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  1. I quit smoking 6 weeks ago too on Vast DNA Bank Pits Policing Vs. Privacy · · Score: 1

    Feeling has a lot to do with 'quality of life'

    if a spouse calls you an asshole every day, your mindset will falter pretty soon, or you'll get a divorce. either way- it is a change.. consider this is the best analogy I can feel about the difference in the relationship between me and my Govt.

    as to the other, it's what I got from talking to some vet's I know.. but I found a reference readily
    http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-2513 919.php
    One likely factor in that support: Military members are much more likely to identify themselves as Republicans. Recent polls show about one-third of Americans consider themselves Republicans, but 57 percent of those surveyed by Military Times identified with the GOP."... "The poll found:

    About half described their political views as conservative or very conservative; four in 10 called themselves moderate; and only 7 percent called themselves liberal.

    More than half called themselves Republicans, and just 13 percent said they are Democrats. Recent polls of the general public show the nation evenly split, with Democrats, Republicans and independents making up about a third of the population each. "...

  2. five years ago today on Vast DNA Bank Pits Policing Vs. Privacy · · Score: 1

    My attitude towards my government (USA) and my belief in the value it holds for me was a lot better.
    today I roil with distaste over every story concerning rights, freedom, and privacy.

    it would seem, the standard requirement to being a member of the executive branch higher echelon is a willingness to bend the law beyond the point of legality.

    I do not consider the country I live in today, to be preferred to the one I lived in five years ago.. (I haven't moved- it has changed)

    ten years ago, the bulk of military forces seargent and up were pretty evenly divided between republicans and democrats, today's armed forces are largely republican.. this scares me very badly...

  3. so tell me.. on EU Court Blocks Passenger Data Deal with U.S. · · Score: 1

    why didn't you have kids? (I worry about their lifetimes too)

  4. I need an analogy referee please on U.S. Pressures ISPs on Data Retention · · Score: 1

    More email than snail mail..

    what's the basis-- # of pieces of each or amount of data contained within or 3-d mass volume of actual mail?

    if you mean # of pieces.. if (fer analogious example) I had to store 1000 copies of of postal mail, or 100,000 pieces of email per person-- I know which would be simpler to arrange&store... the email.. I think the comparison to postal mail is useless..

  5. Plausible bullshit. on AT&T Accidentally Leaks NSA Suit Information · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Not the first time 'redacted' pdf's when 'uncovered' have led to increase the defensive position of the group who supplied the 'poorly' protected document.

    I recall a redacted PDF from italy that 'supported' the US gov'ts claims at the time..

    it's too damn convenient, if the redacted portion had been damming.. I'm sure the doc would have been on paper, with the blocked portions cut out... not blacked over with a sharpie.

  6. 'splain this to me better on IL School District to Monitor Student Blogs · · Score: 3, Interesting

    let's say I have a blog, and claim I stole a diamond ring from my neighbor in my blog.

    what exactly is the school going to do, that they are going to hold me accountable for what I write in my blog..

    arrest me? press charges as an educatorial influence?

  7. my inbox today on Microsoft Introduces Pay-as-You-Go Computing · · Score: 1

    Server Performance Report for xxxxx
    Report created on 5/22/2006 at 6:00 AM
    Summary for xxxxx

        Server has been running: 54 days and 1 hour

    54*24=?

  8. Yea.... on Wired Releases Full Text of AT&T NSA Document · · Score: 2, Insightful

    and given how much the law has been twisted by a cerain administration lately, who is to say what cannot be construed as "aid" is say- a whistleblower letting the US cits know what is going on.

    what defines "aid"???

  9. you are wrong on Biggest Obstacle of Nuclear Fusion Overcome? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    the biggest obstacle is public perception of anything with "nuclear" in the name

  10. I have a feeling too on Giant Paramount Auction of Star Trek Items · · Score: 1

    I've read entirely too many news stories about auctions after the fact include talk about an item that went for X times expectations....

    think they may ever undervalue an item to get more ink for the auction house later?

    naahh....

  11. "increase length"` on Windows Media Player 11 and Urge · · Score: 1

    doubles the length of the blank file

    SNDREC32 can even convert to mp3 with LAME

  12. so we can find stereographs? on Change of Focus for Liquid Crystals · · Score: 1

    or hey, ya know how when you've been staring at a screen so long your vision gets blurry? now that can be simulated!

  13. That explains DART! on NASA Seeking Innovative Ideas from Public · · Score: 1

    see, my immediate rebuttal to your comment (all pulled from popular media of course) was - yes, it's far cheaper to send up replacement satellites for ones that fail, but you need shuttles to pull down birds that have stopped working entirely so they and their plutonium don't land in bad countries..- but DART solved that problem you can take them down by design!

  14. Re:Vonage on Ahead of IPO, Vonage Faces User Complaints · · Score: 1

    was your pots provider Frontier? if yes, scan on that name in this forum for a post by one who claims to know the process (and that company)

  15. IANAL on Virtual Land, Real Court, Real Money · · Score: 1

    but I'll bet a $ if he wasn't his own lawyer, he wouldn't be able to pursue this, as noone (except maybe the honorable Mr. Thompson from FL) would be willing to represent him over such a 'tawdry' thing.

  16. and they say "Shure!" on FDA Asked to Regulate Nanotechnology · · Score: 3, Insightful

    and ask for a trillion more a year, to regulate and enforce limits on a fast breaking technology, but only when done in the USA, meaning everyone cutting edge, or sloppy, or lazy, or with imperfect tools, starts working outside the USA, blunting the edge of this countries technological advantage a little more-- and when a self-replicating oil eating VonNeumann get's loose, anyone who might have had the skills to defeat the new micro-overloads will have never developed said skills, as they had to expend too much frustration/energy/life forces learning about red-tape processes.

  17. Re:gates is right on Gates Claims PC Era Not Over Yet · · Score: 1
  18. cite please on HD Video Could 'Choke the Internet'? · · Score: 1

    can yuou show me an ad for consumer broadband that contains "unlimited"?

  19. similar the people of the world? on The Future of Digital Books · · Score: 1

    The MAIN thing I love about reading newspapers is seeing how different the take/viewpoint usually is compared to the pablum I get here at home.

  20. I cannot find a single citation on HD Video Could 'Choke the Internet'? · · Score: 1

    to back or refute your claim.. can you?

  21. Have you seen it's a wonderful life? on HD Video Could 'Choke the Internet'? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And if EVERYONE went to the bank together to withdraw their savings- would you expect the bank to have it on hand for EVERYONE in cash?

    BTW, if a run occurs on the bank, what do you think the FDIC does? sends over an armored car?

  22. yep on The Economy of Online Crime · · Score: 1

    in fact, that's becoming the law in many american states...

  23. employers pay on Rockstar Vienna Closes Its Doors · · Score: 1

    depending on the circumstances.. employers pay the money to the state.

  24. biometrics pre-fingerprints on Convicted Hacker Adrian Lamo Refuses to Give Blood · · Score: 1

    before fingerprints were decided to be unique per person, law enforcement used to use all sorts of interesting methods of biometrics.

    even measuring head bumps...

  25. if the gov wants his/or any slash DNA on Convicted Hacker Adrian Lamo Refuses to Give Blood · · Score: 5, Funny

    all they have to do is supply the blonde!