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  1. Re:That panicked sound you hear from the left on Huge Geoengineering Project Violates UN Rules · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That's quite a leap from next to no evidence you are making.

  2. Re:Minecraft on Ask Slashdot: Best Book Or Game To Introduce Kids To Programming? · · Score: 2

    It's NAND gates (or NOR gates) that are functionally complete. And I'm not sure it's a running joke rather than an important mathematical property. Well important is a relative term...

  3. Re:First Pedobear on Thousands of Muslims Protest 'Age of Mockery' At Google's London Headquarters · · Score: 5, Interesting

    When people claim to be a representative of god we don't hold them to the norms of the day - they should be showing us the true morality of their god. In the words of Stephen Fry (on a different religion and about slavery, but it's the same point): "what is the point of the Catholic Church if it says we couldn't know better because nobody else did, then what are you for?" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGFS_hkHfCc

    Sure if he's just an average man for his time we can't really expect him to do anything but what is normal for his time. However, that also means he has no special claim on morality or wisdom so we have no reason to accept any of his religious and moral claims.

  4. Re:Don't watch it on Thousands of Muslims Protest 'Age of Mockery' At Google's London Headquarters · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Since you know so much about this maybe you can enlighten me.

    The organizer of this London protest stated " Our next protest will be at the offices of Google and YouTube across the world. We are looking to ban this film.". You clearly know more than him, so what were they actually protesting about?

    Or are you too stupid to realize that more than one protest is happening most of the time somewhere in the world.

  5. Re:Truly horrible. on How Facebook Can Out Your Most Personal Secrets · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How is that treating you with hatred or intolerance? It's being closed minded, yes (which I guess is technically the definition of bigoted but we usually use it to mean a more aggresive subset). Though not knowing the person involved it could also be that he'd been bored to tears to many times by the same old libertarian arguments and simply didn't want to talk politics about them anymore.

    Did he threaten you with violence? Did he demand you renounce those opinions/beliefs?

    There are people I know with whom I disagree strongly on some issue, that we've decided not to discuss that particular issue doesn't make either of us bigoted. Sometimes it just isn't worth spending energy when you know neither is going to convince the other and it'll be an unpleasant waste of time.

  6. Re:What? on FTC To Recommend Antitrust Case Against Google · · Score: 1

    One was a monopoly and one was not?

  7. They're a private company, right? on Libertarian Candidate Excluded From Debate For Refusing Corporate Donations · · Score: 2

    So the libertarian way would be that they're allowed to include or exclude whomever they want, surely?

  8. Re:hearts and minds on Alan Cox to NVIDIA: You Can't Use DMA-BUF · · Score: 1

    You should have said that then instead of "behind the firewall" which certainly includes almost all the software used within the company other than the firewall itself.

  9. Re:Behavior and integrity on US Election's Only VP Debate Tonight: Weigh In With Your Reactions · · Score: 1

    Wow, you really know your consitution and how the vice president can be dismissed. Or are you just pretending to be stupid?

  10. Re:What's the value here? on US Election's Only VP Debate Tonight: Weigh In With Your Reactions · · Score: 1

    I strongly suspect so, but no because of a debate.

  11. Re:hearts and minds on Alan Cox to NVIDIA: You Can't Use DMA-BUF · · Score: 1

    And yet not a single copy of bash or gcc anywhere. Not a single instance of linux or piece of hardware that uses linux internally. Not a single dell machine with a DRAC? And so on and so on.

  12. Re:Truth or dare... on Mysterious Algorithm Was 4% of Trading Activity Last Week · · Score: 1

    That the number changes doesn't make it not zero sum, the other stuff does. The other stuff causes the number to change, but it doesn't have to be that way.

    You can trivially make up a zero sum game that has a DOW like changing number.

  13. Re:Well, that explains it on Counterfeit Air Bag Racket Blows Up · · Score: 1

    So RTFA you lazy fuck, "NHTSA testing has shown some of the counterfeit bags don't inflate or fail to inflate properly, they said. In at least one case, a counterfeit bag fired shards of plastic and other projectiles on impact, they said."

  14. Re:Fill in the gaps? on Half-Life of DNA is 521 Years, Jurassic Park Impossible After All · · Score: 1

    No birds are dinosaurs, but dinosaurs are not birds. At least according to our current understanding.

  15. Re:Truth or dare... on Mysterious Algorithm Was 4% of Trading Activity Last Week · · Score: 1

    That a changing DOW does not imply it is not a zero sum game.

    Now the stock market isn't a zero sum game, but not because the DOW changes.

  16. Re:Testing on Mysterious Algorithm Was 4% of Trading Activity Last Week · · Score: 1

    It doesn't have to have the same definitions and weightings of right and wrong as you to still be called conscience.

    Maybe killing all the people to make room for the more diverse life that the people keep pushing to extinction is how skyNET weighs it up? Maybe it considers salvery to be right (apparently God did after all)?

  17. Re:Truth or dare... on Mysterious Algorithm Was 4% of Trading Activity Last Week · · Score: 1

    Maybe you should learn what a zero sum game is?

  18. Re:Truth or dare... on Mysterious Algorithm Was 4% of Trading Activity Last Week · · Score: 1

    So don't buy things on margin?

  19. Re:What a bunch of douche bags on How To Add 5.5 Petabytes and Get Banned From Costco · · Score: 2

    It doesn't.

    When there was a temporary disruption of hard drive supply chains, they noticed that external drives could be bought at costco for significantly cheaper than they could get internal drives from distributors/wholesalers. So they did.

    And they get a bunch of free advertising on slahdot out of writing about it too.

  20. Re:What a bunch of douche bags on How To Add 5.5 Petabytes and Get Banned From Costco · · Score: 2

    It's perfectly sustainable. Their customers will use more and more storage as storage prices fall, and coincidentally they'll be able to buy the additional storage to back it up since prices will have fallen for them too.

    Yes they will lose money on some customers. As long as there are enough customers they make money on that's to cover it that doesn't matter. Every "all you can eat buffet" is making the same bet.

  21. Re:Wow on How To Add 5.5 Petabytes and Get Banned From Costco · · Score: 2

    Everything is backup worthy when it's unlimited storage at a fixed price.

  22. Re:Whats the problem? on SpaceX Launch Not So Perfect After All · · Score: 1

    And all those times the shuttle O-rings failed but the backup O-ring didn't weren't a problem and just the backups doing what they are supposed to do, right?

  23. So the conlcusion is on Unredacted Documents In Apple/Samsung Case, No Evidence of 'Copy' Instruction · · Score: 1

    that Samsung had shitty lawyers?

    Of course Apple's lawyers are going to slant the everything towards their argument, that is their job after all. They can't rip out the pages that goes against their case before they supply the evidence to the other side, but these are Samsung's documents so surely Samsung's lawyers had access to them anyway.

  24. Re:What does it all mean? on Entire Cities In World of Warcraft Dead, Hack Suspected · · Score: 3, Funny

    Who knows? I just repeat what I see in order to try and fit in.

  25. Re:What does it all mean? on Entire Cities In World of Warcraft Dead, Hack Suspected · · Score: 1

    WTF does knowing what the term NPC means or how to look it up have to do with losing a little man in a video game?