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  1. Re:SSNs? on New Jersey DMV Employees Caught Selling Identities · · Score: 1

    There is no incentive for the DMV to hide that information.

    There is a lot of incentive for a bank to hide a credit card number...they are the ones ultimately liable for all the purchases.

  2. Re:This is more proof on New Jersey DMV Employees Caught Selling Identities · · Score: 2

    I don't sign up for services when they require a Facebook account because I don't have a Facebook account. I, as a human being located in the United States of America do not need a Facebook, Google, or Yahoo account. In fact, more than half the country don't have any of those accounts.

    You can't say the same thing about who is in a DMV system. Even if you don't drive or even not allowed to drive, you need to have identification. Just the basic idea of being a human being in the US at 20 years of age will get you arrested for not having proper identification. That is wrong. Alliances between companies is wrong, but on such a lower level it isn't even funny.

  3. Re:This is more proof on New Jersey DMV Employees Caught Selling Identities · · Score: 0

    You don't need credit, nor is it forced on you.

  4. Re:The science community does the same thing. on The "Scientization" of Yucca Mountain · · Score: 1

    In his second paragraph. The first paragraph is very much about intelligent design and would be fine at a University.

  5. Re:Who cares... on When Did Irene Stop Being a Hurricane? · · Score: 1

    Since you are giving examples of water issues, why was the media/government hyping it as a "Hurricane", which makes people think "wind". Why not hype it as a serious flood machine?

  6. Re:Who cares... on When Did Irene Stop Being a Hurricane? · · Score: 1

    The media should have called it a "storm surger" and "flooder", not a "hurricane". Get the right message across. 60% of people were preparing for winds, not water.

  7. Re:Not the wind on When Did Irene Stop Being a Hurricane? · · Score: 1

    Actually, more people would have died had the "Hurricane" never existed. The "Hurricane" caused people to sit idle instead of dying at the usual rate. Even people who were looking to commit suicide that day probably tried to do it using the "Hurricane", but it is really hard to purposefully die in a Tropical Storm.

    PS: I was in Sandbridge Beach the morning of Irene

  8. Re:Time for Android to make a move... on Steve Jobs Resigns As Apple CEO · · Score: 1

    It is already successful. It has more than twice the user base of iPhones.

  9. Re:In the end, it doesn't matter. on More Schools Go To 4-Day Week To Cut Costs · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There's a lot of truth to what you are saying. Our education woes have nothing to do with time. It has to do with the culture. When will it become "cool" to ace a math test? When will the science fair be bigger than a football game? It looks like Glee made Glee Club more popular...now come out with some similar show to help in the core subjects...

  10. Re:You must be an MBA. on Have American Businesses Been Stranded By the MBAs? · · Score: 1

    Short term gains aren't because of capitalism or free markets. They are because of public company SEC filing requirements trickled down to business departments. You typically don't see private companies looking short-term because the owners are actually running the company.

    And the SEC does not breed capitalism or free markets.

  11. Re:Say waht you will about MS on Bill Gates On Energy · · Score: 1

    This whole paragraph means nothing unless we know the cost to build and maintain those windmills. Viability is not about whether something produces, but rather whether it produces more than it costs. It is also affected by the cost of alternatives. If alternatives are cheap, then excess electricity is sold back to the grid at a lower rate.

  12. Re:Freedom House is heavily funded by the US gov't on Australia Ranked Fourth In Internet Freedom · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't privacy legislation by its very nature be against Internet freedom?

  13. Re: A: dual tracks on Obama Calling For $53B For High Speed Rail · · Score: 1

    I don't think that is much a problem here. It is when a north/south train meets an east/west train. You have to bridge or wait.

  14. Re:Relies on Jailbreaking on iPhone Attack Reveals Passwords In Six Minutes · · Score: 1

    Decrypt passwords in a typical Unix shadow file

  15. Re:Loose potrait mode for good, and go with landsc on Why Are We Losing Vertical Pixels? · · Score: 1

    If you have two monitors, have one horizontal (for work) and one vertical (for reading).

  16. Re:Early 20's, two spaces. on Sentence Spacing — 1 Space or 2? · · Score: 1

    I am in my late 20's and can confirm that I was taught the same way. When I type with one space or read most of the stuff on the web, it annoys me. Sentences are important and deserve a bigger break than commas, semi-colons, and even spacing between words.

  17. Re:WTF on GOP Senators Move To Block FCC On Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Oh, no, don't shop there, the owner hates left handed people, red headed people, people taller than him ....

    Don't you know that all of those are legal? So your fear hasn't come true, has it?

    Race and certain handicaps are the only reasons you can't use to refuse business. Why only race? Don't you think singling out race helps contribute to racism?

    And what is a public private business anyway? That never made sense to me. Some Universities are private and some are public. But I guess others are public private. For instance, private Harvard cannot refuse Blacks, but other private Universities can refuse Black or Whites. What makes it public private? What makes a restaurant public private but Augusta National private?

  18. Re:Can we stop with the Obama comparisons? on Linus Torvalds For Nobel Peace Prize? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What about giving the prize to someone who has the power to withdrawal troops, but continues the wars? Get this: someone who is actively perpetuating a war gets a peace prize...

  19. Re:Not forced on Alan Turing Gets an Apology From Prime Minister Brown · · Score: 1

    Not good, because people keep arguing for the right to bear arms so they defend themselves and hunt. That's not what the 2nd amendment is for. It is for checks and balances. But the people are too ignorant and think it will never get to that point.

  20. Re:Pigeons RULE! on Pigeon Turns Out To Be Faster Than S. African Net · · Score: 1

    The Pigeon delivery is UDP, unless the sender gets some kind of confirmation. Maybe you can use the windowing idea and send 10 pigeons at a time, each with a different part of the same message. If a pigeon doesn't come back, send it again with the same message.

    You'll at least have nice fertilized ground between the sender and receiver.

  21. Re:Criticize the Numbers Not the Presentation on Serious Design Failure At USAspending.gov? · · Score: 2, Informative

    When it is a problem in the private industry, people stop investing and/or the company goes bankrupt. It took government to bail them out and basically support the rewarding of bad performance. Meanwhile, government can print money and increase taxes without any kind of "check" in the marketplace.

  22. Re:Sorry on The Mindset of the Incoming College Freshmen · · Score: 1

    These are the same lists that said people born in 1980 didn't use cassette tapes.

  23. Re:Lottery, Stock Market, Gambling--All Sucker Gam on BetOnSports Founder Pleads Guilty To Racketeering · · Score: 1

    Not if you are playing with millions of dollars.

  24. Re:Copy-and-paste is okay... scary. on College Credits For Trolling the Web? · · Score: 1

    Actually, isn't ID quite creative?

  25. Re:You really don't help your case on Temperature Data Wants To Be Free · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You're seriously comparing a marketing slogan to a huge body of scientific research? I wish the scientific method was taught in schools.

    "Denialist" is the marketing slogan of a huge body of scientific research?