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  1. Re:To be fair on School Spying Scandal Gets Even More Bizarre · · Score: 1

    We are getting outvoted by the Evangelical Christians. Thus is the failure of democracy.

  2. Re:To be fair on School Spying Scandal Gets Even More Bizarre · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's the entire premise of contemporary evangelical Christianity

    What exactly are the evangelical Christians doing do make you think that their premise is that the ends justify the means?

  3. Health care is expensive. Budget for it. on Health Insurance When Leaving the Corporate World? · · Score: 1

    Find out how much it will cost to get a high deductible policy. Figure out how much you should put into an HSA. Budget that into your contracting rates, business proposals, or wherever your income is coming from.

    Health care is expensive. Hospitals are expensive to operate. Training doctors is expensive. Developing and testing medications is expensive. Medical equipment is expensive. If you want it, somebody is going to have to pay for it, and nobody wants to pay for it on your behalf. Just like nobody wants to pay for your house and car for you.

    You have three options:

    • pay for it yourself
    • get it as a perk from your employer
    • move to a country that levies taxes to cover it
  4. Re:The right decision is easy. on Suspension of Disbelief · · Score: 1

    Good point. I will thus revise my statement:

    If it happened outside of school and you think it was illegal, contact the appropriate law enforcement agency.

    If it happened outside of school and you think it was legal, mind your own business.

  5. Re:The right decision is easy. on Suspension of Disbelief · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There are already laws covering libel and slander. If one of them is broken, take proper action. As far as I know, being a jerk is not illegal in the jurisdiction in question.

    You state that the school should punish certain legal behaviors occurring outside of the school. Should the school post a list of behaviors that shall be punished, or should it have the authority to levy punishments for arbitrary actions? Should the schools really have the authority to do either? Should private schools have the same authority?

  6. Re:The right decision is easy. on Suspension of Disbelief · · Score: 1

    Defamation or slander falls under the category of "illegal".

  7. The right decision is easy. on Suspension of Disbelief · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If it happened outside of school and it was illegal, call the police.

    If it happened outside of school and it was legal, mind your own business.

  8. Re:Better than shared hosting... on Things To Look For In a Web Hosting Company? · · Score: 1

    The best thing about Linode is their management interface. You can manage slave DNS, authoritative DNS, IP swapping, your VMs and their disk and NIC configurations, and monitoring from an easy to use web interface. You can access your console with the web interface or SSH. You can SSH into a management interface and control your VMs.

  9. That is the only effective way of dealing with the problem.

    The alternatives are to ignore the problem.

  10. Re:Not just typos on Google Makes $500M a Year On Typos · · Score: 1

    How do you tell the difference between somebody who wants to buy a domain that used to be owned by somebody else in order to use the domain productively versus a harvester?

    How do you tell that somebody who has nothing but ads on a web page on port 80 on www.example.com is not using the domain for other good reasons?

  11. Not just typos on Google Makes $500M a Year On Typos · · Score: 5, Informative

    Once or twice in my life I have landed at a domain squatter's site due to a typo. Hundreds or thousands of times I have landed there due to links to sites that used to be something but are now run by the squatters.

  12. Re:Fonts are too small on Enlightenment Returns To Bring Ubuntu To ARM · · Score: 1

    I use E17 (on i386 and amd64). Settings -> Settings Panel -> Look -> Fonts. I can change font size.

    Did they take that out for the Ubuntu/ARM release?

  13. Re:Why. on Mock Cyber Attack Shows US Unpreparedness · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "All warfare is based on deception."

    -Sun Tzu

  14. Re:A healthy System32 dir is 1.5 GB on Time Bomb May Have Destroyed 800 Norfolk City PCs' Data · · Score: 1

    You should use symlinks. My /usr/lib64 is 0k.

  15. Re:Want to See Spam? on Malicious Spam Jumps To 3B Messages Per Day · · Score: 1

    I check it periodically anyway and it makes me happy when no mail is found.

    I check my toothbrush holder periodically and it makes me happy when no mail is found in it. Assuming you brush your teeth every day, you should try it - it is quicker than checking an email account.

  16. Re:You surrendered. on Did We Lose the Privacy War? · · Score: 1

    I did not berate him for not taking privacy seriously. I berated him for complaining about it.

  17. You surrendered. on Did We Lose the Privacy War? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    'm extremely annoyed by that, yet I love the service so much and I don't think I can cancel it.

    You are agreeing to give up your privacy. You are not losing - you surrendered.

  18. Re:Warrant only applies to France on Tour de France Champion Accused of Hacking · · Score: 1

    No, riding slowly is ruining his career.

    If he wins a stage or finishes top 10 in the GC at the Giro, then maybe the ban from France will be hurting his career.

  19. Warrant only applies to France on Tour de France Champion Accused of Hacking · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The warrant only applies to France. They are not seeking extradition. I do not know if Landis was actually guilty or not, but given the suspicious behavior of the lab and the French authorities during the initial doping case, it sounds to me like they simply want to prevent him from cycling in France ever again.

    If the way he was riding last year in any indication, he would not be a contender for even a stage win in the TdF, but there is concern that he could take 20th overall, knocking the highest placing Frenchman to 21st.

  20. Re:What a doorknob on Google Considered Too Big To Fail · · Score: 1

    Traitors all. The Democratic Republic does not exist if the representatives ignore the people they supposedly speak for.

    The Democratic Republic does not exist if the voters reelect the representatives who ignore them.

  21. Re:Just a question, and thought.. on Warner To End Free Streaming of Its Content · · Score: 2, Informative

    You get an n% cut from reseller A.

    You add reseller B, and you get an (n/2)% cut.

    Customers move from reseller A to reseller B.

    Your revenue drops.

  22. Re:Too bad on Subversive Groups Must Now Register In South Carolina · · Score: 1

    What? You think they were talking about revolting against the joke of a government in Washington? Haha.

    No, it is illegal to revolt against the Confederacy.

  23. Re:You must be young. on Google's Experimental Fiber Network · · Score: 1

    I hope you are right. Eventually I will figure out how to get a piece of the action and then I will not complain about it anymore.

  24. Re:meanwhile, on Google's Experimental Fiber Network · · Score: 1

    They need not worry. They already bought and paid for the local politicians to make sure nobody else comes in.

  25. Re:Can we start using OpenBSD, Solaris, Linux? on New Russian Botnet Tries To Kill Rivals · · Score: 2, Insightful

    $100 million? Please.

    Many times that has been wasted supporting broken version of IE.

    Many times that has been wasted waiting for reboots after BSODs.

    Many times that has been wasted on upgrades nobody needs other than because old version no longer get security updates.

    If lost money was going to cause people to ditch Windows, they would have done it a long time ago.