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  1. Change happens - and it's bad on How Climate Scientists Parallel Early Atomic Scientists · · Score: 1

    In fact, it is true that regional climate change has been happening here and there all through human history.

    Unfortunately, it has tended to bring down entire civilizations.

    So if there's a change in climate that we're causing, may we should stop.

  2. Re:floodgates? on Alan Turing Likely To Be Given Posthumous Pardon · · Score: 1

    As long as it's okay if someday there's a law that says there's a new time limit on issuing pardons, say, ten years, and all those convictions are then summarily reinstated. The alternative is that justice could never be final.

  3. Re:floodgates? on Alan Turing Likely To Be Given Posthumous Pardon · · Score: 1

    Revisionism is about placing political correctness above reality. A pardon would be a political statement, not a legal opinion, and would merely add insult to injury.

  4. The right idea but on Study Finds Fracking Chemicals Didn't Pollute Water · · Score: 1

    ....groundwater moves 1) very slowly, and 2) horizontally as well as vertically.

  5. Re:Started out impressive on Small Town Builds Its Own Gigabyte Network; Cost To Citizens $57/month · · Score: 1

    In the example, $3.25 buys you ~0.9972 gallons, not 0.9.

  6. Re:What about new talent? on Kernel Dev Tells Linus Torvalds To Stop Using Abusive Language · · Score: 1

    No, that's not respect. You're learning.

  7. Re:I blame the DOM too on Former Sun Mobile JIT Engineers Take On Mobile JavaScript/HTML Performance · · Score: 2

    How about video and flashy graphics that add no information? Or very complex layouts that get text exactly the way the designer intended and which look horrible on any screen not the target size?

    By bloat I mean clutter, not speed.

  8. Screwdriver on Scientists Use Sound Waves To Levitate, Move Objects · · Score: 1

    When will they turn screws using sound?

  9. Re:I blame the DOM too on Former Sun Mobile JIT Engineers Take On Mobile JavaScript/HTML Performance · · Score: 1

    Or maybe just most webpages are ridiculously bloated.

  10. Cat television... on TV Programmers Seek the Elusive Dog Market · · Score: 1

    ...didn't turn out so well:

    www.simonscat.com/Films/Screen-Grab/

  11. Re:why ? on TV Programmers Seek the Elusive Dog Market · · Score: 1

    That and Dogs are not really visual animals like Humans are.

    I could be wrong, but I think they are also among the mammals that see two colours instead of three like humans.

  12. Who? on TV Programmers Seek the Elusive Dog Market · · Score: 1

    I swear when I looked it said "Stephen Colbert reports"....

  13. Re:Definitely... on Edward Snowden Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 1

    Um, actually fighting the slave trade was already cool when the US joined the bandwagon.

  14. Re:Nice on Edward Snowden Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 1

    ...and overthrew the actual legitimate government.

  15. Re:Nice on Edward Snowden Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 1

    America the military-industrial complex or America the noble idealism? It can't be both because those are opposites.

  16. Re:Nice on Edward Snowden Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 1

    Well, everyone thought he wasn't Bush, but we're not so sure now.

  17. Re:Nice on Edward Snowden Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 1

    In the ancient world. religious leaders occupied roles closer to what economists do today.

  18. Re:Nice on Edward Snowden Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 1

    Communism was its own religion, it just wasn't honest about it.

  19. Gender relations on The Middle East Beats the West In Female Tech Founders · · Score: 1

    I wonder is this could be one factor:

    In societies where male and female normally interact with each other at all ages, males with poor social skills in general might gravitate towards fields that are dominated by interactions with machines or technology rather than people. Therefore women perceive the male community in these fields as hostile.

    In societies with gender segregation, everyone has poor skills interacting the the opposite sex, so technology is the same as every other occupation.

  20. Re:Hindu-Arabic numerals on The Middle East Beats the West In Female Tech Founders · · Score: 1

    Well, we lifted it indirectly from the Arabs, as Arabic numbers came from the Western Muslims in Spain. The numbers used by actual Arabs look quite different.

  21. Re:The crazy is strong in this one on What Medical Tests Should Teach Us About the NSA Surveillance Program · · Score: 1

    The fact that the NSA is not really trying find terrorists does not mean that other terrorists do not exist.

  22. Re:It seems likely on What Medical Tests Should Teach Us About the NSA Surveillance Program · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If the intention was to help the American people

    The goal is to benefit the bank accounts of a small set of the American people.

    Sociopaths will flatter themselves that they got it close enough.

  23. Re:Fines.. on NHS Fined After Computer Holding Patient Records Found On eBay · · Score: 1

    They should fine the contractor instead

    Suing the contractor is hopefully NHS's next step.

  24. Re:Why is this on Slashdot? on George Zimmerman Acquitted In Death of Trayvon Martin · · Score: 1

    At best it's a local crime story that mutated into a media circus. How broad 'local' should be is open to debate, but definitely not to tech community at large nor outside the US.

  25. No mastermind on Mastermind of 9/11 Attacks Designs a Secret Vacuum Cleaner · · Score: 1

    He didn't come up with the idea, he just watched what Israel and the US were doing on a daily basis. Even the suicide element had already been tried.