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  1. Re:Instead... on 'Mobilegeddon': Google To Punish Mobile-Hostile Sites Starting Today · · Score: 2

    I've been on plenty of mobile ready sites. The one thing that always bugs the shit out of me are ...

    oversize ads

    that, and the new trend of having pop overs for ads or subscription services or "Use our Mobile App" ...

    Here is the deal, I keep a mental list of sites that do this, and I avoid them like the plague.

  2. Re:So? on New PCIe SSDs Load Games, Apps As Fast As Old SATA Drives · · Score: 1

    You are saturating 10gbps Network Legs? I would love to see any part of that setup.

    Its not that I don't believe you, it is that I would love to be able to do it.

  3. Re:Well done! on George Lucas Building Low-Income Housing Next Door To Millionaires · · Score: 0

    None of that negates the fact that there is a legal way to immigrate.

    And you seem to be saying that it is okay to break the law if you don't like it, and the government should simply understand and ignore you breaking the law.

  4. Re:America! Fuck yeah! on Gyrocopter Pilot Appears In Court; Judge Bans Him From D.C. · · Score: 1

    Are you saying two wrongs make right?

  5. Re:Well done! on George Lucas Building Low-Income Housing Next Door To Millionaires · · Score: 0

    Yeah! Because using your own wealth to educate you own children is EVIL!

  6. Re:Well done! on George Lucas Building Low-Income Housing Next Door To Millionaires · · Score: 2

    because there is no way for them to immigrate legally

    There is always a legal way, it just isn't as quick as the illegal kind. Which seems to be the real problem with illegal immigrants, they don't want to wait like everyone else.

  7. Re:Well done! on George Lucas Building Low-Income Housing Next Door To Millionaires · · Score: 1

    better test scores, an actual PTA with engaged parent

    I would venture a guess, that if you accounted for Parental involvement in school, it would be the greatest indicator of success in school. And the sad thing is, you cannot call idiot / asshole / drunk / drug parents on their irresponsibly without being labeled "racist" or some other term designed to avoid taking a hard look at parenting choices.

  8. Re:America! Fuck yeah! on Gyrocopter Pilot Appears In Court; Judge Bans Him From D.C. · · Score: 0

    Hide your email from everyone while being required to keep it ... get nominated to be President!

  9. Re:Youngest ever? False. on A 2-Year-Old Has Become the Youngest Person Ever To Be Cryonically Frozen · · Score: 0

    Um, you failed to actually answer the question I actually asked.

    While you are 100% accurate about when "personhood" begins (being Philosophical), we do know that premature babies as young as 24 weeks of gestation have been born, and survived. Would you at least say that was at least one likely boundry of "personhood"?

    This is not arbitrary boundary, it is one established by survivability outside the womb.

    None of them allow aborting while in labor when the mother's life isn't in danger. Almost none allow it when close to labor.

    "Almost" doesn't mean what you think it means. "Almost None" means some. Some isn't none. Lets rephrase your statement in the positive shall we?

    None of them allow aborting while in labor when the mother's life isn't in danger. Some even allow it when close to labor.

    How you phrase things to minimize the effect doesn't actually negate it at all, which is kind of what you were aiming for. I happen to be able to phrase the exact same meaning in a sentence (Almost None=Some) that conveys a completely different connotation. Since both terms are equally nebulous they are equal in meaning.

  10. Re:Hasn't this been proven to be junk science? on A 2-Year-Old Has Become the Youngest Person Ever To Be Cryonically Frozen · · Score: 1

    To hope is to long for circumstances to change. That is to say, one rejects what is real and wishes instead for a fantasy.

    Here is my refutation of this. Hope and being grounded in the Here and Now (present reality) are not mutually exclusive, nor did he present any argument suggesting they are.

    I am FULLY AWARE that today's world sucks in many ways, I HOPE that the suckage will change when real grownups start to run the world instead of mental three year old who react based on emotional arguments, rather than logic and thought.

    My hope is not fully dependent upon what is the "now". I realize that my chances of my hope coming to fruition is between slim and none, simply because the powers to be think the best person to run for president for the Democrats and Republicans are Clinton and Bush.

  11. Re: Decent on Seattle CEO Cuts $1 Million Salary To $70K, Raises Employee Salaries · · Score: 1

    Nobody, on their death bed ever says ... "I wish I spent more time at the office".

    Regret doesn't have an era.

  12. Re:Youngest ever? False. on A 2-Year-Old Has Become the Youngest Person Ever To Be Cryonically Frozen · · Score: 0

    While you are 100% accurate about when "personhood" begins (being Philosophical), we do know that premature babies as young as 24 weeks of gestation have been born, and survived. Would you at least say that was at least one likely boundry of "personhood"?

    The problem is, that the Blue State abortion fanatics refuse to establish even a baseline, because they know that once that line is drawn in the sand, it can be argued for movement. They refuse to even define the line in the sand, because they are just as fanatical as the Red State crowd on this issue.

    Making it about Red State anti scientific types, when it is much more nuanced than that, is a disservice to the discussion.

    Here is my suggestion for "personhood", legal scientific accurate. Personhood starts the moment the fetus (baby) is able to survive outside the womb. We know when that is, because we have proof via example.

  13. Re:Hasn't this been proven to be junk science? on A 2-Year-Old Has Become the Youngest Person Ever To Be Cryonically Frozen · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Beautifully refuted. Thank you.

  14. Re: Decent on Seattle CEO Cuts $1 Million Salary To $70K, Raises Employee Salaries · · Score: 0, Troll

    You put your newborn in a daycare so you can earn more money? That is one of the most selfish things I have ever heard. How do you get a +5 Insightful is beyond me. You kid needs you more than you need more money. Period.

  15. Re:M.2 Specification on Samsung SSD On a Tiny M.2 Stick Is Capable of Read Speeds Over 2GB/sec · · Score: 1

    so they didn't really worry about it being 100% foolproof.

    Filed under "what could possibly go wrong"

  16. Re:M.2 Specification on Samsung SSD On a Tiny M.2 Stick Is Capable of Read Speeds Over 2GB/sec · · Score: 1

    So, you can't stick a 5 pin connector into a six pin hole?

    And you have more faith in users than I do.

  17. M.2 Specification on Samsung SSD On a Tiny M.2 Stick Is Capable of Read Speeds Over 2GB/sec · · Score: 1

    Looking at the Wikipedia Article and the images for the different pinouts for the M.2 Specification, I have serious concerns about the ability to inadvertently flipping the cards, and inserting them upside down. Take a look at the B vs M configuration, which is exactly a mirror of each other.

    UNLESS there is part of the spec that I am not seeing about another notching somewhere, the ability to flip these over and inserting them wrong is going to be a huge issue. And looking at all the examples on the page, I don't see anything to mitigate against inserting these upside down.

  18. Re:Don't fix what ain't broke on Kludgey Electronic Health Records Are Becoming Fodder For Malpractice Suits · · Score: 1

    So, you're supporting the lowering of health care costs by creating worse healthcare system? That is quite an admission.

  19. Re:Don't fix what ain't broke on Kludgey Electronic Health Records Are Becoming Fodder For Malpractice Suits · · Score: 1

    "allows more" means "not all of them" and means "veterans are still at the mercy of our decisions"

    And it was in direct response to the outcry from the public after the politicians didn't do anything other than lip service to the problems being exposed.

    The fact is, the VA system still sucks, still has inordinate wait times for those that do not have the "get out free" card outlined in the news account you gave.

    My actual solution would be to require congress to use the VA as their sole service provider. THEN you'd see real improvement.

  20. Re:Don't fix what ain't broke on Kludgey Electronic Health Records Are Becoming Fodder For Malpractice Suits · · Score: 1

    Do not put words in my mouth. Government can do things right. Just not nearly the amount of things people want government to do, even if it is the worst possible thing.

    The whole VA thing can be fixed, simply, by allowing Veterans to get treatment in a normal hospital. But that doesn't allow our Politicians to "look" into the abuses and "fix" the problem with ... more legislation!

  21. Re:Libertarianism, the new face of the GOP? on Republicans Introduce a Bill To Overturn Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Which is why the municipality should own the last mile infrastructure, just like it owns roads. Building a COLO is like having a highway to the city, where UPS, USPS, FedEX and private taxis can all use the same roads.

  22. Re:Libertarianism, the new face of the GOP? on Republicans Introduce a Bill To Overturn Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Fiber isn't Telco. Comcast can't have it both ways, say it is Telco and not Telco at the same time.

    I agree that fiber is not Telco, it is data network. A municipality that says "we're building our own infrastructure" and allow any service to run across that infrastructure (think Roads and trucks), would win. Just build the damn last mile out right and solve the problem.

  23. Re:Why is it even a discussion? on Republicans Introduce a Bill To Overturn Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    given the reality on the ground

    Reality on the ground can change, if enough people actually want it to change, and there is leadership strong enough to walk it through to the end. I'm offering my solution, it is cookie cutter easy, it just takes one city to set it up to prove it works. And it will work, because it is simple fix. Build the fiber out to every home, to a COLO. The rest can be handled by fees of those that use the service, and the providers.

  24. Re:Why is it even a discussion? on Republicans Introduce a Bill To Overturn Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Last mile is not a natural monopoly. Last mile is just like streets and sewers (municipal), and solvable without Federal legislation. You bring fiber to the house, municipally, you solve the problem. Don't let a private enterprise have exclusive rights to the municipal infrastructure.

    It is solvable. I have a plan that works. It is just that nobody wants to even try it.

  25. Re:Why is it even a discussion? on Republicans Introduce a Bill To Overturn Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    No, when liberals want laws to prevent corporatation X from doing business thing Y, it is the start of the process that allows Corporation X to petition government to prevent Corporation Z from doing things that Corporation X doesn't like.

    Libertarians realize that most of those laws, restricting otherwise legitimate business practices simply because "I don't like what they are doing" allows for all sorts of interference into the free and open marketplace.

    Mind you, there is no need for Net Neutrality laws at all, if you solve the last mile problem, and give people a real choice. In addition, you're also opening up the market to new products and services we can't even imagine.

    Solving the problem where it is, always works best. The problem isn't national problem, it is last mile (in this case)