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  1. Re:Gold Standard on Melting Coins Now Illegal In the U.S. · · Score: 1

    What makes your opinion any better?

  2. Re:That's why they call it the Crackberry. on The BlackBerry Orphans · · Score: 1

    "I refuse to work even one hour that I do NOT get paid for."

    Isn't that the right you give up with a salaried position? The boss can tell you to work anytime; you're paid the same no matter how much time you work anyway.

  3. Re:Cost. on Judge Says U.S. Money Violates Rights of the Blind · · Score: 1

    There are ATMs with headphone jacks, so a blind person can plug in and get verbal directions that way (privately).

  4. Re:Execute the Judge on Judge Says U.S. Money Violates Rights of the Blind · · Score: 1

    Pitchforks at dawn!

  5. Re:Too safe? on Life Without Traffic Signs · · Score: 1

    The police don't use turn signals here half the time (southern California).

  6. Re:A Measured Response to Police Brutality on Youtube Video Prompts FBI Probe of LAPD · · Score: 1

    You want more violence, life in the United States is just too dull for you, leave.

  7. Re:One More Reason to Eat Kosher on Robot Identifies Human Flesh As Bacon · · Score: 1

    "despite scientific evidence."

    Do tell.

  8. Re:Will they be able to make things better? on Democrats Take House, Senate Undecided · · Score: 1

    "Interestingly they aren't walking around demanding recount after recounts, disenfranchisement or claiming the elections were stolen. That seems to be a tactic that will gain more support in the next election cycle."

    So what? If there were evidence of fraud or disenfranchisement, they would be complaining as loud as anyone.

  9. Re:seriously wikipedia needs more abuses. on Wikipedia Used To Spread Virus · · Score: 1
  10. Re:I have a problem with this part of the article. on Wikipedia and Plagiarism · · Score: 1

    You'd assume so, but copyright law only explicitly excludes works by the U.S. federal Government. States and other local governments can and often do claim copyright on their work. http://cendi.dtic.mil/publications/04-8copyright.h tml#30

  11. Re:Great Idea on UK's Biggest Supermarket Challenges Microsoft · · Score: 1

    They shouldn't have bought the land in the first place if they planned to do nothing with it. Or is that too complicated?

  12. Re:Misplaced priorities on Valley Firms Push California Oil Tax · · Score: 1

    "There is a market for people who want to live densely where they can walk where they want to go, yet not be in a complete drug den -- city planners just need to let it happen!"

    Response: Those people are poor. We don't need any more poor people in Our Fair City.

  13. Re:Screw them. on Valley Firms Push California Oil Tax · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "how much money is not being a Muslim or dead worth to you?"

    A lot. But what did Iraq have to do with that? Why don't we bomb every other country just to be safe? You never know, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil could be having dreams of imperialism! We must invade before the smoking gun becomes a mushroom cloud!

  14. Re:Ads Targeting TiVo on Advertising Comes to DVR Owners · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think it's some kind of birth control. At least I hope so, because that's how I've been using it.

  15. Re:What's the point? on Advertising Comes to DVR Owners · · Score: 1

    Apparently it's called "mere exposure," the idea that just seeing something will make you subconciously prefer it. Here's a page on the subject: http://www.ciadvertising.org/studies/student/97_fa ll/theory/mere_exposure/index.html .

  16. Re:Caught up in assumptions on Special Molecule Gives Birds a Magnetic Biocompass · · Score: 1
    Put another way, what other perceptive planes of information exist which might make being able to sense EM fields useful?


    Maybe it's so they don't fly into thunderstorms or so they know when one is coming. Not that I would know, I'm not a bird.
  17. Re:Hog Wash on Man Gets 7 Years for Software Piracy · · Score: 1

    Uh-huh. You know this how, Mr. PhD?

  18. Re:Employee credit checks in background screening on Newest Job Qualification — A Good Credit History · · Score: 1
    Doing background checks on individuals--especially those with access to your company's till--should quite often include seeing if they're in the position personally to be more likely than others to steal if given the chance.


    Oh, there's a solution to that. Simply ask them how much in money or goods they have stolen in their previous jobs. Something like this will do just fine:
    1. What is the amount of money you have taken without permission from previous employers?
    A) $0
    B) $1 - $20
    C) $21 - $50
    D) $51+
  19. Re:HP and their women CEOs on Boardroom Spying Debacle at HP · · Score: 1
    Why was this modded offtopic? It's called an analogy, and the GP is at about the same level of paranoia.

    BanjoBob, let me rephrase your post:
    Two women failed! It's obvious that women make bad executives, especially all these women. Never trust anything that bleeds for 7 days and doesn't die.

  20. Re:Best Warning Label Evar on California Passes Wi-Fi Guidance Law · · Score: 1

    You may even have to pump your own gas!

  21. Re:Target is going CRAZY. on How Retailers Watch You · · Score: 2, Informative
  22. Re:Private Voting, Public Counting on Hardware Hacking a Voting Machine in 4 Minutes · · Score: 1

    What about this? The machine stores each ballot individually in order. instead of just running totals. Each ballot has a UID (random). The machine does two hashes: one of the ballot+UID and one of the running totals. The two hashes are printed on the voter's receipt. The ballots can then be readded independently and the hashes listed publically. A voter can look up their ballot and be sure that it has been counted properly, as long as the machine verifying the counts can be trusted. A receipt with hashes that aren't in the system is then evidence of a problem.

  23. Re:Gentlemen, please! on Debian Kicks Jörg Schilling · · Score: 1

    You're wrong. I'm right, but I won't tell you why. Just know that when you're older and wiser you'll understand.

  24. Re:Why not require a warrant? on FBI Data Mining Students' Financial Aid Records · · Score: 1

    That doesn't mean that they should be allowed to use that data for something unrelated without good cause.

  25. garden/wall transcendence on AOL Music Now Relaunches Music Service · · Score: 1

    "This launch seems to be in line with AOL's 'tearing down the wall around the garden' strategy."

    Right in line with their "think outside the box" and "make the pie higher" strategies.