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  1. Re:not only that on DoJ search requests: Yahoo, AOL, MSN said "Yes" · · Score: 1

    More to the point, why is it perfectly legal for me (in this state at least) to bend a 16-year-old girl over the back of a chair and fuck her brains out... but God forbid I take a nude picture of her? If anything, it seems like it should be the other way around.

  2. More relevant every day... on What Should People Understand About Computers? · · Score: 1

    How to resize a digital photo to an appropriate size for email or web use.

  3. Can somebody summarize the article? on Web 3.0 · · Score: 1

    I lost patience after, like, three or four pointless pages.

  4. Re:Cut the "any later version" option on First Draft of GPL Version 3 Released · · Score: 1

    Aside from what the other commenters said... if someone chose to distribute your program under the "free lunch" version of the GPL, it would be their house people would be going to, not yours. So no worries.

  5. Re:Other issues on First Draft of GPL Version 3 Released · · Score: 1
    There is a proposal in it that would discourage or disable the use of GPL software for DRM, by stating that software under the new GPL cannot constitute an "effective technological protection measure".

    Could this be broadly (mis)interpreted to mean that you can't license a cryptography program under the GPL?

  6. Re:Information Retrieval on NSA Wiretapping Whistleblower · · Score: 1
    I suppose it depends who wins. The Founding Fathers were just a bunch of terrorists until they won.

    BTW... how well a militia is "regulated" (uniformly equipped and trained) still matters, but not as much as it once did. In the modern age of firearm registration, an unregulated militia may be more effective in preserving the security of a free State.

  7. Re:Information Retrieval on NSA Wiretapping Whistleblower · · Score: 1
    "Any politician who supports this slaughter of justice and liberties should be voted out of office."

    Not quite. This is what the Second Amendment is for.

  8. You don't need genetic engineering for that... on Taiwan Breeds Transgenic, Fluorescent Green Pigs · · Score: 1

    Just mate with Cthulhu.

  9. Re:A sign of change on 35mm - One Step Closer to the End · · Score: 1

    The average 35mm camera with an average roll of film produces images indistinguishable from a 5MP digital point & shoot. A 10MP DSLR will blow away anything from your N90s. You have obviously never made a side-by-side comparison!

  10. Re:A sign of change on 35mm - One Step Closer to the End · · Score: 1

    Journalists were among the first professionals to adopt digital cameras. About the only professionals who still shoot film of any sort are artists and a few traditionalist wedding photographers.

  11. And probably the only way... on Tapping Trees for Electricity? · · Score: 1

    A cell's voltage depends entirely on the chemical composition of its electrodes and electrolyte. I highly doubt he's going to find new electrode materials that will increase the voltage that much. Sounds like he's just a quack preying on ignorant investors.

  12. Re:Curse the war as you want... on Military Device Will Sense Through Concrete Walls · · Score: 1

    I suppose you don't believe I lived in a condemned building, either, but it happened. My barracks at MCAS New River was condemned because the asbestos insulation on the pipes was crumbling, but due to overcrowding in the other student barracks and a delay in the construction of a new building, they had people living in the condemned one WHILE THEY WERE RIPPING OUT THE ASBESTOS. Of course everybody blamed Clinton then, but from what I've heard, not a damn thing has changed under Bush. The budget may have increased, but so has operational overcommittment.

  13. Re:You're Corps? Bullshit on Military Device Will Sense Through Concrete Walls · · Score: 1
    Reality lesson: no maintenance equipment = aircraft don't fly.

    You have obviously never served in or around the military, so shut your worthless yap.

  14. Re:Curse the war as you want... on Military Device Will Sense Through Concrete Walls · · Score: 1

    But that's $1200 a month completely disposable income. I knew a lot of 19- and 20-year-old Marines who drove brand new Mustangs and such. (A frivolous way to spend it, I know, but still...)

  15. Re:You're Corps? Bullshit on Military Device Will Sense Through Concrete Walls · · Score: 1

    I'm talking about AH-1s, UH-1s, CH-46s, and CH-53s. The aircraft themselves may have parts available, but the maintenance equipment does not. The rig I saw guys building in a suitcase was something for the '53s. I worked six months in a cal lab inventorying and salvaging broken test equipment to meet our operational needs. I worked night shift so I could call companies in the States and try to track down obsolete parts. In many cases, there weren't even technical manuals and IPBs available. I had to identify parts, and the companies that made them, by studying their markings. In many cases, salvage was the only option to get equipment into working order.

  16. Re:Curse the war as you want... on Military Device Will Sense Through Concrete Walls · · Score: 1
    I didn't forget. The pay is not lousy.

    When I got out, I was making about $1200 a month. That doesn't sound like much, but add to that free food, free housing, free travel (standby on military transports), the right to shop at the PX, and military discounts from lots of places...

    Our military is paid well. They're not always paid in a timely manner, which sometimes causes problems for families... but they are paid well.

  17. Re:OUTGOING on Turn an Optical Mouse into a Scanner · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I think they are one-time-pad messages from terruhists.

    Or designed to look that way.

  18. Re:Curse the war as you want... on Military Device Will Sense Through Concrete Walls · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No, fuck you, you piece of shit armchair patriot. I served in the Marine Corps, so don't tell me about taking care of our troops. I scavenged parts from the trash to make working equipment, because working equipment wasn't in the budget. Wanna talk about extreme case modding? I saw guys design and build electronic test equipment inside old suitcases because we couldn't get real stuff. Our aircraft were so old that the parts to maintain them simply weren't made anymore. Yet those same aircraft are still flying in Iraq and Afghanistan.

  19. Re:Curse the war as you want... on Military Device Will Sense Through Concrete Walls · · Score: -1, Troll
    "I'm glad we're affording out personnel the best equipment possible."

    Ha ha ha ha ha!

    Crawl back under your rock, neocon.

  20. Re:Common occurance on Raining Extraterrestrial Microbes in Kerala? · · Score: 1

    Generally only a thin layer on the surface of a meteor endures the extreme heat of reentry. Most of the heat is carried away through ablation of the surface material. And if it breaks up, the particles quickly slow to a speed at which atmospheric heating is not a factor.

  21. THANK YOU on Warp Engines In Development? · · Score: 1

    I swear to God, sometimes I wish I could Force-choke people through the Internet.

  22. Re:The only surprising thing... on India Forms Expert Group on Google Earth Images · · Score: 1

    That's exactly why I'm concerned. Killing American troops on an American base would be a huge political victory for the terrorists, regardless of how "critical" the base is. It's not going to make one bit of difference to the disgruntled 13-year-old in Assramistan who's thinking about becoming the next Mohammed Atta if the base that got blown up was some worthless reserve station for a couple squadrons of broken-ass thirty-year-old helicopters.

  23. Re:Shouldn't it be WW I? on New Aircraft is Part Blimp and Part Airplane · · Score: 1

    It's not his fault your operating system is a piece of shit.

  24. Re:No, no, no! Hydrogen was not to blame. on New Aircraft is Part Blimp and Part Airplane · · Score: 1

    It's a shame that that meme is so widespread in the collective consciousness. It's bunk.

  25. Re:Hindenburg was better than current planes on New Aircraft is Part Blimp and Part Airplane · · Score: 1

    It seems like the technology is ripe for unpiloted, hydrogen-filled, heavy-lift airships that would be flown primarily across unpopulated areas, like empty expanses of ocean.