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  1. Re:It's MIT you should be angry with, not the DOJ on DoJ Admits Aaron Swartz's Prosecution Was Political · · Score: 1

    ah, so it doesn't fit with your predisposed bias, so you bring up another case, a belief, and a conspiracy to back it.
    Got it.

    YOU clearly haen't read any actual facts about the case, clearly don't know the MIT came out of the gate playing hard ball, and that AS committed several crimes; which he admitted to.

    Nothing in this case indicates that MIT dis a lacky to JSTOR.
    You people want So badly to believe the government caused his death you just continue to make shit up to support you bias.

    Stop it, you aren't helping anyone.

  2. Re:any one got some dino DNA? on Software Lets Scientists Assemble DNA · · Score: 1

    You don't need dino DNA. You just need to figure out what it was and you can make your own.

    That's the cool bit.

  3. Re:Sounds great on Software Lets Scientists Assemble DNA · · Score: 2, Informative

    DNA is a programming language after all...

    no it isn't. I'm not sure if you are ignorant in genetic, programming, or just stupid.

  4. Re:You think utilities don't track you? on Ask Slashdot: Should We Have the Option of Treating Google Like a Utility? · · Score: 1

    Sorry for yhe double post. I wanted to mention:
    "Remember when cable TV first came on the scene? They offered "commercial-free" television, in exchange for a monthly subscription fee. You can see how well that idea worked out!"
    this is false. the ONLY 'cable' companies to offer that where system that offered you a movie channel, such as ON! TV.
    cable system never promised commercial free and they have always told you they provide a delivery mechanize to your home for other shows.

    Do you think the cable company make those shows? DO you understand why HBO is 'extra'?

  5. Re:You think utilities don't track you? on Ask Slashdot: Should We Have the Option of Treating Google Like a Utility? · · Score: 1

    What utilities scan do in that regards is severely curtailed.
    You have more power when dealing with a public utility(public or private) then you do with other corporations.

    And smart meters don't track you, they track you electricity usage.

    "and Google more of your money than they need to have."
    considering what they do with that money, I don't think it's more then they need to have.

  6. Re:Google Offers a fully protected data plan... on Ask Slashdot: Should We Have the Option of Treating Google Like a Utility? · · Score: 1

    You may have never used facebook or google, but they have a lot of data about you.

  7. Re:Facebook and Google on Ask Slashdot: Should We Have the Option of Treating Google Like a Utility? · · Score: 1

    You have an overly simple view of what a utility(assuming public utility in this case) is.

    I don't think Google should be a utility, but your argument is false.

    I'll let you ijn on a secret.
    You can not, not use Facebook or Google.
    The easily gather data about people who don't use their services from people who do.
    And if you don't use their services, you have even LESS rights about that data becasue you aren't a customer.

  8. Since it's impacts all of us, and ti involves personal information. Yes, yes it is our business.
    This idea that corporations can do what ever they want, and it's none of our business no matter how it impact our lives is stupid.

    Not even taking into consideration the fact that many people own shares, directly or indirectly, of Google; which makes them part owner and well within their rights to tell Google how they think Google should do business.

    You are short sighted, and it seems it is beyond your comprehension to realize what people do impacts other people.

    What's it like to hate freedom of speech as much as you do?

  9. Re:Libertarian reporting in on Ask Slashdot: Should We Have the Option of Treating Google Like a Utility? · · Score: 1

    Do you people just not understand history? unregulated societies are bad for everyone but the rich. This has been seen time and time again.

    BTW, this country has had 'socialist' functions sine it was founded.
    Another area show how ignorant you are on the subject.

    I'm not arguing Google is a utility.

    Choice? what choice? If I talk about you on the internet, Google knows about you, regardless if you ever had a Google account.
    If you post something on the internet, Google knows about you.
    Making a Google a utility would give you actual choices. Like, what they can do with the data they harvest about you. I prefer ISPs be public utilities, and Google(and others) have regulation regarding how the must protect privacy and information they gather.

    No man is an island. You might want to try and think about that.
    This is your choice:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magician's_Choice

  10. Re:You can not use Google on Ask Slashdot: Should We Have the Option of Treating Google Like a Utility? · · Score: 1

    Well, that's not true.

    Google can determine information about people who have never used their services by looking at what other people say about them.
    John Smith may never create a google account, but if people who Do have a Google account talk about him, then Google knows about him,.

  11. It's MIT you should be angry with, not the DOJ on DoJ Admits Aaron Swartz's Prosecution Was Political · · Score: 2

    Marty Weinberg, who took the case over from Good, said he nearly negotiated a plea bargain in which Swartz would not serve any time. “JSTOR signed off on it,” he said, “but MIT would not.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

    http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/01/15/humanity-deficit/bj8oThPDwzgxBSHQt3tyKI/story.html?s_campaign=sm_tw

  12. MIT on DoJ Admits Aaron Swartz's Prosecution Was Political · · Score: 0

    Lets see:
    He broke into an area.
    Installed an unauthorized computer.
    Installed a script without permission,
    committed computer fraud.

    All of which he admitted and plead not guilty.

    Setting aside the downloaded content issue, everything he did to get it was illegal.
    Then thye offered him a deal where he spent NO TIME in prison, but MIT wouldn't sign off.

    But people focus on 'he was just downloading articles.

    even though he admitted he did those thing, all of which are illegal, he refused to take a plea deal of 6 months in jail. During which time he would get suicide watch and counseling. Had he taken the deal about the crimes he admitted do doing, he would be alive.

  13. Re:I Don't Get It on DoJ Admits Aaron Swartz's Prosecution Was Political · · Score: 1

    Actually, the linked article is crap. The DOJs actions and reason are well documented and available.

  14. No they didnt. on DoJ Admits Aaron Swartz's Prosecution Was Political · · Score: 2

    But hey, lets just take an out of context quote written in one of the worse online 'papers'(Huffpoo) and simply believe it becasue it agrees with a unproven cognitive bias.
    It's a political view blog. Not journalism. Its' a non paid for blog.

    stupid stupid stupid.

    This shit pollutes the actual story.

  15. Re:Jaw drop on NOAA Report: World Labor Capacity Dropping Because of Increased Temperatures · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If only there was a paper explaining it~

    Did you read the paper? if so please show me where it's rubbish. If not, STFU and let us adults who have read the paper talk about it, m'kay?

    . One heat-stress metric with broad occupational health applications4, 5, 6 is wet-bulb globe temperature. We combine wet-bulb globe temperatures from global climate historical reanalysis7 and Earth System Model (ESM2M) projections8, 9, 10 with industrial4 and military5 guidelines for an acclimated individual’s occupational capacity to safely perform sustained labour under environmental heat stress (labour capacity)"

    SO they took known data involving sustaining labour under heat stressed and applied it to the climate change.

    They aren't making data up.

    YOU otoh are claiming an increase in temperature does not effect production based on..what, your ass?
    please, tell me, specifically, what you find wrong with the report:
    http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/extref/nclimate1827-s1.pdf

  16. Re:What global warming? on NOAA Report: World Labor Capacity Dropping Because of Increased Temperatures · · Score: 3, Informative

    "Even IPCC head Pachauri admits [wattsupwiththat.com] no warming for 17 years."
    false. That has been thoroughly debunked.

    It amuses me..angers really, that someone would dispose of the work from 1000's of experts from around the globe, through out all the collected data, but trust some yahoo website.

    Do you even know how to think?
    At this stage in out body of knowledge about this issue, people lie you are right up there with anti-vaccers, 911 conspiracy cranks and bigfoot believers.

    The worse part is that we can still do something about it pretty cheaply, all thing considered, but it gets more expensive every year.
    Out of the last 10 years, 9 of them have been the warmest on record. Yes, even after homogenization of the data sets.
    That's not debatable. It's a fact.

    The 10th one was in 98.
    17 of the top 20 warmest were in the last 20 years.

    start hear.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_temperature_record

  17. he said, based on NOTHING.

  18. Re:Not This Shit Again. on NOAA Report: World Labor Capacity Dropping Because of Increased Temperatures · · Score: 3, Informative

    Why are drone strike bad?

    There are vilified becasue of the accuracy and effectiveness.
    .

  19. Re:Not This Shit Again. on NOAA Report: World Labor Capacity Dropping Because of Increased Temperatures · · Score: 1

    A great many things. Climate changes, being a global event, will impact everything ion the globe to some degree.
    Well for a while, eventually the world won't be habitable. Then it won't get worse for us.

  20. Re:Huh? on NOAA Report: World Labor Capacity Dropping Because of Increased Temperatures · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Man doesn't understand report, calls it 'dumb'. News at 11.

    Alternatively:

    Yeah, it's the report that's dumb~

  21. Re:Give me LP with digital copy on Music Industry Sees First Revenue Increase Since 1999 · · Score: 1

    If only there was some way to get digital from vinyl~

    For 90 bucks, you can get a record player they will happily encode all the album flaws in a digital format so you can listen to his and pops forever.
    http://www.amazon.com/Technica-AT-LP60USB-Automatic-Driven-Turntable/dp/B002GYTPB8/ref=sr_1_2?s=aht&ie=UTF8&qid=1361978680&sr=1-2&keywords=turntable+digital+output

    if you have friend who also want that, ask them to pay 50 cents for you to make the recording until you've paid for the turntable.

  22. Re:"(not just iTunes)" ??? on Music Industry Sees First Revenue Increase Since 1999 · · Score: 1

    No, most people think they can. Predictions always fall within random selection .

  23. Re:Music INDUSTRY has been fine on Music Industry Sees First Revenue Increase Since 1999 · · Score: 1

    the major players in the music industry have realized that CD sales are nice but that's not how to get rich - the big money

    Can you back that up? Cause no one has done that so far. Top pop songs earn over 2 million a year in royalties alone.
    There are cases where that does happen. Usually entrenched acts that make very little new music and rely on a middle class spending money to listen to the songs of their teenage years. see: Springsteen.

    OTOH, Spears made less in concerts then albums, and the same with Eminem.

    New music makes money from album sales and royalties. TO not include royalties from selling music into the numbers is disingenuous.

  24. Bunch of crap. on Music Industry Sees First Revenue Increase Since 1999 · · Score: 1

    It's just another indicator that the economy is improving. The economy went to crap, and a market the survives on extra spending money had sales cut.
    Shocking.

    Add to that the price hasn't gone up with inflation, so it seem sales are worse when looking at just money.

  25. Re:Learn to code and train your H1B replacement! on Tech Leaders Encourage Teaching Schoolkids How To Code · · Score: 1

    STEM is more then software. Good luck outsourcing a bridge.