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  1. Re:Sigh on Airborne Boeing Laser Blasts Ground Target · · Score: 1

    Nicely done. I don't get this attitude that just because "X important historical figure" said something, it's the undisputed truth.

  2. Re:Sigh on Airborne Boeing Laser Blasts Ground Target · · Score: 1

    What international convention is the US a party to, that it doesn't follow? Specifically?

    I must say, while I don't appreciate the troll mod of my previous post, I love that the parent is modded 80% Funny as of this posting.

  3. Re:Let's hope... on Canadian Hate-Speech Law Violates Charter of Rights · · Score: 1

    While I certainly support the speaker's right to free speech, it should be noted that Canada and the United States have a Visa Waiver Program in effect whereby Canadian citizens need only a passport to cross the border legally.

    Just because we're in the US without a visa doesn't mean we're here illegally.

  4. Re:15 foot? on Happy Birthday, Internet! · · Score: 1

    Thank God for lottery balls.

  5. Re:Sigh on Airborne Boeing Laser Blasts Ground Target · · Score: 0, Troll

    The funny thing is that you expect the United States to follow any international convention ever.

  6. Re:Sony with your Sony on PS3-Compatible Phone Coming In October · · Score: 1

    Oh, fanboys. You will always be useful to the rest of us as a sure source of shadenfreude.

  7. Re:I am probably going to get run off for this on UK Plans To Link Criminal Records To ID Cards · · Score: 1

    You forget that criminal background will be reduced to YES or NO in practically every HR division ever, just like it is now. It'll just be easier for them to get that negative or positive hit.

    So, no, I don't think it's a good thing, unless it had controls whereby crimes over, say, seven years ago simply did not show up on a background check, period.

  8. Re:Hooray technology on PS3-Compatible Phone Coming In October · · Score: 1

    The whole point of this phone is to make the PS3 a requirement, so they're basically splitting its firmware in half, between the phone and the PS3. It's actually kinda interesting, in a horribly evil sort of way.

  9. Sony with your Sony on PS3-Compatible Phone Coming In October · · Score: 2, Insightful

    New Sony product enables additional functionality with other Sony products, and nothing else. News at eleven.

  10. Re:Port H1 maps specifically to the windpipe regio on How Many Bits Does It Take To Kill You? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Only if the firewall also performs deep packet inspection. Many bad critters (viruses/bacteria) enter the system by making our firewall(s) think they are innocuous by externally looking link other good critters. It is the payload that is the real problem. If we could teach the body to somehow read the payload before docking with the receptors we could be disease (contracted from viruses/bacteria) free.

    Nanoprobe-supported organs. Once again, Star Trek has beaten us to it.

  11. Re:Universal Orlando on Disney Buys Marvel For $4B · · Score: 1

    This happened when the Paramount parks were sold to Cedar Fair. They basically just rebranded everything, including the rides, to non-trademarked names. Likely something similar will happen if the Universal Orlando park loses its licensing.

  12. Correction on Pirate Bay Archive Goes Online · · Score: 4, Informative

    The site is currently up, with one of their trademark images, this time of a T-shirt with the following on it:

    I spent months of time and millions of dollars to close down The Pirate Bay and all I'll get is this beautiful T-shirt!

    Please never die, TPB, if only for your front page images.

  13. Re:The whining here is PATHETIC. on Wikipedia To Require Editing Approval · · Score: 1

    Yes, because everyone knows there isn't a massive hardware cost of entry to achieve stability anywhere near Wikipedia. Simply having three million plus articles means that you'll need some fast, high memory servers to keep up to even the smallest loads.

    Not to mention that as a user, we don't have access to those articles that have been deleted by the administrators, so there goes half of your "free" claim anyway.

    But feel free to reinforce the stereotype of the evil Wikipedia administrator with black and white, take it or leave it bullshit like this. You're just hastening the exodus of editors from the project. And like it or not, editors are the lifeblood of Wikipedia, not administrators.

  14. Re:You know what's awful? on 'Awful' Internet Rules Released · · Score: 1

    Good idea, but clearly not fully baked yet: The actual list isn't displayed in the "readability'd" version of the site.

  15. Re:I would like to have universal health care but on SSN Overlap With Micronesia Causes Trouble For Woman · · Score: 1

    And this is better than zero elected in your local insurance company?

  16. Re:I would like to have universal health care but on SSN Overlap With Micronesia Causes Trouble For Woman · · Score: 1

    I've been in Canada.

    And frankly, if you see a problem like that in your government, there are two things you should be doing:

    1. Lobbying to fix it
    2. Getting the hell out of Dodge

    Sitting back and taking it up the ass shouldn't really be an option, but it seems to be what most people choose.

  17. Re:what i would say on SSN Overlap With Micronesia Causes Trouble For Woman · · Score: 1

    What if they're out of the country to avoid having to adhere to that act?

  18. Re:It's the credit companies responsibility on SSN Overlap With Micronesia Causes Trouble For Woman · · Score: 0

    The people who are being hounded ... should be sued.

    Well, that's just mean.

  19. Re:I would like to have universal health care but on SSN Overlap With Micronesia Causes Trouble For Woman · · Score: 1

    And that's why you have the ability to legally replace the government if you don't like them (ignoring, for a moment, the horrible disconnect it is to have a for-profit company that benefits directly from denying claims in charge of your health).

    Besides which, this is a problem of the credit bureaus, not the government.

  20. Re:what i would say on SSN Overlap With Micronesia Causes Trouble For Woman · · Score: 4, Informative

    And when they keep calling you at your job, and insist on speaking to your boss, and call your family, and eventually physically show up at your door, what then?

  21. Re:Screw em on "Hidden" PayPal Fees Inciting Community Unrest · · Score: 2, Interesting

    eBay's Craigslist is actually Kijiji. Thankfully, they haven't fucked with it too much since acquiring it... yet.

  22. Re:I quit using paypal a long time ago on "Hidden" PayPal Fees Inciting Community Unrest · · Score: 1

    Me too. Please tell us.

  23. Re:Sooo on How the Pirate Bay Will Be Legalized · · Score: 1

    Weird, I haven't had that problem. But that's why we have the big, vast interwebs to choose from.

  24. Re:not gonna work on How the Pirate Bay Will Be Legalized · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm sorry, as much as whore analogies are fun, I can't understand what you're saying when there are no cars involved.

  25. Re:Sooo on How the Pirate Bay Will Be Legalized · · Score: 1

    Demonoid is still really good. Just make sure you seed at at least a 1:1 ratio.