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  1. Re:The 1960's, when you could pollute all you want on Why NASA Launched Millions of Tiny Copper Wires In Orbit · · Score: 1

    Hey, who is calling me old? You young whipper snappers...

  2. Mandarin on Phone Calls More Dangerous Than Malware To Companies · · Score: 0

    No problem, I cannot speak Mandarin.

  3. Re:Sounds like a problem... on How Big Data Is Destroying the US Healthcare System · · Score: 1

    That isn't exactly true. Anyone can go and start a business without reading any laws. No-one is going to rush over and break your door down in a SWAT style swoop because you didn't file a pink Worker's Comp form in triplicate or signed something with a blue pen instead of a green one... So you actually have a year or three to figure out what red tape you really need to handle and what you can ignore.

  4. Because We Scan on Why Is Broadband More Expensive In the US Than Elsewhere? · · Score: 1

    The problem is that all communications in the world is routed to the NSA and someone has to pay for all that bandwidth.

  5. Re:Back to the fossils on Celebrating a Century of Fossil Finds In the La Brea Tar Pits · · Score: 1

    Mr Capone I presume? Throwing bodies into the tar pits...

  6. Why bother? on Celebrating a Century of Fossil Finds In the La Brea Tar Pits · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    They have dug up millions of bones - to what purpose? One would think that by now they have enough to fill a large warehouse that no-one will ever look at again, except may another archeologist digging up Los Angeles and wondering how all these ancient bones became so mixed up in a big jumble with traces of rust in the clay, around the big altar of the 21st century religious complex known as 'the museum'...

  7. Re:Great! on Fighting Paralysis With Electricity · · Score: 1

    Long John Silver I presume?

  8. Only works for basement dwellers on Online Retailers Cruising Tor To Hunt For Fraudsters · · Score: 1

    Tor is a simple way to protect yourself from the bloke running Kismet and Ettercap behind you in an airport coffee shop. Geeks who design this kind of crappy 'security' systems should get out of their mom's basements more.

  9. Re:Another thing to automate. on Ford Showcases Self-Parking Car Technology · · Score: 1

    Bah, my grandfather's donkey parked itself and if that was good enough for my gradfather, then it is good enough for me...

  10. Assinine on Ford Showcases Self-Parking Car Technology · · Score: 2

    Well, previously, you could slap the donkey on her ass and she would go and park herself in the pasture.

  11. Re:With all the problems in the world... on 8 Users of Silk Road Arrested, 'Many More To Come' · · Score: 2

    Well, obviously we got to focus on small time criminals. If the police would arrest all the investment bankers, then the whole world will be back in a depression again...

  12. Re:Decline of the American Empire? on US Adults Score Poorly On Worldwide Test · · Score: 1

    I load sixteen tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in dept. I owe my soul to the company store.

  13. Re:JIT Education on US Adults Score Poorly On Worldwide Test · · Score: 1

    "more a city problem, then a national problem" This is another example of a publik skool edumakation, but few USAsians would be able to figure out why I say so.

  14. No adult left behind on US Adults Score Poorly On Worldwide Test · · Score: 2

    The No Child Left Behind became a No Adult Left Behind. YAPF - Yet another policy failure, since policies don't actually accomplish anything. You need teachers that can teach the old fashioned way to accomplish something.

  15. Re:My wife worked there for 25 years on HP CEO Meg Whitman To Employees: No More Telecommuting For You · · Score: 2

    Hmm, I was wondering which office one should go to if one works on multiple projects in multiple cities/countries.

  16. Re: Not surprised on US Adults Score Poorly On Worldwide Test · · Score: 1

    I dunno, that blond corporate flunky didn't feel loose to me...

  17. Re:Marketing on Silent Circle Moving Away From NIST Cipher Suites After NSA Revelations · · Score: 1

    If the NSA can decrypt everything, then why do they bother to store all encrypted text for 5 years? They would just decrypt, analyze and toss it away same as the plain text.

  18. Re:Marketing on Silent Circle Moving Away From NIST Cipher Suites After NSA Revelations · · Score: 1

    Hmm, I suspect that the NSA isn't nearly as good as people are fearing, but how can we prove it?

  19. Re:Compromised hardware on Silent Circle Moving Away From NIST Cipher Suites After NSA Revelations · · Score: 3, Funny

    Only an organically reared Armadillo hat can beat the Feds.

  20. Whole Federal Gov is non essential on U.S. Government: Sorry, We're Closed · · Score: -1

    The whole US federal govenment is non essential. Only the state and municipal governments are useful. So nobody will miss anything.

  21. Re:Principle and practice on RMS On Why Free Software Is More Important Now Than Ever Before · · Score: 1

    Red Hat is doing fine and that is just one example of a Free software company - there are many.

  22. Re:Goes too far on RMS On Why Free Software Is More Important Now Than Ever Before · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes, but since the hood is not welded shut, you can take your car to ANY garage: The dealer, Wal-Mart, Canadian Tire, the old scoundrel down the street... That is the freedom that you get with Free software. You can fix it yourself, or pay someone of your choosing to fix it.

  23. Re:congratulations on RMS On Why Free Software Is More Important Now Than Ever Before · · Score: 1

    It sounds like you haven't tried Tripple Salt Licorice. No sugar in that - you just wish there was.

  24. Re:SubjectsInCommentsAreStupid on RMS On Why Free Software Is More Important Now Than Ever Before · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You can trust Free software the same way that you trust that a road and a bridge over a river is good. Lots of other people in front of you are using it without problems and various maintenance crews are doing their level best to keep the road open and all road construction and repairs are visible to anyone driving past.

  25. Re:SubjectsInCommentsAreStupid on RMS On Why Free Software Is More Important Now Than Ever Before · · Score: 1

    So, who builds the roads and the water supplies? (Water used to be unmetered). We pay for it, just through a different means - same with Free software. We pay for it, somehow and we are free to use it.