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  1. Re:Parallax, touch screens, stupidity, and conspir on WV Voters Say Machines Are Switching Votes · · Score: 1

    How is the POS not part of the UI?

  2. Re:Progress vs Motion on Is Ubuntu Getting Slower? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What goal do you perceive Ubuntu to be moving toward

    Fixing bug #1, of course.

  3. Re:Flexibility and freedom are its raison d'Ã on Is Ubuntu Getting Slower? · · Score: 1

    It's still smaller than Windows Media Player, even when installed in the least efficient way possible.

  4. Re:Are you kidding? on Best OS For Netbooks and Underpowered Tablets? · · Score: 1

    You can lower power use by shutting off things that aren't at the top of the list, too.

  5. Re:The BASIC of the 21st century on PHP Gets Namespace Separators, With a Twist · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's not that hard to convert existing websites into Django, Pylons or TurboGears apps. Usually it's much faster than familiarizing yourself with the PHP code enough to make the needed changes.

  6. Re:HOLY FUCKING SHIT!?!?! on PHP Gets Namespace Separators, With a Twist · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yeah, you don't need insight to know the developers were high as a kite.

  7. Re:I wonder ... on Fedora 9 Would Cost $10.8B To Build From Scratch · · Score: 1

    How many lines of code are in Debian? Do the math.

  8. Re:Average salary? on Fedora 9 Would Cost $10.8B To Build From Scratch · · Score: 1

    Maybe you should try a full-time job.

  9. Re:Samba Interoperability? on Microsoft to Issue Emergency Patch For File-Sharing Hole · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Debian does ship with ssh turned off.

  10. Re:Rice? on Researchers Developing Cancer-Fighting Beer · · Score: 1

    Dogfish Head 120 minute IPA gets my vote. Though Stone's Ruination IPA is pretty good, too. Pity it only comes in bottles that would get a horse drunk.

  11. Re:Guinness already does it... on Researchers Developing Cancer-Fighting Beer · · Score: 1

    I'm sure they pasteurize the beer before selling it.

  12. Re:absurd on Afghan Student Gets 20 Years For Blasphemy · · Score: 1

    You know, a long time ago, the citizens of America in the south didn't have a problem with slavery.

    Does that make it right?

    The North, too, actually. Lincoln only freed the slaves in the South.

  13. Re:absurd on Afghan Student Gets 20 Years For Blasphemy · · Score: 1

    Which means that we are the ones saying the citizens don't have a right to determine the laws of their land.

    Nobody has the right to infringe upon the rights of others. Rights are not granted by governments, they are protected or infringed upon by them.

  14. Re:Not Quite. on Economic Crisis Will Eliminate Open Source · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "Blogs shift power from broadcasters to individuals"... yes thats good, but advertisers are also using misinformation on blogs, to create so called Flogs.

    So it's just like traditional media?

  15. Re:Red Hat and Debian have it too on Why the Kill Switch Makes Sense For Android · · Score: 1

    So don't enable automatic updates. It asks during install.

  16. Re:Link to creepy Tom Cruise video on Hacker Admits To Scientology DDoS Attack · · Score: 5, Funny

    Anyone have a link to the creepy Tom Cruise video?

    You're going to have to be more specific.

  17. Re:Schneier bothers me on Schneier, Journalist Poke Holes In TSA Policies · · Score: 1
  18. Re:Good luck with that on EFF Sues To Overturn Telecom Immunity · · Score: 1

    Human nature is to conform to social norms. The military can bend what is a social norm, but there are limits. Even Abraham hesitated when God asked him to kill his son.

  19. Re:Good luck with that on EFF Sues To Overturn Telecom Immunity · · Score: 1

    There are crazies in the military, but they're not the ones guarding the armoury.

  20. Re:Good luck with that on EFF Sues To Overturn Telecom Immunity · · Score: 1

    But, when ordered to take guns from the populace, the National Guard has already proved their willingness to do so without question.

    That was a local thing during a real emergency with violence the media vastly overstated. Convincing all 50 governors and the guardsmen they command to do that on a national scale simultaneously to prevent an armed rebellion, with no record of registration on tens of millions of guns is improbable to say the least.

  21. Re:The good of guns. on EFF Sues To Overturn Telecom Immunity · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You missed my point. Protecting the second amendment at the exclusion of the others is flat out insane if resisting tyranny is the point of the second amendment. Would you let someone rape your daughter so you can keep a gun to protect her from rapists?

  22. Re:That must be a great book on LittleBigPlanet Delayed Due To Qur'an-Sampling Audio · · Score: 1

    Not Buddhism. If you don't live forever in Nirvana, you're doing it wrong.

  23. Re:Good luck with that on EFF Sues To Overturn Telecom Immunity · · Score: 1

    We have lots of rights. That doesn't mean the government doesn't infringe upon them.

  24. Re:Bingo! on EFF Sues To Overturn Telecom Immunity · · Score: 1

    And all you need to file a suit is to show you have standing to sue. Catch 22.

  25. Re:Good luck with that on EFF Sues To Overturn Telecom Immunity · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The national guard doesn't fear your shotgun because they have much more to fear from the guardsmen who defected when they ordered them to take your shotgun. Don't denigrate our men and women in uniform by suggesting they would willingly trample on the rights of the American people.