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  1. It's Wrong on Uniforms For the Help Desk? · · Score: 1

    Quite a few workers hate uniforms and if it is in a situation where creative thinking is involved you can bet that many, good, potential employees will refuse to work there.

  2. Oh Yeh? on Harry McCracken Rounds Up the Year In Tech · · Score: 1

    Try this tech yardstick. Tell us how sales were at PC Mag this year! If the industry makes no money development will suffer big time.

  3. I've Said It Before on Canadian Censorship Takes Down 4500 Sites · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The government of Canada has obviously gone stark raving mad. This disease appears to be an imitation of the Reagen-Bush mentality that pretty much destroyed the US.

  4. Yes I do Know on Bruce Schneier On Airport Security · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Terrorism is the smallest of security problems for air craft. The greatest issue is the rapid delivery of diseases from all corners of the world which threatens all of us all of the time. For example a common flu strain will easily kill far more people than we lost on 9/11. Rarer strains could wipe out millions.
                            The simple answer is to allow far less travel even inside our borders. International flights should be extremely limited. That will not only insure better health and safety but will also diminish the availability of air craft to terrorists as well.
                            Nations such as the old USSR that restricted travel were not totally wrong in that policy.

  5. Messed Up! on Graphic Novelist Calls For Better Game Violence · · Score: 1

    Since the entire idea of computer games is to avoid reality it seems illogical to try to make them more like reality.

  6. Re:How many complaint responses would there be ... on Mother Calls 911 to Stop Son Playing Video Game · · Score: 1

    This incident made good headlines but it really may have been far more serious than it seems. If this kid is having serious mental issues and refuses to comply with parents there is no way to use force these days without ending up in jail. It is a sad fact but every now and then there comes a situation where a good punch in the nose can straighten a kid out and even save his life. I am not advocating beating kids but there really are oddball situations where some measure of brutality is actually the best or only treatment. That is why some troubled kids get straight in the Army. When pain and punishment are continuously at hand some people finally get the message to fly right.

  7. No Way! on NY Times, LA Times Want Amazon To Collect More State Taxes · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is an attempt to please brick and mortar stores who want to push electronic sales into the toilet. On line sales already carry a great burden in shipping costs. If you add taxes on top of shipping costs you kill online sales completely.

  8. Re:why? on Chinese Pirates Launch Ubuntu That Looks Like XP · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Remember Andy Warhole entering the urinal in the art show and winning! There are some very, very idiotic people who have no taste at all. They usually think they are sensitive and all knowing. Ubuntu can look really great. But a box stock XP machine looks cheesy to me.

  9. Re:Oh, look! on TSA Wants You To Keep Your Seat, and Your Hands In Sight · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sympathy is one thing. But with a nation of 300 million or more in population the loss of 2 or 3 thousand people really is a minor event. For example we won't even ban tobacco products and they kill about 250 times as many people every year as the 9/11 attacks. And banning tobacco would be a trivial legal task. Think about it. Want to save even more lives? Ban alcoholic beverages.

  10. Re:NO! on TSA Wants You To Keep Your Seat, and Your Hands In Sight · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Once in a while I get an awful urge to find a toilet really quickly. Waiting an hour to use a restroom might cause a lot of people to lose their lunch from the stink of what might occur.
                                    Frankly we have gone insane. At the price of our current wars against terror we might be better off to let the loonies pick a large American building and two large passenger jest to blow up every year. We would save money for sure compared to the cost of using our military.
                                    Or we could cut lose and use the big weapons and see if any survivors still want to fight.

  11. Naturally, Not in America on World's First Production Hybrid Motorcycle To Hit Market In India · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Leave it to the USA not to be first in streeting high mileage motorcycles. Yes, it angers me to see other nations developing products that the US will not or can not. Supposedly we are the big assed , number one, creators of all times. Yet we constantly see product development in nations that are so poor that they are lucky not to be in starvation. What will we see next? Maybe superior electronics from Uganda or polar bears building better cars than we can.

  12. Re:Well... on Patrolling the US Border Via Webcam · · Score: -1, Troll

    If we can attach auto tracking machine guns or mortar launchers to these cameras we may have something. Or we could allow on lines viewers to operate the weapons and earn money by killing off border hoppers. And no, I am not anti Mexican. Any illegal will do without regard to race, religion or place of origin.

  13. Re:Boom. on "Home Batteries" Power Houses For a Week · · Score: 1

    These batteries will probably be so expensive that 99% of us will never have one.

  14. Re:The solution.. on Best Filesystem For External Back-Up Drives? · · Score: 1

    God, I hope you are joking. Your post would make a good editing test for an English 101 class. Notice that English actually is capitalized.

  15. Re:Innovation! on The Last GM Big-Block V-8 Rolls Off the Line · · Score: 1

    Just to add to the confusion there are now folded V configurations such that one piston is sandwiched into the valley of two others such that one head can cover both banks. These designs work well enough but I can imagine that handling the heat from such designs must be an engineers nightmare.

  16. Re:Innovation! on The Last GM Big-Block V-8 Rolls Off the Line · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't make that statement if I were you. There are V-6 engines that are serious power houses. They also have an advantage of having a much shorter crank shaft which means less crank warp and longer life for the crank.
                      In line engines work well in low power usage. They are nicely in balance. However they create other problems in that the engine bay, and frame must be larger to accommodate in V-6 designs. That means increased weight for the vehicle which in turn effects fuel use.
                      I have driven antique straight 8s and straight 12s. They could actually be pretty smooth but it was like having the anchor from the Titanic in the front of the car. They also lacked power.

  17. Re:As evil as it sounds... on AU Authority Moves To Censor Net Filtering Protest Site · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I'm not so certain that a mature or even polite action is called for when censorship is involved. When one's ability to speak or receive communications are limited by some kind of authority then action, even violent action, is justified. Basic freedoms are not up for debate. The needs of society bear no weight against personal freedoms and liberties. Freedom of speech is an absolute. It is hard to justify it in the most extreme circumstances. For example you may pass a law that one can not scream fire in a crowded theater and by so doing cause a lot of deaths because sometimes there really is a fire in a crowded theater.
                  In the US we have been undergoing a period of sexual repression. Things like adult films and publications as well as prostitution and some really absurd laws regarding young people and sex have been all the rage for the last twenty or so years. Frankly it seems to have created a whole lot of sexually off tract individuals and generated a lot of crime as well. It may also be contributing to drug use and alcoholism as well as suicides. And you don't even want to consider the millions upon millions of dollars spent it controlling sexual communications.

  18. Huge Potential on The First Robot To Cross the Atlantic Ocean Underwater · · Score: 1

    These gliders promise enormous benefits across several disciplines. Movement of schools of fish, under water mapping, temperature and current studies as well as military uses abound. Perhaps tens of thousands of these units can function together giving us real time information never before dreamed about.

  19. Re:Good Riddance on UK Wants To Phase Out Checks By 2018 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The alternative can not be automatic bill payment. I just had a situation in which an insurance company took an entire years premium instead of the agreed upon monthly payment. That triggered a cascade of overdraft fees to my account. The company involved did redeposit the money they accidentally took but they failed to pay for the overdraft fees that they directly caused. They will pay eventually but in the mean time I am short of over $100 in expenses generated by their error. Automatic bill payment is not safe enough to use in my opinion.

  20. Usually Dumb on Student Banned From Minnesota Campus Over Facebook Comments · · Score: 1

    Schools usually are completely stupid when it comes to handling students. It's a national tradition.

  21. Lawyer in a Can on Former Congressman Learns About Streisand Effect · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Where did this poor fool get his law training? Despair can make a fool out of a man but then again raping one's daughters sort of establishes that he is warped to begin with. It seems to me that we have special places to put people who rape their daughters.

  22. NUTS! on Israeli Border Police Shoot US Student's Laptop · · Score: 1

    Give idiots power and they act up every time. Those soldiers belong in prison.

  23. A Travesty on Swiss Geologist On Trial For Causing Earthquakes · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It is a shame that this fellow is going to be on trial. He obviously had no intent to do harm. And this article does not indicate the he was irresponsible in his efforts. Sometimes bad things happen but that does not mean that someone should be punished.

  24. India Is Smarter on Microsoft Fined In India For Using "Money Power" Against Pirates · · Score: 1

    It seems to me from this report that law in India is superior to law in the US. I never would have thought that to be possible. Now we need to get courts in America to protect the poor and the working classes. Go figure!

  25. Re:Maybe it was running Vista... on Microsoft eOpen Site Down For Nearly a Week · · Score: 1

    Maybe they were smacked in the snout by the blue screen of death.