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  1. Re:Yes, it's important that deadly viruses. . . on Let's Rename Swine Flu As "Colbert Flu" · · Score: 1

    Leviticus is Jewish law. Most Christians feel that the new covenant established by Jesus supplants the OT dietary restrictions. In the NT in fact it says that what you put into your body doesn't make you unclean. I think it would be more accurate to say bacon is not forbidden by any major religions except for Judaism and Islam.

  2. Re:Dear Bruce... on Let's Rename Swine Flu As "Colbert Flu" · · Score: 1

    Which forum? I'm in California and I call it the Mexican Flue and I'm still here.

  3. Re:Um. on Drug-Sniffing Drones Take To the Skies In the Netherlands · · Score: 1

    So what have we got here? A nice system for turning ordinary citizens into criminals. What a great idea!

    It's madness in my opinion. I have nothing against legalizing cannabis, but do it the right way. Legalize everything so that professional growers (or amateurs turning professional) can make legal money with it or don't legalize it at all.

    Yeah it's madness, but you're still lightyears ahead of the US and many other countries.

  4. Re:Um. on Drug-Sniffing Drones Take To the Skies In the Netherlands · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Isn't that only a problem with it being illegal to grow weed? If we weren't so moronic about the plant people would be growing it in their backyards or greenhouses without any risk of fire.

  5. Re:Plausible Denial? on Forensics Tool Finds Headerless Encrypted Files · · Score: 1

    No, I still don't think that's the case. POSIX unlink works pretty much regardless of the state of the file. I just wrote a little test program that opens itself O_RDONLY and unlinks itself while the file descriptor is still open. The executable deletes itself with no errors.

  6. Re:Plausible Denial? on Forensics Tool Finds Headerless Encrypted Files · · Score: 1

    It's not meant to be cute, I don't know what you are getting at. What certain way does it need to be opened to allow this?

  7. Re:Plausible Denial? on Forensics Tool Finds Headerless Encrypted Files · · Score: 1

    ...because files can't delete themselves

    Since when?

    pete@lenore ~/tmp $ ls
    rm*
    pete@lenore ~/tmp $ ./rm rm
    pete@lenore ~/tmp $ ls
    pete@lenore ~/tmp $

  8. Re:Why is it a bad thing? on FEMA Removes 9/11 Coloring Book For Children From Website · · Score: 1

    Think that nobody in NYC born after 9/11 was scared by the recent Air Force 1 fly-bys?

    Yeah, probably not. What would be scary about it for a 7 year old? All I imagine them saying would be "Cool, a plane!".

  9. Re:Wireless Mighty Mouse on Bluetooth Versus Wireless Mice · · Score: 1

    So basically, my post is useless, except to say that whenever you can, try before you buy.

    Or try after you buy, but make sure you have a good return policy.

  10. Re:Ok? on Scientists Build World's Fastest Camera · · Score: 1

    From TFS:

    "The camera could be used for studies of combustion, laser cutting and any system that changes quickly and unpredictably"

  11. Re:Where's the tech? on Senator Arlen Specter Becomes a Democrat · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Since when are nerds only interested in tech? Politics is always relevant.

  12. Re:Pennsylvania Politics (As Usual?) on Senator Arlen Specter Becomes a Democrat · · Score: 1

    Pennsylvania is not the only northeastern state that has closed primaries.

  13. Re:Republicans need to forcibly remove party label on Senator Arlen Specter Becomes a Democrat · · Score: 1

    Nice false dichotomy there, genius.

  14. Re:Republicans need to forcibly remove party label on Senator Arlen Specter Becomes a Democrat · · Score: 1

    They're as much the party of spending cuts today as they've ever been. They also claimed to support that but when have they ever actually done it?

  15. Re:Ugh... on Senator Arlen Specter Becomes a Democrat · · Score: 1

    That's not a bad idea. At least people would have to do some homework if they wanted to vote a straight party ticket.

  16. Re:Ugh... on Senator Arlen Specter Becomes a Democrat · · Score: 1

    Actually our voting system favors a two party system, so although the founding fathers didn't intend for us to have two parties they are somewhat responsible. If we a better voting system than first across the post then although parties wouldn't be gone, their power would probably be diminished significantly.

  17. Re:Hahaha, good one. on Senator Arlen Specter Becomes a Democrat · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "It's popular therefore it's right". Thanks for the insight.

  18. Re:Single Senator Theory on Senator Arlen Specter Becomes a Democrat · · Score: 1

    That's one magic senator.

  19. Re:Hahaha, good one. on Senator Arlen Specter Becomes a Democrat · · Score: 1

    Who?

  20. Re:Resolution != size. on A $99 Graphics Card Might Be All You Need · · Score: 1

    TVs are irrelevant, since the images they display have a set resolution while for computers they don't. That's why TVs of all sizes were about the same resolution.

    It's true larger computer monitors don't have to have higher resolution, but they do tend to.

  21. Re:Could the world of high-end PC graphics go Away on A $99 Graphics Card Might Be All You Need · · Score: 1

    How does that work? You're still producing the same amount of heat. Water cooling just moves it away from the electronics and into the room faster.

  22. Re:Administration on Obama Says 3% of GDP Should Fund Science Research And Development · · Score: 1

    From 1983 until 2001, Islamic terrorists directly struck U.S. interests somewhere in the world in a spectacular fashion with a frequency on the order of every two years. Since September 11, 2001, the only successful terrorist attacks against direct U.S. interests have been against troops deployed in a combat zone. That is not a disaster.

    Why would Al Qaeda need to stage another spectacular attack on US soil? They had already drawn the US into two intractable wars costing us thousands of American lives and trillions of dollars. Bush gave them exactly what they wanted.

    That said aside from the unsolved anthrax mailings there have been plenty of attacks on US interests. And from that chart they actually increased in frequency after 9/11, completely contrary to your assertion.

    Isn't it time to retire the "Bush kept us safe" talking point? Seriously, Bush is probably near the bottom of the list for recent presidents by that metric. It's downright Orwellian that he based his campaign on that fiction and it's an even bigger disgrace that the country fell for it.

  23. Re:Administration on Obama Says 3% of GDP Should Fund Science Research And Development · · Score: 1

    As poor as the marketing of Kerry was, someone had to vote for Bush and it wasn't the liberals.

    After such a lousy first term, I would think the burden of proof would have been on the Republicans to argue for re-election. Apparently that's not the case.

  24. Re:Administration on Obama Says 3% of GDP Should Fund Science Research And Development · · Score: 1

    If they had tried to nominate someone else for the Republican nominee, the wounds from the fighting would have led to the Democrats winning the election, which would have been a disaster in 2004.

    Maybe. Would it have been as much of a disaster as Bush's reelection was? Probably not.

  25. Re:Wow.... on Air Force One Flyby Causes Brief Panic In NYC · · Score: 1

    How did all the ignorant cowboys get modded +5 and you didn't yet? It must be Ayn Rand day at slashdot.