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  1. Re:Very Smart on Darth Vader Robs Long Island Bank · · Score: 1

    Well if Obama gets elected to a second term, some folk have been thinking that the KKK numbers may double, not exactly clone wars but still scary as hell.

  2. Re:Unusual on Darth Vader Robs Long Island Bank · · Score: 1

    Well Dick Cheney has no pulse, that is pretty Darth-like.

  3. Re:smog on Feds Bust Chinese Firm's Hybrid Car Data Heist · · Score: 2, Informative

    They publish 6x the amount of research papers we do and spend 20% more on research. How come we aren't stealing from them?

  4. Re:No surprise on Why Designers Hate Crowdsourcing · · Score: 1

    Oppression, which is part of a power dynamic, does not work unless you control the physical means of production, Foucault told us that. Would you say that musicians are less free because they exist in an unregulated market of free Mp3s and MySpace pages, no of course not. There is a difference between regulating financial, industrial and service aspects of the economy and applying the same zeal in the creative industry, it does not work. It leads to repression, censorship and mediocrity. Even the unregulated radio spectrum until they started shutting out low power broadcasters was an awesome result of this, in any half-way progressive college town you might have 2-3 FM stations that played whatever they wanted even though Clearchannel had taken over 80% of the market. When the FCC started regulating in favor of the larger broadcasters, it all came to an end. Now my town has one independent FM station.

  5. Re:No surprise on Why Designers Hate Crowdsourcing · · Score: 1

    You don't get it. 20th century economics do not apply to industries that are being transformed from capital intensive ventures into capital poor ventures. The industrial revolution is over, the information age has made it possible for people with a 200 dollar computer to compete with a company half way around the world with staff that cost 2000 dollars a day. Cartels cannot survive in an environment when however a massive investment in infrastructure you make it will never outpace supply. When economies decentralize they use to call it cottage industry which implied hardship for those working in it, strange that now the opposite is the case.

  6. Re:Makes sense...I'd be angry in their shoes too.. on Why Designers Hate Crowdsourcing · · Score: 1

    Logo Design always has taken less time than a full ad campaign, it was the 5000 dollar Lamborghini oil change that the industry needed to keep paying designers 100k's a year. That whole scam pretty much stopped about 2 years ago. I've recently dated a graphic designer and if she can bang out 3-4 of these a work day for a 3rd rate agency what can a whiz kid do, 20? Getting paid 200-300 bucks for 2-3 hours of work is s till pretty fucking nice if you ask me.

  7. Re:$60 per month extra for Internet away from home on Playboy Launches Safe For Work Website · · Score: 1

    I try not to look at porn when I'm away from home, so I guess I don't have that problem.

  8. Re:sheesh! on Industrial Marijuana Farming Approved In Oakland · · Score: 1

    Lol, are you serious? They do tobacco what makes you think they haven't already been working with cannabis?

  9. Re:When will businesses relax their testing? on Industrial Marijuana Farming Approved In Oakland · · Score: 1

    Takes 6 months with the same doctor. Works for pilot licenses too.

  10. Re:That didn't take long on Industrial Marijuana Farming Approved In Oakland · · Score: 1

    What are you talking about? I have known more people waste their lives on religion than marijuana. Marijuana does not even impair your ability to drive a car, it is certainly leagues better than Alcohol in that regard.

  11. Re:That didn't take long on Industrial Marijuana Farming Approved In Oakland · · Score: 1

    See how long you can argue that in federal court nowadays with 200 years of precedent.

  12. Re:How long will that last? on Industrial Marijuana Farming Approved In Oakland · · Score: 1

    Even if you taxed it at 400% cost it would still be cheaper than what it is today. Think about how much corn costs.

  13. Re:False on Nexus One a Failed Experiment In Online Sales · · Score: 1

    Who the hell leaves the coast except in an airplane at near the speed of sound?

  14. Re:Hmmm on US Senate Passes 'Libel Tourism' Bill · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Catholicism has a history of marrying off prepubescents until very recently, it still happens in Africa. It is a problem with all religious forms of marriage as far as I know.

  15. Re:NO they do not on eBook Sales Outpace Hardbacks · · Score: 1

    People who buy hardbacks are fans of the author not necessarily voracious readers mind you. People who read a lot nowadays use an ebook reader, paper backs, laptops and anything else that can display text. I have a watch from Japan with a small 1.5" LCD screen which has a scrolling text application and 2 GB of memory.

  16. Re:Nope, problem is in architecture. on Windows Vulnerable To 'Token Kidnapping' Attacks · · Score: 1

    If you are being paid to run a SELinux box, you pry know more than 10 windows admins put together or 4-5 Linux Admins even.

  17. Re:A good start, but... on First Halophile Potatoes Harvested · · Score: 1

    Duck Fat fried with melted Brie for me.

  18. Re:The tubers are almost certainly not salty. on First Halophile Potatoes Harvested · · Score: 2, Informative

    As long as you can get a solution going with the water you are using on the potatoes it will likely precipitate out of the soil and enter the groundwater. From there, eventually it will get to the sea.

  19. Re:This is just the beginning. on US Gov't Orders 73,000 Private Websites Offline · · Score: 1

    I highly doubt that the hosting company were holding people's data to make loans to them. When people pay you for hosting, you are purchasing a service like a storage locker, as I said above its like they found something criminal in one storage locker and than took everyone's stuff from all the storage lockers.

  20. Storeage Unit = More Apt on US Gov't Orders 73,000 Private Websites Offline · · Score: 1

    The owners of these websites were not selling their data to this service and coming back every day trying to buy it back. It would be more like a storage unit is found to have dead body in it so they open up everyone's storage lockers and take everything as evidence.

  21. Re:This is just the beginning. on US Gov't Orders 73,000 Private Websites Offline · · Score: 1

    You can't fit 73,000 people of maybe a handful of buildings around the world. I'm not certain either the pawn store or office floor analogy is apt, but if this was taking physical possession of 73k people's cars instead of data there would be no doubt of the violation of numerous civil rights. Why should data be treated differently than any other possession?

  22. Re:They can kill people already. on US Gov't Orders 73,000 Private Websites Offline · · Score: 1

    If they can't keep the stuff coming out of groom lake or drone strikes in Pakistan secret, which are SAP programs, what makes you think they can do any better with anything else? The US does not threaten entire families because someone is working on a SAP program, this is not North Korea.

  23. She Blinded Me With Science on X-Ray Burst Temporarily Blinds NASA Satellite · · Score: 2, Funny

    She Blinded Me With Science. Did you know Thomas Dolby is touring again, btw?

  24. Re:They can kill people already. on US Gov't Orders 73,000 Private Websites Offline · · Score: 1

    You know how much that would cost and how many people would be involved? Assassinations that involve 100's or even 1000's of highly paid and prominent biochemists, genetic engineers and lab techs are not going to be secret for long. Brain meet bullet/arrow/rock is a tried and true method for killing someone quietly for a reason.

  25. Re:They can kill people already. on US Gov't Orders 73,000 Private Websites Offline · · Score: 1

    Lol, if they have a lethal virus and they release it and cause an epidemic they are going to be found out pretty quickly. There are at least 10,000 labs in the US alone that could check the genes in a virus or bacteria. A bullet and being thrown into a blast furnace works much better.