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  1. Re:I'll get flak for this on Ask Slashdot: Communication With Locked-in Syndrome Patient? · · Score: 1

    Does that include Buddhism?

  2. Re:I'll get flak for this on Ask Slashdot: Communication With Locked-in Syndrome Patient? · · Score: 1

    I was addressing a single atheist who made his views quite plain. You seem to want to red more into it.

  3. Re:Iron Age Deity and ignorance on Ask Slashdot: Communication With Locked-in Syndrome Patient? · · Score: 0

    Every oppressive, paternalistic, misogynist, and backward shit hole in the World has a theocratic government.

    How fortunate that religion was banned by progressive utopias like the USSR and the PRC.

    It is worth noting that while some theists are also willfully ignorant and intolerant of other beliefs, that is hardly universal. I have also met atheists who are willfully ignorant and intolerant of other beliefs. The willful ignorance and intolerance seem to be the problem, not the (a)theism.

  4. Re:I'll get flak for this on Ask Slashdot: Communication With Locked-in Syndrome Patient? · · Score: 1

    Bigotry is unbecoming.

  5. Re:Quantum fluctuations on The Big Bang's Last Great Prediction · · Score: 1

    It was probably turtles.

  6. Re:Commodity of the future on Dump World's Nuclear Waste In Australia, Says Ex-PM Hawke · · Score: 1

    Not shit...ENERGY!

  7. Re:I'll get flak for this on Ask Slashdot: Communication With Locked-in Syndrome Patient? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You seem to hate theism with a religious fervor.

    Are your assertions based on a careful controlled study or are they an article of faith?

    I'll take someone who is deeply religious but believes "to each his own" over an atheist who thinks they need to tell everyone else what to (not) believe every day of the week.

    Once the world is free of people who can't stand to have others believe differently from them, it will be a better place.

  8. Re:Mice and Cockroaches? on Yelp Reviews Help NYC Health Department Find and Close Dirty Restaurants · · Score: 1

    There's lots of vermin in NYC. Wall street is loaded with it. They also have rats and roaches.

  9. Re:Told you that you were serfs on NSA Surveillance Reform Bill Passes House 303 Votes To 121 · · Score: 1

    Very few Americans ever manage to rise above the station they were born to. But they do get to work more hours than a serf with much less security. None of our last 3 presidents grew up in poverty though Clinton did see some rough patches and his home life wasn't all that good.

  10. Re:a group representing independent musicians on Google Using YouTube Threat As Leverage For Cheaper Streaming Rights · · Score: 3, Informative

    See this.

  11. Re:"A Contract" on 5 Years Later, 'Do Not Track' System Ineffective · · Score: 2

    So you're claiming that newspaper ads were a failure from the beginning but for some reason persisted throughout the 19th and 20th centuries? There was no tracking there, the ads in the newspaper had no way to report back where you were or what you bought at all. None. All those billboards lost money? The famous Burmashave signs were a total loss?

    The TV ads failed miserably? The TV has no idea who went to the bathroom and who didn't. If you watched one, it had no idea if you lingered longer over the product next time you went shopping or not.

    Or are you claiming that was all garage operations rather than an industry with big expensive suites on Madison Avenue?

  12. Re:"A Contract" on 5 Years Later, 'Do Not Track' System Ineffective · · Score: 5, Insightful

    NO. People just don't want the web equivalent of a radio collar attached to them. They do not want to be stalked by creepy advertisers. They can advertise without stalking. Advertising survived and flourished for centuries without stalking.

  13. Re:a group representing independent musicians on Google Using YouTube Threat As Leverage For Cheaper Streaming Rights · · Score: 1

    The problem is that ASCAP and friends have gotten the law twisted in their favor. You don't really get to pick your representative. They will collect royalties for your music whether you join or not. They will apportion it as they see fit without regard to whos music was actually being played. Even if you conscientiously object, they will still claim to represent you and assrape your friend who plays your music in his shop with your blessing. Insult to injury, you won't even get the money they collect from him so you can give it back.

  14. Re:a group representing independent musicians on Google Using YouTube Threat As Leverage For Cheaper Streaming Rights · · Score: 1

    The problem is, the cash that gets tossed their way won't find it's way to the musicians they claim to represent.

  15. Re:Correlation vs correlation on U.S. Drone Attack Strategy Against Al-Qaeda May Be Wrong · · Score: 0

    Don't forget tigers. Without those drone strikes, I'm totally sure there would be tigers.

  16. Re:In my youth on Professors: US "In Denial" Over Poor Maths Standards · · Score: 1

    The SAT was actually dumbed down in the '90s. (or perhaps the late '80s)

  17. Re:Clearly, we need to SPEND MORE MONEY! on Professors: US "In Denial" Over Poor Maths Standards · · Score: 1

    What we need is to actually spend the money on the students. Too often, you see run down schools with nice offices. Nicer still will be the building the school board is in. That does not mean shoveling great masses of money at overpriced and underperforming 'educational software' and such.

  18. Re:October?! on New IE 8 Zero Day Discovered · · Score: 1

    I think they're all lost in the poppies, poppies, poppies!

  19. Re:Nope. on Google Foresees Ads On Your Refrigerator, Thermostat, and Glasses · · Score: 1

    So how ever did those enterprises get along before printers had an LCD on them? The smoke from those burning printers must have made it hard to see.

    As for paper jams, it depends on the printer. On some printers you need actual tools if the jam is bad. It's especially fun if someone manually feeds the wrong kind of transparency, then you need scrapers and a scalpel.

  20. Re:Nope. on Google Foresees Ads On Your Refrigerator, Thermostat, and Glasses · · Score: 1

    DHCP gives it an address, then you can connect and configure whatever you want, including a static address if you like.

    The only time I need to bring anything to the printer is when it needs paper, and if I don't have to do that because the person who is waiting for his printout does it, I win.

    So the light marked out of paper doesn't do it for them? If that doesn't help, nothing short of a 32 inch display showing someone putting paper in the printer will help.

    It never needs toner or has a jam?

    And since you forgot, the question was about NEED, not WANT. I maintain it doesn't NEED a display, even if you might WANT one. Quit huffing the correction fluid!

  21. Re:Nope. on Google Foresees Ads On Your Refrigerator, Thermostat, and Glasses · · Score: 1

    Since the post I replied to only mentioned one thing, I figured people might be able to figure it out.

    It gets it's IP and subnet mask via DHCP. If it has the wrong subnet mask, so does everything in my house. You can't disable the HTTP port at all, and I can look up the IP address. I have had zero problems with it.

  22. Re:Duh... on IT Pro Gets Prison Time For Sabotaging Ex-Employer's System · · Score: 2

    Because they'll be playing pin the crime on the donkey and if you talk, all they'll here is HEEE HAW.

  23. Re:The FCC has no right to dictate terms on Congress Unhappy With FCC's Proposed Changes To Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Sure it's profitable if you have a contract signed in advance AND you can afford the up-front. That's the issue, you need big bux up front that pay back over time.

    And as for planned, there's an old myth that one day the town founders hitched a plow to a hog and slapped his ass. Where he plowed, they paved.

  24. Re:Nope. on Google Foresees Ads On Your Refrigerator, Thermostat, and Glasses · · Score: 1

    It's absolutely fine for deployment. You can set it static for normal operation.

  25. Re:Nope. on Google Foresees Ads On Your Refrigerator, Thermostat, and Glasses · · Score: 1

    I can diagnose that too. If the browser won't connect, it's power or network. The lights let me decide which.