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  1. Re:Tenuous Grounds, IMHO on Is Microsoft Using RIAA Legal Tactics? · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a logical assumption, but it's a bit like claiming a driver went from Point A to Point B, 100 miles apart, in one hour must have been speeding, though there was no witness to the driver actually speeding.

    Unless he took a plane, or a fast train.

  2. Re:Johnny Cochran? Is that YOU!?? on GUIs Get a Makeover · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I want to also say that when I say the universe is really simple, I don't mean we can comprehend it. I just mean it's simple.

    I often wonder why people continually make this assumption. There is no evidence for this point of view, at least none that I've seen.

    Sounds like wishful thinking to me.

  3. Re:Business Students... on Which Grad Students Cheat the Most? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The fact that more than half of engineering students admit to cheating should be more than a bit disturbing, if they are cheating in their engineering classes. I don't want to go through a tunnel or over a bridge that was designed by one of these folks.

    On the other hand, they weren't asked in which classes they cheated. So we could be talking about an engineering student having a friend write an english paper for him, which, while less than desirable for his education, is not a matter of safety.

  4. Re:Except for the fact on Apple and Windows Will Force Linux Underground · · Score: 1

    More importantly, the biggest problem I've seen, and had, with the previous Mac laptops is that the power cord breaks. I know maybe one person who has one without a messed up power cord.

  5. Re:That's nothing! on Download Torrents With Your PC Turned Off · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, but it is just because they hate sharing so much.

  6. Re:Not the same... on The De-Evolution of the Ocean · · Score: 1

    I noticed that "arbitrary" appeared not once in your post.

  7. Re:Start of the next version of earth biology? on The De-Evolution of the Ocean · · Score: 1

    A monkey as a large mammal is specialized in that it requires large amounts of energy to survive. That is the reason that bacteria and algae are doing so well, because humans are energy hogs. Humans find the most concentrated forms of energy we can and exploit it as much as we can.(see: oil/nuclear)

  8. Re:we're evolving rapidly on The De-Evolution of the Ocean · · Score: 1

    Those most fit to survive are those who really desire children.

    Nope,not at all.

    The most fit to survive are those whose children are most likely to live and reproduce.

  9. Domestication on The De-Evolution of the Ocean · · Score: 1

    Humans, most of them, are heavily domesticated. Living in a society, any society, will select for or against certain traits.

  10. Um, military sattelites on Cyberwar on NASA Websites · · Score: 0, Troll

    NASA certainly qualifies as a military aspect of the US, especially now that there is mounting talk of the militrization of space. Even more than that, NASA has put up every single US military sattelite.

  11. Re:This is why I treat all players in the game as on Study Claims Men Play Female Avatars to 'Win' · · Score: 0, Troll

    And let's admit it, men like to control women, weather they be digital or real. Games just makes it easier for men to control beautiful women.

  12. Re:Gore delivered and continues to deliver good st on How The Internet Works - With Tubes · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm not usually one to defend Gore, I certainly never voted for him, but if you're going to quote someone you better make sure it is accurate. Just as bad to falsely criticize politicians for things they didn't say as to not criticize them for things they did say.

    And, he never said we have ten years left on the environment, he said that he believed scientists who said that it was likely that in 10 years we'd be crossing the point of no return. That is, we hit the point where global warming runs out of our ability to fix.

  13. Re:So what? on $5 Social Wi-Fi Router · · Score: 1

    They make money on the "alien" users, the ones who don't have one of their routers at home and pay an extra charge to get online.

  14. Re:Corporate advantage? on U.S. Secretly Tapping Bank Databases · · Score: 1

    I can't stand the "you can google it yourself" argument.

    Why have any number of people going to google wasting time to verify someone else's statement when the person making an assertion can search one and link to the evidence.

    Not to disagree with your original point, just a quibble.

  15. Missing sixth sense on String Theory a Disaster for Physics? · · Score: 1

    He's missing his sixth sense...

    His sense of humor.

  16. Re:Agreed on Net Neutrality, Schlocky Salesmen vs Monopolist Plumbers · · Score: 1

    The telcos claim that they have the right to charge people for using their lines, the lines are on public property.

    Also, since when does the government *not* have the right to regulate what goes on in private property.

  17. Re:Agreed on Net Neutrality, Schlocky Salesmen vs Monopolist Plumbers · · Score: 1

    Well, all the wires are on public land.

    I'd call that a yes.

  18. Re:I think... on Net Neutrality, Schlocky Salesmen vs Monopolist Plumbers · · Score: 1

    Well, if the next generation of software is open sourse then it certainly does effect it.

    How much lees likely is an end user to download free software if it takes them 5 times longer?

  19. Re:That's no moon! on Definition of Planet to be Announced in September · · Score: 1

    Man, if they say Pluto isn't a planet I'll be out in the streets. First they tell me there was no such dinosaur as the Brontosaurus, now Pluto.

    This is all too much, I hate the future.

  20. Re:Unexplained phenomenons on Ozone Layer Improving Faster Than Expected · · Score: 1

    Well, I stand corrected; but, given what we know about radiation now, I think that supports my point rather than takes away from it.

  21. Re:Unexplained phenomenons on Ozone Layer Improving Faster Than Expected · · Score: 1

    My biggest problem with genetic engineering is that the first thing, the very first thing we did with it on a large scale was put it in our food.

    Maybe we should have waited a bit first, seen what it did in other situations.

    It's as if the first thing we did with nuclear energy was start irradiating food.

  22. Re:Seeing the past on Looking for Life in Light · · Score: 1

    You may not have to be a christian to believ it, but that don't make it so.

  23. Re:Well if they keep on getting...... on Is Silicon Valley Reproducible? · · Score: 1

    Nope, segregated means the races are separate, whether by law or otherwise.

  24. Re:Since when can anyone "pressure" ICANN? on Slashback: Kororaa GPL, ICANN .XXX, BellSouth NSA · · Score: 1

    Are you implying that a media outlet must criticize our leader in order to be considered "Fair and Balanced"? I'm really confused on this one. Be carefull of the standards you use to define "Fair and balanced"... It can cost you credibility.

    No. the reason it makes them not fair and balanced is because they almost exclusively criticize democrats. Look at their coverage during the Clinton years, they constantly reported negative stories about the Pres. Now the whine about how other channels don't report "the good" in Iraq.

  25. OK on Pirates Promise Improved Version of DaVinci Code · · Score: 1

    Check and Check