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  1. Re:hope it was worth the megan's law list on Man Protests TSA With Nudity · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's almost like Portland and Denver are different places.

  2. Ah Ham on Happy World Amateur Radio Day · · Score: 4, Funny

    I was a ham until the fateful day when I discovered the internet~

  3. Re:That's the point on CIOs Dismissed As Techies Without Business Savvy By CEOs · · Score: 2

    Too many CIO get bogged down into detail they shouldn't care about. To busy explaining why X is a good technology instead of explaining how X is good for the business direction.

  4. Re:They are INFORMATION officers! on CIOs Dismissed As Techies Without Business Savvy By CEOs · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Common misconception.

    The CIO there is to assure share holders that the infrastructure is solid. He is there to assure Customers that the infrastructure is sound and wont' be a problem. Optimally they will convince the customer that the infrastructure is better the competitors.
    He creates a plan to see the the infrastructure meets current needs, m and knows when to expand to meet trending needs.

    The CIO employees people who keep the tech going strong. The CIO also needs to spin technology failures in a disarming manner.
    The CIO needs to know when tis optimal to buy equipment based on Tax, budget, depreciation, and more importantly, buy thetech at the sweet spot in the curve.

    If you do RnD you need to know how to sell purchases for projects that may not pay off.

    CIO is a social job, not a nerd job.

  5. Re:Think! on Spoiler Alert: Your TV Will Be Hacked · · Score: 2

    " It was never beneficial."
    Those conversations I started about astronomy after watching Cosmos wasn't beneficial?
    The humor of Monty Python wasn't beneficial?
    The conversation I had with my 11 year old daughter about the Speed of light after watching Niel deGrasse Tyson wasn't beneficial?

    It's the content, not the medium that matters.

    And what benefit does gaming provide?
    If you have a loafer problem, get better friends.

  6. Re:Heh on Spoiler Alert: Your TV Will Be Hacked · · Score: 1

    No it isn't. Don't blame the victim.

    It's the person attempting to gain unauthorized access's fault. The fact that it was easy is irrelevant.

  7. Re:Too much, too late on $60 Light Bulb Debuts On Earth Day · · Score: 1

    did you mean 800?

  8. Re:They have it all wrong on $60 Light Bulb Debuts On Earth Day · · Score: 1

    "and an organic produce salad should be $1."
    that's a small price to pay for risky farming standards that will kill people and cause a loss of about about 30% of the worlds food..if not more.
    .

    yes, a dollar a day for a bus that sues more energy then if everyone on the bus drove an fuel efficient. car.

    Yeah, I see where you are going: To a land where you don't actually think and just use the feel good phrase that seem right.

    No thanks, I'll stick with rational based thinking.

    And green isn't just marketing.

  9. Re:$10 Million Prize for a $22 Light, Sells for $6 on $60 Light Bulb Debuts On Earth Day · · Score: 1

    I can't find that $22 requirement in the rules.

  10. Re:This is beyond stupid. on $60 Light Bulb Debuts On Earth Day · · Score: 1

    We are going to solve them with a multi-pronged approach, this is one prong.

  11. Re:Good timing! on $60 Light Bulb Debuts On Earth Day · · Score: 1

    Do you mean avocado pickers? a cherry pickers are a basket you stand in that raises up. Seem awkward for a house.

    And avocado picked is a pole with a thing at the end to allow you to pick avocados..or change light bulb.

  12. Re:BFD on $60 Light Bulb Debuts On Earth Day · · Score: 1

    Maybe you should have married a reasonable person?
    Of course, the next question is 'would a reasonable person marry you~"

  13. Re:What sort of guarantee backs up the 20 year lif on $60 Light Bulb Debuts On Earth Day · · Score: 1

    Don't compare the little green led to a light the needs to light an entire room.

  14. Re:To be banned in 2020 on $60 Light Bulb Debuts On Earth Day · · Score: 5, Insightful

    /. - Where more inefficient toilets means losing personal freedoms.

    Idiot.

    " so the % of water that enters the bathroom in the first place is trivial."
    uh, no it isn't. Also, it's water used in the home times everyone tapped into the supply; which is a lot.

    "It's regulating quite intimate activities,"
    no. No one is telling you how much too poop. Only a standard of the amount of water it takes to push that turd into the system. No one is telling you how to hold your dick.

    Changing water amount in a toilet is a minimal impact.

    And don't act like industry and agriculture isn't also regulated.
    Of course, you clearly have no grasp of time. Growth, weather patterns, cleaning, and many other things to do with water; which by the way isn't 'Yours'. The bit you get into the home is yours, but not the systems and storage.
    It's everyone's.

    You just can't grasp anything bigger the what you personally use, can you? A small percentage of power, over million and million of home sis a lot of power.

    And people don't change without a driving force. Society is more then just you.

  15. Re:There is a bigger question here. on $60 Light Bulb Debuts On Earth Day · · Score: 1

    yes, but the vast majority of people are thieving bastards.

  16. Re:ANOTHER FREE MARKET TRIUMPH! on $60 Light Bulb Debuts On Earth Day · · Score: 2

    no, the free market doesn't ';correct itself'. That whole saying it stupid.

    Correct itself towards what? Some imaginary center point??
    All a free an unregulated free market does it move wealth in one direction. Industrial want ou to live in there crappy shanty, by crappy goods at the company store, and for you to work 18 hours a day without health care or education. Meanwhile dumping their waster into the local water supply.

    So, if by correcting itself you mean "Turn everyone into indentured servants, then yes.

  17. Re:Keep them where they are on Anti-Education Attack Poisons 150 Afghan Schoolgirls · · Score: 1

    Sure, if we can extract the children so they can be treated to actual civilization.

  18. Re:This is not Islam on Anti-Education Attack Poisons 150 Afghan Schoolgirls · · Score: 1

    Of course it is. IT might not be you interpretation.
    Have you read the Quran? Women are treated horribly in the religion.

    Religion gives people the sense that they work for god, and as such mans laws are secondary.

  19. Re:Why is this on Slashdot? on Anti-Education Attack Poisons 150 Afghan Schoolgirls · · Score: 1

    Lots of thing matter. the theme of /. is nerd specific items.

    If you toss anything that matters to someone, then it's a meaningless site.

  20. Re:And that, ladies and gentlemen on Anti-Education Attack Poisons 150 Afghan Schoolgirls · · Score: 1

    No, I'm for a republic government.
    "which means rule of the majority or basically mobocracy?"

    no, it doesn't.

    Democracy helps ensure freedom because people abusing can be removed.

    "As say: democracy does not ensure freedom, it is actually a gateway towards tyranny."
    nope.

    "HOWEVER, where does it say even in TFA that it's Taliban that is responsible? Here is what TFA says:"
    I never said anything about the Taliban. There are many groups that want this religion extremism. If you think the Taliban is the only religious group, then you need to educate yourself before bringing them up.
    Nice attempt at a straw man.

    IT could be anyone...but The sound money is on religious reasons.

    Hell, it could have been someone used the jugs for something besides water, and the people filling them didn't know.
    The odds are on religious fanatics.

  21. Re:And that, ladies and gentlemen on Anti-Education Attack Poisons 150 Afghan Schoolgirls · · Score: 1

    Me.

    Seriously though:
    religion has no place in government. And anytime a religion does things to impact others, it should be slapped down.

    After the clearly entrenched protection of child rapist in the Catholic Church, I would have pulled its tax exemption*.
    The government should deal harshly with organizations like that, and not give unreasonable doubt because the happen to beg to the air.

    *I don't think tax exemptions for donations or church income should be exempt at all, but that's a different and larger matter.

  22. Re:RoP on Anti-Education Attack Poisons 150 Afghan Schoolgirls · · Score: 1

    religious Conservatives .
    While the current republican party has join social/religious/ and economic conservatism into some sort of sick and twisted evil, we shouldn't forget that you can be economic conservative and social moderate.

  23. Re:RoP on Anti-Education Attack Poisons 150 Afghan Schoolgirls · · Score: 1

    In the 40's and 50s there was a rise in religious extremest. The toleration of the extremest is how they got power and made laws and are trying to revert to the 'good ole' days that never where.

    With a rise of religious extremism in the US, America should take some lessons from what happened in the mid east in the last 60 years.

  24. Re:RoP on Anti-Education Attack Poisons 150 Afghan Schoolgirls · · Score: 0

    Protip: Religious beliefs and the book those same people allegedly follow aren't hand in hand.

    While the Koran may not say you can't educate women,. it's irrelevant. People are saying they should be taught because there religious belief says so.

    That said, th Quran does say women are only have as smart as men, so it probably stems from their. Just my guess.
    Mysagonie is through out the quran.

    " it's not the cause.
    um, it some cases, yes it is; especially in a "holy" book the says women ar worth less then a man, and them beating them is the proper way to treat them.

    Nothing scare religion more then teaching children to reason; especially if it's their goal to subjugate half of them.

  25. Re:Why is this moderated down? on Anti-Education Attack Poisons 150 Afghan Schoolgirls · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Lets keep in mind the whole context. i.e. not teaching women; which has a religious foundation in that part of the world.