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  1. Re:Three things we don't need. on Drupal 6 Social Networking · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Django and PostgreSQL. Look up Pinax, it's a collection of reusable apps for Django that can be used to make a social networking site.

  2. Re:This is all I've got to say about this. on Accountability of the Scientific Stimulus Funding · · Score: 1, Informative

    Bush was an idiot. His cabinet was not.

  3. Re:Before people start complaining that its only 1 on Spain Codifies the "Right To Broadband" · · Score: 1

    Actually, looking good just requires web designers. No developers are really needed, unless it's full of AJAX.

  4. Re:This is all I've got to say about this. on Accountability of the Scientific Stimulus Funding · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, especially when it comes to the government.

  5. Re:Rednecks? on Environmental Chemicals Are Feminizing Boys · · Score: 1

    Oh, and the rioting. That's definitely chav-like.

  6. Re:Rednecks? on Environmental Chemicals Are Feminizing Boys · · Score: 1

    They're dirty, unruly, sell drugs, live in shanties, etc.

  7. Re:Nothing to see here, move on on Copyright Time Bomb Set To Go Off · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Too young? We're talking 35 years. Unless he was writing as an infant, you're looking at a minimum age of ~50 if he died after the copyright expires. Since when is 50 "too young"? If, at 50, you haven't provided for your family in case you die, you probably never will. If in 35 years of marketing your creation you can't make it worth your while, it never will be worth your while.

  8. Re:Mines a vodka and red bull... on Caffeinated Alcoholic Drinks May Be Illegal · · Score: 1

    7% currently use drugs. The majority have tried at least one. The majority had the opportunity to do drugs and decided not to. Legalization is not going to change that at all. Of all the reasons not to do cocaine, or heroin, or meth, their legality is dead last. Everyone who wants to do drugs, already does. Everyone else tried and gave them up, or never had any desire to try them in the first place. The law played almost no part in their decision.

  9. Re:Vicodin vs. Morphine vs. Heroin on Caffeinated Alcoholic Drinks May Be Illegal · · Score: 1

    Morphine's available in the US for similar applications, and for most applications it's as good as or better than heroin.

    Morphine is available in Britain as well, yet many doctors still chose heroin.

  10. Re:Rednecks? on Environmental Chemicals Are Feminizing Boys · · Score: 1

    So you've never visited Christiania, eh?

  11. Re:Mines a vodka and red bull... on Caffeinated Alcoholic Drinks May Be Illegal · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We tried banning cannabis, cocaine, heroin, and a laundry list of other drugs as well. It hasn't worked out any better.

  12. Re:And now thanks to /. and microsoft on Microsoft Tries To Censor Bing Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    They ARE responsible. Their responsibility wasn't presented as either a positive or a negative thing. The phrasing was entirely neutral.

  13. Re:Only video sites? on Tired of Flash? HTML5 Viewer For YouTube · · Score: 1

    Well flash is basically just bitmaps and vector graphics scripted with javascript with some video streaming thrown in. It's no surprise you can do much the same thing with bitmaps and vector graphics scripted with javascript and using the video tag.

  14. Re:An Application? on NASA Reproduces a Building Block of Life In the Lab · · Score: 1

    On a cosmological timescale, things like uracil break down into things that aren't uracil.

    Over and over and over again. If the elements and conditions for uracil creation exist, then uracil exists. The same for any other building block. Gravity assures that they all get piled together eventually. In billions of years, it likely happens billions of times on billions of planets. It just takes one success, and panspermia can populate the universe.

  15. Re:An Application? on NASA Reproduces a Building Block of Life In the Lab · · Score: 1

    If we show panspermia is possible, then the notion that life began on earth is in question. The onus is then to prove that there is not (or was not) life elsewhere in the universe, instead of the reverse.

  16. Re:An Application? on NASA Reproduces a Building Block of Life In the Lab · · Score: 5, Insightful

    On a cosmological timescale, if the separate parts are capable of coming together, then their existence makes that event an inevitability.

  17. Re:Stupid technology on Tech Allows Stable Integration of Wind In the Power Grid · · Score: 4, Funny

    What mountains? The coal mine removed them.

  18. Re:Only video sites? on Tired of Flash? HTML5 Viewer For YouTube · · Score: 4, Insightful

    because nobody uses Flash for navigation

    Well, nobody with any sense, anyway.

  19. Re:It's not "stealing"...right? on Did Microsoft Borrow GPL Code For a Windows 7 Utility? · · Score: 0

    I'm fairly sure that by accepting money for someone else's property, you are stealing money from that person, whether you deprived that person of the property or not.

  20. Just one problem. on Fear Detector To Sniff Out Terrorists · · Score: 1

    Terrorists are not afraid. Nobody fears getting laid by 72 virgins.

  21. Any software suggestions? on Comcast's New Throttling Plan Uses Trigger Conditions, Not Silent Blocking · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm looking for software that can trottle bandwidth based on time. Say 100% for 15 minutes, then 49% for 15 minutes then back to 100%. Or am I going to have to write a 5 line perl script to circumvent this?

  22. Intelligence != wisdom. on Why a High IQ Doesn't Mean You're Smart · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Some of the wisest people I know have Down Syndrome.

  23. Re:No surprise there... on For September, Book-Related Apps Overtook Games On iPhone · · Score: 1

    Correct, hundreds of good quality games, and thousands of crappy ones, just like the PS3, and just like the XBox 360, and just like the Wii, and just like the PC, and...

    All of which have refunds and/or demos.

  24. Great... on Rise of the Robot Squadrons · · Score: 0

    If there's one thing worse than a flying robot killing machine it's swarms of flying robot killing machines.

  25. Re:Oh, really? on Feds Bust Cable Modem Hacker · · Score: 2, Funny

    The most they would do is put him for a few months into a white-collar, minimum-security resort. You know, they have conjugal visits there?

    Conjugal visits? Mmmm. Not that I know of. Y'know, minimum-security prison is no picnic. I have a client in there right now. He says the trick is: kick someone's ass the first day, or become someone's bitch. Then everything will be all right.