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  1. How is more hardware cheaper on California's Revised Pay-As-You-Drive Insurance Draws Continued Objections · · Score: 1

    So how is making me buy a tracking device in my car and the central tracking system going to save me money? Perhaps making every mile more expensive will get me to cut back some, but 10% is not going to be cut. Who is selling these tracking devices? Are they contributing to election campaigns? Are they going to be "FREE" ie I will pay for them in hight taxes? Will the logs of where your car has been be available for review and dispute. It could be fun to attach the tracker id of Ahnold to a city bus. If the logs are kept, can they be sold to advertisers? Will I get smut adverts because I cut through a bad section of town? Will the road taxes become flexible based on which route I take?

  2. Re:Only a few terabytes? on Computer Spies Breach $300B Fighter-Jet Project · · Score: 1

    The original intent of the internet was PROJECTS LIKE THIS!
    It was DARPAnet, so that design and builders in various senate districts could
    work together. JSF is international in scope. It has parts coming from all the NATO countires.
    A British designer and a French fabrication plant need the specs for a new lever.
    That is why it is open.

  3. skip those doctors on Doctors Silencing Online Patient Reviews Via Contract · · Score: 1

    If a doctor wants you to sign it, they suuuuuccckkk.
    If you are looking at ratings, look at more than one.
    If a doctor does Good, please mention it to the ratings.
    The problem is the AMA has shielded BAD TERRIBLE Doctors from being found out.
    They get lawsuits sealed and keep on issuing credentials to worst 2%.
    The worst Doctors account for a huge percentage of the lawsuits.
    The AMA protects them, we can't find out who they are.

  4. Re:Nothing wrong with models. on The Formula That Killed Wall Street · · Score: 1

    Like the weather example: Today is warmer than yesterday.
    It is warmer everywhere I have data,
    so tomorrow will be warmer than today with no chance of it being colder.
    They used the market to judge risk. Bundle enough houses together and you
    don't have to evaluate any of them.
    They stopped looking to see if this ONE house was a piece of crap,
    whose value was going down. ALL houses must go up in value (the market says so)
    Then ALL the smart guys started using the same equation.
    They assumed that someone in the market would be playing it honest,
    so they quit doing thier homework.
    Another analogy:Kids in the class copy off of one another.
    They show that (on average) kids who copy do better than those who do not.
    Then ALL the kids stop studies and start to copy.
    Guess what: they ALL fail.
    That is what happed:they all stopped doing the homework.

  5. Say Aircraft carrier on Distributed "Nuclear Batteries" the New Infrastructure Answer? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    These have been working of submarines and aircraft carriers for decades.
    It is high time some of that military tech comes to civilian use.
    If you are afraid of nuclear power, you are on the wrong website.
    This is supposed to be for technologically informed people.
        Yes, start in remote areas. Islands etc where running power lines is a major expensse would be the best places to start. NY and LA prefer to export the pollution to the suburbs.

  6. Re:If Sarbanes-Oxley isn't working on How To Create More Jobs · · Score: 1

    The point of SOX was to make corporate officers liable.
    They can't say they don't know what the company is doing.
    They still got bail out not bail or jail they should have gotten.
    I guess if you blow the head of the banking committee you can get away with anything.

  7. Miss old America Online CDs on Christmas Tree Made From 70 SCSI Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    I remember when:
    It was easy to decorate with all the CDs from AOL.

  8. Re:Unions aren't the answer on Tech Firms Oppose Union Organizing · · Score: 1

    The Brick Layers and Carpenters have guilds, they have separate credentialing processes.
    This is good. Knowing who you are hiring saves employers money.
    I would pay to have a real card that verifies my skill set.

    I won't pay for someone to negotiate a better wage for me.
    They get some of my money, for getting me money?!?!?
    The worst part is how the unions spend that money.
    They are all about funding those who legislate for them.
    Those legislators pass the laws the unions that fund them want.
    And I can't buy a senate seat from IL gov?

    The lawyers have sued firms into making work environments safe.
    No union needed.

  9. car charger on Ultracapacitor LED Flashlight Charges In 90 Seconds · · Score: 1

    If it comes with a charger for in the car it could be useful.
    Contractors and cops would keep it plugged in, while driving and have it for inspections etc.
    $170 is rather high, but a load of lithium that you are keeping out of the landfill might be worth it.

  10. Re:Let me guess... on Acorns Disappear Across the Country · · Score: 1

    That is because the power plants have cleaned up most of that up.
    CO2 is much harder to stop producing, so IT is the boogie man now.
    I live in Florida, a warm place, and my yard is covered in acorns.
    This sounds more like the "windshield scratch epidemic". Some people say they see fewer acorns and all the drones think they are seeing the same thing.

  11. Hiding in toolbag on Spider Missing After Trip To Space Station · · Score: 1

    It was hiding in the tool bag and opened the grease gun.
    It is now in its own orbit.

  12. Re:Patent Office on Federal Circuit Appeals Court Limits Business-Method Patents · · Score: 1

    Sadly the patent office just takes the money and hands out the paper. It lets the courts do all the dirty work. If there is prior art, the court overturns the patent. If it is stupid, the court overturns it. The only thing the patent helps is if you have it, you get to make a little money. Chances are, a really good idea will be profited from while you litigate.

  13. Re:The solution to the war-bow to islamic masters on Discuss the US Presidential Election & the War · · Score: 1

    So you will bow to your new Islamic masters.
    And when the Sunnis and Shias and wahabis start to fight.
    You will bow to which ever takes over your house.
    You will happily have your head cut off because you are NOT Arab,
    and you do not follow the particular version of Islam the man with the knife does.
    I dont want to bow to them and that is why they want to KILL ME!

  14. Re:Only one question to ask yourself on Discuss the US Presidential Election & the Economy · · Score: 1

    Are you going to vote for Palin or are you a sexist?

  15. Re:Ridiculous on Discuss the US Presidential Election & the Economy · · Score: 1

    Who is the dumbshit that invented Fannie and Freddie for the US GOVERNMENT TO BUY these screwed up loans? It may not have started out as US Gov but everybody knew where the money would eventually come from. The congress that was supposed to oversee it, LIED ABOUT ITS STATE! Jail for Barney Frank.

  16. Re:Short answer-Pelosi-Reid-Obama on Discuss the US Presidential Election & the Economy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid get the majorities they hope for.
    And they get their guy in the white house - a major radical agenda will be pushed.
    They are the extreme left wing of the party and the leadership.
    McCain is a moderate republican and would not have congress on his side.
    His agenda won't go far.

  17. Re:Deserved on Paul Krugman Awarded Nobel Prize For Economics · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    He needs to read the forgotten man
    http://www.amazon.com/Forgotten-Man-History-Great-Depression/dp/0066211700/ref=tag_tdp_sv_edpp_pop_t
    It details how FDR made a minor recession into the Great Depression.
    Socialism has FAILED everywhere it has been tried.
    Capitalism is not perfect, but then again humans are not perfect.
    Stop giving MY MONEY to other people!
    Taking less money is not the same as giving money.
    Tax breaks are not welfare.

  18. Re:The anthropic cop-out on Do We Live In a Giant Cosmic Bubble? · · Score: 1

    The cop-out is because we don't have several other universes to test it against.
    We can't re-run the experiment of the big bang.

  19. Re:War, legality thereof. on Studies Say Ideology Trumps Facts · · Score: 1

    You have explained it well, it wont matter to Johannesq, that is a great example of Cognitive dissonance.

  20. Re:Um, or... on Laboring Longer a Growing Trend For Americans · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Back when Soc Sec and Medicare were designed, there were very few people over 65. Life expectancy was 59 and retirement was 62. Nobody worked after retirement because they died. Now you expect to live well into 70s and still expect to retire in mid 60s. That is a disconnect. How long was your grandfather or great grandfather retired? What kind of medical care did great grand dad have? Would he have given up all that he had worked a lifetime for, to have a couple more months? Our elderly do. Then they want a couple more and send the bill to someone else. The price of these therapies goes up as death nears. Who can look into the face of death and say NO?

  21. Re:Yeah, lets talk about numbers and Polar bears on Why Shoot Down a Satellite? Analyzing an Analysis · · Score: 1

    Forget the bus load of school kids, if it killed a single polar bear the liberals would be all over the president.
    If it hit some barren waste land and they found a dead elk within a mile of it, there would be hell to pay.

  22. We ALL can have coke on us on Fingerprint Test Tells Much More Than Identity · · Score: 1

    Most U.S. paper money has some traces of Cocaine on it.
    If you pulled out a dollar for a pepsi, you could be leaving coke on your keyboard.

    http://www.snopes.com/business/money/cocaine.asp

    These tests don't prove that you are more of a druggie.
    It proves how sensitive the tests are.
    You may think of your finger prints as being small, buth they are still millions of molecules.

  23. Re:Controller lying on California Can't Perform Pay Cut Because of COBOL · · Score: 1

    I dont understand your job, so it must be really simple.
    --PHB

  24. Re:Fix it at home on How Do You Fix Education? · · Score: 1

    My kid's grammer school is close to the population but has a bit of "wet lands" around the neighborhood.
    As a consequence, the kids have to walk an extra 1/2 or 1 mile instead of cutting through.

  25. Great Idea - Pay MORE on The Web Development Skills Crisis · · Score: 1

    If you want people to head for a field of study, pay more.
    That is why all the kiddies today want to be trial lawyers.