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  1. Re:A new law in not what is needed on Massachusetts Court Says 'Upskirt' Photos Are Legal · · Score: 3, Insightful

    if my girl decides to stop occasionally going panty-less (exciting to both of us) because of a few pervs, then this idiotic up-skirt photography behavior should be stopped.

    What exactly about doing this makes it exciting if not for the real risk of someone noticing? If that risk didn't exist, it would be no different than going commando with jeans.

  2. Re:Translation: Piss off, Peasants on White House Responds To Net Neutrality Petition · · Score: 1

    Are you suggesting that thousands of young people weren't disillusioned about the federal government in 2012? They traded in their hope for fear at the ballot box.

  3. Re:Translation: Piss off, Peasants on White House Responds To Net Neutrality Petition · · Score: 1

    The FCC is an independent agency.

    He should have been stopped right there. How is an agency which reports directly to the President in any way independent? The President hires the heads of the FCC (so long as they can get through the Senate pissing match).

  4. Re:stay out of business until 2017 on Kicktaxing: The Crazy Complexity of Paying Tax Correctly On Crowdfunding · · Score: 1

    Just don't even bother trying to do any business until after 2017 at the earliest. You don't need to pay any taxes to the corrupt Obama regime if you don't make any money.

    What kind of idiotic business would just give up until 2017? How the hell am I supposed to eat for the next 3 years? Oh, I suppose that $900 a month should be enough to cover my rent, school loans, utilities, and food. Why I wouldn't even need to give up my caviar!

  5. Re:stay out of business until 2017 on Kicktaxing: The Crazy Complexity of Paying Tax Correctly On Crowdfunding · · Score: 1

    McDonald's, for example, is pursuing automation strategies.

    McDonald's is way behind on this front. Burger King has been using an automated broiler for decades, eliminating the grill cook completely.

  6. Re:stay out of business until 2017 on Kicktaxing: The Crazy Complexity of Paying Tax Correctly On Crowdfunding · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm fairly certain that if you put that money into the hands of the average citizen, banks would find themselves with a lot of liquidity as people start dumping their debt.

  7. Re:5th anniversary of stimilus on Kicktaxing: The Crazy Complexity of Paying Tax Correctly On Crowdfunding · · Score: 2

    All the experts are saying it kept the economy down.

    All of them? Every single one? When you make a blanket statement like that, you're either lieing or you are personally deciding who is an expert and who isn't. We would have been a lot better off if that cash had gone straight to the citizenry. I could have paid down all of my debt and be ready to actually spend serious money.

  8. General QA Problem on Target's Internal Security Team Warned Management · · Score: 1

    This is a general QA problem. It's hard to get management to listen to on going quality problems. They don't want to spend time on things that do not translate into a quantifiable cost savings or income generation. It take a lot of effort and time to sell the problem.

  9. Re:**still** dont blame the voters on How Voter Shortsightedness Skews Elections · · Score: 1

    If everyone is telling you half truths, no matter how many sources you go to, half of it is still lies. How are you supposed to tell which half is a lie and which isn't? And knowing a politician's voting record is really only useful you you can stomach reading the bills since titles are often misleading and the content is extremely complex. No one has time for that shit. Hell it looks like the politicians themselves usually don't have time for that shit.

  10. Re:dont blame the voters on How Voter Shortsightedness Skews Elections · · Score: 1

    (3) They need to actually have time to do their own research. This is why people pay for news media (if you still buy a newspaper at least). We TRUST the news to tell us what is going on. You really can't expect the average citizen to have time for much else.

  11. Re:This Is Nothing New. on Why Whistleblowers Can't Get a Fair Trial · · Score: 1

    I openly admit that I am presupposing no malicious intent and that the purpose of whistleblower protection is to genuinely help root out corruption in the government. Whether or not we agree on that detail, I think we can both agree that a derogatory adjective of some kind is appropriate.

  12. Re:This Is Nothing New. on Why Whistleblowers Can't Get a Fair Trial · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That's why there are supposed to be legal protections for whistleblowers. These cases are not supposed to even get past the court hearing. However, they made a stupid exception for anything dealing with national security, which is where the most egregious corruption can occure.

  13. Re:Lesson from this story...don't be a glass hole! on AMC Theaters Allegedly Calls FBI to Interrogate a Google Glass Wearer · · Score: 1

    I don't disagree that you should not be wearing Google glass in a movie theater. But the fact that the FBI wouldn't just look at the pictures like was originally suggested shows that this is indeed thuggery.

  14. Re: Fuck religion. on US Justice Blocks Implementation of ACA Contraceptive Mandate · · Score: 1

    What party wants zero government? As I understand it, Republicans just want different government. But they definitely want more of it.

  15. Re:Fuck religion. on US Justice Blocks Implementation of ACA Contraceptive Mandate · · Score: 1

    And yet, in the end it was passed by damn near every Republican in the House. In fact, more Democrats voted against the final bill than Republicans did.

  16. Re:"Class Divide"? on A Year With Google Glass · · Score: 2

    However, when there is video footage widely available of every single person on the planet acting like everybody acts at some point in their life, then everybody will learn to ignore it.

    I find this unlikely. I believe you will have two classes of people. Those who are able to maintain the illusion and those who are not. This happens in non-money driven class warfare all the time.

  17. Re: "Class Divide"? on A Year With Google Glass · · Score: 2

    Personal experience here. Those cameras are usually not on. My mother-in-law had her credit card stolen and it was used at Walmart. When she asked for the footage of the checkout area during the time it was stolen, they said the cameras were only ever on two days out of the week.

  18. Re:"Class Divide"? on A Year With Google Glass · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I wish I had mod points. This is the fundamental problem with Google Glass. One of the things that allows polite society to function is that, generally, if we make a slip of the tongue or do something stupid that we immediately regret it will be soon forgotten. Public life is only semi-public in that it is contained to a small area. However, as we are already starting to see, when everything is captured and recorded for prosterity, no one ever forgets and society is extrodinarily slow to forgive despite the fact that most everyone has been just as guilty at some point in time.

  19. Re:The cost of publishing is zero... on The Rise of Hoax News · · Score: 1

    Is it really? As far as I can tell, no one cares. That or all of the news outlets have already lost all of their credibility.

  20. Re:Really on Microsoft's Ticking Time Bomb Is Windows XP · · Score: 1

    That's a pretty damn big school district if they have that many workstations. They should have started planning for this years ago doing it in phases. But that kind of short sightedness is typical of government. Alternatively they could cut the internet or switch to Linux. It is much easier for high school lab computers to migrate to Linux because of the lack of need for highly specialized software.

  21. Re: banana republic on RSA Flatly Denies That It Weakened Crypto For NSA Money · · Score: 1

    It does however state that the Federal government shall not make laws respecting the establishment of a religeon, creating a defacto separation. That's not to say that it hasn't been taken out of context. Putting up a religeous statue is hardly the same as making a law, and it leaves to question what state and local governments can do.

  22. Re:The Solution is Obvious on Microsoft's Ticking Time Bomb Is Windows XP · · Score: 2

    These are hardly safety issues here. If someone dies or gets injured because of unpatched Windows vulnerabilities, it will be the fault of whoever used Windows XP in the system that caused it, not Microsoft.

  23. Re:Really on Microsoft's Ticking Time Bomb Is Windows XP · · Score: 5, Insightful

    $6.5 million? Even if you had to pay the retail price for all of those (which you don't) that would mean that you have nearly 22,000 workstations that are connected to the internet. What the hell does your company do that it has that many computers operating but doesn't have the easy ability to invest $6.5 million???

  24. Re:Concerning... on Scientific Data Disappears At Alarming Rate, 80% Lost In Two Decades · · Score: 1

    Considering that there is active research on original Chinese commentaries dating back to the Tang dynasty, I would say they are holding up pretty good.

  25. Re:Lie-fest from the NSA on CBS 60 Minutes: NSA Speaks Out On Snowden, Spying · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Snowden never approached any of multiple Inspectors General, supervisors, or Congressional oversight committee members about his concerns."

    And how would they expect that to be responded to if he did? "Keep your mouth shut if you know what's good for you."