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  1. Re:Taking the heat off torrents on Library.nu and Ifile.it Shut Down · · Score: 1

    Bittorrent is easily traceable. All you have to do is ask the tracker who is seeding and it will tell you. Torrents are easily prosecutable as well.

  2. Re:Blegh on Ask Slashdot: Dividing Digital Assets In Divorce? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    If your partner is so self-deluded that they can't imagine they'd be in one of the 50% of marriages that end in divorce, you chose poorly. Mature people understand that things change, people change, and they can grow apart through no fault of anyone. Do you really want to base the most important relationship of your adult life on denial?

  3. Re:Next up: Blackbox on WindowMaker Development Resumes, Has First Release Since 2006 · · Score: 2

    Have you tried Fluxbox? It's a fine modern alternative to BlackBox.

  4. Re:Is WindowMaker still relevant? on WindowMaker Development Resumes, Has First Release Since 2006 · · Score: 2

    I played with Windowmaker back in the day. It didn't seem particularly special to me. I think I particularly hated that awful paperclip in the corner. When Blackbox came out, I was all over that. It was fast, spartan, easy to configure, and supported dock apps.

    What I'm really asking here is what's the actual benefit of doing things the NeXTSTEP way? I don't get it.

  5. Re:You know... on Aderall Or Nothing: Anatomy of the Great Amphetamine Drought · · Score: 1

    As a pharmacy tech, we often worked with the DEA to put a stop to both customers passing phoney prescriptions, and doctors giving massive prescriptions for controlled substances to anyone.

    If there were no DEA, there would be no issue with customers passing phoney prescriptions. They could just drop by the corner store and get their fix for pennies.

  6. Re:yet more biblical contradictions on Why People Don't Live Past 114 · · Score: 1

    3. Adam and Eve were kicked out AFTER they ate from the tree and were corrupted by sin. It was as punishment for disobeying his instructions. Also, they then started to age and die.

    And procreate. Don't forget, procreation is punishment from god.

  7. Re:there's your problem... on Antibiotics Are Useless In Treating Most Sinus Infections · · Score: 1

    Why did your fiance continue seeing such an incompetent doctor? Seems to me that the first time is necessary. The second time is understandable. But the third time, you should tell the doc that this has happened twice before. If he's not prepared to write a prescription, don't go back.

  8. Re:What does this sentence mean? on Antibiotics Are Useless In Treating Most Sinus Infections · · Score: 1

    It means they divided the patients into two groups. They gave half of them amoxicillin, and half a sugar pill. Three days later their symptoms were assessed, and the two groups compared statistically. Whatever difference was found between the groups did not rise to the level of statistical significance, usually arbitrarily set at a 5% false positive rate.

  9. Is WindowMaker still relevant? on WindowMaker Development Resumes, Has First Release Since 2006 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I never "got" WindowMaker. I gather it was good back in the day, when docks were kind of a special feature. But these days even Fluxbox has support for dock apps. So why WindowMaker?

  10. Re:Shareholder interest is in profits not right/wr on SEC Decides Telcos Must Give Shareholders a Vote On Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    The US is pro business the same way the Mafia is pro business.

  11. Re:What about Tamiflu? on Doctors "Fire" Vaccine Refusers · · Score: 1

    Tamiflu isn't a vaccine.

    But I strongly agree with the rest of your post. Doctors are not scientists and are frequently ignorant of the science behind their treatments. Often, the most recent information a doctor has on a treatment came from a pharmaceutical representative. Worse yet, they often take questions about the science as an affront to their authority.

  12. Re:I've often wondered... on Doctors "Fire" Vaccine Refusers · · Score: 1

    Has any study yet been done on autism rates in the unvaccinated children of antivaxers?

    Autism is positively correlated with highly educated/intelligent parents. Antivaccination is negatively correlated with intelligence. There's almost certainly going to be an inverse correlation between antivaccination and autism rates, without any causal influence whatsoever.

  13. Re:no opt-out either on AT&T On Data Throttling: Blame Yourselves · · Score: 2

    Someone should write a dumb-phone emulator for smart phones.

  14. Re:Get a pat down. on Female Passengers Say They Were Targeted For TSA Body Scanners · · Score: 3, Informative

    What are the women afraid of here? They get patted down by a women. Think she's going to enjoy touching you any more then the guy that pats me down? Think again. The pat down is the solution to this...

    Why do you think that the agent enjoying it is the problem? The problem is that the subject doesn't want to be touched. I don't care what the agent thinks, I'm not flying as long as that's a requirement.

    Any one man or women that has a problem with someone of the same sex doing a pat down has issues

    Anyone who thinks that giving up essential liberty for the illusion of temporary safety isn't a problem has issues. Your line of thinking is how ever greater breaches of our freedom become business as usual. This is creeping fascism happening on *your* watch, and you're going to let it happen.

  15. Re:It does make sense to scan the hotties on Female Passengers Say They Were Targeted For TSA Body Scanners · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but everyone else had hot dates.

  16. Re:Internet Ban on Megaupload Co-Founder Allowed Bail · · Score: 1

    You're innocent until you're proven guilty. Everything in his post applies to people who haven't been proven guilty.

  17. Re:The picture is the least important part on Television Next In Line For Industry-Wide Shakeup? · · Score: 1

    Wow, you're weird. Most of the time I watch porn, I watch it with the audio down. Porn audio is not something I find appealing at all. It's even more obviously fake than the plastic tits you don't want to see.

  18. Re:The picture is the least important part on Television Next In Line For Industry-Wide Shakeup? · · Score: 1

    Um, porn?

  19. Re:User Experience? on Television Next In Line For Industry-Wide Shakeup? · · Score: 2

    Sports are crap too. It's just crap you happen to like.

  20. Re:Authoritarians Do Not Grasp Distributed on Did Anonymous Take Down CIA.gov? · · Score: 1

    I wonder if this has anything to do with the rejection of evolution by the hard core religious right. There are few processes more distributed than evolution, and few mindsets more authoritarian then the extremely religious. Just a thought.

  21. Re:Ah, What Might Have Been (And Might Still Be?) on GNOME 3: Beauty To the Bone? · · Score: 1

    Make it a true 3D desktop that lets me navigate through everything just like I'm strolling through a neighborhood.

    Even video games don't require you to stroll through virtual 3d worlds anymore. They put in quick travel schemes. 3d is not going to make you more productive.

  22. Re:Social agendas like battling AIDS in Africa? on Obama Budget Asks For 1% Boost In Research · · Score: 1

    He also designated the largest ocean wildlife reserve ever. Hope we can keep it.

  23. Re:Slashvertishment on Despite Media Confusion, Raspberry Pi Boards Still On Schedule · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Name one.

  24. Re:Not thoroughly researched? That's precious. on Ontario Teachers' Union Calls For Health-Related Classroom Wi-Fi Ban · · Score: 2

    Sounds like it's time to amend the Canadian Constitution.

  25. Re:Call your union rep on Ontario Teachers' Union Calls For Health-Related Classroom Wi-Fi Ban · · Score: 1

    But then the thin coating leeches into the beverage.