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  1. Re:How could they? on Marriot Back-Pedals On Wireless Blocking · · Score: 1

    How uneducated do you have to be on the topic to believe this? Me? I'm betting some corporate lawyer said they could probably get away with it.

    You're assuming waaaaay too much knowledge on the part of the perps here. It's almost certainly a case of a hotel manager thinking this is just the same as not allowing patrons to bring their own beer to a conference but requiring them to buy from the hotel bar. There's no active malice, just ignorance. Good that they got slapped down and straightened out but assigning active evil intent isn't warranted.

  2. Re:Uninterested people aren't worth it on How Bitcoin Could Be Key To Online Voting · · Score: 1

    Politicians of a given party vote with that party VERY high percentages of the time. It really doesn't matter what politican A says about some issue, it matters what the party's stance is. Voting your preference on party stance and ignoring the candidate's position of the moment makes more sense because you're much more likely to get what you voted for.

  3. Not a problem on How Bitcoin Could Be Key To Online Voting · · Score: 1

    Low voter turnout is NOT in and of itself a problem. Only people who care enough to inform themselves and are concerned should vote.
    Low voter turnout means people who don't give a hoot and have no idea have not participated. This is a good thing. The real problem is: How to turn them into people who give a hoot and have informed ideas of the issues.
    Furthermore, whether they've informed themselves they way the way you do or are concerned about what you're concerned about is a feature of democracy, not a problem.

  4. Re: It's political correctness that LIE to the peo on MI5 Chief Seeks New Powers After Paris Magazine Attack · · Score: 1

    Isn't "genocide" based on a genome? I think what you mean is "religiocide".

  5. Re:Conform or be expelled on HOA Orders TARDIS Removed From In Front of Parrish Home · · Score: 1

    Because the HOA will have a vague rule along the lines of "nothing unsightly will be stored in any home's yard". This covers anything the current board members dislike and allows them to lord it over the other homeowners. HOAs are the modern equivalent of brown shirts.

  6. Re:Time to buy vinyl? on How Long Will It Take Streaming To Dominate the Music Business? · · Score: 1

    His turntable is the old school kind - hand crank powered.

  7. Re:America... fuck yeah on WSJ Refused To Publish Lawrence Krauss' Response To "Science Proves Religion" · · Score: 1, Troll

    You not only missed the article but the summary also. What was not printed was an attempt at proof FOR religion, not against it.

  8. Re:Somewhat OT. Bill Gates on Ask Slashdot: Are Progressive Glasses a Mistake For Computer Users? · · Score: 1

    Not everyone is a good candidate for lasik. If your corneas are too thin then you shouldn't get it. Sure, at the discount lasik place they'll sign you up anyway and do it, but you'll regret it. Likely Gates has gone to a quality place and they told him not to do it.

  9. Re:And who will watch it? on South Korean Activist To Drop "The Interview" In North Korea Using Balloons · · Score: 5, Interesting

    And you can bet they watch the propaganda, because in North Korea, TV watches YOU!.

    Worse, in North Korea your neighbor watches you. People can get executed, or worse, for possessing one of these DVDs or even finding one laying on the ground and picking it up when the wrong person is passing by at the same time. I wonder if this "activist" cares about that at all.

  10. I thought the code was PBF.

  11. Re:He called a black man a monkey? on N. Korea Blames US For Internet Outage, Compares Obama to "a Monkey" · · Score: 1

    Chimpanzees are apes.

  12. Re:He called a black man a monkey? on N. Korea Blames US For Internet Outage, Compares Obama to "a Monkey" · · Score: 3, Informative

    We are all essentially monkeys... blacks,white's, eskimo's and north koreans

    Maybe you are; most of us are apes.

  13. Re:Myth Confirmed... on Did Alcatraz Escapees Survive? Computer Program Says They Might Have · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If they were smart enough to pull off this escape, they might be smart enough to realize enough is enough.

  14. Re:Prelude to what? on New Cargo Ship Is 488 Meters Long · · Score: 1

    The Prelude will be replaced in a few years by the Civic Si.

  15. Re:Meaningless? on Backblaze's 6 TB Hard Drive Face-Off · · Score: 2

    I find it odd that the WD drives, at the 5400rpm speed, were able to write data faster than the 7200rpm Seagate drives. That seems counter-intuitive.

    If there are less platters in the WD then the density will mean a speed boost even at a lower spin speed.

  16. Re:Presidential Oath of Office - how quaint on Federal Court Nixes Weeks of Warrantless Video Surveillance · · Score: 2

    But the children are American citizens because of the Constitution. You can't deport American citizens

    You can give passports to american citizens, regardless of age, so they can have a choice to stay or go to the other country to stay with their parents.

  17. Re:Muslims? on Apparent Islamic Terrorism Strikes Sydney · · Score: 1

    And then there's the difference between when a Christian commits some terror act for whatever political or personal motivation but not specific to Christianity vs a Muslim who commits a terror act specifically in the name of Islam. Motive does count for something when trying to determine and work with mediating root causes.

  18. Re:Hope and change finally happening? on Attorney General Won't Force New York Times Reporter To Reveal Source · · Score: 1, Insightful

    And they also broke into his house and searched it when he was away

    Well, he shouldn't have posted twitter that he just saw the cutest puppy at the mall pet shop.

  19. Re:Shocking! on Hollywood's Secret War With Google · · Score: 2

    Ugh, the only thing "24" supports in me is dizziness. I can't watch shows filmed in "drunken cameraman" style.

  20. Re:Fuck You on Time To Remove 'Philosophical' Exemption From Vaccine Requirements? · · Score: 1

    Is this a parody? Even with GIFW theory I'm having a hard time accepting someone wrote this seriously.

  21. Re:Have Both on The Case For Flipping Your Monitor From Landscape to Portrait · · Score: 2

    Oh yeah? I have one in landscape, one in portrait AND one at 45 degrees.

    - Topper

  22. Re:Have Both on The Case For Flipping Your Monitor From Landscape to Portrait · · Score: 2

    Rotating them into portrait mode will cause neck strain as you have to tilt your head back to properly see the top.

    You're sitting WAY too close.

  23. Re:FUD and kneejerk reactions on Feds Plan For 35 Agencies To Collect, Share, Use Health Records of Americans · · Score: 3

    Before we cower in fear because ZOMG EVERYONE KNOWS EVERYTHING ABOUT ME

    The worst part is probably NOT going to be that they know the CORRECT things about your health; the worst part will be when they know INCORRECT things about you. People have absolutely horrible times getting off the secret no-fly list of terrorists and that's just run by one government agency. Can you imagine if you have to convince 30+ different government agencies that they have you down incorrectly as being a modern Typhoid Mary? And just after you convince one or two of them to correct your record, their system gets an update back from one of the others resetting you back to where you started?

  24. Vintage communications is not just old radio on Tour the Vintage Radio and Communications Museum (Video) · · Score: 1

    If they really want to be vintage about communications a model of a semaphor tower.

  25. Chinese computers come this way on Microsoft Files a Copyright Infringement Lawsuit For Activating Pirated Software · · Score: 4, Informative

    At any house brand computer store in China the computers come windows installed and activated but no disks. If you insist on an install disk the price for it is, amazingly, the same as buying windows retail. The whole activation system is fundamentally flawed, but the question is, how to make it 1) less of a pain for legit users and 2) harder for pirates? These two goals seem exclusive, alas.