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  1. Re:The fix is in on Julian Assange To Be Extradited To Sweden · · Score: 1

    I doubt wearing a condom will get a guy out of child support payments if she still gets pregnant.

    The woman can choose to use birth control pills, morning after pills, or physical abortions to prevent conception or terminate it, with no input from the man, since it's her body. She chooses to have the kid. He doesn't get a choice on paying for what is almost entirely her choice.

  2. Re:The fix is in on Julian Assange To Be Extradited To Sweden · · Score: 1

    Man's choice: have sex.

    Woman's choices:
        -have sex
        -get pregnant
        -remain pregant
        -keep spawn.

    Unless there is some sort of binding agreement or status if the guy doesn't want the kid it doesn't seem like he should have to pay for it since it really wasn't his choice.

  3. Re:Starship Troopers on Army Psy Ops Units Targeted American Senators · · Score: 1

    Same basic part-of-the-movie-but-not-part-of-the-movie function. Adds flavor without adding crunch.

  4. Re:The fix is in on Julian Assange To Be Extradited To Sweden · · Score: 1

    Those "states"men and women wouldn't be allowed into their party if they didn't show what good "real" Americans they were by howling for some "furner's" blood that dared cross America.

  5. Re:Why does he fear Sweden will send him to US? on Julian Assange To Be Extradited To Sweden · · Score: 1

    "What exactly would the US execute Assange for?"

    Exactly. He's a noisome nuisance of a media whore but that's not a capital offense. The best thing the US can do is let him be someone else's problem.

  6. Re:Cheating on Police Raid PS3 Hacker's House, Hacker Releases PS3 'Hypervisor Bible' · · Score: 1

    It's all about the cheevos. Even single player is multi-player.

  7. Re:Wikileaks has officially jumped the shark on Wikileaks Opens Official Online Store · · Score: 0, Troll

    Is there a store for people who support(ed) wikileaks but not Mr. "Killing people is fun." Assange?

  8. Re:Security is hard on Stuxnet's Legacy: Get Back to Basics or Get Owned · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Girls being used to social engineer men or using social engineering against men is as old as it gets. I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to google up the reason why it works.

  9. Re:In other news on MacBook Pro Specs Leaked, iPad Event March 2 · · Score: 1

    How would you get your hate-on without all the Apple fanboy articles?

  10. Re:hmm on MacBook Pro Specs Leaked, iPad Event March 2 · · Score: 1

    So as long as the screwdriver drives screws that fact the it gives you blisters in only a few minutes of use doesn't matter?

  11. Re:And They Call It Democracy - Bruce Cockburn on WI Capitol Blocks Pro-Union Web Site · · Score: 1

    The (D)s did learn from the best on how to take your ball and go home.

  12. Re:Free software on Ubuntu: Where Did the Love Go? · · Score: 2

    "You can ignore the Linux world and move on."

    The real world: ok.

  13. Re:Que the "Can you hear me now" jokes on Verizon Drops 10,000 911 Calls During Blizzard · · Score: 1

    It's the winter kill. Takes care of a lot of the people who can't be bothered about the weather.

  14. Re:Que the "Can you hear me now" jokes on Verizon Drops 10,000 911 Calls During Blizzard · · Score: 2

    "Things like this are one of the main reasons we pay ~$25/mo for a land line despite having 5 active cell phones in the house on 2 separate networks (not to mention a few inactive ones that can still call 911) I know that if the excrement hits the air circulator that I will have more options to reach people than finicky mobile networks."

    Landlines have very stringent QoS and uptime requirements. With the move to cell phones I'm surprised the ebil gov't hasn't put these job killing requirements on this no-longer-just-a-convenience industry.

  15. Re:Please can you take a moment... on Motorola Xoom Won't Have Flash Support At Launch · · Score: 1

    If they don't audit then they can't know that anything is wrong so nothing needs to be improved and only Evil Apple was so vile to observe Foxconn and force the conditions and suicides into existence solely by that act.

  16. Re:battery on Would the Developing World Use E-Readers More Than Laptops? · · Score: 1

    And they also have the features of bulk and weight which makes shipping any non-trivial amount of them interesting.

    So you can send a very finite amount of books with infinite battery life or you can send a near infinite amount of books with a finite battery life.

  17. Re:It costs thickness on Laptop Design For Disassembly · · Score: 1

    "form factor for components because there's plenty of room"

    If's there's plenty of room and it's not there for cooling or structural reasons that is a design failure. If you want to pay extra to go back to the days of luggables I won't stop you but I shouldn't have to pay extra to make use of advancements that make a laptop better at its purpose for existing, being portable.

  18. Re:Manufacturers don't want it on Laptop Design For Disassembly · · Score: 1

    My company-that-/.-loves-to-hate laptop is two months short of 5 years and if it wasn't for upped requirements for the games I play I still wouldn't be considering a new one yet.

  19. Re:Wouldnt he have deleted everything already? on Geohot To Turn Over Computers To Neutral Third Party · · Score: 1

    So Geohot was merely trying to restore the ability to boot linux that Sony hadn't taken away yet because he used linux to crack their console?

    By chance do you wear a fez or a scarf?

  20. Re:Buy a Notebooks Instead on Are Tablets Just Too Expensive? · · Score: 1

    "Why bother with $800 tablet."

    Why? Because you're always lugging that full keyboard whether you need it or not and you need somewhere to set the laptop to use it.

  21. Re:Not too expensive on Are Tablets Just Too Expensive? · · Score: 1

    I should give OSHA a call then since I'm stuck in front of two LCD monitors for 8 hours a day at work.

    Yeah, I don't get the whole LCD destroys your eyes thing. E-ink refresh rates wish they could be as good as craptastic and if you're indoors being able to see the screen in low/no light conditions is much more important than readability in direct sun light.

  22. Re:8PM? on Kids Who Skip School Get Tracked By GPS · · Score: 1

    That would assume they have parents and not just crotchfruit farmers. Big assumption.

  23. Re:Plausible deniability? on Encrypting Phone Storage and Transmission? (2011 Version) · · Score: 1

    Yes. If you don't *NEED* (not just want) encryption don't use it and don't do things you'd like to do but don't *NEED* to do that would require encryption. Just having the tools, or the appearance of having the tools, may be enough to get someone interested in what you're up to.

    Some governments don't care about "clever" little tricks of legality and will just throw the book at you.

  24. Re:Plausible deniability? on Encrypting Phone Storage and Transmission? (2011 Version) · · Score: 1

    For #2 make sure you're worth enough alive so when they discover your "clever" scheme the response isn't "How cute. He's a spy. Execute him. Then perhaps we'll bother to try decrypting his device."

  25. Re:It was OK on How Watchmen Killed 'R'-rated Fantasy Movies · · Score: 1

    America's super weapon decides it's still a super weapon but not America's (or humanity's) super weapon.

    Dr. M was already showing signs of "Screw you guys, I'm going home!" and in this case Cartman could annihilate cities.