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  1. Re:How long on Secrecy of Voting Machines Ballots At Risk · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I believe you'll find an answer to your question somewhere in a history book. I suggest starting with 15th and 16th century Europe, then move onto American history.

    Just because you happen to live in a local and era where you don't have to fear for your life when you voice your support for one person over another doesn't mean it's always been like that or will continue to be like that indefinately.

  2. Re:and if you have a slashdot account on Charging the Unhealthy More For Insurance · · Score: 1

    Woah Woah Woah, You must be thinking we're all famously wealthy or something. It's only 28% if you make $100,000 a year (and it does get higher). I can assure you the vast majority of U.S. citizens to not make this much money. I'd say on average most pay about 10-18% in income taxes. I myself pay about 20% of my check, and that's income tax, SS, Medicare, and my State income tax all added up.

  3. Re:Yes, I am a grammar Nazi on Top Irritating Words Spawned by Internet · · Score: 1

    I got my start using shortcuts for words while playing multiplayer MUDs. When you were in a fight, and you needed to tell someone something, you needed to do so as quickly as possible.

  4. I thought we covered this already on US Falls to 24th Place For Broadband Penetration · · Score: 3, Interesting

    We can't just run a cable 300 feet to an apartment complex and take care of 10% of the population in one shot like most European countries can.

    Get it? We're big, really big, and when you add in the fact that our interior isn't a barren wasteland like most of the other big countries we have a whole lot of people spread out all over the place.

  5. Re:What's the speed of force? on Matter Discovered Traveling at Near Light Speed · · Score: 2, Informative

    The steel pole isn't going to have a constant compression rate. As the pole is compressed more and more its density increases thus changing the speed of sound through it. Both ends of the pole would likely "catch up" with each other before we experienced any major space-time paradoxes that destroyed the universe as we know it.

  6. Re:Well... on Big Red Button Disasters? · · Score: 1

    We still call them service stations, it's just that we don't have a lot of them since most of us prefer to pump our own gas and clean off our own windows. Unless of course you're from New Jersey.

  7. Re:so the fire starter didn't have a home? on Internet2 Taken Out by Stray Cigarette · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Something about this story is fishy. If they knew so many details about how the fire started, down to knowing it was a homeless smoker at precisely 8:20, why didn't anybody do anything to stop the fire. You don't just throw a cigarette and "boom" interweb 2.0 goes up in flames instantly. Sounds to me they don't really have a clue how the fire started past a mattress catching fire and just wanted to pin the blame on today's favorite evil... tobacco. Watch out folks, cigarettes kill the interweb! Secondhand smoke is somehow worse than firsthand smoke, and you'll get cancer and die tommorow if you get withing 30 feet of a smoker!

  8. Re:Time to get over the 'land bridge' on When Were the Americas Populated? · · Score: 1

    They crossed because they had to. The weak tribes were driven out by the strong tribes. Humans are territorial by nature and limted resources are usually controlled by those with more power, leaving the weak to find food in less hospitable places.

  9. Re:MAFIAA gets their way on DoD Warez Leader Faces 10 Years in Jail · · Score: 1

    A direct translation would be proportionateness or commensurateness, but in a legal context a more appropriate word would probably be relevance.

  10. Well... on Will Red Hat Survive? · · Score: 1

    ...BSD has apparently been dying for a decade or so, so by my figures regarding *nix OSes it'll survive for at least a little while longer. A better question is will it survive long enough to see the arrival of Duke Nukem Forever?

  11. Re:Why are kids today so weak? on School Bans 'Tag' · · Score: 1

    As far as i'm concerned 5 degrees in celsius or fahrenheit isn't really that bad. Living in Alaska for a few years or more kind of skews your perception of temperature.

  12. Re: Message to DVD industry: Byte Me! on New Copy Protection to Make Playing DVDs on a PC Difficult · · Score: 1

    Wow, I just checked my Creative Labs MuVo I recently updated. It's FM record feature is missing. That'll teach me to not read the release notes.

  13. Re:As a resident of the Rest Of The World... on The AOL Roller Coaster · · Score: 3, Funny

    So yeah, it was basically just like MSN.

  14. Re:Gratitude on The Man Who Literally Saved the World · · Score: 1

    Do you have any idea how far $1000 goes in eastern europe? Pretty far my friend. I know because I saw it in a movie once.

  15. Re:Oh for the love of..... on California Sues Automakers for Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Anything that works here in Colorado should work in California. With all the Californians that have been moving here for the last decade we should be the perfect test market.

  16. Privacy? on Teen Creates Device to Track Speeding · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm assuming they're driving this car in public. Unless they're driving through their room with the door shut how could this be a violation of privacy?

    The car is legally the parents responsibility. The teen is legally the parents responsibility. Kids expect so much privacy these days.

  17. Re:No way on All D&D Books To Be Available As PDFs · · Score: 2, Funny

    Kragnar the Barbarian cares not for spoiled milk! Kragnar the Barbarian smashes his enemies! Kragnar the Barbarian laughs at his fallen foes and drinks spoiled milk with glee!

  18. Re:More detox programs coming soon: on Detox Clinic Opening for Video Game Addicts · · Score: 1

    I've known plenty of people who didn't start hating the world until after they got laid.

  19. log size on U.S. Pressures ISPs on Data Retention · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Based on logs i've seen of similar information 2 years of logs would easilly be 26 gbs for a single person. That's just a conservitive number for the types that check their email a few times a week and look at the Lost forums every now and then.

    Multiply that by 100s of thousands of users and you're looking at warehouses full of tapes and/or hard drives. That's if you're conservitive.

  20. Re:Law of Nations: body corporate != body politic on Hydrogen Fuel Balls from a Gas Pump? · · Score: 1

    what?

  21. Re:Okey dokey on Gay Guild Recruitment Disallowed From WoW? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They're not discriminating against the individuals, they're discriminating against their group. It would be like an LGBT group walking into Burger King with signs and walking around telling everyone what they were and what they stood for, and then setting up base camp by the drink machine.

    Don't get me wrong, I don't like it and wish it didn't have to happen, it's just that I believe people should use accurate arguments to defend their beliefs.

  22. Re:FAKE! on Ham Hears Mars Orbiter 45 Million Miles From Earth · · Score: 1

    Also working on the premise that it's all fake:

    The only way to get any reliable triangulation at that kind of distance would require recieving points well outside of earth's atmosphere. Since it's all fake it's impossible.

    Of course, this is assuming it's all fake for the sense of argument.

  23. Re:What is this? on DrDOS Inc Breaking GPL · · Score: 1

    Sorry, no Apple IIgs upgrades for you.

  24. patent improvement on Company Claims Patent Over XML · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What I would really like to know with all these generic patent infringment cases is what happened to being able to make an improvement to an existing patent and being able to create a new seperate patent without infringing on the original?

    Example:

    There is a patent for a widget to generate a generic document for an electronic medium. I come along and come up with a widget based on the same ideas but generates documents specially suited for view on, let's say, a handheld computer.

    I would be using the same basic idea as the creator of the original widget, but with my improvements it has a much more specialized area, and performs in this area much better than the original could have.

  25. Re:Classification? on Wily Octopi Walk on Two Arms · · Score: 1

    Critical Miss!