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  1. Re:Why? on 200,000 Elliptical Galaxies Point the Same Way · · Score: 1

    My assumption is that having galaxies in alignment rather than randomly pointing implies that the universe's structure has an angular momentum which could mean that momentum was acquired before the big-bang. This is interesting because the universe's beginning is assumed to be nearly infinitely dense in both mass and energy so these should be homogeneous now.
    Any astro-physicists or cosmologists feel free to chime in because I'm not one.

  2. Re:No right to protection from stupidity on LiveJournal Says Users are Responsible for Content of Links · · Score: 1

    that's because he wrote
    Gun control: The belief that a woman, raped and strangled with her panties, is morally superior to a dead rapist.
    when he should have wrote
    Gun control: The belief that a woman, raped and strangled with her panties, is morally superior to a dead attempted rapist.

  3. Re:Be that as it may... on LiveJournal Says Users are Responsible for Content of Links · · Score: 1

    Just seems to me that if WFI were doing this with any other group, it would be stalking. Let us try this, 150 years it was illegal for a black man to have sex with a white woman, now go to Warriors For Innocence and replace pedo and pedophile with nigger.

  4. Re:No right to protection from stupidity on LiveJournal Says Users are Responsible for Content of Links · · Score: 1

    IANAL but I believe in Michigan the age of consent is 16, in Kentucky it's 13; the way things are it's legally possible in Michigan for two kids, 14 and 13 yr old to have sex, to charge the 14 yr old boy with CSC-2, try him as an adult and sentence him to life in prison.
    There is a real reality disconnect with sex crimes, a 13 yr old girl can accuse of having sex with her, provide no physical evidence, or even a time or date. The only defense you have is that a Dr. might say she's still a virgin and how likely is it for a girl who's falsely accusing you of a sex crime because you wouldn't buy her cigarettes to be a virgin?

  5. Re:eating in nature on China Says Tibetans Need Permission To Reincarnate · · Score: 1

    Sure you can forage for food, but that's not going to support many people. I think the point still stands changing from an urban buy food in a store lifestyle to subsistence-farmer take at least one crop cycle so it's not done over night, the settlers in America used to call spring the starving time because the winter stores were depleted and the crops in the ground weren't bearing any food.

  6. Re:I do fear for him on China Says Tibetans Need Permission To Reincarnate · · Score: 1

    whoo dude, the mental image of Sharron and Ozzie Osbourne raising the Dalai Lama is just to intense.

  7. Re:And so help us... on China Says Tibetans Need Permission To Reincarnate · · Score: 1

    I remember that at one time there were three countries that were net food exporters, the United States, Canada, Argentina; I suspect that Russia pops on and off the list depending the harvest in Siberia. China was neutral, and lately have been doing quite a bit of export, yet personally I find the idea of eating food from China unnerving.

  8. Re:And so help us... on China Says Tibetans Need Permission To Reincarnate · · Score: 3, Funny

    You better plant some food long before you start to starve or your going to be dining on grass soap with an main course of roast tree bark.

  9. Re:Let forth... on Girl's Heart Regenerates With Artificial Assist · · Score: 1

    Nah he don't need a organ regeneration, just get an implant and keep the remote.

  10. Re:Followup on FSF Positioning To Sue Microsoft Over GPLv3? · · Score: 1

    Another concept, and I'm probably explaining it inadequately is that because Novell is a major distributer of GPLed software, Microsoft (who is a very minor distributer) is able to assume that Novell knows how to do so in a legal manner, so if Microsoft is damaged by Novell's distribution, they may have significant liabilities.

  11. Re:A voucher is just a form of money. on FSF Positioning To Sue Microsoft Over GPLv3? · · Score: 1

    Actually they do, I used to download SuSE RPM's from ANL.gov, Argonne National Laboratories, FTP servers. They mirror multiple distributions and have nice fast servers connected to fat pipes that I've paid for via my tax money.

  12. Re:Your Windows monopoly money at work. on Microsoft Bought Sweden's ISO Vote on OOXML? · · Score: 1

    It might become interesting if Microsoft gets locked out of government and business contracts because their software fails to meet the ISO standard they bought and paid for; A company can't deny its nature, and we all know how long microsoft can meet a standard!

  13. Re:In many labs on Copyright Advocacy Group Violates Copyright · · Score: 1

    My comments were meant to be tongue in cheek, but I would think that for an under-grad that wants to go into the "business" the experience and a bit of chump change for beer would be worth quite a bit.

  14. Let's give them a shout! on Copyright Advocacy Group Violates Copyright · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I encourage everyone on slashdot to drop them a note condemning copyright violations such as the apparent ones that are on the prism website.

  15. Re:didn't we already pay? on Copyright Advocacy Group Violates Copyright · · Score: 2

    well we paid for the research done by the under-grads who did the real work, but the one guy who sat on his fat butt with 3 letters after his name wasn't paid for.

  16. Re:In other news... on Comcast Cuts Off Users Who Exceed Secret Limit · · Score: 1
    What they are using is a

    levels of traffic sufficient to impede others' ability to send or retrieve information.
    standard. Now that has major suckage because if I'm on a 10Mb/s network sub-leg in a neighborhood of people who are mostly on basic cable only, I get a shit-pile of bandwidth with nobody to interfere with; however if I'm in the suburbs where everybody has the full-monty services and the Storm botnet trashes out the network and I'm downloading 1/2 a Gb of Linux updates when they happen to look guess who get the boot?

    I just checked the Emails on my comcast account and there was a nasty-gram requiring "Immediate Action" in there, they seem to think the wife's computer has a trojan spewing spam. The Email pointed to a "One-click fix page" but all that came up in firefox on Linux was code, might have been javascript but I suspect it was activeX that would have done who knows what to the computer. I didn't find anything with clamwin so I'm going to turn on logging on the router to see what's trying to get out if anything.
  17. Re:Thank Talking Points Memo. on U.S. Attorney General Resigns · · Score: 1

    There were three big things that caused the pissfit,
    Firstly Gonzalez has a Hispanic sirname, but doesn't fit the uber-liberal, ultra-Democrat wet-back stereotype, so the Democrats don't know how to relate to him.
    Secondly he was nominated by a Republican, and any minority nominated by a republican has to be a ringer, remember the Thomas conformation hearings?
    Thirdly he was Nominated by Bush who the Dems see as the second coming of Nixon!

  18. Re:Hey on U.S. Attorney General Resigns · · Score: 1

    Loved the tag so I just poached it!

  19. Re:The hammer priciple. on System Admin's Unit of Production? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I knew a guy who was a millright for GM at Hydromatic, he was paid $45.00 an hour and played Euchre all day, management was fine with this because when he went to work, the plant lost $45,000.00 an hour. When a sysadmin is working, really working at his/her real job, the shit done hit the fan.

  20. Re:Give the on Can Open Source Give Comfort To the Enemy? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I helped provide security at the Atlanta Olympics at the Boxing venue, I saw the boxers behind the scenes practicing for their upcoming events and for many of them I was truly frighted at the thought of them competing; what you see on TV isn't representative of the vast majority of the contestants, but the result of the TV pool cherry picking the best matches for ratings.

  21. Re:Give the on Can Open Source Give Comfort To the Enemy? · · Score: 1

    First I'm not sure that your religious example holds water because Iranians are now predominately Shia Muslims, and Judaism, Islam and Christianity are all Abrahamic religions so the rabid Old Testament of one is the rabid Old Testament for all. Maybe the world would be better off if everybody was a Buddhist.

  22. Re:Can you say FUD? on FOSS License Proliferation Adding Complexity · · Score: 1

    Who care's how many licences are in your distro, it's the distro's problem; my problem is how many licences are in my app, there is three GPL v2, BSD, and PHP, that's not unmanageable.

  23. Re:its the center of the big bang on Astronomers Find Huge Hole in Universe · · Score: 1

    Good grief your right, I looked to the left and the right and found I was in the exact center of the Hubble Volume!

  24. Re:Maybe on Astronomers Find Huge Hole in Universe · · Score: 1

    The universe or the big-bang would only have an observable center if you could look at the universe from the outside, and that's undefined. The big-bang wasn't an explosion of Things in space it was an explosion of space itself with thing in it so the center of the big-bang is the whole universe. Because this universe was once a super-dense, super-hot thingy once (instantly after the big-bang), cosmologists say that what's in the universe should be very even very uniform and predominately it is, but this void isn't and that's why it is very interesting.

  25. Re:hm.. on Astronomers Find Huge Hole in Universe · · Score: 1

    I figured Galactus just went on a eating binge for a while.