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  1. Re:It's too complicated for me to understand ... on Scientists Link Deep Wells To Deadly Spanish Quake · · Score: 5, Interesting

    the interesting question is if triggering it sooner made it less severe or more severe.

  2. Re:Good times! Clearly, he's a dirtbag on Innocence of Muslims Filmmaker Arrested, Jailed · · Score: 1

    Funny.. they are digging up a driveway right now to look for him.
    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/09/28/soil-samples-to-be-taken-from-detroit-driveway-in-search-for-jimmy-hoffa/

    But your right, they still haven't found him.

  3. Re:This judge is a idiot! on Federal Judge Says No Right To Secret Ballot, OKs Barcoded Ballots · · Score: 1

    Is that codified in the law, or is it just best practices that almost everyone follows? That does make a difference. its like there cities were taking peoples houses to build shopping strips. Everyone thought that was illegal, bit again it was just a practice that was considered despicable, and no municipalities had done it before. I'm all for secret ballots, but if it is not a legal right or needs to be.

  4. Re:LOL, American "democracy"! on Federal Judge Says No Right To Secret Ballot, OKs Barcoded Ballots · · Score: -1

    We are not a democracy, we are a republic. Democracies are doomed to near immediate failure quickly.

  5. Re:Universal service. on Would You Pay an Internet Broadband Tax? · · Score: 1

    I hear this all the time, and it's complete bullshit. On the right we hate the bailouts, and government basically picking and choosing winners in the capitalist arena. George Bush said that he had to destroy free market to save the free market with the GM Bailout. A bailout that is FAILING since GM will likely go bankrupt again in the next 4 or 5 years.

    No sir, Progressives on the right and the left lead to fascism. The far right of the party is not Progressive. Fascism a nasty foul beast combining crony capitalism directed by a Socialist Jingoism.

    You can't with a straight face tell me that the far right hand of the Conservative party which is Libertarian would line up with giving money and orders to companies from the government. Hell the farm right hand wing of the conservative party doesn't even think the government should have anything to do with companies at all.

  6. Re:you won't have to worry about it on How Long Do You Want To Live? · · Score: 1

    There is only a bubble because the government pumps money into the industry. Pull government out of medicine all together and it would deflate hella fast. People would just die instead of spending the loot they don't have. The more government gets into medicine the more of a bubble it will be because they have a printer with a lot of green ink to inflate it. Much more than the private sector has.

    It's not a pretty answer, but it's true.

  7. Re:I'd like to live as long as women do on How Long Do You Want To Live? · · Score: 1

    We are biologically weaker. Sorry. You may or may not be a deity believer, but it's like god gave them an extra fiver for all the crap with menstruation.

  8. Re:I'm in the 10% on How Long Do You Want To Live? · · Score: 1

    Yep, books. Too many in this world to read with 100 lifetimes.

  9. Re:I am opposed to age extensions on How Long Do You Want To Live? · · Score: 1

    This is why FDR wanted social security. To get the old people out of their jobs, and free them up, so the younger rabble rousers would have something to do instead of topple the government.

  10. Re:News Flash! on How Long Do You Want To Live? · · Score: 1

    However the question posed did not say that we could not prevent old age. My answer would be forever, and then I could choose when.

    Easy enough.

  11. Re:childish swine on Why WikiLeaks Is Worth Defending · · Score: 4, Funny

    I would but last time I did the comment section was closed when I got back.

  12. Re:I just did this, but for a business. on Ask Slashdot: How To Best Setup a School Internet Filter? · · Score: 1

    And for all those whining about the ethics of blocking, whine more. Blocking advertising, known malware sites, social network sites during business hours, porn, and gambling are all pretty good ideas when they are detrimental to your business that needs employees having access to do their jobs. Also yes I know that a proxy will get around it, but we all know most people can't do tunneling easily.

  13. I just did this, but for a business. on Ask Slashdot: How To Best Setup a School Internet Filter? · · Score: 1

    Get you a computer, just about anything modern will do, and a couple of supported nic's. I used the TEG-PCITXRL because I have use older model low profile optiplexes.
    http://www.pfsense.org/

    Firewall port 80 and port 443
    set up squid
    set up squidblock

    Create a wpad.dat file and put it on the web server, so browsers will automatically configure to use the proxy as long as they are set to automatically configure

    Then download some freely available pre-categorized sites. I used these, but you can also use shalla's if you are a non-profit.
    1. http://dsi.ut-capitole.fr/documentations/cache/squidguard_en.html#contrib
    2. http://squidguard.mesd.k12.or.us/blacklists.tgz
    3. http://www.shallalist.de/

    I also downloaded the list of websites that adblock uses from easylist, and put it in the right format with a quick macro in my text editor:
    https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easylist.txt

    You can get really fancy if you want, and if you have a domain you can do a man in the middle proxy by creating a certificate then installing it on your pfsense box and each desktop. This would allow you to just route all 80 and 443 traffic through squid, and then you could use dansguardian to do keyword filtering. For your application I would probably steer clear of this for now, because you need to have a good way of making sure that EVERYONE knows that you can see their passwords to banks, emails, etc, and it's in a policy they sign or you could get in deep doo doo.

  14. Re:As a Conservative on Knight Trading Losses Attributed To Old, Dormant Software · · Score: 2

    Copypasta from the definitive study of millionaires. "Millionaire Next Door" by Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko

    Some Shocking Statistics about these Millionaires:

    -The average taxable income for them is $131,000
    -They live on less than 7 percent of their wealth
    -Many of their occupations could be classified as dull-normal such as: welding contractor, auctioneer, mobile-home owner, paving contractor, coin and stamp dealer
    -They invest on average nearly 20% of their household income
    -Most of them are homeowners (97 percent) and their average home value is $320,000
    -80% of millionaires today are first generation millionaires

    Everyone thinks millionaires are usually born that way, not really true at all. Most just save their way into it.

    If you are going to spew this stuff at least read some well researched books to back it up.

  15. Re:If Obama's BIRTH can be an issue on Let the Campaign Edit Wars Begin · · Score: 2

    I'm in the lower middle class and my taxes took a nosedive during bush. If they don't extend them they will go up painfully. Your post is 99 percent BS, which fits with your crowd's whole.. thing I guess.

  16. Re:If Obama's BIRTH can be an issue on Let the Campaign Edit Wars Begin · · Score: 1

    Nah, a lot of these people still think the government is crop dusting them when they see contrails, you would never put it to rest.

  17. Re:If Obama's BIRTH can be an issue on Let the Campaign Edit Wars Begin · · Score: 1

    This is the truth. It's just retarded. Some of my family even buys into the birther thing which makes me sad. It makes me sad because when you focus on lies, you miss the truth. Whether you agree or disagree with the truth you have to at least try and find it.

  18. Re:Paul who? on Let the Campaign Edit Wars Begin · · Score: 1

    Yea, your real independent. Democrats are golden gods, Republicans are filthy fucking shill necon manchurian bootlickers.

    And this crap gets modded interesting? Really? What in the world did this add to anything?

  19. Re:If Obama's BIRTH can be an issue on Let the Campaign Edit Wars Begin · · Score: 1

    Does that include State taxation?

  20. Re:Two can play at this game on White House Pulls Down TSA Petition · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Taxes are the price you pay to live in a civilized society.

    Nobody argues this, what people do argue about is the amount of taxes, and what those taxes are used for. The problem is that we start with spening, then create a budget, then go after revenues.

    We should determine what a fair amount of revenues or life to eat up of the populace, then determine a budget, then allocate the revenue to the budget.

    Can you imagine at your house if you went on a spending spree for every little thing your heart wanted, then you came up with your budget, then went to your boss to demand to be paid what your budget was? It's just fucking stupid!

  21. Re:Two can play at this game on White House Pulls Down TSA Petition · · Score: 1

    Really? How many jobs do poor poeple make? None, or they won't be poor for very long.

    In 2009 exxon had 80,700 employees, those are jobs FYI. Your not really good at this math thing are you?

  22. Re:Two can play at this game on White House Pulls Down TSA Petition · · Score: 1

    And the tax loopholes back then allowed them to bring their EFFECTIVE tax rate down to below or similar to what it is now.

    Why is it nobody will talk about effective tax rates, that's the only thing that even gets close to mattering. If I make the tax rate 99 percent, but then give loopholes so nobody pays that rate, then who cares if it's 99 percnet.

  23. Re:a bit sensational headline on Koch Bros Study Finds Global Warming Is Real And Man-Made · · Score: 1

    :%s/pursuance/pursuaded/g

  24. Re:a bit sensational headline on Koch Bros Study Finds Global Warming Is Real And Man-Made · · Score: 1

    Liberals see the only solution is to do massive de-humanization of the planet, revert to pre-industrial society, and perhaps even get rid of our species all together to save the planet.

    See how unfounded, ridiculous, and plain uneducated generalized blanket statements based on a slice of a political segment are? It's just as silly as saying conservatives can't be pursuance that global warming is occurring. There are many conservatives that are convinced of global warming. Off the top of my head McCain, and Oreilly.

    Also what is this wishy washy climate change you speak of. The climate has always changed, saying climate change is like saying "weather change", is a cop out to standing firm on what you believe is really happening. If you through research and understanding believe that the climate is getting increasing in temperature say so, don't give yourself an out by saying it's "changing", so you can blame years that the climate gets cold and that the climate gets hot on man, that's just silly, and shows you can't make a reasonable case that not every year will be consistent with your theory because of normal variations along a trend. In general that's something we conservatives hate, is the changing of wording to dodge any sort of accountability, and to keep you from looking foolish like the global cooling crowd if your theory pans out as completely wrong. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling

    What exactly is killing the polar bears? You do realize that the polar bear population is very healthy don't you? There is no measurable polar bear die-off, in fact the polar bear population is on the increase to stable size in recent history. Saying something as uneducated as the polar bears are going extinct is as silly as insinuating conservatives are mentally deficient based on reports from liberal biased sources. I have been unable to find data showing that over the _long term_ polar bears are negatively affected other than Al-Gore films. Of course human hunting may be down causing a population increase, so numbers don't always tell the whole story, but it's not polarbearmageddon either way.

  25. Re:Fatigue=suck on Gartner Analyst Retracts "Windows 8 Is Bad" Claim · · Score: 2

    That's true. People that have to look at monitors all stinking day are very picky about having them clean, free of dead pixels, having them operating on the right frequency, set to the right brightness, right angle to view, etc. One of my coworkers accidentally touched one of my monitors the other day, and promptly apologized, and went to go get stuff to clean his fingerprint off it.

    People that check their mail for a few minutes once a day could care less.