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  1. Re:It had beter be able to runs apps. on Samsung Set To Introduce Android-Based iPod Touch Competitor · · Score: 0

    If be "pleasant" you mean having to buy a new device every 24 months.

    And your anecdote of "but my iJunk lasted for x years!" doesn't change this.

  2. Re:Not going to happen on 'Colonizing the Red Planet,' a How-To Guide · · Score: 1

    I seriously doubt that anyone who actually lives as a hunter-gatherer....or hell, how about a step up to subsistence farmer, would agree that they have it "easy".

  3. Re:"promotional information" - were did we go wron on Google Patenting 'Exponential' Friend Spamming · · Score: 1
  4. Re:Exponentially on IBM Makes a Super Memory Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    At best, it will allow the current exponential growth to increase, exponentially.

  5. Re:The problem in the US... on Can Movies Inspire Kids To Be Future Scientists? · · Score: 1

    Hmm... ):

    Excuse me while I go suck-start my rifle.

  6. Re:I have to deal with this all the time.... on The Right's War On Net Neutrality · · Score: 0

    Tax "cuts" are the wrong way to think about it.

    The government should get enough money from the population to act as a limited social contract among free people to secure life, liberty, and property.

    Anything extra should be given back to the people who payed in.

    You and Obama seem to think it's fine to use private property as communal property and the government will tell you how much to pay in.

  7. Re:I have to deal with this all the time.... on The Right's War On Net Neutrality · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Hitler, for instance, would squarely fit the American modern liberal category.

  8. I have to deal with this all the time.... on The Right's War On Net Neutrality · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm pretty right-wing... but I have some awesome arguments about this with other right-wingers.

    Some of them can't seem to evaluate the situation for themselves so they just go with whatever their media talking head tells them.

    None of them can explain how the Internet is supposed to work, nor how companies are screwing it up, nor what net neutrality means.... but they are pretty sure that gay socialists are going to take over the internet.

    I usually paint it like this:
    What if ISPs and common carriers started deciding to block FoxNews.com because they didn't like the message? That seems to get thru to some of them.

    The right-wingers have one point though:
    Liberals usually work incrementally. It starts with simple net neutrality rules. Then later on, they add some more rules. And more. And more. A Killswitch and some hate-crimes legislation later and before you know the government is all up in your intarwebs.

    Now before you liberals get all self-congratulatory on your enlightened position.... none of my liberal friends can think for themselves on several liberal bandwaggon issues either.

  9. Puffed air.... on Auditors Question TSA's Tech Spending, Security Solutions · · Score: 5, Funny

    36 million on devices to puff air?

    The TSA can blow me for free.

  10. Re:Cold weather on Ford To Offer Fuel-Saving 'Start-Stop' System · · Score: 1

    Hmmm. Roll down all the windows?

  11. Re:Fuel-Saving? on Ford To Offer Fuel-Saving 'Start-Stop' System · · Score: 1

    Remember when we said that about turning off computers?

  12. Re:Cold weather on Ford To Offer Fuel-Saving 'Start-Stop' System · · Score: 2

    The Prius has been doing just fine since the early 2000s.

    And modern engines need no more than 30 seconds of idling to be "warmed up" for driving.

  13. Re:I flew Ravens... on Aerial Video Footage of New York Taken By RC Plane · · Score: 1

    I'm not talking about restricted airspace, i'm talking about airspace deconfliction.

    When your model is out of LOS and over a couple hundred AGL it is in contention with other aircraft. Just like SUAVs, he should have filed a flight plan and scheduled his corridors just like a helicopter would in the city.

    I'm not talking about trouble with the DHS or FBI. I'm talking about trouble with the FAA.

    In Iraq, around 2005, a helicopter hit an RQ-11A Raven. The battery pack went right thru the windscreen of the helo. It easily could have killed the pilot, which you can imagine could have easily crashed the bird. A helicopter crashing down on a city of people could substantially increase frowny-face.

  14. I flew Ravens... on Aerial Video Footage of New York Taken By RC Plane · · Score: 1

    ...in Ramadi in 2005-2006.

    You have to get airspace clearance just like every other aircraft, I don't think this guy did.

  15. Re:Clue... on Dropbox 1.0 Finally Released · · Score: 0

    Damn! Snap!

  16. would be nice... on Dropbox 1.0 Finally Released · · Score: 2

    ...if you could run your own dropbox server instead of it all ending up on S3.

    Or sub in an NFS, SAMBA, Windows file server, etc. for the backend.

    To pass several gigs across the office, it's a massive waste to send it up to S3 and back down again.

  17. Anti-debian key? on Openwall Linux 3.0 — No SUIDs, Anti-Log-Spoofing · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Can someone explain (for real) the point of the 'anti-Debian' key blacklist?

    Is it because of the Debian-specific vulnerability in OpenSSH? I thought that was a couple years ago.

  18. Re:global standards for policing the internet on UN Considering Control of the Internet · · Score: 1

    One of the reasons the US founding fathers used the 3-branch system was that they hoped the branches would spend most of their time fighting each-other for control and leave the common man alone.

  19. Re:It's a tower? on CA's First Molten Salt Energy Plant Approved · · Score: 1

    Because mirrors are easier than a ginormous magnifying lens.

    http://inhabitat.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2010/12/Rice-Solar-Project-CA-2.jpg

  20. In retrospect... on Aussie Spies Spooked By Cyberwar · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...asking the US for tips on information security wasn't probably the best idea.

  21. Re:Send the wah-mbulance. on Netflix Touts Open Source, Ignores Linux · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Since when is Linux a requirement for Open Source?

  22. Yawn.... on 'Jeopardy!' To Pit Humans Against IBM Machine · · Score: 1

    Call me when American Gladiators, Lord of the Flies, or Surviving the Game (Staring Ice T) pits humans against an IBM Machine.

  23. Re:Apple's iPad needs a CAC reader... (or a USB sl on Apple, Google Diss the DoD Over Mobile Security · · Score: 1, Troll

    They gay ban hasn't been overturned yet.

  24. Re:security, the ultimate pretext on Apple, Google Diss the DoD Over Mobile Security · · Score: 2

    FBCB2 runs on Solaris and can be found in almost every Stryker since 2001.

    It can be found almost every US platoon of wheeled vehicles in Iraq or Afghanistan. Probably in all the Brads and Abrams too.

  25. Real life? on Man Sues Rockstar Saying GTA:SA Is Based On His Life · · Score: 1

    I've been trying to do the cheat code for bi-plane IRL for years. ):