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  1. Re:Tributes on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With University Firewalls? · · Score: 1

    I find it silly that they would block off a huge host of seemingly random websites for "safety" reasons...

    I don't. Whenever you see such a policy, it means that someone who doesn't know WTF they are talking about established the policy.

  2. Re:uhhh. on Open Letter By Eric S. Raymond To Chris Dodd · · Score: 1

    We may often disagree, but I have to agree with you here.

  3. Re:Reality starting to set in on State Legislatures Attempt To Limit TSA Searches · · Score: 1

    Fine. Again you argue for what I'm arguing for - moderation.

    Just shut the hell up and accept that we are both saying the same damn thing.

  4. Re:Puppet on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Install Ubuntu On 30 Laptops and Keep Them In Sync? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is the argument of a stuck-up admin who runs a handful of machines.

    Stick a zero or two on the number of machines you manage and see how your tune changes.

  5. Re:Mine now! on After US v. Jones, FBI Turns Off 3,000 GPS Tracking Devices · · Score: 1

    Ask and you shall receive: Statistics.

    Recall that licenses expire after 10 years, so dead/uninterested people do fall out of the numbers with at most a 10 year latency.

  6. Re:Reality starting to set in on State Legislatures Attempt To Limit TSA Searches · · Score: 1

    What you just described is right there in the middle. I meant literally "no security" and "maximum security" and said a compromise would be best, and you go come back saying essentially the same thing - but you managed to say I was wrong at the same time.

  7. Re:I dunno, are they? on RIM Trying To Woo Customers With Porn, Gambling Apps? · · Score: 1

    Probably not.

    Incidentally where I live is almost dead between the two places I've worked since moving here.

    I'm looking to move again though. Too many low income neighbors, and the only practical path to work is a traffic nightmare.

  8. Re:Really? on RIM Trying To Woo Customers With Porn, Gambling Apps? · · Score: 2

    But that's expensive! ... also some of us hate going out and playing that whole game anyway. Just about the only chance I'm getting any is a coworker or someone knocking on my door... and I doubt the last one ever happens.

  9. Re:I dunno, are they? on RIM Trying To Woo Customers With Porn, Gambling Apps? · · Score: 1

    What about the poor folks like me, having to pay $100 a week because we got one of the tiny non-phallus-enhancing ones?

    It sucks for everyone.

    On the bright side, my non-compensation helps me compensate. It's kind of a reverse psychology :P

  10. Re:Its a SWISS, not a Swedish firm on North Korea's High-Tech Counterfeit $100 Bills · · Score: 1

    No, they speak Spanish with a Mexican accent, with some different idioms.

    You take a person from Maine, Washington, Georgia, and Texas - they all speak English, though the same holds true there as it does between Spain and Mexico.

  11. Re:$850 vs. $10,000 -- WTF, Judge! on User Successfully Sues AT&T For Throttling iPhone Data · · Score: 1

    So you're saying a contract can override a decision by a judge? That doesn't seem right.

  12. Re:That's nothing. on North Korea's High-Tech Counterfeit $100 Bills · · Score: 1

    1x -1 Troll combined with 2x +1 Underrated will result in a 2, Troll.

  13. Re:Don't steal on North Korea's High-Tech Counterfeit $100 Bills · · Score: 1

    They used to counterfeit, then they took a dollar in the printer.

    I mean, while we're at it with the shitty memes.

  14. Re:Its a SWISS, not a Swedish firm on North Korea's High-Tech Counterfeit $100 Bills · · Score: 1

    That's not as bad as people who think you can speak Mexican...

  15. Re:paying their due on North Korea's High-Tech Counterfeit $100 Bills · · Score: 1

    No, see he's resolving the symbolic link (puppet) to China. :P

  16. Re: oh no! on Vaccine Could Cut Heroin Addiction · · Score: 1

    Die in a fire.

  17. Re:Then let's test these next on Submitting "Nuking the Fridge" To Scientific Peer Review · · Score: 1

    That would be "Zìyóu!!!" ... at least, that's what Google says. I don't speak it :P

  18. Re:A child died, playing hide and seek on Submitting "Nuking the Fridge" To Scientific Peer Review · · Score: 1, Troll

    So you're implying that there are no refrigerators in the USA older than 50 years? Was there a Great Refrigerator Purge that I never heard of?

    You're not omnipotent. Stop thinking you are.

  19. Re:Reality starting to set in on State Legislatures Attempt To Limit TSA Searches · · Score: 1

    No, i was being lazy. I didn't want to be bothered spelling it out, but it looks like I have to. Look through the below, please add some extra points if you wish. From what I've quickly drawn up, both moderate solutions look best to me, and I lean towards #2. In all cases the two extremes are the worst, which means the 'best' answer must be a moderation (meaning, as I said, this is not a moderation fallacy).

    Just because I didn't spell it out for you doesn't mean the supporting ideas don't exist.

    Extreme 1: no security
    Pros: hassle approaching nil, best speed
    Cons: security approaching nil

    Extreme 2: maximal security
    Pros: sense of security, actual security is furthest away from nil
    Cons: maximum hassle, worst speed

    Moderation 1: lean to no security
    Pros: still fast, minimal hassle
    Cons: poor security (but still not as bad as Extreme 1)

    Moderation 2: lean to maximal security
    Pros: Security is next-to-furthest away from nil (closes to extreme 2). Speed/hassle can be minimized
    Cons: Possible false sense of security. Speed/hassle can be significantly impacted.

  20. Re:Reality starting to set in on State Legislatures Attempt To Limit TSA Searches · · Score: 1

    Except this is NOT a moderation fallacy, because the compromise in the middle ground is actually correct. This is not a binary choice, and in fact both extremes have a rather large count of downsides. Maybe I'm not looking at it right / don't have the whole picture - but that's not true in the healthy middle ground here.

  21. Re:What?!? on Nigerian Scam Artists Taken For $33,000 · · Score: 1, Informative

    Which has anything to do with however put that idiocy in the summary (eg a question the damn story linked to explicitly answers)?

  22. Re:Reality starting to set in on State Legislatures Attempt To Limit TSA Searches · · Score: 1

    Yes! Extremes are good!

    No, no they aren't. What we have now is just as stupid as no screenings at all.

  23. Re:Soviet Russia on Developer's View: Real Life Inspirations Or Abstract Ideas? · · Score: 1

    All I have to say is "you got me!"

  24. Re:Digital natives is an absurd idea on Developer's View: Real Life Inspirations Or Abstract Ideas? · · Score: 1

    Your 28? Well, you're 8 years past the point the article is talking about.