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  1. Re:Alright! on Motorcyclist Wins Taping Case Against State Police · · Score: 1

    Bogus story is bogus. The town was new rome, Ohio, and they were infamous for making their income off of traffic enforcement. It wasn't just the one time that did it, it was years of abuse.

  2. Re:That's a mighty tall horse you've got there... on Convicted NY Drunk Drivers Need Ignition Interlocks · · Score: 1

    And here we see the problem - this isn't about public safety, it's about punishing sinners.

  3. Re:Uhhh...what? on Convicted NY Drunk Drivers Need Ignition Interlocks · · Score: 1

    more like he's arguing that if he can operate at 70% and be safe, then who cares why he's at 70%?

  4. Re:Ho hum on World's Fastest Hybrid OK'd For Production · · Score: 3, Funny

    Because then it would be a volkswagen.

  5. Re:well GREAT on Caffeine Addicts Get No Additional Perk, Only a Return To Baseline · · Score: 1

    No, exercise is like doing things that make your body work better. It will almost always improve the quality of your life and, more specifically, improve your energy levels.

  6. Re:But what about taste? on The Race To Beer With 50% Alcohol By Volume · · Score: 1

    120 is pretty much undrinkable. 90 minute IPA is great, though - good thing, too, since the 120 is $10/bottle.

  7. Re:After a hard days work on The Race To Beer With 50% Alcohol By Volume · · Score: 1

    American beer doesn't use rice - if it's got rice, it ain't beer. Spend a year in seattle and you'll stop bitching about our beer - we have everything.

  8. Re:The truth about caffeine on Caffeine Addicts Get No Additional Perk, Only a Return To Baseline · · Score: 1

    500mg is bush league - had a coworker at MS that quit coffee after he worked out that his daily intake was about 1.6g of caffeine.

  9. Re:well GREAT on Caffeine Addicts Get No Additional Perk, Only a Return To Baseline · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Or you could exercise. I know, crazy talk, but it works.

  10. Re:I'm just on New Metamaterial Means More Efficient Solar Cells · · Score: 1

    Your desktop computer probably tops out at 200W, monitors included. The hot water heater isn't a continuous drain, and neither is the fridge. Sure, it could be better, but you have to look at the overall usage - I use between 15-70KWh/day (electric heat and crappy windows, I think), which works out to about 600-3000W continuous usage. Even with this large amount of consumption, I pay at most $5/day.

    With your solar installation, you can switch to a gas-powered heater and probably only budget for 20 amps or do grid-tie, depending on your location. If you did a grid tie system and got about 2kW capacity, that's $6k + what, $2k for install, other equipment? It won't solve all your problems, but it'd probably pay for itself in under 10 years.

  11. Re:I wonder... on New Metamaterial Means More Efficient Solar Cells · · Score: 1

    . Ionizing radiation is not a toy.

    Sez you.

  12. Re:What about the presumption of innocence? on Arizona "Papers, Please" Law May Hit Tech Workers · · Score: 1

    I'm sure that will be a nice comfort when you lose your job because you were illegally arrested for not having papers handy.

  13. Re:Irony on US Students Suffering From Internet Addiction · · Score: 1

    If all your friends do this, then forswearing it for a day means you just disappeared for a day.

  14. Re:The way I see it on Bing Loses More Money As Microsoft Chases Google · · Score: 1

    "did you Bing my wife?" Yeah, that's a word I want to use.

  15. Re:Inability on US Students Suffering From Internet Addiction · · Score: 1

    It's worse than that - take away someone's social links and prevent formation of new ones and they will go crazy. Takes about 6 weeks at the outside.

  16. Re:Irony on US Students Suffering From Internet Addiction · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Wow, isolate someone from their friends and they feel alone - paging Dr. Romero.

  17. Re:Did anyone actually read the article? on Pope Rails Against the Internet and Transparency · · Score: 1

    But, he went on to say, it also opens a new hole, the "digital divide" between haves and have-nots.

    You mean like the people in Africa who use cell phones to trade commodities efficiently? They don't even have indoor plumbing or electricity, but they can run businesses on a cell phone. They have access to banks - this is HUGE!

  18. Re:I'm not surprised on Pope Rails Against the Internet and Transparency · · Score: 1

    This is exactly the same as when cases are sealed here in the U.S.! They aren't burying these cases, or dismissing them, or hiding the names of the accused, or the results of the case, just sealing the proceedings themselves. Someone took a look at the Latin (which, btw, is available on line at the Vatican's website), mis-translated and mis-understood it, and came up with this wild and inflammatory explanation.

    How is it within the Church's authority to prosecute these cases? Also, you left out the coverup - telling anyone about the abuse = excommunication.

  19. Re:No, you don't keep profits of the crime on Police Seize Computers From Gizmodo Editor · · Score: 1

    That doesn't make a damn bit of sense. If they deny missing a prototype when you ask them about a specific prototype you have, you don't lose ownership of it, but you can't come back later and claim that it's stolen. There is a certain requirement that you acknowledge ownership when someone asks you.

  20. Re:WTF are you talking about? on Pope Rails Against the Internet and Transparency · · Score: 1

    Would it get the same modding if he used "Dirty Jew"?

    Is there currently a largish group of militant jews that issue death orders against people that mock judaism? I'm guessing no.

    Islamic law ONLY applies to Muslims. In fact, there is a prohibition in the Quran against forcing people to convert to Islam (surah al-Baqarah 2:256).

    Is that an active surah or one that's been overridden? As I understand it, later Surahs have priority over earlier ones, and the Qu'ran gets progressively aggressive as it progresses over time. More importantly, how does this work in practice? The really nasty parts associated with islam aren't even part of the religion, but leftovers from tribal practice.

    How in the world you came to the conclusion that Muslims wishes to impose sharia law on to non-Muslims?

    Because it's the explicit goal of some groups of muslims. Naturally, not an organized thing across Islam, as there is no central church/leader, but it exists. Besides, if it isn't the case, why is turkey interfering in the operation of the Eastern Orthodox church?

  21. Re:Translation: on Pope Rails Against the Internet and Transparency · · Score: 1

    The official Catholic position on morality is that it isn't based on divine commandment. That goes all the way back to Plato. But there's a huge loophole in this position: Human reason is inferior to Divine Wisdom, so while God's moral commandments have an objective justification, that justification isn't necessarily obvious.

    Which is objectively stupid - making a blanket ban on lying or killing is demonstrably wrong, or only achievable when everybody acts the same way. You have to retreat to arguments about the commandments being corrupted by generations of oral history and multiple translations (arguably true with killing), which sort of weakens the idea of having an example of divine reason. Also, you get to have fun with varying ideas about what adultery is - I liken it to screwing around with someone in a relationship with someone else, but that ignores open relationships, poly lifestyles, and other people take a ahrd line and call me an adulterer for screwing someone I'm not married to. It's not so much morality as a demand that I follow some lifestyle loosely based on nomadic desert people from 2500 years ago.

    This leaves aside totally that God may just be messing with us.

  22. Re:wagging the dog on Pope Rails Against the Internet and Transparency · · Score: 1

    Oh, and since TFA seems primarily concerned with the child abuse scandal (obviously this is a despicable thing that has happened), it might also be worth mentioning that the Pope is the bishop of Rome, and his primacy is in matters of faith.

    And he just happened to worry about the internet's effect on individuals in the middle of a massive worldwide child abuse scandal that he has his dick caught in?

    If we want to find resolutions to the abuse scandal, we have to bring the local bishops to account.

    And possibly the pope, too. Remember his likely involvement.

    All it will do is make a few Atheists happy.

    Why do atheists give a damn? The embarrassment of the church rates somewhat below pictures of Britney's cooch on my scale. The systematic rape of children is much higher, but given the crap the church of england pulled on orphans in the 50s, I can't say I'm surprised. Cut from the same wood, etc.

  23. Re:Just give us a name on Police Seize Computers From Gizmodo Editor · · Score: 1

    Because it's a damn iphone that appears to be a prototype. Who else would have something like that?

  24. Re:No, you don't keep profits of the crime on Police Seize Computers From Gizmodo Editor · · Score: 1

    No: If there's a conviction, the government is going to want the ill-gotten gains and then some

    Good luck with that. According to what I've read, Apple denied that they were missing a phone at the time, so prosecuting it as a theft should be really tough.

  25. Re:Sort of... on Confessions of a SysAdmin · · Score: 1

    It's called Unix that runs office. What the hell else do I need?