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  1. Re:I don't see what the big deal is on State Senator Caught Looking At Porn On Senate Floor · · Score: 1

    Yeah, a naked dog.

  2. Re:Republican on State Senator Caught Looking At Porn On Senate Floor · · Score: 1

    You know I've met some Republicans with the ability to comprehend what they read, it doesn't have to be just a liberal thing. Nevertheless, here's a hint for you: the questions is not "Is Obama qualified", it is "Is Obama more qualified than Palin" to which the answer is clearly yes.

  3. Re:Republican on State Senator Caught Looking At Porn On Senate Floor · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that's true. OTOH on environmental issues Nixon was downright liberal compared to today's Republicans.

  4. Re:Republican on State Senator Caught Looking At Porn On Senate Floor · · Score: 1

    Clinton a liberal? Yeah right. The Republicans just like to tar everyone they oppose with that brush. Note how during every recent presidential election the National Journal comes out with a survey ranking the most liberal legislators and conveniently enough the Democratic nominee always just happens to be the most liberal.

    Anyway, the joke among actual liberals is that Clinton was the best Republican president we've had in a few decades.

  5. Re:Republican on State Senator Caught Looking At Porn On Senate Floor · · Score: 1

    That has nothing to do with the voters or the politicians, it's just an unfortunate consequence of our plurality voting system.

  6. Re:Republican on State Senator Caught Looking At Porn On Senate Floor · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It should also probably be noted that most of the money we spent on TARP has already been payed back or is expected to be payed back in the near future. Also, we didn't end up spending even half of the $700 billion originally allocated to the program.

  7. Re:To me, it's a question of mobility. on FSF Response To Steve Jobs's Letter · · Score: 2, Informative

    You do know that Flash video can and frequently does use H.264, right?

  8. Re:It's free ... if you can connect on HotelChatter's Annual Hotel Wi-Fi Report 2010 · · Score: 1

    Did you try the web browser? A lot of times I've found open access points at business and right away try to use ssh or a VPN without any success. Then eventually I figure out that I need to open the web browser first and click through some agreement before actually having internet access.

  9. Re:Separation of Business and State on Parody and Satire Videos, Which Is Fair Use? · · Score: 1

    Wow, really? So you think the only people entitled to free speech are those who aren't in the position to be heard?

    If entertainers wish to speak out using their celebrity, it should be impartial, like poverty, diabetes, hunger, clean environment, stop killing whales.

    Hah! Yeah, nothing political about those topics :-/

  10. Re:I thought it was pretty simple on Parody and Satire Videos, Which Is Fair Use? · · Score: 1

    PS: Also, it's funny how everyone on Slashdot is all of a sudden on the side of the copyright enforcer.

    I think there's a fairly clear distinction between music used for personal use and music used for political or commercial gain.

  11. Re:GSM != CDMA on All GSM Phones Open To Attack, Tracking · · Score: 1

    Sprint and Cricket are both CDMA.

  12. Re:Battery drain - how to prevent it on Review of HTC Desire As Alternative To iPhone · · Score: 1

    Oh, right. Android does have an option to turn of WiFi when in standby mode.

  13. Re:Battery drain - how to prevent it on Review of HTC Desire As Alternative To iPhone · · Score: 1

    I don't see an option like that on my N1. And is that really how the iPhone works? I haven't seen anything that suggests WiFi is turned off while data is idle.

  14. Re:Smartphones still too big on Review of HTC Desire As Alternative To iPhone · · Score: 1

    So what phone isn't too thick for you? My Nexus One is the thinnest phone I've owned.

  15. Re:Battery drain - how to prevent it on Review of HTC Desire As Alternative To iPhone · · Score: 1

    Having WiFi on when you are online and actually using the network is not a waste of power, it's only wasting power to have WiFi on when you aren't using it. WiFi does use more power then 3G when it is transferring data, but because transfers are usually quicker it ends up using less power overall.

  16. Re:The problem with HTC in reality is on Review of HTC Desire As Alternative To iPhone · · Score: 1

    The Droid already feels like a second-class citizen, what with the N1 getting all the updates (new versions of Android, Google apps like Google Earth, etc.) much faster.

    Wasn't Google Earth available to the Droid at the same time as it was available for the N1? I thought it ran on any 2.0+ phone.

  17. Re:More research people on Was Flight Ban Over Ash an Overreaction? · · Score: 1

    Getting money for research isn't such a problem, jet engines have plenty of relevance to the military too and we all know how much cash the DoD has to throw at just about anything that strikes their fancy.

  18. Re:If anyone had any doubts.. on Was Flight Ban Over Ash an Overreaction? · · Score: 1

    That's a funny conclusion to draw considering that the flights were grounded at great expense instead of taking any unnecessary risks with human lives.

  19. Re:From what I've heard, it really is that bad... on Was Flight Ban Over Ash an Overreaction? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Rachael Maddow mentioned Flight 9 on MSNBC last week, that was the first I heard of it.

  20. Re:living in the rest of the worl (Canada here) on Google Backpedals On Turn-By-Turn GPS For iPhone · · Score: 1

    His post is right if by later he meant just 3 days ago, and by the rest of the world he meant just the UK.

  21. Re:Obstruction of justice on Seattle Hacker Catches Cops Who Hid Arrest Tapes · · Score: 1

    "Do you suppose this was the only damage these assholes did that night?"

    Damage? They were golfing with nerf balls. No one has claimed they did any damage, and I strongly doubt it would even have been possible with that equipment.

  22. Re:Predict the weather? on NASA Solar Satellite's First Sun Images · · Score: 1

    I don't think not being able to predict space weather usually has a huge impact on airlines, so I'm not sure how being able to predict it would.

  23. Re:Yet another legal solution to a technical probl on US House Passes Ban On Caller ID Spoofing · · Score: 2, Informative

    According to these guys, as written it would not be an issue as the spoofing needs to be done "with the intent to defraud or deceive".

  24. Re:Please let me use the same password on Please Do Not Change Your Password · · Score: 1

    Right, but allowing that is worse than just limiting the password to 8 chars since truncating the password may mean it's not nearly as strong as the user thinks it is.

  25. Re:I don't like it on Google to Open Source the VP8 Codec · · Score: 1

    The fastest of them: droid, nexus one, ext might be fast enough to do it in software.

    I don't think the ability to do it in software matters much if it can't be done without killing the battery. I'm sure any software decoder would cause a significant battery drain.