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  1. Re:Congratulations, Baldrick on Increasing Wireless Network Speed By 1000% By Replacing Packets With Algebra · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Nope, Nowadays we have pi on tap

  2. The presumption of innocence & vigilantism on Teen Suicide Tormentor Outed By Anonymous · · Score: 1

    As Supreme Court Justice Byron White said. You don't need the presumption of guilt, To be just punishment only need to dished out "when he concludes that his interests require ... and the record strongly indicates guilt." e.g.The Edublogs site went dark for about an hour after its hosting company, ServerBeach, pulled the plug. The hosting firm was responding to a copyright claim from publisher Pearson, which said one blog had been illegally sharing information it owned.

  3. Re:Put them to work on Teacher Suspended For Reading Ender's Game To Students · · Score: 1

    "Your friend the baker was right," said my colleague. "The dictatorship, and the whole process of its coming into being, was above all diverting. It provided an excuse not to think for people who did not want to think anyway. I do not speak of your ‘little men,’ your baker and so on; I speak of my colleagues and myself, learned men, mind you. Most of us did not want to think about fundamental things and never had. There was no need to. Nazism gave us some dreadful, fundamental things to think about—we were decent people—and kept us so busy with continuous changes and ‘crises’ and so fascinated, yes, fascinated, by the machinations of the ‘national enemies,’ without and within, that we had no time to think about these dreadful things that were growing, little by little, all around us. Unconsciously, I suppose, we were grateful. Who wants to think?

  4. Re:Source of the problem on Growth of Pseudoscience Harming Australian Universities · · Score: 1

    oh. You only go to Doctors with a PhD in medicine? You forgetting the Mainstream Medical communities reaction to the Cure for Rabies? http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=a-cure-for-rabies

  5. This years darwin award goes to... on Doctors "Fire" Vaccine Refusers · · Score: 5, Informative

    anti-vax morons "Boys who did not receive the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine during the mid 1990s are now collecting in large numbers in secondary schools and colleges and this provides a perfect breeding ground for the virus" http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100330082722.htm

  6. Re:How about something easily removeable? on Avoiding Facial Recognition of the Future · · Score: 1

    It needs to be removable if you're going to visit a place (like banks or government offices in the US) where covering your face is illegal.

    or New York(State) Go RTFA.

  7. Re:Yeah... on Avoiding Facial Recognition of the Future · · Score: 1

    In 1845, the State of New York passed a law which authorized the pursuit and arrest of anyone who “having his face painted, discolored, covered or concealed, or being otherwise disguised, in a manner calculated to prevent him from being identified, shall appear in any road or public highway, or in any field, lot, wood, or enclosure.” So you're only 167 years to late.

  8. Re:Anti-fracking goal on Earthquakes That May Be Related To Fracking Close Ohio Oil Well · · Score: 1

    They still drill in The Geysers because the resulting quakes are predictably minor and the geothermal energy harvested is much more economically important than cracked foundations, paying millions in claims or not.

    Actually, it isn't. The generation facility at The Geysers has never been profitable. It has always been under production and over budget. It must be seen as a failure on all levels. We don't even have reliable power in Middletown, for fuck's sake, let alone the rest of the county.

    It's obvious he meant:

    "They still drill in The Geysers because the resulting quakes are predictably minor and cracked foundations, paying millions in claims, is much more economically important than the geothermal energy harvested or not."

    See they are add millions to the economy, that a geologically stable method wouldn't.

  9. Re:Apologies on Copyright Claim Sets Back Cognitive Impairment Testing · · Score: 2

    I am one of the authors of the NEJM op/ed article.

    "permissive licensing, ideally with a form of copyleft." permissive licensing is copycenter NOT copyleft.

  10. Re:Freedoms on Warrantless Wiretapping Decisions Issued By Ninth Circuit Court · · Score: 0

    In a self proclaimed republic, or Nation-state as they like to be called these days, citizens are responsible for the actions of the state. The whole principle of Nation-State is that they get their power by it being delegated to the state by it's citizens.
    The "I can't be held liable for the car crash because I had set the curse-control and was in the back of the RV making a sandwich at the time of the accident." defense doesn't work.

      Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. (The Rome Statute was agreed upon in 1998 as the foundational document of the International Criminal Court, established to try those individuals accused of serious international crimes.) Article 33, titled "Superior Orders and prescription of law,"[5] states:
    1. The fact that a crime within the jurisdiction of the Court has been committed by a person pursuant to an order of a Government or of a superior, whether military or civilian, shall not relieve that person of criminal responsibility unless:
              (a) The person was under a legal obligation to obey orders of the Government or the superior in question;
              (b) The person did not know that the order was unlawful; and
              (c) The order was not manifestly unlawful.
    2. For the purposes of this article, orders to commit genocide or crimes against humanity are manifestly unlawful.

    PS Yes I am a stateless person.

  11. Lynch's Law upheld again. on Warrantless Wiretapping Decisions Issued By Ninth Circuit Court · · Score: 1

    The term "Lynch's Law" was used as early as 1782 by a prominent Virginian named Charles Lynch to describe his actions in suppressing a suspected Loyalist uprising in 1780 during the American Revolutionary War. The suspects were given a summary trial at an informal court; sentences handed down included whipping, property seizure, coerced pledges of allegiance, and conscription into the military. Charles Lynch's extralegal actions were retroactively legitimized by the Virginia General Assembly in 1782.

  12. I recognize the heavy metal spaceball on NASA To Investigate Mysterious 'Space Ball' · · Score: 1

    I can't believe they let is crash into the earth! It's like you know your perspective's fucked so you just gotta let your hands work the controls as if you're straight.

  13. Re:Advantage of homebrew? on Hello World On PS Vita, Thanks to Buffer Overflow · · Score: 1

    SONY PSP Vita $254.99 with est. tax & free shipping YINLIPS YDPG18 $125.95 with free shipping. Android handheld cost only half as much as PSP Vita

  14. SpyTrakr $61.89 on Ask Slashdot: Entry-Level Robotics Kits For Young Teenagers? · · Score: 1

    Spygears app building site http://www.spygear.net/build.php HackADay's spytrakr hacks http://hackaday.com/?s=spy+trakr

  15. Re:No, it won't work on Could Crowd-Sourced Direct Democracy Work? · · Score: 1