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  1. Re:At Some Point... on California's Unspoken Health Problem: Brain Parasites · · Score: 1

    Sure it can, they had a tapeworm in an episode of "House" so that proves it. It was in a girls's abdomin, she couldn't feel pain so House operateded on her in front of the OR staff without anaesthesia and pulled out a 20 footer.

  2. Re:Wow. on Arctic Sea Ice Hits Record Low · · Score: 1

    They found that over a period of almost two decades, the Earth as a whole became more bountiful by a whopping 6.2%. About 25% of the Earth’s vegetated landmass — almost 110 million square kilometres — enjoyed significant increases and only 7% showed significant declines. modis.cn/pubs/PERS_2007_Liang.pdf

    Global Rotation of SeaWiFS Biosphere Decadal Average with Land

  3. Re:Anthropogenic Global Warming on Arctic Sea Ice Hits Record Low · · Score: 1

    If Obama couldn't do anything in the first four why would you think the next four would be any different? Predominately Democrat California is the state that drinks the greenest Koolaid and they can't even build an electric grid that would get renewable energy from one end of the state to the other. Imagine what could have been done with the1/2 billion that Solyndra wasted.

  4. Re:Wow. on Arctic Sea Ice Hits Record Low · · Score: 1

    Are you suggesting that reducing CO2 emissions will have some Reaganomic like trickle down effect on real pollutants? Wouldn't it be more effective to reduce actual pollution directly, instead of relying on some Rube Goldberg mechanism to do it indirectly? What about the poor plants, they've been CO2 starved for so long? They really starting to grow now.

  5. Re:Wow. on Arctic Sea Ice Hits Record Low · · Score: 1

    And if it isn't man-made and is a product of natural variation, shoddy statistics? What if man's contribution is merely sprinkles on the shoddy statistics icing on the natural variation cake? Do you really think that if we didn't cause the warming, that we'd be able to stop it? I'm not sure if the warming is still happening, lower troposphere temperature annomaly measured by satellites have been stuck around 0.3 C for quite a while.

  6. Re:Wow. on Arctic Sea Ice Hits Record Low · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The real reason it's too late is that without getting China and India onboard, the best anyone can do is spit in the wind; We've already met the Kyoto Protocol objectives for the US even without ratifying the treaty,, but somehow that doesn't seem to satisfy anyone.

  7. Re:Wow. on Arctic Sea Ice Hits Record Low · · Score: 1

    They are building new coal fired plants because the renewable energy like solar and wind turbines just plain don't work, they're getting something like 12% the nameplate rating. I wouldn't be surprized that after you add in manufacture, installation, new grid connections, and backup energy sources that renewable cost more CO2 than they could save in multiple lifetimes, not to mention the 14,000 abandoned wind turbines in the US; "free energy" and they couldn't even afford to maintain the collection devices.

  8. Re:Romney waived a red flag on Secret Service Investigating Romney Tax Hack Claim · · Score: 1

    Either that or more likely give the obsessive assholes something innocuous to obsess over, like how Obama let the birthers obsess for like about ever.

  9. Re:Don't worry, Romney... on Secret Service Investigating Romney Tax Hack Claim · · Score: 1

    Sure it's not like we have a SEAL team 9 sitting on the tarmac with rotors turning waiting for a mission is a go to assassinate those terrorist who'd blackmail a potential POTUS.

  10. Re:Don't worry, Romney... on Secret Service Investigating Romney Tax Hack Claim · · Score: 1

    They do, Election Laws require the last 5 years be released, and they were. Obama took it upon himself to release more and challenged Romney to follow suit and Romney declined.

  11. Re:Don't worry, Romney... on Secret Service Investigating Romney Tax Hack Claim · · Score: 1

    As a major presidential candidate, he should have less right to privacy than Joe User.

    You either have a right or you don't have a right; when the Government stops treating your rights as a qualitative thing and start treating them as a quantitative thing we're all in trouble.

  12. Re:Don't worry, Romney... on Secret Service Investigating Romney Tax Hack Claim · · Score: 1

    The first three digits are location code, and some combinations are reserved, so that means any given location has less than 100,000 possible SSNs, even without the location codes 465,000,000 issued so far,and 999,999,999 possible, means that unless they start using alphameric instead of straight numeric there's a end-of-uniqueness coming. As it is there are around 18 million valid SSNs used by more than one person.

  13. Re:Perfect on Intel Embraces Oil Immersion Cooling For Servers · · Score: 1

    I always thought a but plug more appropriate.

  14. Re:Liquid Metal CPU cooler on Intel Embraces Oil Immersion Cooling For Servers · · Score: 1

    My wife always used to complain that I never read the assembly instructions, and I always used to figure that the guy that wrote the instructions didn't have the instructions. So the wife bought this Chinese made shelf thingy out of the typical pressed stink wood. She was really harping on me to read the instructions, so I figured I'd better read them or I'd never hear the end of it if something went wrong. I opened the instructions and started to laugh, I handed them to my wife and she read, "Put together until looks like picture"!

  15. Re:Liquid Metal CPU cooler on Intel Embraces Oil Immersion Cooling For Servers · · Score: 1

    I'd guess it because saying "My computer is so uber-awesome that it uses the same cooling system as Nuclear reactors", just doesn't have the same ring to it anymore.

  16. Re:Wait, isn't oil flammable? on Intel Embraces Oil Immersion Cooling For Servers · · Score: 1

    The other thing is an elevator that old very well could have been a 600VDC unit (many turns on the windings) and between current surges on make and inductive induced arcing on break, air insulated relay contacts would burn through quite quickly, the oil insulation would quench the arcing much faster than air would.

  17. Re:Wait, isn't oil flammable? on Intel Embraces Oil Immersion Cooling For Servers · · Score: 1

    Besides the screen-doors keep all of those pesky fire-bugs out.

  18. Re:Fitting. on Hugo Awards Live Stream Cut By Copyright Enforcement Bot · · Score: 1

    No but if you had a speech, arranged with a publish for publication, and then I as a third party stopped your publisher from completing the printing after it started by falsely claiming I owned rights to insignificant portions, you would certainly think that I had infringed on your rights.

  19. Re:How much was Ustream paid? on Hugo Awards Live Stream Cut By Copyright Enforcement Bot · · Score: 1

    How does it infringe on distribution rights? Distribution rights don't give you the right to distribute the content over other people's networks, if the owners of such networks don't want you to.

    See that's the whole Point, Ustream wanted the distribution over it's network; it was blocked by 3rd party software, installed at the insistence of the *IAAs

  20. Re:How much was Ustream paid? on Hugo Awards Live Stream Cut By Copyright Enforcement Bot · · Score: 1

    The only thing Ustream did was to decide they didn't want to do a favor that potentially exposed them to being sued. I think they have every moral right to do so, and Worldcon has no one to blame except themselves.

    No actually they (they as is 3rd party programs installed at the *IAA request or under threat of legal action for refusal) stopped the program in mid-stream, then threw up a banner stated the stream was blocked due to copyright infringement. Which was not only untrue, it was libelous and infringed on distribution rights.

    On Sunday night, The Hugo Awards were streaming live on Ustream (The Hugo’s are like the Academy Awards for science fiction). Very unfortunately at 7:43 p.m. Pacific time, the channel was automatically banned in the middle of an acceptance speech by author Neil Gaiman due to “copyright infringement.” This occurred because our 3rd party automated infringement system, Vobile, detected content in the stream that it deemed to be copyrighted. Vobile is a system that rights holders upload their content for review on many video sites around the web. The video clips shown prior to Neil’s speech automatically triggered the 3rd party system at the behest of the copyright holder. Hugo Awards: An apology and explanation

    I don't mind that the *IAA's protect their member's rights, but they claim damages on others, yet are held unaccountable for their errors, which I find morally reprehensible.

  21. Re:usteam isn't responding. on Hugo Awards Live Stream Cut By Copyright Enforcement Bot · · Score: 1

    Except ustream didn't protect copyright, they infringed on the Hugo awards copyrights, they're right to distribute. When you pull the plug on a live events, it's not like you can say "Oops my bad, just carry on" because the event is live only once.

  22. Re:Fitting. on Hugo Awards Live Stream Cut By Copyright Enforcement Bot · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The point should be that the Hugo Awards hold the copyright to their awards ceremony, which includes distribution rights; by the erroneous blocking of the stream, Hugo's right to distribute was grievously infringed. That infringement like any other infringement should by remedied by the assessment of considerable monetary penalties.

  23. Re:Flamebait on Windows 7 Overtakes XP, OSX Struggles To Beat Vista · · Score: 1

    Cool thanks a lot that is taking a lot of my mind, everybody at work thinks because i'm a linux geek, I'm a windows Guru too.

  24. Re:Flamebait on Windows 7 Overtakes XP, OSX Struggles To Beat Vista · · Score: 2

    Not just you, more flamebait and troll articles, the more pageviews for the advertisers. I thought it was getting blatant when UID's hit arround 900,000. Not necessarily a bad thing, the demo coming here has changed considerably over the years, slashdot has changed with them, now Windows on the other hand seems to change for change's sake. Recently our network at work, because the client workstations were all XP machines allows the clients to map drives to two different directories on the Win2000 server on the same physical drive. Two major pieces of software all working happily, then I bring in my Vista laptop and suddenly I discover the Vista machine will not allow two mappings to the same physical drive. Soon we will change the clients to Win7 Pro 32bit machines for workstations and Win2008r2 on the server and I'm dreading what new surprises may be in store.

  25. Re:Paging Mr. Roark on Torvalds Takes Issue With De Icaza's Linux Desktop Claims · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Miguel hasn't done an original project, period; his initial project Midnight Commander was a Norton Commander rip off. Then he got excited and took GTK, Gimp Tool Kit to build a desktop because he found the original non-GPL QT license that KDE used offensive, so Gnome is a KDE work-a-like (well tries to be a work-a-like); after that he did a .net rip-off called mono. After that he went over to the darkside and actually worked for Microsoft.