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  1. Re:"If the service isn't good, fix it for everybod on Facebook To Pay City $200K-a-Year For a Neighborhood Cop · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The problem is that when that happens, then the city cuts police funding by $200k. Earmarks don't work, unless the person giving them has some say over their use (as an annual grant has). But like the Lotto in Texas going to schools resulted in the school funding from the general fund decreasing by the amount earned in the lotto, the result was exactly the same as if the lotto funded the general fund, but was an easier sell to lie about it's use.

  2. Re:Smooth move, judge on Massachusetts Court Says 'Upskirt' Photos Are Legal · · Score: 1

    No. You are throwing out non sequiturs. If she is "fully dressed" without panties, then her skirt flies up, how is that indecent?

  3. Re:Aliens on Hubble Witnesses Mysterious Breakup of Asteroid · · Score: 1

    I though the total sum of the asteroid belt mass is less than the earth.

  4. Re:and how do they track users across muilt units? on Stanford Team Tries For Better Wi-Fi In Crowded Buildings · · Score: 1

    I've set up static IPs (or reserved DHCP) across hundreds of APs in multiple buildings. Roam all you want from floor to floor, and building to building, and keep your single IP. Oh, and send out another SSID for your neighbor, and he can be on a whole different network, and roam across all the same APs and keep his IP. Hell, it's possible to have one SSID per person, with hundreds of individual people/SSIDs on a single AP, and have all those SSIDs available on all APs in the cluster.

    You are thinking small and "old way".

  5. Re:Liberal arts professors' worst nightmare on College Board To Rethink the SAT, Partner With Khan Academy · · Score: 1

    I took the GRE 10 years out of college, got a perfect score on the math, and not half bad on the rest, never "studied" math after college.

  6. Re:But He Isn't on Should Newsweek Have Outed Satoshi Nakamoto's Personal Details? · · Score: 2

    The name matches. Your turn.

  7. Re:Abjectly false argument on Cops Say NDA Kept Them from Notifying Courts About Cell Phone Tracking Gadget · · Score: 1

    Ah, so my statement is correct, but the person reading it is trying to disagree with my opinion. I didn't give my opinion, I stated the factual definition of "conspiracy" as it applies here, with a topical example. I didn't realize I needed to state my opinion so that it could be properly ridiculed.

  8. Re:Aliens on Hubble Witnesses Mysterious Breakup of Asteroid · · Score: 1

    The future, according to sci fi is either material poor or energy poor, and not both. So if they want our minerals, they don't have any issue with leaving our gravity well.

  9. Re:Smooth move, judge on Massachusetts Court Says 'Upskirt' Photos Are Legal · · Score: 2

    Partially nude consists of someone in the state of undress. If they are taking their panties off on the bus, then they are "partially nude". If the neglected to put them on in the morning, then they are fully dressed.

  10. Re:WTF, MA!? on Massachusetts Court Says 'Upskirt' Photos Are Legal · · Score: 1

    "Short" has nothing to do with it. What the Judge thinks of the practice has nothing to do with it. The perving laws deal with peeping in windows or dressing rooms, not going for unexpected angles to catch people unaware. The law was too explicitly crafted, so missed a "new" attack on women's genitles.

  11. Re:Aliens on Hubble Witnesses Mysterious Breakup of Asteroid · · Score: 1

    Likely, we'll be mined. Why get so many little asteroids, when they could mine a larger planet? Whether it's water, gold, nitrogen, or whatever.

  12. Re:A new law in not what is needed on Massachusetts Court Says 'Upskirt' Photos Are Legal · · Score: 1

    So you don't want the judges to follow the law as written, but to make it up as they go?

  13. Re:What could possibly go wrong on NASA Wants To Go To Europa · · Score: 1

    You hate IMDB so much you don't just link to that as the first attempt, but to a pay site that delf censors for most of the planet?

  14. Re:What could possibly go wrong on NASA Wants To Go To Europa · · Score: 1

    Both of which are from conquered lands.

    The lesson is pillage *before* your burn. Not that the Vatican is a seat of knowledge. They just hold things they've taken from elsewhere.

  15. Re:Good. on Apple Refuses To Unlock Bequeathed iPad · · Score: 1

    In fact, in your example...the apple credentials are more like the safety deposit box itself (not the contents). The contents of a safety deposit box (like the physical Ipad) are indisputably property of the owner but the box itself is merely a storage vessel, which is subject to a contractual agreement with a third party. So I own the contents of my safety deposit box, but I don't get to break into the bank and empty it whenever I feel like.

    I agree it wasn't a perfect analogy. But if you take the "box" as being owned by the bank. You are saying that the bank should open the box, dump the contents on a table, take the box away. In most cases, the person showing up with "rights" to the box assumes the contract on it. They get to keep the box under the same ToS as the previous owner.

  16. Re:What could possibly go wrong on NASA Wants To Go To Europa · · Score: 1

    Because one destruction of knowledge deserves another?

    Aside from the spoils from conquered lands, what "knowledge" do you assert exists within the Vatican?

  17. Re:What could possibly go wrong on NASA Wants To Go To Europa · · Score: 1

    Your joke is lost on everyone outside the US. Netflix just serves up an error page.

  18. Re:Why it's was being reported as suicide.... on Police Say No Foul Play In Death of Bitcoin Exchange CEO Autumn Radtke · · Score: 1

    Everyone dies. He's just indicating priorities.

  19. Re: tl;dr on Are Bankers Paid Too Much? Are Technology CEOs? · · Score: 1

    What are the qualifications? Based on the public articles I see sometimes (more than one should see), lying about having a business or law degree is all you need to do.

  20. Re:"Too much" is an opinion on Are Bankers Paid Too Much? Are Technology CEOs? · · Score: 1

    They feel it is pretty hard to find a suitable new CEO, so the pay rates go way up since the prospect has a lot of leverage.

    Yeah, like the place I worked where the CEO quit, and I applied (from ops manager). The ended up offering the CEO position to the mail boy. It just happens that mail boy was related to the founder of the company. The board's emotions play a bigger part in selection than competency.

  21. Re:The larger question is... on Are Bankers Paid Too Much? Are Technology CEOs? · · Score: 1

    Aside from Lee Iacocca, I don't think there was a competent automotive CEO in the past 50 years. Most of us would have out performed any of them. That's the general level of mediocrity that CEOs are thought of, not the handful of successful ones, but the hundreds of losers that squeeze the quarter and kill the year.

  22. Re:Good. on Apple Refuses To Unlock Bequeathed iPad · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So if my father leaves me his safety deposit box, I get the box, but not the contents? I think you are wrong, an old woman wouldn't have thought anyone would separate them. That you understand the difference doesn't make it as obvious as you declare.

  23. Re:Is that legal in the UK? on Mozilla Is Investigating Why Dell Is Charging To Install Firefox · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yes, that's what "average" means. median is one of the possible averages, and with a normal distribution (how intelligence is distributed), the mean, median, and mode are all equal, and half are above, and half below that number.

  24. Re:..or without a background check? on Facebook Wants To Block Illegal Gun Sales · · Score: 1
    So you are arguing over what the definition of is is. You point out that it's illegal for a "background check" as done by FFL, the most common kind, to be done by a non-FFL, yet object when someone else points out the exact same thing, using slightly different (and, from my perspective, more accurate) wording.

    But tell you what, if you can show me a federal law that says "the only legal method of performing a background check prior to the sale of a firearm is through the NICS", I'll be happy to change my mind. : )

    Try "the only legal method of performing a background check prior to the sale of a firearm for an FFL is through the NICS," and that "required" check is not usable by non FFL for checking buyers, so it's illegal for a private seller to do that "mandatory" (for FFL) background check.

  25. Re:..or without a background check? on Facebook Wants To Block Illegal Gun Sales · · Score: 1

    "It is federally legal for private individuals to sell to other private individuals within the state".

    It is? Even though the Second Amendment forbids the federal government this sort of power?

    So you are objecting, indicating that it's federally illegal for private individuals to sell to other private individuals within the state? If that's not what you are saying, then why are you objecting so strongly to a statement you agree with?