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  1. Re:oxygen-free sharpie on James Randi Posts $1M Award On Speaker Cables · · Score: 1

    but who's ever going to see your speaker cables?

    If I was paying 7250$ for speaker cables, not only my guest will have a tour of my audio system, but they would also have to tell how great it sounds if they ever want to come again!

  2. He shouldn't had to try. on Testimony Wraps In RIAA Trial · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The RIAA already had anti-pirating laws voted, so why would he have to testify that pirating is bad?
    Probable answer: because thet cannot prove the guilt of the defendant so they tried to move the trial away from the determination of the truth.

  3. Sounds good to me. on Indiana Jones Gets Robbed · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm ready to pay that price to make sure there is no jarjar or ewok-like caracter in the film, and if needed, the double to make sure Lucas is no longer involved in any artistic part of the production.

  4. Re:Idiocy on German Court Rules That Websites Can't Retain Logged IPs · · Score: 1

    Anyway, did you ever visited a website that explicitly told you what data the kept on you?

  5. Re: Online Video May Conduct Viruses on Online Videos May Conduct Viruses · · Score: 1

    morally corrupt web site?

    Do you mean the ones where you can get free adult content or the ones that only provide 3 lines of semi-interesting information and split it over 12 pages with so many ads that each page needs 2 min to load on my 10Mb/s connexion (and did I mentioneed that some of these ads usually overlap the content for which I came in in the first place). Yes, the latter kind should be banned.

  6. What if they can't even prove it's YOUR data? on UK Government Can Demand You Hand Over Encryption Keys · · Score: 1

    Strongly encript your sensitive stuff, keep the key far from your computer, and depending of the size, name it after a few popular songs or prOnstars and let it live on the mule, then recover it only as needed. "Hey, it's not my data, just a fake download". Bonus point, you can recover it anytime and anywhere.

  7. Re:All that blogs is not trendy on Bloggers Who Risked All In Burma · · Score: 2, Funny

    No dark tshirt or jokey nickname? Come on, Gothmolly, who the hell are you tring to fool?

  8. Re:Death to Tyrants on Bloggers Who Risked All In Burma · · Score: 1

    Do you mean the same Spartans who conquired and enslaved about 1/4th of what is now modern Greece? There is a good reason most of them were warriors, and it was not democracy, but fear of riots from their workers. Expanding their borders and constantly fight against Athenians were important goals too, but they came far behind.

  9. Re:frigging idiots on Law Firm Fighting For White Collar (IT) Overtime · · Score: 1

    Yes an employer has a limited amount of money with which to compensate employees, but not a fixed one.
    Constantly overwork and underpay your employees and all the good one will leave, and the ones who couldn't might have an unlimited will to hurt you, so the amount of money you have might go down to 0 very fast if one of those has an oportunity.

    It's always a question of balance. Of course, it would be silly to pay coders like fortune 500 CEO, but remember that 2 good and motivated coders will be cheaper and far more efficient than 5 cheap, tired and bitter ones.
    In the end, you cannot get more than what you are paying for, but there's no guaranty you will get anything if you are a moron.

  10. Re:Hollywood lied! on 10,000 Cameras Ineffective At Deterring Crime · · Score: 1

    You got it wrong, they do not use Photoshop to extract a high resolution image from a crappy CCD cam, but to insert it.

  11. Re:Same problem that surveillance has always had. on 10,000 Cameras Ineffective At Deterring Crime · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Just remember that to prevent the 7/7 bombing, they would have to focus on mundane looking people using the public transportation during rush hour. Now tell me how you can do that exactly.

  12. Re:Poisonous chemicals! on Boeing Dreamliner Safety Concerns Are Specious · · Score: 1

    Yes indeed.
    1- Not every plane accident has a 100% death toll, just consider the case of very rough landing.
    2- Even if the plane goes fireball and burns everyone inside, you might consider not adding hundred of other people on the ground to the list of the victims.

  13. Re:Damned intellectuals on Americans Giving Up Social Life for the Web · · Score: 1

    As a matter of fact, I did a long time ago, but I was just pointing out that spending a lot of time on the web is not on average a clear sign of education, morale, cleverness or intelligence.

  14. Re:And they say America is Big Brother on Bioethics Group Raises DNA Database Concerns · · Score: 1

    Remember, 1984 took place in London.

  15. Re:Damned intellectuals on Americans Giving Up Social Life for the Web · · Score: 1

    That must be why prOn is one of the most important online business, the sex without social interaction or intelectual interest has a great future.

  16. Re:Moore's law isn't really a law on End of Moore's Law in 10-15 years? · · Score: 1

    -As someone already posted, a law IS an observation (law of gravitation: objects attracts each other depending on their relative mass and their distance. theory of gravitation: something about gravitons, or something else, no one is really sure what it really is).
    -Moore's law is just a particular case of learning law (any industry tend to regulary improve its production technique as long as the improvement has a positive ROI to justify investing money, wether the result is cheaper or better products is a choice left to marketing, not science).

  17. Re:Salary on Your Chance to be an Astronaut · · Score: 1

    You mean, compared to the virgins waiting for the other ones in heaven?

  18. Re:Easier to use? on USB 3 in 2008, 10 Times as Fast · · Score: 1

    Moreover, you'll have to make sure you have one of those new cable. Getting rid of the power cable is good, but it is something we already have on some USB2.0 external HDD.

  19. Re:Anyone else here see a problem?? on USB 3 in 2008, 10 Times as Fast · · Score: 4, Funny

    Then I recommend you not to buy the USB-powered dildo.

  20. Re:I'm more concerned with latency. on USB 3 in 2008, 10 Times as Fast · · Score: 1

    Although I totally agree, computer or braoder high tech history shows that "systemically efficient" designs usually have a hard time competing against cheaper "almost OK" ones. Plus, if it has backward compatibility with today's standard, it's already the assured next standard even if they only increase maximal speed.

  21. Re:Change along with technology required to be hea on How Students Are 'Evolving' With Technology · · Score: 1

    I had a teacher who put a box outside the classroom with a sign that basically said "Put tamagoshi or gameboy here during the class, any tamagoshi or gameboy found inside the classroom will be hammered", of course, I was 7 then and no one had cellphone or PDA at that time.

  22. Missing post? on Big Brother Really Is Watching Us All · · Score: 1

    Over 250 posts and I didn't see any Wii joke! Hey, guys, there was so much to do...

  23. Re:Where do they get their numbers? on Big Brother Really Is Watching Us All · · Score: 1

    Where I live, they usually ask this kind of question right after some really horrible crime has been commited in the same town. The question is always formulated in way that imply that this new level of surveillance would have prevented it. Oh, and within a week, the government propose a new law to punish that kind of crime with up to 25 years instead of 20 before.

  24. Re:ummmm...... on Big Brother Really Is Watching Us All · · Score: 1

    My father works for a western european equivalent of the IRS and is responsible for a small rural office. One day, when I was a kid, some knoked at the door at 2AM, it was the police asking him to go with them check the alarm (the office was several km away from our house). He later told me that when you are half asleep and the first thing you see when opening the door is a SMG, you can't thing of anything else until your heartbeat drops back.

  25. Re:I hope they really can read my mind.... on Big Brother Really Is Watching Us All · · Score: 1

    On the same subject, I saw a couple of years ago something on TV about a whoman who suffered from a bad Tourette syndrome who managed to train herself to give very naughty meanings to some mundane neutral words, so that way, she could curse pretty much all the time and only appear a little weird.