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  1. Re:Ridiculous law on Full Body Scanners Violate Child Porn Laws · · Score: 1

    A couple of seconds of googling? Thats impressive given you have to be a member to view it.

    Crap, it's one of those sites that shows you the full article if you have a google referrer. Try this and click the first link.

    And a lifetime of substance abuse is likely to lead to mental illness. And we're back where we started.

    If that were the case, you'd expect larger proportions of tobacco users etc to be schizophrenic as well. But nicotine actually reduces the risk of schizophrenia. So far, there's no consensus as to the cause of the link between schizophrenia and addiction. It may be that the schizophrenics are self medicating, or they may just be more susceptible to addiction.

  2. Re:your questions are 100% valid on Full Body Scanners Violate Child Porn Laws · · Score: 1

    put it another way: 19 men crashed 4 airplanes on 9/11. you say so what. i say it allowed a terrible american administration into invading iraq. how many died there? say to me with a straight face that gwbush could have had the political support to invade iraq if 9/11 didn't happen

    Wait, you're using GWBs overreaction to a terrorist attack to justify your overreaction to terrorist attacks? Wow. The US would be better served by not freaking out over terrorist attacks, that holds as much today as it should have in 2001.

  3. Re:Insecure? Who says? on USA Has More Open Wi-Fi Hotspots Than EU · · Score: 1

    No, I just do a reasonable risk benefit analysis. There's a very slim risk of getting caught up in a CP dragnet, but the consequences of that are terrible. There's a negligible benefit to me leaving my AP open, so the risks pretty clearly outweigh the benefits.

    Keeping DHCP logs might help keep you out of prison, but they can never wipe away the stigma of being an accused child pornography suspect.

  4. Re:Insecure? Who says? on USA Has More Open Wi-Fi Hotspots Than EU · · Score: 1

    Just wait until someone clicks an FBI honeypot link and see how smart you are.

    whom I like and trust not to download kiddie porn

    Because pedophiles never lead otherwise normal lives. They all have no friends and are immediately suspected by everyone. Right?

  5. Re:someone credibly intending your death on Full Body Scanners Violate Child Porn Laws · · Score: 1

    someone credibly intending your death is always relevant

    Why? If their chance of success is less than the chance of me slipping in the shower and cracking my head open, it would make more sense to spend a couple bucks on a no-skid mat than to spend thousands of dollars on anti-terrorism. A death is not fundamentally more tragic because it was caused by a person instead of an accident.

    ceasing the struggle simply results in the terrorist plot success rate going to 100%. that's acceptable to you?

    Depends. What is the cost of the anti-terrorism efforts, how many lives does it save, and could more lives be saved by spending that money elsewhere?

  6. Sounds tiring on Control Your Apps Without Your Finger · · Score: 1

    Why would anyone think it would be easier to control a device with big unwieldy arms instead of small light dexterous fingers? Also, I have 2 arms and 10 fingers, seems like I could get a lot more done with the fingers.

  7. Re:this logic is really dumb on Full Body Scanners Violate Child Porn Laws · · Score: 1

    Whether the deaths were intentional or not is irrelevant. What matters is whether they are preventable or not.

  8. Re:Ridiculous law on Full Body Scanners Violate Child Porn Laws · · Score: 1

    it certainly should bother any halfway attractive person on this planet who plans to take a flight.

    Why should I be bothered that someone might find my nudity appealing?

  9. Re:Ridiculous law on Full Body Scanners Violate Child Porn Laws · · Score: 1

    Yes, you do in fact see a much greater incidence of addiction amongst schizophrenics than the general population. That's for all addictive substances, from tobacco to heroin. Here is a reference I found with a couple seconds of googling: "Nearly half of the people suffering from schizophrenia also present with a lifetime history of substance use disorders (SUDs).[1,2] This rate is much higher than the one seen in the general US population "

  10. Re:Ridiculous law on Full Body Scanners Violate Child Porn Laws · · Score: 1

    Well, if Francis Crick, Kary Mullis, Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman, Bertrand Russell, etc are all insane than at least I'm in good company.

    Rather, I suspect they knew that one state of mind could not be optimal for all purposes. Kind of obvious if you think about it.

  11. Re:Ridiculous law on Full Body Scanners Violate Child Porn Laws · · Score: 1

    100% of drug addicts started by drinking water.

  12. Re:Rabbits and contacts.... on The 9 Most Tested Lab Animals · · Score: 2, Funny

    I would think it would be obvious why they put contacts on rabbits.

    I don't get it. With all the carrots, you'd think rabbits wouldn't need contacts.

  13. Re:What a great idea! on Netflix Will Delay Renting New WB Releases · · Score: 1

    They'll love making their way down to walgreens/mcdonalds/grocery store to rent it out of a vending machine instead.

  14. Re:I don't get it.... on Windows 7 Has Lots of "God Modes" · · Score: 1

    In other words, what's wrong with the Control Panel interface that hinders developers to the point where they have to hack in these types of kludges?

    Is the Control Panel accessible via the CLI? That would be a reason. Still an awful way to provide CLI access to these functions.

  15. Re:Seriously? on PlayStation Network Expanding To Involve Other Devices · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Somehow, I think that if I had placed a rootkit on Sony corporate PCs I would not have gotten away with just an apology.

  16. Re:I'm sick of this! on NASA’s Contest To Design the Last Shuttle Patch · · Score: 1

    First they retire the SR-71 without ANY proper replacement...

    And yet, somehow we seem to be getting along just fine without it. Perhaps we don't really need an SR-71.

  17. Re:Torpedo? on Microsoft Wants To Participate In SVG Development · · Score: 1

    BSD runs the same xorg/KDE/Gnome as Linux, not a worse UI, the SAME bad UI.

    *BSD runs the BSD userland instead of the GNU userland. So it is just like linux with a worse UI.

  18. Re:Hmmmm... on Google Wants To Administer the First White Spaces · · Score: 1

    If there's no coercion, there's no government, just an organization.

  19. Re:Motion blur and bloom effects on Framerates Matter · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's important none the less, even if it's not all sharp picture, because your eye picture isn't all that sharp either and you experience the same blur.

    If my eye creates the blur, why do I need artificial motion blur?

  20. Re:The only people who have anything to whine abou on EA Shutting Down Video Game Servers Prematurely · · Score: 1

    If you should have known something, you deserve what you get for not knowing it.

  21. Re:idiocy? Incompetence? on Y2.01K · · Score: 1

    The worst part of the whole thing is that we have to go back to the contractor to fix the problem which is going to cost us $$$ beyond the lost revenue of downtime.

    Do you not have legal recourse against the contractor who sold you obviously broken software?

  22. Re:Body Paint on Can Imaging Technologies Save Us From Terrorists? · · Score: 1

    I'd suggest "Don't tread on me".

  23. Re:... but not if on Can Imaging Technologies Save Us From Terrorists? · · Score: 1

    At least we could be sure that the asshole would get what he deserves.

  24. Re:An opening for public service on Does Cheap Tech Undermine Legal Privacy Protections? · · Score: 1

    Marijuana growers are the freedom fighters in the war on drug users. Narcing on them can in no way be described as doing a good turn. If you really want to do a good turn, get them a storefront.

    The war on drug users is evil, and those who support it are evil.

  25. Re:Who cares? on Encryption Cracked On NIST-Certified Flash Drives · · Score: 1

    I don't want to spend 30 minutes trying to explain to my mother how WEP is different than WPA and why she shouldn't be concerned.

    Um, she should be concerned. WEP might as well be an open access point, in which case anyone can sniff anything that goes over it unencrypted. All it takes is one person to sniff her email password over the WiFi and they can cause all sorts of headaches.

    What you don't need to do is explain it to her. Just say "WEP is obsolete garbage, trust me".