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  1. Re:Poor people exist on Ask Slashdot: Why Aren't Schools Connected? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Yes but they are the minority.

    Special treatment can be made for the few who cannot access the internet off of school grounds.

    I am sure there are a few armless children who go to school as well. Should we ban all school work that requires writing or typing because of this minority?

  2. Confused on Despite Drop In Piracy, French Music Industry Still In Decline · · Score: 1

    How could digital distribution kill the recording industry when they would still be getting all the profits from digitally distributed music?

  3. Re:There's Your Problem Right There on Tennessee Passes Bill That Allows "Teaching the Controversy" of Evolution · · Score: 1

    I believe subspecies do require distinct environments. Lifeforms that are 99.999999% the same that come in contact with each other mate and there is no way to evolve down separate paths.
    Eventually they change enough that when they do live in the same place they do not interbreed and that is how we get multiple species in the same place.

    And even if there was one or more steps in evolution that were completely random that would make no difference to the result. You still could not have two subspecies emerge in the same geographic location, because they would breed in the span of a single generation and become one.

    To have two subspecies emerge in the same location you would need them to somehow mostly ignore a all potential mates based on genealogy, which is not beneficial at all.

    So where is this indeterministic step? where does true randomness come into play in evolution?

  4. And as a positive side effect... on Navy Planning To Build Laser Cannon In Four Years · · Score: 2

    On a lower setting it can cook a perfect hotdog or marshmallow instantly.

  5. Re:Hmm on Navy Planning To Build Laser Cannon In Four Years · · Score: 1

    Well they should be able to cover the special mirrors in a easily flammable clean burning layer so that every surface that gets hit instantly melts/vaporises away and is 100% clean.

  6. Nice on Google Maps Introduces 8-Bit Quest Maps · · Score: 1

    Little on the sparse size, and street view looks more psychedelic then 8-bit, but how much time would you expect them to spend on a AF's joke.

  7. Re:Someone's reinvented the ion engine on New Engine Raises Possibility of Cheap Travel To the Moon · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I do not think that the news is that they reinvented it, and seriously everyone on /. knows of the about ion-engines so there is little point in even mentioning it. But that here is a practical use of that engine that works better then anything else we are currently using.

  8. Re:Speed on New Engine Raises Possibility of Cheap Travel To the Moon · · Score: 1

    So basically, Anorexics make perfect astronauts.

  9. Re:So long Best Buy on Best Buy Closing 50 Stores · · Score: 4, Funny

    I am surprised they do not offer "lost mouse ball" insurance for their mice. They could make a lot off of that, particulate with all of the optical mice.

  10. Re:Good on Best Buy Closing 50 Stores · · Score: 1

    I know little about their Cameras, it is their PC/cable department(s) that has such a bad rap.

  11. Re:Good on Best Buy Closing 50 Stores · · Score: 1

    Well I was referencing their actually illegal insurance scams that they perpetrate on their customers, but that is a good reason to want them to fail as well.

  12. Good on Best Buy Closing 50 Stores · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If any retail chain deserves to fail it is Best Buy.

  13. Re:Drink it on Ask Slashdot: Store Umbilical Cord Blood — and If So, Where? · · Score: 1
  14. Re:Drink it on Ask Slashdot: Store Umbilical Cord Blood — and If So, Where? · · Score: 1

    How is it better? It is or course technically better to just eat the vitamin rich placenta since it is free and would just be wasted if you threw it away.

  15. Re:Drink it on Ask Slashdot: Store Umbilical Cord Blood — and If So, Where? · · Score: 1

    You know you just made me and everyone else want to click that link even more, right? Even thought I know I will regret it.
    OK well that was not nearly that bad, probably fake.... But you never know.
    OK looked it up and it is done by some artist, sounds like to protest abortions and does not use real human flesh.

  16. How to Fee Africa? on Ask Slashdot: How To Feed Africa? · · Score: 1

    By stopping the wholesale carving up the the country by foreign corporations who see a resource (for example a lake fill with fish or farm-able land), simply take it (preventing all the resident Africans from using it), hire a few residents at minimum wage and start depleting that resource and shipping huge amounts of food oversees and they watch the residence population starve to death.

    Even the countries in Africa where it is worse then average, even when they are going through deathly famines, are shipping millions of pounds of food overseas so you can buy it in your local food mart.

  17. Re:Stopped reading at... on Ask Slashdot: How To Feed Africa? · · Score: 1

    Exacly.
    In fact they have some of the best of the entire world. There are places in Africa where the top soil is like 20 feet deep.

  18. Re:"did not result in a single disciplinary action on Counterterrorism Agents Were Told They Could Suspend the Law · · Score: 1

    No, the USA was formed so that a bunch of religious wackos could practice their religion without the being burned at the stake.
    Or if you mean, separated from Britain, then that was to stop paying taxes.

  19. Re:The Lucifer effect... on Counterterrorism Agents Were Told They Could Suspend the Law · · Score: 1

    It is simpler then that and more verified. For Stalin, or possibly even more relevant Hitler, all it took was an authority figure and the knowledge that you where not going to be punished for doing the morally wrong. Most famously this was demonstrated in the Milgram Experiment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment).

    And to create violent behaviour all you need is power over others, as most famously demonstrated by the Stanford prison experiment.

    All of those other things might make it slightly worse, but are really unnecessary and it is surprising how extreme a reaction you get with just the bare minimum.

  20. Re:Halloween... on NYC Bans Mention of Dinosaurs, Dancing, Birthdays On Student Tests · · Score: 1

    Well since it is a birthday I think it might be covered under that already.

  21. Re:Dinoaurs? (sic) on NYC Bans Mention of Dinosaurs, Dancing, Birthdays On Student Tests · · Score: 1

    But many get still incorporate dinosaurs into their beliefs by saying they existed alongside man and where made extinct by the great flood.

  22. Re:Yea, this helps, all right. on NYC Bans Mention of Dinosaurs, Dancing, Birthdays On Student Tests · · Score: 2

    Well simply owning a house makes you above the really low classes. And owning a REAL pool shows that you are at least lowish-middle class levels of wealth and more likely moderately well to do middle class or above. A real pool costs thousands of dollars minimum to tens of thousands (for one you can actually swim in) of dollars and is likely to be the 3rd most expensive thing a normal person would own and any one time (house>car>pool=boat=sports car).
    Their are lots of families and whole communities in the US that have never seen a personal pool bigger then those couple hundred dollar inflatable ones.

    Not that there is anything wrong with pointing out that the wealth classes do exist.

  23. Shaking Hands? on Counterterrorism Agents Were Told They Could Suspend the Law · · Score: 1

    Why?
    Are we sure this is not a cultural thing? AKA Asians do not naturally shake hands?
    Or do they expect to get diseases or attacked?

  24. Re:Ridiculous amount. on Boston Pays Out $170,000 To Man Arrested For Recording Police · · Score: 1

    Well most of it is probably going to a lawyer. In fact 170K is very cheap for employing a lawyer for 5 years.

  25. Re:The good old days... on Science Reveals Why Airplane Food Tastes So Bad · · Score: 1

    Why would the caterer provide the ground crew? The airline already employs a ground crew to stock their planes. Another group of people just to stock a single item would just get in the way and almost certainty require all of these other workers to get security screenings.
    And of course the caterer is not providing the extra space on the air plane. They might provide the Stuards, but since serving food is only a part of their job I doubt it.