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  1. Re:Microsoft the lesser of those two evils on Wal-Mart, Moore's Law and Open Source · · Score: 2, Informative

    Enron wanted to be bailed out, but they weren't. Enron wanted the Kyoto Protocol signed (they've been investing in Kyoto Protocol positive projects), but it wasn't. I hate it when people are this ignorant.

  2. Diesel might not be that great on Chrysler Announces Hydrogen Fuel Cell Van · · Score: 1

    http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid /13691/story.htm

    "Jacobson, in a presentation to the American Geophysical Union, said soot produced by burning diesel fuels, coal and wood had a much more severe impact on the environment relative to its mass than do greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane."

  3. If ever an article needed to be moded as flamebait on A GEANT Leap Forward In Networking For Research · · Score: 1

    This was it. Everything would have been fine and dandy, until the submitter said, "and it's not even in the US!". There are many practical reasons why each region of the world needs its own high-speed research network. No regional defensiveness would have been felt if the person who submitted this hadn't started it.

  4. Re:5 years for kids??? on Four Kids Confess to Goner Worm · · Score: 2, Interesting

    One fewer murder was committed in Florida a few years back because of the punishment if caught. I know this because I was the person who meditated on it, and decided not to go through with it.

  5. Re:I'm Surprised on This is IT? · · Score: 1

    Once they have a "snowboard" version, I'll consider it.

  6. Re:What exactly is there to do in America on China Plans Manned Space Launch By 2005 · · Score: 1

    The whole thing with America was gold. If gold hadn't been found, it would have gone the way of the Vikings landing. Only once Spain had a definite presence did other countries become interested.

  7. Re:The Peoples' Rocket on China Plans Manned Space Launch By 2005 · · Score: 1

    No one started an arms race in space. It was inevitable once the first satellite was launched, and military tacticians of all countries started thinking about that.

  8. Re:Slashdot Hypocrisy on China Plans Manned Space Launch By 2005 · · Score: 1

    Only ~70%?

  9. Re:Where do the heavy metals go? on Beer and Bacteria to be used in Toxin Cleanup · · Score: 1

    Agreed. I wish there was an option that would allow the user to: 1)not display; 2)downgrade; 3)only display or; 4)segregate in separate thread-domains posts based on what they were modded as.

  10. Re:Innocent? on Cybercrime Treaty to Be Signed · · Score: 1

    Don't you mean 'politico'?

  11. Re:Includes a built-in camera? on New Nokia Phone · · Score: 1

    *Accidentally* leave your cell phone at the office. Call your wife from a pay phone, or someone else's phone (choose these people wisely or at random, esp. if your wife has caller id)

    The added bonus to this is that you gain an extra excuse of "going back" to the office to pick your phone up.

  12. Re:I am getting sick of the "obviously" argument.. on Libraries Asked To Destroy Reports, Databases · · Score: 1

    There is a middle ground. Whether we're following the right path on that middle ground is up for debate. I consistently test as a politcal Centrist, so I feel insulted when people form a straw man argument out of my statement.

    The best solution in the software industry is more openness *to those who are interested in improving/learning from the source*. I sincerely doubt that many black hats add anything of value back to a project. (This analogy that we're on doesn't correlate well enough with what the gov is doing).

  13. Re:Slashdot paranoia on Libraries Asked To Destroy Reports, Databases · · Score: 1

    So's the road to heaven. Your point?

    Most people travel the middle road.

  14. Re:I disagree. on Libraries Asked To Destroy Reports, Databases · · Score: 1

    :)

  15. Re:I disagree. on Libraries Asked To Destroy Reports, Databases · · Score: 1

    Another point. Some of the populace, I'm not sure how many, but it could be alot, might feel more safe with their freedoms abridged.

  16. Re:I disagree. on Libraries Asked To Destroy Reports, Databases · · Score: 1

    The Anthrax terror seems to be blamed on a home-grown terrorist (I'm not saying said terrorist isn't an Arab or Muslim).

  17. Re:Aha! on Douglas Adams' Last Book · · Score: 1

    Maybe the other computer/planet was built by squirrels.

  18. Re:unfinished art on Douglas Adams' Last Book · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Your last sentence reminds me of the Goonies.

  19. Re:Why bother. on Libraries Asked To Destroy Reports, Databases · · Score: 1

    Because it takes time to do this. Making this sort of information somewhat harder to get at by loners, small groups, and some of the larger groups, might give us the extra day we need.

  20. Re:Most effective on Libraries Asked To Destroy Reports, Databases · · Score: 1

    But because of this, *future* information might never be made no-id-needed publicly available.

  21. Re:Slashdot paranoia on Libraries Asked To Destroy Reports, Databases · · Score: 1

    No. The effect isn't necessarily the same. The short-term, outward effect may be, but that doesn't mean the long term affect will be.

    Intentions DO matter, because they directly affect what other decisions will be made in the future.

  22. Re:Slashdot paranoia on Libraries Asked To Destroy Reports, Databases · · Score: 1

    It is stupid to respond to specifics, when those specifics were only meant to gistify something. Respond to the idea, not just the straw men. Just because the person you're arguing against isn't brilliant, doesn't mean his general position isn't right.

  23. Re:Upset; reminds me of Fahrenheit 451 on Libraries Asked To Destroy Reports, Databases · · Score: 1

    No. Read ALOT of medieval history. Those who read only a little get their facts grossly distorted.

  24. Re:Good grief... calm down on Libraries Asked To Destroy Reports, Databases · · Score: 1

    Because it still exists in some government stockpile somewhere. Probably where some people know it exists. How is destroying *copies* of a report destroying the report?

  25. Re:OH? on Libraries Asked To Destroy Reports, Databases · · Score: 1

    Excuse me. I happen to personally know many current and former members of the US armed forces who would be the first to revolt if any of our governmental leaders tried to illegally maintain their power.