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  1. Re:Car software on Mathematicians Solve the Mystery of Traffic Jams · · Score: 1

    If you have anti-lock brakes or electronic stability control, software already partially controls your brakes. Why fear added complexity and make it do more!! We want more features on our brakes, don't we?

  2. Re:"All" internet traffic? on Ex AT&T Tech Says NSA Monitors All Web Traffic · · Score: 1

    It's all underground!

  3. Re:Data Theft on Retailers Fighting To No Longer Store Credit Data · · Score: 1

    Perhaps like SET?

  4. Re:Next step: FPGA cracking on A Mighty Number Falls · · Score: 5, Informative

    Adi Shamir designed one already. Instead of 11 months, it takes 12--but it could (in theory) factor any 1024-bit number.

  5. Re:Confidentality and free speech on Verizon Claims Free Speech Over NSA Wiretapping · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This would be more like the police asking you for all of your tenants activities because one of them might possibly be talking with someone who might be thinking of committing a crime.

  6. Re:Thanks Cringely on IBM to Lay Off Half of Global Services Division · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Even if they do get fired for fucking up, they get millions of dollars anyways. You walk away rich whether you're good or bad--where can I sign up?

  7. Re:The excuse... on Prior Art On Verizon Patents · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I met a couple of people who worked at the USPTO. They claimed they work on a quota system and all they had to do was a few quick Google searches and then grant the patent. As long as they met their quota they seemed to be able to be bums the rest of the week...

    Granted, these particular folks would probably be bums at any job...

  8. Re:So Ignorant. on Why Apple Delayed Leopard for the iPhone · · Score: 1

    It makes perfect sense, it explains why so many software projects either fail or don't work.

  9. Re:Next! on Sony Keynote Offers Hope For PlayStation 3 Fans · · Score: 1

    I hate to upset you, but books seem to be going that route too. It's only a few years before they start implanting advertichips into our brains at birth.

  10. Re:Time to go organic on Objections Over Antibiotic Approved for Use in Cattle · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm sure part of it is that you can't mass-produce organic beef. They need natural feed and it's required that they be labeled if they've been treated with antibiotics. Of course, it won't be long before the cattle industry redefines organic beef so that it no longer means anything.

  11. Re:A Real Moon Colony on NASA's Future Inflatable Lunar Base · · Score: 1

    Duh, put them where the Google research center is! http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html

  12. Re:Speed Limits on Berners-Lee Speaks Out Against DRM, Advocates Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    I'm sure it has less to do with the drivers than the idiot pedestrians. Driving around Blacksburg is like playing Frogger...

  13. Re:Good for them! on Microsoft Launches Comical Effort to Fight Piracy · · Score: 1

    No, I'm pretty sure OP meant that the Pirates of the Indian Ocean also do copyright infringement...

  14. Re:We just want to see zee papers on Political Bloggers May Be Forced to Register · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, according to the text of the actual bill this only applies to bloggers who are paid by lobbying firms. So, no. In this particular case, you need your papers in order if someone pays you to criticize them.

  15. Re:Parents on The BlackBerry Orphans · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There's an age at which you can "talk" to a child and they'll understand. Usually, when the kid's old enough to understand they don't want to hang out with you anyways. There's also the fact that if it happens too often, your family gets royally pissed off and will remain mad even if you do "talk to them later." You don't have to live with your client. You have to go home to your family every day.

  16. Re:Bootable Flash Drive with Debian installed. on USB Drives — Recovery? · · Score: 1

    Or just use DSL

  17. Re:Old paper ballots were fine. on NIST Condemns Paperless Electronic Voting · · Score: 1

    But in reality it doesn't save money. It may save money in the future, but now we have to buy a new voting machine every time there's a new regulation and after that we'll need to buy new voting machines to have more features just like every other electronics product.

  18. Re:What happened... on AMD Fusion To Add To x86 ISA · · Score: 1

    x86 never was RISC. The last bastion of RISC processing in consumer PCs was the PowerPC.