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  1. Re:What's in it? on Landmark Health Insurance Bill Passes House · · Score: 1

    I would add that it seems to do nothing to abate the amount of bureaucratic hoopla associated with a doctor's visit, I'm sure another big drain on heath is the number of support staff it needs to run the system here.

    This should have been simple; provide basic heath coverage baked into tax dollars and allow anyone to buy top up insurance from wherever they want to. In that way I need not fill out a 5-page form for every prostate exam, not have my family's access to healthcare held to ransom by an employer and the government could have saved cash over the government heathcare dollar feeding frenzy they have inherited.

    Shame on the Democrats for having blown any chance of worthwhile reform for many years to come and shame on the Republicans for choosing politics over constructive opposition

  2. competition on Paul Vixie On What DNS Is Not · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's time for someone to set up a DNS system in competition to ICANN. I don't think it's impossible to change your root servers list.

  3. Genius doesn't work for me either on Going Head To Head With Genius On Playlists · · Score: 1

    There are four in my household. I'll use itunes to make up a CD for a long car journey with the kids or a playlist for my wife to work out to. Then there's the music I like to listen to. I'm sure it believes I'm schizophrenic and if it were a real genius it would be giving me psychiatric advice by now.

  4. Mark Twain's on Facebook To Preserve Accounts of the Dead · · Score: 3, Funny

    Facebook account says he's still alive.

  5. Re:10,000km per year? on Save the Planet, Eat Your Dog · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't that be 10Mm ? This is /. after all, we'd be all bent out of shape if we were talking about ohms or watts here.

  6. Re:Huge wastage on Save the Planet, Eat Your Dog · · Score: 1
    Do you think the fishermen would be happier if they were limits on all types of fish and they had to keep everything they caught and bring it in for market until they either
    • reached any individual limit for anything that they had caught or...
    • filled their hold or...
    • simply got fed up and decided to come ashore ?

    i. e. in short, they could catch whatever they liked but throw nothing over the side and per-species catch limits still applied to them.

    I don't think so, I think they want to carry on with throwing the byecatch overboard and this has little to do with pen-pushers back at city hall

    In fact, without the bureaucrats fish and other "free" resources such as timber would be gone the way of big game mammals. And markets would be flooded with produce, depressing prices until the fishing industry was wrecked by having nothing left to fish for.

    I couldn't do the job of a fisherman, and they have my sympathy over many aspects of the hard job they do, but not over regulation.

  7. I think it just highlights on Sparc Sends SparkFun Electronics C&D Letter · · Score: 5, Funny

    That the dominant part of SPARC is not fun.

  8. testing is the key on When Libertarians Attack Free Software · · Score: 1

    I think political parties should protect their brands better. They should demand that anyone professing at least understands the basic tenets of that philosophy.

  9. Re:Last resort on CRTC Issues Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 2, Funny

    Presumably, if that is actually written into the law, then it means that traffic shaping could never be used. After all, there is always something that could be done prior to a last resort. It's like that phrase "best efforts". I suppose now we'll see the ISPs hiring hit squads to silence zealous users as a possible recourse prior to traffic shaping.

  10. Aren't all on Robot Controlled By Human Brain Cells · · Score: 1

    known robots controlled by human brain cells ?

  11. Re:Not surprising... on Barack Obama Wins the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 1

    So far as I am aware, anyone can be nominated for the prize at any time, and I'd be surprised if many famous figures are not nominated almost automatically. Furthermore, I see no reason why events between the nomination and the award cannot be taken into account.
    What's interesting to me is to see the award apparently being used to prod future behavior as much as, or more than, to commemorate past achievements.
    I'm not sure it's such a bad sentiment but it seems risky for the Nobel guys because the USA can react badly to hints of foreign interference and it could make things harder for Obama.

  12. Re:MURDER! on Real-LIfe Distributed-Snooping Web Game To Launch In Britain · · Score: 1

    And Clunk, you'll invent me a thingamabob
    That catches that pigeon, or I'll lose my job!

  13. I thought that an inability to recall events on Google Finds DRAM Errors More Common Than Believed · · Score: 3, Funny

    was only a problem for government computers.

  14. it was suspicious because... on FBI Investigates Liberator of Court Records · · Score: 4, Funny

    it was a 1-line PERL script and the FBI and NSA are still trying to figure out everything it does.

  15. Re:Usefull in heavily saturationed WIFI areas on Using Aluminum Oxide Paint To Secure Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    It sure will, perhaps you should get a roller on a long stick and paint over their antenna arrays

  16. Some re-arrangements perhaps... on Obama Makes a Push To Add Time To the School Year · · Score: 1

    For example, have some students attend on odd-months and others on even months. This might mean less time for grades to droop over the summer. Each teacher could effectively teach two school years per calendar year with substitute teachers coming in to cover the customary/derisory 2 weeks' annual vacation. That way we'd be getting more use out of the staff and the school facilities and class sizes would be halved.
    Would all teachers quit if they were suddenly paid a reasonable wage in exchange for losing their super long breaks ?

  17. Let it expire on Archiving Digital Artwork For Museum Purchase? · · Score: 1

    How about just letting it be known that there is only a finite amount of time for people to enjoy it in its original form. The things future art lovers think worth saving will be passed on generation to generation as legend and as such will change in each retelling, giving them a life of their own.

  18. Re:How long is a Blu-Ray disc on Intel Connects PCs To Devices Using Light · · Score: 1

    Well, assuming the refractive index of the cable is 1.0 and the extra distance that the light travels to bounce off the walls is negligible then 30 seconds transferring a movie is about 5.6 million miles long. Think of it as a long train passing over a short bridge.

  19. Re:ICE has nearly unlimited search power... on High-Tech Gadgets Can Pose Problems At Mexican Border · · Score: 1

    I don't need no stinking constitution to have rights.

  20. no biggie on ISP Emails Customer Database To Thousands · · Score: 1

    just choose recall this message from the actions menu and the damage will be undone.

  21. Re:Most food we eat is genetically modified on Judge Rejects Approval of Engineered Sugar Beets · · Score: 1

    Sounds to me like the only thing the defendant may have done was to hurry things along. If he had simply mixed together the seed from everywhere in his field and re-planted and year after year per, presumably, his historical practice, then I suppose that eventually the gene would have spread naturally from his neighbors and from the descendants of the RR variant seed in his own field until RR was everywhere.

  22. what a mess this law must be on Wolfenstein Being Recalled In Germany · · Score: 1

    How does one even define a swastika fully ? It is inherent in any four square objects that meet, it must be possible to pick out swastika-like features from an aerial map of any German city. And what about stylizations like three-legged Isle of Man swastikas or curvy swastikas or rainbow-colored swastikas for gay nazi pride. I just don't see how the law can be properly enforced. Or is there a EuroNorm swastika ?

  23. the punishment is not heavy enough on US Wants UK Hacker To Pay To Fix Holes He Exposed · · Score: 2, Funny

    He should pay to re-train the entire government technical staff.

  24. No need for a fancy algorithm on BellKor Wins Netflix $1 Million By 20 Minutes · · Score: 1

    My netflix queue contains movies chosen by me, my wife and my children and sometimes chosen for a visiting friend. If they would only allow me to maintain separate queues or tag the content as to who chose it, I would have thought that it would make predicting what we each like much easier. It's the same with itunes, the "genius" must think I'm schizophrenic.

  25. If cursive gets dropped on Cursive Writing Is a Fading Skill — Does It Matter? · · Score: 1

    It will become the new sign of someone who had a fancy education. The new way for colleges to pick favorites will be to ask for a hand-written letter and then be sure to pick the one with the most fancy educated looking handwriting. Yet another "first impression" test.