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  1. Are the Kardashians on tonight? on NSA Can Spy On Data From Smart Phones, Including Blackberry · · Score: 0

    I'm an American. I don't care what my government does to me or what liberties it takes away as long as I can get my daily dose of banal entertainment.

  2. Re:why not in the USA or Russia on Japan's L-Zero Maglev Train Reaches 310 mph In Trials · · Score: 1

    The USA is too busy dumping $billions/year into bailing out the Amtrak rathole.

  3. How much energy? on Japan's L-Zero Maglev Train Reaches 310 mph In Trials · · Score: 1

    How much energy is expended per passenger-km compared to an efficient aircraft?

  4. Re:Correlation is not causation... on Gut Bacteria In Slim People Extract More Nutrients · · Score: -1, Troll

    Wish I had mod points because this deserves to be +500000.

  5. RIP on Man Killed By His Own Radio-Controlled Helicopter In Brooklyn · · Score: 1

    What a tragedy. From watching his youtube videos, it was clear that, as a pilot, he was head and shoulders above the rest.

  6. And nothing will change on Government To Release Hundreds of Documents On NSA Spying · · Score: 1

    ... because you can't ask government to hold itself accountable for breaking the law.

  7. Re:Do they need to re-qualify the equipment? on Fire At Hynix FAB May Bump DRAM Prices · · Score: 1

    Just some questions about your post.

    1) What is "tight" tolerance. I've heard of "high tolerance" and "low tolerance," but not "tight" tolerance. What does that mean?

    2) What is a "degree F?"

  8. Re:Women must accept their place on Schneier: We Need To Relearn How To Accept Risk · · Score: 1

    I couldn't have said it better, except to say that Womens' Suffrage is a complete and abject failure and the 19th should be repealed as soon as possible.

    I've long maintained that voting should be a privilege reserved for those learned in how a functional society works, because anything else is just mob rule, and we all know what happens when things are controlled by an unruly mob.

  9. Re:A Riddle on Japanese Ice Wall To Stop Reactor Leaks · · Score: 2

    There is no such thing as -500C, as it would violate the laws of physics.

  10. KIWF on Chris Kraft Talks About The Decline of NASA · · Score: 1

    NASA is just another government handout program for well-connected contractors and campaign supporters. Kill it with fire already and let the private industry that has far surpassed its technical ability take over space exploration and utilization.

  11. Re:The saddest thing to happen to iPhone since... on Apple Launches iPhone Trade-In Program · · Score: 1

    You could sell it for twice that easily in the developing world, which is exactly what Apple is going to do with them.

  12. Re:Come on, you jackbooted apologists... on One Strike Against No Fly List; More Scrutiny To Come · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You have a Right to keep and bear arms, but not any arms you want.

    You have a Right to travel, but not by any mode you want. For example, there is no Right to drive a motor vehicle in the US, nor is there a Right to fly on an airplane.

  13. Re:A constitutional right to fly? on One Strike Against No Fly List; More Scrutiny To Come · · Score: 0

    There is no Right to Drive in the US, where driving is a rather a privilege.

  14. Seriously? on The Golden Gate Barrage: New Ideas To Counter Sea Level Rise · · Score: 1

    Surely they can't be seriously considering New Orleans II. We all know how that catastrophe has worked out.

  15. Here we go again on US Forces Ready To Strike Syria If Ordered · · Score: 1

    What the hell. You'd think we'd have learned the first few times we went around playing world police.

    There is no compelling national security interest in Syria. None at all. There is no legal justification for Obama to strike Assad without proof they were his chemical weapons, nor proof he was the one who used them, and without the approval of Congress.

    Fuck Obama. He's proved to be just another goddamn failure.

  16. Re:I'm a believer. on Linux 3.11-rc7 Release Celebrates 22 Years of Linux · · Score: 1

    Did you come to this conclusion before or after you saw her face?

  17. Re:Diplomatic implications on NSA Cracked Into Encrypted UN Video Conferences · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The US has veto power against any resolution the UN might pass against the US. Nothing to worry about...

  18. Re:"...saving students up to 50%..." on Students At Lynn University Get iPad Minis Instead of Textbooks · · Score: 1

    Haliday and Resnick?

    Old school.

    I'm waiting for the new publication from Cooper, Hofstadter, Wolowitz, and Koothrappali

  19. Re:A good test on Wildfire Threatens Water and Power To San Francisco · · Score: 1, Funny

    Nah, San Francisco is a bunch of dirty leftist hippies. They're accustomed to being unshowered and when TSHTF they'll just gather around the campfire and sing kumbayah and wait for big government to come save them.

  20. Re:Chekov? How? on New, Canon-Faithful Star Trek Series Is In Pre-Production · · Score: 1

    Obamacare, duh!

  21. This solves many problems on Students At Lynn University Get iPad Minis Instead of Textbooks · · Score: 4, Funny

    1) This solves the problem of student access to class materials. See, with the eBook approach, licenses can be made to be enabled on the first day of class and disabled on the last day of class. This prevents students from having early access to class materials, which levels the playing field for those who, for whatever reason, do not care to start learning before the first day of class

    2) This solves the problem of killing trees. Now, instead of using renewable, natural resources to print textbooks that last 50 or more years on a shelf and provide information over a person's entire career and even lifetime, we can start using non-renewable rare earth materials to make iPads, which last perhaps a few years and may or may not be able to give access to that same information depending on whether or not someone else wants you to be able to read it.

    3) This solves the problem of organic learning. With the smaller form factor and lower density of information, as well as the appeal to a shorter attention span, we can stop all this organic learning stuff and resort instead to rote memorization of bulleted facts, figures, and equations, which can then simply be regurgitated on multiple-choice exams.

    Hobbling more competitive students, more destruction to the environment and higher cost, and dumbing down our students. It's a hat-trick of WIN!

  22. Re:Don't fly. on Don't Fly During Ramadan · · Score: 0

    Someone mod this AC up. These have been my thoughts about America in general for the better part of two decades. People don't care enough about the theft of their liberties to do anything about it. As long as they can still catch the Kardashians on MTV, they don't care if they have to submit to daily or hourly anal probes by various three-letter-agencies.

  23. Re:How about a National No Fly Month on Don't Fly During Ramadan · · Score: 1

    Corporations would never go along with simply "not doing business involving travel" for a whole month.

  24. Re:the only way to make college more affordable on Obama Seeks New System For Rating Colleges · · Score: 2

    There is absolutely no shortage of wealthy foreign students who will happily pay full rate for a US education so they can take it back to their own country and make it more competitive than the United States in the global economy.

  25. Duh on What's Causing the Rise In Obesity? Everything. · · Score: 1

    Eating. We're eating too much relative to our energy needs. We eat because we're bored. We eat because we're stressed. We eat to fit in with social situations. Family gatherings revolve around eating.

    Our entire culture is basically centered on eating.