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  1. Re:What's the deal with the rush of TSA stories re on TSA Pats Down 3-Year-Old · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure this solution would scale tho. Israel only has several airports to protect. US has hundreds. Ben Gurion is also a relatively small airport compared to usa and eu major ones. Israel because of its being small both in terms of size and population is much easier for soft intelligence. Israel also has very tight immigration controls and is relatively homogenous. Compare that to us or eu - huge distances,open borders, hundreds of airports, hundreds of milions of people, thousands of nationalities, some secluded and resistant to assimilation.

  2. Re:Little difference? on Scientists Propose One-Way Trips To Mars · · Score: 1

    Obviously it feeds on Japanese floating cities.

  3. Re:Oh hey... on Facebook Postings Lead To Arrest for Heresy In the West Bank · · Score: 1

    No need to be sarcastic over giving you a little education. Now, do we need to argue about secular Arab socialism/nationalism movement and secular roots of Fatah? Of course US is bent on destroying secular Arab governments like Iraq and Syria and supporting crazy Saudi dictators. So even traditionally secular Arab populations are getting islamized and their leaders increasingly have to take it into account.

  4. Re:Oh hey... on Facebook Postings Lead To Arrest for Heresy In the West Bank · · Score: 1

    It says right there on top of the FA - QALQILIYA, West Bank. They did not elect Hamas, that was in Gaza, in fact the whole point of the FA is how far the supposedly secular PA will go to prosecute the man.

  5. Re:Is Desktop Linux [still] relevant? on The State of Linux IO Scheduling For the Desktop? · · Score: 1

    So, what does you link prove exactly? Worldwide Linux users account for around 1% of users. A quick google search show that there are over 1 billion PCs worldwide which would account for at least 10 million desktop Linux users, hence "millions".

  6. Re:wrong! on Open Source-Friendly Smartphones For the Small Office? · · Score: 1

    I think you did not read his reply very carefully, if his company asks him to do something illegal (like sending spam) then his obligation would be to report it to the authorities even if it is against the interests of the company.

  7. Re:It's None of Those Things on Bjarne Stroustrup Reflects On 25 Years of C++ · · Score: 1

    TFA says he uses Linux on his main computer. And it's hardly his fault that Linux sucks on laptops.

  8. Re:I seriously doubt... on North Korea Opens .kp Sites On the Internet · · Score: 1

    Maybe they prefer to sleep at night, or their night life sucks. Just because their cities do not look like Christmas trees at night hardly proves they do not have energy to watch TV during the day. This picture is whored every time there is an article on DPRK and while amusing on it's own it in no way points to supposed underdevelopment of the North.

  9. Re:I seriously doubt... on North Korea Opens .kp Sites On the Internet · · Score: 1

    How does a night shot proves that people in DPRK do not have power?

  10. Re:Yeah, Right... on Stuxnet Analysis Backs Iran-Israel Connection · · Score: 1

    And why not? The recent cloning of western passports later used by an Israeli assasination team was also quickly discovered, and Israel got nothing but a slap on the wrist for it. Seems like Mossad is more about getting it done than hiding the tacks perfectly,

  11. Re:smells like more israeli racism than news to me on Stuxnet Worm Claimed To Be Devastating In Iran · · Score: 1

    More importantly why do you think Iran has anything to do with *Arabic* interests?

  12. Re:Gearbox? Hell yes! on Duke Nukem Forever Back In Development · · Score: 1

    Not true, since zombies can also play video games. Just see Shawn of the Dead.

  13. Re:Virtual babies? on Resort Attracts Men With Virtual Girlfriends · · Score: 1

    I agree boys are so much better!

  14. Re:A piece of history on Kodak's 1975 Digital Camera · · Score: 1

    Actually reading this article made me want to dump the digital and try the film based again. His $5000 digital loses badly to a $289 Ebay camera. Quality is only compared if your images are truly disposable like vacation photos that you glance at for a a second and move on to the next one. In every one of his examples film had better gradient, amazingly more detail, better shadows, etc.

  15. Re:conservatives on Does the GOP Pay Friendly Bloggers? · · Score: 1

    The elderly couple probably earn enough for themselves. And maybe she is just wise and decent enough to vote for a party that does not want to rob their more fortunate neighbors as democrats propose. Being rich is not a crime you know.

  16. Re:Unfortunately, the commuter model doesn't work on Layoff Anxiety Is Top Risk To Space Shuttle · · Score: 1

    So, really nothing that a talented high school student couldn't synthesize?

  17. Re:Russian Anti-air on Iran Opens Its First Nuclear Power Plant · · Score: 1

    Of course, but I think it's pretty clear that Obama will not be known as the one who started a major conflict in the ME hence American Air Force is largely irrelevant.

  18. Some perspective people. on Iran Opens Its First Nuclear Power Plant · · Score: 1

    Let's just put things in perspective: 1) The reactor is about is the worst suited for producing weapons grade radioactive materials. The fuel cycle is observed not just by the Russians but by the IAAE inspectors. 2) Iran is not run by warmongering crazy mullahs. It is a semi-democratic country with a complex system of checks and balances including the Supreme Leader, the President, the elected Assembly of Experts that has the power to remove the SL, the Parliament, the Islamic judiciary, the powerful Revolutionary Guard. If anything, many experts believe that the power balance has shifted from the religious authorities to the Revolutionary Guard controlled military-industrisl complex who Ahmadinejad represents. Some have gone as far as saying that the SL has not power and is a puppet of Ahmadinejad. 3) Iran is not going to attack anyone first, yet alone Israel. It's strategic policy is based on deterrence. Ahmadinejad's is a populist and his fiery speeches are generally aimed at the internal audience, the conservative majority in the countryside/provincial cities outside of the liberal Northern Tehran. Israel plays dumb when it pretends that his populist rhetoric represents the consensus of the Iranian power elites.

  19. Re:Russian Anti-air on Iran Opens Its First Nuclear Power Plant · · Score: 1

    The S-300 system even in it's original non-upgraded from would be enough to shift the balance of an air war with Israel.

  20. Re:So don't buy a #@^&ing iPad. on Throwing Out Software That Works · · Score: 1

    You are wrong. In my country that would be a reason for an honor killing.

  21. Re:Too scared to say that the iPad sux, I guess .. on Throwing Out Software That Works · · Score: 1

    Here you go - Android iPAD-001 cost about 100 euros http://chinawebshop.ru/product_31824.html

  22. Re:I Bought an iPad Two Weeks Ago on Throwing Out Software That Works · · Score: 0, Troll

    So you are a middle aged Apple loving geek wannabe who jerks off to Maxim? EPIC FAIL!

  23. Re:He has my sympathy on Throwing Out Software That Works · · Score: 1

    Do not worry, I hear he goes for the brainz first.

  24. Re:This just in on Julian Assange Faces Rape Investigation In Sweden — Updated · · Score: 1

    Simple, according to Swedish law women's testimony in court is worth one half that of a man, hence you need two women to successfully accuse him.

  25. Re:"Wahh, I'm a victim! Waahhh!" on NCsoft Sued For Making Lineage II 'Too Addictive' · · Score: 1

    It seems like in America you can sue for coffee being too hot, ice-cream being too cold, water being too wet. Now this??? I'm surprised there are still people doing business over there, the legal costs to operate a business in America must be enormous.