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  1. Re:Why is overflow so expensive? on Rogers Shrinks Download Limits As Netflix Arrives · · Score: 1

    I realize that I buy 3 times the normal amount of food but why does my grocery store want to charge me more for it? I should still be able to pay the normal amount of money for 3x the food.

  2. Re:What the!? on Death Grip Tested On iPhone Competitors · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's not a question of where he grips it. It's a simple question of attenuation ratios.

  3. Re:What does this mean: on Death Grip Tested On iPhone Competitors · · Score: 2, Funny

    Obviously, they meant that the death gripping in one hand it was ok, but on the other hand it dropped, but not as severe as the first. Sort of a six in one hand and 2 dozen in the other. A phone in the hand has the DBm of two in the bush. iPhone there for iAm.

  4. Re:Suckaz on Onion Story Gets Blown Out of Proportion · · Score: 1

    It's probably the same people that think Bush planned 9/11.

  5. Re:Priorities on Warships May Get Lasers For Close-In Defense · · Score: 1

    All depends on the side of the laser you're on.

  6. Re:Who cares on BP Caught Photoshopping Disaster Response Photos · · Score: 1

    ROFL yea that's why we don't have any foreigners in America.

  7. Re:As goes Apple... on MacPaint Source Code Released to Museum · · Score: 1

    But that is exactly what Copyright is meant to do "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."

  8. Re:Priorities on Warships May Get Lasers For Close-In Defense · · Score: 2, Funny

    well, the unemployed, veterans and the ill could build, man and be targets for these devices if they had even the slightest motivation to be useful.

  9. Re:Store in a water tower on In Oregon, Wind Power Surges Disrupting Grid · · Score: 2, Interesting

    but if we run the power lines all the way around the earth we'll turn the earth into a giant magnet and start attracting asteroids and stray UFS will crash more regularly into our planet.

  10. Re:Hmm! on Top Secret America · · Score: 1

    And in Soviet America you listen to rock and get stoned.

  11. Re:Why net neutrality is bad... on Chile First To Approve Net Neutrality Law · · Score: 1

    Market actors that can only be in business by government permission are not deregulated. When one needs a bureaucrats permission to compete, one is not free to compete.

  12. Re:Who doesn't hash/encrypt passwords? on OAuth, OpenID Password Crack Could Affect Millions · · Score: 1

    Or a junior admin gave your your /etc/shadow file to a 3rd party compliance auditor who then didn't treat this file with the security it needs.

  13. Re:Insulting? on Mozilla Bumps Security Bug Bounty To $3,000 · · Score: 1

    But $500 was the market value. That was the most that the Moz foundation was willing to pay for sec bugs.

    They got a bunch of the low hanging fruit with that.

    Now at $3k they'll get the next harder sec bugs reported and fixed, as well as paying out some more money for fewer bugs.

    At some point I bet they'll raise it again to maybe $10k, $20k, $100k as they find and nail down all security problems. Wasn't Tex or LaTex or something done in a similar way as well?

  14. Re:Insulting? on Mozilla Bumps Security Bug Bounty To $3,000 · · Score: 1

    So the solution is to write a book about Firefox?

  15. Re:Getting ready for the MS bash on Recomputing the Sky · · Score: 1
  16. Re:Getting ready for the MS bash on Recomputing the Sky · · Score: 1

    I have to say, I dislike them both equally. Flash because it has been around too long. Silverlight because it is really just flash again when the entire idea should have been replaced.

  17. Re:Why net neutrality is bad... on Chile First To Approve Net Neutrality Law · · Score: 1

    You are partially right in that the government should handle certain infrastructure, but instated of just taking over the distribution lines they regulate everything. Distribution an arguably good idea for government regulation and or total control like highways. Generation should have minimal regulation.

  18. Re:How long on BP Claims Gulf Well Has Been Stopped · · Score: 1

    Seems you did right at 03:59 PM July 15th, 2010

  19. Re:This about sums up... on BP Claims Gulf Well Has Been Stopped · · Score: 1

    I must say so as well, it's going to be much harder for us environmentalists to push our agenda unless there is an ongoing man made disaster. #%$& you BP for closing this up. I hope it fails so we can proceed with shutting down all drilling and oil related industry.

  20. Re:Great News on BP Claims Gulf Well Has Been Stopped · · Score: 1

    That was positive, it could be WORSE

  21. Re:Whew on BP Claims Gulf Well Has Been Stopped · · Score: 4, Funny

    they are unwealthy wildlife because they have proven themselves unable to use it wisely.

  22. Re:Why net neutrality is bad... on Chile First To Approve Net Neutrality Law · · Score: 1

    LOL, you seem to think that they became monopolies without government assistance?

  23. Re:Why net neutrality is bad... on Chile First To Approve Net Neutrality Law · · Score: 1

    Help me out here, name me a monopoly that isn't brought about by government regulation, like rail, telcom, power, copyright, etc...

  24. Re:Why net neutrality is bad... on Chile First To Approve Net Neutrality Law · · Score: 1

    So, you're saying that the solution to having too much regulation in a market, (telcom) is to install more regulation? How progressive of you.

  25. Re:Why don't they find the serial killer gene inst on Familial DNA Testing Nabs Alleged Serial Killer · · Score: 1

    except we we're talking about existing people we were talking about new pregnancies and the ability to decided if 50% chance of being a serial killer is enough to abort. I hate the idea of abortion as birth control but if there is a real compelling reason then perhaps it should be an option.