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  1. Re:Religion on The "Scientific Impotence" Excuse · · Score: 1

    cf Godel's Incompleteness Theorem, Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, etc etc

    And just how did we derive those?

  2. Re:Religion on The "Scientific Impotence" Excuse · · Score: 4, Informative

    Unblinking rationalism will cause you to lose the ability to appear reasonable to other people.

    *appear* reasonable is the key phrase there. The rational always appear unreasonable to the irrational. Is it the rationalist's fault that others don't think enough?

    You won't want to compromise, because you think your belief is the only right belief.

    Unless presented with evidence otherwise. That's the core of rationalism.

  3. Re:Religion on The "Scientific Impotence" Excuse · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What if that ideology is rationalism?

  4. Re:A pity; but not a huge shock... on XBMC Discontinues Xbox Support · · Score: 1

    I have had no trouble finding SD content for my Xbox. For those of us who don't care about HD video (I'm not wearing my glasses to watch TV), the Xbox is a fine option.

  5. Re:Call me a fanboi or whatever but... on Blizzard Boss Says Restrictive DRM Is a Waste of Time · · Score: 1

    Did you forget what they did to Bnetd? Bastards.

  6. Re:Not really relevant, but what's with the clones on Tetris Clones Pulled From Android Market · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and why do so many painters paint bowls of fruit? It's been done to death!

  7. Re:Not so bad on Gulf Oil Leak Plugged? · · Score: 1

    One hurricane season and the mess will be gone

    One hurricane season and the mess will be everywhere.

  8. Re:Little Dutch Boy on Gulf Oil Leak Plugged? · · Score: 4, Funny

    He's somewhere in Amsterdam's red light district, sticking his finger in dykes.

  9. Too early on Gulf Oil Leak Plugged? · · Score: 4, Informative

    This is just step one of the top kill. It's just plugged with mud, which is still streaming out of the hole. Don't start celebrating until they actually top it with concrete.

    I've got to wonder, if this does work is BP going to go ahead with their "relief well".

  10. Re:Highly Recommended on Video Gamers Have Power Over Their Dreams · · Score: 1

    What part of "video games" do you take to mean "photorealistic"? It's a medium, not a style.

  11. Re:Not in my experience on Video Gamers Have Power Over Their Dreams · · Score: 4, Funny

    Or worse. Being surrounded by brown 'R's and yellow 'c's.

  12. Re:Is it pronounced DOHS or DAHS? on For Automated Testing, Better Alternatives To DOS Batch Files? · · Score: 3, Informative

    DOS sounds like "Boss" not like "dose".

  13. What dreams? on Video Gamers Have Power Over Their Dreams · · Score: 1, Informative

    Gamers smoke a lot of pot. Pot inhibits REM sleep.

  14. Re:Fat Chance on FSF Asks Apple To Comply With the GPL For Clone of GNU Go · · Score: 2, Insightful

    the amount of bad press it would generate for Apple in the developer community would make it not worth their while.

    Why would that generate bad press? Apple was duped by an unscrupulous developer. A lawsuit is exactly what he deserves.

  15. Re:Quite an obligatory comment on Bill Joy On Sun, Microsoft, Open Source, and Creativity · · Score: 1

    The vast majority of those ideas were not "shared," but "sold." As in, work for us, we own your ideas and integrate them into products, perhaps patent them, and you get a salary.

    You could say the exact same thing about contributions to open source.

  16. Re:Even Windows for free would have replaced Solar on Bill Joy On Sun, Microsoft, Open Source, and Creativity · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Remember - most(almost all?) open source contributions come from people who have software jobs, quite often jobs which directly compete with the open source initiative they are contributing to.

    Most open source contributions come from people with jobs. Jobs that are paying them to make that very contribution to open source.

  17. 6 Atom transistor on Researchers Create 4nm Transistor With Seven Atoms · · Score: 1

    That's good and all. Unless someone comes up with a 6 atom transistor. Then you're in trouble, huh?

  18. Re:Umm, are you kidding? on The Fashion Industry As a Model For IP Reform · · Score: 1

    Or as George Bernard Shaw put it, "Fashion is a form of ugliness so unbearable we have to alter it every 6 months."

  19. Re:Slashdotter's rejoice! on Secure Communication Comes To Android · · Score: 1

    Encrypted data looks like random binary data. Text messages do not. It would be fairly easy to distinguish the two.

  20. Re:Sweet on Fedora 13 Is Out · · Score: 4, Funny

    Fedora doesnt just fuck half the system up every release just to be new and flashy...

    They have much better reasons to fuck half the system up every release.

  21. Re:Sounds unreasonable on Emergency Dispatcher Fired For Facebook Drug Joke · · Score: 1

    Any employee of the police is making a choice to work for that institution. They do that knowing that they will be expected to enforce laws infringing on these fundamental rights. Therefore, that they did not write the law is no excuse. They chose to be in the position of enforcing them. They are willingly violating fundamental rights of american citizens. Anyone complaining about their rights being violated while willingly violating the rights of others is a hypocrite, plain and simple.

  22. Re:Sounds unreasonable on Emergency Dispatcher Fired For Facebook Drug Joke · · Score: 1

    Biochemical and sexual self-determination are rights as fundamental as free speech.

  23. Re:Sounds unreasonable on Emergency Dispatcher Fired For Facebook Drug Joke · · Score: 2, Insightful

    As the parent said: Stop being an apologist for the implementation of a regime of "thought crime."

    Does anyone else see the hypocrisy in this? She's upset that her right to free speech is not being respected. But she wants to go back to work for an institution that doesn't respect the right of people to manage their own biochemistry as they see fit, or to buy sex from a consenting adult. If she really cared about freedom, she would have stopped facilitating the arrest of non-violent people a long time ago. It's only when they violate HER freedom that she speaks out.

  24. Re:cost calculation? on Google PAC-MAN Cost 4.8M Person-Hours · · Score: 1

    c=1.3-2.0*r
    c-1.3=-2.0*r
    (c-1.3)/-2.0=r
    c=25
    (25-1.3)/-2.0=r
    -11.85=r

    They pay $11.85 per hour to work at google.

    To be serious though, I suspect they meant "1.3-2.0" to be a range.

  25. Re:Online privacy never existed on Why Online Privacy Is Broken · · Score: 1

    Sure there is. Send a GPG encrypted email, and that's private. Or chat over Pidgin-Encryption, that's private too. The internet defaults to public, but it's easy enough to secure your privacy when it matters.