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  1. Re:Firstly... on Is the Canadian Arctic the Future of Astronomy? · · Score: 4, Informative

    To be perfectly honest? The difference between the antarctic and arctic is...land travel. So it is easier. In the summer, you can get around by short carrier craft jumps and ship hopping. In the winter, you can drive trucks from point to point. It gets cold there, I've had friends stationed in Resolute, AKA the asshole of Canada. As for communication? Hah no. Emergencies are handled by sat phones. Major outpost cities are done by uplinks via satellite too. There's too much of an issue with the frost/freeze cycle in the spring to drop down landlines.

    And well, if it becomes big enough, and important enough. The government may, eventually, possibly decide to drop in a rail link. But don't hold your breath, otherwise they'll simply sub in plane drops like we do for other remote cities. But that's it. If you live in the middle of nowhere Canada, you're on your own. I've been there.

  2. Re:I will never adopt 3D on Makers Keep Flogging 3D TV, Viewers Keep Shrugging · · Score: 1

    And surround sound doesn't work for deaf people, doesn't mean it's not a useful technology. You're in a small minority that isn't really going to affect adoption of any particular 3D technology...

    If 10-28% of the population is a "minority" I guess pissing on them is just fine. 3D ware isn't going anywhere until it's some form of wetware.

  3. Re:As a general rule ... on Australian Deported From Bahrain Over Facebook Posts · · Score: 2

    Well...this is pretty much true, unless you're in a western country. Then it's perfectly okay. Try it sometime and see what happens, because in a "western nation" you'll be treated with kid gloves. Anywhere else, they'll put the kid gloves on you before they take a hand, or start lashing you, then deport you.

  4. Re:The Real Name Policy: Partially to Blame on Australian Deported From Bahrain Over Facebook Posts · · Score: 1

    Except that the weather underground really were terrorists. And the OWS folks really have had no shortage of people who have had murders, rapes, arson's, thefts, destruction of public and private property, tied to them either. The difference between then and now though is that people in the past who were private in say the US weren't looked at with suspicion. Today people who are private in the US are. Though in pretty much anywhere else in the world, the opposite hold true still.

    You probably picked a poor example to make your point with, which is your own fault. But a name of an event, tied to a real name will tar you with the same brush all the same. The media does it whenever it feels like it. You just got it because some AC felt like it too. I just pointed out the facts that both the WU and OWS were both like they were. It doesn't matter if you think it was correct or not, or how you did or don't want it to affect or effect someones careers. If you live somewhere, where affiliating your name with something will have verifiable impact on your name, don't use your name.

  5. Re:I will never adopt 3D on Makers Keep Flogging 3D TV, Viewers Keep Shrugging · · Score: 2

    That's great but things like the 3ds don't work for some of us. Especially those of us who have various forms of occipital lobe damage from head injuries. And chronic migraine sufferers don't seem to have much luck with this stuff either.

  6. So... on FDA Approves Self-Sanitizing Keyboard · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So is this going to kick into the new phase of products that help create resistances like tricloscan does now? And I'm being lazy, there's already a few hundred studies on the links of this. I'm still waiting for people to get it through their head that either we're filthy dirty creatures, living in a filthy dirty environment. And if you're going to sanitize an area, you need to be 100% sure you're getting everything. Otherwise you're simply kicking into darwin mode, and promoting survival instincts for various 'bugs'.

  7. Re:Games, cost and familiarity on What's Keeping You On XP? · · Score: 1

    setup.ix -x -64 -a -br
    Is pretty common in their installers, and is missing from even most installers for modern games.

  8. Re:Games, cost and familiarity on What's Keeping You On XP? · · Score: 1

    Funny enough, the games that refused to work properly under XP in any flavor work fine or better then fine under Win7x64. That includes some rather old things like Baldurs Gate and Dungeon Keeper. Not to mention Klingon Academy. And that's not even in compatibility mode. That's just with the UAC off.

    MS got a lot of stuff right with Win7, and compatibility with legacy software? Yeah that was pretty much spot on. Even ancient titles that I've picked up off GOG work perfectly fine.

  9. Re:Thinking back to Millenium Challenge '02 on Iran Tests Naval Cruise Missile During War Games · · Score: 1

    I've heard people make statements like this before. Oddly enough, I expect battleships to start making a comeback, probably as long-range surface bombardment platforms for railguns. Cruisers just don't quite cut it in that department.

  10. Re:Not funny when it happens to you, is it? on Why Richard Stallman Was Right All Along · · Score: 1

    In one case, violent imagery is a part of who they are. In the other case, violent crimes happened where the protests were occurring, but had nothing to do with the protesters' message. It's a pretty important distinction, and one that many (biased) people like to overlook.

    Incorrect. The message that someone projects, and the message that they don't project by those around them speak just as loudly as what they do, and don't do to stop the events around them. The most famous examples of this are of war criminals who simply protest "I was simply doing my duty."

  11. Re:Occupy != Terrorists on Why Richard Stallman Was Right All Along · · Score: 2

    Really? Because I had no problem with the "occupy" stuff until they started trashing private and public property. And disobeying orders to move so that cities, towns, and townships count clean up after them. People like to claim that the tea party is a group of terrorists, but you know they sure the hell didn't have arsonists, rapists, or murderers running through their groups now did they?

    Squatting isn't free speech, don't even try it. Squatting is the attempt(successful or un) seizure of public or private property in order to force a group or individual into something.

  12. Re:Geek perspective: websites on Belarus Bans Use of Foreign Websites · · Score: 1

    You're damn ignorant. I really don't need to go much further than that. I do have family that live in the US, though mostly second cousins though my mothers side. My mothers family were german-jews. Feel free to ponder that all you want.

  13. Re:Geek perspective: websites on Belarus Bans Use of Foreign Websites · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The US is far from perfect, but saying that it's a dictatorship is far from the truth. Especially if you've never lived in one, or visited one, or even had family who escaped from one. At worst, you're using your statements to push an agenda. At best you're using hyperbole.

  14. Re:Good for New Zealand! on In New Zealand, a System To Watch for Disabled Parking Violators · · Score: 1

    That's the bylaw in various parts of Ontario. The HTA starts at $5k.

  15. Re:Classic on Google Testing Completely Revamped Look · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sure would be nice. But google seems to be having a "automaker" complex. "We're so big, we're so great, we're so kick ass. The peons will take what we give them and like it. Where else will they go?" For those that don't get it, GM, Ford, Chrysler, AMC and so on said the same thing back when Japan was crushing them in the 70's and 80's. AMC didn't survive. Chrysler nearly didn't.

    Yeah I really don't like the changes at all, and by going with what's been said on their groups pages? The majority there don't like it at all. But then again, those are the people who can find them.

  16. Re:Good for New Zealand! on In New Zealand, a System To Watch for Disabled Parking Violators · · Score: 3, Informative

    The simple answer is just to use fines. No really. Violations of this really aren't a huge problem for instance in Canada, they do happen but ask yourself. If you get caught, is a $5k first offence worth it? Is a $10k second offence worth it? That includes using fake, and placards that are not for the person. In most places that I've seen across the US, and other places the fines are pathetic. $100, 200, and so on.

  17. Re:Well these days there's a lot of be said for DC on Edison Would Have Loved New Light Bulb Law, Says His Great-Grandson · · Score: 1

    You like many other posters kinda miss the point. You're going on about local. HVDC is just as it sounds like, long distance, and I did mention it in my post too. Long distances? You bet, 2000-7k km is pretty normal for HVDC transmission lines is pretty normal, I stand by what I said. HVDC is freaking great, and is the reason why transmission companies are switching to it. It's nearly lossless over the longhaul vs AC.

  18. Re:They are in prison because THEY BROKE THE LAW on SCADA Vulnerabilities In Prisons Could Open Cell Doors · · Score: 1

    If you feel that the system is that flawed, then run for office and get the system changed.

  19. Re:iPhones, Xboxes and 17 = hit the download cap on The 'Cable Guy' Now a Network Specialist · · Score: 2

    Wait you're complaining about 250GB? Man come to canada where most ISP's are still at 60GB.

  20. Re:Well these days there's a lot of be said for DC on Edison Would Have Loved New Light Bulb Law, Says His Great-Grandson · · Score: 2

    HVDC isn't okay. It's freakin' great, which is why power companies are moving their transmission lines to it. It's damn near lossless compared to AC.

  21. Re:you might as well ask on Is Twitter Aiding and Abetting Terrorism? · · Score: 1

    Well known already, and governments(along with the courts) already take ISP's to task for it. Unless there's a very specific reason not to. Here in canadaland for example, hezbollah actually hosts servers, but they're not shut down. The reasoning most people have behind this is because CSIS has taps on them. And it makes it nice and easy to run an open tap on them all the time and back fish them for information. Since they're a direct danger to Canada.

    The real problem is, various organizations like google, and their satellite companies like blogger, YT, etc, host such information and when presented with proof of such don't do anything about it. Some people will have heard of the "YT smackdown" and all that, along with the "blogger smackdown" to remove terror supporting sites. And these will be up for weeks or months. It only gets worse when these guys are using adsense, and continue to do so in violation of the ToS, and they don't seem to have a problem with this. But seem to have a problem with anti-jihadi sites like jawareport doing the same thing, and yank their funding.

  22. Re:They're still around? on Occupy Protesters Are Building a Facebook for the 99% · · Score: 2

    The difference between the tea party and the ows is pretty obvious. And I wouldn't even says the tea party got co-opted by loons, they got people elected they wanted elected. And they're still out there, the media is just ignoring them like they have been for the last 8mo. The ows on the other hand, got all the media attention they wanted, because the media wanted to help them.

    The messages are fundamentally different too. One wanted smaller government, the other wanted more government control. If you couldn't see that, you weren't paying attention.

  23. Re:Yeah, yeah...everything enjoyable is bad for yo on Does 'Supersizing' Supershrink Your Brain? · · Score: 1

    But...but...
    For decades the doctors, and medicine peoples have been telling us that margarine and all that is better for us! And butter is evil!!! Well along with eggs, milk, salt, bacon(including the grease that many use for cooking), carrots, potatoes, honey, half a dozen other things too, along dozens of other things.

    My philosophy is, if people have been eating it for at least 10,000 years and it hasn't quite killed us yet. Our ancestors have been doing it right. I might as well keep enjoying myself, and if I die. Well, I'm going to die. I'm not going to be guilted to death by some elitist prick, with an ego the size of a largish city.

  24. Pft. on FDA Backtracks On Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Proposal · · Score: 1

    People who worry about antibiotic resistances shouldn't worry just about meat that has this. They need to worry about Triclosan and the family of antibacterials that are used in plastics and handwash formulas as well. There's no shortage of studies out that show using it promotes bacterial resistance to all antibiotics.

    If you're that damn paranoid about germs, use 80-100% rubbing alcohol, or a iodine based antiseptic.

  25. Re:It's difficult to discuss things on IT Managers Are Aloof Says Psychologist and Your Co-Workers · · Score: 1

    Well ...

    When their eyes glaze over, that's when you get out the nails and hammer. If you stick it to their forehead, they'll never forget. The only annoying part is the screaming, but you get used to it after the first three or four, and people really do remember after the first few examples.