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  1. Re:Stands to reason on Band Leaks Own Album, Blames Pirates · · Score: 1

    The capitalization was a dead give away.

  2. Heavy weights on How Do Geeks Exercise? · · Score: 1

    Olympic barbell, sandbags, kettlebells, treadmill, chinup bar, exercise bike, jump rope

    Seriously just because you are a geek doesn't mean you can't have muscle.

    Forget the bowflex or other machines. Just get a pile of weights, some dumbbell handles and a bar and go nuts.

    A lot of the posts here seem to have a lot of ways of avoiding any real exercise.

  3. Re:Stop Playing Their Game on How To Deal With Internet Bullies? · · Score: 1

    The moderators really are inconsistent on that site.
    Some are just useless, some are assholes, rarely do they do anything useful

  4. Re:Good Stuff! on AVG Backs Down From Flooding the Internet · · Score: 1

    "work and has shown a consistent track record of reliability and performance!"

    You clearly have never used version 8

  5. Re:Criminal investigation? on MySpace Wins $230 Million Judgment Against Sanford Wallace · · Score: 1

    You really have no clue what you are talking about do you?

    Nor do you have a clue what the FBI and federal prosecutors do. They are often involved in rather trivial, but interstate prosecutions. They also do in fact prosecute crimes that represent no real physical thread.

  6. Re:Criminal investigation? on MySpace Wins $230 Million Judgment Against Sanford Wallace · · Score: 1

    That would take tens of seconds to come up with supporting evidence of that.

  7. Criminal investigation? on MySpace Wins $230 Million Judgment Against Sanford Wallace · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Why didn't they force the FBI to nail them on computer crimes relating to fraud and unauthorized access.

    You or me wouldn't be able to pressure the FBI to do that, but Myspace and Fox are big enough.

    Throw them into federal prison for a few years and maybe they will stop.

  8. Confront him outright on Dealing With an IT Bully · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Seriously, most people are so afraid of being confronted directly, just flat out say they are wrong and they are attempting to divert the blame and to get out of my face.

    Keep eye contact but just say what everyone already knows but are too afraid.

    Society really has taught us to be wimps in that aspect lately, everyone is frightened of any sort of confrontation. Pick your battles but honestly call him a duck, or more likely an idiot.

  9. Damn it is almost that time of year again on Geeky April Fools' Day Prank Roundup · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Where slashdot is basically useless because they can't help but barrage people with "clever" pranks (well I am sure they think it is clever, in reality it is just pure idiocy)

    Why is it news sites insist on posting such unfunny and useless crap as "news stories" every year on April Fools Day?

  10. Re:Why not just close the server? on Long-Dead ORDB Begins Returning False Positives · · Score: 1

    It isnt blocking the email, it is informing the mail server it considers it to be spam.

    Subtle difference, but ultimately the mail server is what decides how much weight to give the response of the blacklist.

  11. Re:The sellers who have a problem with this on eBay Battles Power Sellers · · Score: 1

    Personally I don't find that "OMG the buyers will blackmail me" concept very credible.

    I have encountered sellers doing that though.

  12. The sellers who have a problem with this on eBay Battles Power Sellers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Are exactly the sellers that should leave ebay or simply be banned outright.
    Get rid of the storefronts too.

    Ebay is great when it acts as a garage sale, but that is rare since all the professional sellers turned it into a gigantic strip mall.

    The FTC will laugh in the faces hopefully.

  13. Re:Civil vs. Criminal on Prince, Village People to Sue The Pirate Bay · · Score: 1

    If you think thepiratebay is not making some pretty good cash you are delusional.

  14. How it will it know on Install Copyright Filters on PCs, Says RIAA Boss · · Score: 1

    What is illegally copied vs something that is legally copied?
    Pretty much everything on the web is copyrighted, will it filter it all out?

  15. Re:Perspectives on the deal... on Nokia Buys Trolltech · · Score: 1

    That seems typical, the company doing the buying pretty much always takes a hit on the stock market, while the company being bought goes up.

  16. Lock on The iPhone Meets the Fourth Amendment · · Score: 1

    there is a lock function, use it.

  17. DRM isnt useless on Open Source DRM Solutions? · · Score: 1

    Just trying to use a DRMed file is useless

    Just try using adobe ebooks, (not the protected pdfs) but the actual ebooks being sold. EBX_HANDLER errors and no real way to remove that crap

    A publisher should not have the power to say you cannot print a file, but sadly they do.

  18. Re:Create job to force automatic reboot or shutdow on Do Any Companies Power Down at Night? · · Score: 1

    Live by your own rules?

    Why?

  19. Killswitch? on Two AI Pioneers, Two Bizarre Suicides · · Score: 1

    Sounds familiar, maybe the AI was setting them up like in the killswitch episode of the xfiles.

  20. Good on The Doctor Will See Your Credit Score Now · · Score: 1

    I am tired of deadbeats abusing the system

  21. Yes they can, yes those policies are stupid on Facebook Photos Land Eden Prairie Kids in Trouble · · Score: 1

    They are legal, enforceable and well plain dumb. Its high school, get over it.
    Don't put photos of yourself on line that depict you being stupid, dont add people as friends unless you want them to see everything.

    Move along kids, get used to the real world while you are at it.

  22. Re:It was significant like the shooting of Lennon on What's Wrong With the TV News · · Score: 1

    You were the pre-emo kid in your middle school. You were an insignificant minority (hey guess where emo came from...)

    I am sorry, but the cultural relevance at the time of kurts death was insignificant at best, the fact you were in middle school at the time pretty much codifies that in that you think he really was that instantly important. the relevance he did have on pop culture was significant, but spread out over a much longer time period.

    but regardless of his cultural influences, his death was minor news story despite a bunch of middle schoolers doing the flannel thing (i had the same wardrobe, but it did not make a cultural revolution in the same magnitude of lennon, hendrix or other greats)

  23. Cooking on Wonder Woman Gets a Woman's Point-of-View · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Makes perfect sense, she really should be cooking and cleaning. and as another poster mentioned, skimpy bikini is preferable.

    Why do women wear white on their wedding day?
    so the dishwasher matches the oven

  24. Re:It was significant like the shooting of Lennon on What's Wrong With the TV News · · Score: 1

    You are comparing what has resulted since his death with his importance at the time of his death. There is a major difference.

    It is all in retrospect you realize his importance to modern rock and the changeout from 80's metal. At the time of his death none of that was realized and therefore the news of his death was not equivalent to someone like Lennon whom was an agent of societal change and had been for a decade plus.

    At the time of his death, grunge rock was pretty small and uninfluenced. It became influential and has roots in more modern rock, but that still doesnt change the time line.

  25. Re:Kurt Cobain Suicide importance on What's Wrong With the TV News · · Score: 1

    Lennon and cobain were not even in the same league. Cobains career was actually quite short and during a totally different time with a different society. Lennon actually effected society, cobains biggest effect was well after his death.

    Diana was unimportant at best. For some reason britains love the monarchy and that even extends to the US, i dont know why.

    I wont say cobains death was completely not newsworthy, but to put him in the category of elvis (whom i dont like at all) or lennon is really a different matter all together.

    I do recognize a bit of difference between lennon and cobain. This is coming from a person who has read several books on cobain, still own more CDs of his than most people will ever even realize exist and was never a fan of the beatles. cultural importance is not a factor of my personal taste though.