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  1. Re:For the benefit of the non-US people here on DOJ Wants ISPs to Retain All Customer Records · · Score: 1

    If digital wiretapping is not akin to "searching" through "papers", what is???

  2. Epson is ok for refilling on Testing Cheaper Printer Ink · · Score: 1

    You just need to buy a 10 gizmo to reset the cartridge chips.

    Linux support and print quality is awesome on the cheap Photo printers (R2xx/R3xx), even with bottled ink.

  3. Re:Refills Kill a Printer on Testing Cheaper Printer Ink · · Score: 1

    ... and the new printer costs just as much as a set of cartridges.

    I hand fill my R200, and I save 90% on the price of cartridges. Sure, occasionnally I spill ink all over the printer ... so I go get another one for 109, compared to 15*6 for a full set of cartridges.

    It just sucks for the environment, though.

  4. Re:Riiiighhht... on World's Fastest Inkjet Printer? · · Score: 1

    My brand new Brother laser printer is rated at 1000W while in use. So that's 5A, indeed, at 220V.

  5. Cell-phone on GPS-tracked Clothing · · Score: 1

    The proper way is to call her on her cell-phone and tell her to "move your ass right here, right now, bitch!"

    No need for fancy GPS units.

    Oh and the article linked to is obviously a hoax.

  6. Re:Whoa! on Extinct Wildflower Found In California · · Score: 1

    It certainly does not look like a bee, more like a wasp.

  7. Re:From someone in the ground in Iraq on Congress to Revisit the Patriot Act · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    B, there are soldiers getting shot at every day, not foxhole to foxhole, but many times you will have mortars hitting near you all day.

    What happened to Mission Accomplished?

  8. Actually, it has ... on Kansas Challenges Definition of Science · · Score: 1

    Science will never present us with a peer-reviewed study proving once and for all that you should be good to your fellow man, and treat him like a brother.

    You should look up: "iterated prisonner's dilemma".

    Winning strategies look pretty much like someone nice, who however doesn't take it from a bully. Well, a normal person.

  9. Re:Summary = [-1, Flamebait] on The Pseudoscience of Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    But I don't dare take the close minded approach that if something isn't "testable" via the scientific method, that it doesn't or can't exist.

    Yeah, maybe, but it's not science. And it has therefore no place in a science class.

    And then ... even fine cuisine can be investigated through science. Organic chemistry and physics helps. Psychologists are studying our perception of beauty. Linguists apply the scientific method to study our use of language. Mathematics help in signal processing and apply to music, and we can try to find patterns in this.

    But you feel you don't need that hard work and can spew all that bullshit without sane people complaining ... tough.

  10. Re:Summary = [-1, Flamebait] on The Pseudoscience of Intelligent Design · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So then what you're saying is that string theory, multiple universe theory, the theory of evolution and a good deal many others are superstitions because they can't be tested?


    That's just stupid. A lot of the work on stuff such as string theories which you mention is precisely to design tests so as to verify or infirm it. That's why we spend billions building particle accelerators and launching research satellites, etc.


    I.D., on the other hand, cannot ever have any tests. You can't test its predictions, since it doesn't predict anything. Or when it does, it's already proven wrong by mountains of evidence.

  11. Re:best tool for the task on Aspect-Oriented Programming Considered Harmful · · Score: 1

    This is not an early optimisation; this is exactly the cause for many Java programs sucking and sucking up memory. If you do that often -- and, duh, logging happens often, -- you're going to trash the heap quickly.

  12. Re:A fskcing PDF file is news and this is not? on Copy-and-Paste Reveals Classified U.S. Documents · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yes you (servicemen) are murderers; just as much murderers as the Wehrmacht, the Red Army invading Czechoslovakia, etc.

    That you chose to participate in those criminal activities merely makes you a hired thug. But that's what you are. You have no moral high ground.

  13. She might be a "commie" ... on Copy-and-Paste Reveals Classified U.S. Documents · · Score: 1

    But she's the one got shot at.

    And excuse me, but I will value anyone's word in that war before the american gov't's ... unless you really want to buy that bridge with lotsa WMDs ... sucker.

  14. Morality of war on Copy-and-Paste Reveals Classified U.S. Documents · · Score: 1

    Yes, if soldiers don't want to get blown up, they should get the fuck out. It's not the same for Iraqis, they happen to LIVE there, and can't seriously go anywhere else (at least not en masse).

    Yeah, said soldiers would get sued / jailed, but hey, how much do you value human life? Isn't it worth the risk?

  15. Bullshit again on Copy-and-Paste Reveals Classified U.S. Documents · · Score: 1

    After they were stopped, the driver reports that the soldiers ordered him to stop talking on the phone (or even took away his phone). He was on line with BERLUSCONI, the prime minister, for fuck's sake! Sgrena describes the arrest as very rough.

  16. Bullshit! on Copy-and-Paste Reveals Classified U.S. Documents · · Score: 1

    American authorities WERE informed of the operation.

    Oh and BTW the driver was on the phone with BERLUSCONI (and others) at the time of the shooting.

    This liberation was under complete public scrutiny; every Italian news outlet was informed of what was going on.

  17. Re:best tool for the task on Aspect-Oriented Programming Considered Harmful · · Score: 1

    Congratulations, you suck at Java!

    No, seriously. The first line you wrote creates an intermediate "String" object, and thus wastes heap space (and leads to quicker GC).

    A strictly equivalent program would take 2 lines.

  18. Re:best tool for the task on Aspect-Oriented Programming Considered Harmful · · Score: 1

    Ah stop the crap over overloading. Yeah, it's not always a good idea. But hell, it's more readable in that case. Much more so than Java.

  19. There is No First Cause on Data Suggests Early Universe was Superfluid · · Score: 1

    Different question, really. Science hasn't offered an answer to the question of a First Cause

    There is no "first cause"; there needs not be. The desire to find a 'cause' or a 'meaning' in natural events is just a continuation, a perversion of humans' social nature. In a social context, it is important, well actually it is absolutely necessary to be able to infer the intent of others' that caused the current state of social things.

    We have evolved into being able to do this; and we need to do this all the time, lest we live alone and recluse.

    Religious people fail to grasp that natural events do not need have a cause. Didn't ancients use to believe that earthquakes, volcanoes, plagues, storms and patterns on grilled cheese sandwiches were the manifestation of a divine purpose? And don't you laugh at them?

  20. Well he actually was ignorant on Data Suggests Early Universe was Superfluid · · Score: 1

    He was ignorant of everything science taught us since then.

    And that's quite a lot.

  21. Re:Article is wrong we HAVE to carry ID on France May Require Biometric ID Cards · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Only slightly so. You don't get in trouble -- you might just waste a few hours of your life. I'm not saying this is a good thing; only trying to put it into perspective. I'm not a big fan of cops myself; I've always had a philosophical problem with any sort of authority.

    But anyway, compared to US cops, no matter how dumb and nasty ours can get, well, they really shine. Just like I can't hate Chirac as I used to now that I know Bush.

  22. Photographs are not enough on France May Require Biometric ID Cards · · Score: 1

    I tried this like 15 years ago, when "morphing" was all the rage: morph mug shots of two not too dissimilar person.

    The resulting picture looks like a legit photo ID to someone who doesn't know both persons.

  23. Re:expectations for reaction... on France May Require Biometric ID Cards · · Score: 1

    You don't have to renew it, actually, it's valid for ever inside the country. Some people will tell you otherwise, but that's the law.

    The expiration is relevant only when travelling in other countries within the EU.

  24. Re:Article is wrong we HAVE to carry ID on France May Require Biometric ID Cards · · Score: 1

    No you're wrong. You don't have to carry ID at all times. However, the police might require that you prove your identity. It's kinda absurd, but that's how it is.

    What happens is that if you have to prove identity and you don't have ID they might have to drag you to the police station or something.

  25. Re:There it is. on Router Built for Gamers · · Score: 1

    I don't know about you but while I can regularly max out my 1MBps upstream, I hardly ever saturate my 15Mbps downstream.

    Ah well. In a few months, I should be getting 100Mbps FTTH if everything goes right.