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  1. Re:Some thoughts... on Some States Say National ID Cards 'Make Life Easier' · · Score: 1

    You willfully submit all of this information to your State to obtain an ID card or drivers license. Once again do you honestly think the Feds can not access this already?

    Not easily, and not automatically.

    Once again when you purchase that weapon depending on the type and or State you reside in, you willfully fork over all sorts of personal information to the government.

    And they retain the info for 30 days, then destroy it.

    What if when a police officer makes a traffic stop on an out of state vehicle he was actually able to, with a high degree of certainty, identify the person?

    Unless he's using a fake ID.

  2. Re:Tinfoil hats and Illuminati aside on Some States Say National ID Cards 'Make Life Easier' · · Score: 1

    Why would criminals use their real name and ID when evading police? What business do the police have demanding my ID in the first place? Why would I want a national level database in the first place - have you learned nothing from Hoover?

  3. Re:Submariners on Breakdown Forces New Look At Mars Mission Sexuality · · Score: 1

    How about you just send a bunch of swingers that know each other?

  4. Re:Apples & Oranges? on Army of Davids Beats Pentagon Procurement · · Score: 1

    So why don't you tell us what the troops were doing? If they were out of line, then they deserve discipline. If they were rounding up villages, they deserve prison. We have standards, bud.

  5. Re:Bravo on University Professor Chastised For Using Tor · · Score: 1

    There's an oversupply of good doctors - the AMA restricts the supply artificially for its own ends.

  6. Re:How long before these tests become mandatory? on Brain Scanner Can Read People's Intentions · · Score: 1

    f you have to think hard about the answer then obviously you're not recalling from memory and are therefore lying or at least editing out parts.

    You're always editting - this is how memory works. It's also why eyewitnesses are horrible.

    Imagine what it would be like if - like mandatory drug testing - you were ordered into a room and attitude-checked with a helmet?

    Well, lie detectors are illegal save when done by the government or used for a specific investigation. Of course, those things are voodoo anyway.

    When their work on pattern recognition, comes to fruition they could easily discover just how much you hate the government, how much you despise them, just how disaffected you are and how much you sorely need to spend the rest of your now very short life in a labor camp within the arctic circle

    Well, hating the feds is only natural once you get to know them, and being disaffected isn't illegal, it's profitable. I'm sure long before this comes to pass I'll have gone on some rampage with a .308. Dare to dream and all that.

  7. Re:In a better world ... on FAA To Free Aircraft Hobbled By IP Laws · · Score: 1

    Not in the USA. Anything that was covered by copyright after about 1920 is still covered by copyright.

  8. Re:About time... on FAA To Free Aircraft Hobbled By IP Laws · · Score: 1

    They're not even mostly invisible. The Aussies spent $1.5M on a system that can detect them by their wake.

  9. Re:the ivory tower on University Professor Chastised For Using Tor · · Score: 1

    So, what is this fundamental flaw, a forkbomb? I seriously can't think of anything, aside from DOS attacks.

  10. Re:Bravo on University Professor Chastised For Using Tor · · Score: 1

    First: please stop using Tor on our network. Not very objectionable, they do own it and can request that sort of thing.

    You're half right - they can request he stop, and he can decline. They don't actually own the network, though. They just run it.

  11. Re:Bravo on University Professor Chastised For Using Tor · · Score: 2, Informative

    The last study I saw showed us paying about $10k per year per patient, which is more than the Netherlands (one of the better rated places with public health care) by a wide margin. When Hillary put together her universal health care plan about 10 years back it was about $600B, which was less than we were spending for healthcare at the time - I would expect that public healthcare here could save us about $200B/year.

  12. Re:Bravo on University Professor Chastised For Using Tor · · Score: 1

    If we could get the legal $ystem out of it, the costs would be much lower but there would be more malpractice.

    Nah, make a 2-3 strike law for malpractice - screw up enough and you aren't a doctor anymore. You've heard of the thin blue line, right? There's one for doctors, too. Get the crap out.

  13. Re:Nice Straw Man on University Professor Chastised For Using Tor · · Score: 2, Informative

    While the government's response to Katrina was slow and poorly executed, it was not contingent upon ability to pay.

    Yes it was. The government put up matching funds, so the poor areas were doublby fucked.

  14. Re:What's wrong with your Notes install? on Study Show Link Between IT Sabotage, Work Behavior · · Score: 1

    That is surprising, considering the whole reputation of eating up all available RAM; Perhaps you're just using an old version of Notes on an ancient (and possibly unsupported OS rev). Oh well, if it works for you...

    We've got exchange where I work, but that's mostly due to our crack-like addiction to the calendar.

  15. Re:constitution on ISP Tracking Legislation Hits the House · · Score: 1

    Show me where the government has a right to snoop on my private affairs - you can't because it's not there. This legislation should be illegal based on the 4th ammendment; requiring people to log all internet traffic is akin to requiring me to keep my stuff organized so the cops have an easy time if they search my place. The government seems to think that making a cop's job easier is somehow sufficient justification for just about anything, and it's pissing me off.

  16. Re:Well then, you're a terrorist! on ISP Tracking Legislation Hits the House · · Score: 1

    Oh my god! My credit union is a terrorist organization! They must be - why else would they use ssl?

  17. Re:Option Labeling of Non-Sexual Content on ISP Tracking Legislation Hits the House · · Score: 1

    The internet is public, but websites are private areas open to the public. There's no such thing as zoning, either, so don't get any ideas

  18. Re:Solution... on Study Show Link Between IT Sabotage, Work Behavior · · Score: 1

    It's true. Some people are just negative and nothing you can do will change that. The trick is telling them apart from the people who have reasons for being unhappy.

  19. Re:What's wrong with your Notes install? on Study Show Link Between IT Sabotage, Work Behavior · · Score: 1

    Unix can handle that sort of thing. When did you last restart the server process? I'll bet it's a lot less than 130 days ago.

  20. Re:Yeah, so? on Study Show Link Between IT Sabotage, Work Behavior · · Score: 1

    It's actually worse. OF course, I'd just set a monitor on the box to do the restarts automagically.

  21. Re:Tamping down management paranoia on Study Show Link Between IT Sabotage, Work Behavior · · Score: 1

    that's partly our fault for not explaining our job to them in terms they can grasp.

    And partly management's fault for not giving a damn when we try to explain what it is we do.

    Perfect cover for the guy who really did the dirty deed.

    Reminds me of the Bullshit episode on the death penalty: one of the opponents had spent 5 years on death row based on the testimony of the people who actually killed the person he was convicted for. That and he was in jail when the murder took place.

  22. Re:Responsibility on New York To Ban iPods While Crossing Street? · · Score: 1

    True, but we have the FDA to do things like ban dangerous food - the precedent for banning hazardous substances is definitely set.

  23. Re:Responsibility on New York To Ban iPods While Crossing Street? · · Score: 1

    Can you give one reason why people would choose transfats? It tastes terrible and is dangerous - the only reason people use it is because it's cheap.

  24. Re:Natural Selection At Work on New York To Ban iPods While Crossing Street? · · Score: 1

    Simple solution: allow bow hunting in the park. That or let the gang bangers from SE go pop pop pop at the overgrown rats.

  25. Re:Natural Selection At Work on New York To Ban iPods While Crossing Street? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, give it time and the problem will solve itself.