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  1. Re:On a related note... on Diebold Flops in Alaska · · Score: 1

    Ok maybe. But this guy is either lying under oath and risks perjury or this congressman should be in jail. So which is it? Are you going to claim a huge conspiracy?

  2. Re:It's harder than you might at first think on Diebold Flops in Alaska · · Score: 2, Funny

    We had such ballots in 2000 but the Democrats were too stupid to use them properly. Hence, we get Diebold and electronic voting.

  3. Re:I don't understand on Diebold Flops in Alaska · · Score: 1

    Errr, do all "euroweenies" believe everything they are told?

  4. Re:On a related note... on Diebold Flops in Alaska · · Score: 1
  5. Ok here's a nice war post template for /. on iPods at War · · Score: -1, Troll

    Blah blah W is evil blah blah blah Abu Ghraib blah blah Halliburton blah blah blah Incurious blah blah blah WMD's blah blah blah

  6. Need to hold users responsible. on Eavesdropping on a Botnet · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you are a computer user, you are responsible for the problems they are creating. ISP's need to inform people they have bots and if they are infecting other computers they need their internet access dropped. Tough love.

  7. Re:Extortion? on Wiretap Ruling Threatens Telecoms · · Score: 1

    Being that they are "natural monopolies" they have much more to lose by refusing to cooperate with the government, actually. "Hippy McFreakington" by comparison has a lot less to lose (borrowed from "America the Book").

  8. It's hard to blame the telecoms. on Wiretap Ruling Threatens Telecoms · · Score: 1

    I mean they have to face the dual pressure of an American public who would view them as "hating America" for going against the NSA as well as the pressure of a federal investigating agency demanding the tapes.

  9. Re:So What? on Judge Rules NSA Wiretapping Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    No, he is not "immune from prosecution". It's just that he can only be prosecuted by Congress.

  10. Re:So What? on Judge Rules NSA Wiretapping Unconstitutional · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'd say that's untested constitutional matter, but normally the president gets impeached and then tried in Congress for any and all crimes. You cannot "arrest" the President, as he is the leader of the executive branch and that would give mid-level bureaucrats quite a lot of power.

  11. Re:So What? on Judge Rules NSA Wiretapping Unconstitutional · · Score: 3, Informative

    The only recourse to "arrest" the president is impeachment.

  12. Re:It could never happen here on Korea's Online Aggression a Taste of the Future? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There's a theory that this guy who claimed to have killed Ramsey never set foot in Colorado and admitted to the case so he'd be extradicted to the US (Thai prisons are kinda bad). The whole event just doesn't seem likely IMO.

  13. Re:Sigh on Did Humans Evolve? No, Say Americans · · Score: 1

    Whatever the reason is for American abysmal public education, a lack of funding isn't one of them. The US spends more per pupil that like all other nations except Korea (this stat is from memory). This is if you take into account state, local, and federal spending. Throwing more money at the problem won't make it better.

  14. Fine but I'd like to see another poll on Did Humans Evolve? No, Say Americans · · Score: 1

    What percentage of each country thinks that 9/11 (or 11/9) was perpetrated by the US government? There are kooks in all countries.

  15. Re:News for Nerds on Did Humans Evolve? No, Say Americans · · Score: 1

    Eh, Christian fundamentalists were never the cool kids in my school.

  16. Imagine this were Microsoft. on Google Sends Legal Threats to Media Organizations · · Score: 1

    There is no way Slashdot would be defending Microsoft if an MS product were to suddenly enter the lexicon as a common verb.

    What will it take Google to do for Slashdot to criticize them? If Google executives were arrested for eating babies, there'd be people in here claiming that they had no other choice but to eat babies, and that everyone eats babies and that they needed to eat babies because Microsoft executives eat babies.

  17. Re:While I love freedom as much as the next guy... on Terror Plot, NASA, DHS Patch Alert · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yeah but we should work to lessen the risks as long as they are reasonable and do not interfere with our "core values" like freedom of speech, etc. I don't think being prohibited from carrying certain items on board is unreasonable. People act like they are living under a dictatorship in here.

  18. While I love freedom as much as the next guy... on Terror Plot, NASA, DHS Patch Alert · · Score: 1

    it ain't much good if you're dead. On the other hand, being alive ain't much good if you ain't free. So clearly a balance is needed.

  19. Re:How about driving? on Charter Flight Websites / Services? · · Score: 1

    You don't feel a tad scared when you get on a plane?

  20. How about driving? on Charter Flight Websites / Services? · · Score: 1

    Just a suggestion. Or take the bus.

  21. Van Allen just wasn't the same... on James A. Van Allen - Dies at 91 · · Score: 0, Troll

    after David Lee Roth left. ;)

  22. Re:Don't you mean the war on... on The Technology of Drug Prohibition · · Score: 1

    I don't think it's money. Tobacco companies could make just as much money if they sold "doobies".

  23. Don't you mean the war on... on The Technology of Drug Prohibition · · Score: 5, Interesting

    some drugs?

    Caffeine, alcohol, and tobacco are all "psychotropic" substances.

  24. The next terrorist attack (prediction) on BBC Reports UK-U.S. Terror Plot Foiled · · Score: 1

    A bunch of terrorists will rent an Ryder or UHaul truck, fill it to the brim with whatever explosives they can conjur up (probably nitrogen bombs), and drive it into a tunnel or bridge and blow it up. It's nearly impossible to stop.

  25. Reads like an irritating Livejournal post. on Gaming Memories Helping to Heal Katrina Wounds · · Score: 1

    You know, written by some "artsy" chick who takes pictures of her feet.