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  1. Re:SSN? on BP Loses Laptop With Oil-Spill Claimants' Personal Info · · Score: 1

    Americans are more unlikely to have a passport vs a State issued ID.

    But are they more unlikely to have a passport or be functionally literate? For this shitty country's brainwashed masses to take their own unearned "exceptionalism" as an article of faith is just hilarious in the face of the facts.

  2. Re:oh, on BP Loses Laptop With Oil-Spill Claimants' Personal Info · · Score: 1

    Since We The People of the United States decided that it's time to re-introduce democracy to our "representatives" and "leaders."

  3. Yeah, that's good for Napoleon & other dictato on BP Loses Laptop With Oil-Spill Claimants' Personal Info · · Score: 1

    For the rest of us, the need to seem benevolent is probably less important than not getting jerked, defrauded or killed by global corporations which are absolutely, certainly anything but benevolent.

  4. So upload that data daily. on BP Loses Laptop With Oil-Spill Claimants' Personal Info · · Score: 1

    And delete that personally identifiable information from the lappy every evening. What, is this rocket surgery? I thought I was reading "news for nerds about stuff that matters!" Where did all the programmers go?

  5. "masked ssn" my ass! on BP Loses Laptop With Oil-Spill Claimants' Personal Info · · Score: 1

    What rdbms doesn't have an automatic unique id generator?

  6. You're trying too hard to excuse the corporation. on BP Loses Laptop With Oil-Spill Claimants' Personal Info · · Score: 1

    It is not a person!

    And such field agent should download one day's data at a time. If that scenario is not "far-fetched" then that only means that many, many people are too stupid for current technology.

  7. I already have. on Americans Favor Moratorium On New Nuclear Reactors · · Score: 1
  8. Re:Misdirection on McAfee's Website Full of Security Holes · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty confident that the McAfee home page is a honeypot luring in the unwary...

    I wonder why you're so confident of that, but that story seems like good marketing.

  9. Re:Misdirection on McAfee's Website Full of Security Holes · · Score: 1

    How do you know the McAfee home page is not one giant honeypot? After all they know hackers will be going after them. That's what I'd do if I were them...

    Never attribute to competence that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. [ Krugman's Razor ]

    And we all know what happens when you use someone else's razor...

    Depends on whom you use it.

  10. You have quite an imagination! on Americans Favor Moratorium On New Nuclear Reactors · · Score: 1

    I imagine the real reason is that the theoretically engineering maximums were too optimistic.

    Do you have any facts?

  11. You're wrong. Wind is always blowing somewhere. on Americans Favor Moratorium On New Nuclear Reactors · · Score: 1

    All that is required for wind to provide baseload power is 10 or more interconnected, geographically separated wind farms.
    www.stanford.edu/group/efmh/winds/aj07_jamc.pdf

  12. Numbers don't lie. on Americans Favor Moratorium On New Nuclear Reactors · · Score: 1

    But nuclear and petroleum shills like you do, constantly.

  13. not compared to the alternatives on Americans Favor Moratorium On New Nuclear Reactors · · Score: 1

    Wind turbines at their best are uneven suppliers of electricity. They are are also eye sores.

    Maybe compared to Glacier National Park they are eyesores, but compared to coal and nuclear power plants, they are scenic beauty!

    Also, what you said about wind power being inherently uneven is a lie.

    It just requires a modicum of intelligence.

  14. I just lost interest. on FBI Wants You To Solve Encrypted Notes From Murder · · Score: 1

    There is no reward being offered, just the knowledge that you may be solving an intriguing murder mystery, the FBI stated.

  15. Re:What do you want? on US Competitiveness Chief Immelt's GE Tax Bill: $0 · · Score: 1

    The price of housing is deflating, but since it affects primarily people who have more debt than equity in their homes, the effect is to inflate the quantity of their debt. So all three are increasing the cost of living for the least privileges, while the speculators who caused the problem weren't even made to take a haircut.

  16. Re:What do you want? on US Competitiveness Chief Immelt's GE Tax Bill: $0 · · Score: 1
    Higher food any energy prices certainly increase in the cost of living, but I think that's defined slightly differently than inflation. Although for most people the effect is the same, there is a real distinction of analytical importance, at least to an economist. But like too much of economics, the very definitions are in dispute.

    Core price indices: because food and oil prices can change quickly due to changes in supply and demand conditions in the food and oil markets, it can be difficult to detect the long run trend in price levels when those prices are included. Therefore most statistical agencies also report a measure of 'core inflation', which removes the most volatile components (such as food and oil) from a broad price index like the CPI. Because core inflation is less affected by short run supply and demand conditions in specific markets, central banks rely on it to better measure the inflationary impact of current monetary policy.

    I think they should learn how to extract patterns from noisy data (or stop pretending to be "experts")! What is more "core" than food and energy? But those are exactly what are removed from the equation to get the economists' definition of "core" price indices. It really is an abysmal "science."

  17. Re:What do you want? on US Competitiveness Chief Immelt's GE Tax Bill: $0 · · Score: 1
    That doesn't add up to even one half of one billion.
    $200M + $25.5M + $250M = $475.5M = $0.4755B
    And it doesn't look like it all comes from the same year.

    All in all, GE receives quite a lot in tax credit in the US for green subsidies every year. Now, is it the only thing they do to avoid tax burden? Absolutely not, but it is a significant part of the equation. I can't find the total, but I believe it's in the hemisphere of about a billion dollars a year ...

    But you expect us to just take you at your word, and blame environmentalists for corporate abuse. Who signs your paychecks, shill?

  18. Well, 1/26th of them do. on FBI Wants You To Solve Encrypted Notes From Murder · · Score: 1

    Nearly every letter ends in E.

  19. I agree. on Page Can't Turn Back Clock At Google · · Score: 1

    The lack of any specific examples of the author's thesis (Google slow-moving) made his conclusions hard to take seriously.

  20. Re:So don't worry about it on Ridiculous Software Patents: a Developer's Nemesis · · Score: 1

    They tend to be proportional, so either is correct and both are equally funny, in this overweight U.S. citizen's opinion.

  21. Good one! Mod parent up, funny. on Can We Fix Federated Authentication? · · Score: 1
  22. That's only a problem for war criminals. on Man Arrested For Linking To Online Videos · · Score: 1

    You see, international laws, which are basically a collections of treaties countries may have signed but enough have and they have been around long enough that it's expected to be the norm in the world community. The problem comes because they do not spell out specific infractions, they spell out specific results of actions. Take crimes again humanity which is fully included in the ICC jurisdictional mandate for instance, It has an open ended clause that states

    "Other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health."

    You can only run afoul of that clause by "intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health." If that clause, as written, is broad enough to include what you're doing, then you are violating human rights. No, it does not matter where the person was apprehended or what they were doing. Torture is always a human rights violation and that is just the definition of torture.

  23. German Khaled el-Masri was in Macedonia on Man Arrested For Linking To Online Videos · · Score: 1

    ... when the CIA kidnapped him, disappeared him to Afghanistan, and they tortured him.

    So please, mock my rogue nation all you want. But don't forget to boycott it, too.

  24. Re:Help me out here on Scientists Cleared of Misusing Global Warming Data · · Score: 1

    Sure. And how do you feel about the ones who do not "just" attack their opponents, but who attack their opponents and steal their opponents' data and lie about the data they stole?
    http://www.thescienceisstillsettled.com/climategate

  25. Svensmark=quack. on Scientists Cleared of Misusing Global Warming Data · · Score: 1

    LoL! And Friss-Christensen -- stop, you're killing me!

    Oh, wait. It's not really funny, because you actually are killing me (slowly). And in the meantime, you're killing 300,000 people every year who don't have the good luck of being born in the United States. Go read some real climate scientists. Go read as much climate science by legitimate scientists who are not climate science deniars as you have already read by climate "scientists" like Svensmark and Friis-Christensen who are in fact climate science deniars, and in the meantime,

    SHUT

    THE

    FUCK

    UP.

    You are telling lies that are literally killing people. You are an accomplice to mass murder, you brainless waste of carbon.