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  1. Re:A one liner solution would be great on Fed Audit's Initial Report Reveals Trillions in Secret Loans · · Score: 1

    shhhh!!! the president is all powerful and can do whatever they like, stop limiting delusions os fools by showing them reality.

    Seriously any one who wants to be president should never be allowed to have the job. The president gets all the blame, very little glory, and once your there your done, I am what can you do afterwards except talk about what you did do.

    Personally we should everyone's name in a hat and randomly pick a person like the lottery. you play power ball you could win X millions of dollars and you stand a one in a 10 million chance of being president too.

  2. Re:Hacking innocent people's email accounts?!?!? on Anonymous To Release Sun, News of the World Emails · · Score: 1

    The phone hackers interfred with a search for a missing child. By deleting her voice mails it was assumed that she was still alive days later when the police checked.

    Forget the royal family parts they directly interefered and hampered the search for a missing child.

    For that alone they deserve everything they are getting.

  3. Re:Obligatory: But Will It Ecrypt My Google Mail on Breakthrough Toward Quantum Computing · · Score: 1

    Sure but china has already hacked your password anyway so there isn't much point.

  4. Re:Nice work. on Facial Recognition Gone Wrong · · Score: 1

    They werent scanning images from cars but did a scan on license pictures stored in their database. They than revoked his license assuming it was falsified, without actually verifing anything.

    Personally i would be launching one suit and then making it class action fraud for every citizen of the state. Since everyone got scanned and were considered crimminal first.

  5. Re:One man, consumer parts on Japanese Military Invents Tumbling, Flying Sphere · · Score: 1

    American emergency responders use near military grade equipment. The near point means it might fail, high rad but still function after being run over.

    They need extremely durable goods as well. While a fire truck won't stop bullets the equipment does deal with high pressure high volume chemicals.

  6. Re:Evil on Banks' Big Upgrade: Meet Real-Time Processing · · Score: 1

    Boy are you stupid, even if you paid cash for your cars that doesn't mean the dealership did, the contractor on your house took out loans for the materials, etc

    Some where and most likely several some where's along the line from trees to iron ore to rocks some one borrowed money from banks to give themselves a temporary push so they could make more money. Just because you don't doesn't mean someone else didn't.

    I live within my means. That means I can't buy a house. It is okay my choice. However my business functions by providing short term loans in the form of materials to

  7. Re:This tweet (FTFA) shows how screwed up it is. on UK Developers Quit US App Store Over Patent Fears · · Score: 4, Insightful

    how about MSFT's $15 per android device fee? is that good?

    Also in software patents don't cover implementations but concept. therefore there is no way around and still meet spec.

  8. Re:Car culture on How Education Is Changing Thanks To Khan Academy · · Score: 1

    The schools are responsible for sending students home. Just because you never heard of it doesn't mean much. It just means you never bothered looking.

    Also that is in NY. It was either the late bus or a 25 mile walk home for some kids.

  9. Re:School bus on How Education Is Changing Thanks To Khan Academy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    on the late bus? Seriously I used it all the time to get home. it was the bus that dropped off sports teams, after school detention students, and students doing after school projects(class president, various clubs, etc)

    It ran something like 2-3 hours later. I liked those days, as I would do my after school project then my homework and leave all my stuff in my locker for the next day. I wouldn't have to carry much home.

  10. Re:As soon as the hit men hack the information on Ford Demonstrates Networked Cars · · Score: 1

    I am not thinking OMG hitman. I am thinking TSA OMG that person drove by a chemical factory let's scan them.

  11. Re:Evil on Banks' Big Upgrade: Meet Real-Time Processing · · Score: 1

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA

    Where does a builder, manufacturer, inventor, get the resources needed to build, or design?

    Some one has to loan you the stuff you need to get started. then you build, and you build it better/cheaper than expected. you sell it make money and pay back your loan. Whether the loan was financial or material I can guarantee you had to borrow something from someone else to build. Pretty much the only thing you can build 100% on your own with no help what so ever is fire. After that you need tools, tools mean resources to build the tools, etc. Along that way you will need the help of others, that help comes with a price, a repayment. even if it means you help them later it is still repayment.

    Try it name one thing other than fire you can build without involve others in any way shape or form.

  12. Re:As soon as the hit men hack the information on Ford Demonstrates Networked Cars · · Score: 1

    For every good idea.( forcing disparate government agencies to actually talk to each other) you get really bad side effects(DHS, TSA, unlimited wiretaps, etc)

    If you look not at what you want the law to do, but instead look at how can it be exploited for/profit, personal gain, etc then you can adjust the law to be reasonable.

    It is why it is never done.

  13. Re:Gene Therapy? on New Virus Jumps From Monkeys To Lab Workers · · Score: 1

    hell yes, if we kill off the apes too then when our Columbia astronauts that actually traveled through a wormhole to the distant future arrive, they can rebuild human civilization not have to fight off apes.

    Charles heston showed us the way.

  14. Re:Ha ha on Wired Releases Full Manning/Lamo Chat Logs · · Score: 1

    The problem is there is nothing in those documents that show otherwise.

    There wasn't any fallout, very little diplomatic manouvering, the overall response was meh!

    Manning leaked documents just because he was bored. That isnt evedience of crimes.

  15. Re:Clueless on After a Decade, Mac Sales Again Top 10% · · Score: 1

    Mine on 10.4 has just enough delay to allow you to put desktop icons there, and use them, before the dock pops out over them. maybe 500th's of a second or so.

    Now I don't hide the dock since I use widescreen monitors. I just hang it on the side and be done with it.

  16. Re:WTF is Jell-O on Researchers Build "Squishy" Memory Device · · Score: 1

    Just use liposuction to remove excess fat and place it there.

    Or is the consistency is right use it to replace silicone implants. That way guys can say legtimately they are staring at your memory.

  17. Re:Not even close to being prepared.. on Is the Military Prepared For Cyberwarfare? · · Score: 1

    Having a high budget, and spending it does not equal better funded.

    Take the land warrior system. Your smart phone has better everything except a few software apps,and cost you maybe $500. The military was spending $5000 per soldier to do the same thing.

    The military has lots of money but most of it is allocated long before it is handed over. Also the military is 5-10 years behind civilian tech.

    Cyberwarfare is dynamic, you cant be 5-10 years behind. That is like windows ME virus againist windows 7,and ubuntu.

  18. Re:Perhaps the patents are legit, valid patents? on Why No War Over MS's Android Patent Shakedown? · · Score: 1

    They aren't after "android" but one of those patents is VFAT.

    an extended 30 year old file system, that is the only way to connect multiple drives together across all OS's.

  19. Re:Well on the bright side on New SMS Trojan Found In Android Markets · · Score: -1, Troll

    The problem isnt't the right to freely injure yourself, but to be injured by a defective product.

    99.99999999999% of consumers cant tell the difference between good software and bad software. The best we can do is judge the supplier as to whether or not it is safe.

    Look at windows and viruses. The average person cant tell if that app they just installed had a virus or three with it.

  20. Re:Its been done before on Facebook Helps Israel Blacklist Air Travellers · · Score: 1

    WE get it wrong, because we take shortcuts to get out quickly.

    we put saddam in power too. Every single one of those times we got in did some damage, installed a new leader, and left. What is needed in trying to build another nation is to stick around for a full generation to get things moving.

    The other option is to say fuck them and let them kill each other. I like option two. The USA is the only country that can afford to go completely isolationist again. We have the resources to do so. However the last time we went isolationist the rest of the world decsended into not one but two massive wars that you needed us to clean up for you.

  21. Re:Its been done before on Facebook Helps Israel Blacklist Air Travellers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No those inbred tribals gave refuge to Al queda after the CIA helped form Al queda to drive out the Soviets, and then left them there. If we spent a little time and money there rebuilding, and teaching them 30 years ago, then Al Queda wouldn't have turned against us(or wouldn't have had as much local support as they did)

    If you want to bring peace to someone. You have to be prepared to spend 50 years there. We have to stay in Afgahnistan and iraq for another 40 years. Or they will fall into absolute chaos for 10 years.

  22. Re:Cell phones on Digital Generation Rediscovers Analog Wristwatches · · Score: 1

    That's just it how often do you check your watch? I find there are more than enough clocks at work, and when i am out I have my cell phone If I must absolutely keep track of time. I would rather enjoy my time than randomly checking my watch every 10 minutes.

    I do have one digital watch though. It is a semi unique piece of a carabiner clip. It has a bunch of functions but ultimately it has a rolling countdown timer in it that I use to track rolling starting sequencing for racing. by being on my belt or jacket it isn't on my wrist leaving tan lines on my arms in funny places.

  23. Re:"dropbox" on Dropbox Releases Revised TOS · · Score: 1

    Windows is a Generic term which predates either of those companies by hundreds of years and i've frequently heard of builders installing windows.

    don't argue about generic terms to the trademark office. if they can accept windows as legitmate trademark-able name then dropbox is too.

  24. Re:Say waht you will about MS on Bill Gates On Energy · · Score: 2

    Try 100 years maybe. The majority of homes built 50 years ago sit basically changed. They still have shitty insulation,an electric system designed for a couple of lights and a radio(with additional stuff hacked in many ugly ways),plumbing and heating systems hacked together over 50 years of half ass cheap repairs.

    Not to mention the simple truth that solar modules require rare earth materials to build thus driving up their costs extensively. Solar thermal can offset some nuclear, wind is only 25% effecient(meaning you need to massively oversize the turbines.

    As for the ski resort being all i can say is duh! It is closed 6 months out of the year. Talk about saving money. Homes can be net energy can too, if your not living there

  25. Re:Absurd on Congress Dumps James Webb Space Telescope · · Score: 2

    it is the And Raising taxes part that they always seem to forget. Or if they do do it all, they seem to forget the next step entirely. the paying down debt before cutting taxes back.