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  1. If the government isn't there to feed you... on Ron Paul Suggests Axing 5 U.S. Federal Departments (and Budgets) · · Score: 1

    will you still eat?

    Just because Uncle Sam isn't doing something doesn't mean that is can't/won't be done.

    I imagine the States that are threatened by those things are more than capable of paying for the warning systems out of their own budgets.

    Some of the people here remind me of my children when they were very little. If they couldn't find the remote they thought they couldn't watch TV. It's like the concept of getting up and walking across the room to change the channel was so foreign to them they couldn't wrap their minds around it.

  2. Form follows function? on Samsung Lawyer Fails To Differentiate iPad and Galaxy Tab In Court · · Score: 1

    http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/18/tablet-design-before-after-the-ipad/

    In this case it appears that form followed Apple...

  3. If an employer doesn't want to follow the laws, rules, and regulations of the country, state, county, city where they do business then they are free to voluntarily move their business.

  4. Re:Ever known a gov't employee who got fired? on US Gov't Pays IT Contractors Twice As Much As Its Own IT Workers · · Score: 2

    Sure I knew people who were discharged, but in my 20 years of federal service, 8 as a Marine and another 12 as a DOD contractor, I haven't known a single civilian government employee who's been fired. I have known of at least 2 who weren't allowed to have computers though because they were found downloading porn at work. The agency had to make "accommodations" for their "illness".

    Oh, and I call BS on your same day dismissal. Didn't happen. Maybe a student aid, a summer hire, or possibly a CO-OP employee, but not a tenured gov't employee.

  5. Ever known a gov't employee who got fired? on US Gov't Pays IT Contractors Twice As Much As Its Own IT Workers · · Score: 1

    Me either. So much for accountability...

    I've been working for the government pretty much since I joined the Marines in '91, and I can't name 1 government employee who was fired in that time. In fact, we had a male employee who physically assaulted one of the women in our office enough to put her in the hospital and him and jail, and when he returned they had to accommodate him with a work area because he had a restraining order!

  6. Re:Really? on US Gov't Pays IT Contractors Twice As Much As Its Own IT Workers · · Score: 1

    You seem to be confused, a 1 year contract for Lockheed, Northrup, etc... isn't a 1 year contract for the employee. The company the contractor works for can replace them any time they want without cause. Oh, and let's not forget the 4 weeks paid VACA and other benefits gov't employees get that contractors don't.

    Disclaimer: I'm a government contractor who's salaried and I'm expected however many hours a week it takes to get my job done without overtime pay. Sometimes that's less than 40, but my average is closer to 45 hours a week.

  7. Re:Untrust Diginotar on Dutch Government Revokes Diginotar Certificates · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yeah, it's super hard in windows...
    http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/2607712.mspx
    All supported editions of Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008 R2 use the Microsoft Certificate Trust List to validate the trust of a certificate authority. There is no action required for users of these operating systems because Microsoft has removed the DigiNotar root certificate from the Microsoft Certificate Trust List.

    I don't have an XP box here to look at, but I'm pretty sure you can get to the Trusted Root Cert Authorities by going IE >Internet Options > Content > Certificates > Trusted Root Cert Authorities, doubleclick DigiNotar and uncheck all.

  8. Re:How Good is "Good Enough?" on Beyond HDTV · · Score: 3, Informative
  9. Re:Problem on Fitness Site Accidentally Shows Sexual Activity · · Score: 1

    In the Marine Corps they still are open bay (I know they were 20 years ago when I went to Boot camp.) That doesn't change the point though. Replace taking a dump with erectile dysfunction, premature ejaculation, micro penis, masturbation, yeast infections, or any other "perfectly natural phenomenon" that people don't want made public. In a judgement free utopia you might have a point. Here in the real world you don't...

  10. Re:Problem on Fitness Site Accidentally Shows Sexual Activity · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Taking a dump is a normal human function too. I'm not sure that I'd like people to be able to google my every bowel movement.

    Just because something is "normal" doesn't mean it should be done in public.

  11. Re:Project Management on What Cities Want Your IT Skills? · · Score: 1

    I wasn't aware that project management experience and a PMP cert were mutually exclusive...

  12. Project Management on What Cities Want Your IT Skills? · · Score: 1

    Looks like it's time to get my PMP cert

  13. Re:What a microcosm of what's wrong with us on Patriot Act Extension By Autopen Raises Questions for Congressman · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Hmm, interesting that you call one of the few who stood up and voted against the law a "partisan hack". It would seem you can't see past the D or R next to a person's name. There's a name for that I think. It's right on the tip of my tongue...

  14. Re:Questioning the constitutionality... on Patriot Act Extension By Autopen Raises Questions for Congressman · · Score: 5, Informative
  15. Re:dont think so, on Digging Into the WikiLeaks Cables · · Score: 1

    Isn't the threat of possibly harming innocent 3rd parties if you don't get your way the definition of terrorism?

  16. Re:Why? on Bill Calls For Wi-Fi Base Stations In All Federal Buildings · · Score: 1

    I dunno. This sounds like building infrastructure, which is actually one of the jobs of government. Certainly there are better things they could do with the money, but I'd say this falls more in line with things government should be doing than things like bailing out banks or most social programs...

  17. Re:Ah, Trespassing on Google Loses Street View Suit, Forced To Pay $1 · · Score: 1

    IANAL, but isn't there usually a big disconnect between civil and criminal courts?

  18. Re:No religious freedom is hard over there... on Facebook Postings Lead To Arrest for Heresy In the West Bank · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Wait, so you're saying there's no religious freedom here because religious people are free protest other religions?

  19. Re:Holy shit a year? on Palin E-Mail Snoop Gets Year In Prison · · Score: 1

    So she only got away with it because it wasn't against the law?

  20. Re:There's more to it. on Income Tax Quashed, Ballmer To Cash In Billions · · Score: 1

    The problem is really rich people don't have income. How much income does a rich person need to buy a 7 million dollar boat? None, they say they'll use it to entertain clients and buy it with their company's funds then write it off as a business expense.

  21. Re:Pat down, or molest? on TSA To Make Pat-Downs More Embarrassing To Encourage Scanner Use · · Score: 1

    The real difference is a private company can fire their employees when they do wrong...

  22. Re:They've already busted that twice now on President Obama To Appear On Mythbusters · · Score: 1

    Really? You've never see anything that might be construed as "Obama worship" from his supporters?

  23. Re:Acronym courtesy missing... on Valve Announces Dota 2 · · Score: 1

    Really? So you expect NASA and LASER to be broken down as well?

  24. Re:Acronym courtesy missing... on Valve Announces Dota 2 · · Score: 1

    Are you saying you would have known what they were talking about if they had spelled out the title instead of using the acronym? In the case of DotA the acronym is what most people know it by. If you don't know what DotA means then you won't know what Defense of the Ancients means either.

  25. Tell that to the Navy on Tech CEOs Tell US Gov't How To Cut Deficit By $1 Trillion · · Score: 3, Interesting