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  1. Umm... on Maine Senator Wants Independent Study of TSA's Body Scanners · · Score: 1

    Call me crazy, but I bet the Senator will not be performing the experiments.

  2. Re:I can't remember my husband's passwords on Teens Share Passwords As a Form of Intimacy · · Score: 1

    Do not assume you know her motives.

  3. Re:Netflix on Teens Share Passwords As a Form of Intimacy · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and unnecessary. What is the positive here?

  4. Re:notepad++ dude. on Ask Slashdot: Best Open Source Answer to Dreamweaver? · · Score: 1

    Wow, the top result too. Ouch.

  5. Re:notepad++ dude. on Ask Slashdot: Best Open Source Answer to Dreamweaver? · · Score: 1

    I've never seen a WSYWYG editor that didn't generate tons of garbage HTML for every move you made. That alone makes them not worth it.

  6. Re:It's not open source, but here it goes on Ask Slashdot: Best Open Source Answer to Dreamweaver? · · Score: 1

    Low 5's good enough for me.

  7. Re:10% Ethanol on Is E85 Dead Now? · · Score: 1

    Even that's a stretch, because if anyone proposes those sorts of things, car companies join in the fight and rile up the Tea Party who thinks that the inability to buy a 4mpg 400 horsepower engine is an affront on their liberties, or a response to a manufactured Al Gore crisis.

    I'd love to see it happen, but boy are we shuffling slowly toward that place.

  8. Re:10% Ethanol on Is E85 Dead Now? · · Score: 1

    I could agree, but how's that going to work? Most of these dickheads are actually psyched about getting crappy mileage and having an unnecessarily large engine, etc. "30 mpg? Sounds like some hippy bullshit to me."

  9. Re:10% Ethanol on Is E85 Dead Now? · · Score: 1

    I live in NJ and have literally never seen E85 at a gas station, and not at any place I've ever driven a rental car either.

  10. Re:Spontaneous outbreak of common sense on Workers In Brazil Can Claim Overtime For Answering Email After Hours · · Score: 1

    Going further than that, workers in Wisconsin and New Jersey have figured out that you can negotiate anything you want at the bargaining table but if your state passes a law taking that thing away, you're hosed. Politics govern so much of any person's life, one really can't avoid involvement.

  11. Re:I just got back from a job fair today on Do Companies Punish Workers Who Take Vacations? · · Score: 1

    This has nothing to do with what I said. I'm saying if my business can get by with 2 guys instead of 3 because I've laid the third off and am ripping off the other two, nothing much has changed except one guy will no longer be consuming things (won't have money to go out to eat, won't have money to buy a new car, etc.). Maybe I have more money, but I was already doing fine so my making more money isn't impacting the economy significantly.

  12. Re:they punish employees, period on Do Companies Punish Workers Who Take Vacations? · · Score: 1

    Actually, that's not why.

  13. Re:Quoth the Expert... on Do Companies Punish Workers Who Take Vacations? · · Score: 1

    You boycott having more vacation?

  14. Re:I just got back from a job fair today on Do Companies Punish Workers Who Take Vacations? · · Score: 3, Informative

    And because people are working two jobs worth, meaning other people are out of work and there's less demand for everything as a result.

  15. Re:they punish employees, period on Do Companies Punish Workers Who Take Vacations? · · Score: 3, Informative

    I dunno if you knew this, but the United States is not a household.

  16. Re:Fucking ground this fleet. on World's Largest Passenger Plane May Be Unsafe, Some Say · · Score: 1

    Or maybe you've got some difficulty with reading comprehension. It says classics were built until 2000 and that the airframe was redesigned in 1993 because of the lap joint problem. I don't see it in the article, but I know that this plane was built before 2000 because, from memory, it was a -300, not one of the newer ones.

  17. Re:Author Misidentifies Core Problems with SOPA on Why Politicians Should Never Make Laws About Technology · · Score: 1

    He isn't obliged to explain it, but I'm not obliged to think he's not a moron if he refers to "the race card."

  18. Re:Author Misidentifies Core Problems with SOPA on Why Politicians Should Never Make Laws About Technology · · Score: 1

    I have legitimately never seen someone say "he's playing the race card" and have an actual argument... as if suggesting that anyone thinking that the issue might be racially charged were playing a card and not actually making an argument.

  19. Re:Author Misidentifies Core Problems with SOPA on Why Politicians Should Never Make Laws About Technology · · Score: 1

    I don't even know or care, I'm speaking generally here.

  20. Re:Why no IT union? on Why Politicians Should Never Make Laws About Technology · · Score: 1

    I am a member of a union that represents IT workers. It is not that easy to get people involved, actually. I think a lot of it's culture and the fact that many are young and there's not much taught about unions anymore (and plenty bad "taught" by ignoramuses).

  21. Re:Author Misidentifies Core Problems with SOPA on Why Politicians Should Never Make Laws About Technology · · Score: 0

    ...and there's the "race card"'s companion card, the "he's playing the race card" card. In my experience, the person making this argument (rather than bothering to argue why something isn't race-related) is the bigger asshole.

  22. Re:Main problem on Judge Doesn't Care About Supreme Court GPS Case · · Score: 1

    Then why not illegally obtain all evidence and just say "oops, we probably shouldn't take this as seriously."

    The system works, as well as it does anyhow, precisely because one must legally obtain evidence for it to be admissible.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_of_the_poisonous_tree

  23. Re:Why did they think this would work? on Nokia: the Sun Can't Charge Your Phone · · Score: 1

    One think I miss about my old Treo phones -- they would last a weekend if you were careful how you used them. Nowadays not a chance on my Pre (which I believe has below-average battery life, but still).

  24. Not the problem on Securing Android For the Enterprise · · Score: 2

    My University doesn't support Android phones because there's no at-rest encryption (or at least they say there isn't -- I personally don't want one anyway and so haven't investigated).

  25. Re:OId printer and scanner... on What's Keeping You On XP? · · Score: 1

    What kind of scanner?