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  1. Re:What am I supposed to do now? on Microsoft May Finally Put Windows RT Out To Pasture · · Score: 1

    You mean they sold some?

  2. Re:Warranties on SSD Manufacturer OCZ Preparing For Bankruptcy · · Score: 1

    They welched on $30 million, you think they have trouble not fulfilling their warranty "legal obligation"?

  3. Great plan on NSA Planned To Discredit Radicals Based On Web-Browsing Habits · · Score: 1

    And these radicals were just going to believe whatever the US government accuses. In fact, what's stopping them from making it up and just accusing them anyway?

  4. Re:Facebook is still overvalued on Nasdaq 4000 — This Time It's Different? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You must be new to this whole stock market thing. Seriously if you wait for stock prices to come down to earth, well, you will have to wait for the next crash. The cost over value is built in to most stocks and is only loosely tied to actual assets and earnings. And while I agree with you that some stocks are hugely, ridiculously over-valued (like FB), people are still buying them and making money from them. Don't buy it if you don't like it. Risk tolerance is highly personal. It's that simple.

  5. Because of Godwin on Art Makes Students Smart · · Score: 1

    The Nazis were really, really smart, confiscating all that art from conquered territories.

  6. Re:What's wrong with Tokens? on Chicago Transit System Fooled By Federal ID Cards · · Score: 1

    If the information is stored somewhere and kept on file, then it can be used against you at any time in the future. "If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him." - Richelieu. No one is tracking me today. In the future - what if I happen to piss off the wrong person? Or vote for the wrong party? Etc. You're the one that doesn't get it.

  7. Re:What's wrong with Tokens? on Chicago Transit System Fooled By Federal ID Cards · · Score: 0

    The ability to track you and know where you are and where you are going. They used to call me paranoid, but not anymore.

  8. Re:Are they fatter? on European Health Levels Suddenly Collapsed After 2003 and Nobody Is Sure Why · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Agreed, hell even pesticides and other chemicals might be to blame. Pinning it on climate change (which is hardly supported by data from people living in warm climates) just goes to show how desperate the anthropogenic crowd have become.

  9. Imagine the possibilities on Digital Taste Interface · · Score: 2

    If this was real, I can see trolling entering a whole new dimension. Here - taste this....

  10. Re:The robot.. on DARPA's Atlas Walking Over Randomness · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's understood perfectly. It's just very very hard to simulate, as there are many muscle groups involved from your toes up to your head and your shoulders, all moving in a coordinated effort. Getting it exactly right on a robot is - hard.

  11. Re:Apple has JUMPED THE SHARK on Cupertino Approves New Apple Spaceship HQ · · Score: 1

    Not really. The hard part is making the form. Once it's made right - how many sections do you want?

  12. Re:Steve Jobs talking about the campus on Cupertino Approves New Apple Spaceship HQ · · Score: 1

    Another name for walled garden is "prison".

  13. Re:Wow. on Cupertino Approves New Apple Spaceship HQ · · Score: 1

    Yeah, if only it were possible to have a system that discouraged "one big producer" that everyone must depend on and worship, and instead encouraged many smaller, competing producers... oh wait - that's actually how the world is, and it's government interference that allows and creates such monopolies in the first place!

  14. Re:Illegal on Many UAVs Vulnerable To Directed-Energy Weapons · · Score: 1

    We are rapidly approaching an age where absolutely everything is illegal, according to one law or the other.

  15. Re:Illegal on Many UAVs Vulnerable To Directed-Energy Weapons · · Score: 1

    Of course they're vulnerable. You just need to dial up more energy.

  16. Re:Illegal on Many UAVs Vulnerable To Directed-Energy Weapons · · Score: 1

    Yep, not exactly news lol.

  17. This is why I can't wait on Texas Drivers Stopped At Roadblock, Asked For Saliva, Blood · · Score: 1

    See? This is another problem that would go away if autonomous vehicles were the norm.

  18. Re:Food for thought on Texas Drivers Stopped At Roadblock, Asked For Saliva, Blood · · Score: 1

    Religion is just another kind of politics, only you don't get to vote for the sky man or his "representatives".

  19. Re:Food for thought on Texas Drivers Stopped At Roadblock, Asked For Saliva, Blood · · Score: 2

    and without any long-term retribution for them doing so.

    There is always retribution for doing so, sooner or later. That's how revolution happens. Or military "liberation" from a humanitarian outside party. And then it starts all over again.

  20. Re:Food for thought on Texas Drivers Stopped At Roadblock, Asked For Saliva, Blood · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yup I remember reading that and thinking at the time that any physicians involved should be disciplined by their medical college and have their license status re-examined, if not suspended. We doctors are not executioners for the state. Unless there is a valid medical reason to perform a medical procedure AND I have consent for said procedure, I cannot ethically perform said procedure. If the cops threaten to arrest me for "obstruction" or whatever, the correct answer for a physician is "then arrest me but I cannot do this". Police can never order physicians around and force them to use their art for non medical reasons. That's the main argument behind states not being able to get their hands on say, "lethal injection" drugs. The state is not licensed to practice medicine.

  21. Re:Food for thought on Texas Drivers Stopped At Roadblock, Asked For Saliva, Blood · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Except that your argument is imaginary, while the other argument is real. Anarchy is not the only alternative to tyranny.

  22. Re:Putting it in perspective on Xbox One Controller Cost Over $100 Million To Develop · · Score: 0

    But yet it's 1/6th the cost of an obamacare website. So it's a cheap controller?

  23. Re:Why not release multiple controllers? on Xbox One Controller Cost Over $100 Million To Develop · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Or one basic controller and a series of variable-sized outer moldings you can just slip on/off depending on the size you want.

  24. Re:"Hacked!"? on FBI Reports US Agencies Hacked By Anonymous · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Considering this is the FBI we're talking about, it's probably a bunch of people they managed to convince to snoop around in their wide-open honeypots. Just like the "terrorists" they arrest that were recruited, encouraged and even trained by them because one day someone happened to make a politically incorrect remark to a nearby agent. Government manufactures its own terrorists. Just like it prints its own money, causes its own social problems and creates its own wars. It's all a dog and pony show to keep you distracted while they pick your pocket.

  25. Re:2,0000 bank accounts ? 2k or 20k on FBI Reports US Agencies Hacked By Anonymous · · Score: 4, Funny

    If European with the inverted comma/decimal system it could even be a very precise 2 bank accounts...