Comment Re:A corporation challenges an entire country? (Score 1) 515
Youtube is a subsidiary of Google...
Comment Credit card machines (Score 1) 426
The majority of dialup credit card machines on the market do not work well with VOIP lines. If AT&T forces this change, a few hundred thousand small businesses will be forced into buying new machines.
Comment Re:Rules... (Score 1) 652
If you think illegal immigrants never complain, then I'm guessing you've never met any.
Comment Re:SOX issue (Score 1) 70
I think you mean PA-DSS, which applies to payment application providers. PCI-DSS applies to the merchants themselves.
Comment Re:It's so very odd..... (Score 1) 1376
I totally disagree with the parent. Theism/Atheism is having faith in the existence OR non-existence of a god (not necessarily a Christian god). Agnosticism is the lack of faith either way, which sounds quite reasonable to me as nobody has actually provided proof one way or the other, at least as far as I'm concerned. Why is it so difficult for some people to admit they they do NOT have the answer to a long standing question?
Also, it's a shame about Ireland. I may have to rethink ever visiting.
Comment Re:So? (Score 1) 245
Are visitors going to be under the impression that the actual giver of testimony created the site, or will it be spelled out that you're the one doing it? It's not exactly a brain teaser of an ethical dilemma...
Comment Re:If it's actually tasteful, I wouldn't mind so m (Score 1) 219
Books are the last advertisement-free stronghold, the last place we can turn for entertainment that does not come loaded with advertisements.
I agree with everything you said except this. I'm guessing you haven't had a good hike or picnic in a while?
Comment Re:Well... (Score 1) 219
How about Hawthorne? Porn ads on every other page would be the only way I would ever consider reading The Scarlett Letter again.
Comment Re:electricity rates (Score 1) 505
Arizona does as well.
Comment Re:Every church does (Score 1) 890
it's conceivable that the full text of LRH's teachings will similarly disappear from history
Not with torrents (as well as other sharing mechanisms) they won't.
Comment Re:You Joke (Score 2, Interesting) 381
For every Guatemalan or Nicaraguan that makes it to the US and takes a job, that's less work for Mexicans. If they gatekeep their southern border they help to keep down their own competition...
Comment Re:Had that for awhile now... (Score 2, Informative) 364
A rootkit in a VM could be used as a platform for launching attacks on nearby nodes, behind whatever firewall may be in place.
Comment Re:Hooray! (Score 1) 358
That's a good thing, as far as I'm concerned. Hopefully it will cause an institutional aversion to making crappy movies. That would be nice.
Comment Re:Translation (Score 3, Funny) 435
Ok I giggled. If your cat has a brain the size of a tennis ball then it's got a huge fucking head.