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  1. Self Price Match on Retailers Dread Phone-Wielding Shoppers · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I recently shopped at both Best Buy and Sears and discovered that their online store sale prices were $80 and $70 cheaper than what their brick and mortar store could offer. I showed a sales member their store's site on my phone but it turns out that they can't match their own prices. I do, however, like both stores' website's option to buy now and pickup in the store. Yep, I bought the item online while in the store and just walked over to customer service and picked it up 10 minutes later.

  2. Re:Finders Keepers? on College Student Finds GPS On Car, FBI Retrieves It · · Score: 1

    For anyone to open a compartment of your locked vehicle without your permission should constitute breaking and entering. IANAL but placing one on the outside of your vehicle without a warrant is dramatically different than getting under the hood and making modifications (wiring and/or panels for hiding) without a warrant.

  3. Re:What? on Federal Judge Says Corps of Engineers Liable For Katrina Damage · · Score: 1

    So the government now has to stop natural things! What next, they're going to get into trouble because people die in car wrecks in the winter after a snow that they didn't prevent. Or what happens when the sea level continues to rise? How friggin' high are those levees going to get? It's cheaper in the long run to not rebuild the flooded areas and instead move the people to higher ground and let nature turn the low areas back into marshlands that will naturally protect other areas from storm surge.

  4. Re:Not government's job on Telco Sues City For Plan To Roll Out Own Broadband · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Huge difference in what you're trying to compare. One is the government providing a service, the other is denying human rights.

  5. Re:Dakota on Scientists Examine Dinosaur Skin · · Score: 1

    Dude, so am I! I probably know her...

  6. Re:Dakota on Scientists Examine Dinosaur Skin · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I unfortunately hear your argument. But for those of us from North Dakota we take pride in our state, even if what comes from it is millions of years old.

  7. Dakota on Scientists Examine Dinosaur Skin · · Score: 3, Informative

    ...which was found in South Dakota. North Dakota. The article previously covered was found in North Dakota. For those of you who have never been there before, there is a difference - not just geographically either.
  8. Re:hhooppee tthheeyy ffiixx tthhiiss ssoooonn on Faster Chips Are Leaving Programmers in Their Dust · · Score: 1

    You also have to be careful when running vmware on these types of computers or you get the same kind of results. I had to disable all power management features on the host, then the problem, mostly, went away on the clients.

  9. Re:Why get so fancy? on Maglev On the Drawing Boards · · Score: 1

    On the subject of maglev windmills... Did anyone notice the size of the turbines they are going to construct? They'll produce "400 to 5,000 watts ," while the traditional wind turbines produce "five megawatts ." I'm not too sure about this article, they may just be blowing a lot of hot air.
  10. Re:Scan My Books on Internet Archive Challenges Google · · Score: 1

    I own the rights to copy my own books for my own personal use. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa... whoa... Own I dare ask? Are you sure you don't just have a license to read it in the format dictated by the publishing company? If you get a PDF of the book would you need to verify that you have a genuine copy of that PDF or risk the possibility that the pages would turn black?
  11. Re:Teletypes on The Smiley Face Turns 25 :-) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it wouldn't let me post this one either. :-(

  12. Re:Big surprise? on Russian Court Acquits allofmp3.com Owner · · Score: 3, Insightful

    As long as those people stay out of the US, they'll be fine. Yeah, just tell that to Hew Raymond Griffiths.
  13. Re:Inflammatory misleading headline on Executive Order Overturns US Fifth Amendment · · Score: 1

    100% agree - but I don't think that Bush has suspended Habeas Corpus with this order... Guantanamo Bay
  14. Re:Not when, but if... on T-Mobile Announces WiFi Meshing Cellphone · · Score: 2, Interesting

    They are charging for it, $10 more a month. And when the phone is using Wi-Fi what's the likelihood the call is being routed through T-Mobile's lines? They're genius, getting double benefits, more money and less traffic.

  15. Re:Alternatively on Swarm Theory Makes National Geographic · · Score: 1, Interesting

    "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it." - Kay
    Exactly. I have a friend that theorizes that the IQ of a group of people is the IQ of the smartest person divided by the number of people in that group. If you pay attention to this the next time you are in a group, you'll find yourself breaking away from it quite often.
  16. Re:I say... on Boston University Student Challenges RIAA · · Score: 1

    If you went and set a stack of CD's on the street that said "take one", no one is going to freak out.

    I'm not so sure about that. I do know that, depending on what state you are in, if you put a dish next to the CD's labeled "Donations" you'd end up in jail.
    http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/ 08/0042227

  17. Re:Umm, Stalking. on Using RFID and Wi-Fi to Track Students · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Imagine. Someone could peer through the logs and see when/where a person is by themselves late at night on a regular basis. Most criminals are opportunistic and there's no better opportunity than what this would create.

    Are there mod points for creepy?

  18. Re:Its alright on Spy Drones Take to the Sky in the UK · · Score: 1

    The US is also a democracy but I have one word for you... Iraq. Think about it.

  19. Federal Watch List on Deadline For Saying "No" To National ID · · Score: 1

    Did anyone else feel that they were going to be put on a federal watch list if they filled out the form on that .gov website?

  20. Re:That's an interesting take on it. on Verizon Claims Free Speech Over NSA Wiretapping · · Score: 1

    So what happens when a company has a security breach and they leak people's personal information? Would they just be able to release the entire database and claim freedom speech?

  21. Re:Yes: Trumps states rights! on Spy Act of 2007 = "Vendors Can Spy Act" · · Score: 1

    I wonder if any state would have the balls to threaten to succeed from the Union. The State does have a duty to protect its citizens...

  22. Re:Partisans are SUPPOSED to be in charge. on Netcraft Shows Smartech Running Ohio Election Servers · · Score: 1


    Yes, you are right.

    There are only democrats and republicans, no independents. There is only the left and the right, no middle. There is only black and white, no gray. Every person in the USA is mutually exclusive in these categories. And our electors are supposed to side only with other electors of the same party, not necessarily their constituents.
    </sarcasm>

  23. Royalty on Net Radio Appeal On Royalties Rejected · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Isn't the whole basis of the royalty because it is a digital duplication, an exact copy, and that is why regular radio stations don't have to pay this royalty? If this is the case why don't HD radio stations have to pay this royalty? It is a digital broadcast is it not?

  24. Re:What happens if you catch the guy breaking in? on National Intelligence Director Seeks Expansion of Spy Powers · · Score: 1

    According to Minnesota law, it is legal to shoot somebody that is on your property if they are committing a felony. This means that you can technically shoot somebody that breaks into your house to steal a $1000 plasma TV. There doesn't need to be any evidence that you felt your life was in danger. However in public, if you were to use deadly force, you must feel that the perpetrator is going to inflict "serious bodily harm" to you.

  25. Re:Performance? on Samsung's 64-GB Solid-State Drive · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Seek time = 0. There is no head to move and no platter to spin.