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  1. Re:Bullshit on Security Checkpoints Predict What You Will Do · · Score: 2, Funny

    And all the people you mentioned either tend brown, yellow or liberal, so where's the problem, right?

  2. Re:Bullshit on Security Checkpoints Predict What You Will Do · · Score: 1

    Also, an effective Muslim detector would awful hard to actually build.

  3. Re:Bullshit on Security Checkpoints Predict What You Will Do · · Score: 1

    Not crashing is essential to successfully running an airline. If the sensors are truly critical, it is the airlines' fault that they are not paying better attention to the random people that have access to their planes.

  4. Re:Amazon's shipping rocks on Amazon.com Reporting This Holiday Season Their "Best Ever" · · Score: 1

    So you are angry that they patented a feature that no sane person would ever want to use?

  5. Re:But NPR told me.... on Amazon.com Reporting This Holiday Season Their "Best Ever" · · Score: 1

    Do you keep your rented TV in the garage?

  6. Re:Begs the question - not so much on Amazon.com Reporting This Holiday Season Their "Best Ever" · · Score: 2, Funny

    "usage does" is still way better style than "it's use".

  7. Re:And the point of these laws is? on The Slippery Legal Slope of Cartoon Porn · · Score: 1

    Yes, but it is wholly knew. Historically, people have always treated each other with fairness and respect.

  8. Re:Simpsons porn is child porn too. on The Slippery Legal Slope of Cartoon Porn · · Score: 1

    The first rule of violent global revolution club is that you do not talk about violent global revolution club.

  9. Re:Features New to Windows 7 on First Look At Windows 7 Beta 1 · · Score: 1

    Ubuntu ate my cat.

  10. Re:So... I've been living on Mars? on Managing Last.FM's "Mountain of Data" · · Score: 1

    Tell someone who works at a circus that this is the latest thing and they will punch you right in the viral.

  11. Re:So... I've been living on Mars? on Managing Last.FM's "Mountain of Data" · · Score: 1

    People steal music. Morons inject poorly tagged/named music into those channels for various reasons (they change the artist to one they are familiar with, to promote their band, or to promote a band they like, they are lazy when transferring from CD, and so on).

    For example:

    http://free.house.cx/~eil/etc/notal_list.html

  12. Re:I love Roku on Roku Box Adds HD, Grows Beyond Netflix · · Score: 1

    I was going to go with "Have you contacted Apple to let them know you have become self aware?"

  13. Re:It had to happen sooner or later on Doubts Multiply About the "Long Tail" · · Score: 1

    If that were true, I would have finished reading the summary and been left with a vague sense that I found the writer to be a likable fellow, whereas in reality I became mildly irritated and scrolled down to see if any of the comments made more sense.

  14. Re:Premature births and young mothers... on Scientists Build Neonatal Incubator From Car Parts · · Score: 1

    I was actually thinking more about the portion of babies that are unintentional (and perhaps the additional portion that are intentional but represent poor economic choices) than I was thinking about maximizing the number of full term babies. I'm presuming that many of the babies born to young mothers are indeed unintentional, but I'm sure that many of the intentional babies are not well thought out.

    My thought was that the babies not born don't really represent a cost to the mother (because it wasn't something she desired or planned), so it sets aside a bunch of thorny issues regarding society dictating individual behavior, and handing out millions of condoms costs about as much as the care for 1 extreme high risk premature baby...

  15. Re:OK, which CA must leave the trusted list? on Perfect MITM Attacks With No-Check SSL Certs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    As a user of Firefox, that's fine with me (the entire point of the certificate system is to provide security; in that context, features and convenience are lower priorities than actually providing security).

    Basically, my neighbor's paper house is not a good reason for me to leave my doors unlocked.

  16. Re:Not really news? on Security Flaws In Aussie Net Filter Exposed · · Score: 1

    Thank you Captain Literal.

    Or is it Conan the Grammarian?

  17. Re:Not really news? on Security Flaws In Aussie Net Filter Exposed · · Score: 5, Funny

    You are entirely happy with her decision not to sleep with you?

  18. Re:Australia is pathetic on Security Flaws In Aussie Net Filter Exposed · · Score: 1

    Government itself is a slippery slope (there is always going to be someone extreme on each side of an issue). You mean that you don't like this because it goes too far.

  19. Re:What a bunch of geniuses, durr. on Scientists Build Neonatal Incubator From Car Parts · · Score: 1

    You are drunk on stupid. Fantastic drugs (aspirin, ibuprofen, loratadine, Diphendydramine, etc.) are available for anyone to buy, for peanuts (an hours wages buy's a months supply of most of those) and Walmart gives many antibiotics away for free, if you have a prescription.

    There is plenty of room for improvement in pricing, but your characterization of the situation is hilarious.

  20. Re:Solution: Public Key Auth on The Slow Bruteforce Botnet(s) May Be Learning · · Score: 1

    I don't know, I'm pretty sure that the correct, absurd-literal-minded interpretation of 'part of a parking lot' is more than a single empty space.

    I do agree that most people park in empty spaces.

  21. Re:Hmm. on Chrome Complicates Mozilla/Google Love-In · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What are you talking about? Google doesn't care about how many people are using their browser, they care about how many people are looking at their ads.

    They want Firefox+Chrome+other-default-to-google-search-browers to have as much market share compared to non-default-to-google browsers as possible. They could give a shit if it comes via Chrome or not (I doubt that Chrome is even tangentially part of strategic planning, it is probably much more a result of the rather open corporate culture (open in the sense that people work on things that are interesting to them, rather than simply on what the management structure specifies)).

  22. Re:Post-apocalyptic computing on Scientists Build Neonatal Incubator From Car Parts · · Score: 1

    Just learn how to build a good still (and perhaps how to brew beer; brewing the precursor for fuel is pretty easy though, you don't care how it tastes). You will be far more useful than the mechanics.

  23. Re:-1 misses the point? on Scientists Build Neonatal Incubator From Car Parts · · Score: 1

    Your definition of breathing is stupid.

  24. Re:Cool on Scientists Build Neonatal Incubator From Car Parts · · Score: 1

    In the first world, some big chunk of the premature births are children of young, poor, single mothers. That suggests that intervening before conception would be a straightforward way to reduce premature births (I'm not suggesting that they should be prevented from having children, I'm suggesting that they are a high risk group that could be encouraged to delay having children until a time when there is less apparent risk).

  25. Re:Solution: Public Key Auth on The Slow Bruteforce Botnet(s) May Be Learning · · Score: 4, Funny

    Using a high port number is like parking in an empty part of a parking lot. It adds a small amount of inconvenience, reduces the likelihood of an incident, but fails to mitigate any of the consequences of an incident that does happen.