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Comment It's not about cost, it's about convenience (Score 1) 654

They are fools if they thought by offering free public transportation that Public Transpo would increase by 20%. The people that are worried about the cost of driving to work already take the public transportation. The rest of the people don't care about the cost of public transportation because they are already paying more money to drive. They care about the convenience.

Make it so public transportation is more convenient for everyone and you'll have an increase in usage.

Comment Re:A telling line (Score 2) 431

"He does do a lot of experiments. A lot of them I don't fully understand, but I'm certain he's not making bombs," said the suspect's father, Allen Mason"

Oh? How are you so certain? You just said you don't know what he's doing. Ergo, you don't know what he's doing.

I know, I know... Slashdotters will all side with the "experimenter", because geek. But it sounds like the police are acting based on evidence, while the defense is acting based on blind faith. In such cases, I side with evidence.

As a parent, it's possible that the father actually pays attention to what his kid does with his time. And of course the kid & father can easily have an open relationship, which could mean the kid doesn't hide what he does from his dad. While his dad may not understand the what the kid is doing, but understand the kid enough to know that it's harmless.

Comment Re:The fickle finger of fate..... (Score 1) 95

Boys and girls there is a lesson in this story. Each of us has a karma bucket. When that karma bucket is depleted the "fickle finger of fate" may reach and touch us causing untold calamity. Hacking Team's karma bucket has a giant hole in the bottom and can never be refilled. All of their tricks and source code have been laid bare, and are now in full view of the Internet.

If someone has a link the to torrent, please post it.

Karma applies to your next life, not this one.

Comment Re:Ultimate Fate? (Score 1) 92

Except the expansion of the universe is accelerating, which makes the big crunch impossible. At least from our universe.

That is because there is a super huge giant big super super super black hole pulling rest of the universe towards it, and the closer you are, the faster it pulls you.

Comment Re:Why nobody cares about Zune (Score 1) 300

I can't figure out how people use a phone for music; my phone has 16 GB capacity, and I have 105 GB of music. Constantly re-syncing my phone based on what I feel like listening too gets to be very tiring. I'd rather just carry my iPod (160 GB capacity) and not worry about changing what songs I have with me and I can always listen to what I want.

Well fuck dude, I have over 1TB of music on my computer and my iPod is only 120GB, so I feel your pain.

Actually I don't, because anyone with half a brain knows they do not need their full music collection, and not only that, they can only listen to so much time of music per day. So you figure out how much time a day you need music, convert the music to a format size that will fit what you need, and boom, you have enough music every day.

I don't put all my music on my iPod, I only put songs that I like, because when I'm out and about, I like rocking to familiar good stuff, when at home, I'm more down to listen to new stuff.

Shit, my first mp3 had 128 MB (yes, that is MegaBytes) space on it. I survived.

Comment Re:Why nobody cares about Zune (Score 1) 300

No, he's exactly right. Who actually listens to music on a Zune or an iPod now? Smartphones have made standalone MP3 players completely obsolete.

I used to have not an iPod nor a Zune, but an iRiver H320 (which I upgraded to a 30GB hard drive). I haven't used it in years; I just use my phone for that stuff now. Any smartphone these days will hold my entire music collection easily.

I listen to music on my iPod and I happened to own a dumb phone. And while a new phone would be great, not only can I not afford it, the amount of eavesdropping that can be done on a smart phone really makes it a stupid purchase this day & age. The convenience of a smartphone, does it really outweigh the negative aspects of having a device that records everything you do?

Comment Re:David Cameron is actually a genuine idiot (Score 1) 260

Fascism uses the power of the state to oppress its citizens.

Capitalism uses the power of the state to ensure its corporations can oppress its citizens.

Communism uses the power of the state to oppress its citizens and ensure its economy remains in shambles.

Socialism grants significant power to the state with the expectation that it will use that power for good, and then its citizens are shocked and outraged when the government uses that power to oppress its citizens.

This why for socialism to work, everyone has to work for the Government. You put checks & balances in so no one has power over others and no one gets to stay in positions of powers for overly long.

The problem is you can NOT trust people. Ever. So you need to set up the Government so no one can abuse the power they are given. Short terms and everyone plays a part does that.

Comment Re:"Illegal" (Score 1) 109

When the government does it, there is no such thing!

You know, this makes me think. The TPP is basically giving Corporations powers over Governments, so I guess we will be getting into an age where it's not illegal for Corporations to spy on anyone either.

I wonder what the world would be like if we just all accepted that everyone can see everything we do and nothing is hidden, if this would cut the bullshit out?

Comment Re:Just doing their job. (Score 4, Insightful) 136

The job of the NSA is to spy and if they don't spy on everything spyable they aren't doing their job. Can't even figure out why this would worthy of a ./ headline.

Maybe it is. But I'm pretty sure if the USA found out that the French had our Presidents office/phone bugged, we'd (the USA) would have a shit about it.

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