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  1. First you need the science educated people on Bill Gates Calls On the US Government To Invest More In Research and Development (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    First you need the science educated people, so lets get the science back in science class and the creationism (ID = Creationism) back in church.

  2. Re:A prisoner could just as easily read the works. on Worshipping the Flying Spaghetti Monster Isn't a Real Religion, Court Rules (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    of a mass murderer, multiple rapist, paedophile (who married a nine year old girl when he was fifty four) called MUHAMMAD too...

    If she was 9 when she married then she was 2 when she converted to Islam and by her eloquence at the time also converted her parents. The date for these if a matter of history. The younger age (by 6 years) is one that woman claimed as an old lady. If she was 8 when she converted herself and by her eloquence her parents as well then she was 15 when she married. Which is more likely an eloquent 2 year old changing religions and converting her parents as well or an 8 year old?

    Myself I'm agnostic, I just get annoyed with various lies like this one being told. Just like the "Lady Hope and Darwin" bullshit story. Use the truth or make yourself and your religion look like so many fallen evangelists who could not use truth (Ted Haggard and so on).

  3. Re:More physics than economics, and it checks out on SpaceX Successfully Lands Its Rocket On A Floating Drone Ship For The First Time (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    This fuel is carried up to the moment that the second stage separates, so it subtracts from the mass of the second stage. Second stage plus payload weighs 110 tonnes: without the landing fuel, you could have scaled that up to 126 tonnes, a 15% increase.

    Among the assumptions you make is that every payload is at maximum mass and requires maximum thrust to make the appropriate orbit. Most will be below those values. Therefore most missions will have excess unneeded fuel capacity which can be used to save the first stage for reuse. Those that don't have the excess can use reused first stages at lower cost compared to a new 1st stage as it will have used up some number of its possible launches.

  4. Re:SCO actually got a bad deal here on 13-Year-Old Linux Dispute Returns As SCO Files New Appeal (theinquirer.net) · · Score: 1

    JVM don't you have a Yahoo forum to troll or Wikipedia puppets to pretend aren't you? SCO lost and never owned the Unix copyrights, give it up.

  5. Re:April Fools ended almost 6 hours ago. on Newly Discovered Star Has an Almost Pure Oxygen Atmosphere (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    Different places different traditions.

  6. Re:One of the oldest and most profitable patent tr on Patent That Cost Microsoft Millions Gets Invalidated (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Microsoft doesn't even have the guts to say which patents Linux, Android, whatever violate. They operate on pure FUD. That's worse than a patent trolls.

    Their stated reason being that the patents might be challenged and invalidated. They are patent trolls IMO.

  7. Re:Anonymity on Bill Introduced To Require ID When Purchasing "Burner Phones" (house.gov) · · Score: 1

    I don't use cellphones and don't know much of the "burner" phones but could they be bought in Canada or Mexico and brought in?

  8. Respectable middle class (and above) adults have a drivers license and a credit card.

    Requiring ID isn't a problem for them, and therefore isn't seen as a problem by the politicians proposing this law.

    The people who don't have an ID don't matter.
    They don't matter because they don't vote.
    They don't vote because they don't have an ID.
    Catch 22!

    Bullshit. Poor people matter too.

    I'm in the category you list but I don't have a drivers license and never had a credit card. I pay cash for my purchases. I'm a home owner with no debts.

  9. Re:who says they are bogus on Microsoft Tries Hard To Play Nice With Open Source, But There's an Elephant In the Room · · Score: 1

    The poster doesn't have any evidence to claim the patents are bogus in the sense of false, only a personal opinion that they are bogus in the "totally not cool" sense because he is an idiot who thinks only the people he's been told to like should ever be compensated for their work.

    There is one piece of evidence. A Microsoft executive refused to reveal what they are because they might be challenged and invalidated. Yep Microsoft isn't confident that the patents are valid so why should anyone else be?

  10. Re:"the upgrade experience"? on Microsoft Denies Rogue Windows 10 Upgrades, Says Users Remain Fully In Control (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh yeah, its an experience all right. Possibly not quite the one they had in mind though.

    Are you assuming that they are NOT sadists?

  11. Re:Windows 10... yeah right on Microsoft Denies Rogue Windows 10 Upgrades, Says Users Remain Fully In Control (hothardware.com) · · Score: 2

    You earn your living from using Microsoft software, but you don't trust Microsoft? That doesn't make any sense.

    The employer may choose to "trust" Microsoft while the employee chooses not to but still has to use MS software on the job.

  12. Re:Slipery slope on Study Finds 3 Laws Could Reduce Firearm Deaths By 90% (meta.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Regardless of your position on this, if the Second Amendment can be restricted so can all the others. They are necessary controls on government power (sans Prohibition), be careful what you wish for.

    The 2nd was restricted from the beginning. No prisoners allowed guns. Use the amendment itself as the restriction. Allow it to MILITIA members without restriction. Not a member you get restrictions.

  13. In Ontario, Canada, the commuter rail system (GO) has designated "quiet cars" where speaking and electronic noises is not allowed:

    * http://www.gotransit.com/publi...

    Perhaps something similar is needed in Chicago.

    Only during rush hour and only on the upper level. Also no enforcement. You can clearly hear the idiots on the lower levels making their calls home as they enter and leave every station to inform thier other half that they are still on time.

  14. Re:But... on Sorry, But Lasers Aren't Taking You To Mars Anytime Soon · · Score: 1

    ...how would you slow down when you get there? Acceleration without deceleration won't work.

    Your light sail splits in two. The outer ring being lighter is accelerated ahead of your ship and is flexed to cause it to focus the light back onto the smaller remaining sail on the ship, decelerating it.

  15. Re:Not only am I bothred by the phone-home, on ZDNet Writer Downplays Windows 10's Phoning-Home Habits · · Score: 1

    However, that "computer" doesn't compute much when it's sitting devoid of an OS, which they do own.

    NO THEY FUCKING DON'T!. They SOLD THAT COPY. They own only the COPYRIGHT. Every copy of Windows I ever bought I got a BILL OF SALE not a license agreement. They try and impose the license nonsense retroactively. Just as the copyright holders on the book you bough don't own that copy.

  16. Re:Lightning Strikes Twice with Entitled Customer on Elon Musk Cancels Stewart Alsop's Tesla Order Over Complaints About Launch Event · · Score: 1

    Corporations are not people and should not ever be offended. Being rude to a company should not affect the way the company does business or whom it does business with. It is just Musk being a douche, because he's becoming arrogant.

    Except the OPEN LETTER was not to Tesla but to ELON MUSK. Musk responded with a personalized response. "You don't like our work ? FINE! We won't sell it to you. Bye have a nice life.

  17. Linux for Scientologists. Thetan free.

  18. Re:Those who would give up essential Liberty... on Majority of Americans OK With Warrantless Internet Surveillance (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    Thing is they THINK they are only giving it up for others and don't realize their liberty is going too.

  19. Re:That's Ridiculous on SpaceX To Test Recovered First Stage, Then Put It On Display (floridatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope. Study it. Improve the next model to be landed and actually reused to improve chances of it working for the most number of launches and you look better than if the first landed model turned out to have flaws that might cause it to be a failure in reuse.

  20. Re:why? on Switzerland Moves Toward a Universal Phone Charger Standard (vice.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The government must be involved to prevent the formation of monopolies or cartels that remove the "free" from free market.

  21. Re:Downloading != Installing on Ask Slashdot: Make Windows Update Install Only Security Updates Automatically? · · Score: 1

    I have a 10 gb limit before I start having my Internet throttled. Two windows 7 machines on it can take 70% of my monthly connection and those are the least used machines (one doesn't even have a keyboard attached. Having MS enforced downloads of Win 10 that I ABSOLUTELY DO NOT WANT AND WILL NOT USE take most of my months Internet away from me would be beyond annoying. Didn't the XBox always on Internet connection debacle teach them anything?

  22. It's time to start asking the question about "security" updates - is it for you or for Microsoft they improve the security?

    That is like asking if a Prisons "security" updates is for the benefit of the inmates.

  23. Re:Cyclists DON'T obey the law! on Why Biking Injuries and Deaths Are Spiking In the US · · Score: 1

    I can't give you a meter or room when the entire lane isn't a meter wide.

    That is bloody hilarious. If the lane isn't a meter wide your car won't FIT in it and you don't belong there anyhow.

    The reason for the meter is the wind of passage. You pass at too high a speed, especially with a big vehicle and you suck the bike into you. The closer you are the smaller the vehicle and lower the speed to suck in the cyclist. Give the meter and the cyclist isn't as affected and has time to pull away. Also some vehicles have mirrors that project far enough out to wipe out the cyclist, especially trucks where those mirrors can strike the head of the cyclist.

  24. Re:Cyclists DON'T obey the law! on Why Biking Injuries and Deaths Are Spiking In the US · · Score: 1

    But that also means when there are a half dozen vehicles waiting at a signal, that bicyclist doesn't decide he can just pass everyone on the right and move to the front (or, worse, cruise through the intersection) - he needs to wait in line like everyone else.

    If the cyclist is the first in line and stays at the side of the road the car behind virtually always pulls up beside him. Such a driver often makes a right turn in front of the cyclist who now being beside the driver cannot see the turn signal the driver may or may not be making. If the cyclist waits to find out what that driver is doing the next driver is up beside him and he has to wait again and again or take the risk of going through.

    Fun one I find is when I'm in the bike lane and the car lane is stopped but I'm not drivers will make a sharp right swing of their car and block my lane so I can't go. Obstructing traffic like that is illegal even if it is "only" the bike lane. They get mad as hell if I use a driveway or mall parking lot to go around them. :) Then there are the drivers who come along in the rain watching for pedestrians and swerving into the gutter just as they pass to soak the pedestrian. Lots of asshole drivers who don't obey the law out there. It isn't just cyclists.

  25. Re:Cyclists DON'T obey the law! on Why Biking Injuries and Deaths Are Spiking In the US · · Score: 1

    The reason most cyclist don't use the hand signal for stop is hand brakes. The left one that applies the brake to the rear wheel is controlled by the same arm you use to signal the braking. The old fashioned pedal controlled braking allowed full braking with the arm signal. Stopping at high speed with only the front brake means wiping out.