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  1. Re:Sting Operation on Hackers, Gamers and Tech Workers: The UK Needs You For a New Cyber Army · · Score: 1

    Meanwhile, we already know they don't follow orders and on average, are not physically able enough to join the actual military.

    I don't think they thought this one through in any context except getting a list of these people and their information.

  2. Re:Terrible Headline on Apple Now the World's Most Valuable Brand, Knocks Off Coca-Cola · · Score: 1

    I was hoping that was the case. My cola doesn't have enough DRM in it yet, and I can share it with my friends, which shouldn't be allowed at all.

  3. Re:They might the most valuable, but they still su on Apple Now the World's Most Valuable Brand, Knocks Off Coca-Cola · · Score: 2

    Their status as the new Microsoft has been cemented by the fact that you may find them completely unresponsive to and unsuitable for your needs, but you bought them anyway.

  4. Re:...and suddenly on Martha Stewart Out To Exterminate Patent Troll Lodsys · · Score: 1

    You don't get to mess with a convicted felon with impunity. That's just not how this works. Felons know how the system works, and know enough to take care of #1.

  5. Re:Gay community takes themselves down a notch? on Social Networks Force Barilla Chairman To Apologize For His Anti-gay Remarks · · Score: 1

    Amen. In fact, I don't see many commercials today since I seldom watch broadcast television, but the only thing I really take away from any food commercial is the food itself. And even then, in non-brand-specific ways, since I prefer to cook most of my foods from scratch (not counting pasta, I've never made my own)

  6. Re:On Legality on Declassified NSA Docs Shed Light On Cold War (And Modern) Operations · · Score: 1

    Especially if their job exists on the basis of actually performing that same questionable work, if their superiors make unverifiable claims about penalties, legalities, and/or consequences for performing or not performing the work, and if they hire only people with an ends-justify-the-means outlook on things.

    It's one thing in a relatively new organization, but over sixty years in, a culture develops in a place like the NSA where the idea of being above the law becomes the norm. It's really not so different from the New World Order conspiracy theories, when you really think about it.

  7. Re:Cargo size? on Robotic Boat Hits 1,000-Mile Mark In Transatlantic Crossing · · Score: 1

    Especially if you make it submersible.

  8. Re:Will they get sued by the Boy Scouts? on Robotic Boat Hits 1,000-Mile Mark In Transatlantic Crossing · · Score: 1

    Maybe you should read up on how to make a funny joke.

  9. Re:Snicker Snort. on Fighting Zombies? Chevrolet Reveals New "Black Ops" Concept Truck · · Score: 1

    I was thinking aircooled VW (those things are ever-repairable with the most bizarre bits of junk), but the Unimog would probably be a good choice as well.

  10. Re:more torch then rifle on New Real Life Laser-Rifle Cuts Through Metal Like a Blowtorch · · Score: 1

    I was thinking the same thing. I can't really find any reason to rifle the barrel of a laser device.

  11. Re:On the upside... on Students Hack School-Issued iPads Within One Week · · Score: 1

    A small bit of masking tape takes care of the video end. As far as the audio, well, that gets trickier, as you never really know what those menus are doing.

  12. Re:Is there really any point to this? on Tech In the Hot Seat For Oct. 1st Obamacare Launch · · Score: 1

    Your question is malformed. You seem to want your question to look like a query as to how you will afford something, but what you're really asking is how you get someone else to pay for something. With the implied undertone of the belief that the outrageous cost of treatment we see on bills today actually reflects the necessary costs of a given treatment.

  13. Re:Is there really any point to this? (Yes) on Tech In the Hot Seat For Oct. 1st Obamacare Launch · · Score: 1

    I don't know about you, but I certainly wouldn't lump them into either party. For all their stupid, partisan tricks, neither party is the "American Taliban".

    In fact, I tend to hear it in reference to John Walker Lindh. Even the Wikipedia search for "American Taliban" links directly to him.

  14. Re:Is there really any point to this? (Yes) on Tech In the Hot Seat For Oct. 1st Obamacare Launch · · Score: 1

    You seem to misunderstand my statement. I refer to the few who are vilified by the GOP establishment, not the handful of people within the party who have been elected against the establishment's will.

  15. Re:Is there really any point to this? on Tech In the Hot Seat For Oct. 1st Obamacare Launch · · Score: 1

    I don't know that I'd call it "proper", but it would be cheaper and more effective. What would really help though would be taking health insurance and government healthcare entirely off the table. The long-term damage of insulating the cost of healthcare from the market is what we're really up against. Just like anything you subsidize, prices always rise to match the subsidy.

  16. Re: Is there really any point to this? on Tech In the Hot Seat For Oct. 1st Obamacare Launch · · Score: 1

    And these, folks, were the best politicians we could muster as a nation?

    If that's the case, maybe if we beg really nice, we can get Queen Elizabeth II to take us back and end this silliness.

  17. Re:Is there really any point to this? (Yes) on Tech In the Hot Seat For Oct. 1st Obamacare Launch · · Score: 2

    I'm neither going to defend Nixon nor today's GOP. Neither deserves the defence. The few that deserve defence are the ones the GOP "leadership" (if you want to call it that) already hate.

  18. Re:Is there really any point to this? (Yes) on Tech In the Hot Seat For Oct. 1st Obamacare Launch · · Score: 2

    if by "evolve" you mean "lean further libertarian instead of continuing to be basically the laziest Democrats ever", I agree with that part.

    As far as the "decide that they like it" part, I'd say it will be more along the lines of "dislike it but fear the disappearance of what few scraps it throws them"

  19. Re:Is there really any point to this? on Tech In the Hot Seat For Oct. 1st Obamacare Launch · · Score: 1

    We can only hope. I've looked at this whole mess and clearly the politicians supporting it have absolutely no clue what they're doing. Only that it's someone else's mess to fix.

  20. Re:Ugh, cant they use a PS2/PS3 like controller? on Valve Announces Steam Controller · · Score: 1

    The Steambox/SteamOS will basically be Linux with Steam, and I haven't tested this since my laptop doesn't have bluetooth, but I believe Linux already supports the DualShock 3. and the Wiimote, I think. I don't know how good the support is, I don't really use gamepads of any kind on my laptop. But if you like the controllers, I am confident you could use them.

  21. Re:Turn back the tide, Canute! on Upper Limit On Emissions Likely To Be Exceeded Within Decades · · Score: 1

    Regardless, I don't need an alarmist excuse to be bullish on cleaner air and water.

  22. It would have to be big or specialized stuff on Tesco: 3D Printing Will Come To Supermarkets 'Within a Few Years' · · Score: 2

    I don't think we're all that far off from home 3D printing entering the range of "affordable" for most people. The technology keeps making significant jumps, with everything from shower curtain rings to guns being printed. Once wider adoption becomes a reality, the economic reality of greater mass production will bring it down in short order.

  23. Nothing new here. on When Criminals and Terrorists Communicate In Real Time · · Score: 1

    Criminals have communicated in real time for ages. Whether in person, by telephone, by telegraph, by radio, by television, by megaphone, or by right of the office they hold.

  24. Re:The Horse, Hunter, and Stag on Senators Push To Preserve NSA Phone Surveillance · · Score: 1

    It's amazing the power ancient allegories have to portray the present.

  25. Re:Turn back the tide, Canute! on Upper Limit On Emissions Likely To Be Exceeded Within Decades · · Score: 1

    Indeed. I'm not one who denies climate change. It would happen to at least some extent without man, and I definitely am a skeptic concerning how much man influences the process. However, even if we are willing to assume man is at fault, it's certainly true that the ability to start a process is not a guarantee of the ability to stop the same process. Take, for example, the coal mine fire that has caused Centralia, PA to be abandoned...