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  1. Re:Duh, it's called stress. on A Climate of Violence? · · Score: 1, Funny

    Seems like there's a market there. "Anti-stress" now we shall export cats, and said cats will be highly trained. Anyone who doesn't anti-stress, will be removed by said highly trained attack cat.

  2. Re:Missing the point. on In UK, Google Glass To Be Banned While Driving · · Score: 1

    UI advances like GG are supposed to make driving with technology safer, not more dangerous. Let's be real: we're only a few short years from on-windshield HUDs for navigation, driving metrics, etc.

    On-windshield HUDS have been around since the 80's, hell my grandfather's old Cadillac Alante('87) had a HUD that would give you everything but navigation(since the tech didn't exist at the consumer level). My new car on the otherhand? It has all that built in. I agree that it's supposed to make driving safer, but I expect some idiot, somewhere will manage to smear themselves across the pavement and they'll try to ban the tech outright anyway.

  3. Re:150 lashes? on Liberal Saudi Web Forum Founder Sentenced To 600 Lashes and 7 Years In Prison · · Score: 1

    How many does it take to kill a person? Just wondering...

    Depends, some women die from as few as 20. Some at 80, others in between. Enjoy that sharia in action, and the next time someone tells you that there's no problem with "islamic law" remember that.

  4. Re:Wow - how did this one get approved at /. ??? on Obama Praises Amazon At One of Its Controversial Warehouses · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Since he is a Democrat we simply call him an evil Socialist bent on the destruction of America without even knowing what the word "Socialist" means and despite what he actually says or does.

    Odd. Living in "socialist canada" and having done so my entire life, one can see the similarities that yes indeed he is a socialist. Of course if you enjoy revisionist history, then of course he's not. Much like here in Ontario the Liberal party didn't turn around and lie to the public on the gas plant scandals. Rather according to the left-wing media outlets here, they simply "lost various things..." while shuffling money into expensive "green power."

  5. Re:A quick question on DoJ Alleges Cisco Reseller Made $37 Million Selling Counterfeit Equipment · · Score: 1

    Considering most planes are done with fly-by-wire and PLC's, you're right. It would be easier to slap a modified firmware into the PLC and no one would even know.

  6. Re:Good job, your honor! on Judge Denies Administration Request To Delay ACLU Metadata Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    Oh, how cute. You thought that you'd be backed up by defecting members of the armed forces who put their country's ideals ahead of their military oaths.

    Oh look, a /. AC who knows less about military oaths than a foreigner does. How sad, bet you don't know that the oathkeepers are exceptionally wide-spread in the US military as well.

  7. Re:Our of their minds... on US Lawmakers Want Sanctions On Any Country Taking In Snowden · · Score: 1

    Haha, did you think for a second a Fox News-watching Joe Sixpack will even know about anything that happens outside his country?

    Yeah that's pretty funny, too bad that the last open polling of "who was most informed on world events" were fox news viewers. And the least informed were those who watched MSNBC. The polling was done by Pew and CNN. Ooops.

  8. Re:Plus secure parcel delivery on Door-To-Door Mail Delivery To End Under New Plan · · Score: 1

    That depends, even most places that have these at least in my area you still get stuck going to 7-11 or Shoppers Drugmart(similar to a CVS) to get your package.

  9. Re: Common in Canada on Door-To-Door Mail Delivery To End Under New Plan · · Score: 1

    Where do u live?

    The SWON aka South-western Ontario.

  10. Re:Common in Canada on Door-To-Door Mail Delivery To End Under New Plan · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not really all that common in Canada actually. It's the trend in new subdivisions built in the last 15 years, but most people still get their stuff to the door.

  11. Re:Finally! on Bill Gates Is Beginning To Dream the Thorium Dream · · Score: 1

    Being realistic, people can shove the whole "neocolonialist" bit up their ass. It's pretty much come to a point of force regions to get better, or leave it to the loon fringe environmental groups who refuse to let them improve at all. Norman Borlaug put it best when he said: "You can't build a safe and stable society on empty stomachs and human misery."

  12. Re:"FAKE" on Fake "Speed Enforced By Drones" Signs On California Freeways · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The real question is who is behind this?

    Well it's California, so it could be anything from people who support the idea, to people who don't support the idea. To environmentalists who want to scare people into slowing down, to the other end of the spectrum of people who just want traffic to move slower.

    My bet rests with someone inside the DOT who knows someone at a plant that turns out the signs. And got them to do up a bunch.

  13. Re:Understood by german endocrinologists on US Gained a Decade of Flynn-Effect IQ Points After Adding Iodine To Salt · · Score: 1

    Not surprising, there's been quite a few studies done on kids born after WWII in east and west germany. The most telling was when soviets cut salt rations. Well for my own story, my mother was born in East Germany in '50, and has goiter, among a pile of other issues relating to iodine deficiency. This didn't happen to kids in the west side of Germany. She avoided the mental retardation due to Cretinism luckily(but ended up with the stunted growth), though many of her childhood friends didn't avoid any of it. I've met a few that managed to either come to Canada after the wall, or came over with their parents via west germany. It's very easy to see the differences. Short(my mother was 4'8" at her prime, one of her childhood friends came in at 4'0"), some are deaf, or deaf-mutes, or have severe stance and gait problems.

    It's kind of funny or perhaps sad, but when she was in the underground(aka smuggling from west to east), one of the highest in-demand items besides music, was salt and sugar.

  14. Re:Definitely some merit to a government option on We're Number 9! US Broadband Speeds Rise, But Slower Than Many Other Countries' · · Score: 1

    Canada doesn't really compare. Roughly 80% of our population lives within a corridor. And 70% of our population lives within 200km of the US. The big companies(rogers, bell, telus) who do deployments for broadband simply don't want to deploy along the main roadways. A fine example of massive deployment would be Sasktel(crown corp), in Saskatchewan where deployment is rolling out...everywhere.

  15. Re:The reasons have disappeard. on Former WaPo Staffer Rob Pegoraro Talks About Newspapers' Decline (Video) · · Score: 1

    Yep. In my area it's called "the shopping news"(though it covers the entire county, each city gets a custom version for their stores flyers) which is crammed full of flyers from all the stores in the area. The Tuesday ed. is pretty lightweight maybe 1/8" thick. The Thursday ed. is right up around 1.5" thick, sometimes 2-3" thick depending on the number of flyers crammed into it. The local businesses have been using it for 20-30 years now, since the local paper charged so much to put ads in or include the flyers. Plus it pays the kids who deliver it well. Right in the $200/mo range for a route of 150-200 homes.

  16. Re:More to the point... on Global Warming 5 Million Years Ago In Antarctic Drastically Raised Sea Levels · · Score: 1

    . A few years ago global warming opponents got a hold of their private emails and selectively released excerpts that made the process of analyzing data more nefarious than it actually was

    Uh no. Mathematics is what proved that it was factually incorrect, something that what a few years ago most on /. knew, what was.

  17. Re:More to the point... on Global Warming 5 Million Years Ago In Antarctic Drastically Raised Sea Levels · · Score: 0

    Scientists have never said it didn't happen in the past.

    Not entirely true, see a few years ago many of the "who's who" in climate science decided that scrubbing the MEP would be a good idea to make their data fit the profile, despite evidence to the contrary. That was one of the key things that got the famous hockey stick tossed into the trashbin.

  18. Re: A few more on Sunken WWI U-Boats a Bonanza For Historians · · Score: 3, Insightful

    World War I had nothing to do with countries being invaded and citizens being murdered. It was all about the aristocracy sending young boys to their death due to antiquated treaties signed by the same aristocrats. It carried on for years, with boys being shot, gassed and suffering terribly so those same SOBs could save face.

    It had all to do with 40 years of nationalism, an assassination and automatic mobilization of ones military. With a base policy of self-reinforcing militarization and mobilization. If you don't have any idea what that last sentence means, it means that x country would deploy 5k troops, you'd deploy 10k, they'd deploy 15k, and and a destroyer. So you'd deploy another 20k and two destroyers and a dreadnaught. Then, you'd start building more ships, more guns, and so on.

  19. Re:Banksters on Jail Time For Price-Fixing Car Parts · · Score: 1

    The bankers bought off the government. The gov't has been a pawn of the banks for a long, long time now. Don't try to dodge the issue. There's a lot of people who need to go to jail over this, but very likely won't.

    Really? Then maybe you can tell me where to send the money so I can buy myself in. Being a currency trader, and in the "banking system" I'd really like to loosen a bunch of rules.

  20. Re:"Shock and awe" force implies scaredy-cat polic on Rise of the Warrior Cop: How America's Police Forces Became Militarized · · Score: 1

    You realize that the Philippine war was an extension of the Spanish-American war right? And by the time the Spanish Empire was on the road to self-destruction the Filipino's were pretty much willing to team up with anyone to get rid of Spain lording over them for the last 300 years. And the Barbary pirate wars was of course caused by muslims raiding american shipping and taking anything they wanted, and capturing people to sell them.

  21. Re:A place and time for anarchy? on Rise of the Warrior Cop: How America's Police Forces Became Militarized · · Score: 1

    Except media get the full incidence report on the issue as it's entered into public record, and information leading to the warrant and what will go before the judge. The reality is, the media is lazy. Very lazy, it's the same reason as to why if you go to court to watch a high profile case, and then read about it in the newspaper the chances of the newspaper article even resembling the court case is close to nil.

  22. Re:Damn guys on UK Regulator Did Not Check Google Privacy Claims · · Score: 1

    Yeah...it actually is. See the cases of the CRTC vs Rogers and Bell. And doing things like throttling connections, or happily bending over backwards for Usage Based Billing(UBB) against TPIA's(third party internet providers.)

  23. Re:Banksters on Jail Time For Price-Fixing Car Parts · · Score: 1

    We should be going through our banking system one banker at a time searching all their records and looking for anything they may have done which was complicit in causing the crash and going after each and every one of them personally, no point in going after the banks themselves if we are just going to bail them out..

    No, you should be going after the government that executed ideas because they wanted to "open up the system." It's a fine bubble to live in when you believe that "da banks caused it all" when in fact many banks were against the idea of removing regulations in the first place. Especially when dealing with sub primes. Sadly the government in turn gave the banks and lenders the great ultimatum. Follow or loose FDIC backing. So the banks followed, and they gamed the hell out of it because it became legal to do so. But hey, keep living in that bubble. After all you guys in the US got this guy by the name of Bernanke, who believes "turning on the printing press..." is the greatest thing since sliced bread.

  24. Re:Lobbyists will take it down on 13 Years After DeCSS Case, Congressional IT Endorses VLC · · Score: 1

    Huh?? Where do you see the slightest indication of that?

    Didn't watch the last two presidential elections at all? That explains a lot. Useful tip: This is the views of someone who is an outsider looking in at American politics.

  25. Re:Lobbyists will take it down on 13 Years After DeCSS Case, Congressional IT Endorses VLC · · Score: 0

    Lobbyists will flood the streets of Washington and this will be down before August.

    You sure about that? The current administration seems to be pretty hung up on race baiting, and trying to further divide the US along racial lines.