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  1. Re:Why wait? on How the Web Makes a Real-Life Breaking Bad Possible · · Score: 1

    If you discount those factors, how do you resolve the varied reactions of the different substances? Not every heroin user becomes dependent; though a great many do.
    I didn't think the jury was in for chemical dependence wrt nicotine and cocaine.

  2. Re:Not only in the US... on Canadian Health Scientists Resort To Sneaker Net After Funding Slashed · · Score: 1

    So, if the CBC reported it, it does not count? That is convenient.
    If you were interested, though I doubt you are, you could look at the references, citations, etc.. in:
        Muzzling Civil Servants: A Threat to Democracy?
    which google will happily provide you a pointer to.

    In the unlikely event that you would bother, I am sure you would label them all, along with the authors, institutions, neighbourhoods, cities and provinces as anti-right. Facts are no match for blind, stupid partisanship.

  3. Re:Not interesting on Irish Politician Calls For Crackdown On Open Source Internet Browsers · · Score: 1

    An EU directive officially protects Leprechauns in an area known as The Sliabh Foy Loop due to Irish Law.

  4. Re:As long as they dont change it on Ampere Could Be Redefined After Experiments Track Single Electrons Crossing Chip · · Score: 1

    Would it be shocking if electric unit definitions themselves formed a circuit?

    Thank you very much, Iâ(TM)ll be here all week.

  5. standard c++ on Cairo 2D Graphics May Become Part of ISO C++ · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Is there anything it cannot do?
    The old C++ looks better and better as they nail every bit of crap they can find to her wretched offspring.

  6. Re:Same rules apply on Website Checkout Glitches: Two Very Different Corporate Responses · · Score: 1

    Some book I was reading has a story about a pair of suit salemen in the 1930s. When a customer wanted the price of the suit, one would yell the question to the other. The other replied $42, loudly and had to repeat it. The one would then tell the customer âoemy brother says its $20â. The customer would quickly buy the suit, taking advantage his hearing loss.

    The Brick use such a variety of dubious sales and payment practices, if I found myself with an unexpected discount, I would be afraid I signed up for some weird loan.

    Half of the Brickâ(TM)s customers have no idea what the real price they are paying is.

  7. Re:Stop trying on How Ya Gonna Get 'Em Down On the UNIX Farm? · · Score: 2

    Have you ever used a mac? Your great spouting of cliches suggest you havenâ(TM)t.
    OS X is UNIX(tm) - not UNIX-like, UNIX-wannabe, etc... UNIX. http://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/brand3602.htm/
    When did the shielding of lower layers become contradictory to UNIX philosophy?
    Why do you think it is called a shell?

  8. Re:Houston, We Have a Problem... on Houston Expands Downtown Surveillance, Unsure If It Helps · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The point is to sell surveillance equipment; have you been asleep for a decade?
    The invested parties - police, politicians, journalists, arms dealers and church leaders all have a problem: Crime is on a long decreasing trend, and nobody knows why!
    The police, to justify monstrous budgets, love surveillance gear. On the odd occasion it is useful for something other than catching shady cops, it makes for great TV. Great TV makes for proud citizens; and easy budget cycles. Journalists love great footage, so they can collect paycheques without working for it.
    Politicians love police (from a certain distance) since they lend a sheen of goodness to their creepy incompetence.

    This makes for easy pickings for the surveillance industry to sell boatloads of worthless crap to incompetents who have been trusted with your money. The last thing they need is some bearded hippy pointing out that it is all a scam.

  9. Re:Boy Am I tired of this.... on Antarctic Climate Research Expedition Trapped In Sea Ice · · Score: 1

    The earth is a fascinating place, with all its changes over time.
    In that 20,000 years civilization has risen from nearly nothing to what we have today, despite us being virtually unchanged. The likely footing for this advancement is stability of food supply, which rests upon the stability of climate.

    Tiring, I am sure, but critical none the less.

  10. Re:Technolog on Huge Pool of Ice-Free Water Discovered Under Greenland Ice · · Score: 4, Funny

    Google Subterrain was voted out by focus groups. The troglodyte minority was trounced by those smug hipsters with their Earth and Streetview apps.

  11. Re:Perhaps on Comparing G++ and Intel Compilers and Vectorized Code · · Score: 1

    Was your program dealing with dates or tenses?

  12. A slashdot first.... on Google's Plan To Kill the Corporate Network · · Score: 4, Funny

    They buy Apples to save money?

    Cue the frothing idiot tax minions....

  13. Re:But have you... on The Quietest Place On Earth Will Cause You To Hallucinate In 45 Minutes · · Score: 1

    I saw a documentary once where people took an hallucinogenic tincture in one. Apparently you might regress into an ape-like form.
    Its on my bucket list.

  14. Re:Charities had it right all along? on Computer Model Reveals Escape Plan From Poverty's Vicious Circle · · Score: 2

    Not throwing money, focussing on the health and wellbeing of the people. In Haiti, that has been a success, due to the hard work of Haitians and international volunteers in providing health care, food, shelter and supplies.

    The problem you are alluding to, that money for Haiti has been used by intermediary groups and governments as an in-and-out scheme to launder money and prop-up domestic business failures is quite different. The responsibility for first world corruption should remain in the first world.

  15. Charities had it right all along? on Computer Model Reveals Escape Plan From Poverty's Vicious Circle · · Score: 1

    Who would have thought? Well I guess WHO, CARE, Red Cross, Oxfam, ...
    But, now we know the reason...

  16. Re:very understandable on Disabled Woman Denied Entrance To US Due To Private Medical Records · · Score: 1

    Combined with a fear of the sorts of people who like to arm themselves.

    If I carried a condom with me everywhere, I would eventually feel depressed about not having an opportunity to use it. Would this nagging contrast between my imaginary magnetism and actual prowess change my behaviour? Would I take, or worse seek out, riskier opportunities to avoid facing the grim reality: I really have no need whatsoever to carry a condom with me.

  17. Re:The only fix for vampire draw on Tesla Model S Has Bizarre 'Vampire-Like' Thirst For Electricity At Night · · Score: 1

    U S A ! U S A ! U S A !

    - need an emoticon for fist pump

  18. Re:It will be ok. on Tremors Mean Antarctic Volcanism May Be Heating Up · · Score: 1

    When it is fully understood, it will be on the History channel. That is the nature of difficult problems. As it stands, the IR absorption by CO2 seems pretty well understood. The amount we have released is very well understood. Shy of one of the other variables changing dramatically, the course is pretty well set.
    Other variables will change. There may be more volcanoes, throwing more co2 into the atmosphere. But there is nothing we can do to stop that, so all we have done then is to worsen the problem.
    The sun might start providing less energy, or the soot from more volcanoes reflect more of that energy away from the earth. In that case, we may have thwarted a disaster with our CO2 pollution.

    Standing by until we are 100% positive, ignoring all the best information we can collect, with a backup plan of hoping for an unspecified global event to save us is an intriguing strategy. Are there any situations in which it works?

  19. It will be ok. on Tremors Mean Antarctic Volcanism May Be Heating Up · · Score: 4, Funny

    We are getting rid of that ice as fast as we can.

  20. Ah, Adobe on FBI Reports US Agencies Hacked By Anonymous · · Score: 2

    Is there anything your software canâ(TM)t do?

  21. Going a bit off topic. on Where Does America's Fear Come From? · · Score: 1

    Diem was executed on Nov 2, 1963. Three weeks later, JFK was assassinated.
    Everybody (outside the US) seemed to know about the US involvement in the coup and execution.
    Why does this never come up in the endless theories about the JFK assassination?

  22. Re:At which point on Feinstein and Rogers: No Clemency For Snowden · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I agree with most of Russelâ(TM)s essay, but not voting is a poor choice of protest. I think that the best way to scare a politician is with huge voter turnout. In the long run, it probably matters less who you vote for than the fact that you vote.
    The ruling class are meek; not voting emboldens them.

  23. Re:Why do they go through all the trouble? on Full Details of My Attempted Entrapment For Teaching Polygraph Countermeasures · · Score: 2

    It is a multi-faceted intimidation tool. It works by convincing the target that their defence is hopeless. Knowing it is a myth doesn't help if everybody else in the penal(*) system believes in it. There is value in propping up the myth - it helps close cases. Even if you are falsely incarcerated because of it, you were probably guilty of something....

    (*) Of course, if it were a justice system, such chicanery would have no place.

  24. Re:It is about time!!! on Toyota's Killer Firmware · · Score: 0

    feel better now?
    Maybe that telegraph writer was right...

  25. Re:We also need... on Even the Author of the Patriot Act Is Trying To Stop the NSA · · Score: 2

    +1.
    Is there really any benefit to having legislation spell out like an awkward cheerleading chant? It must be so embarrassing for them.