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  1. Allah is not the same as the God of Christianity on Lawsuit Claims NASA Specialist Was Fired Over Intelligent Design Belief · · Score: 1

    Sorry, no!

    Allah is a moon God, not the God of the Judaism or of Christianity.

  2. Re:Concerned Women for America (CWA) on EA, Nintendo, Sony Quietly Withdraw SOPA Support · · Score: 1

    freedom

  3. Re:It's not up to the end users anyway on IPv6-only Hosting Won't Make Sense For Years · · Score: 1

    It will make sense to the home user for gaming situations, and when ISP's no longer support IPv4, though that's a long way off.

  4. Re:United Nations University, Not the UN on What Happened To the Climate Refugees? · · Score: 1

    Many climate scientists whose names are on the UN report disavow any agreement with the report, correctly claiming that it was bad science, simply writing to a predetermined conclusion rather than examining the facts. If they were ever recruited for the report, their name appears on the final report even if they resigned because of their disagreement with the conclusions. The only exceptions are the ones who sued to have their names removed.

  5. Re:Britain/Northern Europe is Ocean regulated. on Our Lazy Solar Dynamo — Hello Dalton Minimum? · · Score: 1

    The funny thing is, an ice age is caused by warming oceans creating more evaporation and more precipitation in the cooler polar regions, not by cooler oceans.
    Global warming is a myth, and the science is bad. It's all based on a computer model designed to "prove" manmade global warming, but measurements in the atmosphere and oceans don't bear out the model.

  6. Re:Where in the world? on Studying For Certification Exams On Company Time? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Communism in Europe did not flourish in western Europe, where the trend had gone to more limited government, but in Russia, where the Czar was still supreme. Capitalism with a limited government is still the best.
    A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything away. -- T. Jefferson (quoted from memory so may not be exact)
    As far as employers paying for training, I think they should, but require a declining restitution rate.

  7. Re:HAM used to be -- on Ham Radio Still Growing In the iStuff Age · · Score: 1

    Other famous people in Ham radio past and present include Joe Walsh of the Eagles, presidential candidate Barry Goldwater, CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite, and most astronauts. Feel free to add to this list.

  8. Re:Morse Code Should be a Recquirement Still on Ham Radio Still Growing In the iStuff Age · · Score: 1

    It was an international requirement first throughout the spectrum, then only on HF, and finally dropped altogether. The FCC requirements mirrored the international requirements, although they lagged by several years.

  9. Re:As someone totally ignorant in this stuff on Ham Radio Still Growing In the iStuff Age · · Score: 1

    One comment about the police equipment. It depends on infrastructure, and radio towers working. When they go down, police and other emergency responders still have to turn to hams. See the White house report on Katrina, appendix B, What Went Right. Ham radio is prominent.

  10. Re:FP on Ham Radio Still Growing In the iStuff Age · · Score: 1

    KB0HAW de KB3MKD /0
    I am in Iowa right now and we had tornado warnings. I get better, more up to date information from the local repeater from ham radio than from the TV

  11. Re:That's great... on Microsoft Unveils "Elevate America" · · Score: 2, Informative

    the 2 languages with the highest use are English and Chinese. but Chinese is primarily used in one country, but English is the primary language of several countries on six continents. the demise of English is possible, but predicting it is, at the very least, premature.

  12. Re:Formation of facts? on Nielsen Sends Wikipedia DMCA Takedown For Station Descriptions · · Score: 1

    Replying to your sig:

    It only takes one man to change the Wisdom of the Crowd to Tyranny of the Masses.

    That one man is almost always there!

  13. Re:Palin is no Hillary... on McCain Picks Gov. Palin As Running Mate · · Score: 1

    why not? there will be a number of people voting for Obama just because he's black! :)

  14. Re:I'm okay with this. on US Court Gives 15 Months' Jail, $415,900 Fine For Game Piracy · · Score: 2, Informative

    no in retail profit is a percentage of the sale price, not the purchase price, so that would be 50% profit

  15. Speaking of VB on Why Corporates Hate Perl · · Score: 1

    speaking of VB, I was talking with a guy the other day who had to repair a point of sale system in a deli written in VB with Access on the back end. When he disconnected a router temporarily, the whole system crashed! It was out through the lunch rush. Every cash register had to be rebooted one at a time.

  16. Re:It is most munificent of you, on Slashdot's Disagree Mail · · Score: 1

    I remember the XT, it didn't have 640KB at first, but it could be upgraded to that.

    i remember the 10MB disk drive and the 360K floppy.

    I had an even older Tandy Color Computer, that used a tape deck for storage, and advertised 16K of RAM.

  17. Re:Good for GPL but... on Strong Court Ruling Upholds the Artistic License · · Score: 2, Informative

    Contracts require consideration, and that means that a contract must have benefits going to each party. This may involve money, but a contract that grants benefits to one party, but not the other is considered to have been forced, and is therefore not enforceable.

    I did not read the article, but it appears the court decided that this is not a contract issue as the lower court said, but rather a copyright issue, and that Kamind apparently violated it.

  18. Re:Monster cable has been taking advantage... on Monster Cables Pushes Around the Wrong Small Company · · Score: 1

    resistivity of silver is only slightly better than copper, so my guess is even the most golden eared audiophile wouldn't be able to hear a difference.

  19. Re:Monster cable has been taking advantage... on Monster Cables Pushes Around the Wrong Small Company · · Score: 1

    A typical power supply in many computers has to be switched to go to 220 v and can be damaged by much over 130v. This excessive voltage can be passed on to the motherboard and other parts of the computer, damaging them as well.
    A good power supply needs no voltage switch, and the best ones can handle up to 600 v on input without blinking, protecting your equipment.

  20. your anagram on Star Cooler Than Venus Found · · Score: 1

    lads shot, last shod, lost dash, halts sod

  21. Re:Cops? No. Lawyers, yes. on Thou Shalt Not View The Super Bowl on a 56" Screen · · Score: 1, Informative

    actually the only people he condemned were the scribes and pharisees, who were the religious leaders of the day. He associated with the sinners, and drank with them!

  22. Re:doesn't matter on New Hampshire Primaries Follow-Up Analysis · · Score: 1

    If you read the federalist papers, you find that the framers intended for most elections to consist of more than 2 people, and the house making the final determination. Because of our 2 party system, that doesn't happen. The framers did not consider it a bad thing for the house to finalize the election, but rather a good thing.

  23. Re:OSS is evil. on Student Given Detention For Using Firefox [UPDATED] · · Score: 1

    my school had about 100 students grades k-12.
    I was valedictorian in a class of 3!

  24. Re:Infringed on the GPL? on Verizon Being Sued for GPL Infringement · · Score: 1

    It is my understanding that you cannot assume that the source at the other site will stay there unless they have a contractual obligation to keep it there. I have heard the time duration it must be kept available is 3 years. I'm not sure if that's true.

  25. Re:My Experience on Are Spammers Giving Up? · · Score: 1

    I get very few spam msgs through gmail filter.