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  1. Re:There is this button. on Distracted Driving: All Lip Service With No Legit Solution · · Score: 1

    Or just listen to music and only check your phone at red lights. It's not that hard, at least to me?

    Then again self driving cars may fix this some day.

  2. Re:Time to move into the Century of the fruit bat. on Oklahoma Botched an Execution With Untested Lethal Injection Drugs · · Score: 1

    100% wrong. Read what this man did and then ask yourself how we've set up a society that let him get to that point, and we're not just talking about guns.

    We're talking about the behaviors that enabled things to get to this point. Why have we created a society where we have such corruption that people are choosing to resort to robbery, for example?

  3. Re:Why would I work for free to make Apple rich? on Apple's Spotty Record of Giving Back To the Tech Industry · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not true.

    GPL doesn't restrict people from using the software any way they want. It restricts them from preventing anyone else from using the software any way they want.

    Which matters - let me know how trying to run Apple on non-apple hardware without paying for a license goes, in comparison to a GPL'd OS.

  4. Re:Bu the wasn't fired on Mozilla CEO Firestorm Likely Violated California Law · · Score: 0

    Resignation is a resignation. There isn't a discussion over how forced it was/wasn't, if it's a resignation.

  5. Re:Someone has to be in charge on Linus Torvalds Suspends Key Linux Developer · · Score: 1

    No, it's not hard to know.

    It's a literal "Fuck you", just without using words.

  6. Re:Grabs popcorn on Department of Transportation Makes Rear View Cameras Mandatory · · Score: 2

    You have the right idea, but your injury costs, deaths, and sensor costs are both wrong and based on the summary. If you RTFA it's 200+ deaths a year and 15 thousand injuries (not 1100), so we're talking almost $550M right there based on your back of a napkin numbers.

    Even the government may be stereotyped as stupid but they are surely able to do this kind of cost/benefit analysis better than a random anon post.

  7. Re:wait a minute... on eBay Japan Passwords Revealed As Username+123456 · · Score: 1

    Zeus has 99.97% uptime in our environment.

  8. Re:Does it matter? on Did Facebook Buy Oculus To Counter Google Glass? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's more simple than that. Another case of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B... aka bad posts from a bad author who consistently posts complete fucking garbage.

  9. Re:Taking bets here.. on NSA General Counsel Insists US Companies Assisted In Data Collection · · Score: 1

    This is hilarious. You don't have to be born powerful to be in those situations. In fact, it's likely the small fry at companies who are targeted. Other NSA ops seem to confirm this. You're just confirming that you would be a target.

    See, ain't this shit grand?

  10. Re:NSA claims Google and others are lying on Gmail Goes HTTPS Only For All Connections · · Score: 4, Informative

    Please. This was debunked already. http://www.techdirt.com/articl...

  11. Re:Taking bets here.. on NSA General Counsel Insists US Companies Assisted In Data Collection · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What I find is hilarious is that "being forced to comply" is considered "assisting".

    Apparently when your only choice is jail or compliance, somehow you're assisting in the process.

  12. Re:Not the only reason..... on Why Buy Microsoft Milk When the Google Cow Is Free? · · Score: 1

    Oh hey, maybe there's a lot of details you could be missing before you make up something like this. You know, like "what you're using" and "Where you make this shit up"?

    You can access google drive from any browser, unless you plan on running IE6.

  13. Re:Most Transparent Ever! on Obama Administration Transparency Getting Worse · · Score: 2

    Anything refused under that angle is basically denial of working with the FOIA process, basically using "national security" as an excuse to get out of everything via the loophole as designed.

    That is exactly a lack of transparency, not an excuse for it.

  14. Re:Just start the war already! on Ukraine May Have To Rearm With Nuclear Weapons Says Ukrainian MP · · Score: 1

    Them being ethnically russian has absolutely zero bearing on intentionally driving up tensions between people in a single region, as you note yourself in the second sentence. This isn't an "ethnic cleansing" like Armenia. Just as there are peaceful middle eastern folk who live freely in Israel, there are peaceful Russians who live freely in Ukraine.

    I don't know how someone in such a position can't even pronounce Kiev properly though, that's pretty fucking sad from a cultural perspective. That part of things (and US involvement in general) is indeed a fucking insult/joke. However, I certainly wouldn't be able to tell you what the right answer/response is here.

  15. Re:Just start the war already! on Ukraine May Have To Rearm With Nuclear Weapons Says Ukrainian MP · · Score: 1

    "Some part of Crimea wants them there"?

    You mean the part that is 100% false and this has been shown via evidence?

    http://news.slashdot.org/story...

  16. Re:How are nuclear weapons going to help though? on Ukraine May Have To Rearm With Nuclear Weapons Says Ukrainian MP · · Score: 1

    What makes you think they would?

    This is all posturing and nothing more. It's almost all brought upon by Russia.

  17. Re:Now that's news for nerds on Massachusetts Court Says 'Upskirt' Photos Are Legal · · Score: 1

    You have this backwards. There is no right you have to privacy from public photos. Do show me where you suppose one exists.

  18. Re:Now that's news for nerds on Massachusetts Court Says 'Upskirt' Photos Are Legal · · Score: 1

    Maybe you're still missing the "being in public means being in public" part? You don't get to choose when that's somehow no longer true based on your own non-legal definition when you're still in public.

    Factually incorrect.

  19. Re:Now that's news for nerds on Massachusetts Court Says 'Upskirt' Photos Are Legal · · Score: 1

    Let me tell you outright, you are explicitly wrong. Paparazzi exist to make a profit off public photos without people's permission. There is no such right or law that proves otherwise.

  20. Re:Now that's news for nerds on Massachusetts Court Says 'Upskirt' Photos Are Legal · · Score: 1

    Yep. There are other countries that require this and it becomes quite a problem in general. I believe france may be one of them?

    Requiring permission makes it impossible to exercise free speech and/or take photos, basically.

  21. Re:"... as a means to reduce theft." on Second Federal 'Kill-switch' Bill Introduced Targeting Smartphone Theft · · Score: 1

    Actually, don't forget - if there's a killswitch on your phone, then the people up top would also have it.

  22. Re:to free or not to free on Open Source Initiative, Free Software Foundation Unite Against Software Patents · · Score: 1

    It's not that they are or aren't free (BSD), is that the freedom can be removed.

  23. Re:Good to see them working together on Open Source Initiative, Free Software Foundation Unite Against Software Patents · · Score: 1

    This is a logical impossibility.

    By your comment, either there is infighting (by agreeing with the post I had replied to), or I'm causing infighting (by disagreeing).

  24. Re:Good to see them working together on Open Source Initiative, Free Software Foundation Unite Against Software Patents · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Your ad-hominem issues with Stallman have no bearing on his academic achievements and the work he has done for F/"LOSS", so your comment loses relevance entirely.

    Just because the man sticks up for his values which (when people aren't taking low hanging fruit and complaining about his physical behavior) happen to be factually correct, doesn't mean that he's too divisive. It means the FOSS community people are compromising their values and giving in to the opposite of their values.

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