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  1. Although on life support on SCOTUS Grants Guantanamo Prisoners Habeas Corpus · · Score: 1

    The Constitution still lives! The tide is turning, and the future looks like we may get on track again. Our Constitution is the single most important part of what makes America the greatest nation on Earth.

    P.S. Scalia absolutely disgusts me.

  2. Considering the pounding the pads take on Shuttle Launch Pad Damaged During Discovery's Launch · · Score: 1

    It is amazing that they hold up as well as they do. The amount of energy released by a shuttle at take off is astounding. How far away does a human being need to be from the pad and remain uninjured?

  3. Not quite Mr. Fusion on Eric Lerner's Focus Fusion Device Gets Funded · · Score: 1

    But if it works, close enough.

  4. Re:Doesn't even have to be live life... on The Phoenix Has Landed · · Score: 1

    We found a horse skeleton in my back yard. Apparently, it was buried there when this neighborhood was still farm country.

  5. Congratulations! on Phoenix Mars Lander To Touch Down In 2 Hours · · Score: 1

    To the fine folks at NASA, and JPL, for another job well done!

  6. Finally! on Welcome to the New Slashdot Chicago Cluster · · Score: 1

    Slashdot moves to the true center of the Tech Universe!

    We expect to see the entire Slashdot team at Bluesfest and Taste this year.

  7. The key here was that he got paid for it on First Guilty Verdict In Criminal Copyright Case · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That makes a world of difference. If he hadn't been paid, it would have been an entirely different matter before the court.

  8. For the children on Senators OK $1 Billion for Online Child Porn Fight · · Score: 4, Insightful

    is getting to be the cry of the modern fascist. Are out children really in more danger than they used to be? Is it worth throwing away our freedom and privacy to give them more protection? Does this "protection" actually serve our children's best interests?

  9. Oh, that's..... on Fermilab Calls For Code Crackers · · Score: 1

    where I left my score sheet.

    Thanks!

  10. It's a trap on Microsoft Reaches Out To Blender · · Score: 2, Informative

    Microsoft seems to be doing a lot of talking about open source these days, but outside of what they have been required to do by law, their efforts have a hollow ring to them. They don't really want to support open source, what they do want is to bring the productivity of open source products to the windows platform only.

  11. endless rebooting is not at all related to SP3 per on XP SP3 Crashes Some AMD Machines · · Score: 2, Funny

    "SP3 causes the computer to crash during boot, and Windows XP, by default, is set up to automatically reboot when it crashes. That is why you end up in the endless rebooting scenario."

    Nope, no relation at all. After all, crashing is perfectly normal.

  12. Re:ZFS next to be open sourced? on MySQL Reverses Decision On Closed Source · · Score: 1

    And DTrace, in current, too.

  13. Re:As someone on a Search & Rescue team on Cell Phones, Missing Persons, and Privacy · · Score: 1

    You're obviously talking about the OLD AT&T, where customer privacy was held in the highest regard. As opposed to the NEW AT&T, where they'll spill their guts at the flash of a badge. The old Ma Bell worked for their customers. The new ATT tolerates its customers.

  14. A lot more needs to be done to the grid on Smarter Electric Grid Could Save Power · · Score: 4, Interesting

    In order to effectively balance sources from grid-tied power sources, such as wind and solar, the grid needs to be re-engineered. Load balancing is a part of this. Decentralized power has some enormous advantages.

  15. All hail Pat and the Slackware Team on Slackware 12.1 Released · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They just keep going, and going, and going!!

  16. The joys of regulation and insurance on Hobbyist Renewable Energy? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Sorry, a home brew solution won't cut it. The power company won't allow a non-certified piece of equipment to be hooked up, nor will your homeowners insurance. The liabilities are simply not worth the savings.

  17. I guess that is why some of the offices.... on NSA Releases Historical Documents on TEMPEST · · Score: 1

    at Teletype Corporation looked like vaults. The engineers, working on secure terminals, took their work very seriously.

  18. A new model on A New Kind of Science Collaboration · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I wonder if this could lead to a new model in science, a split, those who produce the data and those who digest it. To a small extent, this is already true in the HEP community. It could lead to an an exciting new era in research.

  19. Why China? on Microsoft-Novell Takes Open-Source to China · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Because they figure that they will get the least resistance from true open source users there. Microsoft is going to try everything it can to dilute the effects of open source on their business strategies. China is the perfect place to build some momentum, and then trumpet their success on the rest of the market.

  20. I already paid for the upgrade on AT&T Claims Internet to Reach Capacity in 2010 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It is time for the Telcos to deliver. The American taxpayer was bilked out of billions of dollars to subsidize broadband buildouts. The results, so far, have been unimpressive.

  21. How dare you.... on In Australia, Bosses May Get Power To Snoop On Emails · · Score: 1

    let facts get in the way of a politician's perfectly good diatribe. After all, they know more then you do, thanks to the taps they are already monitoring.

  22. Re:but TFA says... on The Pioneer Anomaly & Other Breaking Physics News · · Score: 1

    It takes more than Physics PhD's to run a large accelerator.

  23. Fermi and the Higgs on The Pioneer Anomaly & Other Breaking Physics News · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Sadly, 10% of Fermi's staff is being laid off, and the rest must take a mandatory week off of unpaid leave every two months due to the funding SNAFU at the DOE.

  24. The process spoke for itself on ISO Takes Control Of OOXML · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ISO, the best standards money can buy.

  25. Patent licensing fees on Microsoft Discloses 14,000 Pages of Coding Secrets · · Score: 0

    Determine how much revenue your application generated in the last year. Send a check in that amount to Microsoft. See? Wasn't that simple.