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  1. Re:The data shows... on No, We're Not Headed For a New Ice Age · · Score: 1

    Read some more. The variances are just that as soon as you walk outside of the giant heat absorbing blocks of asphalt. And if you look at the GISS sets they're not clean. They're normalized with variances flattened or removed. Rather than rounded and equalized. It's shoddy at best.

  2. Re:The data shows... on No, We're Not Headed For a New Ice Age · · Score: 1

    Actually they don't. Read the raw data yourself. There's upto a 6F variance in the US alone, and 3C in Canada and Europe.

  3. Re:The data shows... on No, We're Not Headed For a New Ice Age · · Score: 0

    Cherry picking data points and using the heat island effect does not make it warmer. In the mid to late 90's, nearly everything outside of the heat island effect has been scrubbed out.

  4. Re:Wow on Using Crowdsourcing To Identify Vancouver Rioters · · Score: 1

    Interesting. Because everything I've heard has been contrary to that. Hell we didn't even get any bulletins about it, because reading it would be major news in law enforcement circles here.

  5. Re:Just for rioting? Seriously? on Using Crowdsourcing To Identify Vancouver Rioters · · Score: 1

    That's great, but I've been here for over 30 years. Having lived here for the majority of them, and in other places in the world. But please, feel free to read next time it'll help. As I never said that everywhere else 'are bad'.

    Nah the police aren't allowed to be prepared. Actually they're not allowed to take any action at all. I'll let you figure out why since you've obviously been here much longer than I have. And you're not even a born citizen. I'll wait.

  6. Re:Wow on Using Crowdsourcing To Identify Vancouver Rioters · · Score: 1

    Quite often. There's a reason why Canada has 2 national sports.

  7. Re:Just for rioting? Seriously? on Using Crowdsourcing To Identify Vancouver Rioters · · Score: 1

    Well I suppose I could have said Greece. I have been there more than a few times, and it's by far more tolerated there than anywhere else in Europe.

  8. Re:Just for rioting? Seriously? on Using Crowdsourcing To Identify Vancouver Rioters · · Score: 1

    Obviously. Then again the people who committed crimes against others when they get caught are in for a rude awakening. Here we have a pretty high tolerance for damages against private property and loss of money. But hurt someone? Even the most liberal judges here will slam you with the highest sentences they can.

  9. Re:This form of policing needs a proper name on Using Crowdsourcing To Identify Vancouver Rioters · · Score: 1

    Wait. So people who commit criminal acts, and happily post themselves on websites committing such. And the police using such a tool to find the people who've helped commit millions in damages, and contribute to the injury of several hundred people is ... state sanctioned surveillance of everyone?

    What the hell is wrong with you?

  10. Re:Just for rioting? Seriously? on Using Crowdsourcing To Identify Vancouver Rioters · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Hey guess what. Fuck you. No seriously fuck you. In Canada we generally have a well ordered, and well behaved society. Lets see we got one guy who got the shit beat of him by 15-20 people because he was trying to protect property. And we have idiots who have this idea that public mischief, rioting, and in general being a danger to everyone else is not worthy of your time?

    It wasn't a few cars, it wasn't a few businesses, and it sure the fuck wasn't a few people who got stomped in the face because they tried to stop the fuckers from ruining businesses and looting. And if you are a Canadian. Get the fuck out of the country and go somewhere else. Maybe europe, where they let you destroy someone elses property because your "sensibilities" can be offended, because a sports team lost.

  11. Re:Wow on Using Crowdsourcing To Identify Vancouver Rioters · · Score: 1

    Actually it's the second largest sport depending on the year. It's either hockey or lacrosse.

    Anyway, they should have just read the riot act. Waited 30mins, then started arresting anyone who refused to leave. That's what it's there for, and I have no problems with it being used as such. Really slapping a few people who are being the centres of the riot in prison for a few years is good(the max you can get is life aka 25 years). The rest you can give 2yr conditional discharges(aka don't fuck up, and it won't be counted against you).

  12. Re:It's the JEWS, stupid... on British Student Faces Extradition To US Over Copyright · · Score: 0

    Well what can you expect from anti-semites? Blame the Jews is the oldest canard on the books. I mean what? 2000+ years now, and people have been using it instead of looking at their own failings.

  13. Re:"Cheating the Government" on British Tax System Uses Web Robots To Find Cheats · · Score: 1

    Some people seem to forget that there's a distinct cultural and social difference between the US(along with Canada) and most of Europe. The main being that in Europe the government isn't an agent of the people.

  14. Re:WTF adobe on Adobe Patches Second Flash Zero-Day In 9 Days · · Score: 1

    Too bad that pushing 90% of the web these days uses it including for full site design.

  15. Re:1980s on Is This the Golden Age of Hacking? · · Score: 1

    80's are over rated. The 60's and 70's with IBM 360's were, where it was at.

  16. Re:Oh good... on Big Drop In Solar Activity Could Cool Earth · · Score: 0

    Considering we've been getting cooler for the last 4 years give or take a little bit as we've started kicking into a new minimum? I seem to remember that people said that the sun, along with sunspots had NO active ability to effect the earth.

  17. Re:The end of an era? on LulzSec Hacks the US Senate · · Score: 1

    Seems to me that a lot of these breeches happen to enter the 'shit you should always cover' territory. I.e. secure your SQL database, don't leave open inputs, make sure it's sanitized, hash and salt passwords. Don't store passes in plaintext. And so on.

    Sure the hell makes me wonder who's being hired for their network security. Or if a lot of these companies are simply farming it out.

  18. Re:Yea on White House To Announce IT-Powered Smart Grid · · Score: 1

    Comparatively speaking? You already spend very little for the amount of return that you get for your military. Not only does the level you currently have allow you to project power, but it also in most cases allows you to be the 'world police' of the oceans ensuring that you have free, clean, clear trade lanes to move goods in and out of the US.

    What the US spends these days is a pittance compared to the cold war, and is simply proxy used by people who really don't have much of a clue of what's being spent. While trying to dump it into social programs that waste more money.

  19. Re:Yea on White House To Announce IT-Powered Smart Grid · · Score: 1

    What I'd like to know is how the US government plans to pay for new programs like this?

    Well that's obvious. They're going to bankrupt power producers like coal via cap and trade, with this institute high taxation on all non "green" power generation. Ensure that the US goes to a 3rd world country and therefore no one will have any need to worry about power. And oh charge a premium on green power generation, somewhere in the 40-80c/KWH.

    The other option is to take out an assload of debt, and at the same time turn in the printing presses again, hyperdevaluate the currency.

    In otherwords, he's a communist in socialist clothing. It's the only way that the government can pay for it.

  20. Re:Almost a day and no bombshell yet? on Crowdsourcing Analysis of the Palin Email Trove · · Score: 1

    Why don't you go do a bit of searching through those documents then cross-check the names and come back. I'll even give you a hint on what terms to search for:
    killed
    kill
    must die

    I'll wait.

  21. Re:Almost a day and no bombshell yet? on Crowdsourcing Analysis of the Palin Email Trove · · Score: -1, Troll

    The only thing that's confirmed is that lefties across the board were frothing at the mouth at her, and calling for her death. If that's not a bombshell well who knows. And they happily sent it by email, there's a few hundred pages of those last I heard. Probably a few thousand by now.

  22. Re:Alaskan Trees thank you on State of Alaska Prints Out Palin's E-Mails; Online Distribution 'Impractical' · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't you be happy that they're using paper? It supports the forestry industry, and in turn creates jobs. You do know that here in North America we grow forests simply to use them for pulp, and base lumber products.

  23. Re:Oh Please! on Google Asks 'Who Cares Where Your Data Is?' · · Score: 1

    Oh those are just terrible lies. I mean we have the nuclear football plugged right into the internet. Right over there!

  24. Re:Pirates violently rob ships at sea. on European Pirates Arrested in Massive Police Operation · · Score: 1

    Don't you know? Canadian pirates ride around the internet in virtual schooners, firing cannons and sending boarding parties out to steal data. It's the only way we can sate ourselves when hockey is on it's summer break. Or when the cup play-offs suck giant monkey balls.

  25. Re:This has a name on Court Rules Passwords+Secret Questions=Secure eBanking · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If there's zero case law on something. Any case law is good. Because it creates both a starting point, and a breech point for other lawyers to prove that the system is faulty. It's not bullshit, well actually it is but not in the way you think. It's bullshit that it's taken nearly 15 years for the first real case to come to light creating case law.