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  1. Re:Why not sapphire? on Apple Reportedly Heading Off iPhone 'Glassgate' · · Score: 1

    The sapphire crystal is pretty nice - I got an invicta watch with one of those for about $300 and it shows no wear on the face.

  2. Re:What happens if you destroy it? on College Student Finds GPS On Car, FBI Retrieves It · · Score: 4, Informative

    You're kidding, right? Look at this:

    Now let's look at how often the Supreme Court decides that the 9th got it wrong. Last term, the Supreme Court's reversal rate for 9th Circuit cases was 90.5 percent. Yikes—that's huge! But wait, for on-the-merits cases, the Supremes reversed the 3rd and 5th Circuits almost all of the time* last term. Cases from state appellate courts fared no better: They also had a 100 percent reversal rate. Overall, this past term the Supreme Court reversed 75.3 percent of the cases they considered on their merits. The pattern holds true for the 2004 and 2005 terms as well, when the Supremes had overall reversal rates of 76.8 percent and 75.6 percent, respectively. For those years, the 9th was reversed 84 percent and 88.9 percent of the time, or about a case or two more each year than it would have been if it had conformed to the reversal rate of the other circuits. How do one or two cases a year add up to a court run amuck?

  3. Re:What happens if you destroy it? on College Student Finds GPS On Car, FBI Retrieves It · · Score: 2, Informative

    No they don't, they get more decisions overturned because the 9th is really big. It isn't really out of line from other circuits.

  4. Re:What happens if you destroy it? on College Student Finds GPS On Car, FBI Retrieves It · · Score: 1

    What's your problem with the 9th? Sure, it gets appealed a lot, but hey, it's a fairly large jurisdiction.

  5. Re:Pay Raise? on Flat Pay Prompts 1 In 3 In IT To Consider Jump · · Score: 1

    You realize that we pay well above what most countries in europe pay for health care? This is on a per person basis, so we should be able to get UHC for less than we spend now. All you have to do is machine gun some lobbyists first...

  6. Re:Unionize. on Flat Pay Prompts 1 In 3 In IT To Consider Jump · · Score: 1

    Hello, record profits and stagnant wages?

  7. Re:Agreed, but two problems... on Flat Pay Prompts 1 In 3 In IT To Consider Jump · · Score: 1

    If the same HR department showered some employees with glowing praise and was neutral for others, then we'd have a problem.

    That's germany; it's illegal to badmouth, so neutral to positive commentary = bad, while obsequious praise = good.

  8. Re:As the economy improves??? on Flat Pay Prompts 1 In 3 In IT To Consider Jump · · Score: 1

    There are no pending tax increases - that's just the temp tax cuts expiring. Calling something that's been on the radar for a decade an increase is disingenuous. Congress just irritates me any more - Ds are cowards and Rs are being obstructionist.

  9. Re:As the economy improves??? on Flat Pay Prompts 1 In 3 In IT To Consider Jump · · Score: 1

    Oppressive regulation? Do you mean like Glass Steagel and requiring actual due diligence when foreclosing on a house? Next you'll whine about high taxes and complain about how crappy your roads are.

  10. Re:Trade deficit vs. National debt on Tech CEOs Tell US Gov't How To Cut Deficit By $1 Trillion · · Score: 1

    Don't forget blaming the resulting deficit on tax & spend liberals (somehow).

  11. Re:Solution on Why Are We Losing Vertical Pixels? · · Score: 1

    Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

    The competent know when to make it their first.

  12. Re:Professional vs. Amateur Hour on Cryptome Hacked; All Files Deleted · · Score: 1

    What makes you think the cops would care? They haven't shown much restraint in the past.

  13. Re:perspective on British Teen Jailed Over Encryption Password · · Score: 1

    After he's guilty, due process protects him from capricious punishment. For instance, due process means that you can't declare public urination a sex offense and then require someone who was convicted in the past of that offense to register as a sex offender and abide by all the restrictions imposed on those people.

  14. Re:perspective on British Teen Jailed Over Encryption Password · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I sort of do - even the guilty deserve due process.

  15. Re:Takes my breath away! on Can We Travel To That Exciting New Exoplanet? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Kids today! When I was a lad, we would've killed for a Sulfuric Acid atmosphere. We had to make our own air!

  16. Re:Wait, what? on Comcast Warns Customers Suspected of Bot Infection · · Score: 1

    "please to be rebooting the computer" - woo, no thanks.

  17. Re:sanity prevails on Court Rules Against Woman Who Didn't Like Search Results · · Score: 2, Insightful

    See, that doesn't make sense to me. If someone's argument is wrong at several points, you explain each & every single point where it is wrong. You break every point in the logical chain that you can.

    Why? It's enough to dismiss the case. If they want to try again, they can refile.

    I'd rather it be thrown out because it's fundamentally insane

    Sure, but that's more work. This is cut and dried, so no need to examine and prove the insanity therein.

    This way it just looks like an open door for (a) her to try and get in with a different law (b) anyone else with a commercial interest to protect to fire up a search engine and see if they have an unexpected payday waiting.

    a) she's welcome to try and b) this isn't something that establishes precedent (IANAL), so nothing changes.

  18. Re:sanity prevails on Court Rules Against Woman Who Didn't Like Search Results · · Score: 1

    No, it means that she can't sue because of a lack of commercial interest. Nothing is said about other reasons for throwing the case out - one is enough.

  19. Re:And if the information is wrong or fake on "Pre-Crime" Comes To the HR Dept. · · Score: 1

    I guess you should go look at what actually happened with GM - it's not like they got a giant check.

  20. Re:Not close yet? on Linux May Need a Rewrite Beyond 48 Cores · · Score: 1

    and your GPU is managed much differently than the rest of the system. I can get 24 real cores with 48 virtual ones now, but apparently, it's going to be a pain to use efficiently.

  21. Re:Help us steal from others! on Red Hat Urges USPTO To Deny Most Software Patents · · Score: 1

    Who decides if it's innovative? The really interesting stuff takes a while to be recognized for what it is.

  22. Re:There is truth in what you say - on There Is No Plan B, the Ugly Transition To IPv6 · · Score: 1

    At that point, hardly anyone had networks.

  23. Re:Back in the good old days, reputation mattered on "Pre-Crime" Comes To the HR Dept. · · Score: 1

    And I kind of think that's a good thing.

    I'll keep that in mind when people start talking about you for taking your neighbor's daughter to the playground.

  24. Re:If you are smart you will cheat. on "Pre-Crime" Comes To the HR Dept. · · Score: 1

    A business is represented by the behavior of it's employees

    That's insane. A business is represented by its products, professional history, and its execs. Nobody cares that some reckless idiot works for microsoft.

  25. Re:The new "rationality" test. I support this test on "Pre-Crime" Comes To the HR Dept. · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What you say about yourself and who you associate with is a pretty clear indicator of who you are, and I can't fault the company too much for being able to research things publicly posted.

    How is this relevant to being a drug user? You assume they're derelicts hanging out in opium dens or something, when they're just the guy building the next ecommerce platform.