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  1. Re:So what? on Feds Start Small on Smart IDs · · Score: -1

    The national ID cards will be coming as fallout from the REAL ID act of 2005 being passed. Deadline to meet the requirements of the Act is 3 years after it was signed into law which would be May of 2008. States are left to pay for the infrastructure themselves and it is meant to replace your state-issued driver's license. If you search for "real id" on google you will find more details about it. The bottom line is that a national ID system is coming (care of REAL ID) because one of the requirements is that each state must make its database available to all other states and any state failing to do so will lose certain federal funding.

  2. Re:Unlikely on Dvorak on Windows Genuine Advantage · · Score: -1

    As long as a PC can still boot with an active LAN connection the virus could spread and at the same time prevent it from getting security updates due to it failing the WGA check.

  3. Re:DCFS on School Bans 'Tag' · · Score: -1

    Removing any opt-in kids games (tag, dodgeball, etc.) that occur at recess time is like removing religion. Both (games and religion) are opt-in, both are good for the kids, neither pose the possibility of persecution for not participating, only a very small group of people view them as bad while the majority have no problem with them, but yet for some parents if a child is ever involved in the game or religious activity (just mere participation even if the child likes it) they complain and force the school systems to revoke those privileges which means the kids are the ones who lose. In extreme cases, the simple fact that those privileges are available to the child will make the parents complain even if their child wasn't participating in them. They just feel like they should complain because they have that right and everyone else should follow them in their beliefs. For some reason this country is becoming a country that caters more and more to the minorities to the point where they have more power than the majorities despite this being a "majority rules" country.

  4. Re:Simple Child Care on School Bans 'Tag' · · Score: -1

    Although all those people should take blame the source of the problem is the parents who are opportunistic when they try to blame the school on their child playing tag and getting hurt, despite the fact there was no requirement for him to play and no persecution for him not playing. If the parents weren't so willing to place blame AND make a quick million bucks from a lawsuit the judges and lawyers wouldn't even come into play. But since parents do act that way the judges and lawyers do come into play most of the time and at that point the blame can be shared with them.

  5. Re:Is this legal? on MySpace Predator Caught By Code · · Score: -1

    IF the information used was available on the MySpace page of the offender or in public court house records available online or whatever it is, the fact is that the guy either volunteered the information or access to public records voluteered it for us. Therefore I don't see any breach of privacy.

  6. Re:Rats first and Captain last on Novell Moves Away From ReiserFS · · Score: -1

    Actually Hans didn't go missing. It was his wife (ex-wife? I forget what I read). But he was arrested upon suspicion of her disappearance/murder which could be worse compared to if he was just missing.

  7. Re:Are the alerts perhaps the problem? on Microsoft Agrees to Changes in Vista Security · · Score: -1

    As an XP user, I'd be sorely tempted to use a simple option if available that suppressed ALL of these popups.

    Have you seen this?
  8. what stops... on Airport To Tag Passengers With RFID · · Score: -1

    a potential terrorist from simply taking the RFID necklace off? Does it shock them if they touch it with their hands?

  9. Re:... depicting her as a lesbian. on School Official Sues Over MySpace Page · · Score: -1

    There is but it's not like any of the liberals would want to admit that given the obssession with political correctness and the whole 5% of the population that they would offend.

  10. but I thought... on Laser TV — the Death of Plasma? · · Score: 0

    that with the color depth of TVs now they were already ahead of what the human eye can perceive? True color is 24bit and TVs advertise 32bit don't they? The eye can't distinguish past 24bit. Oh and by the way, I thought that a US media outlet had a moment of temporary insanity by actually saying the word "Christmas" (in the article summary) but then I realized that the quote was from an Australian site and that explained everything. Only the US is afraid of admitting its roots.

  11. Re:Since you asked on Hans Reiser Arrested On Suspicion of Murder · · Score: -1

    Lots of people think this is related to the motivations of terrorists, where violent religious conviction takes precedence over rationality.

    But mainstream religion is fine and can teach children the difference between right and wrong. This seems to be lost on people despite the fact they vehemently believe that radical religion is bad. If radical religion is bad then non-radical religion is good. The majority of any religion are not extremists; that is the whole point of being extreme compared to the norm. When children start being allowed to see what religion can teach (and don't start throwing out examples that in the Old Testament of the Holy Bible it says to kill certain people because that isn't what I'm referring to) then maybe we won't have children who get the wrong idea about things. That will only happen when those who don't have a religion realize that not everyone agrees with them about its usefulness and that no one forces anything on anyone. It's an opt-out situation but the religious teachings should be available to begin with to even have the opportunity to opt-out if you are not interested.

  12. Re:This may be an Indian "April Fools" on Indian ISPs Taxed for Generating "Light Energy" · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It is a statistical certainty (p

    Don't forget the guilty who are still in Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan running around killing inncoent people so until none of the guilty are left to do that you have to put up with a few innocents being detained; oh, and did I mention they are terrorists?

  13. Re:Another day, another RC on Vista RC2: More Refined, But Still Not Perfect · · Score: -1

    Developers at MS work full time (and overtime) on Windows but the Linux kernel developers mainly work in their spare time (some get paid to work on the kernel for their job, if they are lucky) so based on that there is more expected from MS because of the nature of the closed-source software business.

  14. Re:Maybe they don't include drivers on purpose... on Vista RC2: More Refined, But Still Not Perfect · · Score: -1

    You do realize that the pre-release versions have a time-based expiration next year so if you install the betas or RCs you will only get to use it for a limited amount of time (June 2007).

  15. maybe Brits are just stupid? on Geekspeak Baffles Web Users · · Score: -1

    Given, some acronym creators try hard to come up with an acronym for something and end up using the 2nd letter of a word or 2 letters side-by-side in a word (which may not be the first 2) to come up with part of the acronym, but most acronyms are created the way they are supposed to which is taking the first letter of each word describing the object, hence the IM for instant messaging. If the Brits can't figure that out on their own then they have the problem, not us.

  16. Re:My issue wouldn't be stability on Could I Run a TV Station on Linux? · · Score: -1

    I just had a server running AIX Unix up for 305 days (rebooted two days ago). To be fair, my Windows servers usually stay up for similar periods.

    You must not patch your Windows servers then.

  17. Re:Woo on Americans Win 2006 Nobel Physics Prize · · Score: -1

    I hate to tell you but this has nothing to do with whether science wins over superstition, or for that matter over religion. That's like the fox guarding the henhouse and for not allowing any hens to be killed he then eats one. And you forgot a statement: if (majority) religion+=5 // religion just upped your science by 4

  18. Re:....wheres that damn phone on Caller ID Watches · · Score: -1

    If you know where your headset is why can't you keep track of your phone?

  19. Re:Worse on "DVD Jon" Reverse Engineers FairPlay · · Score: -1

    They WILL kick your door down, take your computers, and drag you off to jail if they suspect you're up to something (or some company or other government agency tells them you are).

    Of course they will do that...once they get the warrant that allows them to do it. If you are a Wanted individual in the US and you leave the country but you step back on American soil what else do you expect but to be arrested on site if the right people know you are going to be arriving?

  20. Re:Proactive versus reactive on Administration Ignored Bin Laden Intel · · Score: -1

    From what I've heard the Clinton administration also only did things reactively instead of proactively when it came to bin Laden. The Clinton administration didn't get any terrorists but the Bush administration has already captured/killed many of the top members of al-Quaeda; unfortunately we haven't yet got the top guy but I didn't see Clinton do it. He only attempted one time and that was only to make people pay attention to that for a couple days instead of the Lewinsky scandal that he caused.

  21. Re:You won't be seeing this at home anytime soon on New Data Transmission Record — 14 Tbps · · Score: -1

    You couldn't fill up a single hard drive but if you had multiple hospitals sharing the data with multiple PCs in each hospital the amount of data passing through that pipe by any one PC would mean that a single PC/server on the other end would be receiving only what was meant for them and therefore they could fill up the hard drive fast enough to keep up with it b/c they still may only have a gigE connection to the backbone. These are not single user pipes as someone has already mentioned. These are backbone speeds meant to keep the Internet working as more and more people use it to push more and more data, and when new worms are released that eat up bandwidth too.

  22. Re:low cost eh? on Low Cost Panoramic Views From 112,000 feet · · Score: -1

    Read the sentence again. The solution as a whole is not being modified by the "low cost" adjective. "low cost" is only modifying the "6 Mpixels digital camera" noun ("camera" is the noun with other adjectives in front of it). It seems they don't know how to abbreviate megapixel either.

  23. Re:Did Intel learn *anything* from Java2? on Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 Quad-Core Benchmarks · · Score: -1

    The "Core" part of the name doesn't actually refer to the fact that there is a single core or multiple cores. Therefore they didn't use the name Core4 to refer to the Core 2 Quadro series. Core is the technology. Core 2 is the 2nd generation of that and in the case of the new CPU series that 2nd generation is now utilizing 4 cores, thus the Quadro part of the name.

  24. Re:I dont agree on GUIs Get a Makeover · · Score: -1

    Unfortunately the evolution idea falls apart when considering the idea of complexity with regard to bacteria and single-cell organisms. But holes in theories don't matter it seems.

  25. Re:Ultra-capacitors for a different type of hybrid on 500 Miles on a 5-Minute Recharge? · · Score: -1

    Voltage doesn't matter. It is the current that is what gives you the feeling of death at your doorstep.