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  1. Re:Good publicity move on Obama Unveils New Nuclear Doctrine · · Score: 1

    Then how is this a good publicity move if it is meaningless?

  2. Re:Cold war is over! on Obama Unveils New Nuclear Doctrine · · Score: 1

    So when WWII was over, we scrapped our conventional armies, sunk our battle cruisers, and scrapped our tanks. Oh wait...

    Just because they aren't useful at the moment doesn't they won't be useful again. History Repeats Itself, we will need nukes again.

  3. Re:Wait, what? on Mississippi Makes Caller ID Spoofing Illegal · · Score: 1

    If they knew beforehand, why would anyone spoof? I don't follow your logic here.

  4. Wait, what? on Mississippi Makes Caller ID Spoofing Illegal · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If I spoofed my caller ID, how would they ever know without wiretapping me, or doing something else illegal? How would anyone ever get caught? This law seems unenforceable.

  5. Re:Toyota: on Toyota Acceleration and Embedded System Bugs · · Score: 2, Funny

    "The race for quality has no finish line- so technically, it's more like a death march."

    Not my quote, so I'll give them props: http://www.despair.com/quality.html

  6. Serious Allegations on Facebook Founder Accused of Hacking Into Rivals' Email · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is a serious allegation. With all of the information Facebook aggregates, they potentially could unlock many people's emails and various other accounts with the family and personal information. Lots of people use simple things like their pets or parents birthdays as those reminder question answers, and Facebook could easily hold all the correct information to gain access to those accounts. If this case is proven true, I can see some new laws on how companies with this kind of information have to structure and protect it. Hopefully people will wake up and stop putting their personal information where Facebook and others can see...

  7. In Unrelated News... on The 1-Second Linux Boot · · Score: -1

    Microsoft has a new report showing MS-DOS booting in less than 1/2 a second with an average laptop...

    Apple has released a similar report showing Mac OS Classic booting in 3/4 a second, but with a cooler shiny logo.

  8. Re:Tyranny vs Liberty on ACTA Internet Chapter Leaked — Bad For Everyone · · Score: 2

    That much wiser man was Thomas Jefferson. Care to revise your moron comment?

  9. Tyranny vs Liberty on ACTA Internet Chapter Leaked — Bad For Everyone · · Score: 5, Interesting

    A Man much wiser than me once said "When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty. "

    Which is true today?

  10. Re:What I want in it on Civilization V Announced For This Fall · · Score: 2, Informative

    Uh, no, not really. In Civilization 4, your units only had one meaningful value, strength. Now it's attack and defense.

  11. Re:Moddability = Success on Civilization V Announced For This Fall · · Score: 1

    You obviously don't understand the point of mods then. Very few mods purpose is to improve the AI, most try to make Civilization more historically accurate, add gameplay elements, or convert civilization into an entirely new games. You're really missing out.

  12. Re:More realistic? on Civilization V Announced For This Fall · · Score: 1, Troll

    Hex maps allow the world to really be a sphere, as opposed to a flat map.

  13. Re:Notebooks on Civilization V Announced For This Fall · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Civilization 4 doesn't require the CD in the drive, so it is fairly safe to assume the same for Civilization 5.

  14. Re:Moddability = Success on Civilization V Announced For This Fall · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The first Civ4 mods came out very quickly after the game. Games that restrict how moddable their content are, like MW2, have little staying power, as shown by their quickly dropping NPD numbers.

  15. Re:What I want in it on Civilization V Announced For This Fall · · Score: 1

    It does; Civilization 5 splits strength into attack and defense values; both are modified by terrain, promotions, experience, etc...

  16. Moddability = Success on Civilization V Announced For This Fall · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Civilization 5's success will ultimately depend on how moddable it is. If it is less moddable than Civilization 4, there is no way it will have any staying power.

    Before you mod me down; I know, I mod for Civilization 4.t

  17. Re:When... on Gov't Proposes "National Climate Service" For the US · · Score: 4, Informative
  18. Re:A Christian's take on Texas Textbooks Battle Is Actually an American War · · Score: 1

    Depends on what the schoolbook is. If it's a religion class, I'd hope Christianity is mentioned.

  19. Re:This just in... on Murdoch Says E-Book Prices Will Kill Paper Books · · Score: 1

    Fox news is at 10. By 11 it's history!

  20. Re:The Manchurian Candidate is to GE's presidency, on Mum's the Word On Google Attack At Davos · · Score: 1

    Actually, the US has a legal obligation due to a treaty with the Chinese Nationalists to defend Taiwan. If they get in trouble we HAVE to help them, or no one will ever trust us as a country.

  21. Re:Flawed study... on Phone and Text Bans On Drivers Shown Ineffective · · Score: 1

    In Michigan, the cops CAN pull you over for just a seatbelt violation. They do it a lot too. Stupid State Budget...

  22. Re:Total non-story on RIAA Confusion In Tenenbaum & Thomas Cases? · · Score: 2, Informative

    By ad-laden, I assume you mean the very small ads that are at the very bottom of his site, and are barely noticeable? Google has more ads than his site, IMO.

  23. Re:"Perfect"??? on Researchers Claim "Effectively Perfect" Spam Blocking Discovery · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The final solution is to nuke spammers from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

  24. Re:AnoNet on IPv4 Free Pool Drops Below 10%, 1.0.0.0/8 Allocated · · Score: 3, Funny

    You'll know IPV4 really ran out of space once they sell of 127.0.0.1 though...

  25. Re:Welcome to Capitalism on Rockstar Employees Badly Overworked, Say Wives · · Score: 1

    Advocating Unions does not make you anti-capitalist. Unions developed largely in response to situations like in the OP. There are nothing wrong with Unions.

    Government Regulation on the other hand, well, we all know how good a job the government is on that... I'd rather trust myself to a union than a government that changes it's tune every election.