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  1. Re:Still illegal under NZ Constitution on New Zealand Government About To Legalize Spying On NZ Citizens · · Score: 1

    I think they were just sticking to first-world countries. It would take too long to include every petty third-world dictatorship in that list.

  2. Citizens? on Crowdsourced Finnish Copyright Initiative Meets Signature Requirement · · Score: 1

    Most laws are written by citizens of the country.
    You have to be a citizen to be a government official.
    And even when some record label writes some copyright law for the US, most likely a US citizen, who was part of said corporation, wrote it.

  3. Re:Lobbying lawyers are also citizens... on Crowdsourced Finnish Copyright Initiative Meets Signature Requirement · · Score: 1

    What does it being readable on line have to do with who wrote it?

  4. Re:Patent seekers could use this sytem too. on How Joel Spolsky Shot Down a Microsoft Patent In 15 Minutes · · Score: 1

    Since 99% of all patents are insignificant to find prior art for, I think that is an obviously wrong statement. If you can Google search the title of your patent and find prior art on the first page, obviously you wanted your patent to slip through the cracks.

  5. Not that Remarkable on How Joel Spolsky Shot Down a Microsoft Patent In 15 Minutes · · Score: 1

    I remember running into a patent that Google owned on something my software company was implementing. It probably took me 5 minutes to find extremely well documented prior art. Not that this stopped the already awarded patent.

  6. Re:Honesty? on How Climate Scientists Parallel Early Atomic Scientists · · Score: 1

    You need a citation to believe that the all wind/weather is created by the sun's rays heating the ground?
    You never went to elementary school?

  7. Re:Honesty? on How Climate Scientists Parallel Early Atomic Scientists · · Score: 1

    And the more solar energy you harvest the less wind you get, and the less wind you get the less wave there is, and less wind and waves I imagine the rain and therefore river power. You get a system of diminishing returns.
    And that is ignoring the fact that harnessing the solar energy that falls on even half of the world deserts would throw the climate into far more chaos than some CO2 ever did.

  8. Re:Diet and laziness on The Man Who Convinced Us We Needed Vitamin Supplements · · Score: 1
  9. Rhinos built new forests in current grasslands. Not something you would necessarily see any evidence of damage for a decade. But if all trees are gone from the African Grasslands in a hundred years, you will know who to blame. They are the counterpoint to the elephant in many ways, and play a role in the necessary and natural flow of trees and grass.

  10. Re:Trust on Fifteen Years After Autism Panic, a Plague of Measles Erupts · · Score: 1

    But that information, counter to what your doctor was saying, would not be nearly as effective, or convincing enough to get on the news n the first place, if the medical field did not have a long history or getting things wrong spectacularly, and was not widely known as being completely corrupted by money.

    Also it would of helped if they had not used mercury in the shots.

  11. Re:Honesty? on How Climate Scientists Parallel Early Atomic Scientists · · Score: 1

    Renewables could replace oil, but building those solar panels on every single house, maintaining them, and replacing every single car and bulldozer with an electric version of themselves would takes massive amounts of oil energy and time. The problem is not powering a single household. it is building and powering the industrial complex that builds that household. How many solar panels would it take to power a 400 ton capacity dump truck?
    How about the billions of tractors that are needed to feed those homes? That is unless you want to start farming twice the land in the US just to feed the horses needed to replace them.

  12. Re:Diet and laziness on The Man Who Convinced Us We Needed Vitamin Supplements · · Score: 1

    Since Americans mostly just eat one thing you dont even need to show a trend in multiple foods. Americans basally just eat corn and corn products. And corn has been continually breed to be of a lower and lower food quality. There is also the problem that corn is like 80% of what they eat, so even if it was a high quality, overall quality would still be suffering.

  13. Re:stand up on When the NSA Shows Up At Your Internet Company · · Score: 1

    "The companies can't stand up to it until they know for sure a jury will never convict and they can't know that yet."

    This is not 200 years ago. Judges have far more control over the jury in my opinion then they ever did when juries were refusing to dish out punishment to run away slaves. The government and the legal system would never put up with juries not coming to the right decision in any important cases now.

  14. Re:Terminate contract instead? on When the NSA Shows Up At Your Internet Company · · Score: 1

    I think NSA would view the gag order as overruling the contract, and consider that breaching it.

  15. Millions? on Rooting SIM Cards · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So a very small percentage of all SIM cards then.

  16. They already issued an official apology on Alan Turing Likely To Be Given Posthumous Pardon · · Score: 1

    ... A year or two ago.

    These post humorous pardons, and official decision changes, are stupid.
    Last year The government officially voted to not send Japanese citizens to the internment camps during WWII.

  17. Re:And the story is...? on TSA Orders Searches of Valet Parked Car At Airport · · Score: 1

    So you are telling me I can own and sell firearm look-a-likes in Canada, as long as they used to be functional, but are no longer.

  18. Old News on Research Suggests Mars Once Had a Thick Atmosphere · · Score: 1

    There is not a single thing in this summery that has not be talked about extensively in 20 year old documentaries.

  19. Re:Man, slashdot *is* behind the times on PayPal Credits Man With $92 Quadrillion · · Score: 1

    This was already on Slashdot a day or two ago.

  20. Re:WTF? on Pre-Dawn Wireless Emergency Alert Wakes Up NYC · · Score: 1

    Why would they issue amber alerts when no one was abducted?

  21. Re:This thing is very common. on The City Where People Are Afraid To Breathe · · Score: 1

    Won't the desert being the exact opposite environment that fungus would exist in?

  22. If he cannot even defraud ... on Former Student Gets Year In Prison For College President Election Fraud · · Score: 1

    ... A Joke of a College Election.

    He stands no chance in a real election.

  23. Re:Confusing luck with talent on Why Yahoo and Marissa Mayer's Over Reliance On Alibaba Could Spell Trouble · · Score: 1

    Is this evidence of either? It sounds like Yahoo is continuing its downwards spiral to obsolescence.

  24. Re:UN is not the governmemt, its the planet. on Citing Snowden Leaks, Russia Again Demands UN Takeover of Internet · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Ideally, neither the US nor the UN should "control the Internet.""

    Idealistic crap. The first person to find the Titanic thought, this should stay here no one should own it. SO he did not file for salvage rights.
    So someone else did.

    Someone with power has to be in control of the Internet, because otherwise anyone with power will just take control. And i would rather have a reluctant defender, than a tyrannical oppressor.

  25. Re:Smart guns... on Hardly Anyone Is Buying 'Smart Guns' · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think it is jut the opposite.
    When crime is not longer a possibility, or you are simply no longer allowed to defend yourself, then America will have lost every last thread of freedom, and decency.