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  1. Re:Let's blow up the economy on China Probes US Renewable Energy Policy · · Score: 1

    That is crazy...So we put a tariff matching the cost of US produced products.. US manufactures, the greedy bastards that they are, say woot now we can raise prices to give out execs even bigger golden parachutes, and what ever we set the price at the overseas competition gets raised too.

  2. Re:Not True! on China Probes US Renewable Energy Policy · · Score: 2

    Yes, this was ONE of the causes, however before deregulation of the industry this would not have been possible, as banks would have said HELL NO!. However after deregulation they said HELL YES! because they can make money even off a default.... So while people buying homes they could not afford was a small cause,t he bigger cause was the greed of the banks and the deregulation.

  3. Re:Learn to use English on How Can I Justify Using Red Hat When CentOS Exists? · · Score: 0

    It is ironic that you tell him to use English, yet your grasp of the language seems much weaker then his.

  4. Re:What about the US and Solyndra? on Solar Panel Trade War Heats Up · · Score: 1

    because that money was not to lower the price of solar cells, but to help lower startup costs, they were still free to charge what they wanted to.

  5. Re:Suspicion comes before arrest? on California DNA Collection Law Struck Down · · Score: 1

    Really? That is as far as you can think? First of all lets throw out that suspicion does not equate to evidence that he did it. To be under suspicion maybe all you need to be is white and around 6 foot like the perp. Now lets think past that for a sec and assume you are really not the person that committed that crime, but you did commit another crime, that you are not suspected for. That is what they are referring too. And while I would like someone like that arrested too, it is unconstitutional.

  6. Re:Bad idea idiots on Mozilla BrowserID: Decentralized, Federated Login · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Dont know, if you want to use your cell phone you may be able to syc your keys to that browser, however if you are really going to an internet cafe, maybe you should remember your password.... So you hate this extra security, because your choice in browsing is innately insecure... No ones problem but your own.

  7. Re:Prove It on Court Case To Test Legality of Recording the Police With Your Cell Phone · · Score: 1

    Because once you are under arrest for disorderly conduct they can view it and see... It is kind of like getting arrested for resisting arrest but nothing else.. If you were not originally under arrest for a charge how can you get arrested for resisting a non existant arrest.

  8. Re:Random chance on Volcano Erupts In Iceland · · Score: 1

    Yea, but since they, and their leader was not taken, do you really think they will be happy about the rapture happening 8)

  9. Re:Ummm on NC Governor Allows Anti-Community-Broadband Law · · Score: 1

    How is it anti-competitive for a government to support its citizens with a service that NO OTHER COMPANY will.. Read the article, this bill covers areas where business dont think it is profitable to enter so they dont. In return the state makes it so that in order for the city to run their own they would have to lose money... Lose/lose for its citizens.

  10. Re:Biased summary on NC Governor Allows Anti-Community-Broadband Law · · Score: 1

    Actually no.. It requires them to not be able to perform this task. It adds so much cost to the possibility of the project that it is unlikely to be able to perform the project.. Remember this is for places that are not served by broadband providers, actually that is not even correct. This is for areas that the other providers REFUSE to serve, yet now the cost to start the project is very prohibitive. As someone on slashdot I would have to ask how you would feel without broadband.

  11. Re:Cue the flamewars on GPL Violations By D-Link and Boxee · · Score: 3

    Tell me, in a free society are you able to do anything you want, or are you able to do what you want as long as it does not infringe on the rights of others? The GPL is free as in Freedom..You can take someone's code, and modify it however you like, you can use it however you see fit, but you still must not infringe on the rights of the author. It is the right of the author to put restrictions, just like it is the right of a free society to make laws that make sure you live within the rules of that free society.

  12. Re:No Force or Effect on House Votes To Overturn FCC On Net Neutrality · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Wait so the FCCs job is not to regulate communications, and the EPAs job is not to protect the enviroment? Then what are they for?

  13. Re:No Force or Effect on House Votes To Overturn FCC On Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    You do realize in order to repeal a law they have to actually get it past both, and the president, or overrule the president.. Trying and getting kicked in the face does not constitute an actual repeal, it is nothing more then an attempt at a repeal.

  14. Re:Sounds like a headache on US Contemplating 'Vehicle Miles Traveled' Tax · · Score: 1

    Problem is that the tax is paying for less and less due to the gas mileage of newer vehicles. They could raise it, however then the problem becomes that they are putting the burden on the lower class, again. This is because they will be paying 2 times as much as peopel who can afford high efficiancy vehicles, since in most cases all they can afford is older less efficent vehicles.

  15. Re:Good for US economy on MS Wants Laws To Block Products Made By Software Pirates · · Score: 1

    How exactly would I, as a small business, know that one of my suppliers, or even my supplier's suppliers, did not have a legitimate copy of MS office on a single work station in their office? What kinda of burden does it put on me, a small business owner, to ensure that every company in my supply chain is compliant with MS's software license? In addition what sort of standing does MS have to sue me, for my suppliers breaking of the law, even though neither of us compete with Microsoft. How about the issue that FOSS can not use this law to prevent illegal distribution of software, only proprietary software makers can.

  16. Re:Unclassified until Deemed Classified? on Federal Prosecutors Tempt the Streisand Effect · · Score: 1

    What about when it is marked unclassified not once, but twice, each page for 6 pages.. That is 12 times someone "accidentally" marked it unclassified?

  17. Re:It was not just Dell's fault in this lawsuit. on Lawsuit Shows Dell Hid Extent of Computer Flaws · · Score: 1

    Except with AIT at the time there was not even a theoretical backup to attempt to restore from in most accounts.

  18. It was not just Dell's fault in this lawsuit. on Lawsuit Shows Dell Hid Extent of Computer Flaws · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I used to work as a systems administrator for the company suing dell, AIT, and to be honest from the setup we were required to use you could not tell whether the problem was because of dell or the high heat on the machines. The problem stems from the owner of the company's desire to cut costs anywhere he could. He stopped buying actual servers and went to buy desktops and sold dedicated hosting services on them as though they were servers. We would have groups of 3 pizza racks stacked with 12 of the VCR dells per shelve. The heat from all the machines was terrible, we even had plastic melting on some of the machines. To cool the system we had 2 used industrial ACs, that were always breaking, in addition we had 3 of the large stand up fans that really did no cooling at all. What is really ironic about this suit is that the company at the time advertised nightly backups on all accounts, however only about 1% of the customers, the ones on our netapp, was actually backed up. For the rest the company would not buy the hardware to actually backup customers.

  19. Re:But...science is faith too! on The "Scientific Impotence" Excuse · · Score: 1

    Except if you wanted to and had the money/time you could test the results. Just because you chose to just follow blindly does not make science a religion.

  20. Re:Scientific 'Facts' Change more often than Relig on The "Scientific Impotence" Excuse · · Score: 1

    All religions change all the time. There is a difference between religion and faith, the first is absolutely terrible and the cause of the majority of the wars throughout mankind's history, the second is needed by the brain to understand certain things. religion was created to have people with the same beliefs come together and worship based on their beliefs, but over time it has been taken over by power hungry people (most not all religions) Almost all Judaism based religions are about control now. Because of this as peoples beliefs change so does the religion. The Catholic church now accepts ideas that it outlawed, the new testament replaced the old testiment because people could not reconcile a god who mass murders anymore. I can go on and on.

  21. Re:First true MMO innovation I've seen in a long t on Review: Champions Online · · Score: 1

    I nerf is anything that changes an aspect to a game in which it lowers its power. Blizzard WAS broken, you stated it yourself: "It was ridiculously powerful". If something is ridiculously powerful then it is more then likely too powerful, hence broken. This is why you think it was a BS nerf. Now the players who did not make the sorceress and had to play PVP against them with more balanced skills see this as a bug fix, because it gave them a better chance. In Champions if they change something in a way you dont like you can retcon, same as respecing in wow, but a lot more expensive.

  22. Re:curious situation: iphone more google than appl on Apple, Google, AT&T Respond To the FCC Over Google Voice · · Score: 1

    Wrong, apple has approved aps that allow this same thing, harvsting your information.

  23. The issue with the sole control. on CentOS Project Administrator Goes AWOL · · Score: 1

    I dont think the issue is that he has left, went on vacation, had an emergency. The issue is that due to his apparent need to have all the power there is no one else that can administer the project, thereby leaving it dead in the water.

  24. Re:!thoughtcrime on British Men Jailed For Online Hate Crimes · · Score: 1

    And there is a difference between stating ""Jews are stupid they should be kill them" and "Jews are stupid so you should kill them" the first is still an opinion, while the second is incitement.

  25. Re:!thoughtcrime on British Men Jailed For Online Hate Crimes · · Score: 1

    I am going to kill you! Waits for a moment Waits for a moment Hmm nothing is happening.. You can say you are going to kill someone as long as you dont have the means and intention of really killing someone. In addition you are making some terrible logic leaps that just by me saying to my buddy that I hate you and I am going to kill you that I am organizing and inciting him to kill you. In addition we were raised, atleast anyone I know, with the old proverb that "sticks and stones will break your bones but words will NEVER harm you", and that is true, works can not harm you unless YOU let them harm you, at that point it becomes your fault, not the person saying those words, otherwise we would have bullies in schools who just call you fat and stupid locked up.