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  1. Government nets, we want this? on Florida VoIP Provider Files Net Neutrality Complaint With FCC · · Score: 1

    And again why do we want the governments running our networks? They will be more likely to do this kind of stupid thing and get away with it.

  2. and a Tomato is a Vegetable on High School Students Sue Federal Gov't Over Global Warming · · Score: 1

    The legal system can't solve issues of science. They can tell us a fruit is actually a vegetable but that doesn't change the facts. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nix_v._Hedden

  3. Re:Alarmists tend to have names . . . on The Rise of Chemophobia In the News · · Score: 1

    Now now everyone has a right to be stupid. When they try to make laws to enforce "stupid" then you can punch them.

  4. Re:Organic Food on The Rise of Chemophobia In the News · · Score: 2

    Actually it's essential "chemical compound" for life so calling it just a flavoring misses a bit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt

  5. It's an issue, people are working on it on The Rise of Chemophobia In the News · · Score: 1

    See Sense About Science http://www.senseaboutscience.org/ for a wonderful resource to point Journalists too. Not just for chemicals but all Science.

  6. Re:Just turn off the car? on Mandatory Brake-Override Proposed For All Cars · · Score: 1

    exactly and in the case of the article. A cop, who should have training to not panic, killed himself and his family because of panic. I race cars but not on public streets, and unmodified card often can not deal well with high speed in traffic. I suspect the officer was doing all he could to keep the car on the road and didn't have much time to think about how to turn the car off or disable it.

  7. Re:Just turn off the car? on Mandatory Brake-Override Proposed For All Cars · · Score: 1

    Maybe on some cars but not my 20 year old one. When the key is in the full off position the wheel will lock. You have to turn the steering wheel about 1/8 turn to get it to lock though. I race essentially stock cars and we specifically must disable steering wheel lock to prevent the wheel for ever locking under any circumstances. I do think steering wheel locks are kind of past their prime and probably should only engage when the car is in park.

  8. OMG! Brain Cancer! on Google Glasses Announced · · Score: 1

    You just know... "With those things sitting right at your temple this has got to cause RF induced brain cancer! The CDC and WHO should stop this before it can even get started! OMG OMG OMG." ... it's going to happen.

  9. Re:Homeopathic? on NOAA Study: Radiation From Fukushima Very Dilluted, Seafood Safe · · Score: 1

    No no. I thought Homeopathy dilution (delusion) makes it more potent. So that means we are all going to die of radiation poisoning if we even breathe the ocean air.

  10. Natural radiation levels on NOAA Study: Radiation From Fukushima Very Dilluted, Seafood Safe · · Score: 1

    Here is one set of numbers on natural sources of exposure. http://www.umich.edu/~radinfo/introduction/natural.htm

  11. Re:More, less, anything is caused by AGW on Climate Change To Drive Weather Disasters, Say UN Experts · · Score: 2

    Hurricanes numbers since 1972 haven't really changed much. http://coaps.fsu.edu/~maue/tropical/global_running_ace.jpg

  12. More, less, anything is caused by AGW on Climate Change To Drive Weather Disasters, Say UN Experts · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You can find studies that show more hurricanes, less hurricanes, more sever hurricanes all due to global warming. It's getting old attributing every possible outcome to Advance Global Warming. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/07/070730-hurricane-warming.html http://www.science20.com/news/global_warming_may_mean_fewer_hurricanes http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2009/0109-global_warming_causes_severe_storms.htm

  13. Technomage on Magician Marco Tempest Talks 'Open Sorcery' · · Score: 1
  14. with Berkeley Time Line tool? on Ask Slashdot: Do You Find Self Tracking Useful Like Stephen Wolfram Does? · · Score: 1
  15. Score one for Open Markets on Swiss Voters Reject Book Price Controls · · Score: 1

    Open Source, Open Markets. It's all about unrestricted access and fewer controls on your things.

  16. T Boon Pickens plan on US Wants Natural Gas As Major Auto Fuel Option · · Score: 1
  17. Re:CD quality sucks. on Master Engineer: Apple's "Mastered For iTunes" No Better Than AAC-Encoded Music · · Score: 1

    I want Vinyl quality.

    No actually you don't. You want analogue reel to reel tape quality.

  18. Re:Toto... on 1st Video of Moon's Far Side · · Score: 1

    You dolt! You missed a perfectly good opportunity to comment on the Pink Floyd references to make a very cool obscure reference less obscure. I got it though, good work, you do know what I'm talking about don't you...

  19. Mix it up on Ask Slashdot: Techie Wedding Invitation Ideas? · · Score: 1

    Emboss the card with a QR code. Leave it with no ink on the outside but inside is the printed code with a logo http://hackaday.com/2011/08/11/how-to-put-your-logo-in-a-qr-code/ Use metallic conducting ink and a real tiny Arduino or maybe just a simple circuit, using the conducting ink and make part of the inside of the invitation a speaker. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1F5Gg4bG3o playing the wedding march with words. http://www.oracleband.net/Articles/wedding-march.htm

  20. Re:Either them or someone else on Mutant Flu Researchers Declare a Time Out · · Score: 1

    Government or private makes no difference here. It's bad guys (or just people with lax controls) and good guys. In either case someone will do the research. If the good guys do it (people with good intentions and good controls) then we stand a chance of saving people when the bad guys do it and fuck it up.

  21. Re:Running water? on Vint Cerf On Human Rights: Internet Access Isn't On the List · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Exactly! Rights are not something that requires work by another party for you t have them. The right to free speech doesn't require anyone to do anything. You can talk all you want and publish your own paper, if you can pay for it. But you don't have any right to be published by someone else. It requires them to do something they may not want to do which would violate their rights. Christian news site foo has absolutely no obligation to publish articles from Muslim news outlet bar.

  22. limites types for discovery on First Four Exoplanets of 2012 Discovered · · Score: 5, Interesting

    To this layman the current system seems to rely on faster moving large planets. Most if not all recent discoveries are plants that orbit on the order of days. It's not likely we will find larger planets like those in our system with this method. Saturn takes something like 22 years to orbit the sun. You won't see many transits of longer orbit exoplanets in the typical astronomers career.

  23. Patent for belief systems? on IBM Granted Your-Paychecks-Are-What-You-Eat Patent · · Score: 1

    Really we can patent food restrictions based on particular beliefs about what's "right" for you to eat? Seriously? Not to mention the the whole food Nazi aspect of this, ooh wait that's a belief system too and I think the patent is still active. Someone should sue for patent infringement!!!

  24. Processing on Learning Programming In a Post-BASIC World · · Score: 3, Insightful

    http://processing.org/ it's easy and gives immediate gratification.

  25. Video of the same Fake device on Covert Video of Apple IPad 2 Just Released · · Score: 1

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMVhgSHo7EQ&NR=1&feature=fvwp It's a fake. this is another video of the same device. However I bet iPad 2 will look very much like this.