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  1. Re:SVN for law on Hacking the Law · · Score: 1

    Which is why the first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

  2. Re:"Could be decrypted" on FBI Compromises Another Remailer · · Score: 1

    Indeed. I'm not terribly familiar with anonymous remailers, so I don't understand what the keys are for. Why does an anonymous remailer need encryption keys in the first place? If I send them an email, asking them to resend it somewhere else, and they don't log who sends them email, isn't that enough to provide anonymity?

  3. Re:I was writing a non-DRMed, Linux-native game on Phoronix Confirms GNU/Linux Steam and Source Engine Clients · · Score: 1

    That's a shame. There's definitely a market for such a game. Space sims are hard to come by commercially, and Notch got a lot of interest when he announced his. I think you just haven't found the right community to promote it on, though I'm not sure where the right place would be.

    BTW, I was unable to get that video to play, even after permitting 10 different scripts to run it still complained about flash. But flash works everywhere else for me, and even on different videos on the same site.

  4. Re:A non-credible source admits he is non-credible on 'Gaia' Scientist Admits Mispredicting Rate of Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Because PR is not a scientists job.

  5. Re:Finally on Code Name, Theming Update Announced For Ubuntu 12.10 · · Score: 1

    Why not give plain Debian a try? Encrypted LVM and RAID are supported by the debian installer. The packages in Sid are just as up to date as the packages in Mint.

  6. Re:SVN for law on Hacking the Law · · Score: 1

    If you try and push this, you'll run into serious real-world acceptance problems

    Only because it's a good idea.

    The last thing most politicians or lawyers would want is a comprehensive overview system of the kind that's being proposed in the above posts.

    I don't care what lawyers and politicians want. What do the people want? I expect they want a legal system that's consistent and verifiable without spending your lifes savings on an attorney.

  7. Re:the true obfuscation on 20th IOCCC Source Code Released · · Score: 1

    There's an add-on for that. I'm running "Open In Browser 1.11" on Firefox 10.0.3. Works great.

  8. Re:Nothing new? on Software Engineering Is a Dead-End Career, Says Bloomberg · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's how it works in our society. There are exploiters and the exploited. If you are doing real work, you're not exploiting people. Therefore you are being exploited. IOW, it's a dead end career. If you want to have a good career, start exploiting people as soon as possible.

    The best and the brightest have always been taken advantage of by the ruthless.

  9. Re:Bigger Problems Than That on Geologists Say UK Shale Deposits Hold Vast Energy Reserves · · Score: 1

    It's not as hard as you think. We need to be building modern nuclear power everywhere. In my backyard is fine, I already have two nuclear plants within 80 miles of my home. Nuclear power is already safer per watt than any other green power except for geo-thermal. And that's with decades old designs.

    If we don't do this, we'll be sentencing several billion people to death anyway.

  10. Re:Hidden Markov Model on The Scientific Method Versus Scientific Evidence In the Courtroom · · Score: 2

    Good luck expecting 12 people to understand this who have to have football (US) plays explained to them by TV announcers.

    American football is insanely complicated. I can't even figure out how to play video game football, let alone the real thing.

  11. Re:Country != Government on In Nothing We Trust · · Score: 2

    So blame the wife?
    If she chooses to stay with the abuser, as so many do, then yes.

    A wife is not decent when she packs her bags instead of striking back?

    Either solution is better than the status quo.

    The american people want legal reform, not chaos.

    And battered wives want marital reform, not moving from one women's shelter to another being barely able to feed her kids. At some point you have to accept that he's not going to change.

    We're well past the point where the US government could reasonably be expected to change on its own. The only solution is to throw them all out, by force if necessary.

    And if you feel neither party has decent ideas then you can vote 3rd party. Stop feeding the two part stronghold on goverment.

    I advocate this at every opportunity.

  12. Re:Bigger Problems Than That on Geologists Say UK Shale Deposits Hold Vast Energy Reserves · · Score: 1

    We'd be better off with all the other polution from coal and no CO2 than we would be with all the CO2 from natural gas and none of the other emissions.

    This is the kind of ignorant nonsense that makes people stop listening to you.

    WTF are you talking about? Are you too stupid to know a hypothetical when you see one? Why do you think I put that "other" in my sentence? Because CO2 is part of the pollution coal produces, but not the part I'm talking about for that example.

    My point is that CO2 is the major problem when burning any fossil fuel. Calling any fossil fuel clean is disingenuous.

    You get CO2 when burning just about anything, including coal.

    Which is exactly why we need to stop burning anything. Including shale oil.

  13. Re:Not natural on In Nothing We Trust · · Score: 1

    I think it's more like a pattern of corporate owned media and politics, than any single sinister organization.

    It's an informal and ad hoc organization, but it's still an organization. They're a lot more organized than Anonymous or Occupy, for instance.

  14. Re:Country != Government on In Nothing We Trust · · Score: 1

    The american people are still mostly decent people trying to get around with bloated fat bureaucrats mucking up the works.

    No, if the American people were decent, they would have risen up decades ago. The American people behave like a battered spouse to an abusive government.

    Our biggest problem is people in charge trying to brainwash us into believing only one political party has all good ideas.

    No, the biggest problem is people trying to brainwash us into believing either political party has any good ideas. Both political parties are morally, ethically, and ideologically bankrupt beyond redemption.

  15. Re:Not natural on In Nothing We Trust · · Score: 1

    But methinks Occam's Razor suggests that there is a powerful, sinister organization which is ruthlessly stamping out any leaders who even start to surface.

    There is. It's called the government.

  16. Re:Sixty-nine percent on In Nothing We Trust · · Score: 1

    If you really want people to change their voting habits, you pretty much need to change the voting system (to ranked choice or the like).

    No ones going to change the voting system that got them elected, unless they realize that they're going to lose elections because of that voting system. Anyone who wants electoral reform needs to vote for the spoiler (the Nader option) in any and every election. Voting third party is the only vote that matters.

  17. Re:Trial and extradition were never the goal on US Judge Say Kim Dotcom May Never Be Tried or Extradited · · Score: 1

    I concede your point but in a closed 2 party system you have to take the lesser of two evils.

    No, you don't. That's what they want you to think.

    Remember the lesser of two evils is still evil. If Obama is 97% evil and Romney is 99% evil, you're still voting for a shit load of evil.

    Voting third party, as unlikely as it is to affect the election, is still more likely to actually cause change than voting for either major party.

  18. Re:Bigger Problems Than That on Geologists Say UK Shale Deposits Hold Vast Energy Reserves · · Score: 0

    "Clean" fossil fuels are a fucking lie. We'd be better off with all the other polution from coal and no CO2 than we would be with all the CO2 from natural gas and none of the other emissions.

  19. Re:Bigger Problems Than That on Geologists Say UK Shale Deposits Hold Vast Energy Reserves · · Score: 1

    I'd be far more worried about the water laced with sand and chemicals that is shot down into the Earth to release this gas from the shale.

    I'd be far more worried about where all that CO2 is going to end up. We're already past the tipping point for serious climate change, and they want to increase fossil fuel production? Stupid crazy bastards.

  20. Re:Misleading headline on Open Source Project Licenses Trending Toward Open Rather than Free · · Score: 1

    "Ad hominem" is "don't listen to him because he looks and smells funny".

    Let's leave Stallman out of this.

  21. Re:Misleading headline on Open Source Project Licenses Trending Toward Open Rather than Free · · Score: 1

    No, Open vs Free refers to a specific technical use of the terms. The terms are used correctly in the article.

  22. Re:anyone surprised? on Whistleblower: NSA Has All of Your Email · · Score: 1

    yet he has seemingly safely delivered us to the other side

    Funny. Indefinite detentions, warrantless wiretapping, NSL abuse, whistleblower prosecutions, and assassinations of US citizens don't make me feel safe.

  23. Re:Trial and extradition were never the goal on US Judge Say Kim Dotcom May Never Be Tried or Extradited · · Score: 2

    I wouldn't judge him on his choice of lawyers though. I'm sure Mitt would do the same thing.

    This is your mistake. You should judge both Obama and Mitt for a poor choice of lawyers. Both parties favor regulatory capture, judge them both harshly for it.

  24. Re:"as effective" doesn't mean "effective" on Computer Game Designed To Treat Depression As Effective As Traditional Treatment · · Score: 2

    Anyone who lists "euphoria" under "undesirable effects" is being intellectually dishonest. The reason ketamine is low on the list of drugs to treat depression with is puritanical bigotry connected to the war on drug users.

    Also, I don't use ketamine. I'm not willing to get addicted and withdraw from half a dozen different drugs before a doctor finally does the right thing and prescribes a safe and effective treament instead of the politically correct treatment.

  25. Re:Protest, Send your Rep Everything on Whistleblower: NSA Has All of Your Email · · Score: 2

    DDOSing Congress is a federal crime.