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  1. Re:Heavily cited too on Dutch Psychologist Faked Data In At Least 30 Scientific Papers · · Score: 1

    had no knowledge of the fraud

    "I didn't check the facts, so I didn't know they were wrong"

    Single source facts are not reliable.

  2. Re:Welcome to real world on Is the Apple App Store a Casino? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    In the gold rush, the merchants got rich, because they had things people actually needed and used, as opposed to some metal ore which has limited use.

    People taking Bit coins for transactions of REAL products and services are going to be the ones that end up rich That is, if bitcoins ever take off.

  3. Re:Welcome to real world on Is the Apple App Store a Casino? · · Score: 2, Funny

    OMG OWS needs to know about this, and Occupy Apple Store.

  4. Re:A pity... on US Marshals Ordered To Seize Righthaven Property · · Score: 1

    Yes. You start holding the board of directors and Executive Officers criminally liable for the actions of the corporation. The purpose of these positions is to keep watch over the corporation and make sure the corporations is doing everything nice an legal. When the entirety of the Corporation is corrupt, you must go after the people running it.

    I understand "limited liability", but criminal negligence is not a liability it is a lifestyle.

  5. Re:Heavily cited too on Dutch Psychologist Faked Data In At Least 30 Scientific Papers · · Score: 1

    My question is, how many PhD's were given based in part on Thesis papers that included this fraud as supporting evidence of whatever conclusion the thesis gave.

    The fraud has wider implications than just the journals and resulting conclusions that have been passed around as "truth"; we have no ability to revoke the PhD's that are fraudulent as a result.

  6. Re:Just some back-of-the-envelope numbers... on HP Announces ARM-Based Server Line · · Score: 1

    The limitation on "servers" per rack is not processors, and hasn't been in a while, it is RAM, at least where I work. We need higher density RAM capability.

  7. Re:32 bit servers in 2011? on HP Announces ARM-Based Server Line · · Score: 1

    That's 1 Terabyte of RAM. Which should be enough for everybody

    I think I've heard that before. It wasn't true then, it isn't true now. I ALREADY have systems with 265 GB Ram in them, and looking to get even more.

  8. Re:SATA?! on HP Announces ARM-Based Server Line · · Score: 1

    the functional difference between SATA and SAS is intelligence on the Drive. SATA is dumb compared to SAS. The pinouts and cables and all that were designed to be interoperable. I think SAS drives can be dumbed down to SATA if you need in a pinch, and SAS controllers can handle SATA drives natively (at least some can).

  9. Re:they ought to rename themselves. on The Story Behind the Demise of the Microsoft Courier Tablet · · Score: 2

    I've said this before, and I'll probably end up saying it again. Microsoft is a "Windows" company. That is their product, that is what they sell. Everything they do is tied to windows in some way, INCLUDING Xbox (portability to Windows). This article only amplifies my point. Which is why Balmer needs to go, he's killing Microsoft.

  10. Re:yeah. better chinese workers die on Rare-Earth Mineral Supply Getting Boost From California, Australia · · Score: 2

    But allowing China's citizens to die for us is okay in your world?

  11. Re:Grumpy grumpy grumpy! on Ask Slashdot: Learning Dart Development? · · Score: 1

    Forgot to turn on the Sprinklers huh? Noob

  12. Re:They don't care on DHS Stonewalls On Public Comment About Body Scanners · · Score: 1

    Decade? Try at least a Century.

  13. Re:Another Government Program Gone Wild on Student Loans In America: the Next Big Credit Bubble · · Score: 1

    Military (common defense) is one of the functions of the government, unlike "entitlements" you speak of . Granted we're in more wars and more countries than we ought to be, and that doesn't seem to bother the left right now as much as it did four years ago. Obama is about to start another few military actions, having just finished off Qadaffi with a bullet. He is actually worse than GWB who at least got congress to vote for it.

    And when you can't tell the difference between a (R) and a (D) you know things are bad (they are). There is no difference, and that is why I'm a Libertarian.

  14. Re:Another Government Program Gone Wild on Student Loans In America: the Next Big Credit Bubble · · Score: 1

    The point isn't that the GOP is trying to take those things away, it's _why_ they're trying to take them away. They're trying to take them away so that they can give to the wealthy

    Welfare is welfare. I'm against welfare, all of it. And it wasn't the GOP that gave 1/2 billion to Solyndra, so don't act like the Democrats are any better, they aren't. Let me know when GE pays taxes okay? Let me know when the Democrats stop spending money like a drunken Republican.

    FYI, I'm a Libertarian. Without Liberty, we are slaves. Our taxes have made us all indentured servants and Serfs to the government. We don't work for ourselves, we work to pay taxes. We're the frogs in the frying pan not noticing it is getting too warm until it is too late. And it is getting too late.

    But hey, if you want more entitlements and more income redistribution, keep voting for your slave masters in the Democratic Party. I'm sure they appreciate selling you out for a vote.

  15. Re:Another Government Program Gone Wild on Student Loans In America: the Next Big Credit Bubble · · Score: 1

    Unlike the Compassion Nazi's of the left, who decide who is worthy. Poor Students.

    I went to college, worked 35 hours a week to do it took six years to graduate so that I could without any debt. Nothing worthwhile is easy. They choose the easy way, and now ... they have to pay interest on their party years. Call the Wambulance.

    Why is it that I, having paid my own way, not got into debt that I cannot pay, didn't buy a house I couldn't afford, don't have credit card debt upto my eyeballs have to pay for everyone else who did?

    When a LIBERAL can answer that question, then we can have a dialog. Until then bite me. I'm pissed at all the lazy ass fools who think they deserve college because they are 'merican", that it is some inalienable right of all. You're the reason why Americans have no jobs, we've exported them all to pay for college, and now you're wondering how to pay off those loans

    And I'm the 45% the "99%" doesn't want to admit exists.

  16. Re:Another Government Program Gone Wild on Student Loans In America: the Next Big Credit Bubble · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And gives the Democrats another "entitlement" on which to get elected. "The EVIL Republicans are trying to eat your baby and take away your student loans".

    Predictable as anything. And people still fall for it.

  17. Re:Sadly its not real on 1 MW Cold Fusion Plant Supposedly To Come Online · · Score: 1

    I would invest in this. And by "invest" I mean stick money into the venture.

    I wouldn't expect any return from my "investment" so my investment would be of funds I'd call "play". It would be like the oil well my dad invested in back in the 1960s that was drained of oil. He didn't expect a return, however the oil keeps being pumped from the well, even to this day. He's made more on that one investment than all his "high risk" investments that have lost money.

    High risk, High reward deserves some investments from time to time, even if it turns out to be a scam, you'll have a interesting story to tell your grand kids.

  18. Re:Punative damages on Copyright Troll Righthaven Ordered To Pay $119,000 · · Score: 1

    I like your idea, but rather than that, they are to pay punitive damages, triple what they were seeking as "damages".

  19. Re:it's not what you know... on Copyright Troll Righthaven Ordered To Pay $119,000 · · Score: 1

    No it wasn't. Their first mistake was ... being a troll. They weren't born that way.

  20. Re:What? on Android Orphans: a Sad History of Platform Abandonment · · Score: 1

    Light up Francis.

    It is easy for me. CM is a great platform and great for Android. And I'll admit that the fact it takes ROOTING an OPEN platform to get updates for a phone is ridiculous, and for that I blame the carriers and manufacturers for that problem. IF they don't want to support the phone, I don't blame them. However, preventing people from doing it themselves is just plain petty and short sighted.

    That being said, My original point, which has been COMPLETELY lost is that the phones are FULLY capable of running the current version, which is contrary to what the article was trying to say or imply. As I have said before, if the manufacturers and carriers do not want to support the phones, why won't they let the rest of us support it for them?

    And if I'm willing to support some geeks mom, what's it to you? Oh wait, he really doesn't have that problem, he was just trying to make a point via Satire. I was trying to be helpful in both cases, CM Gingerbread (current Android) works on Hero (despite HTC/Sprint), and I'll help his mom get CM on her phone.

    Trying to be helpful, because that is how I "get off". I don't care what people think of me, never have. I don't need the accolades as I'm secure in who I am, as I am. And I didn't throw a temper tantrum when someone pointed out that I was "wrong" (see above, re:warranty).

    Thanks though for trying.

  21. Re:What? on Android Orphans: a Sad History of Platform Abandonment · · Score: 1

    Well, I'll be. $99 for a out of date phone. I might get one just to root it and put CM on it. Then resell it for $150 ;)

    Thanks for the tip.

  22. Re:What? on Android Orphans: a Sad History of Platform Abandonment · · Score: 1

    FUD

    The phone (HTC Hero) doesn't have a warranty left. Thanks for trying. Please turn in your geek card.

  23. Re:What? on Android Orphans: a Sad History of Platform Abandonment · · Score: 1

    http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/HTC_Hero_(CDMA):_Full_Update_Guide

    Easy Step by Step instructions. Give me your mom's email address and I'll send her my phone # and setup her computer and do the root/update for her. She'll have to manipulate the phone, but I can walk her though that via skype or landline.

    Please turn in your geek card if you have to have some stranger fix your mom's phone for her. Thanks.

  24. Re:What? on Android Orphans: a Sad History of Platform Abandonment · · Score: 1

    Gahhh, that last paragraph was horrible.

    "And if HTC, Motorola or Samsung (who might be "getting it") and the carriers don't want to support their old phones, they should hand off support to CM who will."

    Sorry folks.

  25. Re:What? on Android Orphans: a Sad History of Platform Abandonment · · Score: 1

    I smell Troll (article) just as you did. I did some quick research and one of the "worst" Android phones on the list, the HTC Hero, and checked Cyanogen Mod for compatibility, and guess what, it runs the current CM 7.1 just fine. While it is true that HTC and/or Sprint won't maintain it, doesn't mean it isn't supported.

    http://download.cyanogenmod.com/?type=stable&device=heroc

    Yes, you have to "root" your phone, yes it isn't "supported" by HTC or Sprint, but so freakin what.

    And if you HTC, Motorola or Samsung (who might actually be "getting it" and the carriers hand off support to CM when they don't want to support their phones any longer?