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  1. I smell a Loop hole on US Court Orders Company to Use Negative Keywords · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "Negative Keywords" is a Google term. Excluded Keywords the Yahoo term. The judge specifically said "negative keywords or negative adwords". So does this reach across to OTHER search engines? I would hope so and that Google has a case on their hands if they had "Negative keywords" trademarked...

  2. Re:What about hardware? on Bill Would Bar US Companies From Net Censorship · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You can't pass a law illegalizing a previously committed action
    Or passing a law saying that your warrantless wiretapping program wasn't illegal and all parties involved get immunity because it's for the good of the nation and the failing economy, besides they wheren't doing anything illegal anyway.

    Yes, you can not do that.
  3. Re:Free on AT&T Accidentally Provides Free Wi-Fi To All · · Score: 1

    "The more complicated the Starbucks order, the bigger the asshole. If you walk into a Starbucks and order a "decaf grande half-soy, half-low fat, iced vanilla, double-shot, gingerbread cappuccino, extra dry, light ice, with one sweet-n'-Low, and one NutraSweet," ooh, you're a huge asshole." - George Carlin

  4. I don't think that's what you meant on AT&T Accidentally Provides Free Wi-Fi To All · · Score: 1

    Accidentally providing free wi-fi to everyone... IF they use this hack to work around... That's not providing ANYTHING. It's not having proper security in place.

  5. Re:This is one of the reason I want to see this mo on The Science of Iron Man · · Score: 1

    maybe your syntax is Invaid
    Please try your search again. -?

  6. Re:This is one of the reason I want to see this mo on The Science of Iron Man · · Score: 1

    That and much more is discussed in "Iron Manual" I wish I could find my copy... About it's creation and how it works, etc...

  7. Re:Helpdesk is a rite of passage on Is Help Desk a Launchpad or a Dead End? · · Score: 1

    You can tell almost right away those of us who had to do help desk and those who have not. The ones who did help desk are a little more versed and careful about their wording to the end users. We've been in the trenches of "No, I can't fix that...Why not? Because there is a power outage in your area"

    Those who haven't had to walk through the coals are far more likely to use the exact tech terms and lose the user claiming superiority and user error instead of lack of communication skills.

  8. Re:MMORPGs on Effect of Virtual Avatars On Real-Life Behavior · · Score: 1

    women do play MMORPG's these days.
    I know. I have (had?) quite a few female friends who played, and, frankly better than most men and men pretending to be women.
    The funniest thing to me was that the men did it to get other men to just give them things and do them favors and my female friends played male characters to avoid such nonsense. In context to the article though, it does raise some good Freudian identity issues...
  9. Re:Role model? on Effect of Virtual Avatars On Real-Life Behavior · · Score: 4, Funny

    does anyone else try to use their alter-ego as a role model?
    Yes! I wish to bathe in the blood of my fallen foes as their allies flee in terror of the sight.
    I'm not sure it would help in IT... Maybe if I was an RIAA lawyer...
  10. MMORPGs on Effect of Virtual Avatars On Real-Life Behavior · · Score: 3, Funny

    What's this say about the MMORPGs? You know, Many Men On Line Role Playing Girls...
    Picture yourself as a thin girl with big boobs..?

  11. Re:All Five? on Smithsonian Gets Military UAVs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Coast Guard? Coast Guard is the strange cousin of the Military. They invite him to the family get together but you know they talk about him when he's not in ear shot.
    Don't get me wrong. I respect the men and women who do it, I don't want to be on the water like that.

  12. Re:Question of reliability? on Data Center In a Shoe Box · · Score: 1

    Exactly! I can easily see one of my friends asking if I'd like to see their new data centre then opening a modded old style coke machine reviling one of these set ups with beer next to it.
    But, I cannot for the life of me can not see any serious professional considering this as an enterprise solution.

  13. What what what?! on Data Center In a Shoe Box · · Score: 3, Funny

    So, why not ignore the chip and embrace a box that reflects an entire cultural ethos?
    Because I was promised a data centre in a shoebox not an over hyped home file server bottleneck machine!
    While we're at it, I want my flying car!
  14. Re:Education and Secrets don't Mix. on Negroponte vs. Open-Source Fundamentalists · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wow, I just drilled down the whole list of "just so you know 'x' is also 'y'"...
    No wonder my UID is so damned high... I'm not even sure I'm me anymore...

  15. Re:And how do we break the backbone? on FBI Wants Authority To Filter Net Backbone · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Who is we?
    We the People
  16. Re:Best Parallel Ever! on Diebold Admits ATMs Are More Robust Than Voting Machines · · Score: -1

    "Would you like an extra $5 to vote for candidate X?"
    On our taxes it asks "Would you like to donate an extra $3 to the candidates?"
    I don't know a single person who said yes to that...
  17. Re:Hawking Radiation on Black Hole Particle Jets Explained · · Score: 1

    The jets are from material that hasn't fallen into the black hole yet
    So those sci-fi movies with "we'll sling shot around the sun" should really try "We'll sling shot around that black hole!"
  18. Re:Just one word on Sony To Launch PS3 Video Download Service · · Score: 1

    Okay we're up to 3 words! Do I hear 4?

  19. Re:Having purchased a few Seagate products... on Seagate Ships Billionth Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    let me know when they ship their billionth working hard drive.
    That was my first thought, does this include numerous returns? IF so they may be up to two billion...
  20. Re:What lenghts will we go? on Next-Generation CAPTCHA Exploits the Semantic Gap · · Score: 1

    I could do without Spam thank you! Every third email I get is "would you like bigger breasts" and after 3 years of that I'm thinking about it...
    And when it's not that one it's an email that says "If you want a big dick, click here!" and no matter how much I click it doesn't get any bigger.

  21. Re:RTFA on Cloned Sniffer Dogs Begin Training · · Score: 1

    I did and it read that the first test where that they had the proper personality and genetics. As in dog breeding you want a dog to have the correct dog genes and actions for the breed. I didn't take it that the cloned dogs where past a round of tests for ability to train other than to make sure they are not retarded Golden Retrievers.

  22. Re:WoW Movie on Blizzard to Boll - DENIED! · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I'd honestly rather see Blizzards people do the majority of the work as I honestly think they could do an as good if not better than job than Hollywood could.
    Yes, because we all saw how well that worked for Square/Enix...
  23. Re:The only problem on Cloned Sniffer Dogs Begin Training · · Score: 1

    Then why clone unless it's to "progress science". We have an overpopulation of domesticated pets as it is. If it was to "progress science" why not create one in your controlled environment to prove/disprove your hypnosis that training them will be easier then bred dogs?

    Oh, yeah, large government contract that says you cannot fail to give us X sniffer dogs.

  24. Re:And they know this how? on Cloned Sniffer Dogs Begin Training · · Score: 2, Insightful
    I'll chalk it up to one of three things:
    1. 1) They don't know and they misspoke
    2. 2) It's mistranslated into English
    3. 3) They've tried training dogs of other types (i.e. Attack Dogs NOT Sniffers)
    Personally, I'm leaning to 1 or 2... Still erks me...
  25. Re:And they know this how? on Cloned Sniffer Dogs Begin Training · · Score: 3, Insightful

    But, how do they KNOW this? It says it's their first batch of puppies to try this on...

    That's like saying you can clone Wayne Gretzky and know you'll get a great hockey player. You don't, you just know you have someone with the same DNA. If that's the case, then it's a case of nature vs. nurture and even then you're not assured that all your clone will be the exact same as "the Great One"