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  1. Re:I am utterly surprised. on Murdoch's UK Paywall a Miserable Failure · · Score: 1

    Of course, that just buys into the notion of media bias. Is it really too much to ask that coverage of the oil spill not focus on "poll numbers" and instead focus on oceanography, biology and regulatory failure?

  2. Re:Euro on India's New Rupee Symbol Won't Show On Computers · · Score: 1

    Dumb question - What was wrong with the old Rupee symbol?

    It wan't Indian enough. Other countries use the Rupee or Rupiah, and the central bank felt that thease foreign Rupees detracted from the much stronger, more dynamic, and more proactive Indian Rupee. It's all about creating a stronger brand.

  3. Re:I am utterly surprised. on Murdoch's UK Paywall a Miserable Failure · · Score: 1

    Fox News was designed to appeal to the American right wing . It doesn't necessarily correspond with Murdoch's personal politics, which are often opportunist.

  4. Re:How much number-crunching is your server doing? on Why 'Gaming' Chips Are Moving Into the Server Room · · Score: 1

    CUDA compatible GPU as an efficient hardware accelerator for AES Cryptography It's from 2007, so perhaps the bugs have been ironed out.

  5. Re:A whole new level of parallelism on Why 'Gaming' Chips Are Moving Into the Server Room · · Score: 1

    Java for Windows? I think you might be missing the point.

  6. Re:Not exactly... on Wireless PCIe To Enable Remote Graphics Cards · · Score: 1

    PCIe Scaling analysis. It's three years old, though.

  7. Re:limits on Half of Windows 7 Machines Running 64-Bit Version · · Score: 1

    The only app that consistently reminds me that I need more RAM is preview.app, MacOSX's pdf reader. I'm addicted to Americana-- and a thousand page book with illustrations gobbles ram like crazy.

  8. Re:Statistics, statistics on Half of Windows 7 Machines Running 64-Bit Version · · Score: 1

    netgear brand wifi card, which is 64 bit supported, unless you have more than 3.5GB of ram

    Then what's the point?

  9. Re:Impressive on Climategate and the Need For Greater Scientific Openness · · Score: 1

    I didn't say it had to be good data.

  10. Re:Impressive on Climategate and the Need For Greater Scientific Openness · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The goal here is not to impeach data, but to impeach a scientist. For that, private emails would be helpful.

  11. Re:Response on Climategate and the Need For Greater Scientific Openness · · Score: 1

    Did those PBS documentaries feature error bars?

  12. Re:Impressive on Climategate and the Need For Greater Scientific Openness · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Bullshit that can be backed up with data truly shines.

  13. Re:The Americans are tampering with our internet! on China Says US Uses Facebook To Spread Political Unrest · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

    --Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right

    If someone is suffering from severe physical pain, the best medical solution is to diagnose and treat the underlying pain, and not simply to give them a narcotic. On the other hand, if you cannot treat the underlying condition, it would be inhumane to cut off opiates.

  14. Re:The Americans are tampering with our internet! on China Says US Uses Facebook To Spread Political Unrest · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue! --Barry Goldwater

    Of course, if you see the demands of justice and liberty as opposing forces, you might still claim that Goldwater is seeking the moderate position between absolute justice and absolute liberty. But that would involve a certain amount of debasement.

  15. Re:Maybe the Muslims will help us out... on NASA's Plutonium Supply Dwindling; ESA To Help · · Score: 1

    Al Ghazali? You got this from a blog, didn't you?

    From the wikipedia:

    Al-Ghazali's criticism of Aristotelian physics and Aristotelian cosmology played an important role in the development of an independent astronomy over the next several centuries. From the 12th century onwards, Islamic astronomy began becoming a science primarily dependant upon observation rather than philosophy, primarily due to religious opposition from Islamic theologians, most prominently Al-Ghazali, who opposed the interference of Aristotelianism in astronomy, opening up possibilities for an astronomy unrestrained by Aristotelian philosophy.

    Al Ghazali died in 1111. But the "stagnation" attributed to Islamic science came centuries later.

    There was, however, a more recent al-Ghazali. Perhaps the blogosphere, desperate for a simplistic meme, has intertwined the biographies.

  16. Re:No it doesn't on Hollywood Accounting — How Harry Potter Loses Money · · Score: 1

    Get in Line!

    It's after the investors see their profit.

  17. Re:Wow! on Hollywood Accounting — How Harry Potter Loses Money · · Score: 1

    Arlington National Cemetery. You might find security a bit irksome.

  18. Re:"It's okay for us to be dishonest..... on Hollywood Accounting — How Harry Potter Loses Money · · Score: 1

    Banks view your savings account as a liability, and your mortgage as an asset.

  19. Re:Not a new trick on Hollywood Accounting — How Harry Potter Loses Money · · Score: 5, Informative
  20. Re:Ummm... on The Proton Just Got Smaller · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Wouldn't that depend on the method of packing??

  21. Re:Ummm... on The Proton Just Got Smaller · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Old radius: 0.8768(69) femtometres
    New radius: 0.84184(67)femtometres

    Our result implies that either the Rydberg constant has to be shifted by 110kHz/c (4.9 standard deviations), or the calculations of the QED effects in atomic hydrogen or muonic hydrogen atoms are insufficient.

    source

    It's not the absolute magnitude of the change that's so worrisome, it's the relative magnitude.

  22. Re:Hmmm... on Police Stop Journalists From Photographing Metrorail System · · Score: 4, Funny

    Most of the time the very worst thing that can happen to the cop himself is that he loses his job, though it's more typical for him to receive a free paid vacation for misconduct (paid suspension).

    Bah. Everyone knows that the really big cases are solved only after the hero turns in his badge.

  23. Re:Huh... on Plagiarism Inc. · · Score: 1

    Case in point--Adolf Eichmann. Substituting Adolf Hitler's will for the moral imperative was a mistake anyone could have made...

  24. Re:Huh... on Plagiarism Inc. · · Score: 1

    It may not be ethical to impose one's moral beliefs on another person, or it might be ethical to choose the lesser of two evils. In some circumstances, moral beliefs can be altered, or discarded by new experiences.

  25. Re:Huh... on Plagiarism Inc. · · Score: 1

    Looks like you just copied a definition from a dictionary without understanding the question. No Points.

    Morals are basic principles of right and wrong-- "it is wrong to kill", "it is right to show compassion" and so on.

    Ethics are methods of reasoning about those morals. "If it is wrong to kill, what actions should I take in order to live my life according to this principle?" "Is it possible to apply this moral principle in a consistent manner, and if not, how should my moral precepts change to allow for living a consistently good life?"

    See, for example Kantian ethics