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  1. Re:narcissistic spectrum personality disorder on 'Aaron's Law' Introduced To Curb Overzealous Prosecutions For Computer Crimes · · Score: 1, Insightful

    If one is that concerned about having a criminal record one should refrain from committing crimes. All he had to do was write a short post on his blog to call attention to whatever issue it was that was bothering him. Instead he broke into a server room, installed a computer, and illegally downloaded thousands of documents. I think 6 months and a criminal record is about right for that sort of thing.

  2. Re:Here's a better idea on William Shatner Proposes $30 Billion Water Pipeline To California · · Score: 2

    Maybe we could dilute it with fresh water.

  3. Not interested on Star Wars Battlefront Game Trailer Is So Realistic It Looks Like Movie Footage · · Score: 1

    Energy weapons don't provide the satisfaction you get when gibbing someone with a gun that shoots bullets. Even the sound of them is lame.

  4. Tigran Petrosian on Chess Grandmaster Used iPhone To Cheat During Tournament · · Score: 1

    Died in 1984.

  5. Re:ad blocker? on Google To Offer Ad-Free YouTube - At a Price · · Score: 1

    Pay them directly using Patreon or something similar. No reason to make your payments to YouTube/Google.

  6. Re:Bill Gates doing a funny vidz ! on Kinect For Windows Is Dead; Long Live Kinect For Windows Via USB · · Score: 1

    So then this is a complete non-story that shouldn't be on the front page.

  7. Re:I suggest a million dollar fine on Amazon Requires Non-Compete Agreements.. For Warehouse Workers · · Score: 1

    Revenues aren't profits. All that money needs to go back into the company to keep it afloat. On $89 billion dollar revenues, expenditures exceeded that figure; they lost $240 million last fiscal year. Million dollar fines would definitely hurt Amazon.

  8. Re:Constitional Rights on Feds Attempt To Censor Parts of a New Book About the Hydrogen Bomb · · Score: 1

    You're joking but I feel that the 2nd Amended does guarantee the people the same weapons to which the government has access. Now of course we can't have John Q Public running around with a thermonuclear device so I believe the solution would be that the government can't have them either.

  9. Re:Hmmm... on Feds Attempt To Censor Parts of a New Book About the Hydrogen Bomb · · Score: 1

    ISIS is worth an estimated $2 billion and has been around since 1999 and would love to nuke any Western target but they haven't. That they haven't tells me they don't have a bomb. That they don't have a bomb tells me that it isn't that easy.

  10. Tomy on Bring On the Boring Robots · · Score: 1

    Am I supposed to be impressed? I was playing with Omnibot in the 80s and it could do everything this POS can do.

  11. Re:I just don't care on FTC: Google Altered Search Results For Profit · · Score: 1
    I was under the definite impression that Google did make a promise to deliver the most relevant search results. It's still on their support page:

    "When a user enters a query, our machines search the index for matching pages and return the results we believe are the most relevant to the user. Relevancy is determined by over 200 factors, one of which is the PageRank for a given page. PageRank is the measure of the importance of a page based on the incoming links from other pages. In simple terms, each link to a page on your site from another site adds to your site's PageRank. Not all links are equal: Google works hard to improve the user experience by identifying spam links and other practices that negatively impact search results. The best types of links are those that are given based on the quality of your content."

    I see nothing in there about cooking the results so that Google can make a few extra bucks.

  12. Re:Please stop. Just stop on How To Execute People In the 21st Century · · Score: 5, Informative

    If a someone released from prison murders again then it's the State that failed to rehabilitate. Civilized countries like Norway have a very low recidivism rate because their justice system isn't about revenge it's about helping people who are mentally disturbed. http://www.nytimes.com/roomfor...

  13. Capital punishment is so over on How To Execute People In the 21st Century · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The USA is the only G7 country that still executes people and they don't care if it's a woman, a juvenile, or someone with autism. The only other countries that execute people with the gusto of the USA are China, Iran, and North Korea. Instead of trying to come up with new methods the US should be phasing out this barbaric practice.

  14. Works both ways on Kim Stanley Robinson Says Colonizing Mars Won't Be As Easy As He Thought · · Score: 4, Insightful

    New science has shown it won't be as easy as he once thought. But even newer science could mean it's even easier than he dreamed. For example, if Lockheed-Martin delivers on the promise of compact fusion then all of these so called issues are washed away in a river of free energy.

  15. Re:Shouldn't they be after Google? on Microsoft Asks US Court To Ban Kyocera's Android Phones · · Score: 0

    Motorola Mobility does not pay but Motorola Solutions does pay. And didn't Google sell Motorola Mobility to Lenovo anyway? The point is that Google used patented code and left all Android vendors exposed.

  16. Re:Shouldn't they be after Google? on Microsoft Asks US Court To Ban Kyocera's Android Phones · · Score: 2

    Google would demand to see what? Google already acknowledges Microsoft's patents and pays a licensing fee. Samsung also pays. They paid $1 billion to MS last year to use Android.

  17. Uh Batman is usually pretty gritty on Gritty 'Power Rangers' Short Is Not Fair Use · · Score: 1

    ....when a studio like Warner Brothers produces their own gritty reboot of a character,

    Batman is the story of a boy who witnessed his parent's murders and then decided to dress up like a bat in order to punish criminals. Other than the 60s live action TV show and the 80s Superfriends cartoon when wasn't Batman gritty? Have you read The Dark Knight Returns? Or The Killing Joke? Or the original Detective Comics stories? Even Burton had Batman kill at least a dozen henchman in 1989. FFS Bats was blowing guys away with a pistol in 1939. Are you aware of the Batman mythos at all? Who submitted this? Oh.

  18. Re:Last straw? on ISIS Threatens Life of Twitter Founder After Thousands of Account Suspensions · · Score: 1

    It's well known that the EU routinely negotiates with terrorists. They've paid millions to ISIS: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07...

  19. Re:Not a Quorum on One Astronomer's Quest To Reinstate Pluto As a Planet · · Score: 1

    That's the most shocking fact from the article. That it was decided by a handful of astronomers. What would the decision have been if everyone had voted? Or at least a majority of attendees?

  20. Re:Should come with its own football team on Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Facebook Press WA For $40M For New UW CS Building · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And how should the government do that? With the tax income that these companies managed to avoid paying? Cool story bro.

  21. Not the solution we're looking for on Verizon Posts Message In Morse Code To Mock FCC's Net Neutrality Ruling · · Score: 1

    I don't support the corps in this matter at all but I don't support or trust the government either. The Internet doesn't need 300 pages of FCC regulations slapped onto it even if they're meant to "protect" the consumer. There must be a happy medium. The EFF is wary as well. They put it quite bluntly: "The FCC's role must be firmly bounded." https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/...

  22. Re:Stomp Feet on Verizon Posts Message In Morse Code To Mock FCC's Net Neutrality Ruling · · Score: 2

    How can you say the FCC's proposals are in no way bad when even the EFF doesn't like some of them? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/...

  23. So ignore it on Adjusting To a Martian Day More Difficult Than Expected · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Just like on Star Trek. When you're in deep space you just set a 24 hour clock and go with it. Why do you have to observe the Martian day at all?

  24. Re:Congratulations on Republicans Back Down, FCC To Enforce Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Net Neutrality is not a policy despite your attempt to make it one by capitalizing it. And what they're proposing is a set of regulations; not the absence of all regulation. The FCC has already introduced the regs; they comprise 300 pages of new rules. That is certainly not how the Internet was run "from Day 1."

  25. Re:Watches on Pebble Time Smartwatch Receives Overwhelming Support On Kickstarter · · Score: 1

    You wear your watch on the arm opposite your handedness so you can manipulate the crown with the correct hand.