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  1. Re:Don't live in places without water, stupid. on Melting Glaciers Cutting Peru Water Supply · · Score: 1

    And we all thought that science was settled too.

  2. Re:Don't live in places without water, stupid. on Melting Glaciers Cutting Peru Water Supply · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There is quite a bit of unused land in Detroit right now. Seriously people generally don't seem to like cities, and from what I see only live in them when they have no other viable alternative, Humans seem more likely "Village People" than "City People". Even when people do live in cities, they self-organize into neighborhoods, when can be likened to "villages" inside the cities.

  3. Re:Simple To Take Down IF Desired on More Details On Drug Cartel's Clandestine Communications Network · · Score: 1

    If you giving credence to the American version, the computers attached to the re-trans could easily only allow transmission of signals after an authenticated handshake, that would make them much less likely to be caught transmitting and by using spread spectrum techniques much less noticeable when they are transmitting.

  4. Re:U.S. is established on religion, so on America's Turn From Science, a Danger For Democracy · · Score: 1

    Bullshit,

    Acknowledgements

    This list is not fully exhaustive, but we would like to acknowledge the support of the following funders (in alphabetical order):
    British Council, British Petroleum, Broom's Barn Sugar Beet Research Centre, Central Electricity Generating Board, Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS), Commercial Union, Commission of European Communities (CEC, often referred to now as EU), Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (CCLRC), Department of Energy, Department of the Environment (DETR, now DEFRA), Department of Health, Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), Eastern Electricity, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Environment Agency, Forestry Commission, Greenpeace International, International Institute of Environmental Development (IIED), Irish Electricity Supply Board, KFA Germany, Leverhulme Trust, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF), National Power, National Rivers Authority, Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC), Norwich Union, Nuclear Installations Inspectorate, Overseas Development Administration (ODA), Reinsurance Underwriters and Syndicates, Royal Society, Scientific Consultants, Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC), Scottish and Northern Ireland Forum for Environmental Research, Shell, Stockholm Environment Agency, Sultanate of Oman, Tate and Lyle, UK Met. Office, UK Nirex Ltd., United Nations Environment Plan (UNEP), United States Department of Energy, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Wolfson Foundation and the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF). History of the Climatic Research Unit

    the CRU is definitely AGW research and British Petroleum, Shell and Sultanate of Oman are definitely Big Oil.

  5. Re:Control the devices on Ask Slashdot: Is E-Learning a Viable Option? · · Score: 1

    Payback for every time you tripped us in the high school cafeteria.

  6. Re:NO. on Ask Slashdot: Is E-Learning a Viable Option? · · Score: 1

    Right Here

  7. Re:This is where I worry. on Anonymous Hacks US Think Tank Stratfor · · Score: 1

    You do realize that the typical CIA "agent" is a liberal arts major, typically a historian who spends the majority of his or her day reading news papers and other sources and writing summaries of what's been read, and trying to figure out what hasn't been written about. Most of the sexy Hollywood stuff is just that.

  8. Re:Right, and we've seen the results of that on Anonymous Hacks US Think Tank Stratfor · · Score: 1

    As it is Anon are not worth the time or money to go after.

    Maybe, or maybe not, given the amount of cyber-attacks directed against the US and it's interests be people supposedly associated with governments like China and Russian and/or east European crime syndicates, I can see where have a few patsies would be handy. I noticed on the TV news reports last night they said Anon was a "Highly Organised Hacker group", seems like that's the first step to being declared cyber-terrorists.

  9. Re:Go! on Anonymous Hacks US Think Tank Stratfor · · Score: 1

    That's what Bernie thought, "There will always be two more suckers to bring in" but alas there wasn't and Bernie is now in prison because the blue smoke and mirrors just evaporated when exposed to the light of day.

  10. Re:GoDaddy on GoDaddy Backs SOPA · · Score: 1

    No, but I can tell you emphatically that they didn't kill for sport. That is a purely human invention.

    You need to get off the cement sidewalk more often, and get in touch with reality. Animals aren't always as different as you think, there are no "Noble Savages", Indian didn't have mystical hunting abilities and there is no "White Man's burden".

  11. Re:GoDaddy on GoDaddy Backs SOPA · · Score: 1

    In the early spring, after the crop lands and lawns are greening up and before the forests start to leaf out I usually see 150 - 250 deer going along about ten miles of road. I usually have a couple near misses a week in my car, it's suicidal to drive more than 25 MPH any where there's a deep ditch or a treeline near the road.

  12. Re:SPACEBALLS? on NASA To Investigate Mysterious 'Space Ball' · · Score: 1

    Hydrazine and dinitrogen tetroxide is pretty powerful hypergolic rocket fuel you know; maybe the sleigh needs a little help in the desert during the summer time.

  13. Re:They took mine. on Taliban Seizes and Burns PCs, Cell Phones To Stop Obscenity · · Score: 1

    You got that right, the Taliban absolutely hate Cell phones and computers, they both allow the real Afghans to communicate in ways that are difficult for the Taliban to monitor; their strategy works best when everybody is ignorant, superstitious and isolated.

  14. Re:Okay, let's examine that decision on Taliban Seizes and Burns PCs, Cell Phones To Stop Obscenity · · Score: 1

    Jews comprised about 55% of the holocaust.

  15. Re:Toys for the big boys on Will Toys-R-Us Carry Spy Drones? · · Score: 1

    I don't consider merriam-webster authoritative in this context.

  16. Re:the information has been PUBLICALLY presented.. on US Asks Scientists To Censor Reports To Prevent Terrorism · · Score: 1

    Well they wanted to find out how easy it was to do and found out it was OMG easy. Seems we asked nice, if the journal and authors don't want to play nice, I'm sure they will not get sent to Gitmo, but future funding might be a lot tougher for them to get. It's generally a bad idea to piss off the people that pay your bills.

  17. Re:This sorta makes me ill. on Undersea Neutrino Observatory To Be Second-Largest Human Structure · · Score: 1

    Oh get a life, it's not like this would be the only neutrino detector in the world; Italy has one, Japan has one, Antarctica has one, India is building one and I think the US has two or three. Trying to pick out flashes from muons in turbid seawater with luminescent marine life just seems like unduly complicating a fiendishly difficult task anyways and little more than a pork-barrel project for the photomultiplier tube manufacturers. The world's economies are in bad enough shape that being a little more selective about funding research to get more bang for our bucks is just going to conserve good-will.

  18. Re:military target on Undersea Neutrino Observatory To Be Second-Largest Human Structure · · Score: 1

    No, doing that would be like trying to see a firefly in the middle of a 4th of July fireworks grand finale while wearing welding goggles.

  19. Re:a bit disingenuous on Undersea Neutrino Observatory To Be Second-Largest Human Structure · · Score: 1

    Since it's a neutrino detector, and the sea water is part of the detection method, they are probably including the total volume of the photo-multiplier array; of course you have to consider when my First Grade Teacher said "The hour hand is the big one" I asked if she meant the longer skinny one or the short fat one.

  20. Re:No on Do Slashdotters Encrypt Their Email? · · Score: 1

    Your public key encrypts the mail being sent to you, you want as many people as possible to have, the private key decrypts what you get and shouldn't be reveiled to anyone else.

  21. Re:No on Do Slashdotters Encrypt Their Email? · · Score: 1

    Well look at climategate, they really don't know if it was an inside whistle-blower or an outside cracker, if the Emails were encrypted routinely, the only way to get them un-encrypted would be to snatch them out of the user's home directory. Encrypted even an admin snooping in the mail spool couldn't read them.

  22. Re:Toys for the big boys on Will Toys-R-Us Carry Spy Drones? · · Score: 1

    Missiles are assumed to be guided, rockets are assumed to be aerodynamically stable and unguided such as Mk 4/Mk 40 Folding-Fin Aerial Rocket verses the AGM-114 Hellfire. These are examples of model rockets

  23. Re:Toys for the big boys on Will Toys-R-Us Carry Spy Drones? · · Score: 1

    I've seen model rockets fired from RC Aircraft but no ASMs

  24. Re:Already started... sort of on Will Toys-R-Us Carry Spy Drones? · · Score: 1
  25. Re:Military vs. Civilian Justice on Tech Forensics Take Center Stage in Manning Pre-Trial · · Score: 1

    He also had significant access to classified information and allegedly displayed a tendency to spread that information to person without adequate clearance or need to know.