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  1. Re:Sounds fine to me on Are National ID Cards a Good Idea? · · Score: 1

    No, the downside is that if someone in power without a warrent sees your driving patterns are a threat to national security, a black helicopter with a missile with your name on it... scratch that, they have ways of killing you that make it look accidental or "natural" or something. You've seen the Bush administration, you know they might!
    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Cheney+leak
    http://www.google.com/search?q=leak+iraq+%22bush+a dministration%22+%22highly+classified

  2. Rights trampled on Are National ID Cards a Good Idea? · · Score: 1

    The right to keep activities conducted in one area of life from being correlated and limited by activities conducted in another area of life.

  3. Re:FedEx on Are National ID Cards a Good Idea? · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Funny, I currently live in New Castle, Indiana, and Tuesday FedEx just left a package from http://www.geeks.com/ next to the door without anybody signing for it, and it had a 1GB DDR PC3200 200-Pin Laptop SODIMM and a desktop power supply in it.

  4. DEP Error on Linux Version of Democracy Player Released · · Score: 1

    On running, I get a DEP prevention error. Now large sections of information are being gathered and transmitted to Microsoft!

  5. Re:The average is the sexist viewpoint Part 3 on Lara Croft As The Final Girl · · Score: 1
  6. Re:The average is the sexist viewpoint part two on Lara Croft As The Final Girl · · Score: 1

    The ending to my previous post was flawed.

    You can't map Barbie to human proportions because in trying to get a handful of Barbie's proportions to match you get still others to not match. You decided to pick a proportion other than height to scale to.

  7. Re:The average is the sexist viewpoint on Lara Croft As The Final Girl · · Score: 1

    On one end of the spectrum is prepubescent boys and girls. On the other side are women with large breasts and well-muscled men. Porn stars have large breasts because they are sexy. Large breasts aren't sexy because porn stars have them.
    Sexily proportioned is not misproportioned. While it is more of a sliding scale, Criticizing sexily proportions as you have done, leaves average proportioned and prepubescent proportioned, which is why I brought up Washu, who likes to have her body at prepubescent proportions. Getting rid of prepubescent leave average as the ideal, unless you want to say an adult at prepubescent proportions and average proportions is fine, but sexy proportions is not.

    You can scale Barbie however you want to. I have no grasp of average human measurements, but popping 7/5.8 into a calculator yields roughly 1.2. Divide all the other measurements by 1.2 and you get Barbie at 5.8 feet. Divide by 1.4 and you get Barbie at 5 feet! The same can be done with Ken! Average human body proportions isn't the same as real life, because in real life you get mixing and matching of proportions.

  8. I'm stating it because. on 'Boozy Gamer' Researcher Questioned · · Score: 1

    1. Most of the research that gets pushed around and exposes a little bit of their methodology that I see, their methodology is shoddy. Proper formal methods aren't useless, but the current widespread ones are nowhere near proper.
    2. It isn't education that's worthless, it's attempting to get any help in your education from an institution. I have an associates degree, and my experience from elementary school to college is that the "teachers" are generally useless.

    The very fact that you aren't making a distinction between the current situation and a generalized situation is a point in favor of my case.

  9. The average is the sexist viewpoint on Lara Croft As The Final Girl · · Score: 1

    From my perspective, espousing the average body as ideal is the sexist viewpoint.

  10. Re:misproportionate? on Lara Croft As The Final Girl · · Score: 1

    Which depending on your criteria for proportion, is better proportioned than the current mature female body, which as I argued before could be considered stunted.

  11. Re:Fritz Lang's M on Australians to Get Compulsory Photo ID Smartcard · · Score: 1

    It depends on what state or possibly which city you live in. In Lorain, OH, they hire off-duty police to be the security guards for the library and demanded I leave just because I went into an unmarked area that turned out to be off limits. As I was leaving on another visit the off-duty policeman turned security guard walked up to this woman that was paid to assist me, told me to get back into the car, and after I asked him if he was talking to me, told he wasn't, and went into the car, proceeded to tell her about the previous incident. I asked her if they knew each other and she told me they didn't.

  12. Re:Fritz Lang's M on Australians to Get Compulsory Photo ID Smartcard · · Score: 1

    Which is where "I am so-and-so" should suffice with no risk of negative impact. One might even go so far as to say that one should be able to refuse to identify themselves without risk of negative impact.

    Though I suppose asking is just polite demanding.

  13. Going to school to become your own research on 'Boozy Gamer' Researcher Questioned · · Score: 1

    Where they will train you to be as poor a researcher as she is, and penalize you for "wasting time" attempting how to research for real. Sorry, one would have better results persuading the terrorists to take out the current psychological and mental health cabal.

  14. Nah, you got it backwards... on 'Boozy Gamer' Researcher Questioned · · Score: 1

    It's the people that don't have enough sense to be angry that are better off drunk.

  15. But where do you get the Coliseo font? on Slashdot CSS Redesign Contest · · Score: 1

    Looking through my fonts folder I don't see it. More specifically, where is the source? How many people have it on their systems as opposed to those who don't?

    Oh, wait, Coiseo is the font used in bitmaps, but is it used anywhere else?

  16. Muddling the distinction. on Public Patents? · · Score: 1

    You're muddling the distinction between data that can be found "out there" in the sources that patent investigators can turn to and the databases maintained by the patent offices.

  17. Howard Dean's behavior on Neural Interface for Gaming Getting Closer? · · Score: 1

    I maintain Howard Dean's behavior that was considered detestable in Iowa was more sane than most people's everyday behavior.
    http://www.all-encompassingly.com/crazy _dean.php
    Crazy Dean? No his behaivior I understand and makes sense to me. It's all you other people's behavior that's truely self-defeating.

  18. Got intelligent design backwards again on Neural Interface for Gaming Getting Closer? · · Score: 1

    Intelligent design theory would say that a wasting away in this and most cases would be as a result of corruption of the intelligent design.

  19. Open to view, not so open to enter. on Public Patents? · · Score: 1

    Only ideas that people pay for to be protected go into the database. The database does not contain ideas that someone comes up with but doesn't care for protection. Therefore someone can patent something others have been using previously without feeling the need for protection and the database will have no prior record of it.

  20. misproportionate? on Lara Croft As The Final Girl · · Score: 1

    Calling Lara's breasts misproportionate makes as much sense as saying that the current mature female female is stunted somehow, and that Lara's is the right size. (My favorite explataion for why this would be so invovles the Earth being flawed, fallen, in sin, immature or whatever you want to call our pre-interstellar, information impoverished situation). By the way, with that logic, I'm sure Washu is misproportioned as well.

  21. Cheering? on Lara Croft As The Final Girl · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What I don't get is the mention of cheering when the bad guy killed the dumb girl. Didn't they cheer just as loudly when the bad guy killed the idiot boy? For me it was about getting rid of the stupid idiots no matter what their gender and then putting the agent of destruction away once the job was done.

  22. That's why people think the game is good on A Contrarian View of FFVII · · Score: 1

    They all come away with their own interpretation of game events, something I look for when determining whether or not a game is good, but the reviewer apparently doesn'tl.

  23. Underdeliver on IE The Great Microsoft Blunder? · · Score: 1

    And then Microsoft removes functionality it had already delivered. They locked down the themes of Windows 98 and removed the folder customization entirely. There's already word of functionality that exists in Vista betas (keywords) that Microsoft is eliminating, apparently to some all or none mentality.

  24. ClearType isn't the problem on IE The Great Microsoft Blunder? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ClearType, nor any other antialiasing scheme for that matter, doesn't alter fonts sufficiently enough for them to look bold. Whatever is causing the bold appearance, ClearType isn't it. If turning off ClearType fixes the problem, then the switch must be doing more than simply turning ClearType on or off. Besides, I thought ClearType was an OS-wide, on/off thing.

  25. Oh, yeah? on IE The Great Microsoft Blunder? · · Score: 1

    What shade of blue is your sky?

    A lot of times saying Dvorak is wrong is like saying that someone is wrong for saying the sky is blue becuase they haven't specified what shade, or that it doesn't account for clouds. Dvorak talks about speculatively about things without a speculative tone, and this makes what he is saying "wrong" to a lot of people.