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  1. Re:Onstar? on Electromagnetic Pulse Gun To Help In Police Chases · · Score: 1

    This system is like onstar in that both stop a vehicle remotely.

    So Onstar is like .50 BMG?

  2. Re:Free sppech? on Supreme Court Rolls Back Corporate Campaign Spending Limits · · Score: 1

    By arguing they should be able to pay less than their fair share, that's exactly what they're arguing.

  3. Re:Welcome to Fascism on Supreme Court Rolls Back Corporate Campaign Spending Limits · · Score: 1

    Fascism is corporatism coupled with authoritarianism, so he's only half wrong.

  4. Re:A great victory for free speech! on Supreme Court Rolls Back Corporate Campaign Spending Limits · · Score: 1

    The individuals in the corporation weren't affected by these limits, only the corporation itself.

  5. Free sppech? on Supreme Court Rolls Back Corporate Campaign Spending Limits · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If corporations want to be individuals, it's time we start taxing them like individuals.

  6. But you have to... on Kernel Contributor Corbet Says Linux Community Is 'Intimidating' · · Score: 1

    type something up there.

  7. It's like this.. on Why Firefox's Future Lies In Google's Hands · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Google just wants to be the default search engine. So long as Firefox has significant marketshare, Google will sponsor them. If Google drops their sponsorship, Microsoft or Yahoo or any number or regional search engines will step in.

  8. Re:This is great! on Open-Source JavaScript Flash Player (HTML5/SVG) · · Score: 1

    It is possible, provided you use a standards compliant browser.

  9. Re:It's Worse Than You think! on $4,400/Yr. Coders May Work On Dept. of Labor Project · · Score: 1

    I've been hearing this thrown around a lot lately...where exactly are these 'for-profit prisons' and jails?

    Here is a map. It doesn't show the actual locations, but it gives number and percentage of prisoners in private prisons by state.

  10. Re:It's Worse Than You think! on $4,400/Yr. Coders May Work On Dept. of Labor Project · · Score: 1

    but I'm not so sure that I buy the "you can keep much better control over it" line.

    Currently it's entirely controlled by the black market, which we have no control over.

    We always knew which store we could go to that wouldn't card us, which 21+ sibling of a friend would make a straw purchase and whose parents were too lazy to lock up the liquor cabinet.

    And did you have to remember which dealers wouldn't card you? No. None of them card, thus it is easier to obtain if you are under age, even if only marginally so.

  11. mom on the technology? on Checking In On Project Natal · · Score: 1

    Is natal not using patented technology, or do these guys just not know how to look up a patent?

  12. Re:How about the even more useless keys? on Does Your PC Really Need a SysRq Button Anymore? · · Score: 1

    I haven't hit the key on accident in years either. I pry the bastard off all the keyboards I buy.

  13. Re:I only hope on Google.cn Has Already Lifted Censorship · · Score: 1

    That's one thing that has changed greatly since the revolution. Racial strife still exists, but at nowhere near the same level. Killing off all culture is a great way to equalize people of different ethnicities.

  14. Re:Encrypted data doesn't travel across web as qui on Gmail Moves To HTTPS By Default · · Score: 1

    Encrypting all traffic is actually a great way to ensure net neutrality.

  15. Re:The disc is DRM on Nintendo Wii To Get Netflix Streaming · · Score: 1

    I've never registered even a single device. Is this a recent change? I have had my subscription on hold for a few months.

  16. Re:I only hope on Google.cn Has Already Lifted Censorship · · Score: 1

    4000 years? They had a revolution in the 50s that reset the counter.

  17. Re:About split on Google Docs To Host Any File Type · · Score: 1

    There's not much sensitive data I have that is over 250MB. That size of a file is generally an app, or a video. Other than sex tapes, I can't think of any home movies I'd object to google seeing. I already upload them to Youtube.

  18. Re:About split on Google Docs To Host Any File Type · · Score: 4, Funny

    You must work for a hard drive manufacturer.
    Here's the correct way to do it:
    tar -zc bigfile | split -a 5 -b 262144000 -

  19. Re:Old Tech on Comcast Launches Broadband Meter · · Score: 1

    i dont see why Comcast has taken so long to give its users access to a monitoring tool.

    Because they didn't have a cap before. With no limit, knowing how much you've used has limited utility.

  20. Re:Lets vote... on TSA Nominee's Snooping Raises Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    Well if a good government is a representative government, then aren't you agreeing with me?

  21. Re:Lets vote... on TSA Nominee's Snooping Raises Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    Yes. Because such people believe what the TV tells them to.

  22. Re:declining oil production on Thorium, the Next Nuclear Fuel? · · Score: 1

    No, they weren't. The oil embargo was in '79, a year after the revolution.

  23. Re:declining oil production on Thorium, the Next Nuclear Fuel? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    National security? If you rely on someone else, you are left at their mercy. They can just turn off your economy.

    Bingo. Iran doesn't want another country to do to them what they did to the West in the 70s.

  24. Re:Lets vote... on TSA Nominee's Snooping Raises Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    And honestly, its better to have a low turnout of well-informed voters than a high turnout of cable-news watching voters who vote only on who the person on TV says to.

    Not if the goal is representative government.

  25. Re:Great! on VLC Team Announces Video Editor In the Works · · Score: 3, Informative

    You can still run the Linux version on OSX.