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  1. Re:Playing your alignment? on Believing You Are Very Good Or Evil Boosts Your Physical Capabilities · · Score: 1

    Not really. The "well-oiled machine" image of Nazism was mostly propaganda. In fact, it was mostly run on nepotism and personal favoritism. The parts of the German war machine that were well-organized and worked according to well-laid out policies with those parts that were there *before* the Nazis (like the General Staff).

  2. FFmpeg? on VP8 Codec Coming To FFmpeg · · Score: 1, Funny

    But what if you don't play Final Fantasy?

  3. Re:s/Kahn/Khan on Khan Academy Delivers 100,000 Lectures Daily · · Score: 1

    It would be number two. GNU sed will actually tell you that you didn't terminate your 's' command correctly. Older seds will just say something like "garbled command".

  4. Re:The request itself is suspicious. on China Bans Military Personnel From Blogging · · Score: 1

    Well, of course they are. And so are we. And so is everybody. Any military intel organization would have to be a fool not to be checking to see if useful information was left lying around in this fashion. In fact, if I were an intel officer, I'd be thinking about laying out disinformation through fake blogs.

  5. Re:Speech by NMPA CEO about "anti-copyright agenda on ASCAP Declares War On Free Culture, EFF · · Score: 1

    Geez, where do I sign up?? Those are all GREAT ideas!

  6. Re:Awesome.. on ASCAP Declares War On Free Culture, EFF · · Score: 1

    Correct. They can't change the licensing of anything currently released under Copyleft. They can prevent anything being released under Copyleft in the future.

  7. Re:Awesome.. on ASCAP Declares War On Free Culture, EFF · · Score: 1

    No they can't.

    Yes, they can. Federal law defines what copyright is and what it does, and guess who writes Federal law?

  8. Re:How Sad... on Arlington National Cemetery's Many IT Flaws · · Score: 1

    So, yeah, they're shitcanned.

    One is being allowed to fall back on his full retirement bennies, and the other is being paid to not work. Yep, that's some kind of punishment, there. (Granted, the one on administrative leave might wind up catching it later. Then again, he might not.) Compare this to the worker who tried to blow the whistle on them a few years ago. They FIRED her ass.

  9. Re:How Sad... on Arlington National Cemetery's Many IT Flaws · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm talking $5000 for a PCB with 25 year old components on it.

    That might almost be reasonable--that sort of thing gets expensive when they're not making them anymore.

  10. Even the government can do better than this on Arlington National Cemetery's Many IT Flaws · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The article notes that the Veterans' Administration *has* computerized graves registration elsewhere, successfully, covering ten times the number of graves at one-third the cost of this utterly failed effort.

  11. Re:Tell me about it! on Arlington National Cemetery's Many IT Flaws · · Score: 1

    If only he were. They spent $5 million dollars and they DON'T EVEN HAVE A DATABASE. At all. Of anything.

  12. Re:not likely to happen on Senate Panel Approves Cybersecurity Bill · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The President also has the power to suspend the Constitution,

    Er, no, he doesn't. What the hell ever gave you the idea that he could?

  13. Re:Hey... on Canadian Arrested Over Plans to Test G20 Security · · Score: 2, Informative

    Can't you be charged with just about anything a police officer deems necessary to bring you into the station,

    I don't know about Canada, but in the US, just making stuff up so you can be hauled in can get the police charged with False Arrest.

  14. Only one question needs to be asked on Canadian Arrested Over Plans to Test G20 Security · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Did he have an agreement with the G20 meeting organizers to test their security? You don't get to "test" people's security against their will.

  15. Re:Does the U.S. really want to be like China or I on Say No To a Government Internet "Kill Switch" · · Score: 1

    Most of us access the internet through the relatively small number of cable and telephone companies that actually own the wire that runs to our home (or the wireless tower that gives us a signal). If you can successfully lean on them to shut down, the Internet may technically still be running, but YOU won't be using it.

  16. Re:Traditional Media...LOL on Study Finds Google Is More Trusted Than Traditional Media · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's right! Our public doesn't believe in a controlled, manipulated mainstream press, so the answer must be MORE control and manipulation!

  17. Re:Too Complicated on Best OSS CFD Package For High School Physics? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Two kids applying for a job, one has at least used CFD a few times and the other goes "No, but I can figure it out!" its pretty straightforward who is getting the job.

    Yep. Neither of them. No place that uses CFD as part of the job is going to accept anyone who isn't a certified engineer with extensive training in its use.

  18. Re:IS THIS WHAT YOU WANTED? on Might Shatner Boldly Lead Canada As Governor? · · Score: 1

    Ronald Reagan was from Illinois

    But he was a Californian for his entire political career.

  19. Re:Dot-plan? on Why Engineers Don't Like Twitter · · Score: 4, Funny

    That would be this instead...

    http://hueniverse.com/webfinger/

    I swear, I read that and the brass section in the back of my head immediately started up:

    WebFINGER!! (Dah DAAAH daah!)
    He's the man, the man with the browser touch...

  20. Re:Good but... on ThinkGeek's Best Ever Cease-and-Desist Letter · · Score: 1

    Tref?

  21. Re:You are all missing the real issue here! on ThinkGeek's Best Ever Cease-and-Desist Letter · · Score: 1

    You realize that you're trying to sell this to the greatest concentration of natural unicorn hunters the world has ever seen.

  22. Re:We hear you like screen! on Toshiba Demos Dual-Touchscreen Netbook · · Score: 2, Funny

    Fuck everything, we're doing five screens.

  23. Re:Storm chasers say they have as much right to wa on Tornado Scientists Butt Heads With Storm Chasers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Who says the PhD types couldn't contribute to some amateurs getting killed?

    Well, the PhDs have a little thing called KNOWING WHAT THE FUCK THEY'RE DOING.

    There's a storm that can put a toothpick through an oak tree: everyone running towards it is responsible for their own consequences.

    But apparently not the consequences their ignorance and sense of entitlement force on others.

  24. Re:Depends what you mean. on Pakistani Lawyer Wants Mark Zuckerberg Executed · · Score: 1

    (the very act of instituting "Churches" runs contrary to the Bible)

    You mean, like when Jesus says, "Upon this rock I shall build my Church"?

  25. Re:I love moderates on Pakistani Lawyer Wants Mark Zuckerberg Executed · · Score: 2, Informative

    Also, while Islam didn't have a "reformation", it also has the "two-substantially-dissimilar-and-mutually-displeased-with-one-another-sects-operating-under-one-heading" thing going, with the Sunni and Shia branches

    The Sunni/Shia split happened very early on and really resembles the Orthodox/Catholic split in Christianity a lot more than it does the Reformation.