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  1. Re:It's unfortunate. on UK Court Orders Two Sisters Must Receive MMR Vaccine · · Score: 5, Informative

    But that was not the issue here.
    Half of their legal guardians wanted them to get the vaccine, and the other half did not want it. The kids had picked a side, but were too young for their opinion to matter.
    So, in the end either the court could of just said, "well we cannot decide for you", or it could take the role of a third child guardian, and base their decision on the medical science.

  2. confirms there is no longer any debate on UK Court Orders Two Sisters Must Receive MMR Vaccine · · Score: 2

    "confirms there is no longer any debate about the benefits of the vaccine."

    How can anyone be stupid enough to believe that a judge ruling has any effect on medical science?

  3. Re:Alternatives? on Charlie Stross: Why Microsoft Word Must Die · · Score: 1

    I was really put off by an above comment saying that one single character anywhere in LaTeX document can change all of the content and formatting for the entire thing.

    Adobe in pretty out of the question, I have used enough of their software to know that they do not make good software. Sometimes popular software, and sometimes marginally better than their competitors, but never good.

    Scrivener looks decent, but seems bent towards using it to produce a magazine or write a novel, not just take down a list of groceries, or any project just requiring text with styling. Also its featurers really look cluster-f**ky, It has a built in notepad? and you are supposed to import the PDF and webpage you are using as a reference, so it can show it in its own window with its own worse renderer?

  4. Re:All word-processors suck on Charlie Stross: Why Microsoft Word Must Die · · Score: 5, Funny

    You know the alternatives are really crappy when the better one is an Adobe product.

  5. Alternatives? on Charlie Stross: Why Microsoft Word Must Die · · Score: 1

    So is their any decent alternatives? I personally do not really like MS:O nor OO all that much.
    I have pretty much completely given up on all of them and just use unstyled text editors now.

  6. Re:Ooops! Sorry on NY Comic Con Takes Over Attendees' Twitter Accounts To Praise Itself · · Score: 0

    So you are saying that to attend this event, you needed to hand over your twitter username and password? No exceptions, or opt-outs?

  7. Re:Stupid users to lazy to read on NY Comic Con Takes Over Attendees' Twitter Accounts To Praise Itself · · Score: 2

    What I like about Facebook is I can allow an external service to post to my wall, so only I can see it.
    Twitter, as far I I know, does not give you that freedom to trick these spammers.

  8. Re:Good stuff on Passenger Lands Plane After Pilot Collapses and Dies At the Controls · · Score: 5, Funny

    If explaining, over a radio, how to land a plane to someone who has never flown before is anywhere near as hard as explaining to your grandparents how to use a computer, over a phone, than that actually might be the more miraculous endeavor that night.

  9. Major Complication? on HP CEO Meg Whitman To Employees: No More Telecommuting For You · · Score: 1

    Sounds like an understatement.

    Come into work, but there will not be parking available, and you will have to stand in the halls all days and share an power outlet with 50 other people (oh, and our internal network will be overloaded, so good luck collaborating with anyone else).

  10. Scam? on Police Demand Summary Domain Takedown, Traffic Redirection · · Score: 1

    This has the ring of being a scam to me. The police have a lot wrong with themselves, and are corporate tools, but I still find it hard to believe that they would threaten a business, half a world away, into redirecting traffic to a specific COMMERCIAL website.

  11. Re:Sounds Illigal on 11-Year-Old Coloradan Will Brew Beer In Space, By Proxy · · Score: 1

    No idea what draft beer is.
    But I agree, I think if we are talking less than 5% (or maybe 2-3%) or thereabouts, it should be fine.

    But I think it is a culture thing, in America alcohol is for one purpose only, getting drunk. And there are supposed to be medical reasons why that would be bad for the under-developed.

  12. No More Playing as America Then on Red Cross Wants Consequences For Video-Game Mayhem · · Score: 1

    "Gamers should be rewarded for respecting the law of armed conflict and there should be virtual penalties for serious violations of the law of armed conflict"

    So basically, we will not get to play as the Americans anymore.

  13. This Would Make it Impossible on Red Cross Wants Consequences For Video-Game Mayhem · · Score: 1

    To ever realistically show any past, current, or future war.

  14. Re:Minority on Red Cross Wants Consequences For Video-Game Mayhem · · Score: 1

    Except they are asking for all the consequences to be the same in every game, and for them to be completely unrealistic.

  15. Realism on Red Cross Wants Consequences For Video-Game Mayhem · · Score: 1

    "Gamers should be rewarded for respecting the law of armed conflict and there should be virtual penalties for serious violations of the law of armed conflict"

    So, let me get this straight, they want to get rid of realism in games, completly?

  16. Sounds Illigal on 11-Year-Old Coloradan Will Brew Beer In Space, By Proxy · · Score: 1

    I doubt that America allows 11-year olds to produce alcohol.

  17. Re:Absolutely disgusting on 11-Year-Old Coloradan Will Brew Beer In Space, By Proxy · · Score: 2

    Didn't you learn anything in basic chemistry, you need a boiling flask to make meth.

  18. Re:Porting to console on Ask Author David Craddock About the Development of Diablo, Warcraft · · Score: 1

    You cannot port WoW to a console. You could use some of the assets to make a pretty much completely different game, but MMORPG are not controller friendly, unless specifically designed from the ground up to be (and even then...).

  19. Re:Not legal on Google Cracks Down On Mugshot Blackmail Sites · · Score: 1

    And who invented the Camera they were taken with?
    Alhazen, obvious a ringleader in this Muslim extortion plot.

  20. Re:Not legal on Google Cracks Down On Mugshot Blackmail Sites · · Score: 1

    The police are not the ones doing the extortion here.

  21. Re:Not legal on Google Cracks Down On Mugshot Blackmail Sites · · Score: 1

    Extortion is illegal pretty much everywhere.

  22. I have tried Tomato and DD-WRT on Ask Slashdot: Best Open Source Project For a Router/Wi-Fi Access Point? · · Score: 0

    And about 12 hours after installing Tomato I installed DD-WRT over it.

    DD-WRT is pretty sweet. It just works, is easy to set up, with a very easy and comprehensive website, but it also has loads of, well documented, advanced features.

  23. Re:MIT technology review on 'Dangerously Naive' Aaron Swartz 'Destroyed Himself' · · Score: 1

    Just because you are in prison does not make you a horrible person who causes as much pain and suffering as possible.
    Kevin Mitnick, for example was in the general prison population for quite a bit, and if I remember correctly specifically, said that he never had any trouble. And in the related case, the young geek hacker Bernie S. only had trouble after he was specifically put in a dangerous situation by the government as ~"~punishment for his numerous appeals~"~.

  24. Re:MIT technology review on 'Dangerously Naive' Aaron Swartz 'Destroyed Himself' · · Score: 0

    The most logical course to being threatened with a little jail time is to kill yourself?

  25. Re:what about the musicians? on More Evidence That Piracy Can Increase Sales · · Score: 1

    Because that is part of what they are selling. The star needs to be rich enough for a jet setting, trendy lifestyle.
    And a few hundred thousand, out of hundreds of millions, is not a big deal, they do not have any huge motivation to be penny pinching.