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  1. Re:Election Fraud on Kentucky Officials "Changed Votes At Voting Machines" · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No way. Absolutely not. Secret ballot is vital to our system. It allows people to vote without ANY outside influence. People can vote their minds and not their peer pressures. Secret ballot removes outside influence on votes. There is no other way around that.

  2. Drat... on The Emerging Science of DNA Cryptography · · Score: 3, Funny

    For a minute I thought I was hoing to be able to encrypt/decrypt my hard drive by my computer taking a sample of my blood...

  3. As I am going to this... on Hope For FOSS In Electronic Health Records · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I will pay special attention to it.

  4. Re:Criticisms and a Better plan on Stimulus Avoids Serious Solutions For Health IT · · Score: 1

    That's great for a data/transmission standard, but another big problem is proprietary databases. Every application has it's own "under-the-hood" storage structure. Imagine if there was a standardized database structure, don't you think that would go a long way towards better interoperability and communication?

  5. Re:1984 on London Police Seek To Install CCTV In Pubs · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Um. A little bit of an over reaction.

    Fact: People go to bars to get drunk.
    Fact: Drunk people are either really funny or really dangerous
    Fact: Drunk people who commit violence need to be prosecuted
    Fact: It's easier to prove guilt when there's proof

  6. Re:Doesn't this sound like... on Hacking With Synthetic Biology · · Score: 1

    Some parent would sue because their not-so-bright youngster went down into the sewer to drink the "nice smelling" water.

  7. Re:Too early? on Terabit Ethernet Inches Closer To Reality · · Score: 1

    I think 3 Gbps is closer to the norm.

  8. Re:I hope it succeeds on Microsoft To Open Retail Stores · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The only company they appear to be competeing against here is Apple. But MS already has much more retail space through 3rd parties than Apple does, so why do they think this will help them?

  9. Wow. on Microsoft To Open Retail Stores · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This should be entertaining...

  10. That should... on Nanotube Memory Finally Beats Flash For Speed · · Score: 4, Funny

    That should be faster than anybody would ever need...

  11. Re:naming on Why Do We Name Servers the Way We Do? · · Score: 1

    Unless it's simply random characters, it has some meaning to somebody.

  12. Re:forgemil.com? on US Dept. of Defense Creates Its Own Sourceforge · · Score: 5, Informative

    Nice. It even points the user to ANOTHER non-.mil site to download a PKI certificate. That settles it for me. This is NOT the military.

  13. Re:What?? on KY Appeals Court Nixes Seizure of Gambling-Linked Domains · · Score: 1

    I know they do. The point is that their job is o interpret it, not legislate by "interpreting" something that isn't even referenced in law.

  14. What?? on KY Appeals Court Nixes Seizure of Gambling-Linked Domains · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's not the job of the judicial branch to make law? Who knew?

  15. Re:Um...Tim Cook, anyone? on So Who's Running Apple Now? · · Score: 1

    You have a much lower number than me...you must have been gone a while or something.

  16. Re:stupid question but..... on Obama Proposes Digital Health Records · · Score: 1

    And don't forget how many BILLIONS we spent on AHLTA. It's crazy. And half the time it's in failover mode where the central data can't even be accessed. If you could view AHLTA is an example of how the government would implement this, you would not want them anywhere near a national restructuring of the country's medical records.

  17. Good Lord... on The Environmental Impact of Google Searches · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Let's just shut down every piece of modern technology and revert to a hunter-gatherer civilization. Will that make the enviornmentalists finally shut up? Why not stop people from breathing too, since that produces C02.

  18. Re:Drupal or other CMS? on Using Drupal · · Score: 1

    I also use Joomla! quite a bit. The best forum solution is FireBoard. It's a native Joomla! component so there is no bridging requireed.

  19. Re:99.3% accurate? on New Method To Revolutionize DNA Sequencing · · Score: 1

    Oh well. At least it's not the first time somebody missed a point on /.

  20. Re:99.3% accurate? on New Method To Revolutionize DNA Sequencing · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I realize that we aren't going to be trying to make a cloned copy from this data...

    What makes you so sure? Who knows where this will lead?

  21. You say potayto on CSIS Cybersecurity Commission Chairman Jim Langevin Answers Your Questions · · Score: 2, Insightful

    4) Regulation by Hatta The free and open nature of the internet is its biggest asset. How do you plan on enforcing "cybersecurity" without damaging its free and open nature? Are you sure that the cure (government regulation) isn't worse than the disease (cybercrime)? Remember there was no cybercrime before the internet. The internet has brought us both crime and prosperity, so far the prosperity has far exceeded the crime. I benefit far more than I suffer from having an unregulated internet, can you convince me that a regulated internet is even necessary? What sort of measures can you take to fight cybercrime without affecting my unfettered access to the internet? The phrase "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" is not an acceptable response.

    Rep. Langevin: I disagree with the premise - neither I nor the CSIS Commission discussed a "regulated Internet". What we did discuss is the need to develop and issue standards and guidance for securing three specific critical cyber infrastructures - telecom, finance, and energy - with the intent of increasing transparency and improving resiliency and reliability in the delivery of services critical to cyberspace.

    I say potahto...

  22. Re:This goes for many companies on How Apple Could Survive Without Steve Jobs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It depends on how well Steve is preparing his successors. And it seems he is working at pretty hard and getting them involved in the media aspect, which is one of the biggest parts. (The distortion field must continue...)

  23. Re:Taxing consumption? on New York State Budget Relies On Entertainment Tax · · Score: 1

    Neil Boortz, is that you?

  24. Re:The mouse... on The Age of Touch Computing · · Score: 2, Informative

    Tapping with 2 fingers works like a right click for me. Do people really still think Macs don't use a "right click" to bring up contextual menus??

  25. Re:3.5x faster on Intel Developers Demo USB 3.0 Throughput On Linux · · Score: 1

    If we're talking actual real world speeds (not the theoretical best case scenario ideal lab conditions crap), then yeah, that's about where FireWire sat in it's first iteration.

    Real world usage is about 250 for USB 2. Multiply that number by 3 and then compare it to 400. Then tell me which one is bigger.