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  1. Re:Makes Sense? on AACS Specifications Released · · Score: 1

    So every week, say, everyone using the SheepMedia Media Player has to download the key update. Two days later, I download my new key for my deAACS program. No harder than what the consumers did. And all is good in the world.

  2. Re:Finally! on Resurrection Ecology Gives Life to Old Eggs · · Score: 1

    No. The best argument for creationism/ID is that in these changes, there is no new genetic information, rather a change in the most common genes. This is plain old natural selection.

    It's no different from light brown-colored humans from a region with moderate sunlight moving to the arctic and the population as a whole becoming lighter over several generations, and then moving to an equatorial region and the genes for dark skin become dominant in the population again, and the population being overall darker than originally.

    The as-yet-unproven part of evolution is that mutations can provide new genetic information, with new structures.

  3. Re:Yawn!!! on Tracking Your Taxes · · Score: 1

    I just set my options to reject third-party cookies. Does the same thing.

  4. Re:National sales tax now on Tracking Your Taxes · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And what do you do with the entrepreneur who builds a small business worth $2 million but has few other assets? He wants to pass the business to his children, but they can't afford the tax. The main reason Wal-Mart is so successful is because of government and sociological disadvantages to the small businesses, not economic or efficiency disadvantages.

  5. Re:National sales tax now on Tracking Your Taxes · · Score: 1

    Customs fees would easily eliminate that loophole.

  6. Re:The morality of the story: on Tracking Your Taxes · · Score: 1

    Tax Freedom Day is friggin early this year. I remember when it was the middle of May. I love tax cuts. But it is still too much.

  7. Re:Patents application on Randomly Generated Paper Accepted to Conference · · Score: 1

    For phone number sequences, it's been done. Check here to avoid violating copyrights when you dial a phone. I recommend using pulse dial from now on.

  8. Re:Social Security Reform on LexisNexis Breach Worse Than Believed · · Score: 1

    And in 1998 (?) Congress passed a law requiring all federal agencies to collect SSNs for various purposes, such as ham radio license renewals, supposedly to catch deadbeat dads. And last year, Congress passed a law requiring all states to collect SSNs of their drivers' license holders if they wanted highway funds. My state, Michigan, was the last state to do so.

    It really ticks me off, though not enough to think of something to do about it.

  9. Re:Screw LexisNexis on LexisNexis Breach Worse Than Believed · · Score: 1

    They won't be obsolete until companies stop paying them, which won't happen for a long time.

  10. Re:Social Security Reform on LexisNexis Breach Worse Than Believed · · Score: 1

    That shouldn't require an SSN. Why can't they be assigned a new unique ID?

  11. Have to ask... on Remote-Controlled Flies · · Score: 1

    How long until a hacker manages to crack it?

  12. Which is why author linked to Snopes... on Google Hacking for Penetration Testers · · Score: 2, Funny

    Which is why author linked to Snopes...

  13. Re:Doesn't that ... on S. Korea Considers Using Armed Robots Along DMZ · · Score: 1

    They're stationed just outside the DMZ, like the current forces, I'm sure.

  14. Similar to what is described in Mark's Gospel? on Ophthalmologists, Physicists Design Bionic Eye · · Score: 1

    That would explain why the blind man at Bethsaida described in Mark 8:22-25 who couldn't see properly after Jesus restored his sight. To copy and paste,

    And they came to Bethsaida, and they brought a blind man to Jesus and implored Him to touch him.

    Taking the blind man by the hand, He brought him out of the village; and after spitting on his eyes and laying His hands on him, He asked him, "Do you see anything?"

    And he looked up and said, "I see men, for I see them like trees, walking around."

    Then again He laid His hands on his eyes; and he looked intently and was restored, and began to see everything clearly.

  15. Re:Audio corollary on Flickering Curiosity? · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's a matter of getting used to the sound, and not being able to hear it anymore.

    I, and I think my siblings, can hear TVs well, and we grew up/are growing up without a TV.

  16. Re:Nope, you are wrong. on British Government Considers Tax on Computers · · Score: 1

    In the U.S., firefighters and emergency medical personell have a similar permission.

  17. Re:I suggest on Experts Suggest Replacing Definition of Kilogram · · Score: 1

    Let's replace the platinum-iridium cylinder the size of a plum with a carbon cylinder the size of several plums!
    Brilliant!

  18. Re:Don't click on Dvorak on How Microsoft Can Kill Linux · · Score: 1

    Parent is right, Windows drivers are far to bloated.
    I'm still upset at my parent's HP scanner/fax/printer that took TWENTY MINUTES to install >500 MEGABYTES of crap on my computer.

  19. Re:Equal time for plano-terrestrialism on Creationist Textbook Stickers Declared Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    That was a rounding error. With pi, it's impossible to eliminate. If those verses implied that pi was 3.14, would you complain that it is wrong, since it didn't give the figure of 3.14159?

  20. Re:I did RTFA on Pair Arrested After Telling Lawyer Jokes · · Score: 1

    "Judges are lawers"

    They weren't, always. Only about 4 years ago, my state (Michigan) passed a constitutional amendment requiring judges to have been lawyers for 5 years.

    I would have voted against that amendment, had I been old enough to vote at that time...

  21. Re:But I can't dial 9-1-1 ! (FP) on Comcast Begins Rollout of VoIP · · Score: 1

    Because half the time there isn't anyone there. You need the number for the dispatch center, and it's hard to find the number to reach it without dialing 911.

  22. Re:Can't legally volunteer on Skunkworks At Apple -- The Graphing Calculator Story · · Score: 1

    If you noticed, they finally got positions as unpaid vendors. You can't hire employees for $0, perhaps, but I assume you can hire other companies.

  23. Re:Unicorns on AOL Locks Out AIM Screen Names · · Score: 1

    I use AIM all the time, and have over 500 contacts (many old or people I barely know.. but enough to fill 3+ screennames). I know one person who uses ICQ here at my college of 300, and tons who use IM.

    Only a few use Yahoo and MSN, maybe a dozen or less. There's enough that every year people circulate an AIM directory, and hardly any Yahoo or MSN names are on it.

  24. Re:Improvements in data center technologies? on Half of U.S. I.T. Operations Jobs to Vanish · · Score: 1
    That's right. Remember computers with word processing and database software? Did they eliminate secretaries? Or paper? (yeah, right)

    In fact, maybe they did reduce the number of secretaries, but they also increased the number of cube workers who formerly were either office dwellers or their secretaries.

  25. Re:Why so long? on Gunshot Tracking Cameras to be Deployed in LA · · Score: 1

    Yeah, great idea, a gun that only shoots at Iraqis with AKs.

    And when the local Iraqi police comes and tries to shoot a criminal, and gets wasted by the sentry gun... "doh! I should have taken it out with the crowbar first!"