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  1. Re:Thespians on Pay the TSA $100 and Bypass Airport Security · · Score: 1

    It's government regulations that were exactly suggested by corporate lobbies with products to sell.

  2. Re:Nobody of value uses tablets. Don't focus there on Can Microsoft Afford To Lose With Windows 8? · · Score: 1

    No, apple has not done well to capture those markets. Apple Tablets are a joke, suited exactly for little more than toilet-sitting.

    Motion Computing has done well to capture those markets.
    http://www.motioncomputing.com/products/tablet_pc_c5.asp
    You'll notice a big pile of difference between them and Apple iPads in both concept, focus, and function.

  3. No, AT&T APPLE on Ask Slashdot: Who Has the Best 3G Coverage In California and Nevada? · · Score: 1

    ..because THAT product can now get a 4G signal out of a 3G network!

  4. Re:The most important question: on Sheffield Scientists Have Revolutionized the Electron Microscope · · Score: 5, Funny

    Exactly as it's spelled.

  5. Re:Assembly? on Researchers Seek Help In Solving DuQu Mystery Language · · Score: 1

    > from assembly was a pointerless endeavor.

    ftfy.

  6. Re:What is a Higgs Bosom worth? on Final Analysis Suggests Tevatron Saw Hint of the Higgs Boson · · Score: 1

    I once had a bosun who's name was "Higgs". Guy knew everybody and could fix anything.

  7. Re:Free GPS receiver! on What The DHS Is Looking For In Your Posts · · Score: 1

    They're all male.

  8. Re:Hurray! on Candidates Sued By Patent Troll For Using Facebook · · Score: 1

    > Except it's not really a software patent, is it? It's really just an idiotic patent, and looks like

    Uh, first you say it's not really a software patent, and then you say it's really just a software patent.

    As far as rejection goes... he simply needs to resubmit, this time adding the phrase, "on a mobile device".

  9. Re:Beyond the DRM dilemma on The Dark Side of Digital Distribution · · Score: 1

    Voting with your dollars does not work in this environment. The FakeAV industry proves this.

  10. Re:browser pluggable executable objects on Proposed Video Copy Protection Scheme For HTML5 Raises W3C Ire · · Score: 1

    but but but adhoc video codec downloading has *always* worked so well, in the past! NOBODY would be dumb enough to repeat that exact same scenario with plugins!

  11. Re:Supremacy Clause on State Legislatures Attempt To Limit TSA Searches · · Score: 2

    TSA: We handle more people's packages per day than UPS and FedEx, combined.

  12. Re:Just what we don't need on State Legislatures Attempt To Limit TSA Searches · · Score: 1

    You seem to have missed the TSA's top 10 list for 2011 that they just released.

    Glaringly absent, for the 10th year in a row, is one single terrorist.

    The things they DID catch would have been stopped with pre-911 screening (aka the TSA extensions to that process are useless).

    The TSA does not do an important job. We know this because no terrorists have been caught, and no terrorists have moved on to easier (non-TSA) targets, like... water reservoirs, subways, trains, the power grid, oil storage facilities...

    Meanwhile, consider having a TSA day in your local elementary schools. Have a uniformed TSA agent provide an "enhanced pat down" to every child in the school for the purpose of demonstration, so they know what to expect when they reach a real checkpoint.

  13. Re:I want HAL's memory on SSD Latency, Error Rates May Spell Bleak Future · · Score: 2

    Not a problem, since I have that in my goddamned flying car.

  14. Re:Legal Action on Is Santorum's "Google Problem" a Google Problem? · · Score: 2

    NO, Google's search results are personalized to show what YOU are most likely looking for - Google has taps on all the tubes, everywhere, to see what people are surfing. This means that if you are a staunch Rick Santorum supporter searching for 'Santorum', and Google yields a Frothy Result as top match? It means your internet habits prove that YOU ARE GAY. If you're straight, then Rick's site will be first. It is for me, anyway.

  15. Re:Maybe... on Is Santorum's "Google Problem" a Google Problem? · · Score: 2

    I just want to know what's going to happen when the Russian Link Farmers figure out that they can sell the ability to put any candidate they want, on top of the results.

  16. Re:You sure can engage in civil conversation! on The Himalayas and Nearby Peaks Have Lost No Ice In Past 10 Years, Study Shows · · Score: 1

    Hey... if you cannot win an argument, change the topic and distract away from it. ..."Yes, but...!"

  17. Re:Breaking news on FBI File Notes Steve Jobs' Reality Distortion Field · · Score: 1

    I believe the official quote is, "I'll believe that corporations are people when Texas successfully executes one."

  18. Re:That judge belongs behind bars. on Defendant Ordered To Decrypt Laptop Claims She Had Forgotten Password · · Score: 1

    Actually no - you're not aware of one fact:
    - all sides agree that it IS her laptop.

    The judge was quite clear on this being the key issue (pun intended). Were ownership up for debate, you would be correct - her putting in the password would be an admission that it is her laptop, and he would not have compelled her. It is little different than a locked door in a house - if you have the key, then you clearly had access to what's inside, and producing the key would be an admission. Again, all sides already agree that she had access - so producing the key yields no new information within the scope of the 5th amendment.

  19. Re:Chance of something going wrong? on Moglen: Facebook Is a Man-In-The-Middle Attack · · Score: 1

    The problem is you ending up on a no-fly list, and nobody can tell you why.

    Facebook is a "commercial data source". Perhaps you've heard of that term, before.
    And at that point, the problem is invisible government.

  20. Known for some time: on Did North Korea Conduct Secret Nuclear Tests? · · Score: 4, Funny

    N. Korea Detonates 40 Years Of GDP
    http://www.theonion.com/articles/n-korea-detonates-40-years-of-gdp,2068/

    "PYONGYANG, NORTH KOREA—A press release issued by the state-run Korean Central News Agency Monday confirmed that the Oct. 9 underground nuclear test in North Korea's Yanggang province successfully exploded the communist nation's total gross domestic product for the past four decades..."

  21. Re:weird on Verisign Admits Company Was Hacked In 2010, Not Sure What Was Stolen · · Score: 1

    Security is not their core business. Security Theater is their core business.

  22. Re:Who is "Versign"? on Verisign Admits Company Was Hacked In 2010, Not Sure What Was Stolen · · Score: 2

    ...'cause they currently use McAfee?

  23. Re:Nutcase on Candidate Gingrich Pushes a Moon Base, Other Space Initiatives · · Score: 1

    Well when you think of it... most of us are within 1 or 2 people of knowing one of his ex-wives. We're all practically family!

  24. Re:Going to the moon, with what money?? on Candidate Gingrich Pushes a Moon Base, Other Space Initiatives · · Score: 1

    Do not underestimate The Power of Ham.

  25. Re:Hydrophobic nanocoatings... on Nanocoating Waterproofs Any Gadget · · Score: 1

    THIS nanocoating is made from pure Santorum extract, so some technophiles will need to consider their choice of orientation.