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  1. Re:It is not blanket immunity on House Votes For Telco Immunity; Obama Will Support? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Umm... This bill makes the acts post 9/11 possibly non-liable. pre-9/11 acts are still liable. That is not Bush bashing that is fact stating.

  2. Re:It is not blanket immunity on House Votes For Telco Immunity; Obama Will Support? · · Score: 1

    It is not immunity! and removing the retroactive portion kind of makes this not a cave. Oh... and it has to go to conference committee now where anything can happen.

  3. Re:It is not blanket immunity on House Votes For Telco Immunity; Obama Will Support? · · Score: 1, Informative

    It is not spin. The title says immunity... it is not immunity. Stop being so damned puritanical and focus on being pragmatic... more people will like you.

  4. Re:A for effort? on Student Faces 38 Years In Prison For Hacking Grades · · Score: 1

    recent immigrant, non- or limited English speaker... no wonder he did bad in school.

    his parents were idiots for taking him out of school in his home country so freaking late.

  5. It is not blanket immunity on House Votes For Telco Immunity; Obama Will Support? · · Score: 5, Informative

    This does not stop law suits. It gives telcos who have written requests from the government, dated after 9/11/2001, that state the president authorized the specific wire tap to not be liable.

    1)The telcos still have to go to court and file papers
    2)so many people were violated that there will be many many suits
    3)they have to have written proof that the president authorized it (not likely given the fact that Bush wanted to not be caught)
    4)there is evidence that Bush had been doing this domestic wire tapping before 9/11
    5)A judge still decides if the proof provided by the telcos meets the standard

  6. Re:Obama better support this too on McCain Backs Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    so lets make a political issue out of giving them more leases that they won't drill because it is too expensive. Lets go further and pretend congress is needed for this to happen so Democrats can be blamed.

    Bush can lift the ban all on his own. Congress is not needed.

  7. Re:Today our labs discussed WinVista on XP Deathwatch, T Minus 2 Weeks · · Score: 1

    My corprate dual core laptop running XP SP2 boots in 4 minutes and has nothing to do with XP.

    If you are comparing a work laptop with anything then all you are doing is comparing your IT department's boot scripts to another IT department's boot scripts, or the lack on one in the case of your son's macbook.

  8. Re:Today our labs discussed WinVista on XP Deathwatch, T Minus 2 Weeks · · Score: 1

    uhh...

    the effects help it run better. Not sure if you noticed, but the UI is responsive in vists and I am running an AMD X2 4200+ with 2 gigs of memory and an onboard radeon 1250.

  9. Re:WTF is Eris? on IAU Classifies Pluto & Eris As "Plutoids" · · Score: 2, Funny

    eris, also known as the reason pluto is no longer a planet.

  10. Re:The sad thing... on Private Donor Saves Fermilab · · Score: 1

    All reasons to hook up with a corporate entity who is interested in scientific research.

  11. Re:The sad thing... on Private Donor Saves Fermilab · · Score: 1

    that is changing! We are actually training scientists in the weirding ways of politics and preparing them for a political life. You should listen to "this Week in Science" more, they talk about such things.

  12. Probably want to reevaluate your politics on What's the Solution To Intellectual Property? · · Score: 1

    An Anarco-Capitalist would not consider any of the current government systems in place to protect property rights and IP rights to be acceptable in any kind of incarnation. Try looking at corporatist. Bending the government to do the bidding of corporate interests through laws thus making it a fascist system.

  13. Re:Why not? on Successful Cold Fusion Experiment? · · Score: 1

    Isn't this experiment using a modified Pons and Fleischman system? Perhaps they were right about the system but wrong about the actual makeup of the matrix?

  14. Re:Silverlight is insignificant on Microsoft Prefers Flash To Silverlight · · Score: 1

    The platform has automatic download notification for new visitors and the download is very small and does not require a browser restart.

  15. Re:Silverlight is insignificant on Microsoft Prefers Flash To Silverlight · · Score: 1

    blah blah blah blah.

    you MS haters are real babies. I am glad a grew up and got over the fact that it is MS creating it and looked at the technologies in a more fair light.

  16. Re:Silverlight is insignificant on Microsoft Prefers Flash To Silverlight · · Score: 1

    Ask the moonlight team.

  17. Re:Silverlight is insignificant on Microsoft Prefers Flash To Silverlight · · Score: 5, Informative

    uhhh.... news flash, there is an OS X and Linux runtime.

  18. Re:To call it the forth element... on Memristor — 4th Basic Element of Circuits · · Score: 1

    not really because you have another property of the element that remembers the previous resistance that it used. that memory capability is not described by any of the other three elements.

  19. Re:To call it the forth element... on Memristor — 4th Basic Element of Circuits · · Score: 2, Interesting

    hmm... electronics component which has a function that can not be duplicated by any combination of the other 3.... seems pretty basic to me. Perhaps Ohm's Law needs a revision, or perhaps it does not cover memristors.

  20. Re:Did I say that? on The New School of Information Security · · Score: 1

    you said:

    I always love how socialists argue that we are too caught up in property while they, more than anyone else, continually keeps score on who has what.



    So I thought that we were making sweeping generalizations about ideologies and ignoring the substance of them.

  21. Re:Are we SO sure? on Humans Nearly Went Extinct 70,000 Years Ago · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Actually, there was a global flood 12000 years ago. The Laurentide Ice Sheet broke away and in the course of a few days the oceans rose over 100 feet.

    Islands the size of those found in Indonesia disappeared in the Atlantic (the hoping points likely used by Clovis man to come to the Americas from Europe.) Entire groups of Flora and Fauna that lived on those Islands were wiped out as were any Human civilizations, unlikely to be found again due to their dept and location. The old coastal regions of the continents that were populated were wiped out as well. No wonder we have flood stories from all over the globe that are very similar.

    There was a flood, but did God do it? no.

  22. Re:$2/gal to produce = $3/gal at the pump on $1/Gallon "Green Gasoline" In Sight · · Score: 1

    Hey now... don't go preaching protectionist economic policies. We need to send all our money over seas to the production plants that feed multinational corporations based in the Caymans.

    Protectionism is no way to run an economy... just ask Japan... oh... wait....

  23. Re:I'm willing to pay $2/gallon on $1/Gallon "Green Gasoline" In Sight · · Score: 1

    Yeah.. .those loser car own.. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!

  24. Re:Ah, little too much of a socialist lens? on The New School of Information Security · · Score: 1

    those "socialist" programs and reforms are what kept capitalism from killing itself in America.

  25. Re:Ah, little too much of a socialist lens? on The New School of Information Security · · Score: 1

    I always love how nut job capitalists think if you are poor then you deserve to live without dignity or the ability to make ends meat.