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  1. As long as the bodies in question agree, in this case the moon and Mars, to the release of their private data, I see no controversy here.

  2. AC's are the backbone of Slashdot on EFF Jumps In To Defend Bloggers Being Sued By Prenda · · Score: 3

    Without them the site would descend into a blob of corporate gruel.

  3. Re:This cannot be done unilaterally? on North Korea Kills Phone Line, 1953 Armistice; Kim Jong Un's Funds Found In China · · Score: 0

    Whether multilateral or uniliateral, once the killing commences to the dead it does not matter. As for the living, is one side supposed to wait to strike until the other says it is okay to hit them?

  4. Re:Not true. on Ohio Judge Rules Speed Cameras Are a Scam · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Lights ARE part of the road and the traffic around of them.

  5. Re:bad advice on Ohio Judge Rules Speed Cameras Are a Scam · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Of course I drive in America, I even know the lights on my way to work are timed for 30mph despite the posted limit being 35. Seriously, it's not being prepared to stop that is ruining "American" transportation. Most driving problems are due to people refusing to leave five minutes earlier. Think about picking up a rose on your way while you are at it.

  6. Re:I quit my local paper on Game Site Wonders 'What Next?' When 50% of Users Block Ads · · Score: 1

    The BBC seems to be the best for me, but that is from an American perspective.

  7. Re:Not true. on Ohio Judge Rules Speed Cameras Are a Scam · · Score: 1

    So the law should be changed then to make sure nobody who is in a crosswalk life is placed at risk. How would right that law?

  8. Re:Not true. on Ohio Judge Rules Speed Cameras Are a Scam · · Score: -1, Troll

    If you didn't see it turn green, yes you should plan to stop.

  9. Re:Not true. on Ohio Judge Rules Speed Cameras Are a Scam · · Score: -1, Troll

    If you didn't see the light turn green, plan for it to go red at anytime and slow down accordingly.

  10. Re:Not true. on Ohio Judge Rules Speed Cameras Are a Scam · · Score: 1, Interesting

    They don't teach slowing down for "stale" greens anymore? Damn, even I remember that from almost 40 years ago! Look, something sometime is going to make you stop, plan for it. Still I agree with the judge, automation is just turning people into automatons. Sure it makes sense to leave to machines things that don't require human judgement, but for those things that they do they have no place.

  11. I quit my local paper on Game Site Wonders 'What Next?' When 50% of Users Block Ads · · Score: 2

    Mostly because their website, which I would use far and above their pulp delivery edition, has a dozen or so foreign sites that need to be blocked and on of top of that they require a friggin' facebook login to comment on a story. My $15/month probably doesn't mean much to them but from what I hear they are seriously hurting for money. Maybe someday they will stumble across a business model that is both agreeable to them and their readership.

    Oh, and as far a that 30 day free trial BS "pop up", my offer expired over a year ago yet I can still access articles.

  12. Perhaps you are right? on The Data That Drove Yahoo's Telecommuting Ban · · Score: 1

    Still, the logic that concludes that those who put the least effort into getting work are also those who will put the least effort into their work is not totally unsound. Still there may be middle ground here, such as home office monitoring? I don't know, but it does seem that a company is so laid back as to allow it's employees to work from home in their pajamas is inviting its competitors who demand more professionalism to step in and eat it for lunch. Middle managers are usually just enforcers of overall company policy afterall.

  13. Re:Internet = Utility on 'Bandwidth Divide' Could Bar Some From Free Online Courses · · Score: 1

    I understand what you mean. A promise of superior service in the future is no better than a pig in a poke. c

  14. Re:Wow! on Islamists In Bangladesh Demand Murder of More Bloggers · · Score: 2

    So you equate liberty with government handouts? Bizarre, if true.

    I believe the founders chose to order it "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" for a reason.

  15. Re:The Apple Monoculture: on iOS 6.1.3 Beta 2 Patches evasi0n Jailbreak · · Score: 1

    Are you sure you just don't have Apple wrong? They could be just out to improve the species! Those that figure out how to work around their lockdowns get to proceed, those that don't, don't.

  16. Re:The Apple Monoculture: on iOS 6.1.3 Beta 2 Patches evasi0n Jailbreak · · Score: 1

    If people wanted to do whatever they wanted to their phones, why would they get an iPhone?

    Perhaps Apple's view is to let those who can, do....and those who can't don't?

  17. Re:Wow! on Islamists In Bangladesh Demand Murder of More Bloggers · · Score: 1

    If we dont' care about the Liberty of one, we cannot care about the liberty of anyone else.

    So you are for every one of those ones should receive the food, shelter, and medical care necessary to ensure their survival? If so, we may not be that far off in our beliefs.

  18. Re:Wow! on Islamists In Bangladesh Demand Murder of More Bloggers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So you see rightist autocracies as a solution to leftist democracies? I understand an abhorrence to the idea of "the needs of many" outweighing the needs of the one and all but, seriously, do you really believe the needs of the few out weigh the needs of the many? Maybe it could just be that your understanding of liberal democracy and mine do not jive? Most authoriatarians that I've simply have a belief that they are somehow superior than others.

  19. Not scaleable on Lessons From the Papal Conclave About Election Security · · Score: 1

    I can't see how their system would hold up when those who don't share the same intrinsic values and contradict the prevailing group think are included in the vote. Oft times with Catholics, as well as other sects, the idea is to fit the data to mold, not the mold to the data.

  20. Well on U.S. Reps Chu and Coble Start Intellectual Property Caucus · · Score: 3, Insightful

    As long as the U.S. provides for the time tested tried and proven methods of letting people freely experiment with building on existing ideas and technology it will be just fine. Woe be the day though when artists and inventors have a say in which direction the next generations creator's choose to take their ideas, for that will be the death of innovation in this nation.

  21. Re:and they wonder why they dont make money... on USPS To Launch Line of Smart Clothing · · Score: 1

    So you'd be okay with the government spending $100 of your tax money to deliver an official letter to Joe Blow in Bumfuck, Nowhere?

  22. Re:and they wonder why they dont make money... on USPS To Launch Line of Smart Clothing · · Score: 1

    Just privatize the stupid thing. Apart from accident of history here is no reason for the government to be in charge of mail delivery any more than pizza delivery.

    Pizza delivery is limited to profitable areas.

  23. Yet still on US CEO Says French Workers Have Three-Hour Work Day · · Score: 2

    If the workers don't make enough to buy his tires it matters not how much labor they perform. Eventually manufacturers will learn the hard fact that people can't buy what they can't afford.

  24. Re:can I buy an intel video card yet? on Lots of Changes for Intel Graphics Coming in Linux 3.9 · · Score: 1

    Guess I'm "third party" then, my concious makes me vote my concious. Perhaps there is real world parallel would could point to?

  25. Re:No victory. on Canadian Government Scrapping Internet Predators Act · · Score: 2

    What, you didn't notice that the "an" in paragraph 192 was corrected to "a"?