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  1. Re:Its hard to tell on Bradley Manning Makes Statement · · Score: 1

    So the US ARMY should have called my father and told him, "Hey you can talk about everything now." Is that a standard operating proceedure?

    He was told it was classified and to not talk about it and he did not, this is what 95% of all soldiers do.

  2. Re:Too bad, only a few humans have evolved too. on New Research Sheds Light On the Evolution of Dogs · · Score: 4, Informative

    Humans are filthy and obnoxious animals. They have little place in our modern society. I'm sick of being preached at, chased, and
    having human garbage everywhere I go, including INSIDE of houses. Humans were fine on the farm. In our compact, urban society, humans are just giants sources of stress. I have enough stress in my life without your personal stress-maker making stress for me TOO.

    The Bible says that humans are unclean and bad.

  3. Re:I believe the wolves were taken on New Research Sheds Light On the Evolution of Dogs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "but birds is not that useful, beyond keeping them for food and more eggs."

    Really? I need to let the people I know that have falcons and hunt with them that they are doing it wrong and should be eating them.

  4. Re:So many fails... on New Research Sheds Light On the Evolution of Dogs · · Score: 0

    "Humans are herbivores, any human beings that ate meat in the past were neurotic and unnatural "

    Let me guess you also believe the world is only 6000 years old as well.

  5. Flawed summary. on New Research Sheds Light On the Evolution of Dogs · · Score: 2

    I have owned several dogs in my life and they learn sounds as well. I can have 4 items in a group and point and say "bone" and she will get the bon and not the ball.

    At one time I had my collie able to find the "red ball" among the blue, red, and yellow ones... Dogs are colorblind, BTW.

    Yes dogs understand gestures, if you ever had a duck hunting dog you know that is how you communicate with them before you shoot, but they understand far more than gestures. They understand them as good as they understand our noises, and it's not just because humans make the same motion all the time. Quadrapeligics cant point but the dog understands by training a different cue.

    And that is the point. Dogs we train. Of all the animals we have only dogs get training and take to training easily. And you can do the same with cats.

    Sadly most humans are far, far too stupid to know how to train dogs. You only resort to negative reinforcement as a last resort for changing bad behavior.... Most people start at the negative reinforcement.

  6. Re:Shove the laptop to one side on Ask Slashdot: Monitor Setup For Programmers · · Score: 1

    Ah yes, the hobbit waifs chime in... I am amazed that you people can actually get out of bed and hold up your own weight. I carry a 12 pound 18.5 inch laptop and want a larger one. But 90% of my programming is in some companies electrical or network closet while I program their building or AV systems.

  7. Re:Its hard to tell on Bradley Manning Makes Statement · · Score: 1

    My father was told so. He was in Korea and operated under Classified conditions.

    Several friends I have that were in Desert storm also can not talk about it as what they also did was Classified.

    You must not understand how the military works.

  8. Re:Torturing ants on Bradley Manning Makes Statement · · Score: 1

    Probably one of them that did not use Genocide to get more land for their new country as it spread from the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific...

  9. Re:Before all you blowhards cheer the Feds ... on Bradley Manning Makes Statement · · Score: 1

    "This is coming from a law professor?"

    He has far more credibility than some idiot hiding behind an AC posting flapping his lips and not adding ANYTHING to the argument but opinion.

  10. Re:Before all you blowhards cheer the Feds ... on Bradley Manning Makes Statement · · Score: 1

    The Rich wont let us.

    The ONLY WAY you can become president is to be a billionaire. If you dont have Millions upon Millions and spend them like mad you have zero chance of even making it to a primary.

  11. Re:Before all you blowhards cheer the Feds ... on Bradley Manning Makes Statement · · Score: 1

    Just wait 8 more years....

  12. Re:Before all you blowhards cheer the Feds ... on Bradley Manning Makes Statement · · Score: 1

    If he kept his mouth shut, he would never have been caught.

    Moral of the story, if you dont want to become a Martyr... Keep your mouth shut.

  13. Re:Its hard to tell on Bradley Manning Makes Statement · · Score: 1

    If you think all those "jarheads" are for fighting people outside the country, then you are woefully misinformed.

    "To fight enemies both foreign and domestic" - Just wait for it to turn domestic.

  14. Re:Its hard to tell on Bradley Manning Makes Statement · · Score: 1

    "Yeah, that goat farmer with an RPG in Afghanistan is an imminent threat to my ability to post shit to the Internet."

    So you are the one posting all those SCAT videos...

  15. Re:Its hard to tell on Bradley Manning Makes Statement · · Score: 1

    Welcome to what war really is. If you think War is only army against army, you need to read real books on the subject.

  16. Re:Its hard to tell on Bradley Manning Makes Statement · · Score: 1

    "Veterans aren't very inclined to talk about it."

    They are told they can't. AND would you want to brag to buddies how you shelled the hell out of that enemy encampment only to discover it was a village? All because you accepted the coordinates and orders from your command without question.

  17. Re:Its hard to tell on Bradley Manning Makes Statement · · Score: 0

    bad rap? I consider any serviceman that disobeys an illegal order, or releases top secret information that is covering up things that are morally wrong to be the highest form of HERO that the united states has.

    You fight for your COUNTRY, which is the people, you DO NOT fight for your superiors, good soldiers know this.

  18. Re:Arab Spring on Bradley Manning Makes Statement · · Score: 0

    Agreed, they both are doing what the USA wants to do to it's citizens. But they do it far to openly and Americans can see it and not like it. Therefore we are against them to ease the worries and slide in the exact same thing slower in order to get them used to it.

  19. Re:Arab Spring on Bradley Manning Makes Statement · · Score: 1

    And the US government will make sure he suffers greatly from that "good".

    Sadly, what angered and caused the arabs to uprise, barely made US citizens blink. Most found it an annoyance as the breaking news interrupted dancing with the stars and america's got talent.

  20. Re:What they really mean on Seagate To Stop Making 7200rpm Laptop HDDs · · Score: 1

    Meh, I left seagate years ago when their reliability started dropping like a rock. They are horrible drives, as can be seen by them significantly reducing the warranty from 5 years to 2.

    Problem is Maxtor is Seagate now.. so your only choice is the people that bought the IBM Deathstar hard drive facilities...

  21. Re:Real price is 70 EUR on The Raspberry Pi Turns One · · Score: 2

    The real price is $35.00USD that is what I pay and #3 is on it's way.

    Maybe you need to look for just the unit instead of a whole starter kit.

  22. Re:Happy Birthday Pi! on The Raspberry Pi Turns One · · Score: 1

    Olimex. It already exists. Why have you guys been ignoring it?

  23. mind blowing? on Steam For Linux: A Respectable Showing · · Score: 1

    It sounds like a lot of the kiddies dont remember Loki Games.

    Loki pretty much did what steam did but with actual game disks. But they did it the hard way. Linux ONLY and paying dearly to game studios to help port or wine wrap the games.

    Every linux guy I know still has several Loki game disks in their collection.

  24. Re:Somehow OS/2 is the antitheses of HURD on eComStation 2.2 Beta, the Legacy of OS/2 Lives On · · Score: 2

    Comcast still have NT 3.51 servers running in headends that are making them lots of money every day for Tv commercial insertion. IF you have halfway competent networking people, you can keep running an OS on legacy hardware forever safely.

  25. Re:so much for the ignorance defense on What a 'Six Strikes' Copyright Notice Looks Like · · Score: 1

    News Flash: Comcast IS a Copyright cartel. They have been buying and merging with big media companies for a decade now...