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  1. Re:They should keep kids away from violence on Senator Carper Calls for Tax on Online Porn · · Score: 1

    The UK will jail people for mocking religion? How do all the Monty Python folks get away with it then?

  2. Re:A race that is "backward" here isn't so elsewhe on USA to Pass Science Crown to China · · Score: 1

    I believe Apu has a Phd in Computer Science.

  3. aww on Linux From A CIO's Perspective · · Score: 2, Funny

    I was hoping to see a "Windows has lower TCO than Linux" ad that slashdot runs for Microsoft when I clicked the article.

  4. Re:Both methods suck on Morse Code on Cell Phones? · · Score: 1

    My phone has a really great speech to text feature. It automatically converts text to speech on the recepient's phone too! It's called voicemail.

  5. Re:Something's Wrong Here on After College, What Type of Jobs Should One Seek? · · Score: 1

    "My psychiatrist told me to live every day like it was my last. So I stiffed him."

  6. Re:What can you do back that's legal? on O'Reilly Revisits Online Countermeasures · · Score: 1

    Not only are you advertising "use me as an attack network" you are also advertising "forge an attack against me by (say) dod.mil and watch the feds kick down my door". I wish more people realized that network security is not analagous to gunfighting.

  7. Re:Speculation on Another Dot-com Boom? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Our economy is cyclic, so eventually there will be another recession/depression. The real question is how hard will the crash be. If there isn't as much "reckless" investement (ie, in companies who's stocks become inflated because people are buying their stocks, not because they are making money) then hopefully the following decline won't be as bad.

  8. Re:These are important attacks.. on Meaningful MD5 Collisions · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you are using the md5 sum of a digital document, I imagine you would keep a digital copy of the document as well. You'd then go to court with your signed physical document, md5 signed digital document, and the 2nd digital document with the same md5 sum and junk data that appears to be inserted to cause a collision. The employer would have a bit of explaining to do.

  9. Re:Obligatory bash quote on Electric Cars as Fast as Ferraris · · Score: 1

    No. Torque = acceleration
    Power = Torque * Velocity

  10. Re:And what is being done about this? on Visual DDoS Representation and Its Ramifications · · Score: 1

    They certianly won't when future employers grep these lists for the name of any potential employee.

  11. Re:Economics on Critical Shortage of IT Workers in Coming Years · · Score: 1

    I'm not arguing with the fact that abortions are more common for poor people, but this information is not very useful without the context of the population and pregnancy rates of each income bracket.

  12. Re:Laptop?!? on Nuclear Battery That Runs 10 Years · · Score: 1

    this is a defibrillator. You know, the thing where they say "clear" and touch two terminals to your chest. Implanted defibrillators do exist, but a lot of them are not implanted. So, as I was saying originally, "implanted defibrillator" is not redundant. wikipedia link

  13. Re:Laptop?!? on Nuclear Battery That Runs 10 Years · · Score: 2, Informative

    implanted defibrillators

    defibrillators are usually *not* implanted, so it's worth specifying.

  14. Re:What Science Really is... on Kansas Challenges Definition of Science · · Score: 1

    At my school (University of Texas) it's in the natural science department. Which makes no sense at all...

  15. Re:But look at previous form on Congress to Revisit the Patriot Act · · Score: 1

    The assult weapons ban has nothing to do with automatic weapons. They were illegal for most people before the law was passed, they were illegal when the law was in effect, and they are still illegal now that the ban has expired.

  16. Re:List of Expiring Provisions: on Congress to Revisit the Patriot Act · · Score: 1

    unfortunatly most congressmen/women didn't bother to look at what is really in the patriot act when they passed it...

  17. Re:Does it all come down to money on UK Schools Told to Dump Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Microsoft software is something that is very commonly used and I think it is a good idea to have students familiar with using it. When I was in high school our networking class had computers that would dual boot between windows and linux. In fact, every year, all of the students would be the ones to install linux (slackware, specificially) on the computers.

  18. Re:Trusting MicroSoft on Sober.P Worm Accounts for 5% of all Email Traffic · · Score: 1

    There was a file somewhere in windows called NSAKEY.dll (I might have the extention wrong). Microsoft vehemently denied that it was any such thing and said that the name was a coincidence (although they would not say what it actually stood for, iirc).

  19. Re:What Science Really is... on Kansas Challenges Definition of Science · · Score: 1

    Science is study of the natural world. I would classify computer science more with mathmatics.

  20. Re:Blank Reg on U.S. National Identity Cards All But Law · · Score: 1

    The article is about US national identity cards. The conversation is about the United States, I think it's not difficult to understand that the American Civil War is what we're talking about. Stop being obtuse.

  21. Re:Just rereading the Constitution... May I help? on U.S. National Identity Cards All But Law · · Score: 1

    I don't recall any state printing money either. The feds do that.

  22. Re:NIMBY is what's going to screw us... on NYT on Cell Phone Tower Controversy · · Score: 1

    You putting all of these restrictions on what can be done on my property is hurting *MY* resale value. So cut it out.

  23. Re:Why not? on Software V-Chip for PC Games? · · Score: 1

    and by "parents on the go" you mean, "parents who can't be bothered to raise their own kids"?

  24. Re:one-piece houses on The House Building Machine · · Score: 1

    Failure to allow entropy to increase in a home (not a closed system, not the entire universe) is a crime? So people are no longer allowed to run air conditioners. That sucks.

  25. Re:Mass in AMu? on Scientists Weigh Smallest Mass Ever · · Score: 1

    6.02e23 molecules of water would be one mole (as you probably know). One mole of water has a mass of 18 grams. A mole of anything is it's molecular weight in grams. Moles are used in chemistry because it's a lot easyer to use them than to count the molecules and atoms of each substance!