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  1. Re:Wanna check my balls? on TSA To Make Pat-Downs More Embarrassing To Encourage Scanner Use · · Score: 5, Funny

    Outlawing turning a bug into a feature?
    That's un-Amurican.

  2. Re:Wanna check my balls? on TSA To Make Pat-Downs More Embarrassing To Encourage Scanner Use · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I've found it's quite the opposite. The lower IQ people are more adverse to "that gay shit". If you get a beatdown make a federal case out of it.

  3. Re:It's about obedience on TSA To Make Pat-Downs More Embarrassing To Encourage Scanner Use · · Score: 1

    Make the lackeys feel dumb and ridiculous. The price of operations will go up and they'll find different methods.

  4. Re:Wanna check my balls? on TSA To Make Pat-Downs More Embarrassing To Encourage Scanner Use · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "Oh yeah, that's good. Keep going, keep going, OH YES! You've done this before haven't you. *wink*"

    That should accompany every search.

  5. Really? on TSA To Make Pat-Downs More Embarrassing To Encourage Scanner Use · · Score: 1

    So I get a little free hand action with every flight? AWESOME!

    Can I tip extra to get a stewardess?

  6. Theoretically I should be the greateest man alive. on The Galaxy May Have Billions of Habitable Planets · · Score: 1

    Now I just need to find some proof.

  7. Re:Repugnant on Leaked Letter — BSA Pressures Europe To Kill Open Standards · · Score: 1

    But the ipod could have accepted the lower amperage and let me treat it like any other harddrive.

  8. Re:Repugnant on Leaked Letter — BSA Pressures Europe To Kill Open Standards · · Score: 1

    slightly off-topic but for consideration: I had to load itunes onto my laptop before I could turn the ipod on so that it could register to an account and whatnot. But yes, it does charge from any USB port I plug it into.

  9. Re:Repugnant on Leaked Letter — BSA Pressures Europe To Kill Open Standards · · Score: 1

    You're not grasping the difference between open source and open standards.
    Open standards create multiple layers of markets for hardware and software makers to compete in. So that if you want a Cisco router, an old 3com switch, and a Sun(RIP) running Ubuntu, you can.

    However, you're SOL if you want to use MS's implementation of Kerberos because they "extended" it's functionality beyond the original specification so that it will only play nice with other MS implementations.

    By not using the open standard MS hoped to and succeeded in anchoring corporations to their licenses while hurting the competition that used open standards. If they had the best Kerberos product, there would have been no need for this trickdickery and they could have won with fair fighting in the market. Instead they tried to fight everyone with their single, closed and ultimately market unfriendly product.

  10. Re:Repugnant on Leaked Letter — BSA Pressures Europe To Kill Open Standards · · Score: 2, Informative

    And nothing hurt.

  11. Re:Repugnant on Leaked Letter — BSA Pressures Europe To Kill Open Standards · · Score: 1

    Hahaha and those razor blade makers with the weird fittings too.

  12. Repugnant on Leaked Letter — BSA Pressures Europe To Kill Open Standards · · Score: 5, Insightful

    While it's easy to laugh at optimistic young people that want to "make the world a better place," I have nothing but total disdain and condemnation for those that want to make it worse.

    I'm looking at you BSA and cell phone makers that use weird plugs.

  13. Re:Base Vs. Stakeholders on Internet Dismantling the State Church In Finland · · Score: 1

    Psh, that's easy. You just have to find a different interpretation, define a different true meaning behind the words that the supposed deity expressed through fallible humans.

    That Sodom and Gomorrah thing: just tough love for their impiety. Also the populations were still small and god was trying to keep us from gaying ourselves into extinction at that fragile time and oh look at the time, let's pass the plate and get the heck out of here.

  14. Re:Humans are just biased towards natural numbers on Proving 0.999... Is Equal To 1 · · Score: 1

    Practical purposes?
    Obviously you're more of the applied mathematics area.
    1.5 rounds to 2 thus 1.5=2 will suffice for most practical purposes.

  15. If you have a solid idea and are driven.. on You Are Not Mark Zuckerberg, So Stay In School · · Score: 1

    If you have a solid idea and are driven to get it on the market then go for it and hire the college kids later. College graduates are trained to assist leaders. They're the most highly trained servants in the world.

  16. Now's perfect for the irrelevant Colonel to retire on Why Warriors, Not Geeks, Run US Cyber Command Posts · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So a real warrior can look at 1000's of bombing coordinates and see if one's out of place?

    That's amazing but I can build an AWK script in an afternoon for that and it'll get 100% accuracy when tuned and I can go do other things and the real warrior can go put boots on the ground.

    Ex-Army here btw.

  17. I have some old paperbacks with ads. on Will Amazon Put Advertisements In eBooks? · · Score: 1

    This was tried in the past with cheap paperbacks. I don't know why they stopped.
    I prefer books because they keep the ads to the front and back, which is less distracting and more useful than inline ads.
    If ebook publishers/distributors choose the inline advertising method for their wares, I'll start buying printed books. It's simple as that.

  18. Do it the Microsoft way. on How Can I Make Testing Software More Stimulating? · · Score: 1

    Do it like the pros: release the software and issue patches.
    The bug reports will be great fun.

    I hit the save button and the program crashed. Thanks a lot asslick."

  19. Re:A walk through the forest is informationally ri on Having Too Much Information Can Narrow Your Focus · · Score: 1

    *..the suffering of others if it..*

  20. Re:A walk through the forest is informationally ri on Having Too Much Information Can Narrow Your Focus · · Score: 1

    It asks for your attention. You make the choice to give it.

    Mothers have had to deal with information overload for millenia, drivers for a century. The whole argument is asinine as it assumes that people lack the capability of filtering.

    We've always ignored the suffering if it doesn't almost directly impinge on our own existence.

    Little that we're doing is actually changing, merely the methods shift and sometimes speed events up.

  21. A walk through the forest is informationally rich. on Having Too Much Information Can Narrow Your Focus · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The world is an information-rich place. It was before we showed up and after we leave. The only difference we make is that we intentionally record data.

    When you walk on the beach your interpret the sound waves of information as noise because you're unable to comprehend any deeper meaning than the existence of waves crashing nearby.

  22. Re:the Iphone came out 5 years ago on Stats Show iPhone Owners Get More Sex · · Score: 1

    er I meant imply. If the survey told us the average number of sex partners per year since buying the mobile device compared to before we would have a better understanding whether the iphone helped them get more sex partners or if people with a pre-existing higher average of sex partners prefer the iphone.

  23. the Iphone came out 5 years ago on Stats Show iPhone Owners Get More Sex · · Score: 1

    they were 25 when the Iphone came out and 28 when Android came out.

    Isn't this proof that sluts buy the iphone?

  24. Psh. on The 'Net Generation' Isn't · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Next you'll tell me that MTV generation didn't understand how a CRT worked and merely accepted the 60 hz spray of electrons into their eyeballs thoughtlessly.

    Or that the telephone generation of the 50s didn't spend long hours thinking about the automation of connections.

  25. mmm delicious rich people tears NOMNOMNOM on Officials Use Google Earth To Find Unlicensed Pools · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Press releases: the newest method for rich people to whine.