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  1. Re:In some cases.... on Is Cash No Longer Legal Tender? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well that's pretty ridiculous- if you had to pay a $100,000 penalty and you tried to pay it in ones, the judge would just make up a different excuse not to accept it. The reason it's not written on the penny is because there's not enough room on the penny and besides it's laws that back currency, not the writing on the currency itself.

  2. Re:At last! A story *made* for slashdot! on Are Keyboards Dishwasher Safe? · · Score: 1

    Putting it in more water and baking it seems counterproductive...

  3. Re:is the ruling about physical RAM at all? on Judge Orders TorrentSpy to Turn Over RAM · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The excuse that RAM is volatile is hardly lame, it's just the way computers are built and no amount of judicial yammering will change it.

  4. NASA budget on "Puddles" of Water Sighted on Mars · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why do they keep sending such crappy cameras to mars? If I took a picture of a puddle of water with my 1 megapixel cellphone camera I could tell it's a puddle of water. Why is it so hard for them to take good pictures?!

  5. Re:But you're lucky on Broadband Providers' Hidden Bandwidth Limits · · Score: 1

    I said almost half. It's 532 billion USD. See the article. Remember that great line from futurama? "Kif, let's show them what a bloated runaway defense budget can do."

  6. Re:But you're lucky on Broadband Providers' Hidden Bandwidth Limits · · Score: 1

    200 billion? That's almost half the American defense budget..

  7. Re:Business Sense on Google Aids Indian Goverment Censorship · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Business" is no excuse for immorality.

  8. Re:I use Linux because I'm cheap on Open Source Federal Income Tax Software · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So then download TurboTax and use that.. No problem here, move along.

  9. Re:Blu-Ray comments on An Evening With Sony Computer Entertainment · · Score: 1

    Yeah but it certainly doesn't help them to make such an overtly untrue statement during a PR session with people who actually know what they're talking about.

  10. Re:Not Chappelle too! on RIAA's 'Expert' Witness Testimony Now Online · · Score: 1

    An he makes Brian Gumbel look like Malcolm X, so it's ok if he said it.

  11. Re:Not Chappelle too! on RIAA's 'Expert' Witness Testimony Now Online · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is not an option nigger, share the file or we have a problem.

  12. Re:MS would owe at least the key on Vista Activation Cracked by Brute Force · · Score: 1

    You don't understand what I was trying to say- I'm saying that making a brute forcer "to practice my vbscripting" is a perfectly valid reason. The writer of the page you linked to is criticizing that mindset ("yeah, right") but he needs to realize that's basically the hacker ethic and a lot of people would sympathize with the guy who made the brute forcer, not the critical writer of the article.

  13. Re: Spam Sending on this thingie on XP On 8-MHz Pentium With 20 MB RAM · · Score: 1

    I'm talking about the operating system just after boot, no programs running

  14. Re:MS would owe at least the key on Vista Activation Cracked by Brute Force · · Score: 5, Informative

    Since it's a vbscript the code is wide open. Look for yourself, this is a legitimate brute forcer.

  15. Re:MS would owe at least the key on Vista Activation Cracked by Brute Force · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What is peoples' problem that they can't undertand that "I did it for fun and experience" is a valid reason for an exploit?

  16. Re:Easy Fix on Vista Activation Cracked by Brute Force · · Score: 4, Informative

    I think the program actually tries the keys on its own algorithm, and when it finds a valid one it tells you to submit it to microsoft.

  17. Re:Cracked? on Apple's iTunes DRM Dilemma · · Score: 1

    I think it just hooks onto the end of the audio stack.. just like perfectly legit programs like Audacity. Seems OK to me; in fact IIRC microsoft already provides this transport as some kind of api call.

  18. Re: Spam Sending on this thingie on XP On 8-MHz Pentium With 20 MB RAM · · Score: 1

    Huh? Hopefully a single process doesn't take up 20mb of RAM... even on vista ony 3 processes are taking up 20mb of memory: explorer, dwm, and SYSTEM's svchost.

  19. Re:So what's the story? on Golfer Sues Over Vandalized Wikipedia Entry · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's called Oversight. Very few admins have this ability, and it's tightly regulated. I'm guessing the rationale for this case is Removal of potentially libellous information ... when the subject has specifically asked for the information to be expunged from the history, the case is clear, and there is no editorial reason to keep the revision.

  20. Re:Motive? on Microsoft Apologizes for Serving Malware · · Score: 1

    Can't blame me for mod whoring "interesting" :)

  21. Re:Motive? on Microsoft Apologizes for Serving Malware · · Score: 2, Informative

    Which is free to download by the way.

  22. Re:In Soviet Russia... on Microsoft Apologizes for Serving Malware · · Score: 1

    Microsoft serves malware Steve Ballmer for one welcomes his new malware overlords.
  23. Motive? on Microsoft Apologizes for Serving Malware · · Score: 0, Troll

    To get users to buy Vista to get Windows Defender.

  24. Re:The police are not there to protect the citizen on Couple Who Catch Cop Speeding Could Face Charges · · Score: 1

    I should be able to take that class as a private citizen and get a license to speed as well. Mod parent up, it's a brilliant point
  25. Re:Believe it or not... on Couple Who Catch Cop Speeding Could Face Charges · · Score: 1

    I second that idea; slow down a little and plow right into her. The insurance people will arive and see that she's on your side of the road and she'll have to pay a fortune for repairs and insurance.