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  1. Re:The /. crowd is no better on Designer Tweets Egyptian Riots Due to His New Line Coming Out · · Score: 1

    You must not have been paying attention for the last decade or two. Commercial free speech is the only form of free speech protected by the US Government.

  2. Re:Too limited on Japan's Elderly Nix Robot Helpers · · Score: 1

    I was thinking more of Galatea from "The Bicentennial Man."

  3. Re:Xenophobia... on Japan's Elderly Nix Robot Helpers · · Score: 1

    </humor>Exactly, the solution to this problem is not robots, its Mexicans. <humor>

    Fixed that for you!

  4. Re:It's all about the Superbowl on Senator Wyden Asks DHS To Explain Domain Seizures · · Score: 1

    "They also want to make sure no other thieves have time to launch and promote similar sites."

    I think "other" in this case means other than the NFL which is a racketeering enterprise. The timing of the move will mean fewer streams, but greater profits for those sources, and isn't that what government is really all about the concentration of wealth in hands of as few as possible? I am certain that a Google search on Sunday will be sufficient.

  5. Re:Deregulation on Prison Cell Phone Smuggling Out of Control · · Score: 1

    For example, we know that there is a high rate of re-offence among people who have been in prison. How does restricting contact among family and friends affect that?

    We know that the influences of family and friends were insufficient to keep the prisoner on the straight and narrow in the first place. Why would we expect those influences to be better the second time around? Isn't that expectation the definition of insanity?

  6. Re:2GB is far too little for "unlimited" on Verizon To Throttle High-Bandwidth Users · · Score: 2

    Please advise the CODECS that provide near lossless quality at 32 kb/s. I wish to start using them.

  7. Re:ha ? on Apple eBook Rules Changing For Sellers · · Score: 2
    Not 30% - 42.8% (1/.70 - 1)

    30% is 30% of the gross, not of the current selling price.

  8. Re:h-t-t-p colon slash slash on What’s the Internet? (on 1994's Today Show) · · Score: 1

    Half of the browsers and/or DNS's required that the URL be entered in its entirety. Few users would know why they couldn't get to the desired website if they failed to enter the full address.

  9. Re:Many a medical tool has gone to never come back on Do Tools Ever 'Die?' · · Score: 1

    Politicians and advertisers still blow smoke up our asses, but they use television.

  10. Re:Terrible. on Bing Is Cheating, Copying Google Search Results · · Score: 1

    The question is whether the end user has the legal right to disclose to Microsoft the results provided by Google. Isn't this corporate espionage in tiny increments?

    The MS EULA should say "You agree to act as a corporate spy for Microsoft by providing information from Microsoft competitors which was derived through their proprietary processes".

  11. Whose propaganda is this anyway? on Has China Already Flown a Space Plane? · · Score: 1

    In the 1960's the US military-industrial complex consistently reported that the US was suffering a "Missile Gap" with the USSR claiming, falsely, that the US had less offensive nuclear armed missile capability. I wonder who has the most to gain from this type of report.

  12. Re:Dosen't this give the people more choice ? on New Hampshire Bill Could Lead To Adoption of Approval Voting · · Score: 1

    I see it helping mainstream candidates a big boost. The moderate Democrats and Republicans can't get support from their own parties if they cross the line on too many issues. Those are the candidates who would best represent us.

  13. Re:Just under 900lbs. on Volkswagen Unveils 313 MPG XL1, Slates Production For 2013 · · Score: 1

    It is a two seater, four obese men won't be an issue. I suspect the cockpit will not accommodate a 400 lb. person any better than a typical subcompact does today.

  14. Catapults are for stones ... on Drug Catapult Found At US-Mexico Border · · Score: 1

    Not Stoners!

  15. Re:We do? on Betelgeuse To Blow Up Soon — Or Not · · Score: 1

    As geeks, we can only hope the core of Betelgeuse undergoes catastrophic failure in our lifetime.

    Personally I hope it exploded about the time the Great Wall of China was begun,and that the median estimated distance is on the money. That way in a few years children will have far more to learn from Betelgeuse than constellations or colors.

  16. Re:Yay! on The Case of Apple's Mystery Screw · · Score: 1

    Can we instead say that Apple provides an alternative for those who prefer it? I don't buy how Apple is perfect and a superior user experience.

    You must be right-handed, the positioning of many of the GUI elements favors southpaws. The inability to rescale most of those elements is inexcusable. I use a MacBook and Mac Mini and I agree that there is little that is superior to Windows XP, save the immunity from malware, and the extended time between reboots. Finder is remarkably lame, MS Office is lame, iTunes is lame, iWorks is incredibly lame, iLife is lame, but you can find good replacements for all of them.The primary advantage for me is that I can now claim ignorance about how to fix PC's; owning an Apple has saved me hundreds of hours.

  17. Car analogy needed on Experiment Shows Not Washing Jeans for 15 Months is Disgusting But Safe · · Score: 1

    I don't understand this, could someone please give me a car analogy so I don't have to think too hard?

  18. Re:But then what kind of asshole on DSL Installation Fail · · Score: 1

    I am not a supporter of the Tea Party, but they favor limits on the Federal government which would have zero impact on the situation. The utilities would be answerable to the local government.

  19. Re:Stop radio piracy! on Sony, Universal Hope To Beat Piracy With 'Instant Pop' · · Score: 1

    WOR in New York, 7/66, beat KSHE by a year, if their format does not meet your definition then KMPX in San Francisco still beat KSHE to the punch. The link you provided is full of BS - Black Sabbath didn't form as group until 1968, Paranoid was released in 1970 and he cites them as receiving airplay prior to the station's format change - The author is talking out his ass.

  20. Re:Sucks on Firefox 4 Beta 9 Out, Now With IndexedDB and Tabs On Titlebar · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, it doesn't work on my Macbook 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo OS X 10.6.6 either.

  21. Re: Who Be Da Boss? on Should Employees Buy Their Own Computers? · · Score: 1

    If I can't afford better gear than my employer I need to get a better paying employer. I have always owned better gear than my employer provided, I wouldn't have it any other way.

  22. Re:He could always... on Patriot Act Up For Renewal, Nobody Notices · · Score: 1

    You know, for most of the last two years I thought the Democrats kept bowing to Republican pressure because they were spineless, but now I'm not so sure. I think now the entire Democratic Party is shifting further to the right and filling the vacuum left by the Republicans, who have been shifting even further to the right. A 1970s (or even 1980s) Republican would be almost indistinguishable from a modern Democrat. The so-called Blue Dog Democrats have taken over the party. Meanwhile, true progressives have no voice in government anymore.

    There are half as many blue dogs (26) this year as last (54). Clearly they are not taking over the party. I would agree that there are no true progressives in power, nor are there the true Goldwater conservatives, and I think we would be much better off with more of both.

  23. Re:Performance clauses on Low Quality Alloy Cause of Shuttle Main Tank Issue · · Score: 2

    I am an engineer in the supply side for the nuclear power industry, we have to retrain your kind extensively - our paperwork is measured in avoirdupois kiloshitloads. Good paperwork is no substitute for good quality. The process has to be designed so that it will will consistently deliver the intended product, not merely meet specifications. I would bet that the CMTRs (Certified Material Test Reports) for the batch of stringers that have failures show the material met specs. Meeting specs is what QA is all about, but the right specs and requirements (often supplementary) must to be imposed, and in this case they probably were not. The contractor delivered a defective assembly, and no amount of paperwork is going to change that. One can only speculate on whether there were documents falsified or the process was insufficiently rigorous.

  24. Re:Sometime on Fed Goes Hunting For Malcontents · · Score: 1

    We have always been at war with Eastasia. This Kool-Aid tastes funny!

    I assume you intended you post as the setup for a punchline since you can't be serious with that drivel, "We can do better, and we will." What we here is an attempt to further disengage our government from control by the populous and you seem to think we should blithely go on our merry way ignoring the the progressive erosion of personal liberties,and the increasing concentration of power in government and corporate entities. We can only "do better" if a lot of people stand up and show that we are not satisfied with the current state of affairs or the current course of our government.

  25. Re:Happy Workers! on Fed Goes Hunting For Malcontents · · Score: 1

    Stop trying to control anything outside of their job. Your mindset is part of the problem.