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  1. Re:Never underestimate the quantity of stupid peop on Integrate iPod with Car or Risk Death · · Score: 1

    Except this would purposely screw over everyone with someone sitting in the passenger seat trying to operate the stereo...

  2. Re:do no evil, rat out evil on Virus Trackers Find Malware With Google · · Score: 1

    You're assuming it's labeled as malware, and not just on one of those pages that aren't actually porn that google returns when you're searching for porn.

  3. Re:Terrorism starts... on FBI Planning New Net-Tapping Push · · Score: 1

    Has the memory of the Reichstag fire faded that much?

  4. Re:what did he expect? on Student Suspended Over IM Icon · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Burning effigies is a traditional method of political protest. It is essentially the same principle.

  5. The problem with this study is that on Cell Users As Bad As Drunk Drivers · · Score: 1

    at .08 most people are not significantly impaired. A few years ago, that wouldn't even be illegal most places.

  6. Re:In the end... on .xxx registry sues US government · · Score: 1

    or (*cough* Europe!) While US control of ICANN is not the ideal solution, it's preferable to any others I can think of.

  7. Re:Degrade of Education on Do Kids Still Program? · · Score: 1

    itse spelling is itse? Not quite the same.

  8. Re:Programming on Do Kids Still Program? · · Score: 1

    I woudn't say java is insanely difficult, just ridiculously befuddling. Unfortunately, my school is now only offering comp sci classes in java because it's the language of the IB Comp Sci exam. Spending so much time dealing with it's wierdness makes it much more difficult to sit down and write a good program in C++.

  9. Re:Radio Shack is going to be selling a ton of the on The Mythbusters Construct a Kit Bot · · Score: 1

    $300 dollars is not that much, especially if multiple people are working on it. The entry fee for the FIRST robotics competition is about $5000, and plenty of teams pay that. Some have other funding sources, but last year most of it was directly paid for by parents. Not really a direct comparison, but people have money.

  10. Re:No, you wait a sec... on ISP Fined $5000 For Hate Content · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hitler did not just say, "Gee, I wish all these jews would die." He issued orders. Orders are action. You keep making this spurious difference between speaking privately to people and making "an effort to convince others to hate a visible group you don't like." It's a difference of scale, not character. Freedom of the press is a neccessary part of freedom of speech. Incidentally, slander and libel are civil rather than criminal matters in the US.

  11. Re:No, you wait a sec... on ISP Fined $5000 For Hate Content · · Score: 1

    Laws against "inciting genocide," sure. That's action. But laws against "inciting hate"? That's a violation of free speech. Hate is just an opinion. Being given the oppurtunity to attempt to convince others of an opinion is part of free speech. American may be turning into a fascist hellhole; but we're not as bad as Canada or Europe yet.

  12. As a minor on Justice Dept. Rejects Google's Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    I feel obliged to point out that I find it absurd that "protecting" me from pornography is considered important enough to violate the privacy of random citizens

  13. Re:Currently not worth the educational investment on U.S. Science Gap Fictional? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm fairly sure that was the exact phenomenon he was referring to. (Russian scientists emigrating to the US after the fall of the Soviet Union.) Read more carefully.

  14. Re:Testing for New Hires on Literacy Limps Into the Kill Zone · · Score: 1

    Barring a few anachronistic private schools, penmanship is not taught anymore in schools. It's not relevant. Situations where it is neccessary or useful are not common enough to warrant bothering with it. Slpelnig ins't of much impotrnce eihter, tuhogh it's more so than pemnahsnip. I asume yu've seen the sutdy shwoing you hve no trobule reding tihs?

  15. Re:I'm not convinced on Fired from an IP Law Firm for Anti-DRM Views? · · Score: 1

    The man should be found innocent because otherwise it sets the precedent that authorities are above the law. Anyway, the more relevant issue is that BAL continues to rise for some time after the last drink is consumed. He might have been under the legal limit while driving. A Virginia judge was throwing out these cases for awhile on that basis alone.

  16. Not quite on Microsoft Changes Blog Censoring Policies · · Score: 1

    If google broke the law, they wouldn't be at all for very long, at least not in China. The choice was between staying out of China or submitting to censorship.

  17. Re:Seems like a waste of time and money on Felony For Refreshing a Web Page? · · Score: 1

    The Alien and Sedition Act was not renewed for exactly that reason. Congress realized what a blatant violation of free speech it was, This is a horrible example; the whole reason Adams had the acts passed was to silence Jefferson and other critics of his administration. Also, the act was passed in 1798. Five years before the Supreme Court asserted the power of judicial review.