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  1. Re:A leak != Espionage on Wikileaks Was Launched With Intercepts From Tor · · Score: 1

    Not for insurance it doesn't.

  2. Re:well GREAT on Caffeine Addicts Get No Additional Perk, Only a Return To Baseline · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Never drink anything that has phosphoric acid in it. I read the ingredient list when I was in my first year of college and have drank maybe a few dozen sodas since. It does the same thing to your bones as it does to your teeth, it leeches Calcium out.

  3. Re:A leak != Espionage on Wikileaks Was Launched With Intercepts From Tor · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The DMV has been given extraordinary powers since all these MADD sponsored mandatory DUI sentencing guidelines have begun to be expanded. My friend was arrested for suspicion of DUI in Oregon 2 years ago and was never charged but he still can't get it off his record.

  4. /dev/null serving files = Apocalypse on 10 Tips For Boosting Network Performance · · Score: 3, Informative

    When /dev/null starts giving access to all the files it has gobbled up over the years I imagine would be like the gates of hell opening. Dennis Ritchie as pestilence will ride a black horse made of swarming bits astride with other famous Unix dudes (imagine your own!). Sysadmins who have been practicing the arcane arts of administrating access to Hell's one and only 9600 BAUD BBS running Minix will rise hungry for bandwidth, porn access and hot pockets.

  5. Re:Meh. on Man Builds His Own Subway · · Score: 1

    Those tunnels are the sole reason the remaining 5% of private businesses can remain open in the Gaza Strip selling goods 10x what they cost in Egypt. All that the blockade has done is consolidate the power into Hamas controlled government institutions.

  6. Re:A leak != Espionage on Wikileaks Was Launched With Intercepts From Tor · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Heh, there have been rumors this has been a bonanza for the intelligence community. If wikileaks is doing it you can bet every three letter agency in the world has been doing it too.

  7. Moral Relativism is Bullshit on Porn Ban Being Considered In South Africa · · Score: 1

    Moral relativism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. It is also I suppose morally right for a country to execute homosexuals, whip adulterers and sell children as sex slaves as well?

  8. Re:Makes sense on What Scientists Really Think About Religion · · Score: 1

    The point being if something so capricious, powerful and insane were in the universe we would all be dead by now. Someone would piss off God somewhere in the world and God would land a meteor on them or rain frogs on whoever beats Notre Dame in football.

  9. Re:Expect repost.... from 1979! on BP Says "Top Kill" Operation Has Failed · · Score: 1

    Perhaps we need a crack team of well-endowed porn stars and scuba suits?

  10. Re:The belief in punishment on High-Tech Burglars May Get Longer Sentences In Louisiana · · Score: 1

    If government can set a minimum wage it can set a maximum wage.

  11. Re:Makes sense on What Scientists Really Think About Religion · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Religion is incorrect and even if there were a God than we would be obliged to wage war against it. The most dangerous thing in the universe is the Christian God from the bible and it must be killed, through words or warfare.

  12. Re:The belief in punishment on High-Tech Burglars May Get Longer Sentences In Louisiana · · Score: 1

    Well we have institutionalized a parasitic financial sector in the US that gives 100's of thousands of people more money in a year than most people will make in a life time. More money than any engineer, doctor or scientist in the country yet they do not produce anything not even reliable profit like they used to, they have created two artificial boom and bust cycles in the past 10 years and show absolutely no understanding of the common failings that led to each. They all they need to have a maximum wage set, the only way to get that much money is to steal it. They went from being paid 50 times the average worker to 500 times the average worker, something is very wrong.

  13. Re:That makes no sense on What Scientists Really Think About Religion · · Score: 1

    Roma is a faith that is a symbiosis of astrology, folk tales and whatever religion of their host country.

  14. Re:Makes sense on What Scientists Really Think About Religion · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You take your religion and I'll take science and we'll see who can build the better shoulder to listen to. I'll take psychology over spirituality any day.

  15. Re:The belief in punishment on High-Tech Burglars May Get Longer Sentences In Louisiana · · Score: 1

    I have no problem with people making millions of dollars a year but no one should be making billions. It is completely unjustifiable and is a recent phenomenon that rewards hedge fund managers and other financial service workers with insane bonuses even if they lose money. Even the boards of these companies as well as the shareholders are considering pulling the plug.

  16. Re:The Act itself, not HOW it's done? on High-Tech Burglars May Get Longer Sentences In Louisiana · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The US justice system is designed for anyone to be charged with multiple charges for any crime so they can drop some of the charges and make a plea deal.

  17. Re:The belief in punishment on High-Tech Burglars May Get Longer Sentences In Louisiana · · Score: 1

    America's poor may be rich relative to Africa or some other benighted continent but the Gini index has the US looking like one of those African hell hole dictatorships in wealth distribution. The top 1% makes more money than the bottom 50%, the top producers make 900,000 dollars an hour and 80% of the US still has 7.25 as a minimum wage. Maybe what we need is a maximum wage.

  18. Re:32MPG - old rating or new? on When the US Government Built Ultra-Safe Cars · · Score: 1

    Much of the Pacific Northwest does not need A/C for their cars or houses and the same goes for other parts of the country. Just because you live in a place on earth that is only habitable due to a/c does not mean everyone does.

  19. Re:Not the first time either on When the US Government Built Ultra-Safe Cars · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and North Korea must be a democracy and a republic, right ? It is called the DEMOCRATIC People's REPUBLIC of Korea.

  20. Re:Knee-jerk, as usual on High-Tech Burglars May Get Longer Sentences In Louisiana · · Score: 1

    Politicians are worried it is being used to commit crimes against rich people. They are increasingly diverting police resources to the fringe suburbs for property crimes and burglary. It is a lot easier breaking into homes that sit on a half acre or more in a twisted mess of cul-de-sacs with no cross traffic than try to hit urban areas.

  21. Re:A pity; but not a huge shock... on XBMC Discontinues Xbox Support · · Score: 1

    I can get a new dual core barebone system off Pricewatch for ~200 bucks. An Xbox is only useful if you are locked into it because of the games you bought. I've not owned a gaming system since the 8 bit Nintendo system, all the games I bought since DOS run on all the computers I own.

  22. 2chan on Japan Moves Toward Blocking Online Child Porn · · Score: 1, Troll

    My sister's wife taught English in the rural areas of Nagasaki pref. in the late 90's and she relayed a story about being astonished when she discovered 2chan being browsed on the lab's computers. She tried to have the site blocked but the admin told her it was too popular. For those not in the know imagine 4chan but with even more lolicon, child porn and tentacle rape.

  23. Re:You are incorrect Sir! on Proposed Law Would Require ID To Buy Prepaid Phones · · Score: 1

    Um, I don't know about you but I have not had my name on a cell phone contract for 5 years. The name on the contract is my companies, not mine.

  24. Re:Sounds unreasonable on Emergency Dispatcher Fired For Facebook Drug Joke · · Score: 3, Insightful

    21 year veteran with mandatory raises is pry a nice chunk of change. My friend's girlfriend worked in dispatch and with OT pulled in enough to get a loan for a 300k house and a 50k car with no cosigner. I don't know what she makes but it is pry ridiculous for the amount of skill involved.

  25. Re:is it.... on HP Explains Why Printer Ink Is So Expensive · · Score: 1

    HP flies some of its star executives and engineers in every day via air commute. They live in idyllic mountain towns far away from riff raff on 20-100 acre tracts of land. They are the pretty poor neighbors for a rural community to have, they campaign against school taxes because most of them are past child rearing and they fence off land so wildlife gets funneled around their property and unto local roadways causing more accidents.