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  1. Re:Make yourself worth your pay? on Paul Samuelson Challenges Outsourcing · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So you mean, a company thought they could get the same product for less, didn't get it, lost money, and started buying their old product again? In otherwords, the people here justified their pay? Sounds like free market at work to me.

  2. Re:Follow that law? on Government Asks Court to Keep ID Arguments Secret · · Score: 1

    It certainly does have an effect. The enormous support Nader got in previous years brought environmental concerns to the front of politics.

    As for wasted votes, I still don't see it. Your candidate either wins or loses, your vote isn't wasted.

    And as for your last sentence, so which is it, do they have an effect or no?

  3. Re:Follow that law? on Government Asks Court to Keep ID Arguments Secret · · Score: 1

    Why is voting third party a wasted vote, you still haven't convinced me. If I vote for a candidate that loses, are my votes wasted? Why is it different if my candidate got 40% instead of 20%? If everyone voted for someone other than the big two, even if they didn't agree, we'd have a much more interesting election. So why is it a waste again?

  4. Re:California / Business -- Not a good combo on California AG Says He'll Sue Diebold · · Score: 1

    Screw that, california passed up ona good scam years ago. They only nail big political scams.

  5. Re:Not all keyboards have a built-in hub on The Death of the Floppy Disk · · Score: 1

    Then that's your own stupidity isn't it? After all, it's your drive.

  6. Re:Not all keyboards have a built-in hub on The Death of the Floppy Disk · · Score: 1

    Remove the keyboard, plug in the drive, copy the nessesary files to the computer, remove drive, plug in keyboard. Consequently you can remove the mouse and do the same thing.

  7. Re:Follow that law? on Government Asks Court to Keep ID Arguments Secret · · Score: 1

    Legislators don't always have time to read every bill that comes before them

    Then we need to make less laws. Slow the system down, kind of like what the founding fathers had in mind don't you think? What good is having law makers if they don't even know what laws they're making?

  8. Re:Follow that law? on Government Asks Court to Keep ID Arguments Secret · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Problem is, as has already been pointed out, the law isn't secret, and it can't be by definition. The law is part of a public document that is the penal code. If the law was secret, you couldn't have alawer defend you, since you can't have alwer defend you, you've been effectively denied council, for a law that isn't a law because it's not a part of the public document called the penal code and as an end result, you can't be punished for breaking it in the first place.

  9. Re:Hmmm... on The Death of the Floppy Disk · · Score: 1

    The USB port on your keyboard, or the other USB port on the computer since you're smart and bussed the mouse through the keyboard like you shoudl right?

  10. Re:Follow that law? on Government Asks Court to Keep ID Arguments Secret · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And ignorance of the law is no excuse for breaking it.

    That said, neither is it an excuse for passing it, and every legislator that passes a bill before reading it should be shot.

  11. Re:Learning/Unlearning goes both ways! on Windows to Mac Migration Guide/Advice? · · Score: 1

    Some key commands you should learn:

    Command - ~ shuffles through the windows in the active application

    command - left or right arrow moves the cursor to the begining of the current line

    option - left or right moves the cursor over one word

    holding shift while doing any of the above selects the text

    begining to type a word and hitting F5 brings up a box with all the words that could complete the one you've begun typing

    command - down when on an icon opens the application or folder

    command - up moves you up a directory in teh finder

    fn - delete does a forward delete (del key on PC keyboards)

  12. Two things to learn on Windows to Mac Migration Guide/Advice? · · Score: 1

    1) Windows are not Applications. When you open an application in OS X, generaly a window will apear containing a new instance of the program. When you close the window however, this does not close the program. You have to specificaly quit the application.

    2) Maximize means expland to fit the window contents, not expand to fill the screen.

    I highly suggest you head over to anandtech.com and checkout the macdates section of his weblog. It has a lot of information in the entries and the comments.

  13. Re:Useless on Revolutionary Spam Firewall Developed · · Score: 1

    Bullshit, you don't use a sinlge system that has a 100% success rate. USPS, Fed-Ex, Airborn, UPS, phone, voice-mail, fax and even in person meetings do not have a 100% success rate.

  14. Re:Also Speed on Why is Java Considered Un-Cool? · · Score: 1

    Bullshit. That's like saying that people who program in assembly are better programers because they don't need predefined functions.

    Just because new technology makes old skills obsolete does not imply that people with newer skills are worse than the old people.

  15. Re:Get over it! on Your Right to Travel Anonymously: Not Dead Yet · · Score: 1

    Doesn't matter though. It's their plane. It's their property.

  16. Re:The soap box and ballot box are nearly dead on Your Right to Travel Anonymously: Not Dead Yet · · Score: 1

    The thing is, what reason do we have to think that various news sources are lying about the pictures they took?

  17. Re:Is My Constitution Outdated? on Your Right to Travel Anonymously: Not Dead Yet · · Score: 1

    It could easily be argued that since the airlines operate in more than one state, and business with them is interstate commerce. This is the justification used for anti dicrimination laws (IIRC, I know it's commerce clause, I forget the specific reasoning though)

  18. Re:Get over it! on Your Right to Travel Anonymously: Not Dead Yet · · Score: 1

    You are about to board THEIR plane (in theory you're going to board it), and they'll be wanting to know who to look at in the event of a problem.

  19. Re:Get over it! on Your Right to Travel Anonymously: Not Dead Yet · · Score: 1

    You have no idea how many people get picked up because when their ID get's run a warrant shows up do you? And I'm not just talking planes, I'm talking simple things like routine traffic stops.

  20. Re:Its not a conspiracy on Your Right to Travel Anonymously: Not Dead Yet · · Score: 1

    You thouroughly underestimate both the ability of forensics and the chances that a person will be in their seat at the time of impact.

  21. Re:Sort of understandable on Your Right to Travel Anonymously: Not Dead Yet · · Score: 1

    Except for the fact that the report is availible for free (remember, it's a government report, it HAS to be freely availible.

  22. Re:The soap box and ballot box are nearly dead on Your Right to Travel Anonymously: Not Dead Yet · · Score: 1

    Right nor aircraft parts whatsoever

    I should note, all those pictures were from 2 minutes of searching the new.google.com page.

  23. Re:Closed source security = Closed minds on How Secure is Windows Firewall? · · Score: 0

    How many people can honestly and intelligently say their open source OS and Firewall are 100% safe?

    Answer: None of them.

  24. Re:Lovely this is happening at a symbol of freedom on Biometrics at the Statue of Liberty · · Score: 1

    Oh this is rich. So here you are, bitching about the security measures at the statue of liberty being orwellian and such, but then complaining that the FBI didn't arrest some guy because some foreign intelligence agency said he was a bad guy? Or because they didn't arrest pivate citizens taking flying lessons because the lessons they took didn't seem to match their ideas of a model lesson plan?

  25. Re:This is neither "rights" nor "online". on Biometrics at the Statue of Liberty · · Score: 1

    The government had no *specific* knowledge of a terrorist plot to hijack 4 planes on the same day and fly them into buildings, but god knows the armchair politicians such as yourself screamed holy hell when you heard they didn't tell anyone about the shitty information they did have.