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  1. Re:Other title sugestion on US Central Command's Twitter Account Hacked, Filled With Pro-ISIS Messages · · Score: 1

    Is anything specifically known about how ISIS got in?

  2. Re: Mann: science by lawsuit on Michael Mann: Swiftboating Comes To Science · · Score: 1

    'Church of Warminetics' is my term for the politico-religious position, the only kind of position the left takes on every environmental issue, that carbon warming is apocalyptic and we are all doomed to extinction with no hope of redemption. That's why these same people automatically write off any technological approach to solving the problem, like shifting to nuclear power or seeding the oceans to produce carbon-absorbing algal blooms.

    The CoW doesn't want carbon warming to be solved. They want us all to die.

  3. Re:can sombody say.... on 'Silk Road Reloaded' Launches On a Network More Secret Than Tor · · Score: 1

    Let's just introduce the new top-level domain .nsa, and have done with it.

  4. Re: Questionable on Google Fund To Pay For 1 Million Copies of Charlie Hebdo · · Score: 1

    The rallies and cartoons at least let ISIS know that their Stone Age crackpot faith and those who promote it are no longer welcome in Europe. Send them back to their hellholes of origin before the next attack.

  5. Re: Mann: science by lawsuit on Michael Mann: Swiftboating Comes To Science · · Score: 1

    I'm not speaking as a "denier" here. I trust the scientific method to eventually come to a fact-driven conclusion, whichever that may be, on carbon warming. My objection is to the way the left has clutched warming to its heart by demanding, that science confirm the most apocalyptic possible scenario on climate. In doing so they use the methods of Maoist politics, not science, such as demanding that the credentials of dissenting scientists be rervoked.

    Mann's suit is not just a babyish response to criticism. It's an attempt to establish the hockey stick curve by legal fiat.

  6. This is more significant than we realize on Nintendo Puts Business In Brazil On Hiatus · · Score: 1

    Brazil has a longstanding special relationship with Japan. For generations, Japanese have treated Brazil as a frontier for settlement, with a long list of accompanying trade deals. Having a comeant the size of Nintendo pull out is a major blow to the old relationship.

  7. Mann: science by lawsuit on Michael Mann: Swiftboating Comes To Science · · Score: 2, Insightful

    When Canadian columnist Mark Steyn questioned Church of Warminetics doctrine, Mann took the unusual step of filing a suit:

    http://www.steynonline.com/656...

    I never knew that hiring lawyers was such a crucial element of the scientific method.

  8. Re:The religion of peace on In Paris, Terrorists Kill 2 More, Take At Least 7 Hostages · · Score: 0

    Time for you to send them back to the hellholes they and their parents came from.

  9. Re:These people scare me on How Close Are We To Engineering the Climate? · · Score: 1

    The Chinese are fully aware that they have a huge coal problem and are racing to nuclearize (using the American standard plant design) away their carbon emissions. And when the Chinese need to build something, they just f* build it.

  10. Re: As much as could be expected on White House Responds To Petition To Fire Aaron Swartz's Prosecutor · · Score: 1

    Not my vote, kemo sabay.

  11. Re:Time for some leaps and not baby steps on Scientist Says Potential Signs of Ancient Life in Mars Rover Photos · · Score: 1

    The reason for this asymmetry is that Mars has a much smaller gravity well than Earth, so spallation of surface material into space by an incoming meteorite is more likely.

  12. Re:Imagine going back in time 15 years and on Scientist Says Potential Signs of Ancient Life in Mars Rover Photos · · Score: 1

    It's weird in your timeline, isn't it?

  13. Re:US CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY & GLOBAL TERRORI on Scientist Says Potential Signs of Ancient Life in Mars Rover Photos · · Score: 1

    Offtopic I know, but after today we're going to double down.

  14. France, Netherlands, and UK have the same problem on Gunmen Kill 12, Wound 7 At French Magazine HQ · · Score: 0

    Colonial-era laws that were designed to allow home-country colonials carte blanche to move into colonized countries like India, Algeria and Indonesia. As a cynical gesture of fairness, colonials were given the same right to migrate freely to the home country without going through regular immigration channels. When the law was written, no Indonesian peasant could save enough in a lifetime to buy passage to Amsterdam. Today, they can do so easily, and the Islamists among them now form a huge radical rabble infesting the old colonial powers.

    Although Germany has a milder version of the same problem, caused by freely taking in "refugees" rather than colonialism, Islamic takeovers in cities like Dresden are causing a significant backlash among Germans, including regular immigrants. Watch for this effect magnified in France.

  15. Re:Solve problems on Earth first on Should We Be Content With Our Paltry Space Program? · · Score: 1

    Astronauts, be they governmental or private, are not fast food food workers. They voluntarily assume high personal risk and are paid accordingly. Additionally, a surprisingly large market of those who will pay dearly for the privilege of assuming personal risk has appeared.

  16. Here in Arizona on Extreme Heat Knocks Out Internet In Australia · · Score: 1

    We don't start complaining about the heat until it hits 50C.

  17. Re:You're not going to like this on Should We Be Content With Our Paltry Space Program? · · Score: 1

    You need to have your hearing checked. This is "news for NERDS."

  18. Re:Solve problems on Earth first on Should We Be Content With Our Paltry Space Program? · · Score: 1

    If the "solving all the here and now problems" filter had been applied through history, no exploration would ever have taken place because that criterion has never in any society been met. NASA performs highly efficiently with its robot probes, returning craptons of science per dollar, and manned programs are now moving into the private sector, where astronauts can take risks with impunity.

  19. Re:No we shouldnt on Should We Be Content With Our Paltry Space Program? · · Score: 2

    Except that right now, private space efforts are popping up everywhere. Corporations may be run by MBAs, but quite a few of their billionaire founders are famed for their long-term thinking.

  20. Re:Any actual examples? on Tumblr Co-Founder: Apple's Software Is In a Nosedive · · Score: 1

    Handoff is somewhat spotty but it works pretty well for me. What I really appreciate is being able to conduct a text conversations on both my iPhone (if I need to show what's going on outside) or my iMac (if I'm typing long messages).

  21. Re:Any actual examples? on Tumblr Co-Founder: Apple's Software Is In a Nosedive · · Score: 1

    I've got one, FWIW. I have always been able to VNC instantaneously from my iMac to my wife'a Mac Mini ("Screen sharing"). The latest two OS X releases give me the nice feature of being able to log into the Mini as any user, rather than just share the current screen, but it now takes several minutes for the iMac to find the Mini, though both are running the latest Yosemite release. This is a known problem, with a lot of users grousing about it on forums, but no word from Apple so far.

  22. Re:This fad not done yet? on Project Ryptide Drone Flies Life-Rings To Distressed Swimmers · · Score: 2

    Now it happens that drones are ideal for general carpet bombing...

  23. Re:Stick a fork in, Uber is done. on Uber Must Submit CEO Emails · · Score: 1

    Precisely why Microsoft was never an actual monopoly. During that entire period, users had a choice of buying Apple for a little more or running Linux on their very Windows PCs, and for free

  24. Re:It may not be for me... on Microsoft Unveils Nokia 215, a $29 Phone With Internet Access · · Score: 1

    But how fast can it run Cryptowall?

  25. Re:In other news... on Ancient Planes and Other Claims Spark Controversy at Indian Science Congress · · Score: 3, Informative

    I was wondering when NC would stop promoting cowardice on its license plates.