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  1. Re:I'd be more concerned... on Dead Goldfish Offered The Vote In Illinois · · Score: 1

    ID is not required in California, and while a signature is required it is not compared to anything.

    Even in Iraq, they had purple dye for the fingers to stop double voting.

  2. Re:There is no Nobel Prize in economics on Paul Krugman Awarded Nobel Prize For Economics · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's not actually "good enough for them"

    http://nobelprize.org/nomination/economics/nominators.html

    The Prize in Economics is not a Nobel Prize.

  3. Ever working on? on Getting Paid To Abandon an Open Source Project? · · Score: 1

    From your phrasing, it seems that this non competition would be unlimited in time, being in force for your entire life. I would express concern at the time limit, and then demand a payment equal to the time affected.

    In short: Even partial value for your skills forever is a very large number indeed.

  4. Re:I Can Think of Possibilities ... on Senator Questions Rise In US Texting Prices · · Score: 1

    Perhaps they just raised the price because the market could bear it. Why does it have to be some crazy conspiracy, or need any reason whatsoever?

    Competitors notice that the original price raiser is suffering no ill consequence and do the same. This sort of market action happens all the time.

    Oh right! Corporations evil! Money evil! Blahblahblah.

  5. Re:Plaintext passwords? on Changing Customers Password Without Consent · · Score: 2, Informative

    Neteller does that as well. If you're not familiar with the company, they're primarily a third party "wallet" service to assist with withdraws and deposits to online gambling sites (poker, sportsbook, etc) Once setup by a user, they have direct connections to bank accounts and credit cards and can charge against those accounts with no further identification than the account password.

    Which is sent cleartext via email upon request.

  6. Re:What I like on Wall-E Lookalike Wins British War Robot Showdown · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Well, no uniform makes him a civilian

    Your criteria has failed.

  7. Re:What I like on Wall-E Lookalike Wins British War Robot Showdown · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Might I suggest you do so first? Show your superior human intellect in figuring out if that guy not wearing a uniform and showing no visible weapon is "armed troops or unarmed civilians".

    No matter which you decide and by whatever criteria, you will be wrong a good percentage of the time.

  8. Re:A Greater Truth on Are US Voters Informed Enough About Science? · · Score: 1

    An even greater truth: The US is not a Democracy.

    As a Republic, the necessity for the voting populace to be highly educated on policy topics is even further removed. As a Republic, the limited number of representatives can be easily targeted to hold educated and useful opinions.

    The fact that they are not is the problem.

  9. HAM is right out. on Navajo Nation Losing Internet Access · · Score: 5, Informative

    Not only is amateur radio restricted to non commercial uses - meaning important things like NO ADS ALLOWED more than simply no generation of profit for sending over those frequencies. However, it's also "no vulgarity", and "no encryption" as well.

  10. Re:Their law versus ours on DHS Allowed To Take Laptops Indefinitely · · Score: 2, Informative

    No, it does not. There HAS to be probable cause first

    This is the hippy dippy part. The "probable cause" is "guy trying to cross the border". You are by definition able to be searched along with your possessions when attempting to cross the border. This is nothing new either.

    Only an actual strip search requires reasonable suspicion, and such suspicion is of a lower requirement than in other areas.

    Both the fourth and ninth has responded on this issue, recently and including searches of electronics equipment. Both found in favor of the gov't.

  11. Re:Books? Any written materials? on DHS Allowed To Take Laptops Indefinitely · · Score: 3, Informative

    That is NOT the argument, primarily because border crossings occur on this side of the border.

    To quote the fourth circuit court: The border search doctrine is justified by the longstanding right of the sovereign to protect itself.

  12. Re:Books? Any written materials? on DHS Allowed To Take Laptops Indefinitely · · Score: 4, Informative

    unreasonable searches and seizures

    Searches at the border are legally reasonable. This has been held for a very very long time.

    Since everybody loves Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_search_exception

  13. Re:Their law versus ours on DHS Allowed To Take Laptops Indefinitely · · Score: 0, Troll

    Were this to be challenged, it would be killed pretty quickly:

    Ahh, the idle dreams of the hippy dippy love children.

    This meets all the criteria under the fourth.

  14. Re:my grasp does not reach tesla on Tesla Motors Is Delivering Cars · · Score: 1

    i'm wondering how the second/third generation models are envisioned to ring up $$-wise

    They're different cars. The second model will be a minivan type vehicle, and priced at the high range for that style of vehicle - which is much much less than the current Tesla.

    The third model will be geared for, and I quote, "if you can afford to own any car, you can afford this one"

  15. Re:Tax Dollars At Work on Follow-up On Texas PI Law For PC Techs · · Score: 1

    Not taxes, fees. it's called rent seeking. Look it up.

  16. Re:Overpopulation... on The Fight To End Aging Gains Legitimacy, Funding · · Score: 1

    Overpopulation won't be an issue so long as we stop assuming that the only place to live is on the third planet orbiting this single sun.

  17. Re:what's with the porn hate? on Children Concerned By Parents' Web Habits · · Score: 1

    Legal restrictions are never a substitute for "wrong". Wrong is a moral choice, and such, personal.

  18. Re:Can we be a little more inclusive? on Senate Hearing On Laptop Seizures At US Border · · Score: 1

    Really? Which sovereign territory does LAX (for example) fall under?

  19. Re:Can we be a little more inclusive? on Senate Hearing On Laptop Seizures At US Border · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'd, personally, be against any protections granted to filthy foreigners trying to enter our country. Showers should be required.

    Especially for Canadians.

  20. Re:This is why robots aren't great for science on Probable Water Ice Sighted On Mars · · Score: 2, Interesting

    At some point the public, law, and morality has to accept that adult humans can and should be able to make choices that are irrevocable.

    Besides, considering the trip length to Mars, anybody with 2 years to live wouldn't make it back. Even if there was a way back.

    BTW: Don't delude yourself that this won't happen. NASA won't do it, sure. The Chinese will.

  21. Re:This is why robots aren't great for science on Probable Water Ice Sighted On Mars · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Come on please. It is easier to get stuff there than to get stuff there and return it.

    Find a couple astronaut capable people who have recently been diagnosed with cancer. Couple years to live, don't bring them back.

    A little cold hearted to design, but I'd guarantee you would have no lack of volunteers.

  22. Really? on McCain Backs Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    Is there really somebody out there that is comparing nuclear power to perpetual motion machines? Nuclear power is the leftist crackpots "Intelligent Design". Statements of faith entirely contradictory to science lead them to believe the rants and opinions of people far disconnected from scientific knowledge.

    http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/magazine/16-06/ff_heresies_08nuclear

  23. Re:Stupid and lazy. on Helping Some Students May Harm High Achievers · · Score: 3, Informative

    The general result was that 50% of the schools resources was poured into 15-20% of the students. If you think that's fair that's your problem I for one will respectfully disagree.

    Why is it ok for resources to be expended disproportionately when they are spent on the dysfunctional, but it's not ok when they are spent on the bright and talented?

    Specifically, the cost to "normalize" say, a Down's child is far more than the avg cost of a normal student. Since you're disagreeing with "pouring" resources into a small fraction of the students, surely you're against such policies.

  24. Police State! on H.R. 4279 Would Establish Federal IP Cops · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's interesting that all the moonbats screaming POLICE STATE!!! over in the Kucinich thread are all missing from this one. Consider that the bill is sponsored by a Democrat, and has passed a Democrat majority House.

    If there's any law I've seen recently that qualifies as police state, this is one.

  25. Re:Sex vs. Violence on 35 Articles of Impeachment Introduced Against Bush · · Score: 1

    The never-ending use of opinion-words in an attempt to express facts; "unjust war", "breaks the constitution", "police state" (the latter not so much an opinion as verifiably false) is boring and does nothing to progress your (stated) intent.