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  1. Re:voted on Patriot Act Up For Renewal, Nobody Notices · · Score: 0
  2. Re:As opposed to on JFK Library Launches Largest Presidential Online Archive · · Score: 1

    Shall we color them presidentially? Ironic mistakes are ironic.

  3. Re:Where is the quick-link on JFK Library Launches Largest Presidential Online Archive · · Score: 1

    Thanks for all the evidence to back your assertion. You could have at least specified 41 or 43. Anyway, at least JFK lowered the outrageous income taxes.

  4. Re:Do not believe! on 34,000-Year-Old Organisms Found Buried Alive · · Score: 0

    Trolls test my patience with stupidity.

  5. Re:CNN reports on 34,000-Year-Old Organisms Found Buried Alive · · Score: 0

    MSNBC reports that hate speech on talk radio resulted in their 34,000 year imprisonment. Democrats in Congress propose banning salt.

  6. Re:How many metres did you say? on EDSAC Computer To Be Rebuilt · · Score: 1

    I'll only become concerned if they convert it to run on old people's medicine.

  7. Re:4 years to build? on EDSAC Computer To Be Rebuilt · · Score: 1

    I wonder. (stares suspiciously at fluorescent tube)

  8. Mercury safety on EDSAC Computer To Be Rebuilt · · Score: 1

    The EDSAC used mercury-filled tubes for memory, but in the interests of safety, the replica will use an alternative non-toxic substance.

    Stupid safety theater. People all over the world sit RIGHT UNDERNEATH mercury-filled tubes. They're called fluorescent lighting.

    Do these tubes explode spontaneously or something? Maybe they should give everyone eye protection and breathing apparatuses.

  9. Re:Too fucking bad.. on Palin's E-Mail Hacker Imprisoned Against Judge's Wishes · · Score: 1

    So, is our system formed around the idea of punishment, or of "penance"? They aren't the same. Punishment is intended to prevent a second offense, and to dissuade others from committing the same crime. So, with your system solely based on "threat isolation", does this mean that a hacker will get a lifetime ban from all devices attached to a network?

  10. Re:Too fucking bad.. on Palin's E-Mail Hacker Imprisoned Against Judge's Wishes · · Score: 2

    Like the democrats are going to screw their base like that.

  11. Books on Research Suggests E-Readers Are "Too Easy" To Read · · Score: 1

    Text books have sharp fonts that are easy to read. No wonder I had trouble remembering stuff in school!

  12. Re:Offensive on Amazon EC2 Enables Cheap Brute-Force Attacks · · Score: 2

    Because human beings have two sexes, so we have to choose one?

  13. Re:Wonder how safe longer keys are... on Amazon EC2 Enables Cheap Brute-Force Attacks · · Score: 1

    This article is about WPA, not WPA2. WPA2 uses all of 802.11i and includes AES.

  14. Re:Decadal count is more important on NASA Says 2010 Tied For Warmest Year On Record · · Score: 0, Troll

    The trend is flat since 1998.

  15. Re:That's silly. on Amazon EC2 Enables Cheap Brute-Force Attacks · · Score: 1

    Fords are being used to commit crimes? Clearly, the US government should step in to stop this. Ford must either allow severe regulation, or face a mandatory takeover. By the way, this has nothing to do with the federal government owning GM.

  16. Skimpy data on NASA Says 2010 Tied For Warmest Year On Record · · Score: -1, Troll

    Notable lack of numbers on any specific years. Probably because they've written a trend line for where the temperature should be to make the claim that every decade has been warmer-- when we know that this is a lie, and temperatures have not risen since 1998. Either that, or they were mistaken two years ago when they said that other factors like reduced solar activity were counteracting the expected warming.

  17. Re:Of course on Sony Says PSP2 "As Powerful as PS3" · · Score: 1

    I like the beer can solution better because besides enhancing ventilation, they'll act as heat sinks (note comment about the cans getting warm).

  18. Re:Low success rate? on AMBER Alert Partners With Facebook · · Score: 1

    Having a child is the most selfish thing anyone can do.

    No, not really. For a population to even maintain its size requires every couple to produce over 2 two children. With the social programs in place in nearly every country in the first world, we need the population to continue growing in order to support our aged. So, unless you're big on human extinction or ageism or something, you're going to have to admit that having children is not entirely selfish. If you choose not to have kids, FINE. There's no need to attack others to affirm your own opinion.

  19. Re:Summary sucks. on Ars Thinks Google Takes a Step Backwards For Openness · · Score: 2

    That being said, Peter Bright really isn't a stellar example of technical competence. I had the misfortune of being involved in OS discussions in the Battlefront forum back in the early 2000s and he was a hardcore Windows nut.

  20. Re:Still the classic! on Evolution of the Batmobile · · Score: 1

    I'm sure the chain slicer is a one-off plot device (literally) that mysteriously vanished in later episodes.

  21. Re:Yawn Comics on Evolution of the Batmobile · · Score: 1

    That's not such my concern as:
    1) This series isn't so much an "evolution" as a total reimagining of the car in every iteration. Heck, there's a 2000 car that looks like the 1980s Porsche-inspired one.
    2) Some of the 70s-80s artists were terrible. The cars look impractical and out of proportion.
    3) The Barbara Ling cars are stupid and hideous. I mean, we had tacky, huge tailfins that flapped homo-erotically to go with the homoerotic Batman costume.

  22. Re:How's that working out, Rupert? on MySpace Lays Off 47% of Employees · · Score: 1

    No, you don't HAVE to. Really! Business is not a zero-sum game.

  23. Re:How's that working out, Rupert? on MySpace Lays Off 47% of Employees · · Score: 1
    Because no immigrant ever came here with nothing and ended up with a chain of convenience stores. I'm sure all those supposedly Indian, Korean and Pakistani guys just have speech impediments.

    Yes, you need funding-- but there are PLENTY OF PEOPLE who are perfectly willing to lend you some of their money.

  24. Re:How's that working out, Rupert? on MySpace Lays Off 47% of Employees · · Score: 1

    You call it luck; the rest of us call it perseverance. Even billionaires like Donald Trump have failed a lot, but when they succeed, they win big. But if you want to continue to tell yourself that success is due to luck, then make Homer Simpson your role model and "never try".

  25. Re:Of course not! on Tunisian Gov't Spies On Facebook; Does the US? · · Score: 1

    Janet Napolitano got mod points today, I guess.