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  1. Or your car stereo on How To Tell If Your Cell Phone Is Bugged · · Score: 1

    This will also work with most car stereos if the phone is placed close enough

  2. Each person is requiring more and more space on Americans Drove Less in 2005 · · Score: 1

    There's also the problem of people getting larger and requiring more space per person.

    Thank god these new larger vehicles have cup holders large enough for a 300 calorie drink so you can have your hands free to eat your 600 calorie sandwich and 300 calorie fries while rushing from sitting at one place to another.

  3. The ink can be washed off on Feds to Recommend Paper Trail for Electronic Votes · · Score: 2, Informative

    In that very same election that you are talking about people found that they could wash the ink off and voted twice. You should have known it wasn't entirely true when our government bragged about it. It's a shame that the american media has become lazy and tends to source their facts from government press releases instead of doing actual reporting.

  4. Democracy fails if voter can prove how they voted on Feds to Recommend Paper Trail for Electronic Votes · · Score: 1

    If a voter can prove a vote, one way or another, then their votes can be bought with money or threats and democracy will fail. If a voter cannot prove how they voted, any threats or buyouts are pointless because the people can lie.

  5. Will it ever make it out of beta? on Should Google Go Nuclear? · · Score: 1

    Maybe they should look for funding from somewhere else...

  6. "I thought I smelled marijuana" on Man Used MP3 Player To Hack Cash Machines · · Score: 2, Informative

    ...and your rights are gone. They might even bring the K9 unit out and get the dog to bark on command.

  7. What about hibernate or sleep? on Microsoft One Step From World's Greenest Company · · Score: 1

    Linux still seems to have trouble with sleep states and hibernation. I never was able to get either working on my linux desktop, despite having very standard chipsets and hardware.

  8. What about the rest of the planets? on Global Warming Debunker Debunked · · Score: 1

    Why pick just Mars and Venus? What about the other 4 planets, everything should be increasing to some degree in order to support your solar radiation theory. Either that or those 2 planets were picked because they are randomly in agreement with this theory.

  9. Can't use smartcards for doors on Successful Alternatives To Password Authentication? · · Score: 1

    If you have to stick it in a socket, it doesn't meet ADA requirements. RFID cards are fine, but most of them are much less secure than something like a chipcard.

  10. Cheaper to just pay for more efficient cars? on A Concrete Solution To Pollution · · Score: 1

    The only way anyone will use this stuff is if it's required by law or made a requirement for city contracts. It's going to cost an insane amount of money. It would probably be cheaper to just give people tax incentives to buy more efficient (and therefore typically less polluting) cars.

  11. Re:Saddam on Rumsfeld Stepping Down · · Score: 1

    That handshake was after Hussein had gassed the kurds with US supplied chemicals.

  12. Some people call it a lie on Rumsfeld Stepping Down · · Score: 1

    Bush knew several days ago that Rumsfeld was going to resign. He stated exactly the opposite. It's yet another lie from this administration. Thank god this one didn't kill anyone.

  13. People would be more likely to notice on How to Prevent Form Spam Without Captchas · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing an end user would notice when IE opened up and started filling out forms on websites. Or they could use a hacked firefox, but then the worm payload would be gigantic. Compare that to the current bots which evade detection by running in the background.

  14. That still fails ADA requirements on How to Prevent Form Spam Without Captchas · · Score: 1

    I guess you'd better hope that brail terminals have a javascript parser.

  15. no place for common carrier status in capitalism on Has Verizon Forfeited Common Carrier Status? · · Score: 1

    ...and if you support capitalism, you don't believe in government involvement, regulation, or the ability to sue a business. With all of that removed, the protections of the common carrier status aren't necessary in the first place.

  16. Re:This is like the 3rd article here on this subje on Melting Arctic Ice Has Consequences · · Score: 1

    US consumers do not give away their money to oil companies, they purchase services. Very different situation from corporate welfare created by a system which frequently makes decisions against the will of the people. I'm not personally forced to buy gas from the oil companies, but I am forced to pay taxes and have those taxes given to an entity. My suggestion was that we can keep all of this the same, but instead reallocate those funds in a way which benefits the people better

    The reason why the US has to be involved with any solution is that we're currently the largest source of the problem. Without the involvement of the US, the goals achievable are drastically reduced. Additionally, the investments made in these technologies (potentially without even increasing government expenditures if we merely shift our incentives) could help private industry maintain its position as top notch.

  17. Re:This is like the 3rd article here on this subje on Melting Arctic Ice Has Consequences · · Score: 1

    Nuclear power plants. Wind power. Solar power. Electric cars charged from these sources. CO2 sequestering. Fuel efficiency mandates for new vehicles. There are many potential ways which may have promise if developed.

    The US government currently gives away about $10 billion dollars to energy companies to do things such as oil exploration. We could easily shift a lot of that to research or nuclear plant incentives and potentially end up solving the problem with no net cost to your average business or citizen. The oil companies will never let this happen, as a cost/benefit analysis would tell them to lobby against it, even if the lobbying cost them $5 billion dollars.

  18. What if it were reversed? on Mahir To Borat, I Sue You! · · Score: 1

    A movie with an American redneck stereotype in Europe would probably be hilarious too.

  19. Re:On to Mexico! on Lego Christmas Production Shortage · · Score: 1

    I am an Industrial Engineer, and it sounds like someone failed to think through all of their assumptions or the solution was only half implemented. I would bet that whatever recommendations were made for keeping track of incoming stock were ignored or that the people designing the system failed to realize how many different types of bricks there could be. Keeping track of supply materials is typically a huge part of industrial engineering, so it sounds like someone screwed up.

  20. Is it worth the cost? on Pentagon Reveals News Correction Unit · · Score: 1

    Would you personally die for the whatever our cause du jour is in Iraq? Would you sacrifice your life for our cause, whatever it was, in Vietnam?

  21. and the sad thing is... on Pentagon Reveals News Correction Unit · · Score: 1

    Nobody cared about any of this until gas prices shot up.

  22. OSX already has the functionality of linux on Make Linux "Gorgeous," Says Ubuntu Leader · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure if I'd run a server on it, but with a built in x11 server and the vast majority of debian packages ported for install OSX already has this. The beauty of OSX and the functionality of OSX from a desktop point of view (sound works, flash works, peripherals work immediately and always) on generic pc hardware would be pretty nice however.

  23. There ought to be limits to freedom -- George Bush on Tackling Global Warming Cheaper Than Ignoring It · · Score: 1

    Sorry, you're going to have to move your dissenting opinion to a free speech zone or face arrest.

  24. Not overreacting, just reacting wrong on Venezuelan Interest In U.S. Voting Software · · Score: 1

    The war has cost $340 billion dollars and 3,000 US soldier's lives. It's debatable whether we even made any real difference in Afghanistan, as the Taliban still controls most of the country and will likely restore it to where it was in 2001 within another year or two. The Iraq ware has likely made the threat of terrorism worse by replacing a non-threat with an extremist anarchy.

    Even the right wing chickenhawks stated the war was going to be very long and expensive before we started it. By not making the choice to go to war, another 3,000 Americans would not be dead. We could have spent that $340 billion dollars on saving lives rather than killing our soldiers.

  25. Volkswagens are much more appropriate on New Solar Panel Technology Gaining Momentum · · Score: 2, Funny

    The unit of weight of the media, the Volkswagen, is much more appropriate