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  1. Re:"spanning a whopping 409 square feet..." on NASA To Demonstrate Largest-Ever Solar Sail in Space · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the clarification, but I have one other question on a recently used measure:

    What about ton? ("I have a ton of iso/mp3s")

  2. Re:Touchpad? on HP Touch Pad Still Popular ... With HP Employees · · Score: 1

    But they got all those actors to do the commercials where you couldn't see their face until the end.

  3. Re:Java still there on To Stop BEAST, Mozilla Developer Proposes Blocking Java Framework · · Score: 1

    Also, VPN portals..

  4. Re:Just a shot in the dark here on Spotify Defends Facebook Sign-Up Requirement · · Score: 1

    Almost 34 if it matters. People I've not contacted in 5 years are generally not on my radar anymore. If you don't stay in touch with someone for that long, sending a random email to them just feels odd to me. I'm sure there's a deep psychological need for someone to feel like they should be remembered, but if someone hasn't contacted you and you haven't contacted them in 5 years... you probably didn't have much to keep talking about or much in common anyway.

  5. Re:Ubi libertas ibi patria on Healthcare Law Appealed To Supreme Court · · Score: 1

    Packing up everything, getting a new job, moving far away from family... it's not about Freedom.

    The closest option is Canada (I don't consider Mexico an option...) and I'm not a fan of having more cold days in my year. I moved south of where I grew up because the winters were less harsh.

  6. Re:What other products on Healthcare Law Appealed To Supreme Court · · Score: 1

    Well... wouldn't that be the case with State laws? If you didn't like the structure of law in one State you could always move. With Federal laws, that freedom of choice is taken away.

  7. Re:Libertarian drivel on Healthcare Law Appealed To Supreme Court · · Score: 1

    You have a deep misunderstanding of Libertarianism. I'm not surprised considering the rampant trolling going on.

  8. Re:What other products on Healthcare Law Appealed To Supreme Court · · Score: 1

    - Interstate Highways - There was a time when privately held roads criss-crossed America, they were called Turnpikes, you paid for passage on them. Such a system today would utterly squeeze the life out of interstate commerce, let alone throttle your travel plans.

    There's only one way in or out of a state?

    Also, Turnpikes still exist. There's one that crosses the northern part of Ohio and they get TONS of road traffic from truck and vacationers alike... in fact, Interstates 80 and 90 join with it and serve a majority of cross state traffic. It joins with the Indiana Turnpike on the west side of Ohio.

    I don't see how this makes Turnpikes a bad thing. It's generally the best maintained road in Ohio.

  9. Re:Wait, what? on Healthcare Law Appealed To Supreme Court · · Score: 1

    ... or to the people. Don't stop reading at States.

  10. Re:Nothing good comes of this either way on Healthcare Law Appealed To Supreme Court · · Score: 1

    You don't mean let the States figure it out, do you? It's unspeakable! Obviously, since that was the way of the country at one time, the States will bring back slavery! You don't want slavery, do you?

    [/sarcasm In case anyone is not reading sarcasm into that.]

  11. Re:What other products on Healthcare Law Appealed To Supreme Court · · Score: 1

    Laws? I think there's only one* law: (passed in 1986)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Medical_Treatment_and_Active_Labor_Act

    That act comes under great scrutiny in regards to border crossing to get medical attention.

    * Individual states may have them, but I'm not looking them up.

  12. Re:What other products on Healthcare Law Appealed To Supreme Court · · Score: 1

    One could replace Welfare with Well-being. Language changes over time. The Constitution was set up to divide power and one of those divisions is the empowerment of the person or individual.

  13. Re:What other products on Healthcare Law Appealed To Supreme Court · · Score: 1

    Technically, it wouldn't be mandatory since you could leave the country... but that option pretty much sucks.

  14. Re:What other products on Healthcare Law Appealed To Supreme Court · · Score: 1

    That said, I really hope the law is struck down so that perhaps we can move towards an actual single player system like every other civilized country

    I prefer multiplayer coop.

  15. Re:What other products on Healthcare Law Appealed To Supreme Court · · Score: 1

    "Government isn't mandating that you buy [a yacht] -- just that you have it."

    By simply replacing a word/object your statement, I have to ask:
    Can you steal healthcare?
    How does one "have it" without "buying" it?

    I think I know what you're getting at (your company provides insurance?) and if that's the case, you cannot say that you have not bought that healthcare. You are buying it, at the cost of lower wages.

  16. Re:What other products on Healthcare Law Appealed To Supreme Court · · Score: 1

    I agree, but the argument I've hears against that is in regards to poorer states not being able to get enough "healthy" people to cover the costs of the care. Of course, no real numbers were given... only speculation.

  17. Re:Just a shot in the dark here on Spotify Defends Facebook Sign-Up Requirement · · Score: 1

    Not to mention: do you REALLY want FB to be the defacto passport for the Internet? Especially as a company whose only ability to hold on to people is their user preferences, which are now shared with FB?

    Well, for a long time it was AOL, those people had to go somewhere...

  18. Re:Just a shot in the dark here on Spotify Defends Facebook Sign-Up Requirement · · Score: 1

    This may sound rather odd... but why would you be emailing someone you haven't talked to in over 5 years?

  19. Re:Illinois on Behind the Parting of IBM and Blue Waters · · Score: 1

    I lived in the Chicagoland area for three years and it doesn't surprise me. There was so much money wasted, spoiled, and misused that it's not even funny. From Toll issues to the problems they have with elected and public officials...

  20. Re:Pun in title on Behind the Parting of IBM and Blue Waters · · Score: 2

    The requested changes caused friction as early as December 2010, eight months before IBM pulled out

    What about the sexual innuendo?

  21. Re:Simple solution on Does Famous Exoplanet 'Fomalhaut b' Really Exist? · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's made of neutrinos and moving so fast that it looks like it's not moving fast! ...like wheels on a car moving at 61 revs per second with a 60 frames per second capture.

  22. Re:CS is part of IT on Ask Slashdot: CS Grads Taking IT Jobs? · · Score: 1

    What's wrong with having to take the engine out of the car to change the plugs?

    It probably would have been easier than my last experience.

  23. Re:If you can't be bothered to RTF... on Microsoft Responds To Linux Concerns Over Windows 8 and UEFI Secure Boot · · Score: 2

    The problem is that the number of Best Buy computer purchasers outnumber the number of us. There's little incentive for HP/Dell/etc. to continue supplying non-locked systems. Eventually, it'll be build it yourself expecting to put non-Windows in it or you'll never put anything but Windows in it. What would encourage a person going off to college to investigate if their PC could load Linux beforehand? When said student finds out about Linux... are you saying they should also be required to build a new PC? That's a much steeper learning curve than putting in a disc and hitting "go".

  24. Re:Translation on Microsoft Responds To Linux Concerns Over Windows 8 and UEFI Secure Boot · · Score: 2

    In all seriousness, here is another method of solving the problem, which would be just as effective at preventing rootkits from hiding in the bootloader: make the boot medium a flash device on the motherboard, and have a jumper that enables writes to that device.

    Heck, a $0.10 switch on the back of the case...

  25. Re:Einstein replied "Check your measurements, son" on CERN Experiment Indicates Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos · · Score: 1

    But what you are saying is that gravity and/or curvature could cause something to travel faster than light... that in itself is a discovery.