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  1. Re:TSA = Federal Government on Time To Close the Security Theater · · Score: 1

    Be careful. It might tell them that they're going to get booted out anyway, so they might as well just go nuts.

  2. Re:TSA = Federal Government on Time To Close the Security Theater · · Score: 2

    The people who voted for Bush in 2004 sure did.

  3. Re:Not "despite" controvercy on Despite Controversy, Federal Wiretaps On the Rise · · Score: 1

    There is a non-trivial number of voters who care more about "security" and "keeping America safe" than civil liberties.

    All three of my Congressweasels are the same way, and one of them's not even a Republican.

  4. Re:Is the MBR really clean? on Microsoft Says Reinstall Overkill In Removing Rootkit · · Score: 1

    Psst: the Windows recovery console is run from a CD or USB stick.

  5. The GUI is 3D-accelerated on Mozilla Releases Thunderbird 5 · · Score: 1

    and now it's got partial transparency. Those are the biggest things I notice.

  6. Re:GNU VoIP on Microsoft May Add Eavesdropping To Skype · · Score: 2

    Answered already below:

    http://zfoneproject.com/

  7. You posted another troll article, idiot. on Is Google Playing Fair With Groupon, et al? · · Score: 2

    I strongly suspect you did it to drive page hits.

  8. Re:Strange definition of conservative on Data-Mining Ban Struck Down By US Supreme Court · · Score: 1

    He's basically a moderate Republican from back when there was such a thing.

  9. Re:Duh on Microsoft Exploits Firefox 4 Uproar, Beats IE Drum · · Score: 1

    Open source tools exist for creating MSI packages, so it's a stupid argument.

  10. Re:Duh on Microsoft Exploits Firefox 4 Uproar, Beats IE Drum · · Score: 1

    That's a stupid reason. Windows and Mac OS are proprietary software, so therefore they shouldn't make ports for those platforms?

  11. Re:LTS Release? on Microsoft Exploits Firefox 4 Uproar, Beats IE Drum · · Score: 1

    That sounds like a pretty good idea, but then you bring Chrome in. Chrome doesn't have anything like "stability" WRT to version numbers, there's just the release version that gets a version increment every couple months or so.

  12. Re:Duh on Microsoft Exploits Firefox 4 Uproar, Beats IE Drum · · Score: 2

    Not an official Mozilla build, though, and that's bad from a trust standpoint.

    I've wished Mozilla would do FF and TB .MSI builds for ages now, and I just don't understand why they haven't gotten around to it after all these years.

  13. Re:Ultimately on Data-Mining Ban Struck Down By US Supreme Court · · Score: 1

    No. Enforcement of the law is left to the Executive Branch. It is the job of the Judicial Branch to /interpret/ the laws and ensure that they are in keeping with the Constitution.

  14. Re:Splitting hairs on Valve's Team Fortress 2 Goes Free-To-Play · · Score: 3, Informative

    The only things you can buy in-game is stuff that you can earn with enough gameplay.

    Besides, all of those items have trade-offs versus standard kit. It's not like you can buy a gun for each class that clearly bests anything else.

  15. Long-term damage from the Bush Admin on Data-Mining Ban Struck Down By US Supreme Court · · Score: 4, Interesting

    We can expect more and more of this because he replaced two fairly liberal judges with very conservative ones.

    Not that liberal judges are a panacea - they all voted in favor of eminent domain in Kelo v. New London - but they tend to not believe in corporate power so much.

  16. Re:How did you come to that conclusion? on Tesla Will Discontinue the Roadster · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I miss Usenet too. :(

  17. Re:How did you come to that conclusion? on Tesla Will Discontinue the Roadster · · Score: 1

    You'd think filtering by submitter wouldn't be so hard - I've got that individual killfiled in the comments, so the hard part should be done already.

  18. I stopped reading at "Voice 2.0" on Fonolo Lets You Bypass Company Phone Menus · · Score: 1

    because this is the first time I've heard that term and it sounds like marketing wank, therefore this is a slashvertisement.

  19. Re:Quality on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Scrub Pirated Music From My Collection? · · Score: 1

    I ripped some of my old stuff at 128 kbit eleven years ago when I was a poor student and hard drives were expensive. Still have it too, because I can't be bothered to find the disc and re-rip.

  20. Re:Been using it for years on Canada Rolls Out Plastic Money · · Score: 1

    {citation needed} on your claim about plastic.

  21. Re:So what? on Skype Forcing Mac Users To Upgrade Client · · Score: 1

    Yes, this. I get that the OP doesn't like the new interface or something, but this is quite prevalent.

  22. Re:Why the anti-litigation jab? on SpaceX Sues Valador For Defamation · · Score: 2

    The submitter's political slant, of course.

  23. Why read the Post? on NY Post Goes App-Only For iPad Users · · Score: 1

    It's even lower-quality than most Murdoch properties, and seems to be an American version of the UK's Sun tabloid:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Post#Criticism

  24. It's a Murdoch property on NY Post Goes App-Only For iPad Users · · Score: 1

    so reading it is an own-goal anyway.

    I'd imagine the reason is so
    a) they can track you better, or
    b) actually, that's probably about it.

  25. I hope Subsonic adds a version of this on JavaScript Decoder Plays MP3s Without Flash · · Score: 2

    it'd be kind of nice to be able to stream music to my Kindle, which for obvious reasons doesn't have Flash, but does have a rudimentary web browser that's based on WebKit.