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  1. Re:Imagine?! on 1.9 Billion Digits: Brazil's Bid For Biometric Voting · · Score: 1

    Why without introducing a discrepancy in the voter list? Haven't you ever heard of dead people still getting to vote?

  2. Re:Duh on MIT Solar Towers Beat Solar Panels By Up To 20x · · Score: 1

    Lots of suburbs in Europe ...

    As I said, probably not an urban area.

  3. Re:Duh on MIT Solar Towers Beat Solar Panels By Up To 20x · · Score: 1

    If you have a fence you probably don't live in an urban area. This is more for installing on an apartment building or other tall structure than in a residential suburb.

  4. Re:Utter Bullshit on Congress Capitulates To TSA; Refuses To Let Bruce Schneier Testify · · Score: 2

    The security provided now isn't any better. The only real improvements in security have been the cockpit doors and the passengers who won't allow a hijacking anymore, neither of which is because of the TSA.

  5. Re:Nothing is Copyrightable? on Judge Rules Pi-Based Music Is Non-Copyrightable · · Score: 1

    It's not that music based on Pi isn't copyrightable, but that the concept of Pi based music isn't copyrightable. (for that you'd need a patent)

  6. Re:4 legs, 6 limbs on Tennessee Passes Bill That Allows "Teaching the Controversy" of Evolution · · Score: 1

    Having just read them, the only disagreement is on the order of the plants, which you didn't mention. The first chapter doesn't say that God created man and woman at the same time, just that he created them both. For the animals, the second chapter uses past tense for their creation and present tense for bringing them before Adam meaning they had already been created at some point.

  7. Re:Why is it 'cheating'? on Detecting Chess Cheats Taxes Computers · · Score: 1

    Mining the endzone is silly, by that time it's too late. Much better to mine the last few yards instead.

  8. Re:Familiar territory on Time to Review FAA Gadget Policies · · Score: 1

    I would imagine it's difficult to call someone who's on another plane with the seat back phone.

  9. Re:Here is a better idea on Connecticut Considers Digital Download Tax · · Score: 1

    Right, but you're still legally required to pay it, it just isn't assessed at the time of sale. It's called a use tax and you're supposed to report it on your tax return.

  10. Re:Here is a better idea on Connecticut Considers Digital Download Tax · · Score: 1

    You know you're still required to pay taxes on those things you order from out of state.

  11. Re:Empty Rhetoric on Connecticut Considers Digital Download Tax · · Score: 1

    They are taxable, in fact they are already taxed, all this does is put the burden on the business to collect the tax. This means that the business has to keep track of sales taxes for every area that has them, even those areas where they have no presence. Since tax codes change along various lines (including within the same zip code) it becomes a non-trivial problem.

  12. Re:Evil and stupid, good work guys... on Belgian Rightsholders Group Wants To Charge Libraries For Reading Books To Kids · · Score: 5, Insightful

    But it will improve next quarter's profits, and that's all that matters.

  13. Re:When will people learn on Misleading Robocalls Went To Voters ID'd As Non-Tories · · Score: 1

    People will occasionally change their minds about things they don't care much about based on outside feedback. It's possible that the points you disagree on are things which aren't all that important to them.

  14. Re:What about Family Members on New York State Passes DNA Requirement For Almost All Convicted Criminals · · Score: 1

    Rest easy, even if you were the one that committed the crime your father's DNA will probably match.

  15. Re:because unlike fingerprints, this one's not acc on New York State Passes DNA Requirement For Almost All Convicted Criminals · · Score: 1

    The problem is that it's presented to juries as if it were sufficient to convict someone on its own.

  16. Re:Logical fallacy mars othwise interesting argume on Bring Back the 40-Hour Work Week · · Score: 1

    Well, if you don't want to hire a new person you could just lower them to 40 hours a week and still get more productivity.

  17. Re:People are not Fungible on Bring Back the 40-Hour Work Week · · Score: 1

    Not necessarily, you could end unemployment by having the 4 people working 50 hours go down to 40 hours and hire an extra person to do absolutely nothing and still get more productivity for the same price, including benefits.

  18. Re:...huh? on Bring Back the 40-Hour Work Week · · Score: 1

    Service jobs most likely, you should note that even if that isn't the case, the 20- hours are going to be paid by the hour, not salary jobs.

  19. Re:Genius. on Campaign Urges People To Send MPAA and RIAA Copied Currency · · Score: 1

    It's not an apples to apples comparison, it's comparing apples vs oranges to pears vs tangerines.

  20. Re:Drawings != child porn on Canadian Charges Against US Manga Reader Dropped · · Score: 1

    Don't forget statutory rape since she's a minor and the vampires are definitely more than 2 years older than her.

  21. Re:Bad logic on Canadian Charges Against US Manga Reader Dropped · · Score: 1

    The counterpoint being that without such material available the pedophiles will have to take actions they otherwise wouldn't have taken in order to get their release.

  22. Re:Real Reason on Reversing the Loss of Science and Engineering Careers · · Score: 1

    Not just sports, but entertainment in general.

  23. Re:Brute force? on FBI Tries To Force Google To Unlock User's Android Phone · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Last time I checked credit cards stored important information in plaintext.

  24. Re:Ars Technica Lnk on FBI Tries To Force Google To Unlock User's Android Phone · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't say nobody thinks of it. The people in charge of the prison have probably considered it, but they have a vested interest in more crime.

  25. Re:"a chance for Canadians to have their say" on SOPA-style Amendments Dropped From C-11; DRM Provisions Not · · Score: 1

    Or maybe they put you on the "toss before the MP gets to read it" list.