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  1. Re: Ugh, this is disgusting. on Teenage League of Legends Player Jailed For Months For Facebook Joke · · Score: 2

    are you aiding this guy in his terrorIzIng? ...knock knock...

  2. Why? on Why Engineering Freshmen Should Take Humanities Courses · · Score: 1

    ... because they will grow up to be ill-informed pseudo-libertarians that are highly educated, but not on topics that influence political and social decision-making.

    You have to understand the lives of others if you will make decisions that impact them.

  3. Re:Why be 'embarrassed'? on Transgendered Folks Encountering Document/Database ID Hassles · · Score: 1

    Quick Comment -- I don't mean to imply that a desire to change one's gender is absolutely a 'personal choice'. People have all kinds of motivations that often come from the natural expression of their genes and experiences in life. I'm not trying to sound ignorant or insensitive to people's motivations or causes for this kind of issue. My point -- if it's how you feel and it's what you wanted, be strong in it. Hold strong. No embarrassment.

  4. Why be 'embarrassed'? on Transgendered Folks Encountering Document/Database ID Hassles · · Score: 1

    ... If it was a personal choice, one should not be embarrassed. And if others look at you strange, have confidence in your choice and yourself, and know that you're right and they're goofy...

    And then, fully on the topic -- welcome to reality. Change anything, and things get complicated. Try moving. It's as if every single business you ever dealt with needs an update. Change your partner? That's a complicated matter called 'divorce' and for some reason the law and judges are involved. Crazy...

    Things are tough all over.

  5. The US eVoting is just as bad... on In France, a Showcase of What Can Go Wrong With Online Voting · · Score: 1

    It's funny... Diebold/Evergreen make many of the ATMs you probably use. The ATM will never give you an extra $20, and yet the voting machines they design are shown to be 1-3% off....

    And this is in-person electronic voting.... why would the internet, a wild-west pool of hackers and government agencies, seem like a safe place for clean democracy?

    For me, counting the hand cast ballots with witnesses, no matter how laborious (exaggerated claim, btw) is the most superior and reliable way to ensure that democracy is indeed what is happening.

    Remember this question..... what is the point of saving money if you're letting democracy slip away? Chances are, the people that will manipulate the electronic voting will strip money from you anyway...

  6. Re:No. Bad Conclusion. Bad. on Carnivorous Plant Ejects Junk DNA · · Score: 1

    QFT 1000000X!

    This doesn't say crap about 'junk DNA'.

    About a thousand LNC-RNA papers and miRNA papers, and others, in the last decade would say this plant paper doesn't say much at all about other species' DNA.

  7. no link? on Ender's Game Trailer Released · · Score: 1

    in middleschool they teach you to reference sources....the slashdot post has no link to the actual trailer, nor does the crappy article it links to... crappy because it has no link to the trailer....

  8. Re:Equal rights on So What If Yahoo's New Dads Get Less Leave Than Moms? · · Score: 1

    The business owes me toiletpaper, then. Fair is fair.

    I stopped reading after your selfish sentence that said 'I choose not to'.

    Get out of my species -- rather, you already have, so please go die like a fly.

  9. What happend to the old rules? on Pentagon Approval of iOS and Samsung KNOX Is Bad News for BlackBerry · · Score: 1

    What happened to the good old day rules that said NO USING PERSONAL DEVICES FOR SENSITIVE GOVERNMENT WORK?

    There was this concept called the 'air gap', as well.

    The basis of all of it was that as a person involved in sensitive government work you have absolutely no reason/business using technologies that are not provided to you to carry out the job. This reality is still possible today. You do not need a blackberry/iphone/etc to do your job and you can live without it until 5PM or whenever you get in your car to head home.
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    More options = more liabilities.

    ugh.

  10. Re:Equal rights on So What If Yahoo's New Dads Get Less Leave Than Moms? · · Score: 0

    We aren't competing all the time. If someone is perpetuating the species, and you fail to do so or prioritize that on your own, you shouldn't be so jealous/conceited/competitive/isolated/selfish/entitles (pick one) that you mouth of like this. Did you think humans just come about like ideas? When you're 80 and there are young children playing to admire at the park, you should know that other people went through very hard times to produce those offspring. Those kids will mow your lawn for cheap and maybe even write you some nice cards to you and your peers as a class project as you die alone.

    Let me guess.. If you crap more than me, I deserve a compensation of equal toiletpaper from the workplace for me to use at home. That way you're not getting over on me --- ya know --- because you could hold it.

  11. Re:Remember the old adage on One Bitcoin By the Numbers: Is There Still Profit To Be Made? · · Score: 1

    But bitcoin is extremely wasteful. At least with real coins the metals are still useful.

  12. Re:Sustainable? on Genetically Modified Plants To Produce Natural Lighting · · Score: 0

    I hate swype.

  13. Re:Sustainable? on Genetically Modified Plants To Produce Natural Lighting · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Luciferase requires lots of substrate to make lots of light. Chances are they will make very little... Actually, chances are three kickstarter money will fund some poor research that scoresby achieve anything but feed a few unemployed scientists.

  14. Re:Except most R&D IS done by companies on Canada Revenue Agency To Tax BitCoin Transactions · · Score: 2

    You don't know enough about research and industry.

    I will sum it up.

    Public research digs up the most fundamental knowledge that in itself is only knowledge that can be applied.

    Private research takes the public findings and refines the knowledge in a very focused, product-oriented way.

    Both are required for our current successes.

  15. Re:My house, my rules on Israel Airport Security Allowed To Read Tourists' Email · · Score: 3

    you need a non-corporate interpretor.

    The direct translation was that Israel's current leadership needs to cease to exist.

    Did you ever check your source?

  16. Re:Turnabout is fair play. on CCTV Hack Takes Casino For $33 Million · · Score: 1

    On the contrary, at least they know they lost to cheats, not skills.

  17. Re:Sadly true on Schneier: The Internet Is a Surveillance State · · Score: 1

    The tracking is a byproduct of raising revenue on the backside while providing a 'free' frontside. If you pay enough, a business can afford to respect you. Back in the early internet days most services on the internet were premium based, but yahoo changed that, and figured out the american psychology.... That we prefer to pay nothing up front and take hits elsewhere...and so free ad based email was born, along with search providers, and the subsequent necessity to find a way to pay for it all..

    most people that didn't use the internet back then do not even unders used to be different. Us older users shakeour heads and regret taking free accounts.

  18. Re:How is this not a good idea? on Obama Wants To Fund Clean Energy Research With Oil & Gas Funds · · Score: 1

    Complain to exxon. The gov doesn't set fuel prices. They rape you because they know you need it.

  19. Re:How is this not a good idea? on Obama Wants To Fund Clean Energy Research With Oil & Gas Funds · · Score: 2

    As a veteran, using a home loan guranatee, I know first hand that if I default, I will owe the government.

    The loan guarantee means they back it, not that it is free. Look it up. They collect.

  20. Re:How is this not a good idea? on Obama Wants To Fund Clean Energy Research With Oil & Gas Funds · · Score: 1

    So, to be an honest critic, you'd spend a few thousand times more effort on that topic since you're the cash avenger.

  21. Re:How is this not a good idea? on Obama Wants To Fund Clean Energy Research With Oil & Gas Funds · · Score: 1

    Please be an honest critic and spend between 4000-6000 times as much effort on this topic...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU4GdHLUHwU

    FYI: It's about the pentagon losing trillions.

  22. Re:How is this not a good idea? on Obama Wants To Fund Clean Energy Research With Oil & Gas Funds · · Score: 1

    Do you know what a LOAN is? It isn't a handout/subsidy.

  23. Re:How is this not a good idea? on Obama Wants To Fund Clean Energy Research With Oil & Gas Funds · · Score: 3, Insightful

    500 million is a drop in the bucket of things you should be worried about, and, again, was a very minor loss in a pool of successful choices.

    This is just like the 32 million dollar muffins that the DOJ was buying each year and the news made a big deal about.

    80BN in yearly oil subsidies for an archaic and dangerous system that is already highly profitable? And you're moaning about 1/160th of that, and its not even a yearly cost. PFfft.

    Tornadoes in Teacups. You will forever be upset until you gain a grasp of the words SIGNIFICANCE, MAGNITUDE, etc.

  24. Re:Sadly true on Schneier: The Internet Is a Surveillance State · · Score: 1

    And all because we're too cheap to simply pay for a service up front!

  25. Re:tor on Schneier: The Internet Is a Surveillance State · · Score: 2

    Lol. You think your hard work at limiting their access makes a major difference?

    One copy = infinite copies. The fact that you're posting online is evidence that you're in.the same boat.