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  1. Re:Even more strange on Jesse Jackson, Jr. Pins US Job Losses On iPad · · Score: 1

    I have the feeling you have never set foot in a machine shop, especially for precision parts.

  2. Re:This is what happens on French Hacker Arrested After Bragging On TV · · Score: 1

    It dates back a lot further than that. It goes back to at least WW2.

  3. Re:How are they going to prove they're legitimate? on Ceglia Sues For 50% Facebook, Old Emails as Evidence · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't the shares sold have to come out of Zuckerberg's half? He wouldn't have been authorized to sell Ceglia's shares.

  4. Re:What 'happened'? on Fukushima: What Happened and What Needs To Be Done · · Score: 1

    Pure water is still a superior solution in an emergency. Salt water can cause thermal issues and speed corrosion.

  5. Re:Not much and nothing? on Fukushima: What Happened and What Needs To Be Done · · Score: 2
  6. Re:It's illegal... on TJX Hacker Claims US Authorized His Crimes · · Score: 1

    Following orders from government agents is a valid defense in a lot of criminal trials. We have volumes case law on entrapment.

  7. Re:Ah, the Republican Party ... on Congressman Wants YouTube Video Covered Up · · Score: 1

    He makes more than the combined average income of the DC metro and Wisconsin. Yeah it is easy to be such a raging populist when you have the facts.

  8. Re:Courier on Turning Your E-Reader Into a Cheap Tablet · · Score: 1

    I got a few hundred ebooks for free from Project Gutenberg. Depending on your habits ebooks can be vastly cheaper.

  9. Re:No boobs on Senators To Apple: Pull iPhone DUI-Check Alerts · · Score: 1

    You do realize that Louisiana may be one of the worst choices you could have gone with to prove your people get used to it theory, right? It has the second highest fatality rate of any state when you adjust for miles driven. It isn't like redirecting those cops in New Orleans seems to be working at holding down the homicide rate either. http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/States/StatesFatalitiesFatalityRates.aspx

  10. Re:Preach it! But the "wrong" type ... on Texas Bill Outlaws Discrimination Against Creationists In Academia · · Score: 1

    Madness, we all know that Marduk slew Tiamat and crafted our world.

  11. Re:How do you exchange stuff in the first place? on Is the Business Card Dead? · · Score: 1

    I've worked in a print shop for a few years and we do a ton of business cards. Over the past two years I've done a few new cards a week and only had one client get a 2d barcode. Another 2 or 3 have asked about them.

  12. Re:somene please help me on US Ed Dept Demanding Principals Censor More · · Score: 1

    We used to actually pretend to give kids rights. The Tinker case contained a pretty key quote on that issue. "First Amendment rights, applied in light of the special characteristics of the school environment, are available to teachers and students. It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate. "

  13. Re:Three mile island was nothing. on Japan Battles Partial Nuclear Meltdown · · Score: 1

    I'm not only counting Three Mile, I'm objecting to its inclusion as a nuclear disaster. Yes, uranium mining is, was, and likely will remain foul. The problem is that we don't have an alternative that isn't horribly destructive at some point in the process. Most of them have some phase involving mining that is bad.

  14. Re:I agree, with one caveat on Japan Battles Partial Nuclear Meltdown · · Score: 1

    Three mile island was nothing. In terms of radiation released it doesn't even compare to normal operation of a coal plant. What maybe a hundred people have been killed directly in nuclear incidents. Compared to the deaths from coal plants nuclear power is a magical fairy playground.

  15. Re:Yes on Should Public Libraries Become Hacker Spaces? · · Score: 2

    Oddly enough my local library does host a hack space a few times a month in their public rooms. They simply require a waiver of responsibility and a contract from the group for damages.

  16. Re:This is worst than in the movies on 8.8 Earthquake Near Japanese Coast · · Score: 2

    So that's why my home made fries have tasted wrong.

  17. Re:You overlooked something... on US House Subcommittee Votes To Kill Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    The Democratic party may be far right, but not all of its members are. One of the weird distortions of a two party system is that it puts someone like Dennis Kucinich and Zell Miller in the same party, or Olymia Snowe and Sarah Palin.

  18. Re:Enjoy. on US House Subcommittee Votes To Kill Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    We do have real left wing parties, they garner a few percent of the vote combined.

  19. Re:Fact-free science cuts both ways on The Encroachment of Fact-Free Science · · Score: 1

    It may be a symptom of groupthink, but it is also a symptom of being confronted by a group that is simply wrong. Sometimes everyone agrees and mocks the outsider not because of some sinister conspiracy, but because the outsider is wrong.

  20. Re:No need to break what isn't broken on Supreme Court Rules On Corporate Privacy · · Score: 1

    If corporations are people entitled to all of the rights and protections of the law, they should be bound by the 13th amendment as well. That is pretty clearly ludicrous so we need to stop pretending that corporations are people before the law and weigh how the laws impact the rights of the people composing the corporation, not the legal construct.

  21. Re:Careful what you wish for on Contents of Leaked HBGary Emails Reveal Wrongdoing · · Score: 2

    The fruit of the poison tree doctrine doesn't apply if the aren't agents of the state. If you break into my house and find a bunch of bodies, then go to the police with it , they can use it.

  22. Re:Clean Power on Activists Seek Repeal of Ban On Incandescent Bulbs · · Score: 1

    Really? I live in a house with lights that pulse and dim based on what is turned on elsewhere in the house. My CFLs are still vastly outlasting the incandescents.

  23. Re:Too late on Army Psy Ops Units Targeted American Senators · · Score: 1

    Yes, but they kept their money. The FDIC can't ensure your new bank isn't a bunch of dicks.

  24. Re:If you are at work on WI Capitol Blocks Pro-Union Web Site · · Score: 1

    They don't have a requirement to provide a platform, but they have a clear requirement not to restrict platforms they offer based on viewpoints.

  25. Re:If you are at work on WI Capitol Blocks Pro-Union Web Site · · Score: 1

    You really don't think politicians are that stupid? Really?