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  1. Re:Ya I think peopel confuse the argument on Cars Emit More Black Carbon Than Previously Thought · · Score: 0

    Exactly, I'm a denialist because I don't believe in the Luddite like behavior that the true believers try to push. Reduction in use is not a good policy. That's a Amish way of handling things. We shouldn't fear technology. Using human ingenuity and inventiveness to deal with problems is what we are here to do. (my opinion) We need to invent our way out of the problem, not bury our head in the sand and hope it goes away.

  2. Re:Supremacy Clause on State Legislatures Attempt To Limit TSA Searches · · Score: 0

    That is the nice part of winning a war. You are always right and have all the supporting documents to show it is so.

  3. Re:Napping on Interrupted Sleep Might Be the Best Kind · · Score: 1

    I have the same problem. I have found that if I'm so bad I don't feel i can stay awake I set my phone timer for 15 mins and let me dose off for just that short time. The grogginess is very short and often I feel much better afterwards. Any longer and it puts me in pretty bad shape. Irritable and sleepier than if I had just stayed awake.

  4. Re:Of course the rich should give to charity on Tech Billionaire-Backed Charter School Under Fire In Chicago · · Score: 1

    I consider leopards and gazelles to be completely separate, yet one feeds the other.

  5. Re:Adobe complaining about bloat? on A Rant Against Splash Screens · · Score: 1

    Of course, by consumer I mean affordable. A 10Gb nic is still around $500. 40/100Gb are still draft proposals. What country are you in that's connecting at 100Gb? You must be in N. Korea where glorious leader has provided this link to you. While he got his 13 hole in one shots on his last 18 holes of golf.

  6. Re:Adobe complaining about bloat? on A Rant Against Splash Screens · · Score: 1

    You are right, it's the 'G's and 'M's that you're confused on. There isn't even any consumer level 100Gb network cards, and even 10Gb networks are still reserved pretty much for large corporations that need high data throughput either for backbones or storage networks.

  7. Re:Potential issues, regarding memory/cpu usage on Get a Glimpse At the Raspberry Pi Fedora Remix · · Score: 1

    screw that girly fedora crap huh?

  8. Re:Of course the rich should give to charity on Tech Billionaire-Backed Charter School Under Fire In Chicago · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Exactly. Billionaire/corporate greed is easy to understand, rooted in money. Political greed is the scary one. Rooted in the domination and megalomania of ruling over other people because they are smaller than me and I know better than them.

  9. Re:Serial number that calls home on Ask Slashdot: Copy Protection Advice For ~$10k Software? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And why would I allow a system housing my valuable, corporate pre-production video data, direct access to the internet?

  10. Re:Adobe complaining about bloat? on A Rant Against Splash Screens · · Score: 1

    You're getting your B's and your b's mixed up.

  11. Re:Math seems wrong on Man Digs Out Basement Using Radio Controlled Toy Tractors · · Score: 1

    SHUT UP!! Metric is better!!

  12. Re:Should we? on Why People Don't Live Past 114 · · Score: 2

    except you could also produce 10x as much. With the growing experience of living 10x as long you'd probably contribute much more than 10x as much.

  13. Re:Republicans for Big Government on Congress Warns NASA About Shortchanging SLS/Orion For Commercial Crew · · Score: 1

    I know a lot of people get the idea that republicans are for small government, but they are almost as bad as the Democrats when it comes to being all encompassing every bit of your private life. Just because they are the lesser of 2 evils doesn't make them not evil. Vote for a 3rd party.

  14. Re:corporate responsibility on Apple-Approved Fair Labor Inspections Begin At Foxconn · · Score: 2

    Everyone likes to tout the 90% tax on salaries over $1million back in the 50s. Of course almost nobody then or even now have/has salaries in that range as they were payed with under valued stock options of which when cashed in were only charged 14% at the time or 10% now.

  15. Re:Two mostly similar choices on Dealing With an Overly-Restrictive Intellectual Property Policy? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What other industries have stipulations like this. If I'm a home modeller and I remodel my own house can my employer claim that my house is now theirs?

  16. Re:Two mostly similar choices on Dealing With an Overly-Restrictive Intellectual Property Policy? · · Score: 5, Funny

    you and at most a few others would have to get together and form a legal entity that could then hold that copywright. We could call it a grouporation or a cooperative relationship or something. You'll probably want to make sure you have someone to manage the inventors and some people to help find other talented inventors so you may want to make a people resources department. You'll need to take in some money to get everything started and you'll want some people that can manage it for you so you'll want to hire some money counting people. You'll want to sell your invention so maybe you could have a whole depart^H^H^H^H^Hsection of product price negotiator people. You'll probably want more people to help manage some of these things too. Just as long as it's not a corporation that holds these patents and copywrites.

  17. Re:Part of this is because of US Export Restrictio on Southwest Airlines iPhone App Unencrypted, Vulnerable To Eavesdroppers · · Score: 1

    especially if you consider that that data is likely encrypted somewhere along the line anyway. Just transmitting something over the internet probably has an encrypted hop somewhere.

  18. Re:3/4 million words. tl;dr on Global Christianity and the Rise of the Cellphone · · Score: 1

    I can do what ever I want as long as I am not a vessel for pumping warm water up peoples asses? There is far to much ambiguity in your brevity.

  19. Re:3/4 million words. tl;dr on Global Christianity and the Rise of the Cellphone · · Score: 2

    I'm not a religious hating atheist, but I am an atheist. I don't think you have hit it even close. Perhaps worded:

    "Still, if you have come to this conclusion, then you have done something very right, and most people do manage that much. Although, history has shown that occasionally some people can twist the message for selfish and evil gains."

  20. Re:Free??? on Google's First Employee Departs · · Score: 1

    As I said, we only get one example and it is poor. If we could get rid of that we could possibly get many more examples and see which ones work and which ones don't.

  21. Re:Free??? on Google's First Employee Departs · · Score: 1

    i would give you 50 examples of varying degrees of workable schools but the DOE kinda screwed that up so we only have once chance of finding the right way of doing something.

  22. Re:I guess it's time to say "I told you so"? on TomTom Satnavs To Set Insurance Prices · · Score: 1

    Google maps with trip pre-caching turned on.

  23. Re:I guess it's time to say "I told you so"? on TomTom Satnavs To Set Insurance Prices · · Score: 1

    I'm torn:

    On the one hand I am all for people paying according to their risk to the insurance company. If this proves to the company that you are a lower (or higher) risk to adjust payment correctly then it makes sense.

    On the other hand I really don't like the idea of someone tracking my every movement, government or not it's an invasion from big brother.

    Anyway should my driving history prove a little better my ability to drive. Just because I take corners fast or brake hard doesn't necessarily mean 'I' am a risk. Perhaps my overall skill is better than most. (hypothetical "my skill" I consider myself pretty average for someone with 20+ years of driving experience)

  24. Re:I wonder .. on Lenovo Ordered To Refund 'Microsoft Tax' · · Score: 1

    Exactly!! This is like buying a car with an engine included when I already have an engine at home that I plan to use with the new car. I should be able to demand a refund for the unneeded bundled engine.

  25. Re:So is every ISP on Moglen: Facebook Is a Man-In-The-Middle Attack · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I wonder if you could make a firefox plugin that encrypts all posts to facebook, also detects other peoples encrypted posts and if you have their pub key decrypts them to view. Could also have something similar that encrypts images to a valid jpg/gif/png what ever but only decrypts again if you have the key.