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  1. Re:Known to cause cancer... on California Classes LED Component Gallium Arsenide a Carcinogen · · Score: 1

    It's just another way of saying that people will pay extra to live somewhere that isn't endless sprawling suburbia

    I read that as: Home prices are higher because of an artificial limit on the amount of housing available.

  2. Re:Known to cause cancer... on California Classes LED Component Gallium Arsenide a Carcinogen · · Score: 1

    If California wasn't subsidizing the unsuccessful economies of those rust-belt states ...

    Which rust belt state would you be referring to? New Mexico? Alaska? http://www.nemw.org/taxburd.htm

  3. Re:So..?? on DNA Bar Coding Finds Mislabeled Sushi · · Score: 1

    With a kit like that and your local 6pm news, why would you need the government involved?

  4. Re:So..?? on DNA Bar Coding Finds Mislabeled Sushi · · Score: 1

    There is also the option of an organization such as underwriters laboratory. How often do you end with dangerous, defective electical devices?

  5. Re:Open Voting on Diebold Admits Ohio Machines May Lose Votes · · Score: 1
    Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H laziness.

    If the 3% "random" sample didn't match, then 100% would have to be recounted, by hand. That's why they election employees were willing to ensure of a match.

    Apparently it was common practice there for a number of years, but didn't come under scrutiny until 2004.

  6. Re:Unavoidable with devices on Firefox SSL-Certificate Debate Rages On · · Score: 1

    I still fail to see how being driven away from anti-eavesdropping (but unauthenticated) communications to completely unencrypted AND unauthenticated communications makes people "safer"

    Trusted third party signatures guard against man in the middle attacks ...

    Yes, trusted third party signatures do. Unfortunately, that "answer" ignores the question. Completely unencrypted AND unauthenticated communications are not protected from man in the middle attacks. They only make such attacks much less resource intensive.

    If users were able to add self signed certs to a trusted list, then subsequent mitm attacks would be thwarted.

  7. Re:gore on 2008 Is the Coldest Year of the 21st Century · · Score: 1

    I haven't heard McCain mention anything more solid than calling for drilling and vague promises about alternative energy.

    Maybe you should take a look. http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/Issues/17671aa4-2fe8-4008-859f-0ef1468e96f4.htm

  8. Re:TFD neither only a stick nor the only stick... on 30% of Americans Want "Balanced" Blogging · · Score: 1

    Ah, but you ignore the unintended consequences. If a radio station has to deal with TFD, then maybe its better to stay out of politics altogether.

  9. Re:Don't worry... on 30% of Americans Want "Balanced" Blogging · · Score: 1

    Tax rate != tax revenue Current tax revenue is near historical averages of the past 60+ years. http://www.heritage.org/research/features/budgetchartbook/fed-rev-spend-2008-boc-R1-Current-Federal-Tax-Receipts-Near.html The only reason we are screwed is an aging population and the cost of medicare. No tax rate can fix that.

  10. Re:Come On on Intel Releases USB 3.0 Controller Interface Spec · · Score: 1
  11. Re:Come On on Intel Releases USB 3.0 Controller Interface Spec · · Score: 2, Funny

    You only speak 1 language? That's embarrassing.

  12. Re:Colbert isn't republican... on Measuring the "Colbert Bump" · · Score: 1

    Oh, Barack's made a few http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=301792142700714 of his own. Not that I approve of using such trivialities to select a president.

  13. Re:Not really new on New SQL Injection Attack Fuses Malware, Phishing · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You sound like a very competent developer. Too bad you will never contract at the company I work for (and many others I know of) because the management can't be convinced that using fixed bid doesn't limit liability. They continue to bid out work - fixed bid only - pay for that project, get a pile of garbage delivered, then pay more to get it fixed. I've given up that fight a while ago.

  14. Re:And they say ... on Home Science Under Attack In Massachusetts · · Score: 1

    Don't waste time searching for the breaker box and guessing which circuit you're looking for. Go to the meter and pull it. Power off to the entire house.

  15. Re:I'm confused about IBM on IBM Open Sources Supercomputer Code · · Score: 1

    Except that hunger is a political problem.

  16. Re:One Question on Mozilla SSL Policy Considered Bad For the Web · · Score: 1

    This is precisely why the self signed cert should be stored. If Alice had visited www.example.com last week and stored Bob's certificate, then she would be able to detect what Carol was up to. Or if this was Alice's first visit, at least in future visits she would find out that someone had presented a forged cert before. This assumes Carol doesn't have a permanent mitm scheme going on. If Carol does have such control, only then are Alice and Bob worse off.

  17. Re:You didn't test before deploying an update? on RHN Bind Update Brings Down RHEL Named · · Score: 1

    My production system is a virtualized system, you insensitive clod!

  18. Re:Normal People? on Apple Climbs Into Third Place In U.S. PC Market · · Score: 1

    I am seriously curious. What are all you people doing that you need to reinstall the same OS so many times? When I am installing a new OS, it's because I am curious about a new distro.

  19. Re:So wait... on LegalTorrents Offers CC Works Via BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    I hope they are greedy capitalists. Those types tend to be successful, and I'd like to see this succeed.
    I'm just glad they aren't - use the legal system to enforce my monopolistic revenue stream - greedy capitalists.

  20. Re:Convincing one of safety of small vehicles. on VW Concept Microcar Gets 235 MPG · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a good time to go SUV shopping, if you don't drive too much.

  21. Re:The Race Card. Re:Who does age matter to? on Algorithm Names Powell 'Ideal' Vice President Candidate · · Score: 1

    There is no LBJ out there who can deliver a major swing state


    True that. I can't remember the last politician from Ohio that wouldn't turn off the entire country, especially Ohio. John Glenn perhaps.

  22. Re:Government should not be involved at all on Where To Draw the Line With Embryo Selection? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm not sure where you found the religious context in the gp comment.
    In no way does the pro-life point of view require religion.
    But feel free to name call and assign motive.

  23. Re:"human being ... created" on Where To Draw the Line With Embryo Selection? · · Score: 1

    And I might get hit by a bus. Or have a brain aneurysm.
    The perils of life never end, until you're dead of course.

  24. Re:Government should not be involved at all on Where To Draw the Line With Embryo Selection? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Does a tumor have an unique dna signature?
    Does a tumor have a beating heart or brain activity?
    An embryo does within 6 weeks.

  25. Re:Government should not be involved at all on Where To Draw the Line With Embryo Selection? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Viable and human are 2 different things.
    By that logic, newborns can be left in dumpsters too.