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  1. Re:most salt is not real salt anyway on Salt Linked To Autoimmune Diseases · · Score: 2, Funny

    Because those folks are dying of diseases we already cured here. Stop the noble savage BS already.

  2. Re:Attacks on bandwidth caps are shortsighted on ISP Trying Free (But Limited) Home Broadband Plan · · Score: 1

    Highly disruptive to my wallet maybe.
    I can't wait for my first $400 bill.

  3. Re:More stupid victim-blaming on RSA: Phish Me If You Can (Video) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yeah, they failed when they let you have admin on your pc. They failed when they did not enforce updates. They failed when they let you run a vulnerable email client.

    Yet, if they don't let anyone have admin, ban outlook from the network and force updates and reboot that come with them you would be bitching up a storm.

  4. Re:EA at it again on SimCity 5: How Not To Design a Single Player Game · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You mean it turned out great?

    Because Bnetd became: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PvPGN

  5. I thought EA were not scumbags? on SimCity 5: How Not To Design a Single Player Game · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Didn't someone just claim that EA were not scumbags?

    Because this is again stuff a scumbag does.

    In another X years, you will not even be able to save progress with this game. Why would anyone buy into that?

  6. Re:The police are not your friend. on The Accidental Betrayal of Aaron Swartz · · Score: 1

    Or maybe my life has shown me things yours has not.

    When people are evaluated on a metric they will do what they can to inflate that metric. Cops do it just like salesmen. If it takes lying and cheating they will do that just as much as a used car salesman.

  7. Re:The police are not your friend. on The Accidental Betrayal of Aaron Swartz · · Score: 1, Interesting

    You are lucky you were not charged with assault or anything else they could come up with. Far easier to go after you who are easy to reach than hunt down someone else. They might be temporary allies, but not friends.

  8. Re:So Now His Friend Is to Blame? on The Accidental Betrayal of Aaron Swartz · · Score: 1

    What you say might be used against you, but there is no need for your friends to make the DAs job any easier.

  9. Re:Your plan in action on The Accidental Betrayal of Aaron Swartz · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Probably the best policy.
    Lest they find you guilty of something unrelated.

    The police are not your friend.

  10. Re:Thanks for putting the opt out link in the summ on Don't Want a Phonebook? Give Up Your Privacy · · Score: 1

    Yes, it is.
    That is an extreme edge case. Besides you would still have your cell phone.

    The odds of you being out of the house, the children being with a baby sitter with no cell phone and the power going out have to be pretty minuscule.

    Anything that takes out power might well take out the line back to the CO as well. Around here ice takes down trees which take down lines and poles, POTS does not survive that failure condition at all. Seems cutting the line with a tree branch is like that.

  11. Re:Place item in bagging area on Do Kiosks and IVRs Threaten Human Interaction? · · Score: 1

    When or where was this?

    I would love to just walk into the store, grab my stuff and have them send me the bill. Seems so much easier. Also as a bald, bearded 30+ year old man can we stop bothering to check for ID yet? Anyone older than 21 who looks as old as I should get access to booze just on principle.

  12. Re:Thanks for putting the opt out link in the summ on Don't Want a Phonebook? Give Up Your Privacy · · Score: 1

    So get a voip phone or one of those devices that your cell phone can dock into.

  13. Re:Thanks for putting the opt out link in the summ on Don't Want a Phonebook? Give Up Your Privacy · · Score: 1

    That seems like an idea.
    Just have it play advertising when they call.

    "Thanks for calling now a word from our sponsors...."

  14. Re:Thanks for putting the opt out link in the summ on Don't Want a Phonebook? Give Up Your Privacy · · Score: 1

    I don't nor does anyone I know under the age of 50 have a landline.

  15. Re:Thanks for putting the opt out link in the summ on Don't Want a Phonebook? Give Up Your Privacy · · Score: 1

    Use mailinator.com
    That should save you some hassle.

  16. Re:Thanks for putting the opt out link in the summ on Don't Want a Phonebook? Give Up Your Privacy · · Score: 1

    It is not the address people object to giving out, it is the other fields they demand to have. Name, phone number, email and the rest.

    They only need address, nothing else.

  17. Re:Disposal fee on Don't Want a Phonebook? Give Up Your Privacy · · Score: 1

    They won't respond to your bill. You might however be able to take them to court over it.

    I would say they are trespassing to deliver it. If they want to have the postman deliver them fine, but I am not giving them permission to step foot on my property.

  18. Re:Profitability? on Don't Want a Phonebook? Give Up Your Privacy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because the readers are not the ones paying for it.
    The businesses that advertise are. Often small businesses will advertise hoping for some result and since the cost is so low many such businesses will advertise.

    So then my taxes have to pay to dispose of their waste? Can I mail my trash to you to dispose of?

  19. Re:Place item in bagging area on Do Kiosks and IVRs Threaten Human Interaction? · · Score: 1

    I love them, I use them whenever I can. If getting alcohol through one did not involve a human I would use them easily twice as much.

    No line to wait in, no 70 year old cashier to tell me about her entire life story while lazily packing my bags, and I can toss out the receipt right away in the trash at the self checkout.

    When I was a kid they had some RFID commercials that suggested at one point you would be able to just walk out with groceries and have you CC billed, where is that?

  20. There has to be a way to get out of the IVR on Do Kiosks and IVRs Threaten Human Interaction? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It seems 90% of the time I can't use the IVR since for that kind of thing I would have used the web page, which means I am now stuck trying to get a human which is getting harder and harder. I suspect that this is intentional, the longer you have to play around with the IVR the shorter the queue wait times are in the call center.

  21. Re:Cars produce more on State Rep. Says Biking Is Not Earth Friendly Because Breathing Produces CO2 · · Score: 0

    The USA who you so hate has a negative birth rate if it were not for immigrants. The American lifestyle is possible for the whole planet if humans did not breed so much.

  22. Re:Strongly Disagree on $100 Million Student Database Worries Parents · · Score: 1

    It is now bigotry to point out people who are so lost in fairytales that they deprive their kids of education might be unfit parents?

    I don't imagine parents in those areas want to raise kids there. I am not sure what those things have to do with political affiliation.

  23. Re:Strongly Disagree on $100 Million Student Database Worries Parents · · Score: 1

    That is a pretty nice pointless anecdote you have their.

    Judging from them Chemistry PhDs I know, I hope she does not get caught running her clandestine lab. The rest tend not to make that much money.

  24. Re:Strongly Disagree on $100 Million Student Database Worries Parents · · Score: 1

    Homeschoolers who would not go to college would never then be tested by your little metric.

    Yes, people who deny reproductive education to their kids are also religious nutters. To a lessor degree than those who think their god planted dinosaur bones as a test.

  25. Re:Strongly Disagree on $100 Million Student Database Worries Parents · · Score: 2

    http://www.indiana.edu/~homeeduc/FAQ.html

    Look at their question about religion.
    The biggest single reason people homeschool is that they are religious nutters. I have a friend who's wife quit working to homeschool, every time they bring it up they have to mention they are not religious nutters since that is the most common reason for that arrangement. The wife stays home only because her income was lower than his.