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  1. Double standards on GM, NHTSA Delayed Volt Warnings To Prop Up Sales · · Score: 4, Interesting

    And on the other hand the same NHTSA was all too happy to jump all over Toyota when some morons could not remember which pedal is for braking.

  2. Re:Bogus on Bloggers Not Journalists, Federal Judge Rules · · Score: 1

    Check point 2. If "affiliation with any recognized news entity" is a requirement, then bloggers are excluded.

  3. Re:U.S. on Iran Shuts Down US Virtual Embassy · · Score: 1

    Start with your own damn country.

  4. Re:Military the first one, huh? on US Air Force Pays SETI To Check Kepler-22b For Alien Life · · Score: 1

    And? What makes you think that aliens will give a damn about your sentience?

  5. Re:Military the first one, huh? on US Air Force Pays SETI To Check Kepler-22b For Alien Life · · Score: 1

    Sure, if you define military's job as *fighting* wars rather than winning them then yes, they are working great.

  6. Re:Military the first one, huh? on US Air Force Pays SETI To Check Kepler-22b For Alien Life · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You can't find any *human* motives for harming us. Alien lifeforms may have completely alien way of thinking and incomprehensible motivations. Even their definition of 'harm' may be different than ours.

  7. Re:First he has to win this appeal... on Assange Wins Right To Submit Appeal · · Score: 1

    So maybe US is not actually trying to get him thrown into Guantanamo.

  8. Re:gavel.avi on New US Government Project To Monitor Electronic Communication · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sound of drone firing?

  9. Re:First he has to win this appeal... on Assange Wins Right To Submit Appeal · · Score: 0

    How can he be safe in UK? It is pretty much US lapdog.

  10. Re:Avoid binary please!! on Red Hat's Linux Changes Raise New Questions · · Score: 2

    And this has been long solved - both rsyslog and syslog-ng can log to database.

  11. Re:Are his customers happy? on 'Alternative Medicine' Clinic Attempts To Silence Critics · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dig them up and ask.

  12. Re:The problem isn't the medium. on Europe's Largest IT Company To Ban Internal Email · · Score: 1

    Not really. Most of useless email comes from people who copy half of department and others who always use 'reply to all'. IM is usually one on one.

  13. Re:Useless people prefer to talk. on Europe's Largest IT Company To Ban Internal Email · · Score: 1

    2. Most people will copy their managers, colleagues, an d/or subordinates when the information is necessary for the team to complete the job.

    And this is also a big disadvantage - too many email threads copy everybody even marginally interested in the subject. Result is that it takes hours just to go through email everyday. Which is exactly what company mentioned in summary has problem with.

  14. Re:Peh. on Paper On Super Flu Strain May Be Banned From Publication · · Score: 2

    And a month later new strain emerges that does not care about melatonin or any artificial limitations engineered into first version. Oops.

  15. Re:This is more proof on New Jersey DMV Employees Caught Selling Identities · · Score: 1

    If you have NO credit history whatsoever, then yes, I think it's a fair bet that you're the kind of person who's too attached to his fantasies of perfect autonomy, and who uses words like "sheeple". Such a person is someone I'd rather not hire, if an equally (or more) competent candidate is available; they're generally tiresome, pedantic, and childish, and see themselves as enlightened figures in a world of fools.

    Just to check - 'no credit history' means 'never borrowed money from a bank or similar institution?'

    It's a serious hassle to do without credit in this society, and you have to have some serious ideological baggage to make a lifelong point of doing so.

    Maybe it is difference between US and Europe, but honestly I never had any need to put myself in debt. I don't understand why are you trying to make it into some kind of ideology.

    More to the point, credit represents a willingness to take on obligations to other people and fulfill them over the long term. Going into long-term debt and repaying it in a timely manner is a sign (not 100% reliable, but still a sign) good judgment, fiscal discipline, and personal integrity.

    Going into long-term debt as sign of fiscal discipline and personal integrity. Wow. So I guess living within your means is sign of financial laxness? Guess what was that housing bubble crash 3 years ago - everybody and their dog taking a mortgage no matter if they were able to repay it or not. How is that for crazy ideology? I feel like I am talking to an alien.

    If someone isn't willing to do that -- if they go to great lengths to retain the fantasy that they can give it all up at any time and head off into the wilderness, perfectly autonomous and beholden to no one -- then it seems to me that they probably haven't come to terms with adulthood.

    What great lengths, what are you talking about? Not spending more than you have is just a common sense. Of course, if you want to buy a flat then you probably will need a credit. On the other hand you don't need to buy one right after finishing college - there is this thing called 'renting'.

  16. Re:This is more proof on New Jersey DMV Employees Caught Selling Identities · · Score: 1

    Great. So you need just one person to argue that not painting your ass blue is sign of stupidity to make it self proving point?

  17. Re:This is more proof on New Jersey DMV Employees Caught Selling Identities · · Score: 1

    Not using a credit equals pain in the ass,self-righteousness and lack sens of proportion? You are insane.

  18. Re:Panopticon on Plate Readers Abound in DC Area, With Little Regard For Privacy · · Score: 1

    This would be stalking. Cattle and its herders are under different law after all.

  19. Incentive? on Linux Foundation Releases Document On UEFI Secure Boot · · Score: 0

    And why exactly OEMs would want to bother? For that 1% of Linux users? Yeah, right.

  20. Re:It their promise in writing? on Microsoft-Skype Deal Poised To Win EU Approval · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually 9 month delay would be a big improvement for a Linux version.

  21. Not a problem on Free Press Sues FCC Over Discrepancy In Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 2

    So the only thing they are not allowed is to block competing services? What about detecting them (by packet inspection) and charging premium rates?

  22. Re:Christ, how stupid are we? on Man Charged in Model Airplane Plot To Bomb Pentagon · · Score: 1

    Eliminating one reason is still a progress. What exactly makes you think that it makes all other reasons OK?

    All that matters is whether the people in the hospital spread MRSA so whether or not any reason is "OK" or not is irrelevant.

    Oh look, generalization pulled out of your ass.

    Nope. Catholic health systems have been criticized, along with other nonprofit hospitals, as not dedicating enough resources to the communityâ(TM)s benefit. But surveys also show that, on average, they provide higher-quality performance than other hospitals and are more likely to offer specialty services that are not profit centers. ' https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/us/21nuns.html?pagewanted=all

    Ah, " ... surveys also show that, on average ... " - generalization pulled out of author's ass.

    What a meaningless drivel. Substitute Bible for any other book title (religious or not) and it is still right.

    Really? That's the best you've got? With all your sputtering rage the best you can do is to ignore the fact that religious people look for direction from their scripture (part of your central criticism of such people) while most people don't look for direction from "any other book." Hypocrite.

    Sputtering rage? At best mild amusement with a bit of pity and condescension. But don't worry, persecution complex is pretty much standard of any religious group. Why should I care if religious people look for direction in one book or another? They do stupid and irrational things, not surprise here. If they used "Hobbit" instead it would be exactly as much stupid. I wonder where you see any hypocrisy, probably you are just using a word you don't understand.

    I really don't care what particular brand of brain damage they have.

    Sure as shit sounds like you do. All of your arguments amount to nothing more than tarring an entire group with the actions of a handful of extremists.

    So 'tarring entire group' somehow is the same as caring about differences between one bunch of religious nuts and another? Interesting, must be some kind of 'religious logic'.

    What's really funny is that you are demonstrating exactly what you are condemning. Statements like, "I believe that anybody who is older than 25 and still believes in a god should be euthanized" is pure irrational zealotry.

    Nice strawman. I hope it will be easier discussion opponent for you.

  23. Re:Christ, how stupid are we? on Man Charged in Model Airplane Plot To Bomb Pentagon · · Score: 1

    One of catholic axioms is pope's infallibility on matters of faith. That 'tons' of people who disagree with pope on birth control are by definition not catholics, but heretics at best.

  24. Re:Christ, how stupid are we? on Man Charged in Model Airplane Plot To Bomb Pentagon · · Score: 1

    I don't want no damn yokel haphazardly fostering MRSAs in my hospital, just because he doesn't believe that "eva-lution mumbo-jumbo."

    But if he does it for some other reason, then that's OK? If not then it seems like your problem isn't with what people believe but what they do and focusing on just one source of motivation is ineffective at best.

    Eliminating one reason is still a progress. What exactly makes you think that it makes all other reasons OK?

    Besides, some the of best hospitals in this country are run by Catholics and one of the main reasons they are the best is precisely because of their religion's tenet about the sanctity of human life - which translates into making the patient's care their central focus instead of the dollar like it has become at many secular hospitals.

    Oh look, generalization pulled out of your ass.

    I once heard a jesuit say that, "When you read the Bible, the Bible reads you." I think it applies to just about any religion, substitute Torah, Quran, Bhagavad Gita. etc for Bible and the meaning is the same - if you have ignorance in your heart, then you will find justification for ignorance in the Bible, If you have truth and love in your heart then you will find support for truth and love in the Bible.

    What a meaningless drivel. Substitute Bible for any other book title (religious or not) and it is still right.

    As an atheist, I think you'd be far better off worrying about what is people's hearts rather than any faith they may use to explain it.

    I really don't care what particular brand of brain damage they have.

  25. Re:Who would have thought so.... on HideMyAss.com Doesn't Hide Logs From the FBI · · Score: 3, Informative

    You are right, in UK data retention is voluntary. And here I thought that all members already got pressured to implement EU Directive 2006/24/EC .