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  1. Re:Well duh on Laptops In the Classroom Don't Increase Grades · · Score: 1

    Probably not. But if they aren't on the test, they're not important.

  2. Re:In MacOSX on Diginotar Responds To Rogue Certificate Problem · · Score: 1

    Sometimes, it silently sends you to the non-secure site.

  3. Re:Tumbled on Akamai Employee Tried To Sell Secrets To Israel · · Score: 1

    According to this Doxer offered, in an email to the Israeli consulate, to provide documents.

    And the Israelis contacted the FBI. Some spy masters they turned out to be.

  4. Re:Fun with sigs... on Scientists Sequence Black Death Bacteria · · Score: 1

    Now now, if he didn't exist, it would probably throw your whole rationale for theological reeducation camps out the window.

  5. Re:Security concerns on Pakistan Bans Encryption · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "War" can be so convenient.

  6. Re:Fun with sigs... on Scientists Sequence Black Death Bacteria · · Score: 1

    So you'd reduce unemployment by locking up a substantial number of unemployed and employing a bunch of Good Christians.

    Satan applauds your devious plan.

  7. Re:Fun with sigs... on Scientists Sequence Black Death Bacteria · · Score: 1

    Also, try this argument on for size:

    Keyser Soze (the devil) is a criminal mastermind, responsible for quite a lot of worldwide crime. If people knew this, and knew who was working for him, they might be able to ally themselves together to destroy his crime syndicate. If people think he's a myth, they won't see the larger conspiracy. They'll just think themselves unlucky.

    Suppose Satan exists, and the whole of human existence can be viewed the rebellion of Lucifer against God-- with God trying to preserve "free will", and the devil trying to take it way from humans and replacing it with sin. (It's akin to having a heroin addiction-- you might want to live a full and free life, but just making it through the day requires that you have your fix-- so you are forced into doing things that most people would shy away from--like larceny). So under this view of things, the evil that men do is not merely the bad actions of independent men, but the influence of the big bad. If you can somehow recognize the satanic conspiracy for what it is, you might be able to identify those minions of satan-- and somehow drive the devil out of them-- bring them back to Christ. Once that's done, there will be a lot less evil and the world, because there will be a lot less sin in the world.

    But if Satan is forgotten, then we are doomed to suffer through the evils of this world, without the hope of ever stopping it.

    And so the argument goes. It's a bit naive to think that murder and mayhem are all due to the machinations of one supernatural being, but I guess some people are comforted by the thought. Poor deluded fools.

  8. In MacOSX on Diginotar Responds To Rogue Certificate Problem · · Score: 4, Informative

    open /Applications/Utilities/Keychain Access.app
    Click on System Roots
    Scroll down to DigiNotar Root CA
    Click the "i" icon, or select "Get Info CMD-I"
    Expand the "Trust" node
    For the "When using this certificate"
    Select the "Never Trust" option

    If successful, the info window will now say "This certificate is marked as not trusted for all users"--- and you can browse this site to ensure that the trust is broken.

  9. Re:Fun with sigs... on Scientists Sequence Black Death Bacteria · · Score: 1

    Verbel Kint was just messing with you. Considering the movie's twist ending, it's "in character."

    I find it very hard to believe that there are a lot of Christian-God believers who simultaneously don't believe in the Christian devil.
    No one said that belief was always going to be easy. Perhaps your faith in the Christian concept of the "Church Universal" is being tested.

  10. Re:Amazing... on 5.8 Earthquake Hits East Coast of the US · · Score: 1

    Depending on how poorly parts of the Pentagon were designed, parts of it could collapse, rendering it unsafe for human occupancy. As we said, Sir, it's just a precaution. Nothing to worry about.

  11. Re:Pentagon is being evacuated on 5.8 Earthquake Hits East Coast of the US · · Score: 1

    A M5.8 earthquake is enough to render parts of the Pentagon structurally unsound?

  12. Re:Tragic... on Former Wikileaks Spokesman Destroyed Documents · · Score: 1

    . Also, around the time of the founding of this nation, the word "Democrat" was a slur, used to indicate that a person pandered to the whims of the uninformed, emotional masses. Just putting that out there.

    Oh sure. The federalists thought it was a slur. But once the unformed masses realized that the federalists were a bunch of elitist prigs, the Democratic Republicans took over.

  13. Re:Major General Adelal-Morsy said... on Egyptian Charged For Threatening Facebook Post · · Score: 1

    Is he the very model of a modern major general?
    There's something about the word "Supreme" (as in Supreme Council of Armed Forces") that invites a bit of ridicule.

  14. Re:Newsflash: Freedom of Speech has limits. on Egyptian Charged For Threatening Facebook Post · · Score: 1

    Right. You aren't allowed to falsely shout "FIRE" in a crowded theater. It follows, therefore, that you are also not allowed to advocate opposition to the draft

    I feel obliged to point out that this is no longer good law

  15. Re:Newsflash: Freedom of Speech has limits. on Egyptian Charged For Threatening Facebook Post · · Score: 1

    This should be apparent and obvious to anyone whom has taken part in a society.

    This society sounds dull and boring. Count me out!

  16. Re:The post wasn't a threat on Egyptian Charged For Threatening Facebook Post · · Score: 1

    In a place like Egypt, making statements like that on the net is just asking for trouble.

    But that was the point of the revolution-- to transform Egypt into the kind of society where a certain amount of freedom was not only tolerated but encouraged.

  17. Re:Fascists, or? on Egyptian Charged For Threatening Facebook Post · · Score: 1

    it is still illegal and immoral.

    Ah, it is truly a blessing to be king,

  18. Re:Terrible Headline on UN Climate Report Fails To Capture Arctic Ice: MIT · · Score: 2

    Apparently, I've forgotten to read between the lines of a scientific paper, because it doesn't sound like much of a polemic.

    Here's the discussion.

    Discussion and summary:
    Consistent with AR4, this analysis demonstrates that observed and modeled late 20th century Arctic sea ice loss cannot result from natural variability alone. Indeed, an anthropogenic influence on the most extreme observed 1979-2010 negative trends is now evident for all trend lengths examined (2-54 years). While CCSM4 can reproduce the observed ice loss, it also shows that internal variability exerts a strong influence on sea ice trends, especially on sub-20 year timescales. Comparing a six-member CCSM4 ensemble to observed trends suggests that internal variability has enhanced observed ice loss and facilitated detection of an anthropogenic influence on observed trends during the satellite era (1979-present). In a warming world, multi-decadal negative trends increase in frequency and magnitude, trend variability on 2-10 year timescales increases, and when internal variability counteracts anthropogenic forcing, positive trends frequently occur on 2-20 year timescales in the second half of the 20th century, and on 2-10 year timescales in the first half of the 21st century.

    But maybe I've missed something. Read the paper and tell me what you think.

  19. Re:Better link on UN Climate Report Fails To Capture Arctic Ice: MIT · · Score: 1

    Better yet, here's the actual paper

  20. Re:And it continues... on The Five Levels of ISP Evil · · Score: 1

    Would you go so far as to say that the "leftards" are EVIL?

  21. Re:Timing... on Obama Administration Closing Recently Opened Datacenters · · Score: 1, Informative

    We are USA, we are individuals coming together for a common goal, to live free from oppression and tyranny. Yet governanced by the majority (supposed to be). Remember your individuality before you "tow the line".

    All right! Let's start stringing together propagandistic boilerplate into poorly constructed, meaningless sentences!

  22. Re:Obama wastes taxpayer money? on Obama Administration Closing Recently Opened Datacenters · · Score: 0

    Apparently he doesn't, in fact, want to provide government data on line

    Transparency is a luxury we can't afford in these austere times.

  23. Re:Too good credit rating anyway on S&P's $2 Trillion Math Mistake · · Score: 1

    We'll call it "Project: Pol Pot."

  24. Re:Too good credit rating anyway on S&P's $2 Trillion Math Mistake · · Score: 1

    Oh and it has powers of imminent domain, how much book value do you give those?

    Constitutionally, not a whole lot.
    "nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."

  25. Re:Too good credit rating anyway on S&P's $2 Trillion Math Mistake · · Score: 1

    So you aren't underwater? Lucky you.