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  1. Re:The civil war was a mistake on Kentucky Lawmakers Shocked To Find Evolution In Biology Tests · · Score: 1
  2. Re:The United States is becoming like Pakistan on Kentucky Lawmakers Shocked To Find Evolution In Biology Tests · · Score: 2

    A few wealthy and modern cities surrounded by a huge sea of uneducated religious primitives with guns.

    And the modern cities are full of uneducated non-religious primitives with guns.

  3. Re:The civil war was a mistake on Kentucky Lawmakers Shocked To Find Evolution In Biology Tests · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The idiocy is not only in the south. I was checking out the local private schools for my daughter in an upstate NY city of over 200,000 people. I asked the new principal at one of the Catholic schools what science curriculum they used. He said, "Well, you know, we teach the idea of evolution, but it is mostly religious based." That was the end of that visit.

  4. Re:SimpleMobile on Ask Slashdot: A Cheap US Cellphone Plan With an Unlocked Phone? · · Score: 2

    Check the coverage first. If you venture outside of cities, T-Mobile's coverage is lacking.

  5. Re:the thought of involving on Office To Become Fully Open XML Compliant (at Last) · · Score: 1

    NTLM is usually where the problems start.

  6. Waste of money on The Rapid Rise of License Plate Readers · · Score: 2

    As a resident of NYS, the highest taxed state in the country, the expense of this is far more upsetting to me than the privacy implications.

  7. Re:Keep trying till they sneak it through? on WIPO Broadcasting Treaty Back On the Table · · Score: 2

    There are choices, but most people have it stuck in their heads that they should only vote for candidates of the two major parties. The lack of choice is not because of the candidates, but because of the majority of the voters.

  8. Re:Keep trying till they sneak it through? on WIPO Broadcasting Treaty Back On the Table · · Score: 5, Informative

    Because even when people get bills they do not like killed they still vote for the same politicians the next election cycle.

  9. Re:the thought of involving on Office To Become Fully Open XML Compliant (at Last) · · Score: 0

    Sure, Microsoft is open in the areas of application software and web services.

    So long as you are using .Net on Windows.

  10. Re:the thought of involving on Office To Become Fully Open XML Compliant (at Last) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    IBM, Oracle, and Google all have a vested interest in an interoperable format. IBM and Oracle are professional services companies. Interoperable formats means it is easier for them to implement custom services and provides more surfaces for them to provide integration services. Google wants to know everything so it can advertise everything, and a better format is easier to get information from.

    Microsoft is a vendor-lock-in company. OpenXML is designed to lock you in to their platform. They are they ONLY company that benefits.

  11. Re:More reasont to give up hope on a good dumb pho on Motorola To Cut 4,000 Jobs, Focus On High-End Devices · · Score: 1

    That is what Motorola makes. Their problem is that the people who want them already have them and will use them for a decade, buying new batteries for $20 as necessary.

  12. Re:Portable HD with 25K+ CDs worth of music. on RIAA Admits SOPA Wouldn't Have Stopped Piracy · · Score: 1

    The point of music is music (and to get laid). The great artists will be remembered and the art will be enjoyed for years.

    The point of entertainment is to part fools from their money (and to get laid).

    Sometimes artists get rich, sometimes not.

  13. Moral of the story on RIM Agrees To Hand Over Its Encryption Keys To India · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Moral of the story: If you do not control end-to-end encryption yourself, it is not secure.

  14. Re:Craigslist is a shithole on Craigslist Demands Exclusivity For Postings · · Score: 2

    CL only has 1 thing going for it: most people use it. Just like eBay.

  15. Re:That's not what it says on Craigslist Demands Exclusivity For Postings · · Score: 2

    And take different photos?

  16. Re:Samsung should be thanked on Samsung Admonished For Releasing Rejected Evidence · · Score: 1

    In the USA, all of the judges are politicians.

  17. Re:Samsung should be thanked on Samsung Admonished For Releasing Rejected Evidence · · Score: 2

    In most places, judges *are* politicians.

  18. Re:Er... Basic geometry? on Speed of Sound Is Too Slow For the Olympics · · Score: 1

    Did you think the Olympics(TM)(C)(R) were about competition and fairness instead of about money, bribes, kickbacks, and the worst kind of patriotism?

  19. Re:Portable HD with 25K+ CDs worth of music. on RIAA Admits SOPA Wouldn't Have Stopped Piracy · · Score: 3, Informative

    Nobody liked Rebecca Black. People liked making fun of Rebecca Black.

  20. Re:so what? on New Moxie Marlinspike Tool Cracks Crypto Passwords · · Score: 2

    PPTP using EAP-TLS is still okay, right?

  21. Re:Portable HD with 25K+ CDs worth of music. on RIAA Admits SOPA Wouldn't Have Stopped Piracy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    People do not want good music. People want to be popular. Entertainment marketing is about convincing people they will be popular if they like (and purchase) a particular kind of entertainment. The trick is producing entertainment watered down enough that you can get a large number of people to not hate it.

  22. Re:Portable HD with 25K+ CDs worth of music. on RIAA Admits SOPA Wouldn't Have Stopped Piracy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The labels are not needed for the artists, but they are needed for the entertainers. Do you really think Justin Beiber would have gotten anywhere without a billion dollar marketing machine? With independent artists, music would be about the music and people would find the music they like. The marketed entertainment industry dwarfs the music industry, and that is what they are fighting for.

  23. Re:Could say something negative and smart ass on Mark Zuckerberg's Big Facebook Mistake · · Score: 1

    I would rather stay a thousandaire by being a hard worker and nice person than wish I became a billionare by being a dick.

  24. Re:Again? on Google Warned Samsung Galaxy Tab Was "Too Similar" · · Score: 1

    If we do not require basic literacy to vote, we sure are not going to require it to buy computers.

  25. Re:*zzzzzzz* on Dell To Offer Ubuntu Laptops Again · · Score: 1

    They sell Thinkpads with Linux installed for more than it costs to get them with Windows directly from Lenovo.