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  1. Re:Seriously... on How a Virginia Law Firm Outpaces the MPAA at Suing Over Movie Downloads · · Score: 3, Informative

    You've changed insurance companies, right? I do know that 21st Century fights rather than pays. So that's who I picked after a similar thing happened to me.

  2. Re:Switch to cable internet at work? on 10 Tips For Boosting Network Performance · · Score: 1

    And yet I had TWC Business for 2 years at my office and it went down only twice for about 3 hours total in that time.

  3. Re:Neville Chamberlain on Pakistan Lifts Ban After Facebook Deletes Offending Page · · Score: 1

    build alliances with modern, logical governments (China, etc)

    Wow, you almost had a point there...

  4. Re:Way to set a precedent for caving to zealots. on Pakistan Lifts Ban After Facebook Deletes Offending Page · · Score: 1

    You assume that moderate Muslims are moderate in belief and action, when in reality they are usually only moderate in action. They believe the same (it's in the Qur'an after all), they are just too cowardly to do it themselves.

    This is the only explanation as to why they do not criticize the radicals...

  5. Re:Another point of view on Pakistan Lifts Ban After Facebook Deletes Offending Page · · Score: 1

    Ah, but how many 53-year-olds married 6-year-olds and took them away from playing with dolls (their words, not mine) before the onset of mensturation to consummate their marriages, even in that day? Probably only the leader, because he could get away with it...

  6. Re:Another point of view on Pakistan Lifts Ban After Facebook Deletes Offending Page · · Score: 1

    if you tell me I cannot do something because it is against your religion I'm going to do it, especially if there is an implied threat on your part

    OK, I challenge you to pray this prayer:

    "God, if you are real, make it so that I can no longer deny you."

    This is a true test of your atheism...

  7. Re:Another point of view on Pakistan Lifts Ban After Facebook Deletes Offending Page · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Bill Maher committed breaking and entering (or at the least trespassing) at the Creation Museum (although they showed forgiveness by not charging him with anything). I don't see any Christians committing crimes with Bill Maher as the target. Who is the one causing mayhem here?

  8. Re:Christianity is known for it's murderous past. on Pakistan Lifts Ban After Facebook Deletes Offending Page · · Score: 1

    Yeah, we haven't had a Christian president since Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush and Obama. There are no Christians in Congress either.

  9. Re:The real answer on Low-Level Format For a USB Flash Drive? · · Score: 1

    Buy the new Fry's.com brand card. Make sure the one you buy has a return sticker on it.

  10. Re:If .bat will do it, stick with .bat! on For Automated Testing, Better Alternatives To DOS Batch Files? · · Score: 1

    You should try Clonezilla. It's like old pre-Norton Ghost. Mix in a little Sysprep and you'll really speed up your lab builds.

  11. Re:Windows mirrors linux mirrors windows. on Fedora 13 Is Out · · Score: 1

    take for example the automatic printer drivers install. That works really well with Windows 7

    Yes, but it worked much better on Ubuntu first...

  12. Re:SSL Wikipedia & TPB on Google Rolls Out Encrypted Web Search Option · · Score: 1

    I'll be happy when the Javascript doesn't stall on a single processor machine anymore on Slashdot...

  13. Re:Protect Google's Data! on Google Rolls Out Encrypted Web Search Option · · Score: 1

    Use a live CD?

  14. Re:Noscript on Tabnapping Scams Around the Corner? · · Score: 1

    Noscript FTW!

  15. Re:No, it's just HP bei on HP Explains Why Printer Ink Is So Expensive · · Score: 1

    It makes NO difference. I have had a Canon Pixma ip2000 (the very first model) for YEARS and have replaced the ink cartridges repeatedly over that time. The print heads are still fine.

    That's just another load of BS from HP...

  16. Re:Kludges are short-time fixes and long-time prob on IT Infrastructure As a House of Cards · · Score: 1

    DosBox? VMWare?

  17. Re:Yum, numbers are tasty on Google PAC-MAN Cost 4.8M Person-Hours · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I was on vacation also, and all 4 family members tried it.

    How many kids played this?

  18. Re:And how would you do that? on BP Prepares Complex "Top Kill" Bid To Plug Well · · Score: 4, Informative

    And according to 60 Minutes, when broken pieces of rubber come up which are obviously pieces of the blowout preventer's seal, you don't ignore it and continue, hoping you'll never need your blowout preventer.

  19. Re:Environmentalist's wet dream on IBM's Patent-Pending Traffic Lights Stop Car Engines · · Score: 1

    The ability to turn cars on and off at their whim.

    How long until one of you hacks into the system and just turns them all off?

    FTFY

  20. Re:Not that I'd use it... on New iConji Language For the Symbol-Minded Texter · · Score: 1

    As with many things, I would say that George Lucas was a visionary in Star Wars.

    In Star Wars, notice how everyone SPEAKS their own language, but everybody understands pieces of everyone else's. I took 2 years of High School Spanish and I have trouble putting a sentence together. But I can usually follow a conversation between 2 Spanish speakers no problem, even though I only know about half the words. I can infer another quarter by context, making the conversation easy to understand.

    So we shouldn't learn how to SPEAK other languages, we should learn how to HEAR them.

  21. Re:Here's my short list on When Rewriting an App Actually Makes Sense · · Score: 5, Funny

    5. When it is written in Visual Basic. Always.
    4. When I'm getting paid by the hour and it is written in Visual Basic. Always
    3. When it was written in a mid-90s WYSIWIG bastard child of a mid-80s interpreted language.
    2. When it uses multiple five-to-ten thousand line case statements
    1. When it is written in Access basic.

    This is why I am currently rewriting everything from scratch in .NET at my company.

  22. Re:MOD PARENT UP!! on Germany Demands Google Forfeit Citizens' Wi-Fi Data · · Score: 1

    Nonsense. This was a terrible analogy.

    The correct analogy on Slashdot is:

    I can't walk out on my porch and yell sensitive information then fine anyone driving by in a car for having heard it.

    There. Much better.

  23. Re:So Lets See, on MIT Designs Aircraft That Uses 70% Less Fuel Than Conventional Planes · · Score: 1

    No, you're allowed to do it 1 billion times. We'll wait and see if you end up with anything...

  24. Re:This nation was built on ignorance! on Texas Schools Board Rewriting US History · · Score: 1

    The liberals require that you say "bison" instead of "buffalo"... The word "buffalo" has been all but removed from the history books...

  25. Re:please... on Btrfs Could Be the Default File System In Ubuntu Meerkat · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah. Not to troll, but if you want to be user-friendly like Windows, you can't dump out to a black screen and tell the user to run some command-line gobbledygook... every 3 months....