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  1. Re:not applicable in Hong Kong on Why One Woman Says Sending Your Kid To Private School Is Evil · · Score: 1

    Does not sound like they would fit any sane definition of public school then.

  2. Re:not applicable in Hong Kong on Why One Woman Says Sending Your Kid To Private School Is Evil · · Score: 1

    How can public schools be more prestigious? People will pay money to have their kids do to crappier schools?

  3. Re:Oh, really? on Why One Woman Says Sending Your Kid To Private School Is Evil · · Score: 1

    Which is why any type of measurement is stupid.
    It does not matter if it is in a school environment with 10 yos or in a work environment with professionals, the only thing that comes with measuring "success" and making a big deal about it is that everyone starts gaiming the test.

    It is physiological. If you have a work environment were every week they rate everyone by the number of lines of code produced, that will be everyone's main concern.
    If you have a school were were everyone is ranked based on test scores, the only thing anyone will care about is getting a good test score.

  4. Re:No need for cameras. on EU Proposes To Fit Cars With Speed Limiters · · Score: 1

    "Modern units"

  5. Re:No need for cameras. on EU Proposes To Fit Cars With Speed Limiters · · Score: 1

    Can you set how wide the margin is?
    Because that would be pretty annoying, everyone goes a little over.

  6. Re:I never understood the principle. on Syria: a Defining Moment For Chemical Weapons? · · Score: 1

    You can take out a powerstation with a screw driver, is your argument that screw drivers are as bad as chemical weapons?

  7. Re:I never understood the principle. on Syria: a Defining Moment For Chemical Weapons? · · Score: 1

    It is the scale.
    Chemical weapons can be taken by the wind and dispersed miles and miles away in any random direction. Killing and maiming everything in their path. And can get into water supplies, and poison stuff for generations.
    tactical missiles and grenades will kill indiscriminately for a few meter radius, and as soon as they explode they are not not any more dangerous or bad for the environment than a few plastic cups strewn around.

  8. Re:Anyone should be able to fly on One Strike Against No Fly List; More Scrutiny To Come · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Except that it has been proven that the increased screening actually hardly prevents anything at all.

  9. Re:So, what the hell is Open Stack? on Why PayPal Chose OpenStack · · Score: 1

    SO basically VMs do the job that OSes are supposed to do?

  10. Re:So, what the hell is Open Stack? on Why PayPal Chose OpenStack · · Score: 1

    Why would anyone ever want to have large scale virtual machines, other than web service providers, that sell you a virtual server to do with what you will?

    If you want to manage your company, and your users, and perform calculations, and transfer funds, adding on a whole new layer of overhead has to be the stupidest idea I have ever heard of.

  11. Re:Personal fantasy posing as science. on We All May Have a Little Martian In Us · · Score: 1

    Well I am not versed enough in genetics to know if an over abundance of water is bad for forming RNA, or if you need oxygen to create life, but assuming he does not have his facts all wrong, he has some interesting new ideas. He seems to be theorising that early-earth-like is actually not a very good environment for life to first form, and that early-Mars-like is far better. This gives us many new ideas; Maybe it would be better to look for Mars-like planets, if we are looking for life. Maybe, the reason we still have not figured out exactly how life probably/could have formed on early earth is because it actually could not have formed on early earth.

  12. Re:Never agreed... on Study Suggests Violent Video Games May Make Teens Less Violent · · Score: 1

    I agree. FPS are not my favourite genre, but sometimes I just have to shoot someone in the face, repeatedly.

  13. I think it is getting worse. I have checked twice this month alone if it was April 1st.

  14. I think you are allowed to phone and drive, and any number of things and drive. It is just intoxicants and texting that are illegal to do while driving.

  15. Re:As usual. on Measles Outbreak Tied To Texas Megachurch · · Score: 1

    Except this has already been countered many times in latter posts.
    If the mother was a alcoholic, or got in contact with any toxic substances, or was poorly fed even (even before geting impregnated).
    They also share the birthing in common, and any practices or medication therein (one famous example (among dozens), thalidomide).

    Also, raised apart implies adopted. And abortions implies a bunch of things about the adoptive parents (economical, locational, social).

    So there are literally hundreds of similarities, that any twins (raised apart) share, above and beyond genetics. So of course they will be more equal than the whole population compared to itself.

  16. Re:As usual. on Measles Outbreak Tied To Texas Megachurch · · Score: 1

    The movie Terminal implies that international airports are defined as NOT being part of America, no clue as to if this is true of not.

    But it does not matter, because you just described the exact conditions at the Mexican-American border.
    You are stuck in a long line of people, you get onto American soil and they question you. Than they let you though or send you back. With a car, sure you are separated by your car, but that is not true if you are walking.
    Not.

    Not that it is not a whole lot worse for the flight. But he was an American citizen, so no one was ever considering sending him back anyway. Theoretically, depending on how bad they thought the disease was it would of been a one person, or entire flight, quarantine.

  17. Re:As usual. on Measles Outbreak Tied To Texas Megachurch · · Score: 1

    I think you just made the point I was going to make.
    "reared apart" means adopted, and adopted likely implies a lot of similarities. So just because they turn out very similar, more similar than the whole population compared to itself, is hardly bullet proof evidence.

  18. Re:As usual. on Measles Outbreak Tied To Texas Megachurch · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Not that I disagree with you, but just because it is inherited, does not mean it is genetic. You can inherit poor nutrition, and the subsequent shortness, poor education, and worse IQ (without ever bringing genes into it).

  19. Re:As usual. on Measles Outbreak Tied To Texas Megachurch · · Score: 1

    Americans are renounced for not knowing their geography, but thinking that Indonesia is within US borders is still astonishing.

  20. News Flash: Scam on Ask Slashdot: How To Get Open Source Projects To Take Our Money? · · Score: 1, Funny

    Open Source projects are not looking to scam the government, and lose their non-profit status or whatever credibility they previously had. They are not willing to draw up fake bills of sale, just to save your company a little money.

    Why would you ever admit publicly your underhanded dealings, and tax scams?

  21. Re:It's not a moonshot on The Next US Moonshot Will Launch From Virginia · · Score: 1

    Personally, I would not call it a moonshot unless they landed at least a single chicken on the moon.

  22. I thought /. stories were moderated on The Greatest Keyboard Shortcut Ever · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But apparently any idiot with a keyboard can get on the front page.

  23. Re:Shades of Blake's 7 on New, Canon-Faithful Star Trek Series Is In Pre-Production · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Exactly, Star Trek is not just TNG, with Captain Picard being very unwilling to do anything more than ardently ask the natives to not murder his crew.

    It is DP9 with traitorous officers, civil wars, racists, and war.
    It is Voyager with a genocidal Janeway, cutting a swath across the Delta Quadrant, and being willing to destroy whole civilizations on her journey home.

  24. Re:Hormone therapy? on Bradley Manning Wants To Live As a Woman · · Score: 1

    But then give a an example of prison rape joke that in your opinion does not trivialize and victimize. I do not remember ever hearing one that was not some form of "drop the soap", and I cannot imagine anointer way to approach this subject matter.
    Or how any other type of joking is any more or less trivializing. The entire point is to get you to laugh, so I do not think you can treat it in so uptight a manner, and say we can only laugh at the bad guys (if that is what you are doing).

  25. Re:Driving Freedom Never Existed on Concern Mounts Over Self-Driving Cars Taking Away Freedom · · Score: 1

    And when has the United States every respected anything to do with Human Rights?

    The united states did not even respect a single clause in that document for a single second.