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  1. Re:Litigious Much on "Clock Boy" Ahmed Mohamed Seeking $15 Million In Damages · · Score: 1

    [quote]I wonder if some of these men would be into religion if they lived in modern times. It seems to me that back in the day the church was a great place for someone into science to get "funded" to do some research. [/quote]

    That may be a viable argument for Mendel and early scientists that laid the foundation for modern European intellectual thought, it doesn't apply to the ones making contributions today or in recent history (like Lemaitre).

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    You might find some chaff in that list, but you'll see there's still plenty of scientists in multiple fields that are tied to the Church. In just the field of astronomy we have comets, areas of moons/planets, and space craft named after them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  2. Re:Scientific method was also promoted by clergy on "Clock Boy" Ahmed Mohamed Seeking $15 Million In Damages · · Score: 1

    You might be thinking of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... who was a Bishop of Lincoln. Not near London, but English.

  3. Re:Which everyone had to be on "Clock Boy" Ahmed Mohamed Seeking $15 Million In Damages · · Score: 1

    Is that why the "father of the modern scientific method" Robert Grosseteste was a BISHOP? Nevermind that monks are people who have taken religious vows. Mendel by the way was a Friar, which is similar but different than a monk. Either way, in both cases they join religious orders. This is something that any person wishing to get educated DID NOT have to do. Going to religious school and being a monk are not synonymous.

  4. Re:Litigious Much on "Clock Boy" Ahmed Mohamed Seeking $15 Million In Damages · · Score: 2

    And Isaac Newton spent a lot of time trying to figure out when Armageddon would happen (sometime after 2060 apparently) so what's your point?

  5. Re:I Should Be A Judge on "Clock Boy" Ahmed Mohamed Seeking $15 Million In Damages · · Score: 1

    Because of the improvised nature of IEDs (the first word genius), real IEDs can look like anything. So in effect the clock he made looks like an IED, because anything can. The law is there for the common person not have to deal with believed threats that are not real. If it looks like something "like a cartoon or movie bomb," which is what most people expect an IED or terrorist bomb to look like, than it's illegal.

  6. Re:Good on "Clock Boy" Ahmed Mohamed Seeking $15 Million In Damages · · Score: 1

    Why is the school being punished? The police decided to arrest him.

  7. Re:"I left my Ethernet dongle at home." on Tim Cook: Apple Won't Create 'Converged' MacBook and iPad (independent.ie) · · Score: 1

    Answer the question. Do you know what happens when two devices with the same MAC address connect to a network?

    And at what point did I say that MAC address filtering is an effective block. Go look over my comments you idiot. You raging idiot.

  8. Re:"I left my Ethernet dongle at home." on Tim Cook: Apple Won't Create 'Converged' MacBook and iPad (independent.ie) · · Score: 1

    You completely ignored my point moron. Do you know what happens when devices with the same MAC connect to a network?

  9. Yeah, I just realized this. I didn't know they were called "hoverboards." Now I feel like I should sue for false advertising...

  10. Re: In other words... on How Bill Nye Insulted NASCAR Fans About the Sport Being the "Anti-NASA" (examiner.com) · · Score: 1

    ...They are...

    They may not have the body styling or even the general frame sometimes, but the engines and other innards are usually based on real cars. That's why there's a thing about, this driver uses a Chevy or that one uses a Ford, etc.

  11. Re:For who's eyes only? on Georgia Gives Personal Data of 6 Million Voters To Georgia GunOwner Magazine (ajc.com) · · Score: 1

    Because the government doesn't want to or have the money to spend on such a system. Or they just don't want one.

  12. Unrelated to the article but tangentially related here. I just heard on the radio this morning an ad for a report from my local news station about the dangers of hoverboards. Apparently a) we do have them? b) it's news that they're any more dangerous than real skateboards.

  13. Re:"I left my Ethernet dongle at home." on Tim Cook: Apple Won't Create 'Converged' MacBook and iPad (independent.ie) · · Score: 1

    Are you stupid? I just mentioned spoofing. How easy it is, isn't relevant. You still have to know the MAC of the devices connecting to the wAP. You're limited to trying to connect when the device you're spoofing isn't connected to the network, otherwise detection is really easy.

    Don't get your panties in a twist just because I'm explaining how wrong you are and that chafes your sensibilities.

  14. Re:In other words... on Could a Change In Wording Attract More Women To Infosec? (csoonline.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    No, yes means yes for now, but I reserve the right to change my answer at any time.

  15. Re:Speechless on Could a Change In Wording Attract More Women To Infosec? (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    Hmm, maybe, but I'm not that old.

  16. Re:Speechless on Could a Change In Wording Attract More Women To Infosec? (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Welcome to Poe's law.

  17. Re:In other words... on Could a Change In Wording Attract More Women To Infosec? (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    No means no!

  18. Re:Yes, becaue women are bundles of unbridled emot on Could a Change In Wording Attract More Women To Infosec? (csoonline.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    An SJW would actually promote this tactic. There was an article from CNNMoney a year ago that honestly said that we'd have more women going for IT jobs if we changed the wording of the job description. For instance use cooperative instead of competitive. Or don't use hard work in the description.

  19. Re: Real smart fella (sarcasm) on Democrat Drops MN State House Run After Tweeting 'ISIS Isn't Necessarily Evil' (startribune.com) · · Score: 1

    A lot of the Westerners flocking to ISIS are educated people.

  20. Re:Real smart fella (sarcasm) on Democrat Drops MN State House Run After Tweeting 'ISIS Isn't Necessarily Evil' (startribune.com) · · Score: 1

    You apparently do not have a clear view of what it was actually like living as dhimmi. It was not like how it appears on paper.

  21. Re:"I left my Ethernet dongle at home." on Tim Cook: Apple Won't Create 'Converged' MacBook and iPad (independent.ie) · · Score: 1

    No it's not. When you have MAC address filtering, it's easier to detect devices that should not be on the network, even if they're spoofing the address. SSID hiding is also still worthwhile as it can help determine if there's an evil twin or a rogue access point.

  22. Re: An unreadable sentence on Breakthrough Algorithm Reported For Graph Isomorphsim (scottaaronson.com) · · Score: 1

    It wasn't that it was boring. It just seemed out of place given my preceding comment.

  23. Re: An unreadable sentence on Breakthrough Algorithm Reported For Graph Isomorphsim (scottaaronson.com) · · Score: 1

    Did you reply to the wrong person?

  24. Re:An unreadable sentence on Breakthrough Algorithm Reported For Graph Isomorphsim (scottaaronson.com) · · Score: 1

    *WOOSH*

    Person comments on lack of double spaces in HTML formatted text. Proceeds to lack double spaces in his HTML formatted text.

  25. Re:An unreadable sentence on Breakthrough Algorithm Reported For Graph Isomorphsim (scottaaronson.com) · · Score: 1

    I do it out of spite sometimes when writing a paper. I got dinged for it so much in school.