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  1. Re:Black Box voting should come to mind on Why Do So Many Liberals "Like" Mitt Romney On Facebook? · · Score: 1

    Even when I was stateside, the absentee ballots went through the on-base mail system. While stationed in Maryland and voting in California, I received my absentee ballot the DAY AFTER the 2008 election. While deployed, I got my ballot with my Thanksgiving package from my parents.

  2. Re:Given the choice on Why Do So Many Liberals "Like" Mitt Romney On Facebook? · · Score: 1

    Actually I can explain it to you:

    A Tea Partier doesn't require explanation, because they are smart enough to realize that Food Stamps, SSDI, Welfare, and Union payoffs do not stimulate the economy. They are programs designed to buy the votes of the ignorant masses.

  3. Re:Black Box voting should come to mind on Why Do So Many Liberals "Like" Mitt Romney On Facebook? · · Score: 1

    They could contact the USPO and have then vet it for mailed in. Likewise, PX can do it for military and the embassy could do it for other out of nation.
     

    I actually like that idea. Have people vote in person using existing government infrastructure. If that had been in existence for the past 8 years, those absentee ballots that I received AFTER election day while deployed may have actually counted.

  4. Re:Issues on Why Do So Many Liberals "Like" Mitt Romney On Facebook? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Like any politician is any better? Gitmo was supposed to closed in January 2010. No tax increases, after the Supreme Court ruled that Obamacare was a tax. Drone strikes increase 3-fold under Obama. The "most transparent government" said that Benghazi was a protest about a Youtube video, then admitted it was a terrorist attack and are now engaged in Newspeak, claiming they never said it was a protest about a Youtube video.

    WMDs in Iraq, Watergate, Iran-Contra, arming the Taliban in the 1980s, the list goes on and on.

  5. Re:Given the choice on Why Do So Many Liberals "Like" Mitt Romney On Facebook? · · Score: 1

    Because I think social conservatives are busybody prudes, and I believe in trickle-down government.

    FTFY

  6. Re:Have a bunch of "rights" for you, from 1936. on Is Mobile Broadband a Luxury Or a Human Right? · · Score: 1

    That's an implementation problem, not a theoretical one.

    So could we say that a "feature" of communism is the inability to implement it?

  7. Re:China on Counterfeit Air Bag Racket Blows Up · · Score: 1

    I believe patenting the patent would cause the universe to implode.

  8. Re:Have a bunch of "rights" for you, from 1936. on Is Mobile Broadband a Luxury Or a Human Right? · · Score: 1

    You forgot the "some pigs are more equal than others" at the bottom.

  9. Re:China on Counterfeit Air Bag Racket Blows Up · · Score: 1

    Citation Please

  10. Re:China on Counterfeit Air Bag Racket Blows Up · · Score: 1

    Yeah - cause no other country EVER thought of THAT before!!

    So you are saying China stole the idea to steal other's ideas?

  11. Re:I do not trust Chinese manufacturing, BUT .... on Counterfeit Air Bag Racket Blows Up · · Score: -1, Troll

    Please remove the tinfoil hat covered in Obama stickers. Perhaps you will be able to post intelligently after removal.

  12. China on Counterfeit Air Bag Racket Blows Up · · Score: 3, Insightful

    China - The first economy based of stealing other people's ideas and manufacturing it for less.

  13. Re:No water, no air, no bonds broken? on Half-Life of DNA is 521 Years, Jurassic Park Impossible After All · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Also worth mentioning, what about the tar pits? If an animal is surrounded by tar and sealed in, what happens to the DNA degradation?

  14. PLEASE on Russian Officials Consider Ban On Wi-Fi Use For Kids · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Will someone proofread the article before it gets posted? W-iFi does not exist, perhaps you mean Wi-Fi?

  15. Game-changer on Insurance For Cybercriminals, or Giant Sting? · · Score: 1

    Methinks the law enforcement agencies which investigate cybercrime have realized that they are incapable of hiring qualified computer experts who can find the culprits of such crimes, so they decided to get back to the basics. Instead of trying to catch them in cyberspace, where they excel at their trade, they decided to bring the criminals into the police domain, setting up a sting.

    I am interested to see if it actually works.

  16. Re:8$ on Teardown Finds iPhone 5 Costs Apple About the Same As Did 4S · · Score: 1

    Guess you have never been to Southern Jersey, which is where the "Garden State" name comes from. It's a bunch of open land with cows and farms.

  17. Question on Ask Slashdot: Video Monitors For Areas That Are Off the Grid? · · Score: 1

    Why re-invent the wheel? You said it yourself, hunters have been doing this for years. Therefore, there are already products on the market which will stand up to the elements with a long battery life and the capabilities to do what you are looking to do. Sure, you could buy some camera, put them in a water-resistant sealed box, camoflauge them, and run a wire to your house. But why go through that much trouble when someone already makes a reliable product to do exactly that?

  18. Thank you Captain Obvious! Who would have thought to hide malware in a known program?

  19. Bad idea on Curiosity Rover Makes First Foursquare Check-In On Another Planet · · Score: 1

    I do not want a machine to be the mayor of anything, even a lifeless rock in space!

  20. Re:Sounds fun. on $1 Billion Mission To Reach the Earth's Mantle · · Score: 1

    Yeah, the Catholic Church was the largest brewer in Europe for 1,000 years. Therefore, God drinks.

  21. Re:Sounds fun. on $1 Billion Mission To Reach the Earth's Mantle · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You see, they did exist. Since the universe is only 6,000 years old, what happened is that God blinked us into existence. Realizing, in his omnipotent knowledge, that humanity would some day understand the laws of the universe which he created, He decided to create 13+ billion years of history to fool us with. So the dinosaurs did exist, just long enough for God to kill them and bury their bones, so that we would have fossils and oil. Because God decided it would be easier to create everything in 6 days instead of kicking back on his supernatural couch, sipping a beer, and watch the universe grow on it's own.

    Or, if you prefer, God could be at a gas station next to a dusty road in the middle of the desert. Where nothing is said because it has all been said.

  22. Sounds fun. on $1 Billion Mission To Reach the Earth's Mantle · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wonder if by samples, they mean the live dinosaurs that inhabit hollow earth.

  23. Re:They aren't on the internet on White House Confirms Chinese Cyberattack · · Score: 1

    The "air-gap" in SIPRNet is what they tell you, and how they say that it works. How far do you trust the US government to be honest?

    That fact aside, when a General says they want something, it happens. Perhaps the act of shifting 2 feet to the right to access a standard network computer is too far for them to move. Whatever their reasons, all a General needs to do is go find his S-6 and order PV2 Snuffy to plug in some cables so he/she can access whatever they want on any computer they want. Do you think PV2 Snuffy is going to have the guts to tell a General no?

    Let's just say that pirated music and movies are not always just music and movies. First, it eats into the limited bandwidth these systems have. Since you average computer user is not smart enough to realize that streaming one movie over a LAN does not impact performance, however when 500 other people have the same idea your network runs like molasses. Second, there's malicious software present on a lot of these. Like say, PVT Snuffy rips a bootleg DVD bought from some local merchant onto a thumb drive.

  24. Wow on The US Navy's Railgun Program · · Score: 0

    I suspect that BAE had all it's employees sign on to Slashdot and get this article on the front page.

  25. Re:So... on White House Confirms Chinese Cyberattack · · Score: 1

    What victim? The only victims are the 4 people who died. They died after 6 hours of fighting. There's an entire Brigade stationed in Italy, a few hours flight away. Where were the Marines to stage a rescue? Those 4 men died because of the administrations failures. We should have reminded the residents of Libya why the Marine Corps Song start with "From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli."