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  1. Re:Hmm on NSA Firing 90% of Its Sysadmins · · Score: 1

    No they only want people that can lie happily, and enjoy graft and corruption

  2. I think "equal opportunity" arrived long since.. on Should the Next 'Doctor Who' Be a Woman? · · Score: 1

    Witness River Song.. Being "The Doctor" certainly doesn't pull more weight than being his equal., and I think River demonstrated being his equal, amply already. or is equality *not* enough? In the real world it takes nothing less than an operation to change sexes.. No less here. Certainly a time lord can be a woman, just not *this* time lord. He was born a man, so he be stook wit it, mon... Or, is it "equality" for the "actresses", instead of characters, we're referring to? It's setting a bad precedent to ater the basic foundation of a well established fictional universe to satisfy the demands of the actor's wishes. There's plenty of fine leading roles for women in Sci-fi.. in fact they have at least parity, andf possibly precedence over male leading characters. The only "switch" i could ever see occuring, would be a regeneration screwup, for perhaps "the master", as a glitch in artificial regeneration.. which he continually uses as he ran out of natural regens some time ago...

  3. Re:Really? Political correctness? on Should the Next 'Doctor Who' Be a Woman? · · Score: 1

    Longing for Tom Baker and Tony Ainley, are we?

  4. Only a matter of perspective.. on Apple Isn't the Next Microsoft (and That's a Good Thing) · · Score: 1

    Of course Apple isn't *going to be* the next Microsoft, precisely as this fanboi site claims. Wheere they have it wrong, is the timing. Apple already *is* the new M$... And hey, i'm a Mac user for 15 years.. not much longer though..

  5. Re:the 12th Doctor Who? on New Doctor Who Actor To Be Revealed This Sunday · · Score: 1

    So he's at the end of the line.. remember, he's already given up one of his regenerations to River...

  6. Re:This is a very hard problem on Campaign To Kill CAPTCHA Kicks Off · · Score: 1

    Finally, a website that the DHS and NSA can't crack ;-)

  7. the 12th Doctor Who? on New Doctor Who Actor To Be Revealed This Sunday · · Score: 1

    Perhaps there's nobody left alive who remembers the old series. That's the only rationale I can think of to explain how it's possible to have a 12th doctor, when Time Lords are limited to 11 regenerations. Or did they solve thhat one, and I missed it?

  8. Re:Esoteric material? on UK ISP Filter Will Censor More Than Porn · · Score: 1

    I don't actually know what the UK calls it's version of DHS, which is why i used that term..

  9. Re:Esoteric material? on UK ISP Filter Will Censor More Than Porn · · Score: 1

    Opting in for *anything* will get you on the list.. that's how it works.. Either you meekly accept the blocks (which may include blocking "disturbing, graphic" news reports of government DHS cop atrocities, so as not to "offend" sensitive psyches), or you get targeted as a "potential terrist" which puts you in the path of these DHS cop atrocities...

  10. Re: Lesson One on Windows NT Turns 20 · · Score: 1

    But isn't NT really OS/2, anyways? At least the MS OS/2...

  11. Re:Sigh. on Feds Allegedly Demanding User Passwords From Services · · Score: 1

    I'm sympathetic to a lot of less exotic conspiracies, but WTC7 collapsed because it was on fire for hours. There's nothing suspicious about it.

    Good lord, are there still people that believe this?

  12. Re:And then in a thousand years on Star Wars City Doomed By Sand Dunes · · Score: 1

    And... it's these pesky glaciers, grinding ecverything into microscopic bits, that remove every trace of previous occupancy. Grinding Tunisia tto the ground. Nothing left for archaeologists to study.

  13. Re:And then in a thousand years on Star Wars City Doomed By Sand Dunes · · Score: 1

    er..heat death?. Lemme put the cat in the pigeon's coop. More likely buried under a mountain of ice. We're goin' down folks.. temperaturewise, that is.. the more extreme our seasons are, the longer our winters are gonna be.. till the ice doesn't go away any more.

  14. Apple didn't inform *every* developer.. on Apple: Developer Site Targeted In Security Attack, Still Down · · Score: 1

    I noticed the article is dated sunday.. well I only just now got notified on Monday evening.. it says "in the spirit of transparency, we're notifying you".. LONG after it's been all over the web, here, and other tech publications. A little late, maybe?

  15. Radical technology, indeed. Paper.. on Ubuntuforums.org Hacked · · Score: 1

    Wow. has *everybody* forgotten about plain old paper? I got sick of forgetting passwords, so wrote (printed, actually) them down on paper. I have a highly encrypted file where I store the digital master for reprinting or updates to the list. The only inconvenient bit about it is that i can't copy and paste from a paper list, and copy/paste is a secure way to enter a password.. it makes keyloggers useless. Don't lose the paper, or forget the master password for the digital backup, though. I did once ;-(

  16. Re:Critical mental abilities on Spatial Ability a Predictor of Creativity In Science · · Score: 1

    I'd have to say this is absolutely the definitive answer, or comment, to the entire subject.I was going to mention about having to visualize wiring up a stage sound system, by visualising it, but I don't know that I could have said it better. Where's mod points when you need them? Certainly should do better than 2.

  17. Custom rod and bike creatrors know all about this. on Spatial Ability a Predictor of Creativity In Science · · Score: 1

    It's been well known for years that the best way to build a custom bike or rod is to have the plans and details fully mapped out in the mind, so that you can, say trace the wiring to find the best place to hide it, or placement of the mounts , engine etc, without leaving your seat. And I'd call these guys creative..it's modern art, after all.

  18. Wow.. the "Big Lie" sure has taken hold here at /. on The Man Who Convinced Us We Needed Vitamin Supplements · · Score: 1

    No it is NOT true that you can always get all your nutrients fron the average diet. Yes, uninformed vitamin usage does little good, but vitamin therapy has really shown it's highest benefits in treatment of subclinical pellagra and other "modern diseases" caused by a diet high in processed food. The modern epedemics of ADD, autismn, schizophrenia, clinical depressionand a whole host of other ailments have been shown in study after study to be as effective, if not even more effective, than the pharmacalogical treatmenrts of choice. Every year another drug company funded "study" comes out "debunking" vitamin therapy, by cherry opicking the worst of the lot. Linus pauling is hardly the first , or only one to research in that direction.. . A simple google search will turn up the real facts for anyone who cares to know.

  19. Re:I'm amazed... on George Zimmerman Acquitted In Death of Trayvon Martin · · Score: 1

    Great. Embargo the poor suckers, and then give them a little bit of money back to store your bombs and your unwanted , so you can nuke 'em laer.

  20. Re:or could it be ... on Colorado Town Considers Drone-Hunting Licenses · · Score: 1

    This befuddles me. Pecisely*how* would this increase the pennies into the town's coffers? I mean, precisely. Selling five or six $20 "hunting" licences doesn't look very profitable...

  21. Re:Nuclear power is perfectly safe on Around 2,000 Fukushima Workers At Risk of Thyroid Cancer · · Score: 1

    How in the world can anyone call spent fuel rods "safe"? Nuclear power plants produce the most toxic waste of any industry in the world...

  22. Re:Remember the Apple Newton ? on Microsoft Stock Drops 11% In a Day · · Score: 1

    Somewhere it helps to be ahead of the curve and not chronically behind it. Listening is good, yes, but who was Apple listening to when they created the iPhone?

    Decades before Apple came out with the iPod/iPhone/iPad, they came out with the Apple Newton

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_(platform)

    It wasn't Apple which came out with the iPod/iPhone/iPad, it was Mr. Steve Jobs that made it possible.

    Apple, without the late Mr.Steve Jobs, is not that much better than Microsoft.

    Finally someone else that has the balls to say the truth about Apple. The minute Mr Jobs left, the rot set into the apple.

  23. Obfuscation, much? on The CIA Wants To Know How To Control the Climate · · Score: 1

    If this isn't proof that they've been doing it all along, I don't know what is. Just like "never believe the government is doing something until it's been officially denied", officially asking for funding to overtly engage in a projec such as thist, means their cover has been blown, after doing it covertly for possibly years...

  24. Re:looks like copy paste fail on HBO Asks Google To Take Down "Infringing" VLC Media Player · · Score: 1

    AT&T does not care about you. It has zero knowledge of you. It harbors no "Malice" toward its customers. All it wants is maximum money. If it ends up fucking you over in the process, then so be it. It is not Malice. Unless you just want to re define the word malice so it fits.

    That is the *very definition* of evil...

  25. Re:And yet... on Piracy Rates Plummet As Legal Alternatives Come To Norway · · Score: 1

    Yup.. Netflix only recently came here but it has squat for content . Shawcable owns all the media here if you want to see anything more (Rogers out east I think). As you say, though, DVDs are dirt cheap here.. Actuually between walmart and the other shops, they're always on sale, even brand new releases. Thing that should worry the entertainment lobby the most though, is that we have a far more thriving *used* market. If I want to see a particular movie, and it'sover a year old, I go to the thrift shop that has THOUSANDS, and get one for 50 cents or a buck. sell it back for half , and get another ... better than renting fort 2 bucks a night. I don't know the state of music sharing here now , although we pay tax for it, as tthey have been trying to implement the most dracoinian laws, probably in order to bring goodwill into the industry (sarcasm intended) . Most Canadians that I know, even if they've never pirated music or movies before, have said they''ll start (using anonymity protocols), out of spite against a tyrannical co-opted legislature. Even if any attempt at anonymity is considered a red flag to CSIS here...