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  1. Re:the real threat will be government intervention on The Noisy and Prolonged Death of Journalism · · Score: 1

    I have no comment on your overall point (not a Fox News fan myself), but you're just wrong on the facts. The suit was between New World Communications, a subsidiary of Fox Broadcasting Corp., a sister company of Fox News Corp (both owned by News Corp.) They both share the same trademark, but they're distinct.

    It's like fanning anti-Justice Dept. sentiment by saying "the Justice Department sued..." when it was actually the EPA that did. It's just factually incorrect.

  2. Re:the real threat will be government intervention on The Noisy and Prolonged Death of Journalism · · Score: 1

    After Fox News won their argument in Florida...

    If you're referring to the case I think you are, that wasn't Fox News. It was a local Fox affiliate's new show, which is completely different. Owned by a private company, affiliated with the Fox Network, which is a sister company to Fox News (but not the same).

    A little bit ironic, in a post about facts and integrity.

  3. Re:It's that computer called the brain. on One Way To Save Digital Archives From File Corruption · · Score: 1

    The CM-7000? Out of curiosity, which other ones did you test?

  4. Re:RealClimate has a big reply on this on Climatic Research Unit Hacked, Files Leaked · · Score: 1

    Really?

    • "hide the [misleading] decline"
    • "hide the [artifactual] decline"
    • "hide the [erroneous] decline"
    • "hide the decline [to increase comprehension]"

    Do you want more?

    Also, I should note that hiding a statistical artifact is not necessarily nefarious, e.g. if it's erroneous or if it's irrelevant, especially if the resulting chart is intended for other scientists who know full well that something is being removed or glossed over or excluded for whatever reason.

    The conclusion over whether it's proper or not is to know the data and the "decline" that's being hidden: realclimate.org apparently does, and explained it.

  5. Re:Where does this leave GIMP? on GIMP Dropped From Ubuntu 10.04 · · Score: 1

    I like F-Spot: the workflow is IMHO the best for casual photographers. It imports everything into its own folder and categorizes it by date based on EXIF data. Then you can use tags to organize them into logical sets (events, places, etc.).

    I actually wish there was something equivalent on Windows. Picasa imports into dated folders based on the date you import them, not the date they were taken.

  6. Re:It's the chemicals!? Bollox to that! on Environmental Chemicals Are Feminizing Boys · · Score: 1

    STATS.org has a nice, details, scientific-sounding article debunking a lot of anti-BPA reports out there, and appears to come from a legitimate source (George Mason Univ.).

    I'm not a chemist/biologist/doctor, so I have a hard time judging whether the article is bunk or not.

    Care to weigh in?

  7. Re:Most professors guilty? on Attack of the PowerPoint-Wielding Professors · · Score: 1

    This might be true to a certain extent, but it's definitely not in my experience. I graduated from an engineering program in a large (US) state school, and as far as I know, a full 90ish percent of my professors were tenure-track faculty. I can think of two that weren't, in 8 years of school.

  8. Re:Most professors guilty? on Attack of the PowerPoint-Wielding Professors · · Score: 1

    After all, he wasn't trained to teach in grad school, and he wasn't hired by the university to teach.

    I've realized this before, and it's pretty striking: professors have degrees in what they teach, not in teaching itself.

    Are there any professors out there (in something other than education) that specifically train in how to effectively teach students? That might actually have a certificate or a degree in education? Are there even programs that cater to college-level educators?

  9. Re:iTunes for windows on Who Installs the Most Crapware? · · Score: 1

    CCleaner will kill it with a single checkbox.

  10. Re:Newspaper Culture on Decline In US Newspaper Readership Accelerates · · Score: 1

    What paper? Our paper's forums seem to singularly attract the trolls (and only the trolls).

  11. Re:Any alternatives? on Decline In US Newspaper Readership Accelerates · · Score: 1

    He represented them in a single lawsuit 14 years ago. That's not "employment".

  12. Re:By the time you read it ... on Decline In US Newspaper Readership Accelerates · · Score: 1

    The thing is, except for a few categories (disasters, crimes, etc.), slower news is better news. You'll usually get better, more accurate, more informed writing on a topic from a newsweekly than a newspaper, from a monthly over a newsweekly, and from a published book over a monthly.

  13. Re:I've been thinking about this for a while on Legal Code In a Version Control System? · · Score: 1

    This is fascinating. I've long wanted to set up something like this, but couldn't wrap my head around how to do it, or how it could be made sufficiently open or community-based (if that was even possible).

    Do you make an attempt to tag changes with common names (Changeset 187591734 = "PATRIOT Act")? What about laws under consideration?

    Here's what I envision:

    * A master repository containing the base code (like you have).

    * Browseable changesets (or branches, or tags) containing specific laws, bills, proposed changes, etc.

    * Committed changesets == passed laws

    * Automatic (or community-based if necessary) conversion from bill text to changet

    * Fine-grained commentability (individual lines, phrases)

  14. Re:First post... on Mainstream Press "Cringes" At Win7 Launch Parties · · Score: 1
  15. Re:Beware of namechanges on RadioShack To Rebrand As "The Shack"? · · Score: 1

    Car parts stores have them. I bought mine from AutoZone.

  16. Re:The pico satellites sound interesting on The 10-Year Satellite Forecast · · Score: 1

    They're doing different things, is the reason.

    Most commercial sats these days are for broadcast, which need to be in GEO. It's no use putting something small into GEO, since it costs so much to get there anyway. They put something big that can last a while and serve a lot of customers (lots of transponders).

    Government users (NASA and academic) are doing science, like remote sensing and atmospheric sampling and things. They don't care about having 100% coverage over the US, so they can put up tiny sats that fly over every few hours, or collections of 10s or 100s or small sats that can talk to each other.

    This doesn't take into account spy sats of course, those apparently need to be both big and close.

    They're different means to different ends, really.

  17. Re:Wrong, Wrong and Wrong on R.I.P. MS-DEBUG 1981 - 2009 · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I can confirm that DEBUG.EXE exists in Win7 RC1 32-bit.

  18. Re:vrml on Google Brings 3D To Web With Open Source Plugin · · Score: 1

    You might be trying to make a larger point here, but I'll respond to your specifics:

    -google earth in a browser.

    Here's the Google Earth browser plugin.

    -games are always a target for tech like this.

    Shockwave can do 3D hardware-accelerated games.

  19. Re:We already have faster-than-light communication on Quantum Setback For Warp Drives · · Score: 1

    I'm not a physicist, so bear with me here.

    So why can't you have a protocol agreement and a clock?

    We both agree that electrons 0-15 are for sending, electrons 16-31 are for receiving (for a single message only), on the x-axis. All electrons must be set to + or - to eliminate any default state.

    Then you say that at clock time t, we assume the message has been sent.

  20. Re:And... the electric car is still not quite ther on Tesla Releases First Official Photos of Model S Sedan · · Score: 1

    Well, since the GP was talking about NYC, there's a rail option that feeds the city from up to 90 miles out (to the north):
    http://www.mta.info/mnr/html/mnrmap.htm

    And on a northeast-southwest line, there's Acela:
    http://www.amtrak.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=Amtrak/am2Route/Vertical_Route_Page&c=am2Route&cid=1080772074490&ssid=134

    These might not be the most convenient options, and may be more expensive than a fuel-efficient car, but it looks to me like if you can't find public transport within a 100-mile radius of NYC, you're not trying very hard.

  21. Re:Put it in a shiny box. on Red Hat CEO Questions Relevance of Desktop Linux · · Score: 1

    It was done back in the early 2000s by people like Red Hat, SuSE, Corel, etc. I'm guessing they didn't sell.

  22. Re:Change we can believe in. on Obama DOJ Sides With RIAA · · Score: 1
  23. Re:Not expansive enough on Tool Shows the Arguments Behind Wikipedia Entries · · Score: 1

    You want something like Stet, but with this controversy figure as the metric instead of user comments.

    I always thought Stet would be great for a general-purpose user-annotation site, but like you never got around to building it.

  24. Re:Proprietary OSs need a unified updater. on Google Earth 5.0 Silently Changes Update Policy · · Score: 1

    I'm wondering if Microsoft could create a third party apps section to Microsoft Update. Companies feed their version updates to Microsoft, they show up in the normal Microsoft Update windows, and you download and install as usual.

  25. Re:Many fake reviews are easy to spot on Carbonite Stacks the Deck With 5-Star Reviews · · Score: 1

    Sorry, your review of the gun case.