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  1. Re:Never forget who OWNS the Washington Times. on Porn-Industry Outsiders Fear 'Shakedown' In .XXX TLD · · Score: 1

    Always good to see people who don't know statists marching in their midst. After all, why should one allow a dissenting opinion? Just go lock step now. After all, it's all been decided, and it's already been chosen for you.

    Carry on.

  2. Re:Never forget who OWNS the Washington Times. on Porn-Industry Outsiders Fear 'Shakedown' In .XXX TLD · · Score: 1

    I don't know when people decided that refusing to run a story based on who owns a news paper was a good way to do things. You know they did that just before germany turned into nazi germany too. That turned out well.

  3. Re:Never forget who OWNS the Washington Times. on Porn-Industry Outsiders Fear 'Shakedown' In .XXX TLD · · Score: 1

    All publications should be submitted here. Regardless of who "owns" a paper or not. Leave it to the reader, and commenters on the forums to decide. Not your narrow view of what people should decide.

  4. Re:I'm currently really pissed at FB... on Google's Real Name Policy, Why You Are the Product · · Score: 1

    Maybe someone can explain to me this still on-going fascination with "social networking" sites? Maybe I out grew it when I lived through the explosion of mIRC and ICQ.

  5. Re:I am amazed on Canadian Court Sides With Online Anonymity · · Score: 1

    Yes the charter of rights and freedoms removed freedoms. It legally allows the government without the courts to dictate by law which freedoms you can have. The CHRC is probably the best example of this, along with "hate crime" laws.

  6. Re:Well that's not a surprise... on The UK Government's Struggle With Digital Rights · · Score: 1

    "as in, an as much as"
    I'm guessing you missed those words.

  7. Re:Well that's not a surprise... on The UK Government's Struggle With Digital Rights · · Score: 2

    The UK never had civil rights, they took the direct route from the big empire to the big brother state.

    That's a fancy line of thinking. In the real world though, the UK had civil rights as in, an as much as the magna carta gave rights to the US, Canadians, Aussies and so on.

  8. Re:WARNING: BULLSHIT AHEAD on Weak Typing — the Lost Art of the Keyboard · · Score: 1

    I can believe that there's people out there who have no clue about what they're talking about. Take your average qwerty user that gets 50-60wpm no errors, train them to dvorak and you'll easily see 50% in typing speed with no loss. When I went from qwerty to dvorak years ago, I was already doing 90-110wpm no errors. After I got through the learning curve, I was easily doing 160-170wpm no errors.

    Sadly my joints and fingers have gotten old. But I can easily get 130-150 on a good day.

  9. Well that's not a surprise... on The UK Government's Struggle With Digital Rights · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The UK doesn't have a policy on civil rights anymore. Those were eroded away over the last few years.

  10. Re:WARNING: BULLSHIT AHEAD on Weak Typing — the Lost Art of the Keyboard · · Score: 1

    I suggest we force the world to go Dvorak, and to hell with QWERTY..

  11. Re:I am amazed on Canadian Court Sides With Online Anonymity · · Score: 0

    So I guess you're not involved in Canadian politics at all. Rather you take all your talking points from what the CBC tells you. And know not that the liberals and the NDP have been behind the greatest excesses in removing freedoms in Canada.

    One of the greatest of course was the charter. Thanks trudeau.

  12. Could be a few things on Battle of the SATA 3.0 Controllers · · Score: 1

    Marvell can be hit or miss sometimes. I remember the issues I had when I built a system for someone that had a 10/1000 ethernet controller built in. I can actually think of a few reasons why the numbers are lower. First of course is the obvious marevell has been sending out the previous generation of chips to manufactures simply to clear old stock. Most people won't notice a difference anyway. If you're already on a SSD, would you really notice a 150mb/s bump? Prolly not. Then again it could simply be a case of a human screw-up, and sending the wrong controller chips out. Another possibility is resilks, and a mishmash of illegal knockoffs.

    I'd take the human screwing up and sending out the wrong chips, unless there's some actual proof that this was an order down on high. Or that some company is getting screwed on resilks and knockoffs.

  13. Re:As culture dies in New Zealand on NZ Illegal Downloading Crackdown Law In Effect · · Score: 1

    The only culture you're allowed, is the one that you're told to like. Much like Canada, with Cancon. And if you're not paying for it, you can expect to have your net cut off.

  14. Re:No, it won't. on Will Climate Engineering Ever Go Prime Time? · · Score: 1

    Yeah I guess that inconvenient fact about research admins leaning hard on controversial and counter data is just bunk too. Right? I guess once a troll, always a troll.

  15. Re:If only those parents... on Measles Resurgent Due To Fear of Vaccination · · Score: 1

    No. Because leftwing anti vax nuts generally jump on the homeopathy and alternative new age religion stuff as well.

  16. Re:Maybe on Making Fuel With Newspapers and Bacteria · · Score: 2

    the world only needs so many paper mache dinosaurs, but it sounds like a nice hobby.

    That's a nice fantasy, but in other parts of the world like Canada, since we're voracious paper users. We long ago(90 odd years ago) figured out that using untreated pulp mixed with mulch, and compost is a good way to get rid of it.

  17. Re:Maybe on Making Fuel With Newspapers and Bacteria · · Score: 1

    We'd save more energy if we simply didn't recycle it, and used it for other stuff in it's raw already used form. There's a reason why we have tree farms, and these tree farms exist specifically for the paper and pulp industries.

  18. Re:Back to the digital stone age on Pakistan Bans Encryption · · Score: 1

    My uncle works for a company that manufactures small to large scale industrial equipment, this stuff has been used world wide from the US military to backwaters in Uzbekistan. All of the PLC's are encrypted because the control codes are proprietary to what they do, and are required to do.

    I suppose this applies to that as well, in which case they'll simply stop selling their industrial equipment there as well. Not only are they going for a digital stone age, they're just aiming for a pre-computer age. But then again, we are talking about the pakistani government that's increasingly coming under the control of groups that believe in the 13th century way of life.

  19. Re:It did seem unpredictably weak on When Did Irene Stop Being a Hurricane? · · Score: 1

    No but it does seem that most climate change people ignore that giant nuclear furnace in the sky. Though the documentation of warmists screaming and waving their arms that "climate change" will cause worse, and less all at the same time? Well that's pretty well documented. All you need is to use your favorite search engine and "search".

  20. Re:The Black Death isn't coming back on Scientists Sequence Black Death Bacteria · · Score: 1

    The black death as it exists isn't coming back. That won't stop a new strain from popping up due to antibiotic use(including Triclosan and cousins) from dooming us all. And yes, triclosan and other products will doom us all unless you fuckwits stop using it. I've posted the studies before, you can use google on your own time and read the papers showing that products like it, push bacteria to develop a natural immunity to antibiotics.

    Though in the black death thing, you're pretty much fucked unless you're lucky to have natural immunity to it. I guess I'm lucky, I have a natural resistance to it through my mothers side.

  21. Re:It did seem unpredictably weak on When Did Irene Stop Being a Hurricane? · · Score: 0

    Climate change will make hurricanes worse!
    Climate change will make them weaker!

    Yep. Lots of sense there.

  22. Re:Exact science on When Did Irene Stop Being a Hurricane? · · Score: 1

    You mean one is something that can't be predicted accurately, and the other one is something that can't be predicted accurately even into the past when there are knowns?

    Yeah. Million times difference.

  23. Re:Altitude? on When Did Irene Stop Being a Hurricane? · · Score: 1

    Yes and no. But for the most part this was a well developed tropical depression, with people running amok including NOAA and NHC, going that this was a storm of the century, and NYC was doomed! DOOOOOOOMED! What's worse was people going off their rails that it was a hurricane after it centrally collapsed. A collapsing depression can cause more damage than a cat 1 hurricane.

  24. Re:Makes it official on Microsoft 'Ribbonizes' Windows 8 File Manager · · Score: 1

    Win8, the new WinME! Not quite like Vista, but plenty of suck and blow.

  25. Re:Why? on The Quest For an EV Fast-Charge Standard · · Score: 1

    Yeah. It's not affordable to you. And it's not affordable to the modern family either, wrapping in at $29k-50k, fuel cells make for a better choice. Batteries are a poor choice, especially when you have environuts screaming no nukes.