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  1. Re:This is why on Senate Trying To Slip Internet Kill Switch Past Us · · Score: 1

    Which Tea Party member murdered a politician? I must have missed that story.

  2. Re:This is why on Senate Trying To Slip Internet Kill Switch Past Us · · Score: 1, Insightful

    You do know the Tea Party doesn't want to kill everyone, right? Or are you trying to put up some false ad hominem attack on the whole group for some reason? What did they do to you that you didn't hear on the maniacal news networks?

    Maybe it's the excessive non-violent petitioning they've been doing. Maybe it's the fact that they are actually out holding up petition signs instead of pointing guns at people. I don't know what it is about their protests that make me think your statement is totally baseless.

  3. Re:Governmental Fail on Senate Trying To Slip Internet Kill Switch Past Us · · Score: 1

    All Android phones can install APK packages (zip file with some manifest data) if the user selects the option for third party applications in the settings.

  4. Re:Skip the rest and go to round 3. on Senate Trying To Slip Internet Kill Switch Past Us · · Score: 1

    I didn't know you needed a cell phone to follow a power line and look for blown fuses... and last time I checked it didn't require a whole gang of workers to get out the long insulated pole and flip the fuse back in place.

  5. Re:Governmental Fail on Senate Trying To Slip Internet Kill Switch Past Us · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And since the power plants/company likely had to lay/string power lines... is it so hard to include a fiber run with it?

  6. Re:DUDE! on Yale Researchers Prove That ACID Is Scalable · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ... someone opens a door. ::smack:: Stop running down the hall!

  7. Re:Not all non-free apps have free counterparts on Aussie Gamer Loses PS3 Court Case Over 'Other OS' · · Score: 1

    I think you missed the point. Linux users don't usually have to steal (pirate) software because the software that is out there to pirate is most likely not something that would run on Linux...

    So calling Linux users "pirates" is asinine at best.

    His point has nothing to do with equivalent Linux games in general.

  8. Re:One huge reason to buy an android phone on Android Fork Brings Froyo To 12 Smartphones · · Score: 1

    One can only hope that the Epic is as bad as every other Samsung phone I have owned or known someone to own. The first one I had locked up all the time (not Android, it was a flip phone years ago.) My friend has a Samsung Moment that somehow at random decides to report that the battery has gone from 100% to 15% of a charge. I have another friend who's Samsung had rebooting issues.

    I've decided to stay clear of Samsung until they get their hardware in line.

  9. Re:Stress? on 3 Drinks a Day Keeps the Doctor Away · · Score: 1

    You read the whole post and only picked out that one line?

  10. Re:Eh on 3 Drinks a Day Keeps the Doctor Away · · Score: 1

    They make powdered eggs?

  11. Re:Hurray linux! on Co-op Neverwinter RPG Announced For 2011 · · Score: 1

    Neverwinter Nights 2 was not... and if it was, I must have missed that.

  12. Re:Bull. Fucking. Shit. on Smart Trash Carts Tell If You Haven't Been Recycling · · Score: 1

    I think we are going to have to change it from "Orwellian" to "Owensian."

  13. Re:Recycling is Bullshit on Smart Trash Carts Tell If You Haven't Been Recycling · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm fairly sure that an unrestricted anonymous waste disposal service wasn't guaranteed in the constitution.

    The Constitution does not "guarantee" what you and I may do. It only restricts what the government may do. Do you understand that?

    The 10th Amendment:
    "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

    Therefore, I have the power and the right to create unrestricted anonymous waste disposal. It's a guaranteed right of mine and I may provide that service.

    The Constitution does not have to give me that power. I have it.

  14. Re:how thick are the TV's? on Canon Abandons SED TV Hopes · · Score: 2, Informative

    And I'll still be unable to physically drive my display at various resolutions?

    If I understand SED properly... that's no different. There's still a matrix of emitters, but they are driving less screen space... like 1 emitter per pixel.

  15. Re:Force them to slow down on Building a Traffic Radar System To Catch Reckless Drivers? · · Score: 1

    Actually, I'm not so sure that's a good speed bump. It looks like more of a ramp which will cause more accidents (cars flying into other cars, losing control.) Effective speed bumps would damage only the car violating the speed.

  16. Re:Traffic Lights? on Building a Traffic Radar System To Catch Reckless Drivers? · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Didn't you know? Libertarians are basically anarchists... yeah, they like to kill babies for the fun of it and they feel it's their right to violate the liberty of others to feed their own. /sarcasm

    Damn, I hate people who are ignorant about what Libertarianism actually is.

  17. Re:Traffic Lights? on Building a Traffic Radar System To Catch Reckless Drivers? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I know this sounds a bit "morbid"... but how did the motorcycle operator make it out of that situation alive if they were the cause of the accident? I mean, if I were in a car and I had a choice of hitting a motorcycle who [cut me off/drove in front of me/etc.] and hitting a truck or some other car... I'm not going to do any favors for the motorcyclist.

    I do pay extra attention to motorcyclists on the road... don't get me wrong. But if they "caused" the accident, they better damn well be lying on the ground hurt or dead.

  18. Re:Road to hell... on Building a Traffic Radar System To Catch Reckless Drivers? · · Score: 1

    Also, all libertarians I know actually value human life and rights (opposed to what some people [GP] would like you to think.) Someone feeding other people into a chipper is definitely violating human rights. There is a point where you can have all the rights you need as long as those rights don't infringe upon the rights of the others.

    Unfortunately, there are those people that think they have to take away most of those rights enforce their own.

  19. Re:Alliterate headline on Calling Shenanigans On Super SATA's Claimed Audio Qualities · · Score: 1

    Seriously

  20. Re:Who is this moron? on Calling Shenanigans On Super SATA's Claimed Audio Qualities · · Score: 1

    All people are idiots, to some degree.

  21. Re:This will not stop best buy from have monster s on Calling Shenanigans On Super SATA's Claimed Audio Qualities · · Score: 1

    Two words (crammed into one) with a .com applied to the end...

    monoprice.com

    Excellent cables, cheap prices. (No, I was not paid for this. Personal experience.)

  22. Re:A fool and his money... on Calling Shenanigans On Super SATA's Claimed Audio Qualities · · Score: 1

    Living a philosophy does not require faith in a diety, so I'm not sure why it's so odd that an Atheist would follow a flow of logic similar to what people claim Jesus set forth. Maybe they are "good rules to live by" because they logically make sense.

  23. Re:WebGL is the future, though not the present on Microsoft Silverlight 4 vs. Adobe Flash 10.1 · · Score: 1

    The Windows 9 Beta is only a month away.

    Are they skipping Windows 8 to avoid the usual crappy/good/crappy/good version stigma?

  24. Re:Real-life Merlin on Inside the Lab of One of the World's Last Holographers · · Score: 1

    That's okay, I can't even see the video... in Chrome or Firefox... I can see other Flash videos alright, but for some reason this host/player seems to dislike something about my setup.

  25. Re:Sneaky, yes. Lies, not quite. on ISPs Lie About Broadband "Up To" Speeds · · Score: 1

    I have an advertised "up to" 7Mbps (Insight RR) and I just tested my connection to a server here in town:
    6.7Mbps

    If you are losing 3Mbps (from 10Mbps) you have a serious problem.