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  1. Re:9/11 changed everything.. on FCC To Require Backdoor Network Access for Feds · · Score: 1

    The argument is invalid because someone may -and will- infer that the reason Europe has been battling terrorism for a long time is precisely because these measures have not been taken.

    And, yes, I agree with you on the 'foreign involvement' as defined here; generally, however, Israel is where the problem stems from.

  2. Re:9/11 changed everything.. on FCC To Require Backdoor Network Access for Feds · · Score: 1
    School Of Good Arguments, Summer Quarter.

    This is not a good argument:

    The sad part is that the US finds that limiting personal freedoms is a viable way to combat terrorism. It just doesn't work. There's a lot of European countries that suffered terrorism for much longer and never resorted to such measures.

    Your assignment is to figure out why and then correct it.

    Also, as another member of the Rest Of The World, I disagree with your analysis of US foreign involvement's part in the current batch of terrorist ideologies.
  3. Re:Libre, *not* gratis. on Reconciling Information Privacy and Liberty? · · Score: 1

    Er, you mean one like this?

    A fetus is a collection of cells until about three months old at which point it gains a rudimentary, vegetal ability to sense things. A (probably non-temporal) consciousness, such as it may be, develops over the last three months.

  4. Re:Let me get this straight... on Open Source Replacing Books in Kenyan Schools · · Score: 1

    And the books just magically appear on the PDA, right?

  5. Re:Time to revise the name on Windows Vista Faces Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    You might want to check the version of your XP.

  6. MUDs on The Divorce of MMO and RPG · · Score: 1

    Said it before, will say it again.

    I wish the 'MMO' developers had a history of playing MUDs. All these problems have been solved multiple times in the last fifteen or so years.

  7. Re:Legal Liability on Orkut Linked To Drug Ring Bust · · Score: 1

    How in the fuck do handguns have 'more legitimate' uses than illegitimate?

    They are intended to _kill_ people.

  8. Re:QWERTY not QWERY on Back and Forth Between Qwerty and Dvorak? · · Score: 1

    Typing is a motoric skill; completely different from languages.

  9. Re:Rails, great for those fed up with J2EE. on Ajax On Rails · · Score: 1
  10. Re:Oh JOY! Tux Racer on the PS3! on Linux For Cell Processor Workstation · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but I bet they disneyfied it and completely ruined it in the process. Put in cute animals and lots of happy music and so on.

  11. Re:UPS on 3.9 Million Citigroup Customers' Data Lost · · Score: 1

    What, Bruce Schneier advocating security through obscurity?

  12. Report them on Dealing with Internet Credit Card Fraud? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Your financial institution is required by law (in the U.S.) to either resolve any EFT (debit or credit) dispute within 10 business days or, if it has not been able to resolve the dispute, provisionally credit your account with the amount in question until it is able to do so.

    IAAB.

  13. Re:Why use debit on the internet? on Dealing with Internet Credit Card Fraud? · · Score: 1

    Er, no. Regulation E pertains to Electronic transactions.

    http://www.bankersonline.com/regs/205/205.html

  14. Re:So, you programmers ready to give up your jobs? on McVoy Strikes Back · · Score: 4, Funny

    Apparently some people also manufacture delusions.

  15. Re:Single signiture sign-on on OpenID - Open Source Single-SignOn · · Score: 1

    And this is why our customer service department gets approx. two to three hundred calls a day from users who accidentally cleared their browser's STORED PASSWORDS.

  16. Re:Give Dvorak a chance on Sites or Software for a Budding Typist? · · Score: 1

    Absolutely!

    I used to (more or less) hunt-and-peck my letters earlier and decided to learn to touch-type; games and tutors did not really motivate me so I decided to try a different keyboard layout. I just printed out a little reference card for the keys that I tacked on the top side of my monitor (so I could not cheat) and switched over cold turkey. The first two weeks were pretty bad, but after that I was at my previous level.

    Currently I type around 50-60wpm (I have slow fingers), which is about twice as fast as before.

  17. Re: Evolution is not rational on Next Step in Human Evolution · · Score: 3, Informative
    No, no, no! You may understand this correctly but there are so many who do not so even stating it incorrectly is dangerous.

    Obviously other animals have evolved to adapt to their surroundings, birds have evolved to be lighweight so they can stay in the air, --

    No, birds can stay in the air because they are lightweight.

    -- fish in very deep and dark water have evolved to have colourful lights on them,

    No, the other fish just died.

    polar bears to have lots of fur, and so on..

    The ones without fur, also, died.

    The one Really Big Thing about evolution is that there is no purpose. The fittest do not survive, it is just that the least fit die off.

    Similarly us humans can only wonder at our own complexity because we are so complex that we are capable of wondering.
  18. Re:So much for freedom of speech on Charter School Firm Attacks Online Criticism · · Score: 2, Informative
    Libel does not have to be `accusing somebody of doing something that's illegal' -- all it has to do is damage somebody's reputation. (It (the claim made) also has to be false.)

    Even that is not enough for it to be libel, if one wants to be precise.

    One has to knowingly write false information (I believe 'not in good faith' and 'without any evidence' are acceptable substitutes for 'knowingly') for it to fill the criteria.
  19. Re:Monthly Fee on Conan MMORPG In The Works · · Score: 1

    Yeah, boy, I bet Conan thought life in the Hyperborean era was tough!

  20. Re:Could it be that business interests... on Microsoft Abandons Gay Rights Bill · · Score: 1

    That is, actually, Cincinnati. In the elections they did help repeal a previously established discriminatory gay bill the city had.

  21. Alexandria on OSS Library Management Solutions? · · Score: 1

    A really open-source version might be Alexandria.
    Written in ruby, runs on Gnome.

  22. Re:"Are such tasks tied to technology" on Would You Pass the Information Literacy Test? · · Score: 1

    They are policemen. Can you do their job?

  23. Re:"Are such tasks tied to technology" on Would You Pass the Information Literacy Test? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The purpose of the University is not to make one smarter but to prepare one for a career.

    Sucking, clawing, lying and cheating are very important skills to have in a corporate environment.

  24. Re:Greedy pigs. on Dance Dance Revolution Exercise Study · · Score: 1

    That is not true. A company does not need to make money to stay in business, as long as they are not losing it either.

  25. Re:Interesting logic on Stem Cells Cultivated Free of Animal Contaminants · · Score: 1

    You said that, not I.

    I'm merely saying that there's no reason for Dems to move to center to garner more votes. They should move the public to left. Means were not discussed.