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  1. Re:Hey, kids! Test your Wikipedia street smarts! on Online Reputation Is Hard To Do · · Score: 0

    The third obviously. The first is poorly written, the second plain wrong, and the third is right. Oh wait. That means nothing.

  2. Re:Wow!! on Space Elevator Company LiftPort In Trouble · · Score: 0

    Or maybe their just afraid. Or maybe his mother makes him censor his shit.

  3. Re:Could be good news for BSD projects on TiVo Says It Could Suffer Under GPLv3 · · Score: 0

    Building communities or no, the result would be that much of the software would have to be written from scratch. The result would be things would become more expensive. It's all well and great to have all this 'free' software, but if you don't let people use it unless they make their things 'free', they won't make them, and we'll all be worse off.

  4. Re:"remove tag" on Photo Tagging as a Privacy Problem? · · Score: 1

    Except that it is both a means to communicate with ME, and has my name associated with it.

  5. Re:"remove tag" on Photo Tagging as a Privacy Problem? · · Score: 1

    Frisco.Anconia@gmail.com

  6. Re:2 girls for every boy on Boys with Longer Ring Fingers are Better at Math · · Score: 1, Interesting

    All I have to say is that my ring finger is only about 1cm longer than my index, even shorter, and I'm the best kid in my school when it comes to math. And yes, I am a boy. Not only that, but my verbal skills are just fine.

  7. Re:Is efficiency the problem? on 40% Efficiency Solar Cells Developed · · Score: 1

    So what do we do when the sun blows up?

  8. Re:"remove tag" on Photo Tagging as a Privacy Problem? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This continues to beg the question of why you want to hide.

  9. Re:If it's viewable, it's hackable on New AACS Fix Hacked in a Day · · Score: 1

    Exactly. It applies to all security situations. You either have to let nothing in, or realize that everything will get in. The third option is the gray area, where you make it hard, but in the long run you lose. The only solution is either to let nobody in, which nobody wants, or let everybody in. So I can see the government buying the rights to movies in the future, and then distributing them to everyone.

  10. Re:My comment to the CBC on Canadian Movie Camcording Addressed With Legislation · · Score: 1

    It's as ludicrious as putting murderers, thieves, and such behind bars... I'll agree with you on that part... they should be shot instead :)

  11. Re:Ted Stevens? on McCain on Net Neutrality, Copyright, Iraq · · Score: 1

    They might not to corporate serfdom, but they sure to environmental serfdom :) Not to mention frivolous lawsuits, positive 'rights'. I could go on. For both sides.

  12. Re:Great, now commercialize it.. on Computers Outperform Humans at Recognizing Faces · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...Invasive. The privacy people are almost never right. This time, they've never been wronger. I don't quite subscribe to the definition of invasive as a picture.

    Will somebody please explain to me why every time some new way to do anything that would involve identifying people, it's an invasion of privacy? I mean honestly, why are you so afraid? What crime did you commit now?

  13. Re:Vehemently Anti french on McCain on Net Neutrality, Copyright, Iraq · · Score: 1

    ...Study your history. The revolution had been brewing for many years. Many of the ideas about democracy come the French. Not to mention Rousseau.

  14. Re:Ted Stevens? on McCain on Net Neutrality, Copyright, Iraq · · Score: 1

    I said excluding war and corporate serfdom. The debt you say is led by the Republican president. But both parties are complicit in over spending. (See: Pork)

  15. Re:Ahhhh The Free Market on McCain on Net Neutrality, Copyright, Iraq · · Score: 1

    As long as we're at it, why don't we legalize government? They control the drugs (see: FDA), whores (see: Vegas), gambling (see: Reservations; Vegas), and they sell it all so they can have power over your lives :)

  16. Re:Ted Stevens? on McCain on Net Neutrality, Copyright, Iraq · · Score: 1

    ...lie us into war, unsupportable debt, corporate serfdom, and just an endless stream of lies that get people killed and broke, what is the point of listening to them on any single point? They can be trusted only to screw us.

    In all fairness, war and corporate serfdom excluded, the democrats do the exact same things.

    Just because we're a democracy doesn't mean we're a democracy. The way I see it, all the present government has managed to do is set up an aristocracy, and either intentionally or not, convinced us we have a choice and power by having two parties, both of which hope to oppress us, fight.

  17. Re:Vehemently Anti french on McCain on Net Neutrality, Copyright, Iraq · · Score: 1

    Actually a lot of the ideas that went into the American revolution stemmed from the brewing French revolution going on at the same time.

  18. Re:Vehemently Anti french on McCain on Net Neutrality, Copyright, Iraq · · Score: -1, Troll

    ...Try If I knew that the invading force was going to invest billions of dollars into creating a democracy, freeing the populace, giving women rights, destroying tyranny, getting rid of biological weapons, possibly nuclear, we'd have fought until they either pushed us into the Ocean or killed The terrorists.

    You call yourself an American? Go to hell.

  19. Re:Vehemently Anti french on McCain on Net Neutrality, Copyright, Iraq · · Score: 2, Funny

    You're entirely right. What happened to French people like Napoléon?

  20. Re:Anti french on McCain on Net Neutrality, Copyright, Iraq · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well us formerly French hating Americans are now pleased to say we no longer hate France. You can thank Sarky for that.

    On a side note, I laugh that all these groups who advocate democracy and peacful resolution riot when the wrong person gets elected.

  21. Re:Why not just let us pay for the damn bandwidth? on Will ISPs Spoil Online Video? · · Score: 1

    Just because you can cry like a little baby to the government about how its TOO EXPENSIVE and how YOU THINK, you, the person who has no experience in the business, that it can't possibly cost more than $100 a month for ALL THAT, doesn't mean it will. Give the companies some credit. They are providing a service to you, as best they can. And right now, they can't do it as well. Demand has skyrocketed and the laws of economics say that the price will rise.

  22. Re:Pentagon or Pentagram? on How the Pentagon Got Its Shape · · Score: 1

    all those things... AND FREEDOM. Also Memorial Day remembers people who died. SERVING OUR COUNTRY, something you will never have the guts to do. And damn well right you better well not celebrate. Remember and mourn.

    If you hate America SO MUCH leave it, never use the internet, an American invention. Never use the light bulb. Steam engine. Internal combustion engine. Radio. Refrigerator. Vacuum. Use slaves. Never use our imports, never use a phone, never export anything to us. Go live on an island. Come back when you appreciate everything that was sacrificed to make this country great.

  23. Re:That's a crying shame... on Cell Phones Disable Keys for High-End Cars · · Score: 1

    $100 vs. (cost of dui)*(odds of getting caught) should be $100 vs. ((Avg. Cost of DUI)*(Odds of Getting Caught) + (Odds of accident)*(respective odds and costs of: Killing oneself + Killing one's friend + Killing someone else + Going to jail for doing any of the last two). Unless $100 is the difference between life and death, you really shouldn't drive.

  24. Re:Notable: SharedSource on China Crafts Cyberweapons · · Score: 1

    Wait, so does the US have the source too? Now all we need is a well placed leak.

  25. Re:Fine: Define email on Senator Warns of Email Tax This Fall · · Score: 1

    If you're not convinced the government is taking over now, I don't know what it'll take.