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  1. Re:Bragging about torture on Citizen Eavesdrops On Former NSA Director Michael Hayden's Phone Call · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Were? You think things are better? Our government is executing Americans overseas without a trial(even an unfair one) now.

  2. Re:Uh.. on Obama Administration Refuses To Overturn Import Ban On Samsung Products · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    You know what's more American than an iPhone? Toyota Camry. Built in the US by Americans

  3. Re:Obamaphone on Obama Administration Refuses To Overturn Import Ban On Samsung Products · · Score: 0

    Apple has billions invested in Chinese suppliers? Just a wild guess

  4. Re:Spoilers if you haven't read it(which you shoul on Tom Clancy Is Dead At 66 · · Score: 1

    That was actually towards the first 1/3 of the book. The girl he picked up got killed pretty early on.

    I was very invested in the book. When that happened I had to put the book down for a few weeks

  5. Re:We lost a good one here. on Tom Clancy Is Dead At 66 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Without Remorse was one of the better modern fiction novels I've read, and totally accessible to those not looking for military porn

  6. Tech Startup? on Obamacare Could Help Fuel a Tech Start-Up Boom · · Score: 2

    What exactly do they mean by tech startup? The 40 year old project manager for a software company that leaves to consult with an existing customer base to increase freedom/pay? Or the Elon Musk starting a new billion dollar venture? I guess they're both tech, and they're both startups, but the current industry definition of tech startup only really applies to the latter, while the age of the people being mentioned are the people that go into small time consulting after they're tired of the corporate world and realize that the company is charging the customer $200/hr while you're being paid $50/hr to render service

  7. Re:well on Students Hack School-Issued iPads Within One Week · · Score: 1

    Funny thing, LAUSD is among the upper echelons of districts in per student spending in the state, yet they rank well below the nearby suburban districts that are in the mid or low range of student spending in things like avg SAT scores, graduation rates, etc. It's not a money problem. It's a parenting problem and a demographic problem(almost need separate school systems for the amount of ESL burdening the educators)

  8. Well on Intel Rolls Out Raspberry Pi Competitor · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    At least it doesn't have a ridiculous name like Raspberry Pi

  9. Re:AMD Experience on Multi-Display Gaming Artifacts Shown With AMD, 4K Affected Too · · Score: 1

    I've run ATi cards off and on since the 8500. Never had issues.

  10. Re:Please Leave the Gun Rights Debate Out Of This on Reddit Bans Subreddit Dedicated To Finding Navy Yard Shooters · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Civilized countries like Switzerland, where almost everyone has an assault rifle at home at one time or another and has an option to take a fire arm home for free from the government after their mandatory military service? That country is pretty goddamn civilized.

  11. Re:One data point? on Arctic Ice Cap Rebounds From 2012 — But Does That Matter? · · Score: 1

    On one side, but then last year there was a whole mess of shit thrown on the AGW fire about how the sea ice is all but gone. Stop media sensationalism, then maybe we can have rational debate and rational resolutions

  12. Re:Neurologists Shine Light On Near-Death Experien on Neurologists Shine Light On Near-Death Experiences · · Score: 1
  13. Re:From the ashes into the fire? on Acer Pulls Back From Windows To Focus On Android and Chromebook · · Score: 1

    What came first, the iPhone or the App Store? Android or the Android Market? If you don't sell any devices to access your market, you aren't going to make any money.

  14. Re:From the ashes into the fire? on Acer Pulls Back From Windows To Focus On Android and Chromebook · · Score: 2

    Problem like price will be dealt with with clearance of unsold hardware. Woot has already has some cheap Windows tablets recently.

    Problems like features/software that people want for professional use(or power user use) won't be dealt with either if how they treated WP7 is any indication

  15. Re:From the ashes into the fire? on Acer Pulls Back From Windows To Focus On Android and Chromebook · · Score: 2

    Or they should've priced it like the Kindle Fire. Dumb price for a limited product. No .Net is fine, simply because Metro is completely consumer oriented, but you have to price it for consumers

  16. Re:IT the bottleneck? on Software-Defined Data Centers Might Cost Companies More Than They Save · · Score: 1

    Well, it's not the IT people, rather the Information Technology part.

  17. Re:Finally! on Bill Gates Is Beginning To Dream the Thorium Dream · · Score: 2

    Yea, he's only the most generous philanthropist in the world. Fuck helping people, I want cheap power

  18. Re:hmm.. on The City Where People Are Afraid To Breathe · · Score: 1

    That's why we Californian's give them free sex changes, free kidney transplants for lifers while non-incarcerated people die from lack of organs because they're lower on the list, etc.

  19. Re:Compatibility? on Book Review: Eloquent JavaScript: a Modern Introduction To Programming · · Score: 1

    Browser incompatibilities, but also browser compatibility. The fact that it doesn't require anything special, just a browser, is why it continues to pervade everything web related.

  20. Re:The quality conrol problems... on Upside-Down Sensors Caused Proton-M Rocket Crash · · Score: 1

    Everyone is on his naughty list, it's just being elevated that matters

  21. Re:Expect more of this. on The Black Underbelly of Windows 8.1 'Blue' · · Score: 1

    It is the most popular desktop linux experience

  22. Re:Expect more of this. on The Black Underbelly of Windows 8.1 'Blue' · · Score: 1

    I see you've never heard of Unity.

  23. Re:Keypad on Keyless Remote Entry For Cars May Have Been Cracked · · Score: 1

    How is that any less secure? How do "they" know you have a 6 digit combination?

  24. Re:Keypad on Keyless Remote Entry For Cars May Have Been Cracked · · Score: 1

    Of course a 4 digit code with non-repeating numbers is bad. My code was 6 digits long with only 3 numbers used for the doors, 7 and 4 for the trunk. With unknowable length and the combination unknown, just knowing that 4 digits on the 10 digit keypad were worn doesn't make it easy to brute force simply because repeating digits with unknown length throws everything to hell from a manual entry perspective.

  25. Keypad on Keyless Remote Entry For Cars May Have Been Cracked · · Score: 3, Insightful

    My 1986 Nissan Maxima had a keypad. I keyed in a code(of my choosing, plugged in at the dealership) and it unlocked my driver door, all my doors, my trunk, etc. I loved it because I could stash my keys in the trunk when I was doing something where I didn't want to keep my keys with me(like going to the gym) and just punch my key in when I wanted access. Sadly, this never caught on. I like it much better than fobs(other than remote start in cold weather).