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  1. Re:Why we have a 5th Amendment on Bennett Haselton's Response To That "Don't Talk to Cops" Video · · Score: 1

    "Don't YOU know???" is my answer to that :)

  2. Re:Defense on Lockheed To Furlough 3,000 On Monday, Layoffs Also Kicking In · · Score: 1

    Yes they should have. It was wrong then and wrong now.

  3. Re:Defense on Lockheed To Furlough 3,000 On Monday, Layoffs Also Kicking In · · Score: 1

    I wish I had mod points for that!

  4. Re:Want to know more about car fires in America? on Owner of Battery Fire Tesla Vehicle: Car 'Performed Very Well, Will Buy Again' · · Score: 1

    I had an old Porsche car I used to race and it burned up for no other reason than I tried to drive it out of my garage, yet somehow mass panic did not ensue. Minor panic maybe until I shoved it down the driveway........

  5. Re:800,000 workers. . . on U.S. Government: Sorry, We're Closed · · Score: 1

    Utter total bullshit. Our department is cut down to basically ONE person who would call in the rest of us if he can't fix something. This is completely unsustainable for any length of time.

  6. As opposed to now...

  7. Re:Some people... on GTA V Proves a Lot of Parents Still Don't Know or Care About ESRB Ratings · · Score: 1

    The Romans wrote a LOT about various gods. Just because I can walk on a Roman road does not mean every single thing they wrote is non-fiction. The Quoran is set in real life easy to find places. That makes it all true then, right?

  8. Re:history? on Arctic Ice Extent Tops 2012's, But Is 6th Lowest In History · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Besides for all that IIRC "Greenland" was a real estate scam like "Quiet Sylvan Resort Acres Nice Trees and Wildlife Developement" is really crappy townhouses in a ghetto next to a railroad track and down the street from the toxic waste dump.

  9. Re:Am I missing something? on CCC Says Apple iPhone 5S TouchID Broken · · Score: 1

    I bought an old surplus Thinkpad for my 12 year old. It uses a fingerprint scanner to log in. Big Fn Deal - this is an OLD idea that was hacked into oblivion years ago. It is cool for 7th graders though ;)

  10. Re:Sounds like an episode of Doomsday Preppers on DoD Declassifies Flu Pandemic Plan Containing Sobering Assumptions · · Score: 1

    Not sure if you have ever had really really nasty flu, but I have. I did not eat one bite for 6 days and a small kitten could have protected anything from me. I could just barely move to go take a piss.

  11. Re:Just another level of hacking on Preventing Cheating At Hackathons · · Score: 2

    OK - how about how to stop farting at a bean eating contest then?

  12. Re:Just another level of hacking on Preventing Cheating At Hackathons · · Score: 1

    Word.........this read to me like "how to stop speeding at F1 races".

  13. Re:nanny-state government ruining our kids on Schneier: We Need To Relearn How To Accept Risk · · Score: 1

    When I was a kid it was routine for my parents to have *no idea where I was or any way to contact me* just about EVERY day from 3rd grade on. I was out in the woods/beach/riding bikes/swimming/etc. with my friends and would be home or at least at someone's home by dinner. How many USAian parents of 11 year-olds have no idea where exactly their kid(s) are now?

  14. Re:nanny-state government ruining our kids on Schneier: We Need To Relearn How To Accept Risk · · Score: 1

    My childhood would be considered incredibly dangerous today. We built treehouses 60 feet up a tree with no safety precautions or even any good idea of what we were doing.

  15. Re:No service. on Prankster Calls NSA To Restore Deleted E-mail · · Score: 1

    I work for the fed and I have no comfy chair nor first class coffee. Where did I go wrong?

  16. Re:What's good for others apparently is no good fo on Break Microsoft Up · · Score: 1

    Our kinnect broke and no one missed it. It totally sucked balls compared to the Wii motion sensor.

  17. Re:Too complicated on Using Pulsars As GPS For Starships · · Score: 1

    No - your understanding of celestial navigation is a bit too simplistic. You don't "point" at a star. You measure angles between them. If the angle between star A and B is 30 degrees and B and C is 45 degrees and X and Y is 93 degrees and so on, there is only one place you can be and a computer can figure that out.

  18. Re:Too complicated on Using Pulsars As GPS For Starships · · Score: 1

    I have navigated a boat by the stars back in the day. It was a PITA because you can only see the stars and the horizon at once twice a day. So........I have a spacecraft with no clouds and no waves to screw up my sights. I can take angles between any two stars I want to 24/7 and feed the computer with the results. Seems good nav would be kind of easy.

  19. Re:light, tunnel, oncoming train on How Companies Are Preparing For the IT Workforce Exodus · · Score: 1

    Because SO MANY people just don't cash their checks????WTF????

  20. Re:light, tunnel, oncoming train on How Companies Are Preparing For the IT Workforce Exodus · · Score: 2

    Doies that mean they all get sent to Cuba without trial? Let Castro deal with AARP - that'll do him in for sure - muahahahaha

  21. Re:OP or tune it ee on How Companies Are Preparing For the IT Workforce Exodus · · Score: 1

    I can't see how you can do that "officially", but we do have a few scammers that "work" from offsite but somehow can't seem to answer emails. Like I told my boss, when *I* work at home I'll actually answer an email or a phone call.

  22. Re:The USA was founded on Anonymous Comments on Huffington: Trolls Uglier Than Ever, So We're Cutting Off Anonymous Commenting · · Score: 1

    You think the press operators had no idea whose jobs they were running????

  23. Re:There's only one path to immortality... on The Cryonics Institute Offers a Chance at Immortality (Video) · · Score: 2

    Besides for THAT, AFAIK the Bible does not really say you won't die, it just shows a way to a better zip code after the fact. Just like a time-share sales deal, you're going to have to sit throug the whole presentation to get in ;)

  24. Re:I can tell from the pixels on Protests Mount In New Zealand Against New Surveillance Laws · · Score: 1

    Wel if that was your other two career options, carry on!

  25. Re:There's only one path to immortality... on The Cryonics Institute Offers a Chance at Immortality (Video) · · Score: 4, Funny

    I know people that read the Bible and are now dead. Do they get a refund or what?