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  1. Re:Ultimately on Climate Researchers Fight Back · · Score: 1

    Does that make you a skeptic denier then? Since skeptics can be convinced by facts and evidence. Deniers cannot

  2. Re:Ultimately on Climate Researchers Fight Back · · Score: 1

    I'm glad you're honest. I've seen systems built with an intent to fail. Contractors are often times good at this to preserve their contract.

    Also, thanks for proving the point of demonizing the skeptics.

  3. Re:No fly list is a dumb idea on Man Put On "No-Fly List" While In Air To NYC · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Morons even made it illegal to be in the country illegally.

  4. Re:Ultimately on Climate Researchers Fight Back · · Score: 1

    The problem being, when you spend a lot of money to get some empirical data that you then spend a lot of time and money analyzing. Which you turn around and use that to get more money to collect more data you start to fall into the hmmmmm, category is there conflict of interest.

    Then when people start to point out legitimate problems with the collection methods of your first data set that invalidate your claims, then problems with both the collection and analysis of your second data set and you just demonize them as much as you can for fear of losing your next funding requirements it pushes it just a little farther into the "Hmmmm" category.

  5. Re:Are climate researchers.... on Climate Researchers Fight Back · · Score: 0, Troll

    Funny, warming stopped just over a decade ago. They must have been afraid the funding spicket was going to be shut off.

  6. Re:Hmm. on Climate Researchers Fight Back · · Score: 1

    Lets just change it to Relations Change to cover our funding bases.

  7. Re:Health care reform is needed! on The World's First Full Face Transplant · · Score: 1

    welcome to socialized medicine.

  8. Re:Pffft, big deal... on The World's First Full Face Transplant · · Score: 1

    Or a full body transplant 100% so you can take one person then replace them with another compete person.

    My boss just read the above and said he can do that if I keep posting to slashdot.

  9. Re:Damn them! on After DNA Misuse, Researchers Banished From Havasupai Reservation · · Score: 1

    No, this is more like buying an iPhone and putting Android on it then seeing Steve Jobs get his panies in a bunch over it because you weren't suppose to do that with his idealistic view of the iPhone experience.

    They gave away their dna with/or without implicate consent to do something, but the sample no longer belonged to them. All the other analogies I've seen have been, I'm going to ask you for something then continue to affect you by doing other things (additional charges on your credit card, additional miles on a car etc...)

  10. Re:Buying ARM for a leg? on Apple To Buy ARM? · · Score: 1

    Kind of like how sports cares are for people with small privates.

    Apple products are for people with small minds.

  11. Re:Of course on Still Little To Do About a Bad ISP · · Score: 1

    Regulation caused this, so of course the fix would be more regulation. The problem with regulation is that it is bought and paid for by the same companies to be regulated. As nice as an altruistic regulatory body might sound it just wont ever happen. Sure big business is full of corruptions and problems, but nothing like that that is seen in the government. I always side with the easy to understand evil of greed in big business than the much more sinister and difficult to understand lust for power that is government.

  12. Re:really? on Crytek Thinks Free Game Demos Will Soon Be Extinct · · Score: 1

    Didn't DNF do that?

  13. Re:Didn't see that one coming. on 3rd Grader Accused of Hacking Schools' Computer System · · Score: 1

    The problem with sue happy America is that not taking responsibility means you are at fault. By calling the police you are taking responsibility and pushing liability to someone else.

  14. Re:Agenda? on American Lung Association Pushes For Ban On Electronic Cigarettes · · Score: 1

    "...if advocating banning legal products is always wrong, how do products become illegal in the first place?"

    And now you are starting so see the point.

  15. open source pixi dust? on Lightworks Video Editor To Go Open Source · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Are they going to continue to provide developers and push some form of direction?

    From what I've seen the only successful OS projects are grown from scratch or 50%+ maintained by a single company.

  16. Re:Flaw? on NSA Develops USB Storage Device Detector · · Score: 1

    It runs on BSD too?

  17. Re:Arms race anyone? on NSA Develops USB Storage Device Detector · · Score: 2, Interesting

    boot from USB drive with hypervisor that then boots the standard OS. Hypervisor presents the USB as a real hard drive or some other read/write non-removable device.

  18. Re:"It's Apple's device" on Will Adobe Sue Apple Over Flash? · · Score: 1

    How can they have a monopoly on MP3 players? Every device i buy seems to be able to play MP3s, Non smartphone, gps, car stereo, home theater, most cd players and of course almost every computer and/or laptop. Just because they produce a really nice version of the MP3 player doesn't mean they have a monopoly, or even anything close.

  19. Re:"It's Apple's device" on Will Adobe Sue Apple Over Flash? · · Score: 1

    Which federal judge declared this?

    Sorry i haven't been keeping up with the news lately other than Slashdot. Although I would have expected that to be posted at least once.

  20. Re:Craves Metal on 5-Axis Robot Carves Metal Like Butter · · Score: 1

    I think this is the robotic equivalent of the geneticly engineered 5 assed monkey.

  21. Re:One of the best apologies I have ever read on NASA Unveils Sweeping New Programs For Next 5 Years · · Score: 1

    Does it really matter which wing of the progressive party did it? the government is in a downward spiral and it doesn't matter which party is in. Sure one is taking the bus and the other is on a jet aircraft, but they are both taking us to the same place.

  22. Re:Come to Verizon! on Verizon CEO Says "We Will Hunt Heavy Users Down" · · Score: 1

    Yea, employ that government mandate magic wand. Always a good idea.

  23. Re:Come to Verizon! on Verizon CEO Says "We Will Hunt Heavy Users Down" · · Score: 1

    That's what he was saying too.

    US is Number one, (number two) is not even close. Looking at actual penetration the US is far higher than all others and Numbers two through the rest sort of show up as a clump at the bottom of the graph.

  24. Re:what's so wrong with scanning on Photographers Want Their Cut From Google's Ebooks · · Score: 1

    it was copyright with a typo and the quick suggestion from the spell checker came up with the copy-write that I just picked a little too quickly without thinking about it.

  25. Re:what's so wrong with scanning on Photographers Want Their Cut From Google's Ebooks · · Score: 1

    spellcheckers are fun.