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  1. Re:The Charlie H killers were roommates on Snoopers' Charter Could Mean Trouble For UK Users of Encryption-Capable Apps · · Score: 1

    The chair is against the door.

  2. Re:The Charlie H killers were roommates on Snoopers' Charter Could Mean Trouble For UK Users of Encryption-Capable Apps · · Score: 3, Insightful

    See, we must have cameras and recorders in all homes to insure our safety. Freedom is just another word for less safe.

  3. Re:I doubt the hardware is identical on Lenovo Will Sell Ubuntu Laptops In India · · Score: 1

    That is the point. You force the same price to everyone. I can't say as I think it's right but it might be the only way to deal with shit companies like microsoft.

  4. Re:Paranoia on Bomb Squad Searches House Over Teenager's Chemistry Experiments · · Score: 1

    The only ones I've seen them grab were after the fact. Pre-emptive measures not so much.

  5. Re:Thomas Edison on Bomb Squad Searches House Over Teenager's Chemistry Experiments · · Score: 2

    He'd probably be a troll on slashdot if the were in our era.

  6. Re:Next year's budget for Hapeville: no bomb squad on Bomb Squad Searches House Over Teenager's Chemistry Experiments · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Good point. I know if I was on the bomb squad I'd be dying for an opportunity to do something. Being on that squad in Hapeville has to be some boring shit. No wonder they jumped at the chance to actually do something....anything.

  7. Re:Paranoia on Bomb Squad Searches House Over Teenager's Chemistry Experiments · · Score: 1

    You'd think that with all that money and effort they could actually catch at least a few real terrorists. Nope.

  8. Re:No local intelligence on Bomb Squad Searches House Over Teenager's Chemistry Experiments · · Score: 1

    Considering the young man was guilty of trespass the best bet was to cooperate. It makes it more likely all he'll get is a slap on the wrist.

  9. Re:No local intelligence on Bomb Squad Searches House Over Teenager's Chemistry Experiments · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I have chlorine bleach and ammonia cleaner in my house. Almost everyone has dangerous chemicals that could be used to make explosives. I used to have a gallon of methyl ethyl ketone in my garage but I loaned it out and never saw it again. You can buy all kinds of stuff at any hardware store to fight WW3. We've got to get past the paranoia. It is absolutely impossible to make life 100 percent safe and trying to do so doesn't make it safer just more miserable.

  10. Re:It's a strange thing on Judge Tosses Jury's $533M Patent Verdict Against Apple, Orders New Trial · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Live by the patent, die by the patent. Apple has been know to abuse patents also. The irony is so heavy.

  11. Oxymoron Alert! on Senate Advances Plan To Make Email and Social Sites Report Terror Activity · · Score: 1

    "Senate Intelligence" Committee. If ever there were a contradiction in terms.

  12. Re:Double-Speak on Senate Advances Plan To Make Email and Social Sites Report Terror Activity · · Score: 1

    Speaking of 1984, I just got a 60 inch TV with a video camera and internet connectivity. Only 31 years late.

  13. Re:Which government? on Senate Advances Plan To Make Email and Social Sites Report Terror Activity · · Score: 1

    You should ask Hillary about using her server. Even the NSA can't read her email.

  14. Re:It would also be technically difficult. on Senate Advances Plan To Make Email and Social Sites Report Terror Activity · · Score: 1

    That's what tax money is for. Congressman XYZ has a brother-in-law with a software company that can solve that for the small price of 348 million dollars. As a bonus they also do healthcare websites.

  15. Re:And how are they going to do this? on Senate Advances Plan To Make Email and Social Sites Report Terror Activity · · Score: 1

    Imagine how "Little Bobby bombed a test at school yesterday" will go over.

  16. Re:The reason is more simple on Why Electric Vehicles Aren't More Popular · · Score: 1

    An electric car for under 30K with a range of at least 300 miles would be hard to resist. I could even tolerate it being slightly cramped.

  17. Re:It's like Venezuela but without all the gun cri on Software Devs Leaving Greece For Good, Finance Minister Resigns · · Score: 1

    You can't let people starve. I reiterate, starving people are dangerous. If the government of Greece can't feed it's people that government will be swept away in an ocean of blood. Basic subsistence food is cheap. There is no reason for people anywhere to starve. Choices have to be made and I'm sure there are things that can be eliminated to free up funds. Obviously Greece will have to come off the Euro and print it's own money.

  18. Re:It's like Venezuela but without all the gun cri on Software Devs Leaving Greece For Good, Finance Minister Resigns · · Score: 1

    They wont let the poor starve. Starving people are dangerous beyond belief. The Czars learned this too late to prevent their extinction. Basic subsistence really doesn't cost all that much. It's not really living, just an existence.

  19. They don't really even need to be fully qualified. If they just have a basic understanding they should be good to go most places who just want any kind of numbers to get people to quit bitching at them for not hiring women.

  20. Re:Sucks on Software Devs Leaving Greece For Good, Finance Minister Resigns · · Score: 1

    I agree with you to some extent. The individuals must make the group stronger though. People who can contribute but refuse to are getting to be a serious problem. Dead weight will kill any group. Paying taxes is important for everyone. Having a third of the population that pays no taxes will cause resentment as well as economic problems.

  21. Re:It's like Venezuela but without all the gun cri on Software Devs Leaving Greece For Good, Finance Minister Resigns · · Score: 1

    Hard to commit gun crime with a rock. Murder is less efficient but with a few whacks it's doable.

  22. Re:It's like Venezuela but without all the gun cri on Software Devs Leaving Greece For Good, Finance Minister Resigns · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The poor really don't have assets. The people who will really pay is the people who aren't rich but not poor either. Those who have money they put away for their later years and other needs will lose it. I feel sorry for them but there is little hope and it's going to get worse. The US will be in the same place in a decade or so. I have a retirement I'll probably never see.

  23. Re:The reason is more simple on Why Electric Vehicles Aren't More Popular · · Score: 1

    The battery tech isn't there yet.

  24. Re:The reason is more simple on Why Electric Vehicles Aren't More Popular · · Score: 1

    You are an idealist. Unfortunately we live in a society where "the end justifies the means."

  25. Re:The reason is more simple on Why Electric Vehicles Aren't More Popular · · Score: 1

    It's not about you. It's about your money...er.....I meant the government's money that you have and they're about to take from you. They don't give a shit about what you want or need. Just pay up, bitch!