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  1. Re:Let's not ignore the oceans on First Four-Exoplanet System Imaged · · Score: 1

    The oceans are about 5% explored. More resources should be geared toward the oceans as well.

    You never know...we might find some creature under there that has some complex protein mankind could use to treat chronic diseases like diabetes, AIDS and the like.

    How'z that?

    Or make a weapon from it.
    There, fixed that for ya.

  2. Re:Typical typo on First Four-Exoplanet System Imaged · · Score: 1

    use the word "occlude" to describe an object passing in front of (or behind) another object. Occult means "pass behind" or hidden from view"*, occlude means "stopped up"

    *a much better definition of "occult powers" than the definition "supernatural".

    A better definition would be "arcane" since even with the best telescopes available, it is still hidden from view.

  3. Re:Quite strange. on First Four-Exoplanet System Imaged · · Score: 2, Informative

    When Galileo invented the telescope,

    More like re-invented.
    Ecclesiastes 1:9

  4. Re:Once the tech process gets better... on First Four-Exoplanet System Imaged · · Score: 1

    if they discovered a planet that appeared to have a non-poisonous atmosphere,

    Define non-poisonous. Without proper equipment, one cannot breathe seawater, and vice versa. It is ignorant arrogance that 1: we are the only intelligence in the universe and 2: all life in the universe is modeled after us.
    The article that a bacteria lives because of arsenic and that there are life-forms that survive and thrive around deep undersea thermal vents at 800 degrees Fahrenheit and hydrogen sulfide invalidates your argument.

  5. Re:Once the tech process gets better... on First Four-Exoplanet System Imaged · · Score: 1

    Once the tech process gets better, we can find more Earthlike planets instead of just these big ones. Still, encouraging.

    Not that it'll do us much good. We won't be going to any exoplanets for a long, long time.....

    For all anyone knows, we may have already been there.

  6. Re:Can we PLEASE.... on Operation Payback and Hactivism 101 · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but it sounds a lot nicer than "vigilantism", doesn't it?

    Government interference is probably closer than you think.

  7. Re:horse on Military Bans Removable Media After WikiLeaks Disclosures · · Score: 1

    No kidding. They're *just now* getting around to this?

    Why bother with anything else when the Assange scapegoat gambit will work in a jiffy.
    Seriously, when you point fingers, three fingers are pointing right back at the pointer.

  8. Re:NOOOO! on Google Wants To Take Away Your Capslock Key · · Score: 1

    YOU CAN TAKE MY CAPS LOCK KEY FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS!

    yOU cAN tAKE mY cAPS lOCK kEY fROM mY cOLD dEAD kEYBOARD.
    THERE, FIXED THAT FOR YA!

  9. Re:viva le WIKILEAKS on DOJ Ramping Up Crackdown On Copyright-Infringing Sites · · Score: 1

    Maybe there was a *whoosh*-ing sound over my head as I read your post...

    One word. . Zeitgeist

  10. Re:conspiracy theory... on Interpol Issues Wanted Notice For Julian Assange · · Score: 1

    Oh what a tangled web we weave when we first learn to deceive.
    However, this has not yet been confirmed by Wikileaks. Maybe, in time, it will.

  11. Re:Next up on DOJ Ramping Up Crackdown On Copyright-Infringing Sites · · Score: 1

    you are NOTHING

    By reasoning of Capitus Diminutio Maxima, you are nothing but property.

  12. Re:Next up on DOJ Ramping Up Crackdown On Copyright-Infringing Sites · · Score: 1

    Well, I suppose we can wait and see what they do with Wikileaks...

    I'll wait till the movie comes out. Maybe Lord VolDarthamort will win this one.

  13. Re:viva le WIKILEAKS on DOJ Ramping Up Crackdown On Copyright-Infringing Sites · · Score: 1

    It's action without due process. No trial, no charges, just seizure. That's illegal.

    Two words...Executive order.
    There, fixed that for ya.

  14. Re:Guilty much? on Graduate Students Being Warned Away From Leaked Cables · · Score: 1
    Tony Curtis stated in "Operation Petticoat", "There's profit in confusion."
    When a person cannot see the logic of a situation, follow the money. This same confusion gave us Pearl Harbor, Tonkin Gulf, 9/11. The only profiteers are the banks funding both sides of the conflict.

    Any politicians who acts upon some of those crap reports without failing to see 'distortions for promotions' inherent in them deserves to get canned

    They should be canned, but they're not.

    who have betrayed their own principles.

    Since no one really knows what those principles are, have they been betrayed? These people may actually be doing the bidding of their overseers.

    The best reason for incoming recruits not to read those transcripts is because they will learn some shocking bad habits.

    How do you get anybody to do your bidding? Tell them not to do it.
    The privately held international banking system answers to no one. They've been funding wars (both sides) for centuries. The US borrows worthless money under the fractional reserve banking rules, with interest. The only way the US will ever clear its national debt will begin with bringing down these banksters, world-wide. The Federal Reserve and the IRS are not even part of the US government. They are separate and above it.

  15. Re:Of course they do... on China Views Internet As "Controllable" · · Score: 1

    Communist states view everything as being controllable.

    Yeah, like N. Korea.

  16. Re:Great on Bill Calls For Wi-Fi Base Stations In All Federal Buildings · · Score: 1

    Small nit..it's the House and Senate - both together make up "Congress".

    Shows how much I pay attention to corrupt politicians.

  17. Re:Sauce for the gander on PayPal Withdraws WikiLeaks Donation Service · · Score: 3, Informative

    But realistically now that they've cut off Wikileaks they've got precisely zero leverage.
    One Meeeleon Dollars.

    I guess Wikileaks will have to do it for gratis, since there is no more money to withhold information.
    Obligatory RAH quote: Never appeal to a man's "better nature." He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage. - RAH

  18. Re:Sauce for the gander on PayPal Withdraws WikiLeaks Donation Service · · Score: 2

    If you've got nothing to hide you've got nothing to worry about.

    Isn't that what they tell us when they pry into our affairs...?

    Obligatory RAH quote: A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill. -RAH

  19. Re:Great on Bill Calls For Wi-Fi Base Stations In All Federal Buildings · · Score: 1

    WiFileaks.org ?

    Just how exactly, could this go wrong? Considering past performance, the Congress (the opposite of progress) and the Senate (much like the one in ancient Rome) have little understanding of the bills they pass, unless there's something in it for them or their constituents ($$$, not the voting kind).

  20. Re:Guilty much? on Graduate Students Being Warned Away From Leaked Cables · · Score: 1

    ... then the fact that the elections were rigged? How did you come to that conclusion?

    Next thing you'll say is that 9/11 was an inside job. The only reason to hide anything is to obfuscate the real truth. A truth that has been known to bring down kings and governments.

  21. Re:Guilty much? on Graduate Students Being Warned Away From Leaked Cables · · Score: 1

    That's not a valid line of rationale with regards to privacy issues. Why should that be used now?

    The truth is dead! Long live the truth!

  22. Re:Anonymous Coward Fail on Canon's Image Verification System Cracked · · Score: 1

    No matter how you design the camera the system is not secure. The entire concept is, in fact, impossible to implement. All I need to do is take a picture, retouch it however I want, then project it back into the camera using a high-quality lens system.

    I hope Assange realizes this. The only way photos are truly verifiable are those taken on film, which for the most part is extinct.

  23. Re:They Make It Back on Software Sales & Suppo on GM Loses Money On Every Volt Built · · Score: 1

    Troll it may be, however, it's probably closer to the truth than most people wish to believe.

  24. Re:They Make It Back on Software Sales & Suppo on GM Loses Money On Every Volt Built · · Score: 0

    No! GM is counting on future video game sales, just like Sony/Microsoft/Nintento to make their profit.

    As well as OnStar signups...

    It's nice to know that the bailout money is going to good use. And when GM is asked why it hasn't been paid back, they can say that they lost money on the deal while at the same the CEO's rake in nice bonuses.

  25. Re:A $! verdict? on Google Loses Street View Suit, Forced To Pay $1 · · Score: 0

    I hope they enjoy their $1. If I were in charge at Google, I would go in person to deliver then an enormous $1 cheque.

    If it was the flippant Judge's house, DHS would be all over it. God made all people equally, however, politically motivated laws made some people more equal than others.