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  1. Reprimand, scheprimand on Google Releases Data On FBI Spying · · Score: 1

    Has anyone lost his job or gone to jail?

  2. Re:I think people are failing to understand.... on Six-Strikes System Starts In U.S. · · Score: 1

    And if you'll -- buy -- that
    I've got some ocean front property in A-ri-zo-na
    From my front porch you can see the sea
    I've got some ocean front property in A-ri-zo-na
    If you'll buy that, I'll throw the Golden Gate in free.

  3. Re:The Sheep Look Up on Billionaires Secretly Fund Vast Climate Denial Network · · Score: 1

    Steven Milloy? Geez, why not cite whale.to? Or maybe rense.com could weigh in. Oh wait...let's ask the Time Cube guy!

    Like I said, 18 countries use DDT and the Stockholm Convention specifically permits it. My source is the horse's mouth. Yours is a liar for hire.

    People who believe Steven Milloy have no standing to call anyone else a sheep.

  4. That MIT patent has expired. on The Patents That Threaten 3-D Printing · · Score: 2

    It's been both 20 years from filing and 17 years from grant.

  5. Re:The Sheep Look Up on Billionaires Secretly Fund Vast Climate Denial Network · · Score: 1

    The Stockholm Convention specifically allows the use of DDT for public health. 18 countries use it, including China and India, which have half the world's population between them.

    But of course Fox Propaganda didn't tell you that.

    For the rest of it: Citation needed.

  6. Re:The Sheep Look Up on Billionaires Secretly Fund Vast Climate Denial Network · · Score: 1

    The one thing that strikes me these days, is the way how the exact same people who solved the problems you are talking about - DDT, leaded gasoline, smog etc.

    In before the Rachel-Carson-is-the-Devil crowd.

  7. Re:Disgusting on Billionaires Secretly Fund Vast Climate Denial Network · · Score: 2, Funny

    Al Gore

    DRINK!

  8. Re:Being able to transfer games would be awesome on Valve Sued In Germany Over Game Ownership · · Score: 1

    Only 75-80%? Theodore Sturgeon would like a word with you.

  9. "Without looking churlish"? on Jonathan Coulton Offers Some Gleeful Turnabout · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Since when do plutocrats care about looking churlish?

  10. Re:Can't America get its acts together ? on Congressman Introduces Bill To Ban Minting of Trillion-Dollar Coin · · Score: 1

    1) War on Terra. Halliburton and Northrup Grumman ain't got no bootstraps. (We could have used all this worry over the deficit when that idiot Bush was beating the war drums.)
    2) War on Civil Liberties, er, Drugs. The private prison industry ain't got no bootstraps.
    3) zOMG we gotta pay TAXES for all this shit?

  11. They paid her $20 million to go away on HP Cuts Workforce By 5%, Looks To Probe GM Hires · · Score: 0

    but progressive income taxes and food stamps punish success and reward failure.

  12. Re:Texas is a right to work state on HP Cuts Workforce By 5%, Looks To Probe GM Hires · · Score: 1

    "Right to work" really means "right to freeload on the union." Aren't you right wingers supposed to be against freeloaders?

  13. 35 USC section 271 - Infringement on Patent Troll Targeting Users of Scanners; Wants $1000/Employee · · Score: 5, Informative

    (a) Except as otherwise provided in this title, whoever without authority makes, uses, offers to sell, or sells any patented invention, within the United States or imports into the United States any patented invention during the term of the patent therefor, infringes the patent.

  14. Re:Nope on 2012 Set Record For Most Expensive Gas In US · · Score: 1

    Most other developed countries figured out long ago that you tax private car use to help pay for public transport.

    zOMG SOOOOOOOOCIALISM!

  15. Re:Who cares? on What Could Have Been In the Public Domain Today, But Isn't · · Score: 4, Informative

    You have to copy pretty close to get sued

    George Harrison begs to differ.

  16. Charcoal also. on Drawings of Weapons Led To New Jersey Student's Arrest · · Score: 1

    Now all we need is some sulfur.

    And isopropyl alcohol is a precursor of sarin. Granted, the *other* precursor is rather hard to get.

  17. Re:Silicon on Linux Nukes 386 Support · · Score: 1

    It's doubtful the x87 is going anywhere any time soon. That's where such goodies as trig, log and exponential functions live. The SSE registers only do + - * / and square root.

  18. Re:HEADLINE: Scientists fear for their jobs, want on Ticking Arctic Carbon Bomb May Be Bigger Than Expected · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We know that human life and advanced civilization can thrive in the climate the way it is.

    We don't know that human life and advanced civilization can thrive in a Cretaceous-like climate.

    Therefore we would like to see the climate stay as much the way it is as we can manage.

    What the right wingers aren't getting is that this is the conservative position, at least as "conservative" used to be defined. We like the climate the way it is. A "progressive" position might be "CO2 supports plant life, higher temperatures are good, let's raise the temperature." No sane person believes that. The position of those who call themselves conservatives is "I want my Hummer, consequences be damned!" That's not conservative and it certainly isn't progressive. It's reckless.

  19. Aw, geez, not this shit again. on Ticking Arctic Carbon Bomb May Be Bigger Than Expected · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is nothing other than egghead research "scientists" trying to keep the gravy train going and looking for more of our (yours and mine) money to sit on their asses and debate the issue.

    Roight, guv. Basic scientific research is so much more profitable than shilling for Big Oil. The National Science Foundation has so much more money and so much less to spend it on than ExxonMobil, the Koch Brothers and Fox Izvestia.

    (You forgot to mention AAAAALLLLL GOOOOORRRRRE!)

  20. Re:Perl analogue on How Does a Single Line of BASIC Make an Intricate Maze? · · Score: 1

    The regular forward and back slash don't join very well. If your output device supports UTF-8, try U+2571 and U+2572; this example is in Ruby 1.9:

    print (0x2571+rand(2)).chr(%q(UTF-8)) while true

  21. And gallium nitrate? on The Periodic Table of Tech · · Score: 2

    The blue laser diodes are gallium nitride. I would hope they'd know the difference, as it's kind of important to put sodium chloride instead of sodium chlorate on your baked potato.

  22. Re:Illegal? on Mysterious Algorithm Was 4% of Trading Activity Last Week · · Score: 1

    Computer fraud or abuse, perhaps. FTFA: Translation: The ultimate goal of many of these programs is to gum up the system so it slows down the quote feed to others and allows the computer traders (with their co-located servers at the exchanges) to gain a money-making arbitrage opportunity.

    I call that a denial of service attack. 18 USC 1030, paragraph 5 concerns anyone who:

    (A) knowingly causes the transmission of a program, information, code, or command, and as a result of such conduct, intentionally causes damage without authorization, to a protected computer;
    (B) intentionally accesses a protected computer without authorization, and as a result of such conduct, recklessly causes damage; or
    (C) intentionally accesses a protected computer without authorization, and as a result of such conduct, causes damage and loss.

    The sticker seems to be "without authorization." Perhaps some relevant terms of service come into play.

  23. Re:Before you act shocked... on New Content-Delivery Tech Should Be Presumed Illegal, Says Former Copyright Boss · · Score: 1

    It's illegal to make and sell any medical products without approval from the FDA.

    No, it isn't. Just slap a Quack Miranda Warning on it -- "we haven't actually proved this does what we say it'll do" -- and you're good to go.

  24. A language need not be context free (type 2) to be expressed in formal logic; it needs only to be type 0.

  25. Re:Don't hire union workers on The Truth About Hiring "Rock Star" Developers · · Score: 1

    our Democratic/socialist party

    You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.