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  1. Re:Ontario? on Ontario Teachers' Union Calls For Health-Related Classroom Wi-Fi Ban · · Score: 1

    Did you miss the last election's results? Ontario is only a couple shades lighter blue than Alberta. And the provincial liberals only formed the government by a pretty fine margin.

  2. Re:Past Advice on Canadian Govt To Introduce Massive Internet Surveillance Law · · Score: 1

    By "conservative MPs", do you mean Progressive Conservative or Reform?

  3. Re:Sad on Canadian Govt To Introduce Massive Internet Surveillance Law · · Score: 1

    I think Norway also claims it.

    But we've got the closest settlement (Alert) and we also assigned it a postal code. ;)

  4. Re:Sad on Canadian Govt To Introduce Massive Internet Surveillance Law · · Score: 1

    The north pole is part of Canada.

  5. Re:Ok, Conservative Party on Canadian Govt To Introduce Massive Internet Surveillance Law · · Score: 1

    Because if you don't the evil SPONSORSHIP SCANDAL liberals will get in!!!

    Or the evil BUSINESS DESTROYING SOCIALIST NDP will!

  6. Re:Savage is anti-bullying? on Is Santorum's "Google Problem" a Google Problem? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    1) express your love for another human
    There is nothing preventing gay couples from expressing their love for one another. The government doesn't deal in "love".

    1. Other than the whole "Lawrence v. Texas was wrong" plank Santorum stands on.

    2) raise a family
    There is nothing preventing gay couples from raising a family. Rosie O'Donnel is gay. She has adopted children. Many gay couples have had their own children through a surrogate mother or sperm donor.

    2. Other than the fact that homosexuals are bared from adoption in many states (NY being one exception, along with 17 others. 6 make it explicitly illegal, the remainder have no clear law either way). Also, lack of marriage creates issues with custody and most aspects of family law.

    3) share in the legal protections extended to straight couples/families
    This is why many states have adopted the idea of "Civil Unions", which would give gay couples all the rights, benefits, and responsibilities of marriage. The idea was turned down because it was not called "marriage", even though there is absolutely no law preventing gay couples from having a wedding ceremony or calling themselves married.

    3. Barring a new supreme court ruling on the subject, civil unions are de jure unequal to marriage are they are not guaranteed to cross state lines. Marriage is one of the few cases where the full faith and credit clause works exactly as written. A legal marriage in any state is required to be recognized by any other state.

    But if you really want to get literal, blacks have the same rights as everyone else. There is no law that states that blacks can't get married. The law only refers to which race they are allowed to marry.

    Please explain how these are not equivalent and why anti-same-sex-marriage laws should not join anti-miscegenation laws on the scrap heap of history.

  7. Re:Lax attitudes toward child pornography on Reddit: No More Suggestive Content Featuring Minors · · Score: 1

    Ah, but in this context it generally means "younger than the age of consent" (in the majority of the US). So basically younger than 18.

    I think you mean 16 then. That's the age of consent in 31 states.

    Only 11 set it at 18.

  8. Re:Almost certainly unenforceable on Dealing With an Overly-Restrictive Intellectual Property Policy? · · Score: 1

    Nope, perfectly legal in most states. Welcome to the land of the free to fuck employees.

    Such terms are prohibited in California, Utah, Washington, North Carolina, Kansas, Delaware, and Illinois.

  9. Re:Do companies really use Big Iron anymore? on NASA Unplugs Its Last Mainframe · · Score: 5, Informative

    LPAR is a Logical PARtition, a section of hardware in a mainframe dedicated to one operating system instance. Basically a form of visualization.

    A sysplex is a SYStems comPLEX. Basically a cluster of mainframes.

    Basically, you reboot a single LPAR containing one specific thing rather than the entire physical system or cluster.

    It's basically like having multiple independent servers for each thing, but more reliable and more flexible.

  10. Re:Thanks Canada on Canada ISPs Not Subject To Content Rules, Court Says · · Score: 1

    Yep, you read that right. Your fundamental rights are determined by what the government, courts, and special government bodies(like the CRTC) says they are. In other words, the charter is worth less than the paper it's written on.

    As opposed to every other country where they simply assume such a clause out of whole cloth.

  11. Re:massive battery hog = massive failure. on Tesla Reveals Its Model X Gullwing SUV · · Score: 1

    The 80-100 mile range figure is for the electric Jeep, not the Tesla.

  12. Re:Thank god we still have Radio Shack on The Gradual Death of the Brick and Mortar Tech Store · · Score: 1

    I believe it's something like half your inventory purchases have to be RS stuff, but otherwise you can sell whatever you like from whoever.

  13. Re:Thank god we still have Radio Shack on The Gradual Death of the Brick and Mortar Tech Store · · Score: 3, Informative

    $80. The firmware would be for the macroing capability. The thing also glows and doesn't ghost, so you can press as many keys at once as you like.

  14. Re:Good on Apple Could Lose $1.6 Billion In iPad Lawsuit · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Let Apple taste some of their medicine.

    We're going to need to increase the dosage dramatically if we want them to start paying attention.

  15. Re:What if the content is no longer retrievable on Defendant Ordered To Decrypt Laptop Claims She Had Forgotten Password · · Score: 1

    Here ya go.

    Lest We Remember:
    Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys

  16. Re:Inside my HD there are two very important files on Defendant Ordered To Decrypt Laptop Claims She Had Forgotten Password · · Score: 1

    Because without the hidden volume mounted, truecrypt doesn't know it's there (kinda the point) and will treat that area of the volume as free space and will overwrite it if you try to put too much data into the non-hidden volume.

  17. Re:Best Solution IMO on Using Crowdsourcing To Design More Accessible Elections · · Score: 1

    another idea is to move elections from Tuesdays to Sundays where most people don't work.

    Sounds like an excellent idea to get some more entertainment value out of the religious right.

  18. Re:What was it? on Text Message Brands Quebec Man a Terror Suspect · · Score: 4, Informative

    He said "exploser" which is French for "explode", which he interprets as "succeed" or "blow them away". I am originally from France and I can't say I'm familiar with that specific wording

    Being from France doesn't help you much with informal Quebecois French. It has deviated considerably in the past couple centuries.

  19. Re:Hmmm... on Steve Appleton, Micron CEO, Dies In Plane Crash · · Score: 2

    The universe seems to be retroactively working towards a one Steve limit.

  20. Re:Names... on SpaceX Tries Out Its New SuperDraco Rocket Engine · · Score: 1

    He named is daughter "Allison" after an aircraft engine maker that he liked

    Said company is named after its founder, James Allison.

  21. Re:Mathematics on Super Bowl Bust: Feds Grab 307 NFL Websites; $4.8M · · Score: 2

    The $99 is the "replica" ones. "Authentic" ones are $130-200+.

    "Replica" jerseys look mostly like real jerseys, but aren't quite. The fit is a bit different (they're not designed to fit over pads), as is the construction (slightly different material and stitching), and they drop some of the unneeded features, whereas "authentic" jerseys are what the players actually wear.

  22. Re:Names... on SpaceX Tries Out Its New SuperDraco Rocket Engine · · Score: 1

    How about Little Joe, Redstone, Thor, Juno, Minotaur, Pegasus, Taurus, Vanguard, or Ariane?

  23. Re:You guys knew I'd be chiming in... on Building the Bionic Man · · Score: 2

    The difference between people and PCs is we can't just unscrew a panel, replace a part, and screw the panel back in

    We also generally can't power the machine off while we're doing that either.

  24. Re:Obviously on Tenative Ruling Against Kaleidescape in DVD CCA Case · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually, Superior Court judges in California (like the one this ruling was issued by) are elected.

    The judge in question was elected in 2006, so he's also up for reelection this year.

  25. Re:Hypocrisy on AT&T Threatening To Raise Rates After Merger Failure · · Score: 1

    I would have thought the opposite given that the former AT&T has already T-2000'd itself back into 3 pieces from the original 8, with the new at&t being 5 of those pieces.