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  1. Re:about time.. on Facebook Post Juror Gets Fined, Removed, Assigned Homework · · Score: 1

    It is Detroit, there are good odds that $250 is a LOT of money to that person and a five-page essay is a challenge.

  2. Re:5 page paper? on Facebook Post Juror Gets Fined, Removed, Assigned Homework · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I wish jury service was a voluntary duty, not unlike voting.

    I don't. Then you get busybodies, bored seniors, moral crusaders, wannabe cops, wannabe lawyers, wannabe judges, and people desperate for the small paycheck instead of a jury of my peers.

  3. Re:Governmental Fail on Senate Trying To Slip Internet Kill Switch Past Us · · Score: 1

    all that sorrow would have been avoided had Gordon simply shown them how to install a hardened *NIX derivative.

    Thats like a 15 minute tutorial or a 3 page pamphlet isn't it?

  4. Re:Site Down on Senate Trying To Slip Internet Kill Switch Past Us · · Score: 1

    None of the people voting on the issue will bother to read the bill. Why should we?

  5. Re:Wait a second... on Senate Trying To Slip Internet Kill Switch Past Us · · Score: 1

    It means you're about to get screwed by two things at the same time.

  6. Re:Governmental Fail on Senate Trying To Slip Internet Kill Switch Past Us · · Score: 1

    If you want to update programs in your power plant, do it with physical media or take in a laptop and sync it that way.

    What if the laptop was compromised? It then infects a critical system and you lose CPU cycles while it thrashes around trying to get out and time to cleanup the damage. Worst case is targeted espionage where there is a virus waiting to jump the air gap.

  7. Re:Time's arrow on What 'IT' Stuff Should We Teach Ninth-Graders? · · Score: 1

    I would be interested in knowing what books you would assign as requited reading in "English Lit."

    Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Books? Are you insane?

    You can't possibly enjoy a book until you understand all of the Latin and Greek roots of English and compare those with more symbolic forms of writing like heiroglyphs or Mandarin.

    Books. Jesus are you trying to ruin the next generation?

  8. Re:Hmm on Drunken Employee Shoots Server · · Score: 1

    Utah is also an open carry state. So he may not have been carrying concealed.

    In some respects he may have even been transporting from wherever to his office. Which means that the gun is not on or about the person rather stowed in a container that is generally inacessible. Specifics vary state to state, some do not consider the glovebox 'on or about' others mandate locked containers, ammo separate from the gun, etc.

    http://www.opencarry.org/ut.html

  9. Re:"Automatic" doesn't mean what you think it mean on Drunken Employee Shoots Server · · Score: 1

    I've also heard it called "last-shot hold open". The context was in a tube fed rifle (Marlin Model 60).

  10. "Automatic" doesn't mean what you think it means on Drunken Employee Shoots Server · · Score: 5, Informative

    "Automatic" probably does not mean what you think it means.

    "Automatic" weapons are typically ones that fire continuously as long as the trigger is pressed.

    It can also mean "automatic" as in it resets for you. This second usage is a little archaic and is now commonly called 'semi-automatic'.

  11. Re:anti-spam on Rustock Botnet Responsible For 40% of Spam · · Score: 1

    Oh believe me, I know which relatives of mine have CP. 'Uncle' James bought a scanner to digitize all those Polaroids back in '98. I was such a cute child.

  12. Re:anti-spam on Rustock Botnet Responsible For 40% of Spam · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wait, are you proposing that we ENCOURAGE 4chan to take over a botnet of 2.5 million computers?

    I'll take the spam thankyouverymuch.

  13. Re:Yes...this will end well on Does the GOP Pay Friendly Bloggers? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Just making sure I was reading your assertion properly. Given the current climate of partisanship and spin, I think my question was valid.

  14. Re:If they do, I want options! on Toyota Adds External Speakers To Warn Pedestrians · · Score: 4, Interesting

    TIE fighter.

  15. Re:A solution in search of a problem on Toyota Adds External Speakers To Warn Pedestrians · · Score: 1

    Nope, but we must spend! spend! spend! to prevent this horrible tragedy from ever occuring!

  16. Re:Begs for creative modification on Toyota Adds External Speakers To Warn Pedestrians · · Score: 2, Funny

    Tie Fighter engine noise

  17. Re:Yes...this will end well on Does the GOP Pay Friendly Bloggers? · · Score: 0, Troll

    What about the charges that weren't false? Were they exonerated of those?

  18. Re:A programming metaphore on National Park Service Says Tech Is Enabling Stupidity · · Score: 1

    Another Scout checking in here.

    The scouting attitudes and skills pay off. There is a marked difference between how I pack and prepare for a hiking or backpacking trip and how my non-Scout (but still experienced) friends pack and prepare for the same trip.

    You might start the younger/newer kids with GPS as a hook, but very quickly go from "this is GPS" to "now lets learn what its really telling you".

  19. Re:This is wrong. on National Park Service Says Tech Is Enabling Stupidity · · Score: 1

    There is nothing wrong with grabbing a map and a compass and going out on a hike, but with the advancement in tools to help us navigate more effectivily, who really wants to take an old school map with them.

    I do. Maps are lighter, don't require batteries, and have a pretty simple user interface. You can mark on them. In an emergency you can use a corner of one as dry tinder. Even for road navigation it is a very good idea to review the map so that the GPS is reminding you of your route rather than you discovering your route only when the GPS tells you about it.

    I've seen people with little or no navigational training fail at using GPS just as much as they fail at mapreading. GPS, compass, maps are all TOOLS. It takes some time to learn how to use them properly, find their limitations, and get the most from them.

    The failure is not one of the toolchain, its one of user attitude. Its expected that the tool will do the work for you, but it won't. You have to use it to help you get the work done.

  20. Re:Educational Problems on Union Boycotts LA Times Over Teacher Evaluation Disclosure · · Score: 1

    You don't need three advanced degrees (And the debt load that comes with it) to each ANY high school class.

    Except maybe the proofreading part of English courses.

  21. Re:first on Is RFID Really That Scary? · · Score: 3, Funny

    AC used RFID to steal my first post!

  22. Re:Not just social networks on Can Twitter and Facebook Deal With Their Dead? · · Score: 1

    Don't worry Taco and Neal will be around for a long time. At least as long as they stay away from hockey games.

  23. Re:So, regulation haters... on EFF Reviews the Verizon-Google Net Neutrality Deal · · Score: 2, Funny

    Or government contractors with automatic weapons police themselves.

    So it'd be OK with you if they only had semi-automatic or bolt action weapons?

  24. It'll be a while before we get confirmation... on Ted Stevens and Sean O'Keefe In Plane Crash · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...since the internet is a series of tubes. Its not like a truck. It can get clogged.

  25. Re:Question: on Larry Ellison Rips HP Board a New One · · Score: 1

    Oh I'm very jealous. I'd like to know what to put in my contracts so that I get a bonus when I resign.

    I do agree with the parent's original premise that no one should be treated as a criminal until proven guilty of a crime. Its just really hard to feel sorry for someone who makes more than I will in my working career just for quitting his job.

    This isn't exactly the same as the manager that had his reputation ruined because of planted kiddie porn, but it is in the same vein.