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  1. Re:People hide illegal activity? on Encrypted Torrents Growing Fast In the UK · · Score: 0, Troll

    About those senators and the sex scandals. I know of someone higher up the chain with a sex scandal who's career was not ruined. The difference I see is in the style/attitude with which the person treated the "scandal". It seems if you fess up, and don't treat it as a big deal, others will be more apt to follow your lead. Which is exactly the point here. Information may be used against you, but for the most part you have to let it work against you.

  2. Re:People hide illegal activity? on Encrypted Torrents Growing Fast In the UK · · Score: 0, Troll

    Dear dada21,

    I looked you up in the national phone directory and could not find you. I tried other methods, and couldn't get any contact information, personal or otherwise based on your given name. Maybe you're unlisted? Maybe you don't live in the United States?

    Please look me up instead to initiate contact. That might work out better.

    -Ben Fenner

  3. Re:Bright Ideas : #? on Capsaicin Tested On Surgical Wounds · · Score: 1

    Since when do eggs come from chicken's butts?

    I know not many of you guys have much experience in this area, but there is another hole around the same area on most female animals you might want to research.

  4. Don't feel bad for Blue Gene. on TOP500 Supercomputer Sites For 2006 · · Score: 2, Funny

    The way the article reads makes me feel sad for the "IBM eServer Blue Gene Solution system, installed at IBM's Thomas Watson Research Center". It slipped to number three with a mere 91.20 Tflops/s. It's like the steam shovel in that children's book. Old and outdated, no one wants it anymore. Oh wait, it's still 1,800 times faster than my new Core Two Duo machine. Apparently I'm the one with the machine that works faster the more people watch it.

  5. 24" monitor? on Nvidia Launches 8800 Series, First of the DirectX 10 Cards · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So this will benefit my 13' projected monitor running at 1024 x 768 resolution (60 Hz refresh), and not my 20" CRT running at 1600 x 1200 resolution (100 Hz refresh)?

    You don't say...

  6. Summary, on Wired's Very Short Stories · · Score: 1

    Short stories. Many inside jokes.

  7. Re:ABS/Newegg absent? on OEM Industry Leaders Interviewed · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't be any different from my current freelance computer tech work. I treat my customers/clients well.

  8. ABS/Newegg absent? on OEM Industry Leaders Interviewed · · Score: 1

    Is it just me, or were others expecting a lot more from the ABS/Newegg camp? I mean, it's almost an insult leaving his comments in there. Not to say I still won't shop there. The real question is, how do I get a job at Falcon Northwest?

  9. Long hours? on Migrating Birds Take Hundreds of Powernaps. · · Score: 1

    How come migratory birds have longer hours than us humans? They aren't flying that fast, are they?

  10. Re:gross generalizations on Hacking the Governator · · Score: 1

    According to the American Heritage Dictionary's second definition of racism, "all the animé fans that keep telling [you] how hott Japanese women are, are racists too". http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=racist Racism is best described in that second definition. A racist has the ablility to discriminate between people of different races. Many times a negative connotation is attached to the word, meaning the racist believes one race is somehow entirely superior to another race, but this is only a social connotation, not intrinsic to the word itself. The word you're looking for is "bigot", not "racist".

  11. Rubber mounting of hard drives. on P2P Hard Disk System Warns of Tsunamis · · Score: 1

    I'm sure I'm not the only one with simple hard drive isolation in the form of rubberized mounting brackets. I wonder if they took this and more extreme examples into account; the very nature of them being vibration isolation (for noise reduction).

  12. Re:Wow, that's an interesting take... on Geologists Angry About New 'Pluton' Definition · · Score: 1

    Yep, I goofed. Astronomical.

  13. Re:Wow, that's an interesting take... on Geologists Angry About New 'Pluton' Definition · · Score: 1

    My girlfriend took Astrological Geology in college. Those folks might not think it's so silly.

  14. Re:Heather Has Two Mommies on Mice Produced Using Artificial Sperm · · Score: 1

    I've been predicting this advancement in science for a long time, and I am excited to see it coming closer and closer. I guess that novel I'd planned on writing about it may be obsolete before I even start it.

  15. Re:Crunching for their profit on Is Distributed Computing Being Distributed Badly? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I am running SETI@Home 24/7 on two, power hungry computers in my apartment that used to be on 24/7 anyway. The difference in my monthly power bill is somewhere between $5 and $10 a month. This includes the extra power I use from my AC unit to cool that room. I understand this may be a problem for some, but I would be hard pressed to lable this a huge difference.

  16. High resistance? on Mobile Phones and Lightning a Lethal Mix · · Score: 1
    the high resistance of the skin conducts the flash over the body in what is known as a flashover
    The high conductance of a material allows a flashover; certainly not the high resistance.
  17. Re: I hope they threw away the key on Man Arrested for Wireless Piggybacking · · Score: 1

    As far as I know, a person under the influence of a drug, such as alcohol, to the point where they would be considered "driving under the influence", is also not legally able to give consent to sexual intercourse (coitus, etc.). This means that if your wife has been drinking, and you two have sex, she could legally charge you with rape. I'm not trying to say that I don't normally take the side of the "sex offender", I do. I'm just saying that legally, if you "did a drunk chick and she didn't want to [be] classified as a slut", you'd be in trouble, even if she posted that night on /. that she was giving consent,. The fact is; she was drunk. Personally, I'm mostly in favor of this law, but I'll save my personal opinions for some other day. I just thought I'd inform. And obviously, if I'm wrong about this law, I guess I thought I heard about it, when I didn't. Maybe someone else knows about this?

  18. Re:Vincent was probably following procedure, but on AOL Tries New Tactic to Keep Customers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    For sure he is not the exception to the rule. He was following procedure. Aside from "he should have known better", John is out of a job unjustly. It sucks that only this guy felt the pain because he was unlucky enough to pick up the phone that second, when countless of his co-workers deserve the same fate, whether it be new management, or termination.

  19. Fate of Gates Foundation? on Bill Gates to Step Down from Microsoft · · Score: 1

    What security program should I start writing for the foundation first if I want to make the most money? A firewall maybe?

  20. Re:Like comparing Oranges and... on iPod Faces Patent Probe · · Score: 1

    I understand you're trying to be funny, but for the people out there who don't get it. We're talking about the user interface presented on the screen ("navigation menu"), not the buttons/knobs/doughnut rings used to navigate the navigation menu.