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  1. Re:Government actually working for the people on A Digital Citizen's Bill of Rights · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Did you read it? Looks pretty scary to me:

    "5. Creativity - digital citizens have a right to create, grow and collaborate on the internet, and be held accountable for what they create"

    No more creating anonymous posts on the internet.

    "10. Property - digital citizens have a right to benefit from what they create, and be secure in their intellectual property on the internet"

    lay ground work for SOPA 2.0

  2. Re:"effectively unrepairable by the user" on Analyzing the New MacBook Pro · · Score: 2

    If i paid $3000 for a toaster I wouldn't be able to afford bread.

  3. Re:Petition on Diablo 3 Banhammer Dropped Just Before RMAH Goes Live · · Score: 0

    This is a lie, strip out the AH and add separate achievements for offline that are not published. Done.

    They already have separate rules for regular and hard core. It would be no different.

  4. Re:WTF? on Odd Laptop-Tablet Hybrids Show PC Makers' Panic · · Score: 1

    This would be true of a rooted and modified phone. Just rooting the phone is like opening the hood. You haven't actually done anything yet.

  5. Re:Shut up and take my money! on Apple News From WWDC and iPhone 5 Rumors · · Score: 1

    cause of the first line

    Apple

    Been burned by that one before.

  6. Re:Universal monitor + hardware keyboard on Universal Android Laptop Dock: Microsoft Nightmare, Or Toy? · · Score: 1

    or plug the hdmi cable into the phone. still not as convenient as a network transparent desktop that can be displayed wirelessly onto a nearby TV.

  7. Re:Childish on Raunchy Dance Routine a PR Nightmare For Microsoft · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If growing up means I can't laugh at a bad/dirty joke then count me out.

    poophead!

  8. Re:WTF? on Odd Laptop-Tablet Hybrids Show PC Makers' Panic · · Score: 1

    You are way to broad with this. A jail broken/rooted phone is more like "opening the hood voids the warranty"

  9. Re:Free rider problem solved? on Apple Granted Broad Patent On Wedge-Shaped Laptops · · Score: 1

    good plan, remove incentive to invent stuff will help us get much more stuff.

    Gee, sounds like exactly what governments do, to me.

  10. Re:People should pay for their choices on California City May Tax Sugary Drinks Like Cigarettes · · Score: 1

    If you voted for universal healthcare then you get "universal" which means everyone bad habits and all. It was a bad idea to begin with. It's still a bad idea. Let people pay for their own bad habits.

  11. Re:What really worked for tobacco? on California City May Tax Sugary Drinks Like Cigarettes · · Score: 1

    Other than maybe lunch money, high schoolers have nothing but disposable cash. There may be a few minor exceptions but it's not like their income is providing shelter food electricity etc...

  12. Re:Evolution as a Creation on In America, 46% of People Hold a Creationist View of Human Origins · · Score: 1

    I'd say 10,000 years is pretty close maybe as much as 30,000. Prior to that we were all much more caveman like. Hell our present form I may even narrow down to either post industrial revolution or perhaps even the information age may have made for a pretty big change.

  13. Re:Don't Panic on Andromeda On Collision Course With the Milky Way · · Score: 1

    770,000 Parsecs!?! Ha the Millennium Falcon could do it in less.

  14. Re:Agreed on BT Fibre Pulls Out of Chelsea Over Ugly Equipment Cabinets · · Score: 1

    So why cant the box be buried and an access cover put over it? I never understood these eyesores...

  15. Re:Get a refill.. on Soda Ban May Hit the Big Apple · · Score: 1

    Yea and Cite one source of any government banning large drinks...ohh wait.

  16. Re:That's not funny on Backyard Brains Can Help Satisfy Your Inner Frankenstein (Video) · · Score: 1

    So when you mow your lawn you get satisfaction that every blade of grass suffered as it was cut? Me it's just so it is well kept and looks nice. The intent is not cruelty. Even a dog knows the difference between getting step on and kicked.

  17. Re:RIM/Blackberry on Ask Slashdot: Equipping a Company With Secure Android Phones? · · Score: 1

    I guess mostly this

    days numbered...

  18. Re:Well then... on Industry Groups Bid To Control New Business-Specific TLDs · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is why allowing .xxx was a slippery slope. Now we crossed the line so real evil can get top level domains .bank and .insurance indeed.

  19. Re:That's not funny on Backyard Brains Can Help Satisfy Your Inner Frankenstein (Video) · · Score: 1

    The line is based on intent. If you are ripping cockroach legs off just to watch it suffer, or if you are punching holes in a tree just to watch it die then it's cruel. If you are doing honest research and experimentation then it may not be cruel. It still may not be the right thing to do though.

  20. Re:That's not funny on Backyard Brains Can Help Satisfy Your Inner Frankenstein (Video) · · Score: 2

    it's also OK to spray chemicals around to kill off the child infestation of your house too. Or to turn on the kitchen light and jump on the child before it runs under the fridge.

  21. Re:Get a refill.. on Soda Ban May Hit the Big Apple · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's a nudge, but nothing to do with curbing eating habits and much more to do with getting people used to government intervention in their every day life.

  22. Re:Equally biased != NPOV on Statisticians Investigate Political Bias On Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    One guy may say that the sun is green, the other guy may say it's purple The other ~7 billion people of the world say it's yellow. Having all of them in the same article does make it neutral.

    Especially when you find out why the two people odd people disagree with everyone else. It gives a place of study, either on the common perceptions of everyone that the sun appears mostly yellow although it is radiating all colors or the specific individuals that may be color blind or psychologically unstill.

  23. Re:An English translation, for us non-sociologists on Scientific Literacy vs. Concern Over Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Nice, simple easy to read and wrong. The article says specifically that it was level of education that started to sway some people.

  24. Re:diablo on Can Windows 8 Succeed In a Cloud-Based World? · · Score: 1

    at lvl 57 and I haven't seen this issue other than launch day...

  25. Re:Wrong questions on Can Windows 8 Succeed In a Cloud-Based World? · · Score: 1

    quick summary of post:

    I hate the cloud and everything it stands for.
    I use the cloud in the way it's suppose to be used.
    The cloud has to stop.