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  1. Re:As the tech guy at a church on Ask Slashdot: Tech For Small Library Automation? · · Score: 2

    That is the most ridiculous description of Pascal's Wager I've ever heard.

  2. Re:The Real Question on Kepler Discovers First Earth-Sized Exoplanets · · Score: 4, Informative

    Stop reading so much science fiction, and try some real science. There will never be FTL communication. ENTANGLEMENT DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY /Morbo

  3. Re:To say nothing of their own reputation on Greenpeace Breaks Into French Nuclear Plant · · Score: 1

    Oh so greenpeace needs to collect and publish demographic data on their members so fucks like you can sling mud at them? If you had an actual point maybe you wouldn't need to attack their hypothetical backgrounds.

    Get fucked, asshole.

  4. Re:Peh. on Paper On Super Flu Strain May Be Banned From Publication · · Score: 1

    do you think that we have enough ventilators for 27% of the population?

  5. Re:Sunglasses on Making a Privacy Monitor From an Old LCD · · Score: 1

    Wow you actually admitted you were wrong... too bad you didn't do it before posting 3 "corrections" to other people's posts.

  6. Re:Reflections on Why Everyone Hates the IT Department · · Score: 1

    Guess what? Your legal issues do not give you the ability to violate someone's right to property, or commit assault (attempting to take it from them.)

    If you are unhappy with them bringing something onto your premises, you can fire them and have them escorted off the property, but that is the limit.

  7. Re:Wireless N would help on Ask Slashdot: Updating a Difficult Campground Wi-Fi Design? · · Score: 1

    SPAM is not just advertising, it is messages that are blasted out wholesale without thought to their destination. GGP is clearly not spam.

  8. Re:You know I hear that a lot. on NYPD Dismantling Occupy Wall Street Encampment · · Score: 2

    They don't have a simple easy plan to fix everything. But they don't need one. They are doing a valuable service just by drawing attention to the problems.

    It's a hell of a lot more than you are doing.

  9. Re:I thought /dev/random already looked for entrop on Exploiting Network Captures For Truer Randomness · · Score: 1

    If /dev/urandom could be distinguished from /dev/random by the human ear, it would be an extremely shitty excuse for a random number source.

  10. Re:Interesting on Australia's Biggest Airline Grounds Its Entire Fleet · · Score: 1

    Until we decide to stop your nice new truck, drag you out and beat you to death in the street.. keep pushing, it may get there eventually.

  11. Re:And never, ever spell it Aluminium on Mystery of an Ancient Super Nova Solved · · Score: 1

    Of course, in latin word order signifies very little, so this convention is debatable...

  12. Re:Viewing the Transit of Venus Next June on Ask The Bad Astronomer · · Score: 1

    Then why not take the time to do it right? You have nearly a year, make some friends in Hawaii and ship your equipment far enough ahead of time that you can correct any mishaps.

  13. Re:So... on Amazon Kindle Fire Surfaces · · Score: 1

    Whoosh

  14. Re:have fun protesting on Conflict Between Occupy Wall Street Protestors and NYPD Escalating · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Peaceful protest doesn't require a permit you fucking fascist.

  15. Re:Good on Faster-Than-Light Particle Results To Be Re-Tested · · Score: 1

    No. We already know how to generate and detect neutrinos at will. If they travel FTL, then that means we know how to send messages faster than light = backwards in time. This means we can break causality at will. That is a hell of a lot more than a footnote, it would completely upset our entire understanding of the universe.

  16. Re:what money saved? on Steam Translation Community Slaving Away · · Score: 2

    Oh forget it. The "article" isn't even of a standard worthy of criticising.

    Much like your posting.

    apparently not.

  17. Re:probably not the smartest move on High School Student Launches a Trash Bag Aircraft · · Score: 1

    Get real. Do you have any idea how much space there is in the sky? I would be a lot more worried about it landing on someone's windshield, and even that is terribly unlikely

  18. Re:Couldn't I just do this with a RAM cache? on OCZ Wants To Cache Your HDD With an SSD · · Score: 1

    Oh, my backup strategy definitely needs work.. in the first case I had none at all.

    These were two separate drives purchased a year apart BTW though.

    The main problem was not the final failures but more that nearly every time I lost power I encountered corruption.. and if I put off fixing it that led to crashes requiring hard reset -> more problems.

  19. Re:Couldn't I just do this with a RAM cache? on OCZ Wants To Cache Your HDD With an SSD · · Score: 1

    Yeah, because restoring from backup is so much fun.. I've used OCZ drives in both a desktop and a laptop, in each case they failed within 6 months. While the speedup was awesome, it was not worth the constant pain of repairing serious filesystem corruption every time I had a power failure or hard reset.

  20. Re:Costs of education? on Your State University Doesn't Want You · · Score: 1

    Dumbass, have a look at where the money coming into universities actually comes from.. here's a hint for you, the people who produce real results (i.e. physical and biological scientists) are getting hard money from NSF, NIH and other grant agencies and are subsidizing the liberal arts and social science departments.

  21. Re:Costs of education? on Your State University Doesn't Want You · · Score: 1, Troll

    gay marriage is wrong, huh that really sounds like a typical liberal position... dumbass.

  22. Re:Not so fast... on CERN Experiment Indicates Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos · · Score: 1

    Of course he can't tell exactly why, he is not working on the experiment. But the first step in finding an error is imagining what could be causing it, then the experimenters can check those things. His proper role as a theorist (and one who is quite likely a lot smarter than you) is to suggest these kind of possibilities. We don't just throw out all of physics when someone makes an extraordinary claim.

  23. Re:Not so fast... on CERN Experiment Indicates Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos · · Score: 1

    Yeah.. he's also quite a bit smarter than you though. Check out his postings on stackoverflow, he clearly knows physics.

  24. Re:What the hell on How Bug Bounties Are Like Rat Farming · · Score: 1

    Behold the power of the ancient magic known as 'editing'.

  25. Re:Toyota called... on Tapping Subway Trains For Energy · · Score: 1

    umm no, surprisingly enough 1G = 1G.