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  1. Re:Cancel Air Flight; Limit Damage to the Americas on New Flu Strain Appears In the US and Mexico · · Score: 1

    Allowing? I was born a free man. I require, and ask for, no one's sufferance to travel as I please.

    A nation may refuse me admittance, but I need no further permission to go where I'd like. As a citizen of Colorado I have the right to travel freely in all of the United States with no permission, whatever.

    Both sides of the isle seem to be working on correcting that situation.

  2. Re:I tried to access the floppy drive on What Did You Do First With Linux? · · Score: 1

    I always used [ctrl] [alt] [Del], the tried and tested method from Dos 6.22/Windows 3.1.

  3. Re:First time? on What Did You Do First With Linux? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I guess you never heard of a circle jerk then!

  4. Re:A project for our worst enemies on Computer Spies Breach $300B Fighter-Jet Project · · Score: 1

    There will not be anymore F22's, Obama cut the program back from 500 to 187 of which 184 have already been built; cutting 90,000 jobs! The F35 that was hacked will be used in primarily ground support, ground attack missions replacing our A10's and F16's, the F22 are air superiority fighters.

  5. Re:Surprised they let him on Record-Breaking Model Rocket Launch Set For April 25 · · Score: 1

    They weren't as worried about the rocket motors being used as an explosive as they were of the motors being used in a delivery vehicle for a warhead.

  6. Re:I think this dude has crossed a line on Record-Breaking Model Rocket Launch Set For April 25 · · Score: 1

    Actually in the vernacular of the profession, Rockets are unguided vehicles when unmanned like the Honest John, Guided vehicle are called missiles like the Hawk Missile, a manned vehicle is always called a rocket without regard to guidance.

  7. Re:The hurricane machine. on Energy-Beaming Space Collector To Also Alter Weather? · · Score: 1

    It's the difference in energy not the total energy that counts in storms.

  8. Re:Lots o' power on Energy-Beaming Space Collector To Also Alter Weather? · · Score: 1

    It's the cold front running over the top of a warm front that starts the whole ball of wax to start with; ask anyone living in a hurricane or typhoon zone and most would gladly trade one hurricane for two tropical depressions.

  9. Re:This is how it is in the UK now on FBI and States Vastly Expand DNA Collection, Databases · · Score: 1

    Fingerprint identification is a statistical match, not an identical match, especially the way it is implemented and searched. Skin is elastic and fingers are prone to injury, without a good degree of fuzziness in the search, you might not even match yourself. Both techniques are better at positive exclusion than positive identification.

  10. Re:Presumed innocent?? on FBI and States Vastly Expand DNA Collection, Databases · · Score: 2, Informative

    They only test 13 markers on the DNA, not the whole genome, in fact 99.9% of your DNA is the same for every person. While everybody is unique genetically, they only test a small subset so the identification is statistical, what I'm waiting for is a proven false match using DNA profiling.

  11. Re:Temperature on Antarctic Ice Is Growing, Not Melting Away, At Davis Station · · Score: 1

    What we need to examine is precipitation records and ice depth, if the ice is getting thicker and the precipitation is the same then obviously it's colder and less ice is sublimating.

  12. Re:I want insect eyes on Louisiana Rep. Preps State Bill Banning Human-Animal Hybrids · · Score: 1

    Thermal IR would be better, you could see who is sexually aroused right through their cloths.

  13. Re:Surprising on Louisiana Rep. Preps State Bill Banning Human-Animal Hybrids · · Score: 1
  14. Re:Damn on Louisiana Rep. Preps State Bill Banning Human-Animal Hybrids · · Score: 1

    mono-clonal antibodies, Insulin and other hormones and emzymes, artificial skin, tissue for heart valve reconstruction ect.

  15. Re:Damn on Louisiana Rep. Preps State Bill Banning Human-Animal Hybrids · · Score: 1

    Seriously? do we really want to go down this route? We've already screwed with the planet and life enough. Do we really need to screw with it more and more by allowing human/animal hybrids?

    Dude we already are, bacteria out number human cells 100:1 in a human, The most common gene in our genome is for Viral Reverse transcriptase, we have 30 copies! All of these organism pass enzymes, hormones and DNA to us and we to them.

  16. Re:IT is a customer service group on Why IT Won't Power Down PCs · · Score: 1

    When something is going to break it is most likely to break when the machine is turned on; if it is always on it'll break at a more random time, but it will still break.

  17. Re:lawmakers on Paper Companies' Windfall of Unintended Consequences · · Score: 1

    If Libertarian philosophy = Anarchy, then:

    Democratic philosophy = Socialism, and

    Republican philosophy = Fascism.

    Given the alternatives, I'll accept anarchy.

    You say that like Socialism and Fascism are really different.

  18. Re:lawmakers on Paper Companies' Windfall of Unintended Consequences · · Score: 1

    I would argue that the government made a big portion of the current mess by making mortgage interest income tax deductible, without that the feeding frenzy by predatory lenders would have been less likely to turn into the death spiral it did.

  19. Re:banana fucking republic on Paper Companies' Windfall of Unintended Consequences · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But I seriously can't fucking believe, that after eight years of the incompetent fucking clowns in the Bush administration, that anyone has the brass balls to try to justify, let alone suggest, more retarded, illegal bravado from the executive branch. You are a complete dumbfuck, just like the tools who passed this law in 2005, and the tools who are currently skullfucking the concept of market economics for their ill-conceived political agenda.

    First of all;

    Congress's powers are enumerated in Section Eight:
            Section 8: The Congress shall have power
           

    To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defence and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

    Article One of the United States Constitution

    because this is a tax credit, it's the bailiwicks of congress and the IRS works for congress not the executive branch, not he Bush administration! Remember what congress giveth, Congress can taketh away, so if you have a problem with this write your congress-critter. The problem you'll have is how do we write a law the disallows a credit for adding a taxable fuel so that taxable fuels with alternative fuels added are not?

  20. Re:28mph over 280 miles is not good... on Tesla Roadster Runs For 241 Miles In E-Rally · · Score: 1

    They claimed 200+ miles on the standard EPA mileage test so it's standardized, even if missleading in the real world but YMMV.

  21. Re:DVDFab on Decent DVD-Ripping Solution For Linux? · · Score: 1

    Linux can certainly work the Windows way by including the library in the same directory as the executable, and linking with the special switch that makes it look in that directory first for them. That is what we do with our commercial software. I don't know why there is so much resistance to this in Linux but it seems commercial users (such as GoogleEarth) are doing this. Expert end users can remove or hide these files if they want to use the version installed with their system, just like Windows experts do.

    By using shared libraries, installed program space is minimized and we don't have to check a gazillion files every time a security flaw or a bug is found in a library.

  22. Re:Anonymous on Slashdot Mentioned In Virginia Terrorism Report · · Score: 1

    That works occasionally, acquiring a new IP address is required for it to work consistently.

  23. Re:Is Slashdot a Terrorist Organization Or Not on Slashdot Mentioned In Virginia Terrorism Report · · Score: 1

    There is no system but GNU, and Linux is one of its kernels. ...

    Warning: taking the Church of Emacs (or any church) too seriously may be hazardous to your health.

    Saint IGNUcius, the Church of Emacs

  24. Re:negative spin much? on Climate Engineering As US Policy? · · Score: 1

    This is what happens when science is politicized, either you toe the line or you get fucked for actually interpreting the facts for what they really mean.

    That's been pretty much business as usual for the last several millenniums

  25. Re:Rhinoceros on Sunspot Activity Continues To Drop · · Score: 1

    He only reads /. for the goatse.cx links