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  1. Because I have a stable operating system, build tools, applications, and even a few games that I have been using for years that I do not have to pay a large corporation for. How much would I have had to pay microsoft or apple for twenty years of software?

  2. maybe the serious "amateur" scientists will move on Citizen Science: Who Makes the Rules? · · Score: 1

    ...to the state/country where their work will be legal and hopefully profitable to the state/country that makes them welcome.

    Sounds like a nice start to a science fiction novel.

  3. Not sure about the current Ricoh lasers but... on Ask Slashdot: Best SOHO Printer Choices? · · Score: 1

    I have been using a Ricoh AP2600N for about the last 8 years. Got it because it was able to pull 35 pound stock. Works w/ Linux & Apple. Still using it today.

  4. New web-sites starting up! on Boy Scouts Bully Hacker Scouts Into Submission · · Score: 0

    Toy Scouts
    Joy Scouts
    Koi Scouts

  5. Groo! on What Happens After the Super-Hero Movie Bubble? · · Score: 1

    I can only hope.

  6. Getting up and walking to the bathroom... on Coffee Wards Off Cancer · · Score: 2

    several times a day reduces risk of cancer? :-)

  7. Just as long as it goes both ways... on Battle Brews Over FBI's Warrantless GPS Tracking · · Score: 1

    If the government can put a GPS tracker on a citizen car without a warrant, then a citizen should be able to put a GPS tracker on a government car. ;-)

  8. Re:Why would you refuse a breathalyzer? on 'No Refusal' DUI Checkpoints Coming To Florida? · · Score: 1

    Because someone was driving through town without drinking and did not break the law?

    Why force someone to take a test, that has been proven to have false positives, if they have done nothing wrong?

  9. Re:Welcome to Florida... Sieg Heil! on 'No Refusal' DUI Checkpoints Coming To Florida? · · Score: 0

    That is quite a leap to go from nanny state to supporting drunk drivers. You have an amazing knee-jerk imagination.

    I am saying that I oppose pulling over sober drivers and stripping them of their rights just because you have a badge and gun. Just because someone is driving on a particular road does not give police the right to pull them over and test their sobriety. The person should either be driving in an impaired or reckless manner, someone been observed drinking in the vehicle or been observed leaving a place serving alcohol.

  10. Welcome to Florida... Sieg Heil! on 'No Refusal' DUI Checkpoints Coming To Florida? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I hate the nanny state.

  11. Further proof that if you want to commit crimes... on FTC Busts Domain Name Scammers · · Score: 1

    in the U.S. that you must first incorporate and go after the peoples money. Never commit a crime against the government or against a corporation unless you want the full weight of the law brought down on your head.

  12. Of couse they can... on Can Drones Really Get National Airspace Access? · · Score: 1

    A few hundred thousand in political donations from drone manufacturers is all it will take to get it done.

  13. When will this happen in Portland, OR? on Canada's Largest Cities Seeing the End of the Phone Book · · Score: 1

    I get 6 to 8 phone books a year from different local and long distance companies. The free compost is nice but it seems to be a rather wasteful way to deliver it.

  14. This is just what we need... on Bill To Ban All Salt In Restaurant Cooking · · Score: 2, Insightful

    a bill to make our food taste awful. Let us just take a look at how this can help. Just think of all the money people will save by not going out to eat because the food tastes like shite. Of course if people stop going out to eat then restaurants will have to lay off workers or even go out of business. Those people that are now out of jobs can save what little money they get on unemployment by not going out to eat - at least for a few months until their unemployment runs out and they lose their homes. More lost jobs because some shite for brains politician knows nothing and wants to get his name in the paper.

    Instead of cutting salt out of their diets people could get healthier by getting more exercise - like kicking politicians in the ass when they have stupid ideas.

  15. As long as they also go after advertisers... on Obama Appointee Sunstein Favors Infiltrating Online Groups · · Score: 1

    that put out incomplete and/or incorrect information.

  16. There already is a per mile tax! on Congress Mulls Research Into a Vehicle Mileage Tax · · Score: 1

    It is called a gasoline tax. The more gasoline you use the more tax you pay. The lighter vehicles that use less gas also damage the roads less.

  17. I will not be satisfied until... on London's Robotic Fire Brigade · · Score: 2, Funny

    they have a robotic fire brigade pipe band.

  18. YES! on Should Copyright of Academic Works Be Abolished? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    YES!

  19. I do not see what the big deal is... on FDA Could Delay Adult Stem Cell Breakthroughs · · Score: 1

    ...Americans that can afford it just go to Brazil or India or Israel or ??? for a "medical vacation" and come back with dollars spent in other countries. Everything that is regulated out of ignorance and/or greed is still available - the drug companies are multi-nationals that are just getting paid in a different currency. Or, maybe I am just too cynical.

  20. I wonder how long it will take to get... on National Car Tracking System Proposed For US · · Score: 1

    pulled over for driving with a ski mask on?

  21. I am keeping mine! Ha, ha, HA! on Apple Suit Demands That Psystar Recall OpenMacs · · Score: 4, Funny

    Take that Stevie!

  22. I use .odf or .pdf on Do OpenOffice Users Save In Microsoft Format? · · Score: 1

    I am either collaborating with someone and we are both using .odf, or I am sending them a document to read in which case they get a .pdf.

  23. Re:Oblig. on 640gb PCIe Solid-State Drive Demonstrated · · Score: 1

    They will just use wear levelling and relocate data out of flash blocks that are underperforming or that have ECC corrections. Just because they report 640GB my guess is that they will actually have 15% to 25% additional flash to handle early failures without having to start reducing the reported capacity.

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  24. Actually, charging for email is a good way to... on What Happens If You Don't Pay for Goodmail? · · Score: 1

    ...stop grass roots organizations/coalitions from getting out their messages about preferred candidates. Having a free, high volume, communications medium makes it impossible for media corporations to control the dissemination of their desired content. (Desired == paid for by their customers.)

    Yeah, I know it sounds a bit like tin-foil hat speak, but if you think about how corporations have taken control of all other mass-communications mediums (newspapers, telegraphs, telephones, radio, and television) over the years; why do you think that any part of the Internet will be left available for the consumer to provide essentially free content?

  25. Maybe we can make these devices useless... on Mind How You Walk - Someone is Watching · · Score: 1

    When you find a camera installed tell all of your friends. Have different people walk by looking and acting suspicious. Maybe put up a google map site with all of the camera locations identified.