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  1. Re:Better than chance on Using Google To Help Predict Side Effects of Mixing Drugs · · Score: 1

    I hope this ends better for the non-medically trained researcher(s) than looking up symptoms and positing which disease one's suffering from.

  2. Re:But Cruz is a-Pauling? on Rand Paul Launches a Filibuster Against Drone Strikes On US Soil · · Score: 1

    Yes. But no in the present sense that the business-as-usual Congress is so entrenched that maverick behavior is potentially the only saving grace. The American people are not to be counted on for the type of grassroots activism that is necessary for a changing of the guard. For a significant upset of the norm inside the beltway, it must happen from within the guard, and That has to start with some populist maverick leadership.

  3. But Cruz is a-Pauling? on Rand Paul Launches a Filibuster Against Drone Strikes On US Soil · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That's why we elect the Populist candidate every once in awhile... keeps it interesting... well done, Senator, well done.

  4. Re:We Need to Roll Back the PATRIOT Act on Google Releases Data On FBI Spying · · Score: 1

    A government entitlement is the nearest thing to eternal life I've ever seen on this earth, and while 'the military budget' is the buzzword for would-be budgeteers everywhere, the only way this Outfit gets in the black is to utilize the politically-impossible entitlement reduction strategy. So it's not going to happen, and if it was going to happen, it wouldn't happen now while the gov't. has international investors lined up to loan US virtually free money.

  5. Re:We Need to Roll Back the PATRIOT Act on Google Releases Data On FBI Spying · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A decade ago, the Municipality where I reside enacted a quarter cent sales tax increase to build a sporting complex that was to "sunset" away as soon as the debt was paid off. (Advertised as a huge economic plus to the entire community, blah blah blah...) It has become crystalline to any observer not too poor to pay attention that the City will never willingly allow this revenue source to dry up. The justification process has already begun at Council meetings: maintenance issues will have to be resolved by increased property tax evaluations if this tax increase is allowed to fade, etc. Whether you are talking about a tax or a way to circumvent a citizen's Constitutional freedoms, once they're in your overlord's hands, they're gone baby gone.

  6. Color me surprised. Thanks Patriot Act! on Google Releases Data On FBI Spying · · Score: 4, Insightful

    'In the interest of National Security' is a fast and loose term that has too often been used to escape the cleansing sunlight of oversight.

  7. Re:schadenfreude on UC Davis Study Concludes H-1B Workers Neither Best Nor Brightest · · Score: 2

    So when outsourcing and automation came for the nerds, there were no other "meat bags" to speak for them?

  8. Re:Too bad, only a few humans have evolved too. on New Research Sheds Light On the Evolution of Dogs · · Score: 1

    Well done. Bravo.

  9. The thing about your more sentient criminals... on Nearly Every NYC Crime Involves Computers, Says Manhattan DA · · Score: 2

    Is that they're actually forced by their battle with law enforcement to become more innovative, more adept at their trade if you will, in order to remain free to practice their alternative income schemes. Law enforcement is kept busy with all measure of law breakers. Even the burglar who leaves his wallet behind at the scene of the crime requires an arrest, booking, detective interviews, and prosecution. It has occurred to me that much of law enforcement's time and energy go to plucking low-hanging fruit. Is it any wonder they are losing the battle to adapt technologically?

  10. Didn't stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night... on Texas Rangers Use Internet To Breathe New Life Into Cold Case Homicides · · Score: 1

    And IANADPS detective, but I am not without an impressive resume'. I've some perfectly brewed coffee, a mild Investigative Discovery addiction, and I've been reading /. all morning: forty stab wounds is personal. It's a spurned lover.

  11. Re:the right thing on Cisco Looking To Make Things Right With West Virginia · · Score: 1

    This is both a government story and a West Virginia story... where are Hanlon and his beardcutter?

  12. re: delicately speaking on Conflicted Judges Are Classier With English Accents · · Score: 1

    Aside from the title's nonchalance regarding accuracy, DO you think that certain English dialects impart an aura of class or import to the speaker?

  13. delicately speaking.... on Conflicted Judges Are Classier With English Accents · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This rises a smidge above the appearance of impropiety.

  14. Re:JAVA - Stands For on New Java 0-Day Vulnerability Being Exploited In the Wild · · Score: 1

    Gee, Oracles Sun language is news 'gain.

  15. Re:The High Frontier on NASA's Space Colony Designs From the '70s · · Score: 1

    Well, maybe if we hadn't wasted all that adamantium on James Howlett...

  16. Re:I'm not gonna do it. on NASA's Space Colony Designs From the '70s · · Score: 1

    Very telling. And to think, the only plausible way this gets off the ground now is the chance of the exploitation of asteroidean mineral reserves by corporations for profit. O8....that's the one area in which we truly excel. We'll be fine. Perhaps we are destined to be the Universe's observer.

  17. Re:You couldn't make this stuff up on Apple's $1B Patent Award From Samsung Gets Cut By $450M · · Score: 2

    Correct. This is not your typical frivolous or meritorious personal injury lawsuit where the plaintiff doesn't pay the barrister unless they win. The only thing better than 11,000 billable hours at the Cadillac Corporate Rate for the first trial? Why, the sequel.

  18. Funny, but I am reminded of the old joke... on Groupon Still Losing Money, CEO Is Fired And Leaks Final Email · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've always hated him, but I'll go to his funeral just to make sure he's really dead.

  19. It's kind of great to have a 1st World Problem... on What a 'Six Strikes' Copyright Notice Looks Like · · Score: 1

    There is always a way to vote when the offensive action is perpetrated by a money grubbing entity: with your wallet. Unfortunately, most people won't be willing to give up their darling televisions on principle alone. It is an inexpensive babysitter for some, a mind eraser for others, and an escape from the day for too many.

  20. Re:Breaking news is overrated... on Plans Unveiled For Full Scale Replica of the Titanic · · Score: 1

    Well put. But there is no use panning for gold where there is no gold, so go to a stream where people have found gold before. That is also /.

  21. Breaking news is overrated... on Plans Unveiled For Full Scale Replica of the Titanic · · Score: 2

    It is also notoriously inaccurate as competing 24 hour news outlets attempt to out-scoop one another with little, if any, story validation. Early reporting at recent FPS stories like Sandy Hook, Fort Hood, and the Colorado theater included a misidentifed shooter and multiple-shooter inaccuracies. The best intellectual reflection is usually done when variables such as untruths can be left out of one's regression analysis.

  22. Re:I Don't Get It on DoJ Admits Aaron Swartz's Prosecution Was Political · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Like many folks who are very successful at such a young age, Andrew was unprepared for the level of adversity he was faced with when he took his own life. Hats off to his idealism, but he would have been a more potent thorn in the man's side if he had spent any significant time poor and struggling.

  23. Re:Let's be honest on Microsoft Admits To Being Hacked Too · · Score: 1

    Your essay is both good and original; however, the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

  24. C'mon...that's a hanging curve ball. on Helena Airport Manager Blocks TSA From Taking Full-Body Scanner · · Score: 1

    I am unqualified to suggest how the Montana version of the enhanced pat-down might be likely to go, but the Backpage girls want to charge a bit extra...

  25. Better that 10 guilty persons escape than... on Illinois Politician Wants a Kill Switch For Anonymous Speech Online · · Score: 1

    The thing is, even under the most suspicious of circumstances, you and your property should be deemed innocent until proven guilty. I'm telling you that so I can tell you this: If I had to bet the light bill money one way or the other, I would say Madamoiselle Beers was packing narcodollars.