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  1. Re:wah wah wah clickbait on Writer: Why Watching the Original Star Wars Again Was a Bad Idea (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It also results in EXACT DUPLICATES of two lines. Because the Jabba scene was cut, some of the lines from that scene were added to the one with Greedo. Maybe the Greedo scene was even written in to replace Jabba's; I don't know.

  2. Re:Can't believe Cruz would do this on Ted Cruz Wants Minimum H-1B Wage of $110,000 (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised I had to read down this far to find the circumstantial ad hominem.

  3. Re:Yeah right on Ted Cruz Wants Minimum H-1B Wage of $110,000 (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you think it's going to work to only double the wage for fast food workers? Don't retail sales workers deserve a raise, too? How much will prices go up then? How about for janitors?

  4. Re:Ha! on Ted Cruz Wants Minimum H-1B Wage of $110,000 (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    So is Bernie Sanders, right?

  5. Re:Never trust torrent sites on Torrent Sites Earned $70M After Dropping Malware On Visitors (softpedia.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ^ This. "Legitimate" sites inject malware into downloads and somehow escape the FTC year after year.

  6. Re:Wendelstein 7-X stellarator? on Germany Fires Up Bizarre New Fusion Reactor (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Sounds more like something Marvin the Martian built to replace his Iludium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulatoooooooorrrrrrrr.

  7. Obama being Obama on Obama Administration To Offer Full Position On Encryption By End of Year · · Score: 2

    He has to take a few weeks to check with his handlers. He shouldn't have to check with his handlers. After all, we're told he's a Constitutional scholar. The answer is, "I will neither propose nor sign any legislation prohibiting or regulating encryption for the same reason I won't sign any regulating safes or locks. 'The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be infringed.' This is not just idealism, but the American way of life."

    But there's no thing as American exceptionalism, right? If the French are OK with the government being able to search through their papers at any time, why do we think we should be any different?

  8. Re:the biggest problem was the vendor. on AVG, McAfee, Kaspersky Antiviruses All Had a Common Bug (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    All network access has been disabled for your protection until your antivirus is updated... $99 please.

  9. Re:Democrats are authoritarians on Top Democratic Senator Will Seek Legislation To "Pierce" Through Encryption (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    Please cite me the law in your locality which establishes theft as a crime.

    No, not the law that establishes the penalty for theft.

    In the USA, that's called "common law". We don't have laws pointing out that murder and theft are illegal, because everyone knows what simple theft and murder are, and that they infringe on people's rights.

  10. Re:Democrats are authoritarians on Top Democratic Senator Will Seek Legislation To "Pierce" Through Encryption (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    The only reason they couldn't was because of bigoted laws that prohibited them from voting. The natural state of man (humans) is to participate in the order of his society.

  11. Re:Democrats are authoritarians on Top Democratic Senator Will Seek Legislation To "Pierce" Through Encryption (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    This is about as stupid as a libertarian who says that getting rid of all regulation will solve all of our problems.

    That would indeed be stupid, because that person is called an anarchist-- not a libertarian.

  12. Re:Will somebody think of the children! on Top Democratic Senator Will Seek Legislation To "Pierce" Through Encryption (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    Government likes to create problems, then position themselves as having the only solution to those problems (which in turn creates further problems).

  13. When you're a member of government, the letter of the law is what matters.

  14. Re:Oh, for cryin' out loud.... on Eric Schmidt Proposes 'Hate Spell-Checker' For Radical and Terrorist Content (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Except even Trump clarified that already. He was asked whether he would stop Muslim citizens from returning to the USA and his answer was no. I heard the interview this morning. And you can't really argue that you're infringing on someone's religious rights in the USA when they haven't even entered yet. People have been blocked from entering the USA for things they have said and done before-- things that they would be entitled to do if they were citizens, permanent residents or even foreign nationals.

  15. Re:Oh, for cryin' out loud.... on Eric Schmidt Proposes 'Hate Spell-Checker' For Radical and Terrorist Content (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    The fact is, that you can't really claim your religious freedom is being infringed when you haven't even entered the country, as is argued for foreign nationals. The executive already has the power, in law, to discriminate among refugees based on their religion. It could be extended (by legislation) to all immigrants without infringing on anything in the Constitution.

  16. Re:Star Trek Theremin on Theremin's Bug Let Soviets Spy On USA For More Than 7 Years (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed. I don't recall hearing a Theremin in either version of the theme.

    However, a Theremin IS used in the Beach Boys song "Good Vibrations". That is probably the most famous use. Way before "Big Bang Theory".

  17. Re: Because It's the Only Thing That Actually Work on B-52s: The Plane That Refuses To Die · · Score: 1

    I'm still trying to figure out what the "replacement's replacement's replacement" mentioned in the article is. Did they maybe count the F-111 in there? That's a strategic bomber... it wasn't even close to an intended replacement.

  18. Re: Why is this not a surprise? on IT Worker Fired After Massive Georgia Data Breach Speaks Out (ajc.com) · · Score: 1

    Denmark is great if you don't mind xenophobia and state religion. Oh, and being prosecuted for "hate speech" if you criticize anyone's religion.

  19. Re:Who cares? on How Mark Zuckerberg's Altruism Helps Himself (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I hope that what you wrote wakes up two or three mouthpieces for the "you didn't build that" lobby into realizing that, yes, your tax dollars did build that.

  20. Re:The real problem on How Mark Zuckerberg's Altruism Helps Himself (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I love the 21st century leftist. It's OK to give millions to green energy companies to subsidize renewable energy, but not to give tax relief to philanthropists to subsidize their improvements of housing, health, and education.

    Let's face it-- this is projection. We know that we don't do much to help others, so let's denigrate the philanthropist because I'm sure in their hearts, they're as repulsive as we are.

  21. Re:The real problem on How Mark Zuckerberg's Altruism Helps Himself (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The Gates Foundation's progress against malaria was just mentioned above. I guess you didn't read it. Saving hundred of thousands of lives PER YEAR is not "breadcrumbs". Your cartoon idea of Marie Antoinette is in no way analogous to what some of these modern philanthropists are doing. It's clear that your attitude is colored by your personal opinion of these people, and not their works. A great man once said that "whoever is not against us, is with us," and you would be well advised to adopt that ideology.

    Woe to those who call good, evil; and evil, good.

  22. Re:The real problem on How Mark Zuckerberg's Altruism Helps Himself (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Your mention of Reagan indicates that you think this is a "conservative" issue.

    Ever heard of the Tides Foundation? Go look it up. It's a money laundering fund for progressives.

    Stop believing the rhetoric of the ruling class.

  23. Several = two.

    There are two standards, since some mid-1990s NEC. Before then, 208/240V 3-prong was the standard. In the 1990s, the NEC added an equipment ground requirement for 240V appliances and all new installations in the USA since 2004 require the use of 4-prong receptacles. Since most houses still have 3-prong receptacles, you need to buy the appropriate cord.

  24. Re:Not hoverboards on 15,000 Hoverboards Seized As Unsafe In United Kingdom (nationaltradingstandards.uk) · · Score: 1

    Where are you going to put the license plate? On your backside?

    I guess a miner's helmet for the headlight...

  25. Re:Not hoverboards on 15,000 Hoverboards Seized As Unsafe In United Kingdom (nationaltradingstandards.uk) · · Score: 1

    That's the first thing I thought of. Sorry, no mod points!