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  1. Re:Best way to fix it on No, Net Neutrality Doesn't Violate the 5th Amendment · · Score: 1

    And one untested drug that kills a million people undoes all the good of deregulation.
    There is indeed no doubt that pharmaceutical regulation is killing people. But at the same time, it is saving more, other, people from dying.
    Net lives saved.

  2. Re:Best way to fix it on No, Net Neutrality Doesn't Violate the 5th Amendment · · Score: 1

    Because when those same ISPs have been forced to negotiate contracts and ROW more locally, that has always been a disaster. No wait, I mean those areas have vastly superior service. Wait, which is it?

  3. problem is on No, Net Neutrality Doesn't Violate the 5th Amendment · · Score: 1

    The problem that will stymie people on this will be that the non-net-neutrality can take place on purely private property. It doesn't take place on the shared wires, or the rights of way. It takes place inside the routers wholly owned by the ISP/telco/cableco etc.

  4. Re:When a pool fails... on Officials Use Google Earth To Find Unlicensed Pools · · Score: 1

    I believe the theory is that a properly designed pool would be less likely to collapse, and in the case of an above-ground pool, have a large drain connection to the sewer in case it did.

  5. Re:Interesting on Officials Use Google Earth To Find Unlicensed Pools · · Score: 1

    Because as a community, we've decided to make property taxation progressive. The higher the quality of your home, including improvements such as a shed, the more you pay. The better your location, the more you pay. Etc.

  6. Re:They collected $75,000... on Officials Use Google Earth To Find Unlicensed Pools · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'm finding it hard to imagine the liberal who would think it was a good idea to license pools and fine people for having them. We believe in freedom. You're thinking of conservatives, who like to decide who can do what with their back yards, and generally like to stick their noses in other people's business.

  7. Re:FBI ANTI-PIRACY WARNING on FBI Instructs Wikipedia To Drop FBI Seal · · Score: 1

    No need to care if it's legal to sell, just make sure it's legal to buy.

    As others have pointed out, the ones that come with a laptop will do this, any build-your-own media player will do it, and many online shops will sell them to you.

  8. Re:I guess... on FBI Instructs Wikipedia To Drop FBI Seal · · Score: 1

    If they have a warrant, they will break down your door if necessary. I wasn't assuming you would let them in.

  9. Re:I guess... on FBI Instructs Wikipedia To Drop FBI Seal · · Score: 2, Informative

    You have the right to confirm their identity. They must let you take down the badge number, and call the fbi to confirm their identity, unless they have a warrant granting them other privileges, in which case they will just do what they have been authorized by a court to do.

  10. Re:FBI ANTI-PIRACY WARNING on FBI Instructs Wikipedia To Drop FBI Seal · · Score: 1

    If your fbi intros are unskippable, and that annoys you, you should consider investing in a better dvd player. That function isn't built into the disk, it's in the player.

  11. Re:I guess... on FBI Instructs Wikipedia To Drop FBI Seal · · Score: 1

    You're in imagination land, and what you decide to ask for is a pony? Ponies cost less than a high end PC (though maintenance is a little higher). If you don't care whether it's alive, it gets even cheaper.

  12. Re:Counterfeiting is Ok. on $200B Lost To Counterfeiting? Back It Up · · Score: 1

    So, they're smart enough to care about Fiat currency, but too stupid to write their debt contracts with an inflation provision?

  13. Re:Maybe newspaper articles should list references on $200B Lost To Counterfeiting? Back It Up · · Score: 1

    The penis enlargement commercials make no such claims precisely because they can't get away with it in the US either. Seriously, listen to one again. You will NEVER hear them say that it will make your penis larger. They may imply it, but they will never say it outright.

  14. Re:When will these ever make it to market on Stanford's New Solar Tech Harnesses Heat, Light · · Score: 1

    What you can realistically buy to stick on your house has gone from about 14% to 20% efficiency over the last couple of decades. That's about 50% improvement.

  15. Re:Yea but on Sex Boosts Brain Growth · · Score: 1

    Have you ever actually seen a rat? That's practically all they do all day.

  16. Re:Bullshit on Sex Boosts Brain Growth · · Score: 1

    How smart do you have to be to be evolved against due to never venturing outside your mom's basement?

    Also, you're assuming that brain size is a proxy for genius, which may or may not be true. You can get brain growth due to some fevers, and the result is not that the victim gets smarter.

  17. Re:riiiiight on Does Net Neutrality Violate the Fifth Amendment? · · Score: 1

    Unless you're in a very unusual area of the country, you're actually incorrect about how that works. Nearly all the lines in question in the US are routed under public roads or over them on the telephone poles.

    That said, even if you're in a very unusual area, ripping out those lines would prevent any services whatsoever from reaching your neighbors, the evilness of the services offered has no impact on the consequences of ripping them out.

  18. Re:riiiiight on Does Net Neutrality Violate the Fifth Amendment? · · Score: 1

    But they don't want to do anything with the lines on your land. They only want to do something with servers physically located in buildings they own or lease.

  19. Re:Not all private on Does Net Neutrality Violate the Fifth Amendment? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Who is doing the taking in this scenario?

  20. Re:riiiiight on Does Net Neutrality Violate the Fifth Amendment? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Well, it's slightly different in that:
    1) It's not the public airwaves.
    2) It's all taking place on privately owned physical property.

  21. Re:C-sharp on How Can an Old-School Coder Regain His Chops? · · Score: 1

    Ouch, troll now for being hard on mono developers. Go getem metamods.

  22. Re:C-sharp on How Can an Old-School Coder Regain His Chops? · · Score: 1

    As another poster has pointed out, this is already happening in java, so no need for me to go help with that effort. Besides, I'd have to take a pretty painful pay-cut to work at Oracle. I really am just surprised mono hasn't solved this problem, given the relatively trivial and well known solutions to these problems.

  23. Re:C-sharp on How Can an Old-School Coder Regain His Chops? · · Score: 1

    I'm trying to imagine how ... we do this sort of thing routinely in our java libraries to make them linux/windows friendly, so I don't understand what the issue is.

  24. Re:C-sharp on How Can an Old-School Coder Regain His Chops? · · Score: -1, Troll

    You would think it would be close to trivial for mono to require an install path to substitute for c:\, and remap drive letters to that path in all the file apis. Are the mono developers really brain dead enough that they missed an obvious solution like that?

  25. Re:Yeah... on Electric Car Subsidies As Handouts For the Rich · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I wonder how the TCO looks on the leaf if I take a 7500 federal credit, and a 5000 CA credit, and resell the car for more than I bought it for.