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  1. Re:its a shame the UI isn't there yet on Touchscreen Netbooks To Shine At CES 2009 · · Score: 1

    Uhh in gtk and qt apps you just up your text size and the whole ui grows. All modern browsers support full page zoom.

  2. Re:Media AI source code on Watergate "Deep Throat" Mark Felt Dead At 95 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Only if we are going back to a Roman Citizen type culture where freedom and democracy is important for people who are in, but absolutely forbidden for people that are 'out' (in this case, the Vietnamese).

  3. Re:Counter-intuitive! on Student Invention May Significantly Extend Mobile Device Battery Life · · Score: 1

    The issue isn't electrons and photons through the air vs. electrons and photons through a wire; it is photons through the air vs. electrons and photons through a wire.

  4. Re:VR Lab on Linux Compatibility With VR Goggles? · · Score: 1

    >Only some have terrible resolution.

    Link to some that don't. You can't, because there aren't any.

  5. Re:I've never heard of this before. on "See-Through" Touchscreen Solves Fat Finger Problem · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure he wasn't saying it impressed him because it was awesome; he meant it was impressive because Apple had done it first and given the idea credibility: http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/apple/next-gen-ipod-patent-has-touch-surface-on-back-259271.php

  6. Re:Article Confirms kdawson Doesn't Read Articles on Galaxy Clusters' Stunted Growth Confirms Dark Energy · · Score: 1

    >Any true scientist will agree that #1 God exists (for things we can't prove through science) #2 what we can prove is far removed from popular thought.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

  7. Re:Don't take freedom for granted on Wiretap Whistleblower, a Life in Limbo? · · Score: 1

    And it didn't leave the "Gang of Eight" until the press brought it out.

  8. Re:Don't take freedom for granted on Wiretap Whistleblower, a Life in Limbo? · · Score: 1

    >The first has nothing to do with anything at issue here, of course. Not sure why you even bring it up.
    Oh yeah, full immunity from law has nothing to do with accountability.

    >In fact, the warrantless wiretapping was presented to key members of both parties in both houses of Congress, so this was an issue already being watched by Congress.
    It only made it to congress because it was leaked to the press. Kinda fucks with your "besides the press" angle.

  9. Re:Innovation pays on iPhone Tops Windows Mobile Share; MS Releases iPhone App · · Score: 1

    Uhh didn't Apple acquire those patents when they bought fingerworks?

  10. Re:How sad on 20-Year Copyright Extensions Coming To Europe · · Score: 1

    It was illegal for women to vote (and the state used force to enforce it). The state had the *power* to keep women from voting. After that amendment, the state no longer had that *power*.

    And it didn't require a Magna Carta-style "we've got you at gunpoint" uprising in order to occur, as the AC claimed has always been the case any time any state anywhere has ever given up power.

  11. Re:How sad on 20-Year Copyright Extensions Coming To Europe · · Score: 1

    I guess in the Anonymous Coward book of history, the bill of rights weren't amendments, but were part of the original constitution.

  12. Re:How sad on 20-Year Copyright Extensions Coming To Europe · · Score: 3, Insightful

    To be sure, no government in history -- democracy or otherwise -- has ever significantly, permanently, and willingly reduced its level of power or revenue.

    Nice fantasy world you have depicted there AC. I guess in that world the decision to ratify the woman's suffrage amendment wasn't a government run by men giving up power? You believe it was forced at gunpoint by the women?

  13. Re:It is still overblown on Quantum Test Found For Mathematical Undecidability · · Score: 1

    Right, plus, since our brain follows physical laws, those laws may reemerge in interesting ways in our brains themselves, much as Daniel Hillis describes happening with the Connection Machine in New Computer Architectures and Their Relationship to Physics or Why Computer Science Is No Good.

  14. Re:Don't do it. Not yet. on Computer For a Child? · · Score: 1

    He may even get an offer from the owner to go in on buying the company and making over 250k a year--without a plumbing license!

  15. Re:I'm not too concerned yet on After Columbine, Eric Holder Advocated Internet "Restrictions" · · Score: 1

    At least Chiquita (United Fruit) never forged the property value of their land holdings in Guatemala to avoid property taxes, wound up having the government buy their land at the phony price *they* provided, and then forced a US invasion and overthrow of the nation.
    *

    *in the last 50 years

  16. Re:Silly on Farmer Builds Robot Army · · Score: 1

    If only they would arrest you for all your link jacked, copyrighted images and text be damned, submissions.

  17. Re:the short answer on Rewriting a Software Product After Quitting a Job? · · Score: 1

    Fine sentiment, but bad legal advice. It varies state to state.

  18. Re:Misuse of words on Evolving Rocks · · Score: 1

    Wrong. Evolution has several definitions:

    http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/evolution

  19. Re:NO on Should We Clone a Neanderthal? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Hey, it's slippery-slope man!

  20. Re:Mathmatically verifiable on E=mc^2 Verified In Quantum Chromodynamic Calculation · · Score: 1

    Newton's bucket

  21. Re:I'm not too concerned yet on After Columbine, Eric Holder Advocated Internet "Restrictions" · · Score: 1

    The problem isn't whether he can carry out censorship; the problem is he has been shown to support it. What else does that say about him?

  22. Re:So... on Fun Things To Do With a Math Or Science Degree? · · Score: 1

    Math is nerdy. Pure math is by far one of the nerdiest fields available.

  23. Re:Getting there... on Plastic Logic E-Newspaper · · Score: 1

    Cool, I guess you will refuse to use regular sheet music too.

  24. Re:How about medicine? on Fun Things To Do With a Math Or Science Degree? · · Score: 1

    >undeserved

    I *hope* you mean under-served.

  25. Re:rm -rf / on (Useful) Stupid Unix Tricks? · · Score: 1

    Opps, I was wrong. Strange that I don't see it in the bash manual ( http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html ).