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Comment Re:Truth? Let me tell you about TRUTH (Score 1) 579

The US Constitution specifically bans a standing army in a time of peace - makes you wonder why ever since WWII the US government has always found some bogus reason to perpetually be at war.

The Constitution only limits Congress to passing military appropriations with terms of up to two years. They pass appropriations bills annually so they are certainly well within that limit since they only pass appropriations with terms of one year. There's a reason why those bills are considered "must pass" and Congressmen are so successful tacking on riders.

Comment Re:Can't see a reason in the Acceptable Use Policy (Score 1) 528

You *Assume* it's illegal to distribute this information. If it was illegal, the US would have gone to the courts, show it was illegal, and the filed for a proper take-down notice. This was done because of pure and simple political pressure.

It's pretty efficient if you don't have to go running to the court and instead have something taken down by nothing more than a friendly phone call from the aide of a Congressman.

Comment Re:Stop the constant WP7-bashing. (Score 1) 351

It's a sneaky sales tactic they've been doing with Android phones for quite a while. They could do a sale for 50% (of the upfront price, not the inflated monthly payment cost) off or go the sneaky route and score a contract or contract extension for two phones by making you buy two of them to get the "deal".

Comment Re:New Benchmark (Score 4, Interesting) 175

Also, I have seen cases where compiler optimization is smart enough to remove the entire loop if there are no side effects to incrementing i, and it's not used outside the loop.

Most compilers should be doing this. Hell, even IE9 is supposed to do it for JavaScript now. It gets great scores on SunSpider because of it (the JIT can throw away entire tests).

Comment Re:Or... (Score 1) 272

If ads on legitimate sites weren't offering up these kinds of "tools", I'd be more inclined to agree the users that get infected are somehow stupid. I remember having my antivirus going off on a regular basis when browsing completely legit sites because an ad embedded in it was attempting an exploit.

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