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  1. Re:CS6 costs WAY more than $599.99 on Adobe's Creative Cloud Illustrates How the Cloud Costs You More · · Score: 1

    Welcome to the world of student loan inflation.

  2. Re:Simple solution... on Chinese Hackers Infiltrate US Army Database, Compromise Safety of Dams · · Score: 1

    That won't happen as long as the Federal government is throwing money at power companies to implement Smart Grid.

  3. If you talk to someone who handles regulatory compliance for a major power company, the requirements are ludicrous.

    For example, you must document that electronic door access panels are not running antivirus software because they don't have the capability to do so. Otherwise your company is fined. The former example is absolutely not a joke, it is an actual Federal regulatory compliance requirement. This is how US dollars are spent on critical infrastructure security.

  4. Re:Let's ban! on Ricin Tainted Letter Sent to Senator and Possibly the President · · Score: 1

    There have already been experiments done where individual US states have enacted tougher gun control laws. They have less gun violence.

    Name one that has exceeded the overall trend toward lower violent crime rates in the US.

  5. Re:The cure is worse than the disease on Botched Security Update Cripples Thousands of Computers · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure why people are enamored with Malwarebytes. I honestly have not seen it fix or prevent anything, and I've tried it a number of times because of the praise it receives. I've fixed a lot of machines that had it installed, and have never seen it do anything useful.

  6. Re:Pluraility on Ricin Tainted Letter Sent to Senator and Possibly the President · · Score: 1

    Due to the ambiguity of the English language, it could be construed to be either plural or singular, and your comment could easily be read as a general statement. Neither did your statement clearly indicate you meant innocent and unrelated people.

    Many politically-motivated murders have been committed by very arguably sane people.

  7. Re:Here we go again on Ricin Tainted Letter Sent to Senator and Possibly the President · · Score: 1

    It wasn't a misquote. I was not attempting to quote it.

  8. Re:Let's ban! on Ricin Tainted Letter Sent to Senator and Possibly the President · · Score: 1

    And nobody has actually done controls on those statistics to eliminate the very real differences, so they mean nothing.

  9. Re:Idiot Status Reaffirmed on Ricin Tainted Letter Sent to Senator and Possibly the President · · Score: 1

    Because they're like abusive DRM: they only affect legitimate users. They don't really affect those people they target.

  10. Re:Here we go again on Ricin Tainted Letter Sent to Senator and Possibly the President · · Score: 1

    In order that a well-regulated militia might exist, the general right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

    Calling everyone who disagrees with you a gun nut does not help your credibility.

  11. Re:Here we go again on Ricin Tainted Letter Sent to Senator and Possibly the President · · Score: 1

    Much like Congress can pass laws prohibiting any speech in public. It's still a right when you can speak freely only in private.

  12. Re:The real dissonance on Ricin Tainted Letter Sent to Senator and Possibly the President · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Premeditated murder does not mean one is insane.

  13. Re:Slashdot is being abused... apk on Canadian Official Escorted From House For Others' Facebook Comments · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    NO guys - it is NOT me doing it, as I wouldn't waste that much time on such trivial b.s. like a kid might...

    Oh, the irony.

  14. Re:The Answer To This Nonsense... on Build a Secret Compartment, Go To Jail · · Score: 1

    There is one notable difference. You still have enforcement time and money spent on meth if it remains illegal.

    I'm fine with banning the manufacture of it, but banning the use only marginalizes addicts, and doesn't provide anything for rehabilitation. Illegal almost always means prison, which has been clearly shown to provide no good outcomes.

  15. Re:Bad move. Opera should have stuck with Presto on Opera Confirms It Will Follow Google and Ditch WebKit For Blink · · Score: 1

    Ah, that's too bad. I had never used the option.

  16. Re:Bad move. Opera should have stuck with Presto on Opera Confirms It Will Follow Google and Ditch WebKit For Blink · · Score: 1

    The search box allows use of the option to disable reuse of the same window, which allows searches to open in a new window. So it does provide extra functionality, and I have found nothing useful to take up the space that would be freed by the search bar. Always open to ideas for such though.

  17. Re:The Answer To This Nonsense... on Build a Secret Compartment, Go To Jail · · Score: 1

    If both were legalized, it would put amateur lab producers out of business. Since it is fairly well established that meth and crack are the result of cost for true addicts, the legalization of coke would almost certainly kill the markets for both of the more harmful (but cheaper due to the drug war) substitutes.

    I've known a number of meth users, and the general consensus has been that they use because of cost and availability. If cocaine was legalized, it really wouldn't matter if meth was legal or illegal. There's basically no chance that legalization of them both would result in anything but the implosion of the meth market.

    As a bonus, we could start getting OTC medications without presenting proof of residence again.

  18. Re:Bad move. Opera should have stuck with Presto on Opera Confirms It Will Follow Google and Ditch WebKit For Blink · · Score: 1

    Ctrl+F12 > Search > Untick "enable search suggestions."

  19. Re:Poor Opera on Opera Confirms It Will Follow Google and Ditch WebKit For Blink · · Score: 1

    It's lacking what, exactly? In many instances, it has more functionality by default, since it doesn't require plugins for things that should be standard.

  20. Re:The Answer To This Nonsense... on Build a Secret Compartment, Go To Jail · · Score: 1

    Sucks to be where you work then. Any company interested in not being hit with a huge liability lawsuit (and I've personally seen a number of companies nailed to the wall for allowing that sort of behavior) would drop the entire subcontractor's company for allowing such behavior if they weren't willing to fire such an employee.

    Though, you mentioned Canada, so maybe you're referencing the laws as they exist there. Of the places I'm familiar with in the US, operating heavy machinery in an impaired state will get you terminated the second it's noticed.

  21. Re:Good. on Man Who Pointed Laser At Aircraft Gets 30-Month Sentence · · Score: 1

    Which brings me right back to my initial point of the larger part of the voting pool is all for absolving themselves of any responsibility regarding anything.

    Those juries are doing exactly that. They are absolving themselves, and anyone like them, of responsibility.

  22. Re:Wish I had a mod point for you. on Valve Starts Publishing Packages For Its Own Linux Distribution · · Score: 1

    To be fair (and I've used Win8 and thoroughly dislike it), TrancePhreak said people they've seen, not people in general.

    Personal anecdotes don't need citations.

  23. Re:War on drugs on Build a Secret Compartment, Go To Jail · · Score: 1

    The transfer of the thinking in #3 to #4 only occurs if the government subsidizes drugs.

  24. Re:The Answer To This Nonsense... on Build a Secret Compartment, Go To Jail · · Score: 1

    Why are you working at a company that allows someone who's high to operate dangerous machinery?

  25. Re:The Answer To This Nonsense... on Build a Secret Compartment, Go To Jail · · Score: 1

    Meth is dangerous to manufacture. If cocaine were legal, it's unlikely anyone but the current meth addicts would use it, and those who manufacture wouldn't be able to compete. You could put every meth lab in the country out of business with a single controlled-lab manufacturer operating legally. That alone justifies legalization of meth.