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  1. Re:A polished turd none the less. on NetworkManager 1.0 Released After Ten Years Development · · Score: 1

    He is still running the 2.2 kernel and refuses new hardware for the same reasons

  2. Re:Public land closures on Hot Springs At Yellowstone Changed Their Color Due To Tourist Activity · · Score: 1

    How about the prison time or fines that comes with not following what is on the signs?

  3. Re:Like little children on North Korean Internet Is Down · · Score: 3

    You start with this

    Why am I reminded of petulant children squabbling over who gets to pat the new puppy?

    and then start complaining about not getting jetpacks, flying cars and a holiday trip on the moon all lined up for Christmas

  4. Re:Public land closures on Hot Springs At Yellowstone Changed Their Color Due To Tourist Activity · · Score: 1

    The responses aren't that heavy handed. They just close things off and the yahoos who want to go off-roading in wilderness get pissed.

    Honestly - who do you think this effects? The people going off the trails are not going to stop because there is yet another sign saying not to go off trail a bit sooner.

  5. Re:Public land closures on Hot Springs At Yellowstone Changed Their Color Due To Tourist Activity · · Score: 2

    Yes - this is very frustrating. I've been to caves that I used to be able to go further in. It's funny when the rangers states that you are in is as far as people have ever been allowed andyou can see the informational signs on the nice trail ahead of him

  6. Re:if there is no evidence presented in how they.. on All the Evidence the Government Will Present In the Silk Road Trial Is Online · · Score: 2

    Correct - even if the officer if pulling you over for something they thought was against the law but turns out it's legal

    http://www.scotusblog.com/case...

  7. Re:Established science CANNOT BE QUESTIONED! on Skeptics Would Like Media To Stop Calling Science Deniers 'Skeptics' · · Score: 1

    It can be questioned, but in this case the costs of giving anything up to the denialists is too great. The fate of the human race is at stake. It's like suspension the constitution during a war.

    I believe that is the justification used to imprison the Japanese during WWII and Germans in WW1 and communists during the cold war.

  8. Re:Arrest increase because they're looking for it? on Colorado Sued By Neighboring States Over Legal Pot · · Score: 1

    That is common whenever the laws change when passing an unseen line. They do that in my city during New Years an July 4th since we aren't allowed fireworks in the city. Firework stands are set up right outside city limits and cops right inside city limits.

    Only the city and big / influential businesses are allowed to shoot off fireworks in San Antonio.

    Same with highways that drop to 15 miles an hour to sustain small towns via tourist tickets

  9. Re:Sly on Google Proposes To Warn People About Non-SSL Web Sites · · Score: 2

    Did you miss that a warning will be displayed that the site "provides no data security". It's not blocking access to your blog or comic strip.

  10. Re:Huh? on Apple Wins iTunes DRM Case · · Score: 1

    You only own a licence to listen to music you purchased on that format and that cd

  11. Re:No thru traffic on Waze Causing Anger Among LA Residents · · Score: 1

    They don't even stop people from using store parking lots as a way around traffic or lights.

    It is very frustrating when people cut like this because it takes longer for the people following the rules to make the turn since now they have to wait for the cutters to drive past.

  12. Re:Difference versus FreeBSD? on DragonFly BSD 4.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Also what does the boot process look like?

    They switched to systemd. kidding :)

  13. Re:Technically correct?? on Clarificiation on the IP Address Security in Dropbox Case · · Score: 2

    I thought we argued on all the downloading stories that an IP is not an identifier?

  14. Re:Why Chrome when you can use Chromium? on Google Chrome Will Block All NPAPI Plugins By Default In January · · Score: 1

    Google has never provided binaries on their Chromium site and that has always seemed like a very deliberate choice to deter would be users.

    To run Chromium (on Windows) you must to dig through third party sites which may or may not have the latest version of Chromium available and may or may not bundle adware garbage installers.

    Here you go...
    https://download-chromium.apps...

    This is the raw build of Chromium for Windows x86, right off the trunk. It may be tremendously buggy.
    created by François Beaufort - now maintained by the Chromium team

  15. Re:Delete Your Facebook Account Already on Married Woman Claims Facebook Info Sharing Created Dating Profile For Her · · Score: 1

    You can always go Myspace or Friendster

  16. Re:Ads on Google Launches Service To Replace Web Ads With Subscriptions · · Score: 1

    Their clients are purchasing a service. Not everything is a tangible good

  17. Re:Ads on Google Launches Service To Replace Web Ads With Subscriptions · · Score: 1

    I, in fact, scroll past the google ad results when searching just to stop google from getting the revenue.

  18. Re:wont last on Customers Creating Fake Amazon Pages To Get Cheap Electronics At Walmart · · Score: 1

    If that were the case here, Walmart would not be out any PS4s.

  19. Re:Here we go again on As Amazon Grows In Seattle, Pay Equity For Women Declines · · Score: -1

    Well yeah...

    And 98% make less than the other 2%; 68% make less than the other 32%, etc.

    That was a meaningless comment.

  20. Re: Here we go again on As Amazon Grows In Seattle, Pay Equity For Women Declines · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing greenwow is that Anonymous Coward that keeps posting those silly Republicans do X because they hate people

  21. Re:Not anywhere near "dead easy" yet. on Firefox Signs Five-Year Deal With Yahoo, Drops Google as Default Search Engine · · Score: 1

    I'll take that bet.

  22. Re:21st century? on Head of FCC Proposes Increasing Internet School Fund · · Score: 1

    I do. For starters this kind of thing increases access to resources like Khan academy, wikipedia, open text books, and the internet as a whole which provides an information resource that makes a typical school library look like a giant waste of space.

    Those are resources not teaching instruments.

    We did not have an encyclopedia in every classroom yet we got along just fine. I agree, though, that those tools should be available in the school library.

  23. Re:Bill Rejected with Bi-Partisan agreeemnt on Republicans Block Latest Attempt At Curbing NSA Power · · Score: 1

    Keystone is just political grandstanding.

    Big oil doesn't care about it anymore because we have all the oil needed from fracking.

    The people running the environmental groups don't care but know that enough people are uniformed that they will poor their own dollars to those causes.

  24. Re: Can't wait for this! on Mozilla Updates Firefox With Forget Button, DuckDuckGo Search, and Ads · · Score: 1

    So does firefox...

    You are allowed to opt out on both.

  25. Re:If you proposed a $5000 hookup-tax for internet on Gigabit Internet Connections Make Property Values Rise · · Score: 1

    So run by the city and billed on a meter?