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  1. Re:Why Only U.S. & Russia? on The Man Who Literally Saved the World · · Score: 1

    India and Pakistan probably lack the ability to acquire a bomber of sufficient size to carry a multi-megaton thermonuclear device anyways.

  2. Re:Why Only U.S. & Russia? on The Man Who Literally Saved the World · · Score: 1

    What about China? Current intelligence reports China to have a grand total of two militarized nuclear weapons.

  3. Re:For those lawyers out there on LimeWire Sues RIAA for Antitrust Violations · · Score: 1

    No.

  4. Re:Licensing is to IP on Zune's Viral DRM Will Violate Creative Commons · · Score: 1

    Not a big truck, anyways. Not something you can just dump data on.

  5. Re:I thought the US legal system was bonkers ... on Spamhaus to Ignore $11.7M Judgement · · Score: 1

    Boy is that some strange notion of a justice system. I thought the court was supposed to examine the arguments of the plaintiff and defendant and came to an opinion based on the facts of the case.

    If the defendant doesn't show up, then there are no "arguments of the defendant", only "arguments of the plaintiff". How can the judge possibly weigh in favor of a side that has no evidence and no defense and no witnesses?

  6. Re:Are Financial Crimes Victimless? on Man Gets 6 Years for Software Piracy · · Score: 1

    Corporations ARE people... They are owned by people, controlled by people, and people invest their hard-earned money, and quite often their retirement dreams into these corporations.

    Owned by, controlled by, and invested in by, does not mean "is". Stocks are owned by people, stocks are controlled by people, stocks are invested in people, yet stocks arent people.

  7. Re:Are Financial Crimes Victimless? on Man Gets 6 Years for Software Piracy · · Score: 1

    Adobe, Microsoft, all such major companies are corporations. They are their own legal entities, so technically he stole from a companies, not people.

  8. Re:I like it. on Car Owners to be Notified of Blackboxes in Vehicle · · Score: 1

    Are you not concerned, your television might randomly implode?
    Are you not concerned, somebody might have planted a bomb under your car?
    Are you not concerned, somebody might have brought snakes onto your plane?

  9. Re:I like it. on Car Owners to be Notified of Blackboxes in Vehicle · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "If you're accident free, why would the data be interesting?"

    "If you're terrorist free, why would recordings of all your telephone conversations be interesting?"
    "If you're treason free, why would a log of all your internet activity be interesting?"
    "If you're not searching for child porn, why would a database of all your searches/web browsing being released to the general public be interesting?"

  10. Re:I like it. on Car Owners to be Notified of Blackboxes in Vehicle · · Score: 1

    If you're speeding then don't say you weren't, and the black box won't be used against you. The parent clearly said he was a safe driver.

  11. Re:"fighting for democracy"? Are you joking? on iPods at War · · Score: 1

    Who said anything about journalism?

  12. Re:Unfounded Criticism on iPods at War · · Score: 1

    I don't think someone has a right to criticize the military unless they've been a part of it

    Yeah, and I shouldn't be able to critisize a multimillion dollar film unless I've made one myself.
    And consultants shouldn't be able to point out flaws in a fortune 100 company unless they've made one themself.

    Get a clue, you don't have to experience something to know what it's like.

  13. Re:"fighting for democracy"? Are you joking? on iPods at War · · Score: 1

    If you have to actually search to find something good, there is not enough good.

  14. Re:That's a Little Extreme on iPods at War · · Score: 1, Interesting

    No, when I chose my job, I intentionally chose a job that didn't include being shot at.
    Some people chose differently. That's their choice, I don't see why they should be congratulated on such a foolish decision.

  15. Re:Unfounded Criticism on iPods at War · · Score: 1

    Your alternatives aren't mutually exclusive. The soldiers could smoke hash and drink liquor and still listen to their ipods while going into battle.

  16. Re:Unfounded Criticism on iPods at War · · Score: 1

    40 pounds? Since when can you curl a king-size bed with one arm?

  17. Re:What a Novel Concept! on Wiretap Ruling Threatens Telecoms · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The U.S. Government has known links to Al Quaeda. Why can't I spy on them?

    Furthermore, the only way the government knows that these people might be linked with Al Quaeda is through the program. They didn't start wiretapping because they knew of the links, they know of the links because they started wiretapping.

  18. Re:Could this be a "Holy Grail" of reactors here? on Cleaning Uranium Waste with Bacteria · · Score: 0

    You have no clue what you're talking about. Fission operates at tens of millions of degrees. The fuel rods are so hot after use that they take months to cool down in the spent fuel pool.

  19. Re:Could this be a "Holy Grail" of reactors here? on Cleaning Uranium Waste with Bacteria · · Score: 1

    I don't think the bacteria would appreciate the 10 million degree temperatures.

  20. Re:The differance on Google to Continue Storing Search Requests · · Score: 1

    And nobody knows who sent that data, and the furthest back they can trace it is the last tor node. Joy.

  21. Re:The differance on Google to Continue Storing Search Requests · · Score: 2, Informative

    all data between you and the first tor node is encrypted, and all data between that tor node and the next one in the chain is encrypted under a different key, and all data between that one and the next one under yet another key, etc.

  22. Re:OK But... on Apple Partners with Ford · · Score: 1

    Assuming the next ipod adds features A and B to the connector, I would assume that you could just buy an adapter to hook it up to the old connector, sans features A and B. You'd still have music control functionality, just maybe not some wifi-detecting functionality or whatever features A and B are.

    Personally, the proprietary connector is one reason I got an archos - every system just recognizes it as a fat-formatted mass storage device.

  23. Re:Plenty of economic reasons on Security Firms Bicker Over Mobile Viruses · · Score: 1
  24. Re:So much for all the love and sympathy on HOPE Speaker Rombom Charged with Witness Tampering · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They knew he would be at the conference at an exact time, and what would be going on then. It was thus an ideal place to do it, they could plan ahead and not have to improvise.

  25. Re:So let me get this straight on ATI and AMD Seek Approval for Merger? · · Score: 1

    The centrino and turion are two completely different processors for two completely different markets. Comparing the two is comparing apples to oranges. One is a budget processor with low power usage, the other is a performance processor for enthusiasts. The turion sells less and thus is in less laptops because there is less of a market for performance laptops than there is for budget laptops with long battery life. Centrino is easy to support because it's just another x86 processor, exactly the same as the x86 processors that have been in production for decades now. 64 bit processors like the turion are a budding technology, of course they're harder to support.