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  1. Re:A simple question on As Seas Rise, Maldives Seek To Buy a New Homeland · · Score: 1
    So you propose something like the Atoll from Waterworld?

    And what are they going to do there? Cram all the tourists that would have gone to one of the many tiny islets together into a huge hotel, and have them dive from the levee into the former coral underwater landscape destroyed by the construction? Gee, I guess there goes their largest source of income.

  2. Re:Australia? on As Seas Rise, Maldives Seek To Buy a New Homeland · · Score: 1

    That and the fact that every animal that lives there has either deadly venom or sharp teeth or is a koala. ;)

    Dropbear!

  3. Re:A myth. on As Seas Rise, Maldives Seek To Buy a New Homeland · · Score: 1

    Hey, I'm all for moving to the alternatives. I just want to see it done in such a fashion as to actually be successful. Kyoto doesn't sound like a recipe for success to me. From my vantage point it looks like an economic and environmental disaster waiting to happen.

    So your solution is to just wait it out, and hope fixing things up later will be cheap enough.

  4. Re:Umm... the sun? on As Seas Rise, Maldives Seek To Buy a New Homeland · · Score: 1

    I really don't get why people are so reluctant to consider that burnin considering that solar activity and sunspot activity have a stronger correlation to temperature trends.

    Ohh. does it? Then why don't you show us?

  5. Re:A myth. on As Seas Rise, Maldives Seek To Buy a New Homeland · · Score: 1

    "In a phone interview, Christy said that while he supports the AGU declaration, and is convinced that human activities are the major cause of the global warming that has been measured" - Earth warming at faster pace, say top science group's leaders "It is scientifically inconceivable that after changing forests into cities, turning millions of acres into farmland, putting massive quantities of soot and dust into the atmosphere and sending quantities of greenhouse gases into the air, that the natural course of climate change hasn't been increased in the past century.''

  6. Re:the new way: on How 10 Iconic Tech Products Got Their Names · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hint: it'll probably be spelt strangely.

    What do you know? http://www.speltstrangely.com/ is available!

    Finally a name for my OSS speech recognition project!

  7. Re:Regulations on How Regulations Hamper Chemical Hobbyists · · Score: 1

    I doubt that woman's name was "Brian Jones"

  8. Re:Regulations on How Regulations Hamper Chemical Hobbyists · · Score: 1

    The problem with drowning isn't drinking the water, it's breathing water.

  9. Re:Counterproductive Legalese fluff... on Former IBM Exec Ordered To Stop Working For Apple · · Score: 1

    So he can give IBM's trade secrets about blade servers to Apple to include in the iPods, but Apple will still have to find a new Senior Vice President of Devices Hardware Engineering.

  10. Re:Open source, remember? fix already out on Bug In Android Passes Keystrokes To Root Shell · · Score: 1

    For a bunch of people that don't work for the company that produced the flaw?

    Hell, for a second there I thought the G1 was a commercial product. Thanks for reminding me.

  11. Re:The Truth on iTunes On OS X Finally Has Competition · · Score: 1

    I must have misread the title of this story then.

  12. Re:Open source, remember? fix already out on Bug In Android Passes Keystrokes To Root Shell · · Score: 1

    Bingo - You won't see this sort of turnaround time for a fix for the iPhone.

    You are calling over a week to simply disable debugging code a good turnaround time?

  13. Re:Here we are again on In UK, 12M Taxpayers Lost With USB Stick · · Score: 1

    IOW you admit I was right.

  14. Re:Ubuntu if you want to on Ubuntu 8.10 vs. Mac OS X 10.5.5 Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    lol, you have to beg apple to fix shit. Glad I have Ubuntu so I can fix problems myself, luckily I don't have problems like you iTard.

    Fine - call us when your fixed Ubuntu beats OS X in all benchmarks.

  15. Re:Thoughts on ESA Unveils Re-Entry Module · · Score: 1

    There also doesn't appear to be any redundancy, which has long been a design contention in the US and Russian schools of thoughts. I don't know where the ESA is, philosophically, on this issue. But, the absense of thrusters in the nose leaves few options if the brakes fail or are damaged.

    ESA's philosophy is: don't add redundancy for pretty much the only thing your going to test.

  16. Re:What good is a sub patent ... on Theora 1.0 Released, Supported By Firefox · · Score: 1

    It costs less money and demotivates as hell.

    Again what good does "costs less money but doesn't bring in any." Submarine patents don't exist to "demotivate".

  17. What good is a sub patent ... on Theora 1.0 Released, Supported By Firefox · · Score: 1

    ... if you release the torpedo before the target leaves the shipyard?

  18. Re:Voter registration on How We Used To Vote · · Score: 1

    Your post triggered this synaptic cascade:

    If people are registered by default just for being born, what do you do about the system's tendency to leave dead people marked as "still alive"??

    It isn't that easy to conceal a death, and when a death certificate is issued, the register could be informed.

  19. Re:Here we are again on In UK, 12M Taxpayers Lost With USB Stick · · Score: 1

    The same people who say you can't "steal" data because it is still there will gladly say that you can lose it even if it's still there.

    The same people have mod points and are willing to abuse them, it seems.

  20. Re:Advanced Bad & Summary on Charity Refuses Donation Because of D&D Connection · · Score: 1

    The Richard Dawkins Society made the decision to decline the gift from "Left Behind Fragfest LLC" as the request presented to us gave the appearance that RDS (the organization) was an endorser or supporter of a gaming convention, which RDS was not. As many non-profit organizations, RDS is selective in its endorsements or support in order to maintain the integrity of its name and logo. We cannot lend our name to an event for which we have no involvement. This decision should in no way be interpreted as RDS holding an opinion on God, gaming enthusiasts or the game "Left Behind: Eternal Forces".

  21. Re:Advanced Bad & Summary on Charity Refuses Donation Because of D&D Connection · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    No, this particular donation appeared to imply an endorsement. They're in no way saying that every donation received implies an endorsement. Why they feel that way is probably related to the detail of how the funds were raised and donated (as in, I'm not a lawyer so I wouldn't know).

    Yeah, you are right - they are just saying that this particular donation by this particular group of devil worshipers would imply an endorsement - thanks for clearing that up.

  22. Re:Not exactly true on How We Used To Vote · · Score: 1

    That's exactly what all of the procedures of anonymous voting are designed to protect. You have to make sure that the people running the election aren't connected to the people running the prison of course, but if the procedures are solid, then all the prisoners can lie right to the warden's face about how they voted, and there's no effective way that the warden will be able to verify anything.

    You mean apart from telling the prisoners in advance you will be beating up as many prisoners randomly as those who voted "wrong". Which will make sure the mob of prisoners will beat anybody who they expect to dissent, with promises of more beating if they get punished by the boss.

    BTW, the boss isn't necessarily the warden.

  23. Re:Why... on Opera Mini Not Rejected From iPhone (Yet) · · Score: 1

    But the article didn't mention the they ported Mobile to the iPhone - so why bring it up? Unless of course its a cumbersome way of agreeing that Opera Mini for the iPhone is an insult without saying it.

  24. Re:Don't challenge the sacred chants on 1/3 of Amphibians Dying Out · · Score: 1

    The Globe is warming
    Experimental variable: "man-made increase in CO2" - correlates
    Experimental variables: "Something Else" - doesn't correlate
    "Valid" conclusion: it must be Something Else (TM).

  25. Re:Pollution/Habitat loss, not global warming! on 1/3 of Amphibians Dying Out · · Score: 1

    Yeah, keep ignoring that they were "forecasting those dramatic effects tens years in the future" for about a century now. And guess what happened.