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  1. Re:Why so skeptical? on RightHaven Lawyer Says Browser Ate His Homework · · Score: 1

    For technology, in my experience, the better educated they are, the more clueless they are

  2. Re:And I'd have gotten first post ... on RightHaven Lawyer Says Browser Ate His Homework · · Score: 1

    What browsers do that?

    I use Safari, Firefox 4 and 5, and Chrome on Mac OS and Chrome on Win 7, none of them make me wait while they ping their mothership to check for updates.

  3. Re:Mystery Fog formed before airplan crash near Ka on Airplanes Cause Accidental Cloud Seeding · · Score: 1

    Or it was just a fog.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fog#Characteristics

    Fog forms when the difference between temperature and dew point is generally less than 2.5 C or 4 F

    "Fog can form suddenly, and can dissipate just as rapidly, depending what side of the dew point the temperature is on. This phenomenon is known as flash fog."

  4. Re:"Propellors"? on Airplanes Cause Accidental Cloud Seeding · · Score: 4, Informative

    I saw some yesterday, Dash-8s and there a lot of other propeller commercial aircraft out there.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardier_Dash_8 - turboprop
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beech_1900 - turboprop
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessna_406 - turboprop

    We even have one of these flying out of Anchorage
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_L-100_Hercules along with
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC-3
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC-6
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_360

  5. Biggest question... on Book Review: Moodle 2.0 First Look · · Score: 1

    Does Moodle 2.x suck less from an administration and content creation standpoint than Moodle 1.x?

    I have to administer and do class creation on Moodle at work and from my experience with it, it's farking awful.

  6. Re:Not the cable but the drives on First Thunderbolt Peripherals Arrive To Market · · Score: 1

    iPhones had come out every 12 months, now it's going to be about 15-16 between iPhone 4 and it's replacement.

  7. Re:or maybe on First Thunderbolt Peripherals Arrive To Market · · Score: 1

    Have you ever bought a consumer, prosumer or professional video camera?

    They all have 4 (i.Link) or 6 pin Firewire 400 or Firewire 800 ports

  8. Re:Well doh on Despite Controversy, Federal Wiretaps On the Rise · · Score: 1

    Those three states are 65.42 million people so about 21% of the total US population.

  9. Re:It's all very disappointing... on Despite Controversy, Federal Wiretaps On the Rise · · Score: 2

    It really isn't nearly as bad as the Soviet Union, East Germany or the DPRK.

    "Full-time officers were posted to all major industrial plants (the extensiveness of any surveillance largely depended on how valuable a product was to the economy) and one tenant in every apartment building was designated as a watchdog reporting to an area representative of the Volkspolizei (Vopo). Spies reported every relative or friend who stayed the night at another's apartment. Tiny holes were drilled in apartment and hotel room walls through which Stasi agents filmed citizens with special video cameras.Schools, universities, and hospitals were extensively infiltrated."

    92.3% of Stasi informants volunteered to spy.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi#Infiltration

  10. Re:Politics making technology useless on The Patriot Act and the EU Cloud · · Score: 1

    Right, that the existence of Israel, Jews, Christians, etc on territory of the Islamic Caliphate is grounds for war.

    Despite the Constitution of Medina, an early document said to have been negotiated by Muhammad in AD 622 with the leading clans of Medina, explicitly refers to Jewish and pagan citizens of Medina as members of the Ummah (community or nation).

    Al Qadea's reason for 9-11 is a racist one, because we support Israel we have to be attacked. It's absolutely no different than Nazi Germany motivation.

  11. Re:Tax Distraction on Amazon Drops California Associates to Avoid Sales Tax · · Score: 1

    Technically, California does have an Army, the California National Guard. Air Guard units would be their Air Force.

    While those units are funded by the US DoD, unless Federalized, they answer to the Governor of California as Commander in Chief, not the President of the United States.

  12. Re:Tax Distraction on Amazon Drops California Associates to Avoid Sales Tax · · Score: 1

    A big chunk of the Defense budget goes to HR.

    Of 685.1 billion
    $154.2 billion to Military Personnel
    $3.1 billion to Military Housing
    22.9%

    $140.1 billion to Procurement

    The VA gets an additional $54 billion outside of the DoD budget

  13. Re:Great way to cut down on the affiliate link spa on Amazon Drops California Associates to Avoid Sales Tax · · Score: 1

    The Commerce Clause is a power listed in the United States Constitution (Article I, Section 8, Clause 3). The clause states that the United States Congress shall have power "To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes".

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commerce_Clause

    You may consider it a weak cornerstone to base a nation on, but it was an attempt to keep the States from putting tariff's on other States.

  14. Re:Great way to cut down on the affiliate link spa on Amazon Drops California Associates to Avoid Sales Tax · · Score: 1

    It won't go to the other 49 states because not all the states have Sales Tax.

    Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire and Oregon have no state sales tax

  15. Re:Politics making technology useless on The Patriot Act and the EU Cloud · · Score: 0

    Yea, and the Colonel Sanders of the chain just got killed, now the franchisees are running the show.

  16. Re:GPG and Iceland on The Patriot Act and the EU Cloud · · Score: 1

    So then the Russian Mob and FSB own your data.

    Is that really a good solution?

  17. Re:Politics making technology useless on The Patriot Act and the EU Cloud · · Score: 4, Informative

    Good luck with gay rights, gay marriage, Abortion rights at the national level with Ron Paul as President.

  18. Re:Politics making technology useless on The Patriot Act and the EU Cloud · · Score: 1, Informative

    The assertion about 9/11 is completely wrong.

    http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/docs/980223-fatwa.htm

    AQ's reasons for the Jihad
    1. There are Americans, Christians and "Zionists" in Saudi Arabia
    2. Those groups fought a war against Iraq from Saudi Arabia
    3. There are Christians, Jews and "Zionists" in lands that are "Muslim" like Jerusalem

  19. Re:Nice Idea, but There Are Concerns on Fusion Thrusters For Space Travel · · Score: 1

    Fusion has been 10-20 years away for the last 60 years.

  20. Re:research! on Fusion Thrusters For Space Travel · · Score: 1

    So let DARPA do it instead of NASA?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA

    Today's news for DARPA
    http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2387672,00.asp - project ahead of schedule.

  21. Re:This isnt right on Cancer Cluster Possibly Found Among TSA Workers · · Score: 1

    A General Aviation plane, like a Cessna 172 has a range of about 700 miles (56 gallons), Anchorage to Seattle is about 1350 miles by air, if you can take the over the sea route, so two tanks of fuel down, at around 6 dollars a gallon.

    So $672 dollars for fuel and about 9-10 hours in the air, plus at least one refueling stop.

    No, general aviation really isn't feasible for getting down to the Lower 48 from Anchorage.

    All those private pilots are for getting around inside of Alaska, like Anchorage out to a cabin, or to a village in the Bush, or between islands.

  22. Re:This isnt right on Cancer Cluster Possibly Found Among TSA Workers · · Score: 1

    Lamps aren't effective at getting from Anchorage to Seattle or Portland though.

  23. Re:As an American Conservative... on US Supreme Court: Video Games Qualify For First Amendment · · Score: 1

    From the PDF - JUSTICE ALITO has done considerable independent research to identify, video games in which “the violence is astounding,”. “Victims are dismembered, decapitated, disemboweled, set on fire, and chopped into little pieces. . . . Blood gushes, splatters, and pools.” Ibid. JUSTICE ALITO recounts all these disgusting video games in order to disgust us—but disgust is not a valid basis for restricting expression.

  24. Re:Apparently on Wildfire Threatens Los Alamos Labs · · Score: 1

    You don't know where Los Alamos is?

    So you don't know where the world's first atomic bomb was developed and built. You need to work on that. Or learn to Google.

  25. Re:US cards are usually good on Ask Slashdot: Mobile Data In Canada For a US Citizen? · · Score: 2

    Contact your bank before you go to Canada, a lot of the time when you try to use it up/down there, they flag your card as stolen.