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  1. That's a lot of money on Obama Calling For $53B For High Speed Rail · · Score: 0

    53 billion dollars! Wow. I'd say he'd better put in some serious overtime if he's going to pay for that. I mean, he's not such a cock that he's gonna make someone else pay for his weekend hobby is he?

  2. Re:It is just data! on Internet Kill Switch Back On the US Legislative Agenda · · Score: 1

    "is for naught"

  3. Re:Direct link to new I2P anonymous mirror on WikiLeaks Starts Mass Mirroring Effort · · Score: 1

    Actually, i2p.net is the original one. Which is sorta the source of my wariness about the site. Perhaps I'm being too cautious.

  4. WikiLeaks, not Wikipedia on WikiLeaks Took Advice From Media Outlets · · Score: 3, Informative

    The timothy editor added to the summary, "some of the anti-Wikipedia fervor evident among US lawmakers". I believe that should be "anti-WikiLeaks fervor".

  5. Re:Direct link to new I2P anonymous mirror on WikiLeaks Starts Mass Mirroring Effort · · Score: 1

    Why the difference in domain names from i2p2.de to geti2p.net? For something like this especially, how do I know to trust the source I'm getting the code from? How do I know that either is not a phishing or honeypot site?

  6. Re:terrible summary on Spammers Using Soft Hyphen To Hide Malicious URLs · · Score: 1

    Yes, thank you. I was scanning the comments to this story just hoping that somebody would say that. 5 times they repeated the same thing!

  7. Re:So how much of this will the telcos steal? on New US Broadband Projects Get $795 Million In Funding · · Score: 1

    It's already stolen money. I'd kind of like to have back the $80 they took last paycheck.

  8. Re:i'm sick of the fallacy of the slippery slope on Bill Gives Feds "Emergency" Powers To Secure Civilian Nets · · Score: 1

    This history of the United States political and legal system has been one big slippery slope.

  9. Re:Corporations are Individuals on Supreme Court Rolls Back Corporate Campaign Spending Limits · · Score: 1

    I'm sympathetic to the cries of those who say a corporation is not an individual. But it seems like the people who say that always follow up with, "therefore we should get to screw companies any way we want". Just because a corporation is not truly an individual does not mean that they don't deserve protections under the law. And anyway, there's some extent to which trampling on corporations becomes trampling on the people who own or operate the corporations. If the CEO wants to give money to a candidate, and his or her board agrees and the company's bylaws don't prevent it, then who's to say the CEO can't do that?

  10. Re:Microsot on Microsoft Patches "Google Hack" Flaw In IE · · Score: 3, Funny

    I thought it was a clever, subtle jab at MS. Like, they're sots. Tiny sots.

  11. Google in New Spaces on Google Netbook Specs Leaked · · Score: 1
    it really appears that Google is going to be pushing into new spaces in the next few years

    You could have said this at any point in Google's history. It's almost to the point that all Google stories should be marked dupe.

  12. Re:Only 78 light years away on Big Dipper "Star" Actually a Sextuplet System · · Score: 1

    googlefu... Wolfram Alpha?

  13. Looking for the Right Thing on Giant Ribbon Discovered At Edge of Solar System · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This "ribbon" escaped detection by two former Voyager spacecraft, and is only now being detected by some new spacecraft that happened to be looking for something different. This "ribbon" is a ribbon by some specific property.

    It's amazing, to me, how what we see is influenced to a great extent by what we're looking for. The manifold possibilities the universe presents to us!

  14. End the Monopoly on Cory Doctorow Draws the Line On Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    If this is about phone companies, then I think I'd rather just end the monopoly they enjoy anyway. Asking a committee or government to decide what forms of Internet access are equal to others (and thus require neutrality) is just asking for trouble.

    End the monopoly and let me pay my own way.

  15. 5-10 per minute? For 100 people? on Best FOSS Help Desk Software For Small Firms? · · Score: 4, Funny

    If your organization is only 100 people, and you get 5 to 10 support requests per minute, one wonders if you're doing something wrong.

  16. What About Gay Fear? on Political Viewpoints Linked To Fear · · Score: 1

    Gay people are fearful in a deep way. Any outward confidence gay people have is hard won and prized, not easy. So, should we find a higher amount of Republicans in gay communities?

  17. Always Dust The Resume on Surviving Outsourcing? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Should I 'ride the wave' and join the new company and culture, or dust off the old CV/resume?"

    Dust off the resume! *Always* dust off the resume. Keep that baby dusted even when you're happy and foresee no imminent change. I'd ride the wave for now. You'll know when the time is right. But keep the resume dusted.

  18. What Happened to Podcasting? on Will Twitter Join Podcasting on the 'Net Sidelines'? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't see any sidelining of podcasting. I can get podcasts everywhere.

  19. Re:Tough project on Best Practices For Process Documentation? · · Score: 1
    Of course it is true. The whole reason to document, as given by the submitter, is to make people more easily replacable. Something that is easy to replace is less valuable than something that is hard to replace.

    Of course, if you're hard to replace then you can't be promoted.

  20. Re:So, the debate is over then? on Google Protects Healthcare From Michael Moore · · Score: 1

    Wow, I never expected MTV to post informative articles. When did that happen?

  21. Re:They came from 2 mbit on College to Deploy First 802.11n Network · · Score: 3, Funny

    They have nearly filled the alphabet btw. Only 802.11z is still free as a name. Can you name them all ?

    This just begs the obvious answer:
    802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11c, 802.11d, 802.11e...

  22. Re:Will this "feature" have an off button? on Apple and Google to Blog the World · · Score: 1
    I don't remember anybody freaking out, actually.

    I freaked out. Just cuz it turned out okay doesn't mean turning out okay was inevitable.

  23. phoneME? Not Java? on Sun Releases First GPLed Java Source · · Score: 0

    PhoneME? This doesn't sound like an open sourcing of Java. It sounds like we get the code to what was Java, but it's now it's own project, and Sun is left free to take the real "Java" anywhere they want to. And since it's "Java" that powers phones, PDAs, applications, and so on, we've lost the advantage. Sun will still be free to keep modifying Java in a different way than the phoneME source, and we're still not gonna know what's powering our cell phone, et al.

    The name is important too.

  24. Let's Switch Slogans on Internet Connectivity Outside of the United States · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm tired of this crap saying America is behind in broadband. What is "behind"? What is "broadband"? Ya gotta give me some meat to make this a real argument. What if Americans simply don't want broadband as much as the rest of the world does? What if we have a culture that's simply different than what the rest of the world has? What if a sociologist came up with a convincing theory about how Americans are so saturated with media sources that they don't need the Internet as much as the people of other nations? It's okay, people, don't give yourself an aneurysm. If you want broadband, pay for it. Don't put your "behind" on to the rest of the nation.

  25. Hire Women on Can a Gaming Cafe be Successful? · · Score: 1

    Hire fairly attractive women. They don't have to be models. Both guys and gals *like* to be around friendly, attractive women. Do this and your chances of success will increase greatly. How you can do this without actually being discriminatory, I'll leave up to you. But if you're serious about running a business like this, you'll find a way.