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  1. Re:None of this is tied a book release, oh no. on Bush Backed Spying On Americans · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Does that somehow make the actions less wrong?

  2. Re:Great quote on Bush Backed Spying On Americans · · Score: 2, Informative

    Their names will never be on a no-fly list.

    Actually, Ted Kennedy showed up on a NFL. There is a Republican Congressman who is also on the List.. can't recall the name off the top of my head.

    Also, there's no mechanism for getting off of the NFL. What they claim to do is add a note next to your name on the list.

  3. Re:Future blackberry market? Is there one? on Blackberry Competitor Announced · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Here in DC, everyone and their mother has a blackberry. To think that there is no market for blackberry is ridiculous.

  4. Re:Of course... on Kazaa Owners Risk Jail · · Score: 1

    Oh, wait, it's much easier to target the gun maker...

    Then the solution is simple. The software industry merely needs to lobby Congress to enact a liability shield.

  5. Re:Downsite? on Steam Hybrid Car from BMW · · Score: 1

    They'll learn the same way they do it now... reading the service manual, and trial and error on a customer's car. The dealer garages will probably have some additional training.

    Mechanics don't just magically know how the car is put together. While every car is similiar in terms of broad concepts (how the engine works, etc), they are unique in how everything is hooked together. Mechanics do a lot more RTFM than they'd like you to think, as people assume "reading the manual"="you don't know what you're doing"

  6. Re:The Holocaust on It's "1984" in Europe, What About Your Country? · · Score: 1

    There is such a lie. Maybe not in Latvia.. but in the US most people do not know that several prominent Americans and American businesses supported the Nazis and their cause.. not to mention prominent Europeans and members of various churches. In our history classes, it's just Hitler that's the bad guy (until you get to college, at least).

  7. Re:Privacy != Freedom && Freedom != Privac on It's "1984" in Europe, What About Your Country? · · Score: 1

    You try and spin that as a positive.. imo it's actually a negative. Without the actual content of the conversation, that means that law enforcement is going to investigate using circumstantial evidence, aka guessing. You may have chatted with your friend Joe about the newest car.. but Joe also chatted with Bob who is a known terrorist.. what does that make you? A suspect.

  8. Re:Privacy != Freedom && Freedom != Privac on It's "1984" in Europe, What About Your Country? · · Score: 1

    They want a world in which people have few if any freedoms, and where no one may dare diagree with Islam.

    This is what everyone always says.. "They hate our freedom!".. but Osama really only got pissed after we insisted on keeping our troops in Saudi Arabia after the Iraq Prequel. He's since escalated his 'cause' to include Palestine and Iraq, because that helps in recruiting and raising money. His original beef had nothing to do with hating freedom.. in fact one could even say it was the opposite. Not that anything excuses or justifies his actions, of course.

  9. Re:America has officially lost its monopoly on stu on Reality TV "Astronauts" Lift Off · · Score: 1

    Actually, America lost the monopoly on stupid earlier this year, when a ringtone captured the #1 spot on Britain's pop charts. That's right. A fucking ringtone.

  10. Re:guilty on The Unspoken Taboo - The Never Expiring Password · · Score: 1

    So, if you want one of those whiz-bang features like password recovery

    Password recovery isn't a whiz-bang feature. It's a security hole.

  11. Re:is google trying to take over the world... on Google Transit Now In Beta · · Score: 1

    Yeah most people are taking my comment out of context because the parent post was not modded up. Parent posted a link to an stcum (montreal) website where you punch in the bus # and it gives you the schedule/route..

  12. Re:NJ Transit on Google Transit Now In Beta · · Score: 1

    You could pull the p-p with a POST and then scrape the results.. ugly, but workable (until they change the page format, that is).

  13. Re:NJ Transit on Google Transit Now In Beta · · Score: 1

    You can pull point-to-point schedules in non-PDF format (at least for rail ops). But naturally NJT doesn't include the private buses, since that would pull away from their revenue (although, iirc, they do get some money from the private buses).

  14. Re:hope this continues on Google Transit Now In Beta · · Score: 1

    That said, this makes it *really* easy to see how poorly the mass transit system works in certain areas.

    That assumes that your metric is time. However, if your metric is cost, the public transit will almost always be cheaper (based on IRS mileage rates). Furthermore, transit systems have a another metric, which is coverage. What good is a fast transit system if it only takes you between a limited number of locations? This is especially important if you don't own a car, as walking will almost always be the slowest mode of transportation.

    Transit systems suffer from a unique form of the contractor's triangle: coverage, speed, cost. Pick two.

  15. Re:is google trying to take over the world... on Google Transit Now In Beta · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The problem with most transit systems and websites is that, like your link, they assume you already know what bus/train/etc. you want to take. What this service (and many 'trip planners') do is allow you to simply input the start and end locations, and it will determine what route(s) can be used and show you how to get there.

  16. NJ Transit on Google Transit Now In Beta · · Score: 1

    NJ Transit has a similar system.. although it looks like it doesn't render 100% correctly on Firefox.

  17. Re:Credit Alerts and Cashiers on Big ID Thefts Not To Be Feared · · Score: 1

    Her pay isn't likely to be influenced either way by it

    I believe that a lot of places pay commission for selling these credit cards.

  18. Re:Of Course You Should Inform Them! on Big ID Thefts Not To Be Feared · · Score: 1

    There are these things called lakes and rivers.. while the possibility of a crash into a non-ocean/sea body of water is quite slim, I'd rather sit through instructions about how to inflate the life vest.

  19. Re:Australia isn't First World? No, it's New World on Computer Jobs -- How to Resign Professionally? · · Score: 1

    That's not at all what third world means. First world = US/UK/Allies. Second world = USSR/Warsaw Pact/Allies. Third world = Unclassified. It just so happened that most third world nations were poor, and that is the 'common', but technically incorrect, definition.

  20. Re:Liberals get what they asked for & don't li on Alaskan Cyclotron - Not in My Backyard! · · Score: 1

    According to liberal dogma, the wealthy limousine liberal in Connecticut ought to be proud and happy that the government will take money from him and give it to the poor white trash living in a Mississippi trailer park.

    Except the money doesn't go to the 'poor white trash'. It goes to businesses that waste it away.

  21. Re:Forgetting the most basic right: property[OT] on The Grateful Dead vs. Archive.org · · Score: 1

    The clause now extends the federal government numerous powers (DUI laws, speed limits, drug use, porn, Internet controls, telecommunications controls, etc).

    DUI and speeding is not governed by interstate commerce. The transportation funding bills contain provisions that restrict funding to states who do not set DUI/speeding guidelines that the feds agree with. This is called "The Power of the Purse". No speed limit? No federal dollars. Ouch!

  22. Re:Forgetting the most basic right: property on The Grateful Dead vs. Archive.org · · Score: 1

    Most people working does not get payed more based on how many cars was sold of the type the manufacture and so on.

    A lot of people do get paid like this. They're called salesmen. Some salesmen think they're special and call themselves real estate agents. Others are called insurance representatives, stock brokers, etc.

  23. Re:Save Europe on Failing Ocean Current Raises Fears of Mini Ice Age · · Score: 1

    Your explanation is correct. However, the Hummer is a luxury vehicle, not a 'required large 4wd truck'. It was absurd that purchasing these vehicles opened some people up to these tax benefits.

  24. Re:FP: What a great idea! on FCC Report Supports a la Carte TV Pricing · · Score: 1

    As the sibling mentions, premium channels have been dealing with your show-stopping problem for 20 years. They offer free preview week/weekends, etc.

    I thought I would love having the Speed channel, but it is mostly crap now - NASCAR, American Chopper knockoffs, NASCAR. blech.

    Tell me about it. At least they show bobsled/luge in the winter, instead of NASCAR reruns.

  25. Re:Expect to pay $12/mo for ESPN on FCC Report Supports a la Carte TV Pricing · · Score: 1

    I could see picking up ESPN during the football season at $12 per month and then dropping it from my lineup immedeately after.

    Letsee.. there's roughly 7 months of the year without football. So you'll save $84! Minus $50 for breaking your annual commitment, $25 delisting fee and $25 set-up fee for when you reactivate it. (Of course, it's only a keystroke of the customer service rep to change all of these things) Total savings: -$16!

    Whatever happens, the cable company will make it so you can't save money. I guarantee it.