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  1. Re:So, basically, Stop Brown People For Being Brow on US Changes How Air Travelers Are Screened · · Score: 1

    "Revolutionary" = Motive
    "Terrorism" = Means

    You can be both, as in the example of Timothy McVeigh.

  2. Re:it's not so funny on Man Sues Neighbor Claiming Wi-Fi Made Him Sick · · Score: 1

    You are making a lot of claims with no evidence backing them up. "Victim", "headaches from a", "made me sick". A psychosomatic condition doesn't require the laws of physics to be rewritten, and is a far sight more likely than your alleged sensitivity. Talk to James Randi about it, and he'll kick you a million bucks if you can prove you are right.

  3. Re:Bad Analogy on Demand For Unmanned Aircraft Outstripping Their Capabilities · · Score: 1

    Germany opened the Russian flood-gates. Russia, occupying all of Europe, would definitely be a problem for the US.

  4. Re:Why? on Are Consoles Holding Back PC Gaming? · · Score: 1

    Except both Windows PCs and the Xbox 360 both use DirectX, which represents the vast majority of the market.

  5. Re:Cannonical is just trolling us on Ubuntu Will Switch To Base-10 File Size Units In Future Release · · Score: 1

    Or, technically, 512 x 18 x 80 x 2 bytes.

  6. Re:Ha! Russia. on US and Russia Conclude Arms-Control Treaty · · Score: 1

    Bullshit. Recent adventures around the world have shown that US troops are not as well-trained s they could be, and in fact that the US military relies on equipment more than training, preferring to throw money at a problem rather than time and effort. The US soldier of old might have been something special, but these days they most certainly are not.

  7. Re:Not what we need on Bill Gates May Build Small Nuclear Reactor · · Score: 1

    Did you watch the video, or are you guessing? :)

  8. Re:No personal electronics for pilots? on Senate Votes To Replace Aviation Radar With GPS · · Score: 1

    Laptops showing maps = not personal
    Laptops showing pr0n = personal

    It's pretty easy. If the pilot is using some electronics in the course of his job, then it's not personal. If he's goofing off or using something completely inappropriate (cuisinart, 3-bar electric fire) then it's personal.

  9. Re:Radar detects stuff without GPS. on Senate Votes To Replace Aviation Radar With GPS · · Score: 1

    Most ATC radars are not active, but require planes to have transponders, in order to work. So it can only see transponder-enabled stuff. There are still, and will always be, radars around that are active, which do and always will look for planes without transponders or GPS returns. So I don't see a problem.

  10. Re:No free lunch, but a range of benefits. on The Woes of Munich's Linux Migration · · Score: 1

    Being concerned with where you live is not the same as equating yourself with where you live. I don't know where you got that impression.

  11. Re:Thats ok , as an XP user on Internet Explorer 9 Will Not Support Windows XP · · Score: 1

    Sun VirtualBox definitely does.

  12. Re:No free lunch, but a range of benefits. on The Woes of Munich's Linux Migration · · Score: 1

    Antivirus software exists for both Linux and OS X, by the way. Your argument is trolly, as it's not even true. But anyway, you had your ass handed to you by the moderators already for that one, so fair enough.

  13. Re:No free lunch, but a range of benefits. on The Woes of Munich's Linux Migration · · Score: 1

    Surely the world would be much better off without nationalism. Just as the world is better off without Townism, Caveism, and Familyism. We are bigger than our countries make us look. Being proud of other people's achievements makes as much sense as being full after someone else eats dinner. You didn't do it, so why be proud of it? Simply because the person doing something cool was accidentally born in the same place you were accidentally born? How does that make sense? It's just people trying to find pride in anything that will, in their opinion, make them seem better to other folks. Only the insecure need nationalism & patriotism. Those secure enough don't need to wave someone else's flag to feel good about themselves, or to feel like they belong.

  14. Re:The wise user will wait on Microsoft Announces Windows 7 SP1 · · Score: 1

    If MS included one in Windows they'd be slapped with an antitrust suit from Adobe in milliseconds.

  15. Re:Oh, they WILL be paying. on Wikipedia's Assault On Patent-Encumbered Codecs · · Score: 1

    If by a handful of change you mean a few cents, then yeah - it's practically free for all involved. Teh horrorz!

  16. Re:...what? on Lord British's Lost Lunar Rover Found, After 37 Years · · Score: 1

    Oh snap.

  17. Re:$1.4 Billion on The Death of the US-Mexico Virtual Fence · · Score: 1

    The first European immigrants didn't bother to do that, so why should everyone else? It seems a bit of a double-standard. Especially when loads of immigrants stay in areas that have historically belonged to a certain Spanish-speaking country. Or are you asking for all non-Spanish-speakers in SoCal to start speaking Spanish? :)

  18. Re:What a fracking waste!!! on The Bloodhound Will Stay On the Ground At 1,000 mph · · Score: 1

    It's being used to get kids excited about science, so the real benefit is whatever those kids possibly produce.

  19. Re:Avoid non-carrier providers! on Best Pre-Paid Data Plan For a Visit To Germany? · · Score: 1

    I'm on O2 in Germany with a Palm Pre, and the 3G is fantastic, when not in the deepest, darkest Schwarzwald.

  20. Re:Not the point of onlive on OnLive Remote Gaming Service Launches In June · · Score: 1

    They should allow people to buy the games via their service, and have physical discs mailed to the user, and allow the user to then play them on their service. Then if the service goes tits-up, all the users still have the games they paid for, though they'll then have to buy/make a computer good enough to play them.

  21. Re:drop proprietary software? on BBC To Make Deep Cuts In Internet Services · · Score: 1

    Very interesting. I'll have to look into this. It'll most likely be very easily defeated.

  22. Re:drop proprietary software? on BBC To Make Deep Cuts In Internet Services · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you use a debugging proxy you can find the short xml that is sent saying that the stream is not available to international users. That URL is the only one that needs proxying via the UK to get the RTMP streams. The RTMP streams can be accessed directly from anywhere.

  23. Re:drop proprietary software? on BBC To Make Deep Cuts In Internet Services · · Score: 1

    There was no DRM on the BBC iPlayer's streams of "Life", short of checking the IP address of the computer requesting the playlist. Once the computer has the playlist, it doesn't matter where it is in the world - it could stream the programme just fine. Heck, a standard Flash player using the FLVPlayback component can play the BBC's RTMP streams perfectly.

  24. Re:So good it's a verb on 20 Years of Photoshop · · Score: 1

    Adobe's stuff works fine on Windows. Maybe it's not Adobe's fault?

  25. HERTI is not armed on Armed Robot Drones To Join UK Police Force · · Score: 2, Informative

    The HERTI is not armed - it is purely reconnaissance. The BAE Fury is the armed version.