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  1. Re:Federal Sales Tax on Amazon Pushes For National Internet Sales Tax · · Score: 1

    Uh, uh, uh, wow.

    He is proposing a personal tax for when large amounts of money are taken out of a business. If the money is kept in the business, no personal tax increase (the horror and pain!), if a few hundred thousand dollars are taken out annually, no tax increase (but what about my second sport boat?).

    I have no trouble with arguments for less taxation, but those arguments should at least attempt to be honest and coherent.

  2. Re:Federal Sales Tax on Amazon Pushes For National Internet Sales Tax · · Score: 1

    All those other loser states, with their lack of natural resource export economies.

  3. Re:Identity "theft" on 2-Year ID Theft Investigation Yields 86 Arrests; 25 More Sought · · Score: 1

    A credit score is not a person's creditworthiness. Which is basically my point.

    (I'm not pretending the current system doesn't exist, I understand that a fraudulently opened account can end up being a pain in the ass for the individual that was impersonated. I'm simply trying to call out how stupid that is.)

  4. Re:Identity "theft" on 2-Year ID Theft Investigation Yields 86 Arrests; 25 More Sought · · Score: 1

    "Credit Theft" still implies the absurd idea that my creditworthiness is somehow involved when a bank opens an account for a fraudster.

  5. Re:Remember the good old days? on Was the iPod Accessory Port Inspired By a 40-Year-Old Camera? · · Score: 1

    In the spirit of continuing the game, are you really surprised that someone with a fuzzy memory would be nostalgic?

  6. Re:Remember the good old days? on Was the iPod Accessory Port Inspired By a 40-Year-Old Camera? · · Score: 1

    Generally it is trolls and people that lose track of their passwords.

  7. Re:Ah yes on Florida School District Begins Fingerprinting Students · · Score: 1

    It's cute that you think marijuana use is somehow under control.

  8. Re:1 million downloads @ 99c is still 990,000 doll on Should Book Authors Pursue a Patronage Model? · · Score: 1

    My point was rather the other way around; Tolkien wrote his books for himself, their existence was responsible for their success, not his desire to be a successful commercial writer.

  9. Re:1 million downloads @ 99c is still 990,000 doll on Should Book Authors Pursue a Patronage Model? · · Score: 1

    Ah yes, Tolkien, that quintessential commercial writer.

  10. Re:Don't worry writers on Should Book Authors Pursue a Patronage Model? · · Score: 1

    What else would you expect a publisher to put on the cover?

    I find that complaint to be very strange.

  11. Re:Ah yes on Florida School District Begins Fingerprinting Students · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Society already accepts the use of law enforcement for the purposes of social engineering, there is no need for expensive measures like travel papers and universal tracking.

    A good example is the use of societal resources against people found to be in possession of small amounts of unapproved substances. There is something really twisted about a societal barometer that judges the possession of a small amount of marijuana as a worse thing than detainment.

  12. Re:This also applies to software. on Should Book Authors Pursue a Patronage Model? · · Score: 1

    Most programmers already work for patrons.

    At least if you look at the man hours going into packaged software vs the man hours going into back end systems and the like.

  13. Re:Don't worry writers on Should Book Authors Pursue a Patronage Model? · · Score: 3

    Reality is even stranger than that, with Tom Clancy selling his name as a brand to put on books written by other authors.

  14. Re:About friggin' time... on Windows 8 To Reduce Memory Footprint · · Score: 1

    For exactly the same pages?

    My observations are on windows, anecdotally, people on other platforms seem to have more issues with leaks. It is also clear that experiences vary quite widely with Firefox, but 7 uses quite a lot less memory for me than I remember seeing for versions of 3.x, and it is certainly more responsive these days, at least for me.

    Also, if you want to use quote marks, you should probably put drastically in them, not dramatically.

  15. Re:Services on Windows 8 To Reduce Memory Footprint · · Score: 1

    The whole idea of services is that they are available all the time.

    This just adds an api for starting the service on events, which means that code for watching for events can be replaced by registering to start on those events.

    This avoids things like ridiculous HP printer drivers that poll for the presence of a printer by having one service that repeatedly starts and stops another service (hopefully anyway, I suppose something that stupid wouldn't be stopped by an easier way).

  16. Re:About friggin' time... on Windows 8 To Reduce Memory Footprint · · Score: 1

    Blah blah blah blah.

    Firefox has drastically reduced memory usage and sped up over the last year or so. Those people were bitching about real issues with the software.

  17. Re:I know all about this. Lived in Russia ETC. on Russian Telco MTS Bans Skype, Other VoIP Services · · Score: 1

    Do modern Verizon nationwide service contracts even have the concept of off network roaming in them?

  18. Re:Nexus S 4G User. on Sprint Details Shift To LTE · · Score: 1

    Virgin Mobile is just a Sprint brand.

    There is a big difference though, Virgin Mobile branded devices only talk to Sprint owned towers, they don't get any service from Verizon.

  19. Re:Moderation system on Help Shape the Future of Slashdot · · Score: 1

    If you click "Account", the "Discussions" tab lets you choose a single page with no JS (the classic discussion system).

    Hopefully they don't ever take it away (they did some messing around where they pretended to take it away, to see how people reacted or something).

  20. Re:Use a password on Calif. Appeals Court Approves Cell Phone Searches · · Score: 1

    He was arrested for driving without a license and driving while intoxicated.

    The search was incidental to the arrest, not to the traffic stop.

    So it is fine to argue that his phone should not have been searched, but the implication that any minor traffic infraction could lead to such a search is disingenuous.

    Anyway, my point was more that there is actually a court out there that has rejected the lock and key metaphor, which is the part of your post that I found troublesome.

    I suppose the broader point is that there is little hope in parsing out the 5th amendment when the issue is the setting aside of the 4th.

  21. Re:Her Defense Was Pretty Good Too on Phelps Clan Tweets Intent To Picket Jobs Funeral Via iPhone · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You thought they were sincere?

    Their whole schtick is to be assholes and then sue anyone who confronts them.

  22. Re:Yet another reason to not have a cellphone on Calif. Appeals Court Approves Cell Phone Searches · · Score: 1

    Comment I replied to spoke of freedom.

    If you are forced to carry a tracker (like he apparently expects), that freedom is debased.

    Sorry if I was even a little bit subtle before.

  23. Re:Yet another reason to not have a cellphone on Calif. Appeals Court Approves Cell Phone Searches · · Score: 1

    It takes some A+ level cognitive dissonance to state that you are going to enjoy the process of having something you view as a fundamental human right slowly debased.

  24. Re:Use a password on Calif. Appeals Court Approves Cell Phone Searches · · Score: 1

    The discussion I link below indicates that compelling you to turn over the password forces you to admit that you know the password, which is testimonial:

    http://volokh.com/posts/1235508933.shtml

    So like anything else with the police, a reasonable course of action seems to be to say nothing.

  25. Re:Use a password on Calif. Appeals Court Approves Cell Phone Searches · · Score: 1

    A password does have the advantage that it protects your portable secrets from other bad actors.

    I totally agree that the police should not be making casual searches of phones (or anything else), I'm just saying that people carrying around consequential secrets probably don't have to get to the point where they are deciding whether the government is going to follow certain principles or not.