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  1. Re:I thought "it was all good"... on "Anonymous" Takes Scientology Protest to the Streets · · Score: 1

    Was that supposed to be English?

    An autopsy is evidence.

    Do patients receiving good care get bites from small animals on them?
    Did Minkoff get his license suspended for prescribing drugs to McPherson during her 'care' without seeing her?

    Clue - the answers to those questions are "yes" and "no", but not necessarily in that order.

  2. Re:I thought "it was all good"... on "Anonymous" Takes Scientology Protest to the Streets · · Score: 1

    Are you OK with how Lisa McPherson was treated?

  3. Re:FUD alert on Is Linus Torvalds Speaking for Linux Anymore? · · Score: 1

    "When someone asks me what operating system I run ... What do you say?"

    Linux. I will often volunteer that I use Debian, just so that no-one mistakes me for a gentoo user.

  4. Re:FUD alert on Is Linus Torvalds Speaking for Linux Anymore? · · Score: 1

    Ubuntu no doubt contains some tetris-like game. That doesn't mean that tetris is part of the OS.
    Fedora no doubt contains some IRC client. That doesn't mean IRC is part of the OS.

    Just because a distribution ships programs with the OS doesn't mean that those programs are part of the OS.

    FVWM, KDE, Enlightenment, whatever, are not part of the OS.

  5. Re:Why XML is so popular on The Future of XML · · Score: 1

    When PHBs or marketeers fling around "uses XML", I parry that with "uses ASCII". Everything that they can say about something that "uses XML" is also true about data that "uses ASCII", except of course that ASCII has been used for a lot longer.

  6. Re:I don't understand... on The Future of XML · · Score: 1

    Classic falacy of false dichotomy

  7. Re:Thom Hartmann on Libertarians on Ron Paul Campaign Answers Slashdot Reader Questions · · Score: 1

    Equating "smoking pot" with being "sick" is probably even worse than making it criminal.

  8. Re:There are a couple reasons. on Bionic Arm Might Go Into Clinical Trials · · Score: 1

    See the mythbusters superhero special. Jamie's winch.
    http://mythbustersresults.com/episode86

  9. Re:Another Shock Story on Python 3.0 To Be Backwards Incompatible · · Score: 1

    Interesting to see that you missed out the (3.5) Regression test phase. Now I know why most code written today is of such poor quality and so fragile.

  10. Re:As a former Catholic and current geek, on Pope Denounces Some Biotech as Affront to 'Human Dignity' · · Score: 1

    Wrong. The only hoop is needing to buy a ferry ticket, or a huge number of train tickets..

  11. Re:On behalf of all geek catholics.. on Pope Denounces Some Biotech as Affront to 'Human Dignity' · · Score: 1

    If it was "growing of its own power", then it would survive out of the womb.

  12. Re:On behalf of all geek catholics.. on Pope Denounces Some Biotech as Affront to 'Human Dignity' · · Score: 1

    Only in your naive, sheltered, and, to be perfectly honest, completely worthless opinion.

  13. Re:As a former Catholic and current geek, on Pope Denounces Some Biotech as Affront to 'Human Dignity' · · Score: 1

    Do what? I can automatically find over a dozen other places to go.
    Not that I would, as I did that nearly a decade ago when I realised the UK was too far down the pan for me to want to live there any longer.

  14. Re:Russia accused... on DoS Attacks on Estonia Were Launched by Student · · Score: 1

    Estonia accused Russians of staging the attacks. This perpetrator was an ethnic Russian, just like the rioters. Therefore the Estonians were spot on with their accusations. You also seem to be missing the fact that there wasn't just one cyber attack, this was just one of many.

  15. Re:Malagaworld on Bizarre Self-Destructing Palm Tree Found · · Score: 1

    Erm, I'm the one who's saying it's fuzzy - you're the one saying "ooh, exact match"

  16. Re:Malagaworld on Bizarre Self-Destructing Palm Tree Found · · Score: 1

    Care to put an approximate number to that 'improbable', and back it up with something amounting to causation?

    I particularly like the way you put 'Malaga' in quotes and got all excited how it was the same as 'Malaga' in response to a post which contained the name 'Malaka'. Did you not notice that these aren't the same string? If you're prepared to fuzzy match, then you're going to increase the probability of finding (coincidental) hits enormously.

    Please go read some comparative linguistics, in particular find one that contain the infamous names-for-milk example.

  17. Re:Fear is not always a bad thing... on Pentagon Working on "Human Fear" Weapons · · Score: 1

    If the crowd loses its ability to evaluate threats to their personal wellbeing accurately, that puts them only one step away from being berserkers - all they'll need to do is just block the fear which they can rationalise away as being chemical-induced and thus irrational. Expect sales of bear-skin to rocket.

  18. Re:The Pentagon on Pentagon Working on "Human Fear" Weapons · · Score: 1

    So he was wagging you, was he?

  19. Re:Why such hate? on Bobby Fischer Is Dead At 64 · · Score: 1

    No-one can grow up a goyim. Goyim is plural. C.f. Seraphim, cherubim, nephilim, hasidim, etc.

  20. Re:Why such hate? on Bobby Fischer Is Dead At 64 · · Score: 1

    Perhaps DSM is to mental illness what Merriam Websters is to language.
    (And yes, I have noticed the 10th definition of 'bad' therein.)

  21. Re:Why such hate? on Bobby Fischer Is Dead At 64 · · Score: 1

    At a stretch, it might be a _symptom_ of a mental illness, perhaps.

    It's mostly a symptom of ignorance. Ignorance breeds fear. Fear breeds hate.
    But ignorance /per se/ is not a mental illness.

  22. Re:Did He Go To Heaven or Hell? on Bobby Fischer Is Dead At 64 · · Score: 1

    Well, he didn't like chess anyway. Chess was "dead" over twenty years ago. (Something which Capablanca had already predicted, IIRC.)

    However, if he does find a chess set, I guess you'll just hope that he never finds a die...

  23. Re:Nelson points and says "Haha!" on Environmental DVD Wrecks Apple Drives · · Score: 1

    But will it disappear in a puff of smoke when I drag it onto the desktop? Some things do, like (the link to) my home directory from the left panel of Finder.

    But dragging into the left panel of Finder creates a link.

    Neither of which is copying.

    Nor are any of those the most logical behaviour, namely that's which happens in the real world when you grab something, drag it somewhere else, and drop it - it moves to the new location.

    So was deleting, creating a link, copying, or even moving the intuitive behaviour for the drag and drop you suggest?

  24. Re:Nelson points and says "Haha!" on Environmental DVD Wrecks Apple Drives · · Score: 1

    Lots of long words, yet apparently in your previous post you didn't appear to know the difference between "your" and "you're". I'd suggest it's best to not argue points of comprehension if you can't even get your own house in order. In particular when it was blindingly obvious that UbuntuDupe was being ironic.

  25. Re:Luckily for Apple Users there is a simple fix on Environmental DVD Wrecks Apple Drives · · Score: 1

    Incorrect logic. Incorrect conclusion.