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  1. Re:Uh on Wikileaks Donations Account Shut Down · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Let's be clear about this. America in all it's forms is an empire. They can dress it up and use the word 'democracy' all they want but in the end their plutocratic and hegemonic tendencies always shine through. ... America is one step away from becoming a fascist state.

    ...except for the little-known fact that every single legislator and President (who chooses the Supreme Court) is elected by the citizens -- with no exceptions. If you grabbed every single person who doesn't vote and convinced them to get off their ass and vote for inherently good candidates there would be no problems. Unless you believe that then some secret evil force would rise up, kill everyone who was elected, declare martial law, and end voting, at which point the people would no longer be responsible for the government's problems.

  2. Re:Uh on Wikileaks Donations Account Shut Down · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm guessing you weren't on AA Flight 11 nine or so years ago.

  3. Re:LibreOffice on Microsoft Admits OpenOffice.org Is a Contender · · Score: 1

    You can tell the name "LibreOffice" was chosen by several guys who communicated primarily via the internet. In the real world, it's very difficult to say "Libre" correctly without a Spanish accent, and I believe it's only going to continue to hinder the widespread acceptance of OO.o.

  4. Re:A nice gesture of openness on Facebook Implements 'Download Your Profile' Option · · Score: 1

    Thanks for making me chuckle this afternoon.

  5. Re:A nice gesture of openness on Facebook Implements 'Download Your Profile' Option · · Score: 1

    I'm very happy about this update. I've been wondering if I ever wrote anything questionable on my Facebook profile; once this feature is offered to me, I will download everything and scan through it.

  6. Re:Sentient cells? on Robot Controlled By Rat Brain · · Score: 1

    Correct. But how are you rewarding a group of neurons?

  7. Re:True learning machine? on Robot Controlled By Rat Brain · · Score: 1

    Yes you do. Name one part of a living organism (excluding the "soul") that makes it any different from a sufficiently complex machine.

  8. Re:What OS? And how annoying? on Simple Virus For Teaching? · · Score: 1

    The submitter should use something like Visual Basic (6.0 or .NET, whichever is more suitable for the OS) to program a custom "virus" that can do whatever he wants it to do. After giving them several tips and letting them attempt to diagnose/fix it, he can simply tell the students exactly how to disable it from doing what it does (pop-ups, file deletion, keyboard hooks, phoning home, etc). It's exactly what I would do and it would provide the students with a great hands-on learning experience.

  9. Re:The Northrop Grumman perspective on Tech CEOs Tell US Gov't How To Cut Deficit By $1 Trillion · · Score: 1

    So many wasted modpoints in the first thread and this guy is still at +1 -- mod this man up.

  10. Re:I never said it would be soon on Can We Travel To That Exciting New Exoplanet? · · Score: 1

    It's the fact that you even included the word "might" that made him respond to you; it's very probable that there is no "might," and it is simply too difficult for the laws of physics.

  11. Re:I saw Avatar the other day on Toshiba To Launch No-Glasses 3D TV This Year · · Score: 1

    "Resason for being" in an English conversation is intelligent ...

    O RLY?

    ... as it is always is when someone tries to look smart and fucks it up.

    Touche, monsieur.

  12. Re:Dasher! on Best Mobile Computing Options For People With RSI? · · Score: 1

    That's a real neat piece of software; very interesting. Do you use it? If so, question: is it difficult to use? They make it look so easy to write "Hello, How are you?" but I feel like it would be difficult to accurately point to the letters quickly enough.

  13. Re:Suddenly, it doesn't feel like '1984' anymore! on GoogleSharing, Now With No Trust Required · · Score: 1

    I don't believe any of that. If I don't make spelling errors (type carefully) they cannot determine that. They also cannot determine identities via search info, too many combinations that too many people would share.

  14. Re:Hopelessly confused by dark matter. on US Lab Models Galaxy Cluster Merger · · Score: 0, Troll

    The Earth and Neptune and Sirius are all affected by gravity, why don't they simply clump up? Dark matter is quite accurately simulated in this endeavour, though we are unsure of the direct significance of the results. The dark matter reacts to semi-traditional gravitational forces, but only with other dark matter. Dark matter does not, in any way, react with the normal matter we are familiar with; this is because dark matter is simply the type of unusual matter that a black hole spits out once it absorbs regular matter.

    The only possible interaction we could have with dark matter is when you turn on a walkie-talkie and hear static -- that static is deemed unpredictable simply because we can't model the dark matter creating it precisely enough. One of the reasons dark matter doesn't directly interact with light matter is because it can actually have nine electrons in its valence shell, hence making it unable to "fit" into the aether that we have access to. That being said, it is nearly impossible to accurately simulate its behavior and the scientists who took on this endeavour are to be praised for effort but ignored for their 'precision'.

  15. Re:Regulatory Agencies Don't... on SEC Blames Computer Algorithm For 'Flash Crash' · · Score: 1

    How much more transparent does it get then "buy [x]" and "sell [x]" - what more would you like access to? And before anyone spouts off I trade options and currency.

  16. Re:Joy, another app store... on Amazon Building Its Own Android App Market? · · Score: 1

    The point is that it is NOT like "brick-and-mortar" stores because no one in the real world is limiting you to only shopping at one particular store. Concerning Android, users and developers alike are worried that the providers will lock you into one store.

    You are 100% right -- more stores are better, but only if you are not limited to any one store, and you know how the providers are with vendor lock-in.

  17. Re:Desperate Apple Fanboys on Amazon Building Its Own Android App Market? · · Score: 1

    Have U ever seen the Android Marketplace? It consists of 2 tabs ("Apps" & "Games") and a searchbox. Then you click a button and the app installs. Also, what app does iPhone have that Android doesn't? I dare you to name one.

  18. Re:Serious Crimes + a Matrix inspired FBI logo on US, NY Bust 92 Mules In 'ZeuS Trojan' Crime Ring · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Though the falling 0's and 1's were first popularized in The Matrix, hackers have been using the falling 0's and 1's for years and years before that.

  19. Re:Why the hell was this posted? on Microsoft Rumored To Buy Second Life · · Score: 1

    I recently bought that game after its creator/owner was featured in a recent Slashdot article. One of the most fun games I've ever played, period, and my friends and I even played together (everyone took a computer and did multiplayer survival mode). So fun to work together to create simple but beautiful structures. Felt like the possibilities would never run out. .

  20. Re:New blacktop for the road to hell on Giving the Blind Better Web Access · · Score: 1

    Because a diagram simply cannot really be read by a blind man, and a sample from an instrumental can't really be heard by a deaf person. A group of data related to public information/services, however, can and should be reorganized into a form that can be interpreted by both the blind and deaf.

  21. Re:why do stable chances increase the likelyhood? on Earth-Like Planet That Could Sustain Life Found · · Score: 1

    Nice try. You missed the part about where evolution arises from species naturally competing amongst each other as well.

  22. Re:Laser cooling? on Scientists Using Lasers To Cool Molecules · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Suckass.

  23. Re:I can only assume on Microsoft Says IE9 Beta Demand Overwhelming · · Score: 3, Interesting

    When are people going to grow up and admit MS has released several top-of-the-line products recently? IE is getting much nicer, especially with 9, and Windows 7 blows away any other OS available, except for certain *nix distributions for specific reasons. Likewise, if you would actually give the .NET framework and its associated languages a try you may find yourself impressed with the capabilities.

    I guess I just feel like people should upgrade and quit whining like we're still in the early 00's. Technology advances, and with it comes a need for stronger hardware and new programming frameworks.

  24. Re:I hope there's a way to turn this off on Google Preps Instant Search For Chrome 8 · · Score: 1

    I'm a ghost-writer, I do research and write white papers, so Google Instant equaled faster research which equaled more research per time period, which equaled more money. This is only going to be another pay raise for me - w00t Chrome 8!

    PS: Don't write illegal things into a form on a modern website? Anyone halfway decent with computers should know websites can always log that sort of information.

  25. Re:Why? on Stewart and Colbert Plan Competing D.C. Rallies · · Score: 1

    All I can say is that apparently you do not watch MSNBC. I have two televisions, one for MSNBC, one for Fox, and anyone with the ability to rationally observe/draw conclusions can tell you that while they are both biased, one is biased to a much, MUCH, higher degree. You can tell that many of the MSNBC personalities make a conscious effort to remain logically unbiased, whereas the Fox personalities seem to make a conscious effort to remain obviously biased.