school her kids go to, killing all of them.

  5. Scarry on Would You Add Easter Eggs To Software Produced At Work? · · Score: 1

    Just the number of comments for this story is a scarry thought.

  6. Broken page on Drinking Coffee From a Cup In Space · · Score: 1

    Surface tension inside the cup keeps the Iframes/JavaScript Tags: from floating out and running amuck.

    What the hell ?

  7. Re:I can see Ballmer now on Ballmer Ordered To Testify In 'Vista Capable' Case · · Score: 1

    I think it would work a lot better if he hired the Godaddy girl to take his place in doing that, if for nothing else, so I can say "Those are some developers alright".

  8. Re:Ballmer in court on Ballmer Ordered To Testify In 'Vista Capable' Case · · Score: 1

    Just wait until the judge decides to throw the book at Ballmer.

  9. Re:Sea Boundaries on Has HavenCo's Data Haven Shut Down? · · Score: 1

    NO was blockaided by dikes and had the WATER pumped out. It wasn't always the land you see today. Whether or not there was pieces of dry land before is irrelevant. There's small islands off the coast of Florida in the Gulf of Mexico, using your logic the Gulf was always a large land mass because of these few small pieces of land.

  10. Re:Sea Boundaries on Has HavenCo's Data Haven Shut Down? · · Score: 1

    Roughs Tower's a metal structure sitting on a sandbank

    Which is likely encrusted with enough solid rock and coral to secure it to the seafloor. Which brings us to my point. The land created by this platform was man-made, just like the land NO and SF sit on now. To suggest that new pieces of land can not be formed is like saying that volcanic islands should not be considred land.

  11. Re:Sea Boundaries on Has HavenCo's Data Haven Shut Down? · · Score: 1

    If you look up the definition of land on Google, the majority of the definitions you'll find would support Sealand as being a piece of land before they would support the swamps of New Orleans and sout Florida.

  12. Re:Maybe it was pirates! on Has HavenCo's Data Haven Shut Down? · · Score: 1

    The ugly news: A butt pirate and a larry bagina in the same comment.

  13. Re:Sea Boundaries on Has HavenCo's Data Haven Shut Down? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That's like saying the US Government shouldn't have provided disaster relief to New Orleans because it was man made, or that citizens of some southern Floridian cities aren't subject to taxes because they live on sand that was pumped in to a swamp.

  14. Here be pirates on Has HavenCo's Data Haven Shut Down? · · Score: 1

    "Real" priates probably raided them and stole their equipment.

  15. Re:Monitor on South Carolina Wants To Jam Cell Phone Signals · · Score: 1

    citation needed.

  16. Re:Monitor on South Carolina Wants To Jam Cell Phone Signals · · Score: 1

    How can it go wrong ? Because I'm not seeing a downside other than "they can hear me !" which by itself is nonsense.

  17. Re:Monitor on South Carolina Wants To Jam Cell Phone Signals · · Score: 0, Troll

    Only if you have something to hide.

  18. Re:Monitor on South Carolina Wants To Jam Cell Phone Signals · · Score: 1

    The answer is simple, anything gathered from the surrounding neighborhood by the prisons monitoring system wouldn't hold up in court because of how it was obtained.

  19. Re:Monitor on South Carolina Wants To Jam Cell Phone Signals · · Score: 1

    What about when you figure in the inside information that could be gathered by monitoring these places ?

  20. Re:Monitor on South Carolina Wants To Jam Cell Phone Signals · · Score: 1

    The cell blocks are constructed out of steel re-bar meshes and concrete, just like my appartment complex. If inmates are getting better reception in jail than I am at home I'm going to be pissed.

    I'm thinking that inmates aren't using them in the cells as much as in other areas of the prison. So my cellblock trinagulation probably wouldn't be as effective come to think of it.

    I still think monitoring instead of blocking is the way to go though.

  21. Re:One obvious question... on South Carolina Wants To Jam Cell Phone Signals · · Score: 1

    Any inmate caught with one gets n weeks/months added to their sentence... problem solved.

    Because inmates are known to have respect for consequences and surely wouldn't want to do anything that could get them, oh wait...

  22. Re:smuggling on South Carolina Wants To Jam Cell Phone Signals · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm going to get a cell phone implanted in my penis in case I ever go to prison, that way if anyone ever gets caught using it the guards will just think they're talking to my penis. I'm guessing that's normal behavior in prison.

    Even if I never go to prison, I can always just keep it on vibrate and still get some use out of it.

  23. Monitor on South Carolina Wants To Jam Cell Phone Signals · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it make more sense to just monitor the airwaves in prison than outright block the signals ?

    Setup smaller receivers around the prison that for one, would let officers get the drop on anything inmates try to plan out, surely there's no wiretapping laws in prison considering phones are surely contraband, and for two with a few smaller receivers they could at least triangulate the position down to a cell block and perform a shakedown.

    I'm just worried about what is going to happen when inmates take over the prison, how is Bruce Willas supposed to communicate with the guys outside if they simply block the signals ?

  24. Wrong direction on Scientists Add Emotions To Robotic Head · · Score: 1

    Robots aren't going to take over the world, humans are just going to end up abandoning eachother.

  25. Re:By working it on How to Deal With an Aging Brain? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Something about using memory training software that the author forgot to update doesn't sit right with me.