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  1. Re:Woot! on Drools JBoss Rules 5.0 · · Score: 1

    So does positive require that he give it a 10/10 or something?

  2. Re:Or... on FCC Will Tackle Cell Phone 'Bill Shock' · · Score: 1

    Keep in mind that Sprint is the company lurking over the shoulder of the Boost brand.

  3. Re:"Pay us more money and we won't screw you"? on FCC Will Tackle Cell Phone 'Bill Shock' · · Score: 1

    It sounds like you are stigmatizing prepaid in your brain, because this does exactly what you want.

    Sure, you are paying upfront and then receiving services, but they are careful never to extend you any credit, so there generally aren't any big surprises (the biggest surprise would generally be running out of credit earlier than you expected).

  4. Re:got spyware? on Careful What You Post, the FBI Has More of These · · Score: 1

    Would legal force really be justified, or would it simply be allowed under Texas law?

  5. Re:Silly President, streamlining's for wings on Feds Discover 1,000 More Government Data Centers · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The other reason the Tea Party folks have no chance is that they are a hilarious minority.

    They are loud and entertaining so they get lots of time on the news, but they aren't the mainstream Americans they think they are.

  6. Re:Password authentication is dumb on Survey Shows How Stupid People Are With Passwords · · Score: 1

    It would still be a bad idea to login to an OpenID on an untrusted device.

    Really, it would be a worse idea than logging in to a more usual username+password account (because in that case, at least you are only advertising your login for the one service).

  7. Re:Password authentication is dumb on Survey Shows How Stupid People Are With Passwords · · Score: 1

    I think it would be smart to considered the passwords to be compromised in that situation, but I wouldn't say that the consequences are particularly dire, the primary 'threat' would be Dropbox employees with access to the data and an interest in accessing one of your accounts or selling user data, a group that is likely to consist of 0 people.

  8. Re:British Power Supply on Pirate Electrician Supplied Power To 1,500 Homes · · Score: 1

    Sure, there are people that use lots of power and there are growers that are careful, but any big operation is still going to be one of the biggest residential customers of the power company.

  9. Re:Great idea. on Facebook Introduces One-Time Passwords · · Score: 1

    You can rest assured there huckleberry, I'm sure that the Facebook will only send a onetime password for an account to the phone number linked to that account.

    (The 'text a number' in the summary means that they can send a text message to a specific number Facebook has setup, Facebook will then examine the sender of that message and send a password to them if they have an account on the Facebook)

  10. Re:British Power Supply on Pirate Electrician Supplied Power To 1,500 Homes · · Score: 1

    They probably don't need to bother with that stuff to find growers (except for the ones that are smart enough to steal electric), a couple of thousand watts of lighting running all the time is going to show right up on their usage (1 kw running all the time -> 1440 kw-hours each month).

  11. Re:Wow! on Countries Considering Circumlunar Flight From ISS · · Score: 1

    The money is a pretty good proxy for the resources that would be expended.

  12. Re:Wow! on Countries Considering Circumlunar Flight From ISS · · Score: 1

    So you are somewhat realistic about it costing trillions of dollars to put a few dozen people on Mars.

    Do you really see trillions of dollars of benefits from such a thing?

  13. Re:Hmm on Pope Says Technology Causes Confusion Between Reality and Fiction · · Score: 1

    Logic over which set of axioms?

    Anyway, hopefully you have not mistaken me for someone with religion, I'm mostly trying to point out that you are looking for sensible behavior from people that you have already identified as not being entirely sensible, getting into digressions over what *they* *should* think about their god is sort of beside the point.

    (That is, I agree that the bible has split exactly because it is a work of man, but that is of little interest to those that 'believe' in it)

  14. Re:Hmm on Pope Says Technology Causes Confusion Between Reality and Fiction · · Score: 1

    Right, you are insisting that any god that might exist would have created things in a way that you find logically satisfying.

  15. Re:Hmm on Pope Says Technology Causes Confusion Between Reality and Fiction · · Score: 1

    That's an argument about god, not an argument about what confused people would do with a (supposed) bible.

  16. Re:Hmm on Pope Says Technology Causes Confusion Between Reality and Fiction · · Score: 1

    For the ardent, there is one true version.

    People even split churches and such over disagreements over which version that is.

    Or do you mean to insist that any "God" that might exist has to create a history that plays out the way you expect?

  17. Re:And those who onlyTHINK they would be superhero on Study Finds Most Would Become Supervillians If Given Powers · · Score: 1

    No, I'm arguing that the test for 'true nobility' needs to account for the subjects entire lifetime.

  18. Re:And those who onlyTHINK they would be superhero on Study Finds Most Would Become Supervillians If Given Powers · · Score: 1

    You didn't just say noble, you said "truly noble".

    I'm sort of fine with the guy starting out noble and then getting corrupt, I'm not fine with him starting out truly noble and then killing people for sport.

  19. Re:And those who onlyTHINK they would be superhero on Study Finds Most Would Become Supervillians If Given Powers · · Score: 1

    Your phrasing is poor, if they were truly noble to begin with they would resist the corruption from the power. If they don't resist the corruption, then they weren't truly noble.

    What you mean is how many freedom fighters that seem to be doing it for the right reasons end up power mad.

  20. Re:Not westinghouse on Economy Puts US Nuclear Reactors Back In Doubt · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Right, because with our trajectory of decommissioning atomic weapons and huge existing amount of fuel to extract weapons material from, hand wavy strategic concerns are at the top of the list.

    And never mind that a purpose built reactor is a far better source of plutonium for weapons than one designed primarily to provide grid power.

  21. Re:Decent competitor? on GM Criticized Over Chevy Volt's Hybrid Similarities · · Score: 1

    Did you compensate for the imperial gallon being 1.2 U.S. gallons?

    It doesn't account for all the difference (just 20% of it). I think driver expectations and fuel prices also pay a big role (U.S. gas is relatively cheap and has been relatively cheap, so buyers are relatively more concerned with acceleration than efficiency).

  22. Re:Genius on Technological Genius Is Timeliness, Not Inspiration · · Score: 1

    I would guess he has managed to cash out enough to be comfortable for quite a while.

  23. Re:I see this alot on Why You See 'Free Public WiFi' In So Many Places · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that part of the AC post hits close enough to home that they deserve a cookie (or I wouldn't have replied).

  24. Re:I see this alot on Why You See 'Free Public WiFi' In So Many Places · · Score: 1

    How much of my post history did you take a meaningful look at?

  25. Re:Decent competitor? on GM Criticized Over Chevy Volt's Hybrid Similarities · · Score: 1

    People making economic choices are buying lightly used Corollas, Civics and Focuses.

    Those are semi-economy, but not really 'cheap'.