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  1. Re:9-0? on SCOTUS Rules Incumbent Telcos Must Share Network Access At Cost · · Score: 1

    Unless you've got enough money to keep pushing, yes. Money == Justice in the US more than any other part of the first world.

  2. Re:Cable too please! on SCOTUS Rules Incumbent Telcos Must Share Network Access At Cost · · Score: 1

    What exactly do you mean by de-regulation? Please explain to me how de-regulation would improve a situation with a natural monopoly. Without regulation, electricity and water would cost just barely less than digging your own well or running your own generator due to the massive capital investment necessary to begin providing service.

  3. Re:China's expanding in space... on Chinese Moon Probe Ventures Into Deep Space · · Score: 2

    How to manage their economy.

  4. Re:Oh come on, what's the big deal? on Homeland Security Running NBC-Owned PSAs · · Score: 2
    If he was a Republican, he'd actually be able to pass legislation because Republicans vote in lockstep.

    It'd be horrible, regressive legislation that provides additional benefit to the rich while shitting on the middle class and poor, but he'd actually be able to pass it.

  5. Re:Stupid, Stupid, Stupid on Checkpoint of the Future Coming Soon To Airports · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because the military industrial complex saw the opportunity to sell expensive, unnecessary shit to an ignorant, fearful populace, and they're damn good at getting the government to give them money to waste. End result: The TSA, who has never once in its entire history prevented someone who tried to sneak a bomb on a plane from doing so. Exactly three people have tried to sneak bombs or bomb-making materials through the TSA's security since 9/11. All three have succeeded.

  6. This tech is beaten by a cheap IR filter. on Apple Camera Patent Lets External Transmitters Disable Features · · Score: 1

    Seeing as how an IR Filter only costs about $25 for a real, 46mm lens, This technology is dead in the water. Anyone who wants to circumvent it just needs to cough up a few bucks for some IR filtiring film and put it in front of the camera lens.

  7. Re:So on AC/DC Music Attracts Great White Sharks · · Score: 2

    If we're putting Beiber in the water and tying something to him, it should be lead bricks.

  8. Re:How is this news? on AC/DC Music Attracts Great White Sharks · · Score: 1

    Great Whites have flamethrowers or other pyrotechnics on their heads. It's the Pink Floyd sharks that have the lasers.

  9. Re:Hardly secret or surprising on Crashed Helicopter Sparks Concern Over Stealth Secrets · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If we only found damaged parts of that police car, and it was used to capture or kill one of the FBI's most wanted, and none of those parts were found in any other known production vehicle, then yes, there would be controversy over what the vehicle was.

  10. Re:A good sign? on Ubisoft Launches Movie Studio To Make Movies of Its Games · · Score: 1

    Bruckheimer has mostly stuck to TV in the past decade. If you're gonna complain about terrible big budget films, complain about Michael Bay. He seems to shit out three or four awful, plot-free, explosion-laden films a year.

  11. Re:Why not free? on University Proposes Tuition Based On Major · · Score: 1

    Wow, if you don't understand that "providing education to people who could otherwise not afford it" will create a "better educated population and workforce", you're too fucking stupid to argue with. You are disagreeing with a god damn tautology.

  12. Re:Use caution. on Kentucky Man Builds Bourbon Powered Car · · Score: 1

    If you just add "only has two wheels" to your vehicle description, you're talking about a mo-ped, which plenty of people use to get around college campuses, or similar 'short-commute' regions. Just because a car isn't a schoolbus doesn't mean it's useless.

  13. Where's the 3-strikes law for shitty lawyers? on Righthaven Defies Court In Domain Name Ruling · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Seriously, they need to start disbarring lawyers who repeatedly bring these meritless lawsuits to court. That's the only thing that's going to stop them from continuing to use the legal system as their own personal slot machine.

  14. Re:Use caution. on Kentucky Man Builds Bourbon Powered Car · · Score: 1

    On potable alcohol, yes it is, but on de-natured alcohol it's not. If you're not drinking it, there's no reason not to use de-natured alcohol.

  15. Re:Thermite. on The 'Three Ton' Hard Drive Destroyer · · Score: 1

    A small crucible built out of brick, cinder blocks or pavers works, and is cheap. If you use pavers, you can even flip them over and re-use them in your lawn.

  16. Re:The fundies will have a field day on XXX Goes Live In the Root Servers · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Porn sites are already blocked in some percentage of the world (I really doubt it's 90%, regardless of what metric you use) and still makes huge amounts of money. Changing your domain from .com to .xxx is only going to lose you that tiny fraction of users who both live in oppressive nations and are tech savvy enough to work around government internet filters.

  17. Re:Patent nonsense. on All Languages Linked To Common Source · · Score: 3, Funny

    Jesus Gonzales, Jesus Guardarez and Jesus Alvaraz all confirm, they read a Spanish bible.

  18. Re:Patent nonsense. on All Languages Linked To Common Source · · Score: 3, Funny

    All the Jesuses I know read around Spanish language versions of the bible, not English.

  19. I think the bear can handle this one by himself. on Alaskan Officials Seek to Ban Taser Hunting For Moose and Bear · · Score: 1

    Why does this need to be made Illegal? "Too many people are pissing off bears with stun guns" seems to be the kind of problem bears would be very good at solving by themselves.

  20. Re:This all sounds very nice, but... on Engineers Hijack Libyan Phone Network For Rebels · · Score: 4, Informative

    They had to physically wrest control of the entire countryside surrounding the towers from a violent dictator and had to negotiate with foreign telcom providers to accomplish the takeover. I wouldn't say that infrastructure that requires both violent revolution and high tech support from outside the country is especially "brittle" or "easily compromised".

  21. Re:Maybe I should try this on Workers Will Smash Their PCs To Get an Upgrade · · Score: 2

    Here's another good reason to replace it, those VAX systems have maintenance contracts that cost $10k each per year, and there are about 50 of them in a room running different pieces of software needed for the launch. That's $500k a year on fucking maintenance contracts for hardware that has less total processing power, storage, and memory than my cellphone, and consumes more power than a small welding shop.

  22. Re:Maybe I should try this on Workers Will Smash Their PCs To Get an Upgrade · · Score: 4, Interesting
    They still launch rockets with VAXes. I worked on the Space Lift Range System Contract for my Internship, and learned the terrifying fact that they're launching giant missiles into space 20 miles from my house with Computers older than me and ancient wire-wrapped TTL chips in perfboard, and basically no one knows what hardware does what anymore because everyone who built the stuff is retired or dead.

    We had a launch control board assembly fail shortly after I started my internship, and a rocket was supposed to go up the next week. No one had any idea where or how to get a replacement, then someone remembered that the old 'backup' system was moved to the Kennedy Space Center Museum. They made a call, grabbed an armed guard from the base, drove up to KSC, swapped the broken control board with the museum piece, and launched a rocket with it a week later. To the best of my knowledge, they are still launching rockets with a piece of hardware literally salvaged from a museum of history.

  23. Re:Not sufficient on Is Science Just a Matter of Faith? · · Score: 1

    I never suggested that there was any central authority, I don't know where you got that from. When I said "we", I meant "peers evaluating your work". Other than that your post simply restates exactly what I said in a more verbose fashion.

  24. Re:No. on Is Science Just a Matter of Faith? · · Score: 1

    The law of gravity is a much more significant existential claim than Newton's third law, it claims that for every particle with mass M1, there exists an attractive force between that particle and every other particle with mass(valued at M2) in the universe, which will effect both bodies and exert a net force of F=GM1M2/d2

  25. Re:No. on Is Science Just a Matter of Faith? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I explained in another post that i should have said "science" or "not science" rather than "science" or "religion".