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  1. It seems to me on Google Won't Pull Checkpoint Evasion App · · Score: 1

    It seems to me that if you were sober enough to actually remember to use this app that you probably aren't drunk enough to get arrested for drinking.

    Wanting to avoid having your 4th amendment rights violated is not a crime, yet.

  2. Another attempt to discredit someone? on Cocaine Found At Kennedy Space Center · · Score: 1

    Of course the LAST time this happened everyone tested negative, it's amazing that drugs would magically show up somewhere that no one actually uses drugs.

    "An investigation into a similar discovery in January 2010 yields no results after all 200 NASA employees and contractors who had access to the area in which the cocaine was found tested negative for the drug."

    I guess they will keep trying to discredit NASA till they figure out some way to actually do it.
    I wonder when the last time a politician and his "entourage" got a tour through that area?

    So many of the comments about this here strike me as astroturf.

  3. Re:Depends on Disarm Internet Trolls, Gently · · Score: 1

    So does someone want to code a troll occupier in vi, emacs or pearl?

    It would be funny as hell to have it open a private chat with the troll and have it take him 20 mins to figure out he's being meta trolled.

    Of course, our being bereft of his presence in the channel for those 20 mins is just a bonus

  4. Re:Worthless on Contemplating Financial Trading At Picosecond Resolution · · Score: 2, Funny

    A penny a share tax on any share traded will fix this problem immediately.

    It will also dispose of all of the fraudulent "penny stocks" action.

    It would also balance the US budget in about 8 hours.

  5. Re:Remember the HL2 leak? on Crysis 2 Leaked Over a Month Before Launch · · Score: 2

    Honestly, as much fun as the original was, I will buy the new one regardless of whether I download the pirate version or not.

    Good games are worth what they cost, as long as they didn't totally screw the pooch, they already have MY money.

  6. Re:Please take responsibility for your life. on 'Death By GPS' Increasing In America's Wilderness · · Score: 1

    And that's different from any other breakdown exactly how?

    How is it worse because the gps knows where you are? You can at least tell the tow truck/cops/whatever exactly where to find you.

    One of the advantages of using google maps & the gps in my phone is the aerial photo overlay, I can tell if the road turns tiny and choose another.

  7. Re:you know what else won't work? on 3D Cinema Doesn't Work and Never Will · · Score: 1

    Hmm,
    certainly amateurish, but not quite shitty and certainly not horror.

    Well I suppose to a film instructor it would be shitty and horrible but that's not quite the same thing.

  8. Re:Great Legal Team! on Sony Must Show It Has Jurisdiction To Sue PS3 Hacker · · Score: 1

    wierd_w,

    Perfect!

    This analog, your explanation and your argument needs to be sent to him and his legal team as (imho) it is EXACTLY correct.

    Nicely done!

  9. Re:Let's get this straight on Criminal Charges Filed Against AT&T iPad Attacker · · Score: 1

    If you left it out and available on the internet it is no longer private information.

    Any arguments to the contrary are basically cya bullshit.

  10. Re:Great Legal Team! on Sony Must Show It Has Jurisdiction To Sue PS3 Hacker · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Exactly. No different than publishing a guide for hopping up your car.

    "Breaking into" is simply pointless pejorative wording. Pointless because the car is already yours. You paid for it, you should be free to do whatever you want to with it.

    Imagine if ford decided that you could no longer use their cars on expressways and reprogrammed the engine control unit to prevent the car from going over 45mph AFTER YOU HAD BOUGHT THE CAR.

  11. Re:Whats next? on 'No Refusal' DUI Checkpoints Coming To Florida? · · Score: 1

    What part of needing "probable cause" to GET a warrant to violate your rights is escaping you?

  12. A serious question, on IBM Makes a Super Memory Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    So what's the difference between this and the old TI bubble memory concept?

  13. Re:Been said before on Crooks Hack Music Players For ATM Skimmers · · Score: 1

    First off ANY card will open that outer door,
    Second, Ok, the thief goes in and places his device right after the bank closes on friday and takes it back sunday morning Hm, you security guy reviews the tap on monday sometime but all the accounts have already been cleaned out sunday.

    The skimmer collects the card info, the camera records the pin, and the thief gets all our money.

  14. Tribes 2 on FPS Games That Need a Remake · · Score: 1

    Tribes 2 exists now as tribes next.

      http://www.tribesnext.com/

  15. Really? who gave this guy control? on US May Disable All Car Phones, Says Trans. Secretary · · Score: 1

    SO,
    How long until the driver is in a government mandated cone of silence?
    After all the person in the passenger seat is as much a distraction as a cellphone and actually is probally a worse distraction as you don't have an urge to LOOK at the person you are talking to on a phone.

    What about the kids making noise and being annoying in the back seat? Perhaps the government should mandate sleeping gas for them so they aren't a distraction to the driver.

    The only thing laws against idiocy do is cause even more creative idiocy.

  16. Re:Go for it on US May Disable All Car Phones, Says Trans. Secretary · · Score: 1

    or let the calls go through and record them, after telling the inmates you are doing it of course.

  17. Re:Actually - mostly "lamb" is actually "goat" on Feeling Upset? Look At Some Meat · · Score: 1

    I can tell the difference between kid and goat as well as between lamb and mutton(sheep).

    The difference between goat and sheep of any age is so huge I can't imagine that anyone couldn't tell the difference.
    The butcher shops around Chicago that sell goat usually also sell lamb, and even just to look at them they are obviously different, let alone the smell or flavor.

    You veggies seem to need be so sure that everyone else is wrong and you present your "common knowledge" as firsthand knowledge.
    Those of us that eat meat know you are incorrect.

    How about you just stop pretending you know anything about meat and we'll go on not caring what you do or don't eat?

  18. Re:ironically on Feeling Upset? Look At Some Meat · · Score: 1

    The difference between a drawing and art
    The difference between a great meal and mcdonalds.

    Both may be lost on YOU but that does not mean that no one else can tell and appreciate that difference.

    How sad for you that you can't.
    Have a nice life anyway!

  19. Re:ehhhhh on Feeling Upset? Look At Some Meat · · Score: 1

    You just cant accept that you are wrong on this one can you.

    Whatever, I have better things to do than argue colors with a blind man.

  20. Re:Yeah right. on Why Unlocked Phones Don't Work In the US · · Score: 1

    the point is that they are both USB and both pretty small. I thought that there was some confusion and posted the picture to clear it up.

    I knew the difference because my old htc phone uses the the mini and the new one uses the micro.
    When I got the new one the sprint rep assured me that all my chargers & accessories would work because it was USB (obviously wrong) and in the end he gave me a car charger so I'm ok with it but if I can help someone else avoid the aggro....

  21. Re:Yeah right. on Why Unlocked Phones Don't Work In the US · · Score: 0, Redundant

    actually there is an older mini usb and a newer micro usb,

    Mini usb on the left, micro on the right.
    http://www.usb-mobile-charger.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/mini-micro-usb-connector.jpg

  22. Re:When I Was a Kid on Gold Nanoparticles Turn Trees Into Streetlights · · Score: 1

    There is no lead in dental amalgam, at least not since the 1840's

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalgam_(dentistry)

  23. Re:ironically on Feeling Upset? Look At Some Meat · · Score: 1

    Yup, sorry, that proves it unity100.
    There is definitely something wrong with you if all of that tastes the same to you.

    Really, I'm not trying to be an ass here, I would ask a doctor if there is something that can be done.

    I don't care if you ever like meat or not but think about all the rest of the flavors you are missing if you cannot distinguish such huge differences in flavors.

  24. Re:Hitler was a vegetarian on Feeling Upset? Look At Some Meat · · Score: 1

    But it never works, the argument never ends with it.

  25. Re:ironically on Feeling Upset? Look At Some Meat · · Score: 4, Informative

    You cannot taste the difference between different kinds of meat? beef pork lamb etc...!?

    Let alone the difference between a flank steak and a porterhouse?

    Really? Wow!

    I can tell you that there is an obvious difference in the flavor of the meat on the two sides of a porterhouse steak.
    Is there a test for tastebuds? I think you may be missing something.