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  1. Re:If the price is low and reliability is high... on PARC Builds iPod-Sized HIV Detector · · Score: 1

    Give them a false sense of security?

  2. Re:Short answer: on David/Goliath Story Brewing Between Apple and iControlPad Makers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They probably think they can get away with it because they have gotten away with it multiple times before.

  3. Re:The reason this is important. on Europe's Space Agency Wants To Do What NASA Can't · · Score: 1

    It has already happened. Rate of population growth has been falling for decades. We will max out around 15 billion, and probably stabilize around 10 billion.

  4. Re:Quoi. on Indian Census To Collect Fingerprints, Photos · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Bullshit.

    Poor in America are fat mostly because the cheapest and most accessible foods have high calories and low nutrients (somewhat exacerbated by low levels of physical activity).

    I am not even going to bother refuting your ridiculous assertion about healthcare, my rage at your ignorance and arrogance isn't good for my blood pressure.

  5. Re:"Botnet?" on Microsoft Fuzzing Botnet Finds 1,800 Office Bugs · · Score: 1

    If you are flipping only one bit in a "Cluster Fsck", you are missing the point and could be having a lot more fun.

  6. Re:"The government" is liable to pay damages? on Judge Finds NSA Wiretapping Program Illegal · · Score: 1

    Of course, everyone is entitled to their opinions, even if they are wrong. ;)

  7. Re:LOLOLOLOL on NASA Launches Giant Magnifying Glass Into Space · · Score: 1

    For a day? You must be new here.

  8. Re:"The government" is liable to pay damages? on Judge Finds NSA Wiretapping Program Illegal · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Let me put this in perspective.

    Carter - nice guy, did nothing of value
    Reagan - horrible
    Bush Sr - did some good, did some bad
    Clinton - did a bit more good than Bush, did some bad
    Bush Jr. - horrible
    Obama - so far? horrible

    Clinton and Bush Sr were the only presidents in my lifetime that I can agree with some of their decisions.

    Clinton and Bush both made great strides in balancing the budget, they made modest improvements in some areas of domestic policy. And they took far fewer measures to destroy the constitution and integrity of the nation than Reagan and Bush Jr.

    Did they get everything right? No. Were they great? No. But they stand head and shoulders above every other president in my lifetime. Unlike Reagan, Bush Jr and probably Obama (time will tell but he isn't doing well), I can have some small measure of respect for them.

  9. Re:"The government" is liable to pay damages? on Judge Finds NSA Wiretapping Program Illegal · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Clinton and Bush Sr were pretty good presidents, and Carter was a nice guy, only time will tell for Obama but it looks like he is following in Bush Jr. footsteps.

  10. Re:Correct on Microsoft Claims Google Chrome Steals Your Privacy · · Score: 1

    It is part of the specification for urls in ftp, http, http and a few others IIRC. Some servers allow username/password authentication encoded in the url before an @ symbol.

  11. Re:Correct on Microsoft Claims Google Chrome Steals Your Privacy · · Score: 1

    Not really.

    username:password@www.whatever.net is something you might type into the url bar that would pose a very real security threat when shared. Google search terms are automatically published and your login information would be accessible to anyone.

  12. Re:Buzzkill on NASA Mars Satellite Snaps 1st Public-Picked Photos · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Throwing money at schools won't improve education. The extra money will go for more rent-a-cops, metal detectors and an extra limo for the members of the school board. It has been tried before.

    However canceling NASA will eliminate the aspirations and goals of thousands of bright young people and put us in a position where all the knowledge and skills of a generation of aerospace engineers are lost. The cost of restarting the space program after giving it up for a decade would dwarf the amount saved. We give that up and we as a nation will have accepted our place among the third world nations while nations like Pakistan, India, China and even North Korea take the lead.

    I agree that we need a larger focus on education in this country, but gutting NASA isn't the answer. It is going to take a major policy change to fix education because the system is degenerate. If that costs more, then can find the money somewhere else.

  13. Re:Buzzkill on NASA Mars Satellite Snaps 1st Public-Picked Photos · · Score: 1

    NASA budget for 2010 = 0.52% federal (18724 million).

    That is almost exactly 26 days of war in iraq or about 1500 times the bonus of the CEO of Goldman Sachs after receiving the bailout.

    Our return on investment for NASA is spectacular.

  14. Re:You mess with the bull, you get the horns on IsoHunt Told To Pull Torrent Files Offline · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And when copyright terms are extended, it is also an attack on centuries of legal thought. The sole purpose of copyright is to enrich the public domain by promoting the publishing of art and sciences by granting a limited monopoly on distribution. Extending the term of that copyright is a direct attack on that sole purpose, while "piracy" is merely an attack on the method of promotion.

    Copyright law is a misnomer, it is really copyright restriction. We all have a right to copy anything we want, this is a natural right inherent in our humanity. It is as natural as our freedom to think, speak, walk or defend ourselves. Copyright law restricts that right temporarily, so that in time we will have a richer and deeper culture to share in the future. The extension of copyright for profit is theft of the highest order, it is stealing from every man, woman and child in existence and leaves humanity as a whole poorer.

  15. Re:You mess with the bull, you get the horns on IsoHunt Told To Pull Torrent Files Offline · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    parable.

    A parabola is a curve geometrically described as a plane bisecting a cone parallel to a line along the cones surface extending radially from its point.

  16. Re:Public schools on Stand and Deliver Teacher Jaime Escalante Dies · · Score: 1

    I went to public school. I didn't learn anything in school that I didn't already know until I was at university.

  17. Re:Dangerous and disturbing this is on The Cybersecurity Act of 2009 Passes Senate Panel · · Score: 1

    And? McVey having ties to muslim groups in now way changes his local militia ties.

    As for the KKK? They are not "a militia". They are a widespread largely disassociated group of independent cells claiming the same name, similar power structure and adhering to the same basic philosophies, many of them arming for a current or future race war. They are many militia's.

    Why did you even bother to point out democrats failure to support civil liberties? I do not support the democratic party, at all. Both parties promote a corporate feudal oligarchy supported by a bureaucratic police state. They do this cooperatively, their differences are cosmetic yet polarizing. This allows them to retain a duopoly on government control.

  18. Re:What? on Gonorrhea As the Next Superbug · · Score: 1

    The word homosexual has ambiguous etymology.

    Homo-sexual (Male copulation)
    Homos-sexual (Same copulation)

  19. Re:What? on Gonorrhea As the Next Superbug · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Lesbianism and homosexuality are also 100% effective birth control.

  20. Re:What? on Gonorrhea As the Next Superbug · · Score: 2, Funny

    i would not recommend licking Gonorrhea.

  21. Re:Dangerous and disturbing this is on The Cybersecurity Act of 2009 Passes Senate Panel · · Score: 1

    "None of these were militias."
    Wrong. All of them were members/associates of militias. McVey, Nichols, the KKK, etc.

    "And lest we not forget that it was southern Democrats who were opposed to the civil rights legislation."
    And? The democratic party split in two, with the segregationists following George Wallace to the American Independent party. This party was in large part reabsorbed into the republican party thanks to the appeal to the religious right by Reagan and Bush Sr (when he was a congressman).

  22. Re:Feh on EU Demands Canada Gut Its Copyright and Patent Laws · · Score: 1

    In that case, is it not in PETA's best interest that the seal hunt continues as well?

  23. Re:Ah that's it, is it on Magnetism Can Sway Man's Moral Compass · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ahah! This conclusively links em fields to the phenomenon of em sensitivity lawsuits. The EM fields remove the "sensitives" moral compass and allows them to fake symptoms for financial gain through lawsuits without feeling guilty.

  24. Re:Potential abuse of research? on Magnetism Can Sway Man's Moral Compass · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Hemp was used around the world as a strong and durably fiber in rope and fabric. It grew wild in most of the US. DOW chemicals invents and patents nylon. Within a few short years, marijuana was illegal and half the US covered with herbicide to to stamp out this "terrible weed". The war on drugs was a fabrication designed for the profit of a single powerful company.

  25. Re:Not so HD ? on Next iPhone — Front-Facing Camera, A4 Processor · · Score: 1

    Ok. And? TI 3530 capable of 720p@30fps in h.264 and mpeg4. The more powerful generation currently coming out may be able to handle full HD, but only time will tell.