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  1. Re:So now on Navy Bomb Squads Get a Solar Power Upgrade · · Score: 2

    If you knew how to read you'd know that the kits also run on fuel cells if necessary. Both are an improvement over lugging diesel generators on your backs.

  2. Re:Stay Put on Ask Slashdot: Am I Too Old To Learn New Programming Languages? · · Score: 1

    When they stop mailing your Social Re-Security checks that cover the fees on your Social Security checks that bounce every time you try to deposit them you'll care.

  3. Re:ASM on Ask Slashdot: Am I Too Old To Learn New Programming Languages? · · Score: 1

    You are why I hate living in this country.

  4. Re:ARM laptops on Wall Street Predicts Merge of OS X and iOS · · Score: 1

    When docked its a laptop, when undocked its an Android 3.x tablet.

    I'm just waiting for someone to port Linux to it.

    You just made my head explode.

  5. Re:Good... on Missouri Law Says Students, Teachers Can't Be Facebook Friends · · Score: 1

    I know for a fact that it happened all the time in my high school in California. Band teacher's kids in band, english teacher's kid in her class. No one seemed to mind. Moreover (aside from the band cases), none of them wanted to be in their parent's class. They all had it rougher, not easier than the rest of us.

  6. Re:Obviously on Missouri Law Says Students, Teachers Can't Be Facebook Friends · · Score: 1

    Even for a small community it is kinda odd for an Adult to be a Friend to a child. Especially if they are also in a position of authority.

    Facebook friend != Friend.

    I have a number of my parents' friends on facebook. Granted, I'm in my mid 20s, but my younger siblings also have them added as well. We take large group vacations together several times a year, host many parties at each others' houses etc. My youngest brother is 15 and has all of them listed as facebook friends. So what?

  7. Re:Traders on How and Why Wall Street Programmers Earn Top Salaries · · Score: 1

    Trading is a job like playing slot machines is a job.

  8. Re:Great, so how the hell do I paint ashalt shingl on Bill Clinton Says 'Paint Your Roofs White' · · Score: 1

    *steps outside in Los Angeles*

    I have no idea what you're talking about. Hail? Tornadoes? Seasons? Don't those only happen in fairy tales?

  9. Re:Great, so how the hell do I paint ashalt shingl on Bill Clinton Says 'Paint Your Roofs White' · · Score: 2

    Which is why I will never buy a house in an HOA. Never. I'd rather chop off my ding-dong than do that.

  10. Re:Sure on A Tale of Two Countries · · Score: 1

    With this unemployment rate it's their own damn fault if they're not hiring the many out of work Americans to pick the food.

    Cue: But Americans won't do this work.

    Cue: If the agricorps didn't pay slave wages they would happily do it.

  11. Re:Location proves nothing on Police Increasingly Looking To Smartphones For Evidence · · Score: 1

    That's a very bad thing. It's a long standing principle in British and American jurisprudence, all the way back to the 1600s, that juries do not have to justify their verdicts and cannot be held accountable for them. This was to prevent tyrannical rulers from retaliating against juries for not convicting people the rulers didn't like for political reasons (specifically it comes from the trial of William Penn, and the persecution of the jury for refusing to convict him, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Penn#Persecutions ) Requiring juries to justify themselves just gives the tyrannical powers that be more control.

  12. Re:Self pat-down on TSA Announces Pilot of Trusted Traveler Program · · Score: 1

    Have you seen the people he usually pays for sex? It's still a step up.

  13. Re:Be polite... on TSA Announces Pilot of Trusted Traveler Program · · Score: 1

    Soylent Green is TSA screeners!

  14. Re:I Am Trusted Traveler on TSA Announces Pilot of Trusted Traveler Program · · Score: 1

    I'd suggest that they're able to get around it because viable alternatives exist.

    Really? What is my viable alternative for getting to Tokyo? And don't try saying "don't go," since I DO have a constitutional right to travel where I choose, including leaving the country, which the US government cannot stop me from doing without cause (assuming of course my destination will let me in, but we'll take that as a given for the moment since it's not the issue).

  15. Re:I Am Trusted Traveler on TSA Announces Pilot of Trusted Traveler Program · · Score: 1

    No, you're wrong.

    Restaurants and other businesses cannot discriminate based on race under federal law, which the Supreme Court has upheld under the Commerce Clause. You might think this only means businesses operating across state lines, but you'd be wrong again. Using some rather specious logic (as the court in the mid-20th century loved to do any time it could with the Commerce Clause) if any of the business's suppliers OR customers cross state lines in the transaction, OR if the business is involved in goods which are substantially traded at the national level, Congress can do whatever the fuck it pleases to it, in this case banning racial discrimination.

    Good luck starting a business these days that can't be regulated by Congress under those rulings.

  16. Re:I Am Trusted Traveler on TSA Announces Pilot of Trusted Traveler Program · · Score: 1

    You fail constitutional scholarship 101: The constitution lists the government's rights, not the people's.

    That someone modded you insightful is sad, and demonstrates exactly why this country is going to shit.

  17. Re:Implying on TSA Announces Pilot of Trusted Traveler Program · · Score: 1

    The TSA wouldn't stop that attack today either. They've NEVER caught anyone trying to smuggle actual weapons or explosives onto a plane. The reinforced cockpit doors on the other hand, and a plane full of passengers refusing to submit to a hijacking make 9/11 impossible now. Bomb sniffing dogs (which were not then and are not now in airports) are the most effective method of finding smuggled explosives. Period. Anything else is theater/kickbacks to a former DHS administrator named Chertoff.

  18. Re:In other news on 34% of iPhone Owners Think the 4 Is 4G · · Score: 1

    How much stuff do you purchase without hours of research and knowing the full detail on what you are getting?

    Very little, but then I purchase very little. I don't buy shit just because. Clothes and books are the only thing I don't spend hours researching before buying, but even then I put a lot more effort into only buying stuff that actually suits my needs/wants than most anyone else I know.

    There's a difference between my buying two-buck chuck because I'm a binge drinker who doesn't intend to taste it, and me thinking two-buck chuck is good wine. I have no disrespect for the person who bought the iPhone 4 because they wanted the iPhone 4. I don't have much respect for the rube who thinks he bought something he didn't (with some leeway for deceptive marketing, which I don't think applies here).

  19. Re:Not blocked on 41% of Chinese Websites Shut Down In 2010 · · Score: 1

    I'm in the US using Chrome and I have this problem when I come to a comment thread from the notification email and everything except the last reply is hidden. Every click involved in replying to the new comment uncollapses the next level up, and jumps to it. I usually have to click the text box 4-5 times before it will let me type a reply.

  20. In other news on 34% of iPhone Owners Think the 4 Is 4G · · Score: 4, Insightful

    consumers are stupid. Film of them accidentally hitting themselves in the balls at 11.

  21. Re:Right tool for the job... on Samsung Chromebook Series 5 Review · · Score: 1

    How are you doing programming on it? I'm actually curious. I've considered a chromebook as a travel laptop (long battery life, fast boot, and small size being my primary criteria), but I have to be able to edit plain text files, preferably stored locally. Doing it through ssh would be an option, though an inferior one. I tried chromium os out in virtualbox and couldn't find a way to do what i needed effectively. So how do you actually get any work done on the thing?

  22. Re:Bravo! on Women Arrested For Refusing TSA Search of Children · · Score: 1

    He didn't say that either.

  23. Re:Just that pesky Constitution on Slate: Amazon's Tax Stance Unfair and Unethical · · Score: 1

    That is also not in the constitution. Please try again.

  24. Re:Does it make the Birds Angry when they do that? on Snail Discovered That Can Survive Digestion By Birds · · Score: 1

    Some people would pay good money for that experience.

  25. Re:Classic! on Congress Voting To Repeal Incandescent Bulb Ban · · Score: 1

    I don't wanna set the world on fire ...