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  1. Re:News Flash! Civil Servants Corrupt! News @ 11:0 on EPA Quashed Report Skeptical of Global Warming · · Score: 1

    As if the realclimate crowd wasn't biased.

    They censor dissent over there, and the site is run by the biggest proponent of global warming that has existed thus far.

  2. Re:News Flash! Civil Servants Corrupt! News @ 11:0 on EPA Quashed Report Skeptical of Global Warming · · Score: 1

    In most other scientific disciplines, it isn't a theory until it makes successfull predictions. Prior to the validation step, they are only hypothesis.

    In the climatologist circle, they begin with a theory instead of a hypothesis, and then mine for data that supports it while ignoring the data that doesn't. I understand that this field is different, that they cannot perform "testing" of the climate, but they can still make predictions. When they start showing skill at predicting (the hallmark of a successfull theory) then I'll start to believe what they say.. not before that.

  3. Re:It would destroy your USB stick on Microsoft To Offer Windows 7 On USB Thumb Drives? · · Score: 2, Informative

    One thing I noticed is that my hard drive light it pulsing every few seconds. I wonder whether that is a background indexing service doing its thing?

    No, thats insert polling on your SATA ports, presumably because you have a SATA device that supports removable media (CDRom, DVDRom, ...)

    Thats not a Hard Drive light, thats an I/O light. Nerds are supposed to know what that light is.

  4. Re:Nice Way to Teach Actual Physics on The State of Video Game Physics · · Score: 1

    One of the toughest aspects of calculus-based physics is teaching how to intuit it.

    One of the toughest apsects of calculus in general is the plethora of conflicting notations, none of which are very good.

  5. Re:hunter2 on Nielsen Recommends Not Masking Passwords · · Score: 1

    Do what I do.. write them down on sticky notes and stick them to the monitor.

  6. Re:Poll results on News Sites Slammed By Michael Jackson Traffic · · Score: 0, Troll

    I didn't miss anything

    You admitted to having inappropriate relationships with young boys.

    I'm just thinking of the children.

  7. Re:Poll results on News Sites Slammed By Michael Jackson Traffic · · Score: 1

    Just to add...

    ...as far as books the biggest seller of all time is the Bible.

  8. Re:Poll results on News Sites Slammed By Michael Jackson Traffic · · Score: 3, Insightful

    From what I gather, he admited to sharing a bed. Didn't realize that that was active pedophilia.

    Based on your required level of evidence, I hereby accurately state that you are an active pedophile currently engaged in molesting children, after all I can quote you verbatim as saying..

    "I've admitted to inappropriate relationships with young boys"

  9. Re:Cap & Trade = Energy Rationing on US House May Pass "Cap & Trade" Bill · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If it's soooooo impossible, then we're all doomed.

    This, vs the alternate bullshit, that we are all doomed if we dont do something to "fix" the "problem."

    I have been telling everyone that the Global Warming scare will result in a power grab for years and years. This is seizing power over all industries in one fell swoop. This allows for the targeted taxation of any industry, any region, at will. Control over the instruments of labour (tools, factories, ..) and subjects of labour (natural resources and raw materials.)

    Yeah... i'm sure its for the good of everybody... riiiight.

  10. Re:Poll results on News Sites Slammed By Michael Jackson Traffic · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Even though the culture that Sinatra defined is more or less dead, that does not make him culturally irrelevant. He and the rat pack are still the symbol of that culture regardless of its continued existance.

    Its Frank freaking Sinatra for christ sakes.
    Its Elvis freaking Presley for christ sakes.
    Its John freaking Lennon for christ sakes.
    Its Michael freaking Jackson for christ sakes.

    These guys are not footnotes. They are Legends. Michael Jackson sold out 50 concerts in just a few hours when sales opened up in March of this year.. ONE MILLION TICKETS. According to ticketmaster after selling out so quickly, the demand for those tickets was "unprecedented." Michael Jackson is as huge as Elvis regardless of how any of us feel about his music or his lifestyle.

  11. Re:Poll results on News Sites Slammed By Michael Jackson Traffic · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I formally charge you with pedophilia. You have done so with impunity for years on end. You should be thrown to the wolves.

    Certainly the accusation is there in the case of Michael Jackson, but he remained unconvicted, just like you.

  12. Re:Poll results on News Sites Slammed By Michael Jackson Traffic · · Score: 2, Insightful

    'of recent times' is a little different than 'of all time'

  13. Re:Releasing pressure might be a good thing on Google Funding the Next Big One? · · Score: 1

    People that dont exist are imaginary people.

    I don't know whats so hard to understand about this concept. Actualy, I know for a fact that its not hard to understand. I also know that you are trying to find something extreme that your highly opinionated bullshit can sink its teeth into. You are free to do that, but as an attributing response to me, it just doesn't fly. Work with what I say, not what you imagined I had said, or else don't attribute to me.

  14. Re:Poll results on News Sites Slammed By Michael Jackson Traffic · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How about having the biggest selling album ever? Its been several decades now and nobody else has come close. Thats how big of an impact MJ had.

    It was only later that the pedophilia stuff cropped up.. but by then he was already a legend ranking right up there will Elvis, and if it werent for the pedophelia stuff his funeral would be as big as JFK's or John Lennon's (thats assuming it wont be, but it may very well actualy be)

    A freakish monster obsessed with surgical modifcations? Yep. Caught in several pedophelia scandals? Yep. One of the biggest musicians ever? Also true.

  15. Re:Gravity wells on Buzz Aldrin's Radical Plan For NASA · · Score: 1

    Nice in theory, but even with artificial gravity we don't yet know enough about long term effects of living in space. We do know enough to know that artificial gravity would be necessary to prevent bones turning to jelly. We don't even know if a rotating structure is going to be enough to cut it. By the way do you have any idea what kind of shielding it would take to protect someone from a full blown solar flare? We don't have good tech there either.

    If your intent is to ALWAYS remain in a space station, then the 'bones turning to jelly' problem isnt a real one. It may actualy be a benefit.

    And to be quite honest, eventualy this will happen. Even if we settle all the large gravity wells in the solar system first, there will come a time when there arent any uninhabited ones left. There may even be a point where we go ahead and make one by collecting all the rocks in the asteroid belt into one place. But mark my words.. eventualy there will be people who live their entire lives in crafts which orbit the planets.. and then people who live their entire lives in crafts that go between solar systems.

  16. Re:Releasing pressure might be a good thing on Google Funding the Next Big One? · · Score: 1

    Using the logic...

    It would have been nice if you had used my logic. You failed.

  17. Re:hunter2 on Nielsen Recommends Not Masking Passwords · · Score: 1

    The problem isnt remembering one 6-8 character password.

    The problem is that they are typically forced to change it each and every month. That digit you were talking about.. yeah.. it goes 1 on the first incarnation of the password, then 2 on the second, 3 on the third...

  18. Re:Releasing pressure might be a good thing on Google Funding the Next Big One? · · Score: 1

    What if the large one isnt due for 150 years.. do you still feel the same?

    Personally, I feel that people alive 150 years from now are imaginary people, and would thus gladly shove the big one at them instead of taking a bunch of smaller ones now.

  19. Re:Model Tee Hee Hee on Tesla Nabs $465M Government Loan To Build Model S · · Score: 1

    Yes but you can have it in any color you like, as long as its white.

  20. Re:My experience with Ubunto on A Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux 2nd ed. · · Score: 1

    Nobody tell him that Windows comes with development tools too... such as a C# and VB.NET compiler..

    If you have the .NET framework on a windows system, you have at least these two compilers. The IDE's are seperate downloads, but the compilers are already there.

  21. Re:Why? on Best eSATA JBOD? · · Score: 1

    The main reason people choose JBOD is because they have a bunch of differently sized drives, which are not well suited for redundancy or striping.

    In my surviving collection of misc drives, I've got a 40 gig (8 years old), a 200 gig (5 years old), and a 500 gig (9 months old)

    There isnt any concievably usefull redundancy method using these, but I can treat the entire lot as a 740GB backup drive..

    If its for a home media server, backups and redundancy probably isnt a serious issue.. and performance definately isnt.. capacity would be the only real issue..

  22. Re:But why? on Firefox 3.5RC2 Performance In Windows Vs. Linux · · Score: 2, Informative

    Watcom isnt even top-3 anymore.

    The king of C compilers is now ICC, with both MSVC and GCC way behind.

  23. Re:And? on SSN Required To Buy Palm Pre · · Score: 1

    When you answer the phone and operator says "A collect call from Mr CheapBastard, would you like to accept the charges?"

    Of course, I wonder how this works with prepaid, since clearly you will not be billed immediately.

  24. Re:And? on SSN Required To Buy Palm Pre · · Score: 2, Informative

    ..or you can even create a new EIN (aka Tax I.D. Number) for purposes such as this. Sprint, and any other business, is legally required to accept tax I.D. numbers anywhere they would normally accept a social security number.

  25. Re:Why are we so worried about RAM on Memory Usage of Chrome, Firefox 3.5, et al. · · Score: 1

    Well as far as enterprise stuff, the choice of browsers is normally based purely on reliability/compatability, not memory usage.

    As far as the size of the steam survey.. tens of millions.. over a million concurrent users at any given time of day or night (thats the MIN/LOW figure), and steam games don't exactly have high performance spec requirements (some due, vast majoority don't.) You are right that these arent representative of enterprise machines, but then you are really talking about corporate internanets and so forth and not having a wide navigation profile with hundreds of tabs open, which makes TFA useless.