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  1. There's a good chance a government officer won't start beating/raping prostitutes.
    If by exploiting you mean taxing, then yes, of course, the system has to pay itself somehow.
    It would be interesting to know what actual prostitutes think about it.

  2. Re:One small step for man, one giant leap for ... on The Tech Behind Felix Baumgartner's Stratospheric Skydive · · Score: 1

    Yes, and this is definitely why there's a line of people willing to skydive from 128,000ft. Easy money, right?

  3. Considering that prostitution happens outside the boundaries of law, it's very unlikely that a relevant number of abuses is reported to the police. And substituting public law enforcement with private security is exactly why pimping exists.
    Setting health requirements without regulating prostitution is simply unenforceable.

  4. Re:ban it on Proposed Posting of Clients List In Prostitution Case Raises Privacy Concerns · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Then make it a strictly state-controlled business, where legal authority releases prostitution authorizations, regularly check on the health of the operators, etc.

    As you clearly state, prostitution needs some sort of authority to prevent abuses on the operators, so make it some legitimate authority, not some improvised pimp.
    Prostitution is not going to disappear in any way, at least try to control it.

  5. Re:Yet another reason to dump FF on Mozilla Details How Old Plugins Will Be Blocked In Firefox 17 · · Score: 1

    Not the only one, but definitely a minority.

    Also, remember that personal meeting greatly restricts your range of contacts. I would hate to ditch my foreign friends because "Facebook sux".

  6. Re:It would still become a derived work of the ker on Alan Cox to NVIDIA: You Can't Use DMA-BUF · · Score: 0

    You have no idea on what a syscall is, don't you?

  7. Re:Schrodinger's cat on Quantum Particle Work Wins Nobel For French, US Scientists · · Score: 4, Funny

    I really don't get all this fuss about Schrödinger's cat. Now they can finally observe it, and they found out it was dead. As anything else that has been in a box since 1935. Where do I get my Nobel?

  8. Re:how about on Replacing Windows 8's Missing Start Menu · · Score: 2

    Except they really didn't have to spend a dime on R&D for something that they developed in freakin' 1995.

  9. Re:Heh, I remember them on Regulators Smash Global Phone Tech Support Scam Operation · · Score: 5, Funny

    Stick the phone up your ass? I see you went for Premium Service...

  10. Re:Python 3 and its use on Python 3.3.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Took me a while, but brilliant!

  11. Re:Good times! Clearly, he's a dirtbag on Innocence of Muslims Filmmaker Arrested, Jailed · · Score: 1

    He's a dirtbag whose deliberate actions created way too much trouble for him to walk freely in the streets.
    Anyone who saw that piece of crap of his "movie" can agree that it didn't aim at sparkling a legitimate debate over Islam, but just at throwing fuel on fire on a tense enough situation.
    I wish they keep him locked, whatever the reason.

  12. Re:My first thought was on Austrian Skydiver Prepared to Leap From Edge of Space · · Score: 1

    One centimeter too high, and he would just float away...

  13. Re:Not a NPE, Is it a Troll? on Red Hat Fights Patent Troll With GPL · · Score: 1

    Are you claiming that SCO wasn't a patent troll?

  14. Re:...Black Mesa? on Black Mesa Released · · Score: 1

    "50 shades of crowbar"

    The least subtle title ever conceived.

  15. Re:...Black Mesa? on Black Mesa Released · · Score: 1

    I'm sensing badly written erotic fanfiction, that then will be made into a book avoiding copyright mess by changing the characters name, will be a huge success among frustrated housewives and then movies.

  16. Re:Trading's Too Fast When It Ceases to Mean Anyth on More Warnings About High-Frequency Trading · · Score: 4, Funny

    Goldman&Sachs would go belly up in a week. So yeah, no downsides.

  17. Re:Seriously? on WhatsApp Is Using IMEI Numbers As Passwords · · Score: 1

    Not so much. The best way to protect users is to let them know that the programs they're using are insecure.
    For what we know, a black hat might have discovered this vulnerability (of the moronic kind) months ago and already exploiting it in the wild without user knowledge. Full disclosure fixes this lack of information, the developer now should really fix the app.

  18. Re:Apple is the new Microsoft on Apple Says "No" To Releasing New Dock Connector Specs · · Score: 1

    Not sure if Apple shill or Microsoft shill...

  19. Re:Superficially Bizarre on Birthplace of Indoeuropean Languages Found · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Latin was never pushed out of Italy, it rather split in many regional neo-Latin (or Romance) languages according to the political turmoils that followed the end of the Roman Empire, with various degrees of influence from the languages of the invading forces (mostly Germanic and Slavic), to later gradually reunite, from the Renaissance onwards, into one single language. Italy reunited as a political entity only in 1860, so more than 1500 years after the fall of the Roman Empire, so by that time the divergence between the various regional languages was often beyond the limit of mutual comprehension. It was the birth of a new Italian literature, active repression of local languages during the Fascism, and ultimately the television that brought about what is now known as Italian.
    However in many regions the dialects remain the most spoken language, even thought standard Italian is well understood everywhere.
    My maternal grandparents automatically switch to Venetian while talking, while my paternal grandparents are native Friulan speakers.

  20. Re:$10,000 CHALLENGE to Alexander Peter Kowalski on Poll Finds Americans Think the TSA Is 'Doing a Good Job' · · Score: 1

    WTF did I just read?

  21. Re:Travel Bureau on Ebola Outbreak Kills 13 In Uganda · · Score: 0
  22. Re:Nokia, why you troll us so? on Nokia Aborts Meltemi Linux-Based Feature Phone · · Score: 2

    Ahem... ex-Microsoft guy maybe?

  23. Re:So... Why is Higgs so elusive? on Interviews: Giovanni Organtini Answers About the Higgs and LHC · · Score: 1

    It is my understanding (and I'm no physicists so take what i say with a pinch of salt) that it's the decay of the Higgs boson what gives mass to other particles.

  24. Re:There is - far less on Developer Drops Game Price To $0 Citing Android Piracy · · Score: 1

    Android sales numbers deny your claim. /. just WSHES it had as many usrs as Android...

  25. Re:that ain't the Queen's English on Earliest Americans Arrived In Waves, DNA Study Finds · · Score: 1

    So do the British, within British borders.