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  1. Re:A false argument on Making Airport Scanners Less Objectionable · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You or I or Muhammed al-Jihadi could still board a plane with a smuggled knife up your ass -- the metal detector would catch it but not the porno scan or sexual assault. However, it wouldn't be effective since cockpit doors are now locked. That's the one effective security measure that was implemented.

  2. Re:A long losing battle on Making Airport Scanners Less Objectionable · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Keep in mind that a terrorist (sorry, "freedom fighter") used an ass-bomb in an unsuccessful attempt on the Saudi Arabia's counter-terrorism minister.

    Backscatter won't detect it. Groping (short of a finger up your asshole) won't detect it. Nope, we can only be safe if you drop trou and pull a goatse or let the TSA watch you take a shit.

  3. Re:Store? on Mozilla Plans Mobile App Store · · Score: 0, Troll

    mozilla users are used to paying for strap-ons, though!

  4. Re:That what? on FPS Games That Need a Remake · · Score: 3, Funny

    how about Star Wars: TSA screener? There's been too much terrorism and planetary destruction, so everyone needs to be screened before flying. Here's your chance to make sure princess Padme doesn't have anything hidden in her coochie. You can also arrest jar-jar for not wearing pants. How can you be sure he doesn't have a bomb strapped to his leg if you can't check his pants!!?!?!!?

  5. Re:Don't buy any servers. Use the cloud. on Best IT-infrastructure For a Small Company? · · Score: 2, Informative

    GMail? Nothing wrong with that... as long as you don't mind all your internal memos being examined by data-mining software.

    Not to mention state and federal laws (SOX, HIPAA) that require controlled access to certain information.

  6. Re:I'm in IT on Auto Industry's Fastest Processor Is 128Mhz · · Score: 0, Troll

    Rob Malda has an opening for your cock. Two in fact.

  7. Re:Really? on Which Language To Learn? · · Score: 1

    if you think ditch digging is "shit money" for "shit labor", what do you consider a toilet slave?

  8. Re:Because on Kernel Tracing With LTTng On Ubuntu Maverick · · Score: 2, Interesting

    He has expressed similar sentiments more recently as well (eg from 2007 on git's use of c vs c++)

    C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it's much much easier to generate total and utter crap with it. Quite frankly, even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.

  9. Re:Lame. Could be better. on Replacing Sports Bloggers With an Algorithm · · Score: 1

    That will move the chains.

  10. Re:Charity begins at home... on Obama May Toughen Internet Privacy Rules · · Score: 1

    and maybe the TSA shouldn't molest airline passengers either.

  11. Re:This is the direct opposite of what MS is doing on Google Says 3rd Parties Would Be Liable For Java Infringement · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Ahem,

    Each contributor grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free patent license under the contributor's essential patent claims, to make, use, sell, offer for sale, import and otherwise run, modify and propagate the contents of its contributor version.

    That doesn't do jack shit if you (google) distribute code that infringes on third party (oracle) patents.

  12. Re:This is the direct opposite of what MS is doing on Google Says 3rd Parties Would Be Liable For Java Infringement · · Score: 1

    HTC is paying Microsoft license fees for using android.

  13. Re:Assuming this is true.... on Sophos Free A-V For Mac May Kill Time Machine Backups · · Score: 1

    yes, one large file which is actually a sparse disk image.

  14. Re:AOL on AOL, Yahoo Mulling Merger · · Score: 1

    They run a lot of news and portal sites. Recently bought tech crunch.

  15. Re:They should have taken the M$ money on AOL, Yahoo Mulling Merger · · Score: 1

    Definitely. Microsoft offered $31 a share. YHOO stock currently trades at $16.36 a share. Microsoft "substantially undervalues" Yahoo but the free market undervalues them even more.

  16. Re:Wait... on AOL, Yahoo Mulling Merger · · Score: 1

    they bought netscape.

  17. Here's todays reality: on Obama Says Offshoring Fears Are Unwarranted · · Score: 4, Informative

    Harley Davidson is building an assembly plant in India to assemble American parts. Why not ship the entire (pre-built) motorcycle to India? Well, because India has tariffs that essentially double the price

  18. Re:I live in Seattle. on Income Tax Quashed, Ballmer To Cash In Billions · · Score: 2, Informative

    Wikipedia must be wrong, but I was trying to specifically exclude county/municipality sales taxes since the question at hand is state income tax vs state sales tax.

  19. Re:I live in Seattle. on Income Tax Quashed, Ballmer To Cash In Billions · · Score: 1

    Interesting theory. If only there were states with no income tax so we could check your theory. Oh, wait, there are!

    • Alaska - no state sales tax
    • Florida - 6% state sales tax
    • Nevada - 6.85% state sales tax
    • New Hampshire - no state sales tax
    • South Dakota - 4% state sales tax
    • Tennessee - 5.5% (groceries) or 7%
    • Texas - 6.25% state sales tax
    • Washington (tip: the state in question)- 6.5% state and local sales tax
    • Wyoming - 4% state sales tax
  20. Re:So .... on Microsoft Open Sources F# · · Score: 1

    As opposed to many prominent FOSS projects, controlled by elite insiders with an inferiority complex (and perhaps penis envy) dating back to jr high. If you submit a patch, you will be ignored or ridiculed. Same shit, different asshole.

  21. Re:what's the point of buying Apple hardware on Apple To Discontinue Xserve · · Score: 1

    to run OS X Server.

  22. Answer !!! on Adobe Releases Its Own HTML5 Video Player · · Score: 1

    No.

  23. Re:I'm working on a new Firefox / Safari plugin on Adobe Releases Its Own HTML5 Video Player · · Score: 1

    JPEG doesn't support alpha transparency or lossless compression.

  24. Re:Superb !! on Adobe Releases Its Own HTML5 Video Player · · Score: 1

    erm, it already does if native video support isn't there.

  25. have you tried ionice? on The State of Linux IO Scheduling For the Desktop? · · Score: 5, Informative

    have you tried ionice?