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  1. Re:see all this time on RIAA Wants 'Net Neutrality' To Include Filtering · · Score: 1

    Throw in grandma and freedom with the children. Why you could put anything under these umbrellas!

  2. Re:Either that on Google's CEO Warns Kids Will Have to Change Names to Escape "Cyber Past" · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A society that has forgotten to forgive will hold a grudge against itself forever.

  3. Re:...And one generation behind on HTML5 on Firefox 4 Will Be One Generation Ahead · · Score: 0

    I use Google Chrome and Firefox concurrently, using the other when my primary doesn't work. Firefox has random issues with plugins as well. Sometimes it'll freeze for a site like Mangafox, as if trying to think through the javascript in the background. Chrome has serious Flash issues though. Sometimes either they won't show up, or there'll be some infinite loop that'll force you to kill it. If Firefox wasn't a resource hog, I'd go back in a heartbeat.

  4. Re:What is the Real Reason Hurd Was Fired? on HP CEO's Browsing History Used Against Him · · Score: 0

    Battle of distinctions! Anti-Female vs. Anti-Business > Civil vs. Criminal Basically it's because sexual harassment tends to evoke images of harassing women, which kicks off a chain reaction of rage.

  5. Re:No on Should Kids Be Bribed To Do Well In School? · · Score: 0

    Why would we pay them to do something which is for their own benefit? If they don't want it, then let them make that choice and suffer down the road. *Ninja whisper* ...Wait. What do you mean I'm going to bail them out?!

  6. Re:When Hell freezes over... on Sony May Charge For PlayStation Network · · Score: 0

    Right now, I talk to my friends while playing BlazBlue, and randomly buy DLCs for Valkyria and Assassin's Creed II. Why ruin a good relationship, Sony?

  7. Re:Ahh Slashdot on Police Arrest Man For Refusing To Tweet · · Score: 1, Funny

    We're talking about China, right?

  8. Re:Good on Copyright Time Bomb Set To Go Off · · Score: 1, Troll

    They're not going to like changing their tune.

  9. Re:Of course, there is another solution on Vatican Debates Possibility of Alien Life · · Score: 1

    You speak of designed as if our template was static and present from the start. Have I got a set of genes for your waist!

  10. Re:Market Failure on The Fresca Rebellion · · Score: 1

    It's tricky to give just enough insurance that risk is properly diffused, but not so much that you create a moral hazard. The inflection point, it seems, is where effort stops and circumstances overtake. Until we can get into each other's heads and put an exact number on one's effort, we are dealing with truly Knightian uncertainty. If we had a marketing campaign disparaging people whose diet consists of soda and burgers, we could bring the American fat distribution more in line with the Japanese or Scandinavian. Imagine how many children we could send to school with the health savings!

  11. Re:Market Failure on The Fresca Rebellion · · Score: 1

    The rationale isn't to limit consumer choice, but to reduce the healthcare costs associated with certain consumer choices. For example, a person's choice of hamburger and soda diet has externalities, namely resulting from the quadruple bypasses some of them require. These costs are not internalized; rather, most likely their health insurance (that is, rest of us) will foot the bill. --Apparently some of us do not want to foot quite so much of that bill. Hence, this. I do not think the government should step into food matters, though. I'd much rather see a more decentralized approach, such as making fun of people.

  12. Re:Lies, Damn Lies, and... on Major ISPs Seek To Lower Broadband Definition · · Score: 1

    Until someone looks across the Pacific and notices speeds 30x faster than ours, in which case they will be interrogated while they're drinking champagne in a jacuzzi

  13. Re:Where is the need for a mobile phone? on Nokia Launches Pay-By-Phone Service · · Score: 1

    Where is the need for a mobile phone? Why can't this be done with just a credit card and an RFID chip instead like the Barclaycard OnePulse. Investing in infrastructure for this kind of card would make a hell of a lot of more sense to me.

    Credit cards aren't necessities; cellphones are beginning to be, as they link rural merchants with their market and the rest of the world. Developing countries also prefer cell towers over phone lines for cost issues. They're basically skipping over a century of prototyping. With that said, hitchhiking one extra function onto a guaranteed platform would seem logical enough.

  14. Re:I've seen these people too on The Rise of the Digital Nomad · · Score: 1

    While this should be available for those whose jobs demand such on-demand work, I don't see it as the inevitable destiny of work itself. Time and space proximity are as salient as...well, time and space!

  15. Re:At last the perfect number on Searching Google, Where Internet Access is Scarce · · Score: 1

    The poor man's concierge.