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  1. Watch Out on Julian Assange To Be Extradited To Sweden · · Score: 1

    A whole bunch of people will be very,very upset if anything including jail happens to Julian. The first problem is that he has committed no crime at all. The sexual nonsense and extradition are offensive. He is being extradited only to be questioned with no charges having been filed against him. That strikes me as wrong. The Swiss should either charge him or realize the he is not compelled to answer questions at all. If they intend to actually arrest him simply in order to question him that sounds like a human rights violation. As far as publishing he has done a great job of it and has broken no laws at all. Creating new twists or new laws can not be applied to supposed past crimes. The US needs to rethink. They may create an considerable number of Julians out there as he is now a hero and respected all over the world. He is a Nobel nominee as well as an Australian Medal of Freedom recipient. He is more trustworthy than the government of the US in many peoples' opinion.

  2. One Hot Pipe on Iceland Eyes Liquid Magma As Energy Source · · Score: 1

    The trick must be in keeping whatever gets close enough to the magma from melting. It will be quite a feat.

  3. So this lofty authority is certain that we can be free of our energy crisis yet he has no clue as to what the fuels will be nor what it takes to garner those fuels or the space and technology required to deploy them. And when we get beyond all of that we still have the issue of heat generation from motors, lights etc..
              Whatever we do two things stick out. We each need to consume less and we must reduce the populations if we have any real hope at all. The population bomb is already exploding and each new human demands natural resources to survive.

  4. Re:Innovative on Two-way Radio Breakthrough To Double Wi-Fi Speeds · · Score: 1

    So if I send twice as much in the same amount of time it seems to me that that equals a doubling of speed or use of less resources in the case of sending and receiving on one frequency instead of tying up two frequencies. In the case of fiber optics where different colors are used to pump data that would enable twice the delivery totals for one cable in the same amount of time. Sounds good to me.

  5. Crazy Texas on Amazon Pulling Out of Texas Over $269 Million Tax Bill · · Score: -1, Troll

    Political corruption and whacked out laws are a very good reason for avoiding Texas either for businesses or for people. They have some of the sickest, knee jerk, back water laws known to man.

  6. Re:Not an YRO on Teacher Suspended Over Blog About Students · · Score: 0

    I am shocked that more folks do not support freedom of speech. If the lady is on her own time and blows of steam by cracking wise about her students I say so what. If she were singling out individuals by name and posting information about them I might consider some modification of her behavior. But there are times in life when all of us must deal with human tubes. You know, food in, food out and nothing of worth in the being at all. Teachers do get overloaded with kids at times and are aware when the bulk of them will do nothing more than breath air and clog the roads from cradle to grave. We really do produce large numbers of rather worthless kids. In some schools the teacher deserves bravery commendations just for entering the school each day.
                  Reality has to count for something even when the facts hurt. Most people are not studied as groups but black people frequently are studied as a group. We know that the chances of a black student going to prison are greater than that of going to college. Now suppose you are a teacher and you walk into an auditorium with 2000 black students and only a half dozen white kids. You already know the odds are that you are speaking to quite a few criminals waiting to bloom. Would you be thrilled? Or would you rather be somewhere else for your own safety?

  7. Re:Why is this a problem? on Wikipedia Works To Close Gender Gap · · Score: 1

    I think it comes down to simple biology. Women bear children and are essentially the nest makers and care givers for infants. They also require time to apply dress, makeup, hair styles etc.. That puts them at a disadvantage in other areas of life. Trying to change that is rather like saying that life itself is unfair and that we are somehow compelled to make up for that.

  8. Re:identity's? on Anonymous Isn't Anonymous Anymore · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It sounds like an intelligence posting designed to bluff people and control the postings from Anonymous and other friends of Julian. One way or another it is time to act up in regard to keeping Julian and Wikileaks free to operate and free from persecution.

  9. Capitalism on Is Setting Up an Offshore IT Help Desk Ethical? · · Score: 1

    The idea of putting a business off shore and causing harm to your own people is part of an evil disease called capitalism. In addition to being disease like capitalism is irrational with a fairly large congregation of believers making it qualify as another false religion. With a bit of education people might understand that any transaction should benefit an entire society and the fact that a business makes a profit for its owners is irrelevant. The disease of greed and capitalism march hand in hand.

  10. Re:1st A... on Anniston, Alabama To Censor Employees' Facebook Pages · · Score: 1

    No, it is not reasonable. Picture a man working for a living that simply sweeps floors and cleans restrooms. Would you have him silenced because he says his employer sells a deadly product like tobacco? They buy his hours of sweeping and labor. They have no right or reason to expect loyalty designed to drive profits or success upward.
                        All laws need to have a funnel effect that forces the criminal and the anti-social actors into a narrower and more exposed posture. The hero that complains that the firm that hires him sells a deadly product deserves a stupendously high level of support from our laws and from all citizens even when that truth is against their best financial interests.How is it that we allow people who sell a deadly product to be in business or to have a penny to their names?The businessman willing to do general harm is far more a pervert that the creep hiding behind a bush waiting to jump a young child and far worse than the maniac who from time to time bashes and slashes people to death. How many people has big tobacco murdered? How many people have been murdered by unsafe coal mines. How many die from cancer because businesses spill or dump chemicals? Learn to spot the really evil among us.

  11. Re:Correction on EFF Uncovers Widespread FBI Intelligence Violations · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I do wish those violations were criminal. During the Bush administration many powers were felt to be within the power of the president under a supposed duty to defend the nation. This polluted reasoning filtered down through the Justice department and people like FBI agents doing all kinds of things were allowed. Since we declined to prosecute the Bush Chaney cabal we somewhat lost any right to go after the lower members of the pecking order. Frankly the entire military chain of command up to and including Bush should have been charged with war crimes. Kangaroo courts and torture and false documents are not part of the American way.

  12. Majority Rule? on New Hampshire Bill Could Lead To Adoption of Approval Voting · · Score: 1

    Since one might have endless candidates a candidate with a very small percentage of voters could end up in power. A requirement that 51% of the people that vote being required to win seems like a better idea. Better yet why not have a voting requirement attached to getting a drivers license in order to get almost all voters to place a vote? Or state income or property owners taxes could carry a heavy wallop if a person fails to vote.
                    I see no reason to give more of a chance to candidates who have no substantial support from voters. Getting more people to vote would have merit.

  13. Predicted This on Stem Cell Research Running Into IP Brick Walls · · Score: 0

    It was obvious during the Bush era that America would suffer a terrible and permanent economic harm by restricting stem cell research. Many researchers moved to england and Europe and patents will keep us from reaping in a mega fortune from the products certain to flow in what we be a huge stem cell industry. Wanting to restrict stem cell research and treason were locked at the hip. money and national security go hand in hand and the narrow minded right wing stopped research and left America out in the cold. These right wing types are the very reason that post birth abortions need to take place.

  14. Fear The Ignorant on Teachers Back Away From Evolution In Class · · Score: 1

    Teachers have become political toys within the system. A parent may call a mayor,a principal,a congressman, and the teacher is left twisting in the wind. The only way that teachers can actually teach is to eliminate parental influence on the school system. And it's not just in the sciences either. Classics that should be studied in literature may easily upset parents due to racial or ethnic portions of the works and God help the teacher if some nut job parent considers any portion of a classic to sexual in nature. There is no greater hazard to education in America than the tragic malformed,ignorant, all too common, parent.

  15. The Stupid Factor on Court Rules Dungeons and Dragons Threatens Prison Security · · Score: 2

    Does electing the leader of a basketball team, a football team, or the state governor not also teach the formation of a gang? Another waste of taxpayer dollars by people who do no real work but seek to be the moral guardians of us all is in play.

  16. Re:Causation is not Correlia on Self-Control In Kids Predicts Future Success · · Score: 2

    I suppose that the very moment a punch is about to strike would be a lousy time to suffer loss of concentration.
                        I suspect that not only do the low testing subjects suffer from social and psychological problems but many probably carry very hard to diagnose medical problems as well. And being that they may reflect their parents status it is likely that the money needed for good medical care was never available to them from birth onward. It is just another proof that socialized medicine is not optional but something that must happen to improve our society.

  17. News and the Law on DOJ Seeks Mandatory Data Retention For ISPs · · Score: 1

    We are in an era in which publicity causes all kinds of absurd laws and law enforcement actions to take place. An example is the OJ Simpson and Nicole nightmare. Ever since that happened women have gotten a huge legal edge that is very dangerous. How is it that the college lives of an entire soccer team at Duke can be ruined, the freedom of the team members placed in dire danger and the financial costs of the false allegations haunting the families of those men forever yet the woman who deliberately lied is not locked in jail for the rest of her life? Why is it that the penalty for false accusations does not equal the penalty for the supposed crime? A twenty year sentence would not begin to make up for the harm done by that junkie.

  18. Synthetic Performers on The Fall of Traditional Entertainment Conglomerates · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Actors, musicians and vocal artists are about to be replaced with computer generated synthetic entertainers which will reduce the cost of film and music production. It will also generate a legal crises in that one might be able to blend say John Wayne and Elvis Presley into a new synthetic being. People who own rights to various characters will all clamor that they see their image or property rights portrayed in a synthetic entertainer. The litigation will be endless.

  19. Re:Writing on Study Sez Txt Msgs Make Kidz Gr8 Spellrz · · Score: 1

    Well, perhaps we have not had texting long enough to see the fruits in the postings of young people online. Currently we seem to have a sub human level of language skills in younger folks on the net. As a matter of fact it is sort of a sub human knowledge level of all sorts that is usually displayed.
                          I used to have an eccentric as head of the English department. The old man used to say that there were rarely two literate men alive at the same time. Then he did a demo by asking some unsuspecting junior to stand and describe the contrasts between lake period poetry in England, Poland and Greece. Obviously the student was sort of dead in the glare of the headlights. But the old guy made hos point. Literacy is rare in one language and culture. To be literate in the greater sense is next to impossible. Two have two literate men alive at the same time would be on the edge of mathematical absurdity.

  20. Reality Check on Michigan Governor Wants 'Open Source' Economic Model · · Score: 1

    Open source is a fine notion in many things. However we are seeing our government looking like a deer frozen in the headlights with no clue of which way to turn. One reality is that we can never hope to have labor compete with foreign labor. There are so many workers in nations like China that labor simply can not get paid the way Americans do. We also now have huge problems in competing with designs and technologies from several nations. A general lack of education is hurting America bad. We also can't fix that as the schooling in other nations is brutal and Americans won't treat their young that way. Foreign kids tend to be aware that either unusual excellence in performance in schools or grinding poverty are the only two paths they can get.
                    Then there is the uber killer. Technology is only about eliminating human labor. Every day more and more people are displaced and devalued by technology. Decent jobs will become more and more rare. That also can not be changed. So we could all jump off a cliff or come to understand the real problem. We must issue good pay to people who do not work. That money earns tax dollars fast enough to more than compensate for the gift. And guess what. The people will spend that money in the businesses that they wish to support. That is a form of democratic action and businesses that are liked by the public will thrive. The government will thrive on the money earned. Now the odd part is that the poor are the best people to get nice checks. They are not savings oriented. Give a poor man a thousand dollars and it gets spent fast. That is a thrill for businesses. Give a rich man money and he will tend to secure it and it will not help either business or labor much at all.
                      What I am pointing at is the only hope for America to survive as a nation rests upon us burying the traditional, conservative economic values in a deep cave forever. Promoting conservative values is a very direct attack upon the survival of our nation. It is a form of treason. Marx had it half right. the better message would have been from each nothing and to each everything. The spender is the joy of civilization. Requiring the spenders to come up with the cash is the real problem.

  21. Maybe on Threat of Cyberwar Is Over-Hyped · · Score: 1

    Online fraud is not usually terroristic. I have no issue at all with that. But when the combined effect of online fraud is considered it places a huge economic burden on some nations. Sex sites are similar. By themselves those sites are harmless. But the combined effect is eating half of the net alive. The power use for sex sites alone is a burden on society. So to what degree do we know that foreign powers are involved in promoting such things with war like intentions?

  22. Their Imaginations on Advice On Teaching Linux To CS Freshmen? · · Score: 1

    I think that the trick may be to cater to their imaginations. The young have all kinds of desires concerning computing that adults may have shed off already. I'm still eager to recreate that certain girl from high school. The catch is that they have been exposed to some neat stuff through their friends as far as programs go. So try to sell them on what the future can do for them with computers. robots, etc.. Towards that goal Linux and Ubuntu in particular can make it rather easy to set up computing clusters. The imagination runs wild when we begin to think about what a few thousand high end personal PCs might do for us or for that matter a few thousand game machines all working together.
                Replacing actors with a collection of characteristics from famous actors might spark their interest. There are already bands on tour where some of the instrumentalists are robots. And any software that they could work on to convert sound to a written score for the piece might hold some of them in eager attention. In other words take that god complex that lurks within all of us, that desire to be really powerful, wrap that with some goal to which they have a strong emotional attachment and try to build sample programs to accomplish each portion of the goal.
                I can imagine having a wrist watch type of device that is uber educated across a variety of fields that interacts with my surroundings and speaks up with huge expertise when I am in various situations. If we could develop reactive, portable, intensely educated devices imagine what we could do. You could walk up to a milling machine like an advanced machinist with 40 years of top experience and do everything that machinist does. You would simply have to be willing to listen to the machine on your wrist direct everything that you do. If you want a tomato farm the machine could tell you every little motion needed to create and run that farm. If you want to invest in the stock market the device could control those actions as well. You would still have choices as the device could point out more than one great way to go. If you get that dream alive then you can talk about numerous programs such as compression and fast info access in both code and hardware in order to store and use such great sums of data etc..

  23. Re:Maybe... on Robots May Inspire Suits Against Programmers · · Score: 1

    An even better example is the making of hand guns. The manufacturers have rarely been held liable for the way the gun was misused unless there was some really unusual wrong doing in the distribution of the weapon.
                In many ways our laws are able to be manipulated by language. For example a gun is not a weapon. It is like a whiskey bottle. If you try to bash someone with a whiskey bottle it becomes a weapon. If, instead of hunting, target shooting, or simply collecting than a gun is not a weapon at all. It becomes a weapon when one uses it as such. Then there are other legal deceits as well. The right to bear arms is the right to carry arms. Various laws have perverted the issue into the right to own arms which is nonsense. We have the right to carry arms. It is that simple. That is without permits,explanations, restrictions or penalties. The Bill of Rights makes this an issue beyond the touch of courts, legislatures or any other authorities.

  24. Who Be Da Boss? on Should Employees Buy Their Own Computers? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If I can afford better gear than my employer I need to get a better employer.

  25. Re:This one makes some sense on FBI Seeks Suspect's Web Game Records · · Score: 1

    The reason the word criminal may not fit the bill is that the man is clearly mad as a March Hatter. American law plays games with the concept of insanity but in reality when mental illness reaches a certain point the concept of intent gets twisted to death. Does a man in this guy's state of mind really have any clear intentions about anything? Was he shooting people in his mind or some mythical demonic entities? Treat him, keep him in a nice place and never let him loose as a relapse is to great a risk to the public.