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  1. They are unfunded because they were stolen from. If you think the average state employee's pension is high, you're believing the propaganda. State employees don't get Social Security. A percentage of their income gets paid into their pension instead.

    There was one politician who managed to wiggle his way into 3 separate pensions (from multiple political appointments) and was properly criticized for it, but it was also used as a platform to make it seem like everyone's is high.

  2. Re:Nobody read the law, huh? on Illinois Students Suspected of Cyberbullying Must Provide Social Media Passwords · · Score: 1

    But there are already districts saying so (from another commenter):
    https://drive.google.com/file/...

  3. No - the Nazis were in favor of better pensions than that given to Illinois' public employees. Illinois is actually demonizing pensions as a way to excuse increased spending.

  4. Re:The only correct answers: on Illinois Students Suspected of Cyberbullying Must Provide Social Media Passwords · · Score: 1

    More like "I don't have a Facebook account." Can't really prove that any Facebook account that purports to be them is really them anyway without a court order delivered to Facebook (and the email provider of the registration email address) and even then it might still be fuzzy.

  5. Re:OpenShot on The Current State of Linux Video Editing · · Score: 1

    True, but at least you wouldn't have to remember any codec details, since uncompressed is uncompressed and you can leave the rest to Handbrake.

  6. Re:OpenShot on The Current State of Linux Video Editing · · Score: 1

    quickly becomes cumbersome having to set all your encoding tweaks every single time.

    If you have the hard drive space, just export as uncompressed. Send it to Handbrake or a custom ffmpeg script.

  7. Re:Attitudes on The Current State of Linux Video Editing · · Score: 2

    drop the attitude that "It crashes sometimes" is an acceptable condition for software intended for productive work

    Welcome to video editing.

    I've seen the same with Premiere and Final Cut Pro. While what you say is true of FOSS in general, multi-track video editing is a beast to program around anyway.

  8. Re: 30 years? on The Current State of Linux Video Editing · · Score: 1

    but no one serious uses it

    After trying their now free version, I can see why. To close a window, you drag a shark onto it? Seriously?

  9. Re:Not to mention Audio Editing on The Current State of Linux Video Editing · · Score: 2

    Audacity 2.0 introduced multi-track editing, but your comment still stands. It's not suited for any realistic workflow or editing audio synced with video.

  10. Re: Last laugh? on Police Nation-Wide Use Wall-Penetrating Radars To Peer Into Homes · · Score: 1

    And likely this tech.

  11. Re:real question on Police Nation-Wide Use Wall-Penetrating Radars To Peer Into Homes · · Score: 1

    That's brilliant. Not buying one, but I have several rare earth magnets that should do the job. Thanks! I still have not put up any towel bars in my bathroom since moving in. I've seen cheap stud finders that are magnet-based but I never thought about a stronger magnet.

  12. Re:NOT EFFECTIVE VS H2O on Police Nation-Wide Use Wall-Penetrating Radars To Peer Into Homes · · Score: 1

    It's a little hard to hide inside the water heater. Otherwise, you have to pick to hide on one side or the other.

    This thing detects movement. Not moving will work - whether you're behind the water heater or not.

  13. Re:Last laugh? on Police Nation-Wide Use Wall-Penetrating Radars To Peer Into Homes · · Score: 1

    Wasn't hard to find chicken wire that goes down to 1/2" gaps. Wavelengths of 20GHz and below are more than 1/2".

  14. Re:real question on Police Nation-Wide Use Wall-Penetrating Radars To Peer Into Homes · · Score: 1

    That doesn't work on my walls. I have an older drywall that was plastered over. I think my walls are somewhere between 3/4" and 1" thick and nothing I've tried will find the studs.

  15. Re:Data about where and how people drive? on Google Thinks the Insurance Industry May Be Ripe For Disruption · · Score: 1

    Kind of hard to ground a foil pouch if you're in your car on rubber wheels. Don't you want to receive calls?

  16. Re:And that people... on Steam For Linux Bug Wipes Out All of a User's Files · · Score: 1

    You said "Home Internet" not "home networks."

  17. Re:What's their definition of "exercise"? on Regular Exercise Not Enough To Make Up For Sitting All Day · · Score: 1

    Why do you think all those strongmen, wrestlers etc. rarely live to become very old? Answer: stroke.

    And what causes that stroke? Answer: steroid abuse.

  18. Re:Limited power to change working situation... on Regular Exercise Not Enough To Make Up For Sitting All Day · · Score: 1

    As long as you don't ever accidentally swallow that contaminated saliva.

  19. Re:Limited power to change working situation... on Regular Exercise Not Enough To Make Up For Sitting All Day · · Score: 1

    Nicotine is used as a pesticide on plants

    It's also used as a pesticide by plants (including tobacco). So you'd better cut back on tomatoes and potatoes too.

  20. Re:4th amendment requires specifics on FBI Seeks To Legally Hack You If You're Connected To TOR Or a VPN · · Score: 1

    Unless you are like our government and say that VPN or Tor = probable cause.

  21. Re:And that people... on Steam For Linux Bug Wipes Out All of a User's Files · · Score: 1

    Had he rsynced his files to a different machine instead of having the hard drive locally mounted, he'd still have his backups.

    Or he could just unount the partition between backups or leave it mounted RO the rest of the time.

  22. Re:When I see that [literaly] textbook mistake.... on Steam For Linux Bug Wipes Out All of a User's Files · · Score: 1

    But even unmounting the drive after the backup runs would be better than this.

  23. Re:Not just self-employed.. on Intuit Charges More For Previously Offered TurboTax Features, Users Livid · · Score: 1

    Either you didn't have an average balance of $15,000 or you have an interest rate of .008%. I'll admit that I didn't compound that, but that would only work to a lower interest rate. That's definitely not the high end: http://www.nerdwallet.com/rate...

  24. Re:First look at what EFF has to say. on Your High School Wants You To Install Snapchat · · Score: 1

    Because Googling how to do a screenshot is obscurity...

  25. Limit to IT professionals no but I think a "jury of your peers" really ought to mean people with some knowledge about the tools used in the crime at least as much knowledge as the defendant is supposed to possess

    I don't think you know how messed up our courts are. You're not supposed to rely on your pre-existing knowledge of what tor is or how it works. You are supposed to work with the definition given by the expert witness.