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  1. Re:Ah... Sneakernet. on Dead Drops P2P File Sharing Spreads Around Globe · · Score: 1

    The latency is hell.

  2. Re:And it never occured to anyone ... on Dead Drops P2P File Sharing Spreads Around Globe · · Score: 1

    His point is someone could put software on it, and then when it gets copied to your computer it could report a location.

    But the would require someone clicking on an unknown executable or link, and no one would every do that, right?

  3. but it is a could on Dead Drops P2P File Sharing Spreads Around Globe · · Score: 1

    it's just a particularly slow one.

  4. How about on California Outlaws 'Revenge Porn' · · Score: 5, Insightful

    we accept people get naked and do fun things?
    That would be far more beneficial in the long run.

    You got naked and had sex, own up, move on.

    TO Be Clear: IT's a horrible, rude, dhouch beg, jack ass movie to put that private stuff on the internet. I"m not siding with those assholes. It would just be nice that instead of going 'OMG she does what I do, but now its in a picture!' to 'So what, everyone does it, lets get the asshole that distribute the picture.'

  5. Re:Tachyon beam on Voyager 1 May Be Caught Inside an Interstellar Flux Transfer Event · · Score: 2

    That can't work, you reversed nothing!

  6. Re:Do I even want to know? on Pentagon Spent $5 Billion For Weapons On Day Before Shutdown · · Score: 1

    Because France is one of our allies(out oldest ally), and sometime allies negotiate deals.

    This is simply what the military need to run. Instead of spread out over a year.

  7. Re:old news on Teaching Fractions: The Tootsie Roll Is the New Pie · · Score: 1

    Tufte has been saying pie chart are over used.

    And more interesting then your UserID being prime, its a Fibonacci number .

  8. Here's an idea on Teaching Fractions: The Tootsie Roll Is the New Pie · · Score: 1

    show them the math.

    Worked well with my kids and every other kid I showed it to.

  9. Re:Remember all those times Bush blocked... on German NSA Critic Denied Entry To the US · · Score: 1

    Once again, The president doesn't block people.
    The president isn't running the bureaus.
    I've been reminding people of this for 30 years.

    And yeah, this sure is a lot worse then letting the NSA collect data without FISA approval~

    anyways:
    http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/on_civil_liberties_comparing_obama_with_bush_is_easy_--_and_mostly_wrong_20

  10. Re:Twitter? Really? on Tom Clancy Is Dead At 66 · · Score: 1

    It is weird that tomclancy.com says nothing about his death.

  11. Re:Red Storm Rising on Tom Clancy Is Dead At 66 · · Score: 1

    "The goal of such research is to make plants into intellectual property "
    false. The goal it to make better plants. SOME company want to use that to control seeds, but it isn't the goal of GM.

    "not usually the favourite kind of property around here."
    I"m a big fan of reasonable intellectual property. As is every one to some degree; whether they admit it or not. It would be the rare person who would write something and then let someone else take credit for it.

  12. Re:Very tech oriented on Tom Clancy Is Dead At 66 · · Score: 1

    The concept goes back to the 70s.

  13. Re:Very tech oriented on Tom Clancy Is Dead At 66 · · Score: 1

    "..for terrorism like flying a civilian airliner into a government building before 9/11."
    genius, thinking up things DECADES after other people did.

  14. Re:Unhealthy Americans vs. Veganism on Tom Clancy Is Dead At 66 · · Score: 1

    I thought he was a lifetime smoker?
    Also, lung cancer is just one of many ways smoking kills people.

  15. Re: Bill Gates' response: on Microsoft Investors Call For Bill Gates To Step Down As Chairman · · Score: 2, Interesting

    5% is not a minority share holder.
    And the Top 20 own 5%, not the three trying to oust him.

  16. Re:Real headline: Wall Street wants to loot Micros on Microsoft Investors Call For Bill Gates To Step Down As Chairman · · Score: 1

    It's a vulture capitalist tactic. Wall Street is far more encompassing than that one strategy.

    " It's why America doesn't make anything anymore,"

    That not true, America makes a lot of things.

  17. That would be a mistake on Microsoft Investors Call For Bill Gates To Step Down As Chairman · · Score: 2

    He is starting to earn a lot of good will, and that will reflect in the price as long as he is attached to the company in a role.

    Of course he could step down to CEO; which would be hilarious AND helpfull

  18. Re:The Blame Game on U.S. Government: Sorry, We're Closed · · Score: 1

    Interesting. I wonder:
    Just how far do the pundits have to stick there hand i you ass to make you lips move?

    Stop spreading the lies.

  19. Re:The Blame Game on U.S. Government: Sorry, We're Closed · · Score: 1

    "... IRS illegally silencing dissent to the President."
    You notice how fast that left the media? Because there wan't anything there.

    Let me remind you what happened.
    People in the IRS took a more critical eye at any influx in a type of group. This time it happened to be a sharp increase in tea party groups.
    Historically they have done with both party, or anything. Tomorrow if you had a sharp increase in groups supporting the fight for gum disease, they would get a more critical look.
    It has to do with priorities and man power. Also becasue when every you have a large group doing in anything, there will be a percentage trying to sneak past the rules.
    And insisting that group applying play by the rule isn't silencing anyone.

    And look at the numbers. How are you silencing dissent when so few were rejected? all for legit reasons, btw? And how doe not being able to have not for profit status silence ANYONE?
    It doesn't.

    That said, not fr profit tax exemption need to go away.

  20. Re:The Blame Game on U.S. Government: Sorry, We're Closed · · Score: 1

    There is no resolution. The pubs set it up that way.
    BTW, not a single pub I know is happy with the pubs position in congress.
    The solution is to get rid of fucking riders. Then you can't have this kind of obstructionism.

  21. Re:That's weird... on U.S. Government: Sorry, We're Closed · · Score: 1

    And some incorrect statements still have meaning within the context.
    Like blessing someone after they sneeze.

  22. Re:Priorities on U.S. Government: Sorry, We're Closed · · Score: 1

    No, the DEA service the American people well. Simply change the drugs they go after.

  23. Re:Priorities on U.S. Government: Sorry, We're Closed · · Score: 1

    ".. take your job away:"
    um, no.
    And I like how your argument consists of an ad hom attack; that's some great thinking you go going on there,slick.

  24. Re:Priorities on U.S. Government: Sorry, We're Closed · · Score: 1

    "Locking your door has a low cost and a fairly high rate of effectiveness."
    there is no proof of that.

  25. Re:Priorities on U.S. Government: Sorry, We're Closed · · Score: 1

    What if a lot of your neighbors had armed people in their house all claiming they where going to kill you?