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Comment Re:I am having a vision of the future... (Score 3, Interesting) 296

The Democrats in the United States are actually centrists by the standards of most countries. The liberals in America don't have any political power while their far-right counterparts have completely taken over the Republican Party. Look at the "socialist" health care plan passed by the Democrats. The heart of the plan is the very conservative idea of individual responsibilityâ"the individual mandate was a conservative idea until the Democrats embraced it, at which point it suddenly became a socialist plot against Americans. A true liberal would have pushed for a one-payer system.

And so it goes.

Comment Re:Competition and pricing (Score 2) 403

Linux-based laptops might get more support phone calls from guys who were expecting Windows, or customers who wanted to try something new but then learned that Microsoft Office does not run on their new Linux computer. Slashdot guys love to mock uneducated users, but you have to give Dell consideration that these uneducated buyers of a Linux-based laptop might cost them more money to keep happy (or less angry).

Comment Re:Well, at least they have artists in Iran (Score 5, Insightful) 183

It is you who suffers from a lack of historical perspective, especially when you think you're so cute and intelligent for calling other people useful idiots. You imply the Mossadegh was a bad guy because he was friendly with the USSR, but you miss the fucking point that him being friendly with the USSR might be bad for the US, but it might have been good for Iran, you know, the country that he was leading.

The Shah was propped up by the United States, and his regime was brutal and corrupt. The Iranians supported Khomeini because of his anti-Western sentiment, which was there because, you know, we propped up a brutal and corrupt regime that had screwed their country over.

Comment Re:Name and shame again and again. (Score 5, Informative) 143

He claims that he has transferred it back to CM:

"Ahmet Deveci8:22 PM - Public
For the record, regarding: cyanogenmod.com

Following the saga from : http://www.cyanogenmod.org/blog/psa-transition-to-cyanogenmod-org it would appear that I have been labelled a 'thief' an 'extortionist' a 'liar' and a bunch of other somewhat degrading comments.

The domain name has since been transferred to the CM Team, but I wanted to make a few things clear.

I purchased the CyanogenMod.com domain name 3 years ago and have been responsible for the renewal fees ever since. This means I (my company) legally owned the domain name. It was fully registered in the United Kingdom. I hear people saying about âtrademarkâ(TM). Yes, CyanogenMod is now a registered trademark in the US. But the domain was registered in the UK well before that trademark. I donâ(TM)t want to get into any legal battles here, but US trademarkâ(TM)s are not valid in the UK unless they are registered here with the IPO.

The term 'hi-jacked' is just wrong, the domain name was always in my control. I didn't hijack anything. I initiated a transfer out process with my registrar today who restored the DNS entries to their own. This in turn deleted all MX entries and other records. The term 'hi-jacked' has just derived from tech blogs creating stories for link bait.

The term 'extortion' is also wrong. If I was out for the money, why an earth would I have transferred the domain to the CM Team for free?"

https://plus.google.com/116028512018932696380/posts

Comment Re:Morons. (Score 4, Informative) 458

Please read this article, look at the picture, and tell me you think the cop was wrong. The charge was violating the law on the handling of gasoline. This moron poured 150 gallons of gasoline into regular Home Depot buckets. By the time he was arrested, the tops of the covers were bulging. Yeah, that's dangerous because gasoline burns ... and gasoline vapors EXPLODE.

Comment Re:Why Nate? (Score 2) 576

Because Nate Silver was PERFECT. ElectionProjection.com went 49/50 while Silver went 51/51. Furthermore, he was insisting that Obama was winning months and months ago when everyone was insisting that it was a toss up. Also, he's a gay Jew. I can't help but to think that this brought him into the crosshairs of many of his right-wing critics, most notably, that of Dean Chambers of unskewedpolls.com, who said that Nate Silver was "effeminate."

Comment Re:Everyone loves a winner. (Score 5, Insightful) 881

I believe that Obama naively did not expect the Republicans to dedicate themselves to stopping him from getting reelected. Right off the bat, they actually came out and said that their top political goal was to stop Obama from getting elected to a second term. Instead of trying to fix the economy, reform our banking system to become more robust, or to end the wars, the Republicans said that they were going to stop Obama from winning. Witness, the debt crisis.

Also, I don't think anyone expected the Republicans to declare war on reality. The entire meme that there is a "liberal media" that is out to get them, and that Fox News is the only "real" media source is one of the greatest scams in political memory. Facts simply do not matter anymore. Obama is a secret Muslim! Obama hates America! The drones over Benghazi were armed and ready to shoot the bad guys but Obama stopped them from engaging! All the polls are skewed towards Obama, and Romney will definitely win by a landslide once you correct for the oversampling of Democrats! But if he loses, it's because of voter fraud!

The right wing, driven by the Tea Party, has become so detached from reality that it has become a political threat to think. Pregnancy by rape is divine will! Really, that's insane.

Comment Re:Awesome (Score 1) 317

You can get a Mach 3 SST if you want to pay $15,000 for a one-way ticket. The Concorde tried that business model, and well, it didn't work. Passengers like to claim that they will pay more for service, for more legroom, to get to the destination early, etc., but when it comes time to put their money where their mouths are, well, there's a reason we have had Mach 0.85 airliners for over fifty years.

Comment Re:Did I miss something? (Score 1) 317

Carbon fiber is new for passenger jets but it has been extensively used in the latest generation of fighter jets. Boeing submitted the YF-23 as an unsuccessful bid for the USAF Advanced Tactical Fighter Program, which was built substantially from carbon fibers. Of all the problems with the F-22 (another carbon fiber airplane), none have been with the carbon fiber exploding.

Comment Re:three words, one hyphen: (Score 2) 549

Doctors and hospitals don't want to look like the bad guys, so they'll always dump on lawyers and malpractice lawsuits. But consider that hospitals get paid for each scan and each test that they perform under our current fee-for-service regime. In other words, the more you do, the more you get paid. Not surprisingly, in a free market, you'll see lots of services. Insurance companies try to deny payment for "unnecessary" services, but that's when doctors will trash insurance companies for rejecting life-saving services.

Also consider that the AMA has commissioned studies proving that there are too many medical malpractice lawsuits. But every study commissioned on the matter has concluded that medical malpractice causes far more damage than is recovered in malpractice lawsuits. There are many cases of malpractice where the person dies and no one is around to sue, or where there is malpractice but the case isn't clear cut enough to convince a jury, etc. Lawyers have to front huge expenses in a malpractice case because expert witnesses (doctors) are crazy expensive. So only the "best" cases go to trial. That means, paradoxically, that sometimes clear cases of malpractice won't get tried because the victim was too old and too poor, and died too quickly so you can't sue for lost earnings, or pain and suffering.

So it's a complicated issue. Just don't take the simple narrative that doctors are all saints. Assume everyone is only human and start from there.

Comment Re:There was no misuse (Score 1) 115

It was bad phrasing. Google didn't misuse DKIM as much as it negligently implemented DKIM. The big news was that HSBC and other high-security websites were using weak implementations of DKIM. The problem is that people may rely on DKIM authentication as a sign that it's not phishing. ("Hey, this email from HSBC was signed by DKIM so it's not fake. I guess I'll send a $10,000 check to these guys.")

I am also curious how many keys is used in the Google Apps Premier DKIM. I have a domain with Google Apps, and it might have had a weak key. I reissued a new DKIM key and removed the old one in the hopes that the new key would be strong. But Google should really provide this info during implementation.

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