Comment Re:Yeah (Score 1) 1065
but they can still cause a buttload of trouble in the U.N. if the U.K. does it.
No they can't. The UK has a veto at the UN. If the UK abstains because they are directly involved in the incident, the US also has a veto.
Comment Re:What? Since when... (Score 1) 300
If a state chooses to recognize a contract between two opposite sex, two same sex, or 3 same or mixed sex partners its the sates business, not the federal government.
Does the Federal government give tax benefits to married people? If so, they need a definition of "married". That definition could be "as legally defined in your state" but I don't know enough about the US Constitution to know if it would be legal to have the Federal government tax people differently based on which state they live in.
Comment Re:Weak security questions (Score 2) 266
Why do you have to answer the questions with the correct answers? As long as you remember how you answered them, it doesn't matter if the answers are actually correct. Your first pet could be George W. Bush. Your elementary school could be Starfleet Academy.
Comment Re:But ... (Score 1) 846
If everyone in that theater was armed and had at least rudimentary firearms safety training... how far do you think the crazy guy would have gotten?
Obviously, nobody can answer a hypothetical question. However, let me ask one in return. How many people would have died in the crossfire if everyone in that theater was armed, only had rudimentary firearms safety training, and all started firing trying to take the crazy guy down? It was dark and smoky. The movie special effects were ongoing. If everyone pulled weapons and started shooting, I'm sure that at least one would be hero would have been misidentified as an accomplice by another would be hero.
Comment Re:Do not use standard passwords (Score 5, Informative) 198
So what next?
Two factor authentication.
Comment Re:Why? (Score 2) 361
That may be, but DOS was 16-bit, as was Windows 3.0 and 3.1. Until OS/2 2.0 and Windows 95, there was no particular need for a 386 - a 286 would have worked just fine.
A 386 provided Virtual 86 mode which was needed to multitask DOS applications.
Comment Re:This is why I don't believe in compulsory votin (Score 2, Insightful) 321
The US Congress declared war on Iraq, not Bush. The President of the United States does not have the power nor the authority to declare a war, which is why Obama broke the law when he had our military bomb Libya without cause, provocation or a declaration of war.
Congress hasn't declared war on anyone since World War II. Congress did authorize the use of military force in Iraq in 2002 based on what Bush thought to be appropriate.
Comment Re:If this is true... (Score 1) 315
In reality, it's traveling at exactly the speed of light.
Don't neutrinos have mass? Can particles with mass be accelerated to light speed? Without reading the article or the paper and not having taken even a college physics class, I would have expected that a neutrino should have been traveling at near light speed rather than "exactly the speed of light".
Comment Re:Open Wifi Hotspot (Score 1) 266
"We'll have a fair trial and then hang the guilty bastard."
Comment Re:Suggestion (Score 1) 417
For instance, off the path of the normal street view area, there area single pictures of things like shrines, etc.
Those individual pictures are probably not taken by Google but rather are some individuals photos linked in from Panoramio.
Comment Re:Freenet (Score 1) 467
Hitting a corpse with a wrench will reveal the password how, exactly?
Comment Re:Who exactly is fighting back? (Score 5, Insightful) 641
It's climate change, idiot.
I think it's even more specific than that. It's about human influenced climate change. Climate Change is a fact. The climate on this planet is constantly changing and has been changing naturally for as long as we have any way of measuring. The causes may be something as simple a cyclical changes in the energy output of the sun, volcanic eruptions, meteor impacts, or a multitude of other natural phenomenons. There's not much we can do to change the normal cycle of climate change. The question is what impact we are having on the climate with the stuff we are pumping in to the atmosphere and what, if anything, we should be doing about it.
Comment Re:-1 Troll (Score 4, Insightful) 641
Because everyone is a programmer, right?
If you aren't a programmer and still care that much, you could always PAY a programmer to do the work for you. At least you have the choice. If you don't like the interface changes in Windows 7, you don't have the option to either change it yourself or pay someone who knows how to change it for you.
Comment Re:Is that supposed to be news?? (Score 1) 202
With Ubuntu I have no way of doing that.
They took cron out of Ubuntu? That seems silly.
Submission + - Internet's First Registered Domain Name Sold (hothardware.com)
MojoKid writes: "Believe it or not, it wasn't iternet.com or dot.com that was purchased when the Internet was "born." Instead, it was the somewhat off-the-wall name of symbolics.com. The Symbolics company was the first
to use an internet domain name to guide Internet viewers to its line of Lisp machines, which were single-user computers optimized to run the Lisp programming language. XF.com
Investments, which is a Missouri-based Internet investments firm,
has managed to secure the domain name from its original owner for an undisclosed sum and XF's CEO was quick to proclaim his excitement over the acquisition. It's hard to say why this domain name was the first purchased back on March 15, 1985, but for obvious reasons it holds a special place in history. There has been one original owner for nearly 25 years. Over that time, we've seen the Internet grow to the tune of 180,000,000+ registered domains, and thousands more are being added each and every day."
