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  1. Duh on Unintended Consequences For Traffic Safety Feature · · Score: 1

    The problem is already solved. There are screens that can be placed over LED traffic signals to make them invisible when viewed off-axis.

  2. Re:Should be a medal and a discharge on An Army Medal For Coding In Perl · · Score: 0

    May I respectfully disagree with your off-topic rant and incorrect recall of history?

    Hint: which conflict in Iraq involved an invasion of Kuwait?

    Also, stop using sneaky ad hominems like "blind".

  3. Re:Libertarian nirvana on Massachusetts SWAT Teams Claim They're Private Corporations, Immune To Oversight · · Score: 0

    And he also exhorted the OP to shove his "smug little digs" back up his own hole, rather than offering to do it for him.

  4. Re:No sovereign immunity on Massachusetts SWAT Teams Claim They're Private Corporations, Immune To Oversight · · Score: 2

    TSCR; version (too short, couldn't read)

    A federal law passed in 1986 prohibits citizens from owning select-fire (auto or burst) firearms made after 1986. In addition, previous laws required that you acquire a special license ("stamp") to possess one. Exceptions are for law enforcement and licensed firearms dealers.

  5. Massachusetts has pretty strict gun laws. If this is a private corporation, well, I don't think its members should be having fully automatic weapons with 30 round mags.

    Mind you, I don't think ANY police should have weapons that the general public can't, but that's a separate issue.

  6. Re:Your taxes at work on A Physicist Says He Can Tornado-Proof the Midwest With 1,000-Foot Walls · · Score: 2

    And change. Your change, preferably. Plus your bills. And your bank account. And maybe your retirement fund.

  7. Re:Mark of times on The Rise and Fall of the Cheat Code · · Score: 1

    Yes, the final boss was easier than two of the side-quest bosses, which was the real problem. I handled Sephiroth quite well with just my sub-level-99 party and Bahumat Zero.

  8. Re:Alito voted against the cops? on Supreme Court Rules Cell Phones Can't Be Searched Without a Warrant · · Score: 3, Funny

    Because Ted Kennedy was a straight-shooting guy who would never denigrate anyone, even if they were from the opposing party.

  9. Re:Sudden outbreak of common sense on Federal Judge Rules US No-fly List Violates Constitution · · Score: 1

    Nothing, be it person, corporation, government, or church can take these rights away from you. It has NOTHING to do with limiting the powers of the Federal government.

    You contradicted yourself in two successive sentences.

  10. Re:Sudden outbreak of common sense on Federal Judge Rules US No-fly List Violates Constitution · · Score: 1

    Except for that part in Article VI where it says that it is "the supreme Law of the Land."

  11. Re:Awesome! on Federal Judge Rules US No-fly List Violates Constitution · · Score: 1

    America created the list and retroactively put people on the list, many people on the list are not rapists and the list causes cruel punishment for minor offenses in some cases.

    Correct. I believe this came up in court somewhere and the decision was that it wasn't an ex post facto law because, oh, we're not legislating a punishment, we're just adding them to a list-- as if defaming people isn't a punishment.

  12. Re: our Universe shouldn't exist. on The Higgs Boson Should Have Crushed the Universe · · Score: 1

    I like Conan's daily To-Do list:

    1. Crush your enemies.
    2. See them driven before you.
    3. Hear the lamentations of their women.

  13. Re:Whitney Houston's crack on How Vacuum Tubes, New Technology Might Save Moore's Law · · Score: 1

    Axl Rose doesn't even belong on that list. He damaged his vocal cords doing what he did. He's a natural lyrical baritone who probably once had legitimate Josh Groban range, but he wanted to sing pseudo-screamo.

  14. Re:Everybody is wrong... on Robert McMillen: What Everyone Gets Wrong In the Debate Over Net Neutrality · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm sorry, but I only understand car analogies. Does this restaurant have a drive-thru window?

  15. Re:Everybody is wrong... on Robert McMillen: What Everyone Gets Wrong In the Debate Over Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Just like personal freedom, which is why we should also give up on concepts such as rights to life, liberty, and property.

  16. Re:Everybody is wrong... on Robert McMillen: What Everyone Gets Wrong In the Debate Over Net Neutrality · · Score: 1, Funny

    I also like to accuse my opponents of being stupid when I can't counter their arguments. A straw man argument wrapped up in an ad hominem!

  17. Re:Danger??? on Great White Sharks Making Comeback Off Atlantic Coast · · Score: 1

    Uh... take out the guy riding it?

    Do you ever leave the basement?

  18. Re:Opportunity for some grey hackery on Supermicro Fails At IPMI, Leaks Admin Passwords · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This happened over 10 years ago. In response to the Blaster worm, someone wrote the Welchia worm to find, clean, and patch unpatched machines. Because it downloaded the patch to each machine it infected, its deleterious effects on networks may have been worse than Blaster.

    I had the pleasure of being contracted to help remove both worms for a local hospital, sneakernetting the removal tool.

  19. Re:Pablum For Peons on US House of Representatives Votes To Cut Funding To NSA · · Score: 1

    Could be messy if the Secret Service tried to track down a counterfeiting operation and it led them to the CIA's door...

  20. Re:Want to code? on Girls Take All In $50 Million Google Learn-to-Code Initiative · · Score: 1

    Wow... I guess Fred Flintstone really did have computers. I'd love to unearth one of those printers that used a pterodactyl for a print head.

  21. Re:Index it to inflation on 2 US Senators Propose 12-Cent Gas Tax Increase · · Score: 1

    Well, it is ONE factor that causes inflation. Fiat currency, be definition, is devalued by deficit spending, my Foe.

  22. Re:Good! on 2 US Senators Propose 12-Cent Gas Tax Increase · · Score: 1

    Stop shopping at the 7-11. The regular price of a 2-liter of Coke at the supermarkets where I live is 1.59-1.79. Gas is 3.65. The Coke would need to be over $2 to be more expensive.

    Now, milk is over $4/gallon, and I live in a state with a huge number of dairy cows. That's government propping up Big Dairy, of course, with minimum prices.

  23. Re:Good! on 2 US Senators Propose 12-Cent Gas Tax Increase · · Score: 1

    So you're not bothered by the hit to the economy? Raising regressive taxes always slows an economy. Higher gas prices hit the middle and lower classes hard. It's a more complex way of arriving at the broken window fallacy-- empty the pockets of the people, but give them more work so they can refill them. I'm not even touching the negative impact on the tourism industry.

  24. Re:No accounting for taste. on Was Watch Dogs For PC Handicapped On Purpose? · · Score: 1

    And the wooden crate doesn't even have a pallet under it! How realistic is THAT?

  25. Re:I've seen IRS computers on IRS Recycled Lerner Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    I guess the IRS asset depreciation rules don't actually apply to the IRS.