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  1. Re:For something that's "nothing new".. on Pentagon Demands Return of Leaked Afghanistan Documents · · Score: 1

    Are you serious?

    The same way you do I expect.

    What would stop them?

  2. Re:At first I thought Wikileaks was doing good on Pentagon Demands Return of Leaked Afghanistan Documents · · Score: 1

    believe I heard on NPR that Taliban fighters are going over the documents and picking out names of informants in order to "deal with them."

    And NPR knows this how? They checked with their reporters embedded with the Taliban or maybe the DoD told them, or maybe, like most journalists they just made shit up?

  3. Re:At first I thought Wikileaks was doing good on Pentagon Demands Return of Leaked Afghanistan Documents · · Score: 1

    They [the Taliban] also get their own people close to the CIA.

    This is flambait how? Ignorant slashdot mods don't know that the Taliban infiltrated a CIA compound, eventualy killing 7 CIA agents.

    http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/01/03/cia.bombing.claims/index.html

  4. Re:They will make them comply on Pentagon Demands Return of Leaked Afghanistan Documents · · Score: 1

    then letting the guy behind 9/11 have a nice vacation in Tora Bora.

    I'd prefer Bora Bora myself. I bet OBL would too.

  5. Re:They will make them comply on Pentagon Demands Return of Leaked Afghanistan Documents · · Score: 1

    Obama is? He took three months to consider his general's report, then gave the man LESS than the MINIMUM number of troops the general asked for-- as if to claim that he somehow knew better.

    Why do you assume he didn't know better? Generals are omniscient now? Obama has no advisors?

    Why even bother having a president, just let the generals make all the decisions.

  6. Re:They will make them comply on Pentagon Demands Return of Leaked Afghanistan Documents · · Score: 1

    He also deserves blame for the Housing Bubble, which was the result of a Clinton policy passed in 1997. (Banks must loan mortgage money, or else be sued for racism.)

    This is racist nonsense.

  7. Re:They will make them comply on Pentagon Demands Return of Leaked Afghanistan Documents · · Score: 4, Informative

    Of course they did.

    Then they became republicans.

    Never heard of the "southern strategy"? Or just want to keep quiet about it?

  8. Re:Yay! Copyright rules!! Wuh? Oh,, right, copyrig on Software Freedom Conservancy Wins GPL Case Against Westinghouse · · Score: 1

    No.

    Copyright good.

    Current copyright terms bad.

    That's hard to understand?

  9. Re:How do they do it? on Software Freedom Conservancy Wins GPL Case Against Westinghouse · · Score: 3, Informative

    $ uname -a
    UnixWare xxxxxx 5 7.1.1 i386 x86at SCO UNIX_SVR5
    $ strings /usr/lib/drf/bzip
    ...
      Copyright (C) 1992-1993 Jean-loup Gailly
      This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
      it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
      the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
      any later version.
      This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
      but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
      MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
      GNU General Public License for more details.
      You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
      along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
      Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
    ...

    Oh look, a GPL violation in SCO UnixWare.

    That was hard to find, wasn't it.

  10. Re:Correct me if I'm wrong on Software Freedom Conservancy Wins GPL Case Against Westinghouse · · Score: 1

    The source code itself probably won't run as-is on different hardware, but there are clues and hints and subtleties that can be copied. A more efficient algorithm for this, or a creative way of doing that.

    In Busybox?

    Just because you've got busybox in your TV doesn't mean you have to give away the source code to the rest of it.

  11. Re:More Info & Dashboard on Global Warming 'Undeniable,' Report Says · · Score: 1

    Their predictions for 2000-2010 were horribly inaccurate.

    Details please.

  12. lets not tell Jerry Pournelle... on Possible Room Temperature Superconductor Achieved · · Score: 1

    Or he'll try to corner the silver market.

    On second thoughts...

  13. Re:Captain obvious on Crytek Dev On Fun vs. Realism In Game Guns · · Score: 1

    If you're going to be pedantic get it right - most infantry rifles in WW2 were clip loaded. Even the semi-automatic M1 took clips, rather than using a removable magazine.

  14. Re:Internet Stupidity Test on Onion Story Gets Blown Out of Proportion · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The NAACP passed a resolution to "condemn racist elements in the Tea Party." It is an accusation that the group is grounded on racist ideals.

    Zero points for reading and comprehension - how do you go from "racial elements" to "grounded on"?

  15. Re:Offtopic on Massive EU Program To Study Three-legged Dogs · · Score: 1

    Well, as long as you didn't teach him all he knows about FORTRAN...

  16. Offtopic on Massive EU Program To Study Three-legged Dogs · · Score: 1

    There's a hard core [of the "environmental movement"] that's sort of a zombie remnant of Soviet psyops. - ESR

    I'm on a mailing list with that drama queen!

    He really believes that bullshit, you know.

    Oh I'm sure he does. Luckily he's got his trusty .45 to protect you from the commie zombie eco-nuts.

    He's also the guy to see if you have some FORTRAN problems.

  17. Re:Yet another example of the race to the bottom. on Times Paywall Blocks 90% of Traffic · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Looks like the Associated Press and Reuters wire articles must be good enough for the masses.

    No, some of us don't want to read Murdochs crap. We can get our news from a real newspaper, like the Guardian, or Libération, or well, just about anything.

  18. Re:"Which Times"?!? on Times Paywall Blocks 90% of Traffic · · Score: 1

    You mean, it's the one that's so out of touch with reality that it doesn't recognize that, in the last 220 years, some real and legitimate competition has arisen? No wonder they're having trouble adjusting to the 12st century

    They're the only paper called "The Times". Where is the confusion?

    (By the way, The Times didn't exist in the 12th century).

  19. Re:Robotics links on Massive EU Program To Study Three-legged Dogs · · Score: 1

    Shh.... we don't want to upset them.

  20. Re:Data Posioning.... on Catching Satnav Errors On Google Street View · · Score: 1

    I's OK Gordon, lay your crowbar down and relax.

    Gordon neverputs his crowbar down.

  21. Re:Data Posioning.... on Catching Satnav Errors On Google Street View · · Score: 1

    The trick is getting the white boy back in the car in one piece and not miss the light...

    Pah, just leave him there. You can always carry a couple of spares.

  22. Re:Global warming and you. on New Photos Show 'Devastating' Ice Loss On Everest · · Score: 1

    This can hold true. Earth has been warmer and there's been more CO2 in the atmosphere in the past. Still we aren't burnt to crisp.

    You're right - we weren't burned to a crisp.

    Of course that may be because we weren't there then.

  23. Re:Yes, you can trust me, I'm a professor on New Photos Show 'Devastating' Ice Loss On Everest · · Score: 1

    One such mechanism is that you can choose the researchers you fund. Then, results that jive with your purpose will be over-represented.

    But if that were the case there would be a group of researchers who have published papers that refute the "consensus" on AGW, then given up because they can't get any grants, or reversed their positions and started getting money.

    Where are they?

  24. Re:Yes, you can trust me, I'm a professor on New Photos Show 'Devastating' Ice Loss On Everest · · Score: 1

    You mean the way that the grant money at the CRU went from thousands to millions? Oh that's right, that was for supporting AGW.

    No it wasn't, it was for researching climate.

    More baseless ad-hominem attacks. I'm geting bored.

    Everything I have seen says that in total the usual suspects (oil companies, coal companies, etc) have spent more money on grants to AGW promoters than they have to AGW skeptics

    The reason for that is simple - AGW "skeptics" don't do any science, so obviously they don't get funding to do research.

  25. Re:Yes, you can trust me, I'm a professor on New Photos Show 'Devastating' Ice Loss On Everest · · Score: 1

    Except for here and here and here, yes, that's right, every time the "funding corrupts the science" meme shows up, AGW researchers are being accused of corruption by "denialists". Absolutely every time.

    1. ScienceBlogs.com Deals With Community Backlash Over PepsiCo Column
      Nothing to to with climate science. Bloggers complaining about their blog collective being corrupted by money, not people complaining about research being corrupted.
    2. Avoiding GM Foods? Monsanto Says You're Overly Fussy
      Nothing to do with climate science, the BBC printing an op-ed piece from the famous John Innes triffid breeding station without revealing the writers affiliation.(*)
    3. Big Tobacco Funded Anti-Global Warming Messages
      Nothing to do with science - "big tobacco" being accused of funding political action.

    So it's bloggers with twisted nickers, more dodgy stuff from UEA and and "astroturf".

    What does this have to do with research funding again?

    ((*) When I was at UEA in 1977-1980 we all knew what was going on behind those strong fences with bright floodlights at night. The CRU was obviously set up as a cover operation to hide what the loonies in the John Innes centre were up to).