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  1. Re:Dog and cats! Living together! Mass hysteria!!! on How Much Should You Worry About an Arctic Methane Bomb? · · Score: 2

    In 2006 the United Nations projected that the Midway and other low elevation islands would be completely under water. Since you say that we are seeing the effects of a fire (not sure which one you allude to?) could you tell me the humanitarian efforts being put into place to rescue all these Global warming refugees.

  2. Re:Dog and cats! Living together! Mass hysteria!!! on How Much Should You Worry About an Arctic Methane Bomb? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Count me in as a Randian zealot. I pray to Adam Smith to smite my socialist foes. Anyway, appeal to authority arguments have been debunked. Its 99% of respondent scientists in a ten year old survey. Global Cooling first. Then Peak Oil. Then it was Global Warming. Then it was Anthropomorphic Climate Change. Carbon PPM Quantity Tipping points. Fracking Earthquakes. Methane Bombs. It'd be a lot easier to believe all these sounding of alarms if they ever led to different conclusions. They usually end up with the same prognosis: More government oversight over personal freedom, reduced economic output, central planning, Al Gore. I categorically disagree with all the solutions. The fact is that the climate changes and there is no optimal global temperature or level of Co2 or ice percentage. These are arbitrary measurements and a lot more characteristic of Flat Earthers (KEEP THE EARTH THE SAME TEMPERATURE AS THE PAST!) than people who are Global Warming Skeptics.

  3. Re: I'd run, not walk from SC... on Turning Santa Cruz Into a Haven For Hackers, Makers & Startups · · Score: 1

    My family dates back to the 1910's I think in Santa Cruz. My grandfather, my father, and myself were raised there. Santa Cruz wants to be known for opposing the Iraq war and being a nuclear free zone. They have created housing for transient homeless but not for community college students failed by the local school system. The high schools had two paths: do well and go to school somewhere else or work in the service industry in town. UCSC is one of the lowest rated research universities in the UC system. Don't ask why Wrigley's gum and Plantronics shut down working wage factory jobs. And don't ask why Watsonville to the south has more growth and rising incomes. Let SC sink into the ocean. The city leaders have been trying to sink it for decades.

  4. Re:Good for the economy. on Use Tor, Get Targeted By the NSA · · Score: 1

    What sequester?

  5. Re:Awesome! on Use Tor, Get Targeted By the NSA · · Score: 1

    True, kinda a noob move. But Slashdot has been banning all the Tor Nodes today because the influx of Tor users has caused the website to think its a DOS attack and they haven't whitelisted the Tor Nodes. I've had to switch Tor Identities each page refresh. Slashdotters are all getting Tored up.

  6. Re:Good for the economy. on Use Tor, Get Targeted By the NSA · · Score: 1

    LOL ^^^ this guy thinks Reducing Taxes and a Balanced Budget are conversely related. It just requires the government to stop performing the functions it was never intended to do regardless. But from a strictly apples to apples comparison just check out the Laffer Curve, or hell the simple axiom of supply and demand. Lower price = more sales. Or another one: reduced taxes reduces the dead weight loss of tax inefficiencies thus creating more tax revenues through economic growth. Before Obama's tax increase we were spending $1.25 in reporting compliance for every $1 in taxes received by the government. That is DWL and its stifling our economy. But no, please do continue and tell me more about how Reduced Taxes and Balanced Budgets are conversely related.

  7. Re:Good for the economy. on Use Tor, Get Targeted By the NSA · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm intending to write BOMB a script that will add random Red Flag words to my emails OBAMA at random intervals in bold so NUKE everyone can continue to read my emails normally TERRORIST but the government will start getting inundated with my AL QAEDA schemes.

  8. Awesome! on Use Tor, Get Targeted By the NSA · · Score: 1

    Now if we all just start using Tor we'll give the government something to do. The message from the NSA is if you use Tor you are a criminal. Great Constitutional argument. BTW, this message was sent with TOR AND a anonomizing proxy.

  9. Microsoft Points on Best Buy To Carve Out Space For Microsoft Stores · · Score: 1

    Will I be able to use my expiring Microsoft Points in the Microsoft store to purchase things?

  10. Re: Genius! on What Charles G. Koch Can Teach Us About Campaign Finance Data · · Score: 1

    My instant reaction was anger because I thought the sunlight foundation weren't just partisan hacks. The government should be brought into the light. Is it unreasonable to ask for a list of everyone who visits every politician and the White House? On the other hand individual Americans practicing their First Amendment right to political expression through political donations should have a reasonable expectation that they won't be hunted by political scientists.

  11. Re: Who cares who donates and how much? on What Charles G. Koch Can Teach Us About Campaign Finance Data · · Score: 1

    You don't have to worry about that. The IRS is already taking care of it. Constitutional right to privacy for individuals? Let me reiterate this article is about an individual American citizen not a corporation.

  12. Genius! on What Charles G. Koch Can Teach Us About Campaign Finance Data · · Score: 1

    In the same month that we find out the government is surveilling on Americans without warrants and the government is auditing Americans based on their political donations this scientist was paid to release a study that the government needs more! authority to uniquely identify and track Americans. The blindness of partisanship.

  13. Re:Linux Release on Slashdot Killed My Kickstarter Campaign · · Score: 1

    I'm happy to purchase any of your products. I want to optimize my various internet connections and set data limits. It just has to be released for Linux for me to do so. The second that happens I'm on your email blast lists and I have my credit card in hand.

  14. Re:Linux Release on Slashdot Killed My Kickstarter Campaign · · Score: 1

    Might want to update your product FAQ as well to make it sound less like a development roadmap for Linux.

  15. Re:Linux Release on Slashdot Killed My Kickstarter Campaign · · Score: 2

    Well thank you for the reply. Let's just mutually hope that Switchboard for Linux doesn't get in the way of the development of your next product does like your development of Dispatch for Linux did. About every article I read regarding Dispatch claimed in the near future that the Linux version would be released. I understand the products are similar but its disheartening to hear that was purely advertisement.

  16. Re:Linux Release on Slashdot Killed My Kickstarter Campaign · · Score: 3, Funny

    I did create an account purely for this post because I've been wanting a Linux release of Dispatch for almost a year.

  17. Re:Linux Release on Slashdot Killed My Kickstarter Campaign · · Score: 1

    Says the anon

  18. Re:Linux Release on Slashdot Killed My Kickstarter Campaign · · Score: 2

    You can bond network interfaces moderately easy in Linux but I agree just for the sake of data overages with hotspots. I don't even run Windows so I could see myself purchasing Connectify's products.