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  1. Re:Very cool, but.. by swordboy · · Score: 5, Insightful · on Toyota's Trumpet Playing Robot Showcased

    It pisses me off that no American company today would ever do something like this.

    That is because Wall Street is so concerned with short-term profits. Gasoline is at an all-time high while Toyota/Honda are the only companies that had the patience to develop a profitable solution to the problem. In 1997 when Toyota introduced the hybrid, they were losing lots of money on every unit sold. Now, they are selling that same technology to US-based companies.

    Now, Ford isn't buying Toyota technology because it makes environmental sense. Rather, they are doing it because it makes sense for short-term profits - the same mindset that got them into this situation in the first place. This mentality will catch up to the US sooner or later. And where is solar energy?

  2. Just four years? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Videogame Pirate Gets Long Jail Sentence

    In America, you can get four times that for being gay.

  3. Re:For the love of all that's good and holy by Zeinfeld · · Score: 1 · on L.A. County Bans Use Of "Master/Slave" Term
    Ahh looks like my post is a victim to the political correctness on slashdot. Like mention that there is in fact this thing called racism and that back in the 1960s Jim Crow was the war of the land and that that fact might have a little something to do with the sensitivity some folk show on these issues.

    Or maybe it was mentioning some of the testimony heard at the US Civil Rights Commission - that is a government proceeding folks.

    The Associated Press
    Friday, January 12, 2001
    Tallahassee, Fla. -- A black minister claimed he was purged from the voter rolls because he was mistakenly branded a felon. A black woman said she encountered an Election Day roadblock manned by white state troopers.

    These activities are pretty well documented. They are the reason that Florida State eventually came to a settlement in a civil rights case with the NAACP. The Department of Justice on the other hand decided not to take an interest.

  4. Re:VLT Backdoors? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Computerized Betting System Proves Vulnerable
    The Kansas Lottery had a problem very similar to this horse racing issue. A lottery employee (computer op manager type) was modifying non-winning tickets and turning them into winners, then having friends cash them in (at low dollar ammounts). After some searching I found this article from the Lawrence Journal-World.

    As an employee of a neighboring state lottery, I can see how this could be done, especially if it became a situation where the "computer guy" was one of the few people who understood all the technical issues involved. However, I also know how many layers of processes, reviews and procedures are undertaken, and these sorts of things are pretty easy to spot when you're looking for them.

  5. Re:Good Idea by rblancarte · · Score: 1 · on Mac Thief Caught Thanks To Applescript & Timbuktu
    Any professional would have wiped the hard drive.
    Professional computer user maybe. But these are just petty theives who more than likely don't have a real clue about using a computer.

    People like you and I see something like this and think - I would have done this that or the other - probably with a great deal of success toward getting away with the crime. Hell, look at the Texas 7 that escaped about a year ago. I thought "If I were them, I would have split up and not hung together" But what did they do? They stuck together and all got caught together.

    The first thing that should tip you off is that we all know better than to resort to crime. These people don't and thus stories like these come to pass.

    You want a story about criminal stupidity - read this article in the Lawrence Journal-World about two Kansas football players who stole a credit card, and used it to order a pizza - DELEVERED.

    RonB
  6. Kids Site taken over by pornographer. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1 · on US Congress Wants .kids TLD

    This could be the start of something big!

  7. Everyone just calm down. by John+Fulmer · · Score: 3 · on Evolution is a Myth in Kansas



    I live in Kansas, about 30 miles from the capitol, where all this happened.

    I live in Lawrence, Kansas, which is about as liberal as you can get in the Midwest.

    I was also raised on a farm, in the 'boonies'.

    I am not a Repubican (nor a Democrat, for that matter). I believe that the 'Religious Right' is wrong most of the time. I am not currenly affiliated with any religious group.



    It appears that once again, 'crap' journalism has arisen to take a pretty tame fact and blow it WAAAAAAAYYY out of proportion.

    Here's the deal: In the passed proposal, it does not ban, decry, condemn, or pass any type of judgement on evolution. It simply does not make it a subject that the state school board recommends that students *have* to be tested on. That's it. Nothing more. Here's more information, a few paragraphs down.

    Are there religious undertones for this vote? Sure! Are there private agendas here? Sure, on both sides of the fence. But this is NOT a ban on evolution or a proposal of creationism teachings. It simply does not require evolution to be a state assessment test subject. Schools are NOT required to follow this and may teach the subject any way they wish.

    What really offends me, are the several articles I found (MSNBC, CNN, etc) that basically mention the vote, and then spend the rest of the article talking about other states efforts to pass creationist laws. They mostly ignore the nature of the proposal and immediatly start yelling about the "Scopes Monkey Trial" and separation of church and state. I find it interesting that they mostly interview scientific "experts", who talk about evolution as a fact-theory, and then real 'christian' cretins who are about as reasonable as Fred Phelps. What about just plain old normal people who don't have any axes to grind? This is really CRAP journalism.

    I'm a Kansan, and for the most part, this decision doesn't really hold much interest for me, one way or the other. I'm home schooling my daughter, and this doesn't really affect me. (And yes, when she is old enough she will learn about the "Theory of Evolution", but not about the "Fact of Evolution").

    Check your facts before you start make REALLY offensive remarks, okay?


    jf