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  1. what is stopping them? on Opera Proposes Switching Browser Scrolling For 'Pages' · · Score: 1

    There is nothing stopping web developers from doing this now using CSS and a tiny bit of javascript. You don't need to change the browser or re-imagine how html in rendered.

  2. Re:The main issue with identifying felons in US on Researchers Dispute Closing of the Bruce Ivins Anthrax Case · · Score: 1

    I completely understand your point of view. If I had to choose between the Texas style death penalty and no death penalty, i would certainly choose no death penalty. But I believe that the false positive rate can be reduced to zero if the requirements are sufficiently strict.

    Charles Manson, John Wayne Gacy, Anders Breivik, Jeffrey Dahmer, etc. All people who really should die. Each one committed multiple horrific murders without remorse. In each case the evidence goes so far beyond any shadow of doubt that there really isn't any question of guilt. These are the kinds of people who need a death penalty.

  3. Re:NoScript on Microsoft Says IE9 Blocks More Malware Than Chrome · · Score: 1

    Sure it does, noscript blocks PDFs, applets and flash by default. This means that they can't sneak a hidden plugin attack in. The only way for those plugin attacks to work is if you intentionally approve the content.

  4. Re:The main issue with identifying felons in US on Researchers Dispute Closing of the Bruce Ivins Anthrax Case · · Score: 1

    I sympathize with and understand those who oppose the death penalty on ethical grounds, but Christians have no ethical foundation in their religion to make that argument. Why shouldn't Christians kill? They worship the same brutal psychopathic genocidal evil god as the jews and muslims. I was raised as a fundamentalist Christian. It is in spite of that, rather than because of that, that I am now a good and moral person.

  5. Re:And on Latest Humble Bundle Hits $1 Million · · Score: 1

    It wouldn't matter if I did. Numerous other people here have mentioned their own experiences and your only response has been to paraphrase: "It never happened to me that way, so you must be mistaken".

  6. Re:And on Latest Humble Bundle Hits $1 Million · · Score: 1

    Mostly because paypal is known to arbitrarily lock legitimate accounts with large balances with no legal recourse for recovery of funds.

    Not to mention the ease with which it can be used to defraud people, again with no legal recourse for recovery of funds.

    So yea, ebay/paypal is evil.

  7. Re:Our great shame on Blue Coat Denies Its Devices Helping Syrian Gov't · · Score: 1

    As an American Patriot, I am not sure its going to be that way for long (and may have already slipped from that position). America needs to do better than it is, for our own sake.

  8. Re:I'm so disappointed in you Germany on German State Confesses To, Downplays Government Spyware · · Score: 1, Troll

    No. No they were not. They are oppressive authoritarian regimes who use fear, violence and lies to suppress their people. They are anti liberal.

  9. Re:The main issue with identifying felons in US on Researchers Dispute Closing of the Bruce Ivins Anthrax Case · · Score: 1

    1: No physical evidence.
    2: Killing one police officer does not justify the death penalty.

    He still should not have been executed.

  10. Re:The main issue with identifying felons in US on Researchers Dispute Closing of the Bruce Ivins Anthrax Case · · Score: 2

    I am pro death penalty.

    But you don't execute a man without physical evidence.

    You don't execute a man when the witnesses are pressured and threatened by the police and later recant.

    You don't execute a man unless you are absolutely certain he is irredeemable and can never be reformed.

    The simple killing of a police officer is not such a crime.

    Execution should be reserved only for mass murderers, serial killers and other habitually violent offenders.

  11. Re:I'm so disappointed in you Germany on German State Confesses To, Downplays Government Spyware · · Score: 1

    Um... Why would liberals have a problem with calling out some of the most oppressive anti liberal regimes in the world? I suspect you may be confused about what being liberal is all about.

  12. Re:The problem isn't the currency on Ask Slashdot: How Do You View the Wall Street Protests? · · Score: 1

    You can have socialism without a nanny state significantly infringing on personal liberty. Without socialism there is no defense against the greed of the plutocracy, and they can take your personal liberty for profit without repudiation.

  13. Re:Override? on California Governor Vetoes Ban On Warrantless Phone Searches · · Score: 1

    I actually don't have a problem with someone owning personal artillery, surface to air missiles and anti-tank weaponry.

  14. Re:Vote 'em out on California Governor Vetoes Ban On Warrantless Phone Searches · · Score: 1

    Last I checked, California takes in more taxes than it gets reimbursements from the federal government. The reason the state is broke is that they keep paying for the red Midwestern states.

  15. Re:The 1% are insulated on Ask Slashdot: How Do You View the Wall Street Protests? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I am not asking for ever-increasing control of the economy. I am asking for some social justice, some equity, some defense for the common man against the abuse of those in power. What I want is a well regulated capitalist economy where the government is of the people and for the people. That isn't communism, it isn't fascism, and it isn't a Laissez-faire anarchy or feudal plutocracy that libertarian ideals inevitably lead to. It is capitalist with a stabilizing influence of socialism where you are never punished for getting rich, nor are you punished for being poor or middle class.

  16. Re:All this shows on The Data Crunching Prowess of Barack Obama · · Score: 1

    No. The tea parties primary concern is destroying America by defunding the government in order to enrich the coffers of the Koch brothers and Rupert Murdoch. If the Tea Party was against debt, they would be willing to raise taxes instead of demanding that they be cut or eliminated. The solution to debt is to raise taxes, end the wars and trim the inefficiencies of government where possible.

    The tea party are anti-American traitors and the fools who buy into their propaganda machine.

  17. Re:The 1% are insulated on Ask Slashdot: How Do You View the Wall Street Protests? · · Score: 1

    Fuck communism. I in no way support communism. Your assertion that communism is at the heart of this movement is a bullshit lie, propaganda used to keep the wool pulled over your eyes.

  18. Re:What is the goal? on Ask Slashdot: How Do You View the Wall Street Protests? · · Score: 1

    Washington are puppets of their corporate masters. Protesting wal street is closer to the root than washington.

  19. Re:What is the goal? on Ask Slashdot: How Do You View the Wall Street Protests? · · Score: 1

    I agree that they are real believers, but they have been co-opted and steered towards the agenda of the media masters who control their organization on the national level. Rupert Murdoch, the Koch brothers, etc.

  20. Re:What is the goal? on Ask Slashdot: How Do You View the Wall Street Protests? · · Score: 1

    Ideally we could produce real social change before they call in the jack booted thugs. But if they do, then people will definitely be riled up and it will end in revolution.

  21. Re:The problem isn't the currency on Ask Slashdot: How Do You View the Wall Street Protests? · · Score: 1

    You say socialism like it has anything to do with communism. It doesn't. Socialism is not the opposite of capitalism, it is its stabilizing compliment.

  22. Re:The 1% are insulated on Ask Slashdot: How Do You View the Wall Street Protests? · · Score: 1

    They are part of the 99%, they just don't realize it yet.

  23. Re:The 1% are insulated on Ask Slashdot: How Do You View the Wall Street Protests? · · Score: 1

    The problem with your assertion is that there is little profit to be seen. Corporate profits have skyrocketed during the recession almost across the board.

  24. Re:All this shows on The Data Crunching Prowess of Barack Obama · · Score: 1

    This is a lot closer to the truth than a lot of people would admit.

  25. Re:All this shows on The Data Crunching Prowess of Barack Obama · · Score: 1

    He was recorded in a 1996 questionnaire as advocating a ban on the manufacture, sale and possession of handguns (a position he has since disavowed). He was on the board of the Chicago-based Joyce Foundation, which takes an aggressive gun control position, and in 2000 considered becoming its full-time president.

    The above is the part I disagree with, and while he no longer publicly advocates it, I doubt he has really changed his mind.

    On the plus side, he has voted against confiscating firearms during a disaster and has endorsed the second amendment as an individual right independent of militia membership.