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  1. Re:The power of AI... on IBM Dumping $1 Billion Into New Watson Group · · Score: 1

    Exactly. And your brain is just a bunch of proteins and sugars and similar molecules, no different than a bowl of cereal.

  2. Re:Snowden To Testify? ( Score: +5, Comical ) on EU Committee Issues Report On NSA Surveillance; Snowden To Testify · · Score: 1

    There's these things called telephones. Check it out sometime.

  3. Re:Umm... on Real-Time Face Substitution in Javascript · · Score: 1

    Damn, I really want to read that article now!

  4. Re:Umm... on Real-Time Face Substitution in Javascript · · Score: 4, Funny

    Edward Snowden 3D Prints Bitcoins Using Javascript on iPhone 6 Protoype in Self Driving Car Due to Global Warming

  5. Re:Just post it on Slashdot on Ask Slashdot: How To Protect Your Passwords From Amnesia? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, I use a bunch of asterisks for my passwords too.

  6. Re:Arbitrary. on Are New Technologies Undermining the Laws of War? · · Score: 1

    How many wars since WWI saw chemical warfare? How many countries use fragmenting bullets? Sure, the laws have been broken, but it hasn't been widespread or universal.

  7. Re:War is bad/wrong/immoral, period. on Are New Technologies Undermining the Laws of War? · · Score: 1

    She became a figurehead as the result of the Glorious Revolution and other revolutions where the monarch was forced to agree to a consitutional monarchy. The power of the monarchy was taken by force; there was nothing gradual about it.

  8. Re:Flawed, but not useful? on Experiments Reveal That Deformed Rubber Sheet Is Not Like Spacetime · · Score: 1

    mind==blown

  9. Re:War is bad/wrong/immoral, period. on Are New Technologies Undermining the Laws of War? · · Score: 2

    The only "law of war" that we need is one that states that war is not allowed, period. If you're an aggressor, you are breaking the "law of war".

    That sounds really great, but I doubt it would work well in practice. The colonies would still be under the Crown, who never lost power. France would be under control of Louis XXXXII, the South would still run on slavery, etc. Without war and revolution, how would despotic regimes ever end?

  10. Re:Arbitrary. on Are New Technologies Undermining the Laws of War? · · Score: 1

    Um, no. There have laws regarding armed conflict loooong before the nuclear age, and many have been abided by.

  11. Re:geostationary GPS satellites on Is Earth Weighed Down By Dark Matter? · · Score: -1

    What's the problem? GPS means Global Positioning System, and they're geostationary (or at least some of them are) and they're satellites. Seems pretty straight forward.

  12. Re:meme on CES: Laser Headlights Edge Closer To Real-World Highways · · Score: 4, Funny

    Then maybe we could jump it.

  13. Re:Space Superpower isn't a thing on China: The Next Space Superpower · · Score: 3, Informative

    China blew up one of their own satellites 7 years ago.

  14. Re:Linux record growth on Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 Pass 10% Market Share, Windows XP Falls Below 30% · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that was me. I set up two more desktops with Linux on them.

  15. Re:Global warming. on Helicopter Rescue For All Passengers Aboard Antarctic Research Ship · · Score: 1

    You're right. I apologize for not listing all 100,000+ "molecules" (since chemicals offends you), with quantity, scale, producer, and environmental effect in a massive 800,000 page slashdot post. Please forgive me.

  16. Re:Global warming. on Helicopter Rescue For All Passengers Aboard Antarctic Research Ship · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And your credibility dropped to zero by conflating water with pollution. Here's one of the first results when I googled man-made chemicals. I've previously read that there over 100,000 man-made chemicals released into the environment. If you know of a better word than chemical to use, BTW, please let me know. Here's an overview of the current mass extinction event, started about 10,000 years ago when man really started getting down to wiping out animals, burning forrests for agriculture, etc. It's a selective list. Here's a list of man-made extinctions, or at least the documented ones. Googling is hard, but thankfully I was here to do it for you.

  17. Re:Global warming. on Helicopter Rescue For All Passengers Aboard Antarctic Research Ship · · Score: 2

    Granted there's no model of the earth that includes everything, other than the earth itself. There have been many studies of the effects of deforrestation, pollution, food supply, et al however. And there are more and more interdisciplinary studies using systems theory and complexity theory. Science is itself the study of everything. It's only its practioners who are divided into specialties by their own choice.

  18. Re:Global warming. on Helicopter Rescue For All Passengers Aboard Antarctic Research Ship · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Also, there's more going on that just CO2 levels and gradual heating. We're cutting down forrests, polluting the air and water with hundreds of thousands of chemicals, killing off life in the largest mass extinction since the dinosaurs died, paving over and building on top of ecosystems with reckless abandon, ad nauseum. In short, we're changing the environment in many ways at once, not just increasing levels of greenhouse gases. Climate Change seems more descriptive to me than Global Warming.

  19. Re:Americans surrendered in Vietnam on Battlefield 4 Banned In China · · Score: 1

    The U.S. surrendered in an another country after a long war. The French surrendered immediately when they were invaded. Hardly the same thing.

  20. Re:A little extra weight savings on Ford Rolls the Dice With Breakthrough F-150 Aluminum Pickup Truck · · Score: 1

    While we're neing pedantic, Dictionary.com's defintion of rust is:

    a: the reddish brittle coating formed on iron especially when chemically attacked by moist air and composed essentially of hydrated ferric oxide

    b: a comparable coating produced on a metal other than iron by corrosion

    So yeah, alimunium rusts but it's not iron oxide. (Though I love someone else's joke about how Ford will find a way to turn aluminum into iron oxide. Classic.)

  21. Re:You Should Have Those Tools on NSA Drowns In Useless Data, Impeding Work, Former Employee Claims · · Score: 1

    There's a step before 1 that's prety important. How do you determine who wishes harm? Partly through combing through vast amounts of various kinds of intelligence data. I totally agree with steps 3-5 and I support the 4th amendment BTW. (IAA Intelligence Analyst)

  22. Re:What a load of BS on Surge In Online Orders Overwhelms UPS Christmas Deliveries · · Score: 1

    See that first link? It quotes the high volume. Things can have more than one cause, and sometimes two causes work together. A lot of grown ups understand this.

    That being said, having your gifts arrive a little late falls in the First World Problems category. Get over it.

  23. Re:Pass the cost to the end user on US Internet Service In 2014: Net Neutrality Challenges and High-Speed Build-Outs · · Score: 1

    They idea isn't to switch, but to put pressure on Comcast et al. Users unable to switch would complain. It's a start.

  24. Re:They're Coming for the Internet on US Internet Service In 2014: Net Neutrality Challenges and High-Speed Build-Outs · · Score: 1

    That would be insulting if it described a single person. But hey, if you get off feeling persecuted for being in the majority religion by a tiny minority of the population, go for it I guess.

  25. Re:They're Coming for the Internet on US Internet Service In 2014: Net Neutrality Challenges and High-Speed Build-Outs · · Score: 0

    fundamentalist atheism

    WTF is that, and how does it differ from other forms of Atheism? Being an Atheist myself, I must admit to being ignorant of the various denominations of Atheism.