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  1. Re:Uh, why? on RMS Says "Software As a Service" Is Non-free · · Score: 3, Informative

    Because the software required to make the hardware or make it work is non-free.

  2. Re:Alternate solution on UK Government To Monitor All Internet Use · · Score: 1

    That wouldn't be profitable enough. Unless some company came up with a proprietary way to ship tonnes of people off the island and win a governmental contract so they can bribe I mean contribute to the politicians coffers.

  3. Re:GERMS ARE GOOD..... on US Declares Public Health Emergency Over Swine Flu · · Score: 1

    It is good to know that living in my parents basement and not showering is good for me by providing adequate exposure to germs.

  4. Re:Is this flu really "special"? on US Declares Public Health Emergency Over Swine Flu · · Score: 0

    This influenza virus is a strain that utilizes pig, bird, and human genetic information. Also this is the first recorded time Swine flu has passed from human to human.

  5. Re:Your tax dollars at work on NASA Names Space Station Treadmill After Colbert · · Score: 4, Funny

    Are you kidding? These guys have Professional Enhancing Name Introductory Services.

  6. Re:Why not just trade with Richard Branson on NASA's Zero-Gravity Robotic-Arm Partnership With Canada · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Just because it is difficult to become an astronaut doesn't mean NASA is a closed system. Anyway, your other paragraph is almost nonsensical but I think I understand what you're trying to say. This whole "space thing" is 'relatively' new, so I'm not surprised only a few big nations are investing heavily into it. Eventually it will be globalized and NASA will have to find new ways to stay ahead of the game instead of just having a relative monopoly on the ability to launch people into space. This is rocket science after all...

  7. Re:Schmidt doesn't get it on Google CEO Warns Newspapers Not To Anger Readers · · Score: 1

    Yeah, linking is definitely leeching. Obviously the solution here is to remove their sites from Google's indexing. Those evil, evil Google thieves. I'm sure their ad revenue will see huge spikes after that and they will be swimming in money.

  8. Re:"Waffle & Bluster"?! on The Guardian Shifts To Twitter After 188 Years of Ink · · Score: 1

    Hey, they're British, they don't think highly, give 'em a break.

  9. Re:Don't tell the PRS on PRS Demands License Fee To Play Music To Horses · · Score: 1

    This is a common misconception among the uneducated masse... err the public. You see, dogs can greatly appreciate the music. This is demonstrated by dogs ability to create their own music, howling or barking with patterns of intricate information. So, since dogs can make their own music, they must pay to listen to music produced by us. If you don't agree with this you will be fined and/or jailed, and your dogs sent to a Re-Education Institution For Canine Criminals for the crime of music piracy.

  10. Re:Multiple Radios? on PRS Demands License Fee To Play Music To Horses · · Score: 1

    No, then you're paying for multiple performances, duh. Think of these poor people working for the PRS, if you played the radio and people heard it, you're cheating them of their HARD EARNED MONEY. Please have some respect for these people, don't steal radio performances.

  11. Re:We need opposition with DATA on The Global Warming Heretic · · Score: 1

    Yeah because the entire scientific community under climatology rests on Al Gore's shoulders.

  12. Re:I could be wrong on The Global Warming Heretic · · Score: 1

    That's the best thing with reasoned logic. It doesn't even matter if you are right or wrong about certain things. You can assess the situation to see what the probable results will be if you act or do not act. The risk of inaction in the case of prolonged global warming would be quite considerable. The risk of taking action, you will be putting money into infrastructure (creating jobs), science (spinoff tech, jobs, etc), plus you reduce global warming or its possible consequences, whether they are serious or not. In my opinion putting money into this or any science related field would be put to much better use than dying multinational corporations...

  13. Re:Yawn on The Global Warming Heretic · · Score: 1

    And you don't have to be a statistician to realize that the risk of inaction is far more serious than the risk of action.

  14. Re:Surely there is a single word that could replac on The Underappreciated Risks of Severe Space Weather · · Score: 2, Funny

    Surely you should be glad it isn't "mis-undesigned-for", knowing /. editors.

  15. Re:Like oregon trail but... on Video Game Teaches Kenyan Youth HIV-Safety · · Score: 0

    I wonder if it at the end it teaches them that the more people without aids the better they can maneuver their floating raft around rocks.

  16. Re:And in other news ... on UK ISPs Could Be Forced To Block Or Restrict P2P · · Score: 1

    Honestly I am surprised they haven't started the "Think of the Children" soup de jour yet. I mean, think of all those children of the record execs that will have to go without bread and water because of those naughty downloaders!

  17. Re:Why they bother to try? on UK ISPs Could Be Forced To Block Or Restrict P2P · · Score: 1

    Evidence? We don't need no stinkin' evidence!

  18. Re:Surprise. on US Adults Fail Basic Science Literacy · · Score: 1
    Yes I would also generally disregard an inane argument that goes against well established scientific theory that has a plethora of physical data points that have been repeatably observed and subject to peer review.

    Fun fact, in Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, Intelligent Design defenders say it is against freedom of imagination to not teach ID in schools...

  19. Re:Boring... on Higgs Territory Continues To Shrink · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It isn't a fact at all in fact. I don't think we can say we know everything that is left to know about high energy physics except the big Higgs.

  20. Re:CAUTION on "Spin Battery" Effect Discovered · · Score: 4, Funny
    You forgot:

    Do not look into spinning battery with remaining eye.

  21. Re:Surprise. on US Adults Fail Basic Science Literacy · · Score: 1

    And it is equally funny when you bring in partisan politico rhetoric. No religion itself didn't ruin the American Education System, political rhetoric, deception, and recklessness from the Republocrats also helped.

  22. Re:Surprise. on US Adults Fail Basic Science Literacy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In my opinion religion at a basic level is very unproductive, biased, and all round detrimental to humanity. I don't think it is the cause for all the problems in the world. It is a factor though. Religion is very insidious in its attempt to gain control of free thought. The problem with education is not that people are lazy, that is oversimplifying the problem. The Education Institution System is at the very core flawed in itself. The methodology on how they run these institutions is more akin to a commercial manufacturing plant than a vehicle for education and reasoned logic. Add religious zealots trying to bend free thought to their will and you end up with what we have today.

  23. Re:Surprise. on US Adults Fail Basic Science Literacy · · Score: 1

    I don't think the disdain for education appeared out of nowhere. Religion is often actively working against scientific advancement or proliferation. This may be a result of subtle, and sometimes not so subtle, influence from religious fanatics who often get lots of facetime in American Media. Many people in the US "believe" in religion and unfortunately many people in power also do as well (although they could just be pandering to their bill paying religious overlords).

  24. Surprise. on US Adults Fail Basic Science Literacy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Boards of Education are trying to teach how a magic man in the sky created everything. Reap what you sow.

  25. Re:That is the same argument for DeCSS on Kremlin-Backed Nashi Admits Cyberattacking Estonia · · Score: 1

    Actually it's like if you sell me a DVD... so I own it... and I can't use it because the "key" only works when it wants to. Manufactured defects will always be worked around if warranted.