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  1. Re:Keeping time? on The Strange Case of Solar Flares and Radioactive Decay Rates · · Score: 1

    Seriously? You use this site and have never heard of an atomic clock?

  2. Re:There was a mistake, but not that one on Sweden Defends Wiki Sex Case About-Face · · Score: 1

    http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IKnowYouKnowIKnow

    At some point you have to admit, a cigar can just be a cigar.

  3. Re:I have read it... on Why You Shouldn't Worry About IPv6 Just Yet · · Score: 1

    Umm what? IPv4 has no hardware firewall either, untill you physically place one between you and the internet. IPv6 is no different, its just generally not going to be playing hokey games with fake addressing

  4. Re:Kenmore Connect on The Future of Tech Support · · Score: 4, Funny

    You laugh, I once had an onsite technician from Bellsouth thinking that the badgerbadgerbadger site was our speed test when he walked up while we were bored browsing waiting for him to finish. He proceeded to ask what the number of badgers meant, and if a snake was a bad thing.

  5. Re:More FOSS would fork from the bought up project on If Oracle Bought Every Open Source Company · · Score: 1

    Tell that to Cisco re: busybox, they'd love to know.

  6. Re:Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors on World's First Molten-Salt Solar Plant Opens · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Which is why the externalities of pollution need to be accounted for via regulation

  7. Re:Branch out on The Scalability of Linus · · Score: 1

    I'm afraid that is not how copyright law works.

  8. Re:He has no case on WordPress Creator GPL Says WP Template Must Be GPL'd · · Score: 1

    This is not an application calling APIs. This is additional code being loaded into an existing application and subsequently compiled and run by an interpreter. The additional code is being distributed by a third party, and only exists to modify the behavior of the original code, and thus is a derived work of the original code.

    Let me give a simple example:
    Party a creates the following code:
    Main
    10 Execute Init
    20 print $a
    30 exit
    Init
    10 set $a = "Hello World"
    20 Load Plugin Modules
    30 Execute Plugin Init subroutines

    Party b creates the following plugin module
    Init
    10 set $a = "[bold]Hello World[\bold]"

    Clearly Party B's code is derived from Party A's code, it only exists to modify the work of Party A's code, and does not have function on its own except to transform the origonal code.

  9. Re:He has no case on WordPress Creator GPL Says WP Template Must Be GPL'd · · Score: 1

    Just exactly how is this different than modifying the code itself and creating a derived product? If you can answer that, you'll have won his case.

  10. Re:Implications for plugins on WordPress Creator GPL Says WP Template Must Be GPL'd · · Score: 1

    All they have to do is not use GPL code if they don't want to follow the GPL. They can always write the other code themselves for a much larger than free cost.

  11. Re:Legal ridiculousness on Google Spent $100M Defending Viacom Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    Well, it doesn't specifically include them, which is the current rationale for excluding them. Not that I agree with that. The problem comes in with the previous wording "a well regulated malitia", which could have just been given as a reason, has been interpreted as an entitiy given those rights, and the power to regulate that entity

  12. Re:Yea, and? on Your Feces Is a Wonderland of Viruses · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, that wasn't an attempt at looking intelligent, but a bad habit I picked up years ago as a less than white hat. I honestly didn't even see that I did that, good catch.

  13. Re:Yea, and? on Your Feces Is a Wonderland of Viruses · · Score: 0

    If you read the actual article, or even the summary, you might have noticed that they are discussing virii, not bacteria, and their interactivity and relative stability, not just "oh look they're there!"

  14. Re:Outdated industrial policy. on Intel Co-Founder Calls For Tax On Offshored Labor · · Score: 1

    You can be a mercantilist jackass if no one stands up and fights back because you own half their debt.

  15. This law is only as useful as it is enforced on Experts Say Wiretap Law Needs Digital Era Update · · Score: 4, Informative

    And the previous track record of stopping illegal wire tapping is abysmal...

  16. Re:Disc speeds on IEEE Releases 802.3ba Standard · · Score: 1

    Interlinks. Router to switch, switch to switch, ISP to ISP, etc.

  17. Re:Tyranny on FCC Vote Marks Effort To Take Greater Control of the Web · · Score: 3, Informative

    Because its prohibitively expensive to be a physical plant provider for the last mile when there is already an established player?

    Yeah its called a Natural Monopoly

  18. Re:It was predicted! on Geologists Might Be Charged For Not Predicting Quake · · Score: 1

    Heck, it is exactly correct twice a day, which is more than i can say for any "working" clock

  19. Re:Please don't use "peak" with regard to non-oil. on 'Peak Wood' Offers Parallels For Our Time · · Score: 1

    No, because again, price is irrelevant when it takes X or more units of Y to extract X units of Y from something.

  20. Re:Interesting article on 'Peak Wood' Offers Parallels For Our Time · · Score: 1

    No they won't, because the price doesn't matter at all once it takes more energy to extract than is released. It could be a billion dollars an ounce and it still wouldn't be cost effective.

  21. Re:Why so short bursts? on USAF Scramjet Hits Mach 6, Sets Record · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ICBMs do not do any jetting at all, its not a comparison, as they are ballistic rockets. You can think of them as flying mortars more than missiles. The closest applicable missile would be a cruise missile, but honestly, they are designed more for distance than speed. You don't need your cruise missile to get there ridiculously fast, but you do want a ridiculous range for them, at a sufficient speed to not be destroyed or give advanced warning, while still making it to the target in time for intercept.

  22. Re:So, if we wern't drilling for oil... on Giant Plumes of Oil Forming Below the Gulf's Surface · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Who said anything about the dinosaurs adapting? The *Earth* adapted.

  23. Re:So, if we wern't drilling for oil... on Giant Plumes of Oil Forming Below the Gulf's Surface · · Score: 1

    What exactly do you think adapt means? Here's a hint: it doesn't mean return to status quo.

  24. Re:Democracy needs smart people on Too Many College Graduates? · · Score: 1

    This wasn't baiting, I am completely serious. You can see the same example circa 1930s I just can't remember the guy's name. Chaplin or something maybe.

    Just because you disagree with a comment, doesn't make it a troll.

  25. Re:Democracy needs smart people on Too Many College Graduates? · · Score: 0, Troll

    Check out the Tea Party rallies and you can see for yourself.