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  1. Re:The fun is gone on U.S. Teenagers Are Driving Much Less: 4 Theories About Why · · Score: 0

    Ah the joys of manslaughter. People need to lighten up and realize that reckless endangerment of others is just fun. It's clearly a societal conspiracy against young people.

  2. Re:Driving isn't fun anymore on U.S. Teenagers Are Driving Much Less: 4 Theories About Why · · Score: 1

    Almost anywhere, there's only traffic jams at rush hour (or rush 3 or 4 hours). Even San Francisco's not too bad at off peak hours. Teenagers don't need to be driving at rush hour.

  3. Instead of directly selling organs... on Nobel Prize Winning Economist: Legalize Sale of Human Organs · · Score: 2

    Why not just give people a small financial incentive to tick the "yes, I donate all my organs if I die in an accident" box when renewing their driver's license? Offer $50 of public money for ticking that box, and the number of organ donors would probably rise dramatically without putting anyone at risk of exploitation.

  4. Re:global cooling on Solar Lull Could Cause Colder Winters In Europe · · Score: 1

    Oh the irony of not being able to read the entire summary, to understand that Europe is not the world.

  5. Re:Not the sun on Solar Lull Could Cause Colder Winters In Europe · · Score: 1

    I could care less about global average temperatures. What I care about is the temperatures around places people live in.

    You don't care about billions of coastal people being flooded because of warming in Greenland and the feedback effects from warming in Siberia? Okay. You don't care about sparsely populated farmland that feeds you? Okay. If all you care about is the temperature in cities, then they are of course significantly warmer than elsewhere because of the urban heat island effect.

  6. Re:Plugins. on Chrome Is the New C Runtime · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This has nothing to do with plugins. Chromium is open source, this is about using chromium source code in other projects. Does not require the Chrome browser to be installed on the system.

  7. Re:vendor lock in on Google Releases Dart 1.1 · · Score: 1

    Greedy open source freely licensed vendor lock in with the option to compile to javascript to work with all.

  8. Re:Billions of Androids on Apple Devices To Reach Parity With Windows PCs In 2014 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I have an android phone and an android tablet, and almost never browse websites on either of them. That's not what I bought them for, I've no desire for mobile internet (maybe I could use it once a month but that's not worth buying a data plan). The phone is for music, games, calls and texts. The tablet is for reading and games. My desktop PC is for internet.

  9. Re:Oh great... on Microsoft Extends Updates For Windows XP Security Products Until July 2015 · · Score: 0

    As sensitive as children's data? Are nefarious organizations placing bounties of millions to entice hackers to steal little Suzy's math homework?

  10. Re:I think the only way to fix the food stamp prob on Doctors Say Food Stamp Cuts Could Cause Higher Healthcare Costs · · Score: 1

    Problem is, people aren't your statistical average for their sex and age. In fact, the majority of people will be eating poorly and their health suffering from being forced to your standardized diet. Someone who's 4'8" and someone who's 6'9" should not eat the same calories. Someone who works a physical labor job in the hot sun all day needs a heck of a lot more calories than someone who sits in bed unemployed. And of course there are all sorts of personal allergies (say gluten intolerance) and personal needs to account for.

  11. Re:But... why? on Cairo 2D Graphics May Become Part of ISO C++ · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Qt doesn't get out much beyond Win/Lin/Mac.

    Qt isn't available for enough platforms because it only runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, Blackberry, Kindle, vXWorks, BSD, Solaris, Haiku, WebOS, OS/2, Tizen and AmigaOS? Anything that passes the "does it run on Amiga?" test is good enough for me.

  12. Re:I beg to differ on Isaac Asimov's 50-Year-Old Prediction For 2014 Is Viral and Wrong · · Score: 2

    Even though the war in Iraq was as unjust and pointless as Vietnam, there was a lot less marching and rock-throwing.

    Most people felt no personal investment in Iraq, because it was volunteers and foreigners dying. There was a draft in Vietnam, making it personal to a lot more people who feared being called up, or their loved ones being called up. That's the difference, not society.

  13. Re:What is the best way to buy some in bulk? on 60% of Americans Unaware of Looming Incandescent Bulb Phase Out · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Even Montreal has a summer, and there are much more efficient heating methods than light bulbs even for the winter.

  14. Arrest mugshot databases on Is the World Ready For Facial Recognition On Google Glass? · · Score: 2

    Seems like some of the easiest public sources to recognize and associate faces from would be police mugshot databases and sex offender databases. Will former criminals be actively shunned everywhere they go in public, or even subject to mob violence?

  15. Re:Netflix runs on linux. on Run Netflix On OpenSUSE · · Score: 1

    Meanwhile, that same media industry has most of their content on Hulu supporting linux perfectly. No, it's not the media, it's netflix.

  16. Re:And the other uses for this are? on Proposed California Law Would Mandate Smartphone Kill Switch · · Score: 1

    This is absurd paranoia. It takes 30 seconds to borrow a friend's phone to make a call, and a few minutes to buy a new $10 flip phone. There's no point, and it'd be far easier for the government to simply jam the signal in the area.

  17. Re:Even scarier than hackers on Proposed California Law Would Mandate Smartphone Kill Switch · · Score: 1

    If your phone dying is that scary to you, you must have the world's most unscary life. Anyway the government could simply order your service revoked already. Phone companies have other measures already and you should've had the sense to buy an unlocked phone.

  18. Re:Of course, he'll have affluenza on Harvard Bomb Hoax Perpetrator Caught Despite Tor Use · · Score: 1

    it's just a divide and conquer that the truely rich like to put out there.

    I'm really sick of people who make more than 10 times as much as me whining about how they're not truly rich. $150K/yr is rich, even if it's not uber-rich.

  19. Re:supplementing the diet of well-nourished adults on Multivitamin Researchers Say 'Case Is Closed' As Studies Find No Health Benefits · · Score: 1

    Fast food is never economical. If you want a burger and fries and cola, you can make that at home (and have actual meat on your burger) for about $2. Or you can make some pasta and get a full meal for $1.

  20. Re:Still with FC18 and probably swtich distro on Fedora 20 Released · · Score: 1

    Sounds like what Fedora really needs to do is simply fix FedUp so that it doesn't grow cluttered.

    Personally it's been about 8 years since I used Fedora so I don't know what's up over there. But the aggravation of reinstalling every 6 months drove me from Mint to Kubuntu a couple years ago, and the latter has made the every 6 month upgrades a breeze. No need for a rolling release as long as the distupgrade can run in the background while you carry on as normal and applies with a simple reboot.

  21. Re:NSA failed to halt subprime lending, though. on NSA Says It Foiled Plot To Destroy US Economy Through Malware · · Score: 1

    China is very much an export-based country still, reliant on the prosperity of the west. Preventing your best customers from paying you is not a desirable tactic.

  22. Re:Really. on Former Google Lawyer Michelle Lee To Run US Patent Office · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So you want to hire someone fresh out of law school who never worked for a company, or what?

  23. Re:Word unlocked. on North Korea Erases Executed Official From the Internet · · Score: 1

    The Nazi party won the most seats of any party in the reichstag in consecutive elections. Never a majority, but that's still winning the right to be chancellor, which was a more important position than president.

  24. Re:Why roll your own distro? on Munich Open Source Switch 'Completed Successfully' · · Score: 1

    Sorry my quote didn't provide the full context: "The decision in 2003 had two components, on the one hand to get free software running on most of the desktops, and on the other hand to buy and develop web-based and platform independent (e.g. Java-based) business applications." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux)

  25. Re:Why roll your own distro? on Munich Open Source Switch 'Completed Successfully' · · Score: 1

    The LiMux wikipedia page mentions "platform independent (e.g. Java-based) business applications." So these java-based business applications wouldn't be in the ubuntu repositories.