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  1. Re:Doctors and celebrities on Fake Antivirus Peddlers Outpacing Real AV Firms · · Score: 1

    M.E.??

    You're telling me people would take medical advice from a fake coroner??

    I believe it, I just don't believe it!

  2. Re:Please appeal, on Terry Childs Found Guilty · · Score: 1

    $100 per day? Let us know what you think is a "decent" amount of money when you get out of school....

  3. Re:It should read 'stoopid people hath spoken' on Terry Childs Found Guilty · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Eventually instead of doing mayor stuff, all of the mayor's time would be tied up with having to deal with all sorts of insignificant chickenshit stuff because some self-important flunky wanted attention from the big boss man in order to feel important instead of sticking with the chain of command.

    Interesting idea. But what's the down side?

  4. Re:The city was GOING to win. on Terry Childs Found Guilty · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the recovery of those passwords would have been obvious to a competent sysadmin. Is there evidence that his successors were, in fact, competent sysadmins?

  5. Re:It should read 'stoopid people hath spoken' on Terry Childs Found Guilty · · Score: 1

    two words: Jimmy Carter...

  6. Re:The Land of Milk and honey on Bridging the Digital Divide In Uganda, By Freight · · Score: 1

    First, the moral position: If I was them, I'd come here. I can't hold it against them if they do what I would do if I were in their place. How could I do that? I could tell myself I was an idiot? Legal?

    Immigration policy doesn't have anything to do with moral superiority, and although there are people trying to make the case on the basis of racism, that's really not useful to immigration policy either.

    The reason to have an immigration policy is because you can only assimilate so many people into your culture. And if you're talking about a refugee situation where part of the problem is cultural, you've got to set your limits at somewhere where you're going to be able to assimilate the newcomers, or you'll choke and lose your own culture and risk losing the success that came with it as well.

    Now, you need to do an honest assessment of your assimilation ability, or you'll end up doing silly things like keeping the same quotas you had when your country was a tenth its current population, and you need to enforce that policy, or.. you don't have a policy, and worse, you have established a precedent for ignoring policies in other areas as well.

    But you can't just say, "well, let's not have a policy, then, if it means we have to turn people away" unless you're willing to live with the consequences, one of which being the very real possibility of an equalization of conditions, in favor of the less favorable conditions.

  7. Re:14k buys a lot of film. on How To Get 39 Megapixels From a 53-Year-Old Camera · · Score: 1

    NASA is phasing out film. Most astronomy is done with CCDs now for the higher quantum efficiency....

  8. Re:From what I've heard, it really is that bad... on Was Flight Ban Over Ash an Overreaction? · · Score: 1

    No, I think they are employees, who will be pressured into flying. If it's "voluntary" then the guy with the big pockets is the one who does the volunteering.

  9. Re:ROT13 on Mass. Data Security Law Says "Thou Shalt Encrypt" · · Score: 1

    If you're not using ROT52, you're not playing with a full deck.

  10. Re:From what I've heard, it really is that bad... on Was Flight Ban Over Ash an Overreaction? · · Score: 1

    No there shouldn't, because you still have to put pilots in the situation of flying the planes you've "willingly agreed to"

    Further, it's unnecessary. Transatlantic ocean liners can go from London to NY in something like three days. Granted there aren't many of them, but still, if you're anywhere in the EU and planes are grounded for an indeterminate time and your first calls aren't to Cunard and Eurostar, you're just just not that interested in returning to the US.

  11. Re:I'm not worried. on Don't Talk To Aliens, Warns Stephen Hawking · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm pretty sure that the real guide has "Kindle" printed on the top...

  12. Re:Steven Hawking = Roland Emmerich? on Don't Talk To Aliens, Warns Stephen Hawking · · Score: 1

    The only thing I can think of is art. I mean, let's face it, space aliens can get huge quantities of iron in much more managable clumps on a number of bodies in this star system alone.

    But art produced by humans might be curiosity enough to warrant actually visiting us. For a time.

  13. Re:His Master's Voice on Don't Talk To Aliens, Warns Stephen Hawking · · Score: 1

    I think they're "people-like" since it's been clearly shown that hybrids are possible. Heck the fertility of said hybrids hasn't yet been established, so they might very well be Homo Sapiens.

    Either that or the writers failed biology. One of those.

  14. Re:If you're that concerned about "privacy" on Facebook Retroactively Makes More User Data Public · · Score: 1

    Perhaps his worry is that they'll stop?

  15. Re:Facebook Deepens Ties with Intelligence Agencie on Facebook Retroactively Makes More User Data Public · · Score: 1

    That sounds an awful lot like sim city 2000....

  16. Re:The media really are pussies on South Park's Episode 201 — the Expurgated Version · · Score: 1

    Many Muslims are in a situation similar to what we went through with Crusades and the like.

    They're living under the constant fear of steadily advancing muslim invaders?

  17. Re:Look Around You, Look Around You, Look Around Y on Economy Tanked While Government Surfed Porn · · Score: 1

    Please, can we stop calling it "smut?" Smut is really, really, really gross.

  18. Re:Look Around You, Look Around You, Look Around Y on Economy Tanked While Government Surfed Porn · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you missed this part:

    In fact, Slashdot was specifically mentioned as an acceptable site to visit

  19. Re:Not news on Economy Tanked While Government Surfed Porn · · Score: 1

    I think the real question is why, following Obama's rhetoric, did GS's stock go up?

  20. Re:No... on Lawmakers Want a Space Shuttle In New York City · · Score: 1

    We do have something better than the shuttle to replace it with. Nothing. Many of us would jump at the chance to work for Nasa, but every dollar they spend is a dollar extracted from an american citizen under the threat of violence. What do they do that justifies it?

    If a donation or for-profit manned-flight organization wouldn't work, then the people would vote with their dollars what they cannot vote with their votes: they don't want it.

    Government waste sucks, even when they're wasting it on something I want.

  21. Re:I'd go back to NYC just to see it on Lawmakers Want a Space Shuttle In New York City · · Score: 1

    It has a huge indoor climate controlled space. The entire hangar deck is, atm, a nice, but somewhat sparse air-conditioned museum. I don't know the dimensions, though, it might be a tight squeeze, and it might not even be possible to get something the size of an orbiter in there without making temporary hull modifications to improve an opening.

    The main problem I see with the Intrepid is.. it's a boat. It's not going to last 500 years, even if the HVAC keeps getting repaired. At some point you're going to have to retire the hull, and that means moving the space ship somewhere.

  22. Re:Fractions on At Issue In a Massachusetts Town, the Value of Two-Thirds · · Score: 1

    No, you wanted, IF( 3*count(yeas) >= 412 ) { vote->passes }

    Why do divisions *at all* if you don't need to?

  23. Re:basic math on At Issue In a Massachusetts Town, the Value of Two-Thirds · · Score: 1

    Do illegal immigrants count as "all other persons" for representational purposes?

  24. Re:Apple behind this? on Group Calls For Google Antitrust Probe · · Score: 1

    Uh.. If the penetration of iPods is 75%, it meets at least some of the qualifications of a monopoly, or at least it did until iTMS went DRM-free.

  25. Re:As a Cox customer let me say on Cox Discontinues Usenet, Starting In June · · Score: 1

    The latest ad campaign started with a commercial where, after a short buildup, a door opens and thousands of tiny white men pour forth..

    In more recent ads those tiny white men are shown having gotten into everything, including overrunning a woman's apartment....

    How has no one noticed this?