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  1. Re:No way! on Your Identity Is Worth Less Than $15 · · Score: 1
    Apples and oranges.
    These data are about what you saved in the past, and have in the present.
    WRT entitlements at least, politicians are
    • all about what can be siphoned from you in the future
    • skimming a percentage from across all of society (modulo those rich enough to put their cash elsewhere, mind you) and not just wrecking individuals
    • telling you "we're taking this from you for your own good, because it's Teh Right Thing To Do"
    If only the 10th Amendment still had any teeth.
  2. Re:Researches on /. find article similar to this on Astronomers Locate Solar System Very Similar To Our Own · · Score: 3, Funny

    Could it be
    In this far off place
    They use similar means
    For the saving of face?
    Burma Shave

  3. So flip it around on Virginia Becomes First State to Mandate Internet Safety Lessons · · Score: 5, Funny

    Have a class where the kids all get fake identities, and try to get on the network and steal the fakes from each other.
    Give the kids a lesson about phish, you bore them for a day. Teach the kids to phish, and you could educate them for a lifetime.

  4. Re:You're entitled to that sense of entitlement: on Dell Abandons Its Customization Roots · · Score: 1

    Entitlement means some patronizing form of fairness provided to you by the government, the source of all that is right and fair.
    (Actually I agree with you 100%, just throwing you a jape).

  5. You're entitled to that sense of entitlement: on Dell Abandons Its Customization Roots · · Score: 1
  6. Has NetCraft confirmed on Vista is Slower, But XP Is Still Dying · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...that XP thinks it is BSD?

  7. Re:Strange... you missed the whole thing. on Having Your ID Stolen Leads to Job Loss, Prosecution · · Score: 1

    Would it not be fair to ask the amount of tragedy precluded at the same time?

  8. Re:This makes me happy on Neal Stephenson Returns with "Anathem" · · Score: 1

    Aw, c'mon. Java is so close to perfect now. If we can just wedge this One More Featured Goody (OMFG), then Java shall have achieved perfection.

  9. Re:April Fool's Day... on Rambus Wins Patent Case · · Score: 1

    No one is denying you, personally, anything.
    I'd like to deny the government, by invoking the 10 Amendment to the Constitution, the right to sodomize my liberty, even under the aegis of "it's for my own good".

  10. OOXML on OOXML Rumored to be Approved, Announcement Wednesday · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Consonant/vowel disaster
    Try this here
    Your head to clear
    And make the load times faster:
    Burma Shave

  11. Re:April Fool's Day... on Rambus Wins Patent Case · · Score: 1

    There are workarounds for people like you.
    If you won't buy directly, then industry will partner with government and raise your taxes to buy the RAM.
    IOW, you can get the RAM up front, or from the rear.
    This is the ugly side-effect of centralized power.

  12. Re:I'm just glad they're teaching C++ actively aga on Stroustrup Says C++ Education Needs To Improve · · Score: 1

    first-time [Java] programmers have to use objects whereas C++ you can get away with...
    I think it's fairer to say that C++ supports a variety of paradigms, from procedural to generic to object-oriented, without forcing you to use stuff you don't always need (garbage collection) while still keeping around the possibility of doing serious performance optimizations (in-line assembly).
    Philosophically, C++ leans towards TMTOWTDI, which explains its unpopularity with the TOORWTDI crowd.
  13. Re:They knew who I was. on In Soviet US, Comcast Watches YOU · · Score: 1

    Basically, I'm asking if you have a fundamental issue with universal healthcare or if you simply believe that it would never be run worth a damn and would be held over the citizens as a tool to force obedience (a la highway funds)?
    I have a fundamental problem with setting precedent for your personal rights/responsibilities to be overtaken by the state.
    Sure, we all benefit from pooled resources for infrastructure and research (e.g. the TCP/IP we're currently using).
    O'Rourke's observation, that giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys, remains important.
  14. Re:They knew who I was. on In Soviet US, Comcast Watches YOU · · Score: 1

    Dude, if you think it's about 'fatties', and come up with some variation on pragmatism to justify the enslavement, then doom on you.
    Freedom and personal responsibility are the bedrock of these United States, but we seem intent on slouching towards Europe in our policies.
    Go, Idiocracy!

  15. Re:v2.0 on Web 2.0, Meet JavaScript 2.0 · · Score: 5, Funny
    That depends. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMA_Script is on version four.
    To paraphrase Palmerston:

    only three people ever understood the Java* numbering schemes: a German professor, who went mad, Prince Albert, who died, and Larry Wall - who, asked to come up with something, promptly wrote a perl script and forgot it.
  16. Re:They knew who I was. on In Soviet US, Comcast Watches YOU · · Score: 1, Informative

    Read http://www.amazon.com/Liberal-Fascism-American-Mussolini-Politics/dp/0385511841/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1206137228&sr=8-1
    You'll learn that the Italian Fascists thought the Nazis more than a little whack, for all they collaborated.
    Oh, and the American Fascist tradition started with Teddy Roosevelt (oops, righties), but jumped to Woodrow Wilson, FDR, and LBJ, and is "carried on smartly" by the left. If you miss that universal health care is a fascist play to control you "for your own good", then the propaganda has indeed worked well.

  17. I'm looking on From GNOME to KDE and Back Again · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...for gnome.el and kde.el, but not finding them.
    Are gnome and kde part of this new-fangled "X" thingy people seem to be on about lately?

  18. Re:It would work to... on Would a National Biometric Authentication Scheme Work? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It would concentrate a lot of power in whoever is managing the information.
    Have you looked at the response winning the latest /. poll? http://slashdot.org/pollBooth.pl?qid=1544&aid=-1
    The only possibly better response than whatcouldpossiblygowrong would be cureworsethanthedisease.
    I'm confident I'd vote against any nitwit pushing such a plan.

  19. Re:1 TB of memory... on How To Use a Terabyte of RAM · · Score: 1

    Good god, I've seen more than one project where the J2EE app server takes longer to boot up than the OS and hardware.
    It's like "the running dream" with a healthy dose of "WTF".

  20. Re:1 TB of memory... on How To Use a Terabyte of RAM · · Score: 4, Funny

    You are wise to avoid discussion of emacs...

  21. Re:Fristy P0st on One Minute of Science Per Five Hours of Cable News · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Fireworks and science
    Like a tired old appliance
    Go dumbly to grave
    Unlike deathless
    Burma Shave

  22. Re:I for one on Open Source Growing At an Exponential Rate · · Score: 1

    Here is a glimpse of a future video:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSYV-nEE300

  23. Re:I for one on Open Source Growing At an Exponential Rate · · Score: 4, Interesting

    But if everyone is an overlord, who are the serfs?
    Or is that the real point?

  24. Re:Sorry... on Israelis Sue Government For Laser Cannons · · Score: 4, Funny

    One could substitute
    LL
    AA
    WW
    YY
    EE
    RR
    SS,
    but that would be stereo typing.

  25. Re:No No No on Jonathan Zittrain On the Future of the Internet · · Score: 1

    So, you are familiar with "Tales of the Self-Licking Ice Cream Cone"?