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  1. Re:Compromising the investigation on Anonymous To Release Sun, News of the World Emails · · Score: 0

    I'm pretty sure you don't need to disclaim expertise that you don't have.

    Or maybe that should be that you don't need to argue your own ignorance.

    Or something.

    Mostly, I think real actual lawyers gain a lot more from distancing their lawyer selves from comments than fake internet lawyers do by pointing out that they are only internet lawyers.

  2. Re:Understatement on Google Acquires G.co Domain · · Score: 1

    They wanted to collect and analyze your tears.

  3. Re:Modern humans are immune from population cycles on Earth's Population To Hit 7 Billion This Year · · Score: 1

    Oil isn't particularly expensive. 50 years ago, westerners spent far more of their income/productivity on energy than they do today.

    Compared to gold, oil is about the average of what it has historically been (current prices for oil put it at about 0.07 ounces of gold per barrel):

    http://www.globalfinance.net/2009/charts/oil-and-gold-chart-1900-2009/

    Of course gold is not money, but given that you are panicking about things driven largely by lag in our accounting system (cash), it provides some counterpoint.

  4. Re:Linus Torvalds and Google+ on Linux 3.0 Release Delayed · · Score: 3, Informative

    Recently.

  5. Re:US on A Tale of Two Countries · · Score: 1

    Of course I can't prove it, but my point was more to sarcastically suggest that promises from the government are only worth so much.

  6. Re:US on A Tale of Two Countries · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A nasty situation like riots and a bailout from Germany?

  7. Re:In other words... on Bill Clinton Says 'Paint Your Roofs White' · · Score: 1

    Just ride a different one over the border every day.

  8. Re:Great, so how the hell do I paint ashalt shingl on Bill Clinton Says 'Paint Your Roofs White' · · Score: 1

    You live in a desert. Apparently with an outdoor pool. Anyone complaining about your choice of AC settings is splitting some interesting hairs.

  9. Re:Bill Clinton is a fucking lawyer! on Bill Clinton Says 'Paint Your Roofs White' · · Score: 1

    In areas where it doesn't get terribly cold but heat is still nice to have, an air source heat pump (which is damn close to an air conditioner) will give several units of heat for each unit of energy put into it. That beats any combustion furnace, at least until it actually gets cold outside.

  10. Re:School bus on How Education Is Changing Thanks To Khan Academy · · Score: 1

    I don't know, but I'm pretty sure that most U.S. jurisdictions have some laws laying out the obligations of parents.

    I imagine the text of such laws is available on the internet.

  11. Re:Bayesian statistics on Facial Recognition Gone Wrong · · Score: 1

    High schools in Michigan are currently focusing on stating that every student has passed Algebra 2.

    They do not even offer a class like "Understanding and Interpreting Numbers and Statistics".

    Sure, that sounds like a stupid class, but it would be a lot more useful to most people than they flirtation with higher math offered in Algebra 2.

  12. Re:It's a growing list on Facial Recognition Gone Wrong · · Score: 2

    I was commenting about the authentication done by banks, not the expected behavior of the baser members of the species (I would clarify that I believe there are many men and women willing to nearly anything for very little).

  13. Re:I've got nothing to hide on Facial Recognition Gone Wrong · · Score: 1

    The current system is that they are checking everybody. That means they have to check everybody. Create an exception and you have an exception.

    They shouldn't be giving people a problem for requesting a wheelchair though.

    (Nor do I think the current system makes much sense, but all the crying about how they actually bothered to check some special needs person or another ignores the fact that the implementation of checking everybody does actually involve checking everybody)

  14. Re:School bus on How Education Is Changing Thanks To Khan Academy · · Score: 1

    I wonder just how young a child would have to be for a parent to be prosecuted for letting them walk a couple of unsupervised miles?

    I suppose that age has gone up over the last 50 years, which proves your point.

  15. Re:It's a growing list on Facial Recognition Gone Wrong · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Please stop saying that identity can be stolen. If someone makes themselves look like you it is impersonation. If they use information associated with you to bamboozle the weak-ass authentication used by financial institutions, it is fraud.

    In neither case has your identity been stolen. A man's wife would not sleep with a different man simply because the second man had a bank account in her husband's name, and so on.

  16. Re:Known this one for a long time... on Study Shows Programmers Get Better With Age · · Score: 1

    Being unwilling to accept the prevailing wage is always a detriment.

    (of course it is entirely your prerogative to set a value on yourself and seek to obtain that value, but you do run the risk that you have gotten it wrong)

  17. Re:Holding back? on Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore · · Score: 1

    I was simply pointing out that GP was misinterpreting things.

    I have no opinion about whether it was a good idea.

  18. Re:School bus on How Education Is Changing Thanks To Khan Academy · · Score: 1

    His implication is that general public policy has to accommodate people that are afraid of everything (it is certainly fine to try to get such people help, but we don't need to design everything around their imaginations).

  19. Re:School bus on How Education Is Changing Thanks To Khan Academy · · Score: 1

    That has to be among the most ridiculous things you have ever posted.

    Which is really saying something.

  20. Re:Flash on Study: Ad Networks Not Honoring Do-Not-Track · · Score: 1

    Well, experience suggests otherwise.

  21. Re:Holding back? on Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore · · Score: 1

    Only before the first stream starts.

  22. Re:Computing power allows it now on Microsoft's Looming 'Single Windows Ecosystem' · · Score: 1

    Saying that Windows is designed differently than Linux is like comparing a pickle to an orange grove.

    Now that I used a stupid analogy, allow me to explain myself. The Linux kernel and the NT kernel are different, but they aren't as fundamentally different as you think. The GUI configuration of Windows that Microsoft ships is a lot heavier than many Linux distributions, but that isn't really about the design of the operating system.

  23. Re:SpaceX, Tesla on SpaceX Dragon As Mars Science Lander? · · Score: 1

    So a few tens of thousands of Americans minding some Japanese-owned robots is going to save America?

    I'm not being jingoistic and protesting the fact that Tesla is associated with a Japanese company, I'm making snide remarks about the idea that a small automaker with a limited use technology and high levels of foreign investment is going to somehow change the country.

    (and damn it, yes, current day battery tech does suck compared to liquid fuels)

  24. Re:Justification for Adblock et al on Study: Ad Networks Not Honoring Do-Not-Track · · Score: 1

    It doesn't screw anybody. Or does browsing with images turned off also screw the people providing content?

    How about using Flashblock?

    How about changing the channel on a television when the advertising comes on?

    If they don't want to take the chance that people will browse their content without viewing the associated advertising, they had better not serve it as html over http.

  25. Re:I Am Trusted Traveler on TSA Announces Pilot of Trusted Traveler Program · · Score: 1

    Yeah, probably. They might have to opt for jet fuel though.

    My point was more that people with sufficient funds have long been able to buy their way around the tiresome security hassles associated with commercial flight, I forgot I was on the internet and failed to sufficiently scope and qualify my comment.