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  1. Re:Streamlined Sales and Use Tax on Bipartisan Internet Sales Tax Bill Introduced · · Score: 1

    That is a terrible idea. I always thought the other way around was better. Sales tax is the best kind of socialism there is. People only get taxed for purchasing luxury items. Things people actually need to live aren't taxed. The other upshot is that people are more willing to invest as there is less risk of inflation consuming the profits.

  2. Re:Models are always right! on World Emissions of Carbon Dioxide Outpace Worst-Case Scenario · · Score: 2

    You aren't suppose to extrapolate. Good engineering understands that your model is only good in the set of data you collected. Even then you make the assumption that the change between the points is not significantly more then it has to be. All these models are extrapolating at some point. We simply don't know how the world is going to react to how it is changing. There could easily be some mediating factor that isn't seen in the model that is now becoming more significant.

  3. Re:If kids have your iTunes account password ... on 'Free' Games Dominate Top-Grossing Game List On App Store · · Score: 1

    Apple should have done this initially irregardless. Basically Apple was performing fraud as it was accepting funds from someone not authorized to use the credit card. Doesn't matter if the kid has your idevice. They need your permission to use funds on the credit card. If a store accepts a stolen card they are on the hook for the unauthorized charges. Now I have no idea how it would work out to if the child was criminal responsible for the fraud, but Apple definitely was failing with due diligence.

  4. Re:Sure, just like rare earths on Belgium To Give Up Nuclear Power · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The crux of the anti nuclear movement is it creates a more dangerous industry forcing the government to rely on using past their prime plants. If France and Russia are willing to stay at the edge of nuclear development more to them. They will be safer then Belgium and Germany maintaining their old plants.

  5. Re:Obligatory: RAID is not a backup on Which OSS Clustered Filesystem Should I Use? · · Score: 1

    He needs to get priorities in order. I would say raid is probably what he wants for the most part for like you said hardware failure. An online backup service for the stuff he truly needs to back up. I sincerely doubt a single person can amass 8 TB of data that would be critical to have. Having it all is nice, but definitely not realistic.

  6. Basis doesn't really use the name on Trademark Trouble For RIM Over New "BBX" Name · · Score: 2

    Their product isn't even called BBx anymore. They call it BBj so I don't understand why their customers would be confused. http://www.basis.com/bbj

  7. No break for you on TSA Doing Random Truck Searches On Tennessee Highway · · Score: 1

    TSA can't get a break. They are either responding only to threats that have occurred. Which is patently wrong as terrorists won't do it again that way. And when they aren't responding to a specific threat. They are patently wrong because there is obviously no threat.

  8. Re:Return on investment on Film Turns Windows Into Solar Panels · · Score: 1

    I could see them being used in high end cars so that they never have the battery die. There are probably other instances where durable portable solar panels are desired. This would spur the R&D needed to bring the cost down until they would be used in house windows.

  9. !Revenue Producing Asset on IBM Launches Parking Meter Analytics System · · Score: 1

    Parking meters are not suppose to be a source of income when they started. It has been twisted over the years. It was suppose to motivate people to use a limited resource(parking spots) as efficiently as possible. It motivates people to only use the space as long as they need it and not to just leave their car there. This idea has the same failings as red light cameras written all over it.

  10. It would be nice... on Canadian Government Says DRM Circumvention Not Related To Copyright · · Score: 2

    if our politicians could at least write law so that it looks like it would stand up in court. I understand that there is a fair bit of stuff that isn't clear cut with the whole body of law considered that needs court time. But in instances like this it feels like the politicians are just giving into the lobbyists without even giving a second thought about the values the country that gave them their job was built on. It is rather sickening.

  11. Re:What's cool about a run of the mill Stella Arto on Boost Your Wi-Fi Signal Using Only a Beer Can · · Score: 1

    Maybe you should try something that isn't a lager and then all the lagers will taste like piss water. And don't drink the ale ice cold that is just a waste, but then again it is all about preference.

  12. Change of Name on UN Names N. Korea Chair of Disarmament Committee · · Score: 2

    Please note that the Canadian Government has been re-branded Harper Government. And to that end, I would like to note that a lot of Canadian's don't supports its foreign policy.

  13. Re:I guess I should add that to my knowledge base. on Military Drone Attacks Are Not 'Hostile' · · Score: 1

    Further, if it was a law from 1973 that was addressing copyright and technology it would be a priority for congress to close the loop hole. Basically people in power want something a certain way it will be that way irregardless of the law and the interests of the people. Money really is king.

  14. Re:Not so bad to have different systems. on Why Does the US Cling To Imperial Measurements? · · Score: 1

    Water boils at 100 celsius and freezes at 0. Wheres your god now? But on a serious note working in psi is a complete pita. A pound force is different from a pound mass and then everything is measured in feet instead of inches since the numbers would be huge everywhere, but a lab. I don't think there is a perfect system, but it is better if everyone uses the same one.

  15. Re:Interesting... on An RC Car That Runs On Soda Can Rings · · Score: 1

    Essentially the Aluminium is being used like a battery.. not a fuel.

    The is a very valid point, but if you take any fuel to its extreme you will find that it is just a battery for energy that was released from the sun. Arguably fossil fuels are a storage medium for energy collected from dinosaurs eating plants. Aluminum is at least relatively inert as a battery compared to gasoline, hydrogen or lead-acid.

  16. Apples and Oranges on Is Science Just a Matter of Faith? · · Score: 1

    I don't think faith was ever intended to explain the world around us. People have just managed recently(last century) to interpret it that way. It was more intended as a method of defining social interactions. The bible has a lot of good suggestions in it on how to make society better. Science can have the same issues when people try to bend it to their wishes. I guess both run that risk, but science tends to have better methods of self correcting.

  17. Re:Nothing is free on Wikipedia Wants More Contributions From Academics · · Score: 1

    Isn't that the same thing? I pay for my education to get a better paying job in the future. I am basically getting paid to get a good education in the end. I understand the money doesn't flow from the publisher, but it does come from somewhere. In the end it can be summed up as people won't make obviously bad investments of their time.

  18. Nothing is free on Wikipedia Wants More Contributions From Academics · · Score: 1

    I don't think it is ego as much as them wanting to be paid for their work. Most people edit Wikipedia want to see something they wrote on the internet and feel it is rewarding. Academics already get this. They get paid to write journal articles so they wouldn't see it as beneficial to start doing the same thing and not getting paid.

  19. Re:Mmm, ironing. on Newspaper Plagiarizes Blog, Taunts Real Author · · Score: 2

    I'm pretty sure you can't copyright knowledge so the point is moot. The actual gripe is the blogger wanting recognition. What the blogger has managed to do is paste the issue on a website where people like to talk about copyright. So you can cue the NRTFA comments that have nothing to do with the article. And they paraphrased so the only place, I have seen, that would really care about it is academic journals.

  20. Re:They didn't shut off HTTPS on Microsoft Denies HTTPS Shutdown Was Intentional · · Score: 1

    Simplest answer would be that Microsoft has divided the world up into regions(not exactly geographically, but some other system). A switch got thrown for the one regions and someone noticed and tried to connect dots as the region's countries would have similar aspects.

  21. Encryption on ISP's War On BitTorrent Hits World of Warcraft · · Score: 1

    People still P2P too. The traffic is just encrypted instead. If the WOW client doesn't support it, blocking P2P are only going to hinder the nice innocent people. The whole telecommunication ecosystem in Canada is scary. It is painful to read in the newspaper that people argue that Parliament should not intervene with the CRTC. Which is a complete joke. Any government organization that does not have the fear of having responsibility to the people is just asking to be abused.

  22. Re:What happened? on Americans Favor Moratorium On New Nuclear Reactors · · Score: 1

    Nifty thing I heard on /. was that the fuel isn't so much dangerous as the highly energetic intermediates are. People are saying that people could soon begin to inhabit the area around Chernobyl as the cesium and other intermediates decompose enough. I don't know if that is 100% correct, but I do know that any chemical plant could have a release of chemicals and kill tonnes of people while making the environment uninhabitable. Yet no one is equally as up in arms about these places as they are about nuclear. I think the major issue is that everyone imagines nuclear bombs whenever they hear nuclear energy.

  23. Nothing New on Samsung Galaxy Ad Misleads With Fake Interviews · · Score: 1

    I hope this reporter(?) hasn't seen any commercials with doctors in them. They are actors too. I would hazard to say that everyone on TV are actors. Yes I am including the news and reality TV.

  24. Re:WOW, they almost had me on Duke Nukem Forever Gets Delayed - Again · · Score: 1

    Probably has something to do with slapping bitches

  25. MAD on Linus Says Android License Claim Is 'Bogus' · · Score: 2

    Shouldn't Google take a whack at them with their own patents? I mean I thought that is how everyone preaches the system work. Everyone won't touch each other for fear of reprisal. I would say Microsoft has more to lose in the end too if Google attacks Windows. If it starts to look sketchy for them a lot of companies might jump ship to another platform in case Microsoft is force to rework their OS. Google doesn't rely nearly as much on Android for income. Same thing could be said with Oracle.