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  1. Move to UTC and drop DST at the same time.

  2. Re:Crypto? on Paris Attacks Would Not Have Happened Without Crypto (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The Paris attacks wouldn't have happened without crypto? That's a funny way to spell "Religious Extremism."

    TFTFY

  3. So politics trumps science? on Science Museum Declines To Show Climate Change Film · · Score: 1

    Color me shocked.

  4. Re:News for nerds? on Egyptian Security Forces Storm Pro-Morsi Camps Leaving Nearly 100 Dead · · Score: 1

    Agreed. And Slashdot's 9/11 article was excellent. The comments provided, in aggregate, excellent, up-to-date, and accurate information, and additionally Slashdot was one of the few sites that stayed up all day that day.

  5. Crud on City-Sized Ice Shelf Breaks Free Of Antarctica · · Score: 1

    Posting to undo a bad mod.

  6. Re:Dark days, months and year ahead on NSA Surveillance May Have Dealt Major Blow To Global Internet Freedom Efforts · · Score: 1

    "They hoover down all the internet data, " Pun intended?

  7. Re:seems appropriate on BMC Going Private In $6.9 Billion Deal · · Score: 1

    You said it. I can't wait to put that nightmare behind me.

  8. Scientology on Interviews: Ask James Randi About Investigating the Truth · · Score: 1

    Have you ever had a practicing or former Scientologist attempt to prove the efficacy of auditing, or any other practice from Scientology? If so, how did it go? :) If not, how might you go about testing and debunking it?

  9. IL - Voted when polls opened on U.S. Election Day In Progress: What's Been Your Experience? · · Score: 1

    My wife and I were less than 10th in line, voted paper ballot, no issues. Polling place got moved for the 2nd time in the past 5 years, a bit of confusion for some people there.

  10. Ironic. . . on Blizzard Says Battle.Net Has Been Hacked · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I seem to recall reading in the Security Question comments how Battle.net's system was excellent. That portion of it may have been, and they seem to be responding well to this, but the timing is interesting.

  11. Congratulations!!!!

  12. Re:My wife is happy on Brief But Intense Meteor Shower On January 4th · · Score: 1

    Nice, congratulations!

  13. Re:Supernovas on OPERA Group Repeats Faster-Than-Light Neutrino Results · · Score: 1

    And if they somehow had negative mass? Would that not account for the (purportedly) observed results?

  14. Re:The 3rd set of data supporting subsurface H20 i on NASA: If There Was Life On Mars, It Was Likely Underground · · Score: 1

    indicating subsurface water ice from two synthetic radars

    What other kind is there? :)

  15. Re:Will it need a reboot like politicians? on An Operating System For Cities · · Score: 1

    "The main problem with internet quotations is that most people don't verify their authenticity." --David Hasselhoff, 14th President of the United States.

  16. Not surprising on New Twitter-Based Hedge Fund Beats the Stock Market · · Score: 1

    Something that takes as it's input random psychological output from many sources does well at predicting the performance of a system that takes as it's input random psychology? Makes sense, actually. The stock market isn't always governed by rational decision making. What they seem to be attempting is to cut out trying to evaluate the rationality of people's though processes, but just observing them. The danger here is that if enough people behave stupidly, this thing might enhance that through it's transactions and the resultant feedback, but that's a danger of any system.

  17. So does this mean. . . on Voicemail Hack Scandal Leads To Closure of UK Tabloid · · Score: 1

    . . .that the Beatles will need to change the lyrics to Polythene Pam?

  18. This sounds like a job for Project Gutenberg, since this stuff is public domain. http://gutenberg.org/

  19. Re:Facebook shocked, *shocked* at privacy breaches on Facebook Caught Exposing Millions of Credentials · · Score: 1

    You mean *GPG* key block? ;)

  20. Re:Accomplishments? on Vatican To Digitize Prohibited Archives · · Score: 1

    Not sure. :)

  21. Re:Hypocrisy of Arabic governments and our own on UN Backs Action Against Colonel Gaddafi · · Score: 1

    Unless, (tinfoil hat on) Wikileaks is a CIA program to destabilize forgeign governments in exactly this manner, and Assage and Manning are both on the payroll. The leaks about the U.S. are a smokescreen. (tinfoil hat off)

  22. Re:Yeah yeah on PayPal Freezes Support Account For Bradley Manning · · Score: 1

    Oh, come on, I think you're letting Scientology, the Vatican, and the GOP off awfully easily. :)

  23. Re:I remember... on Challenger 25 Years Later · · Score: 1

    So was I. I was upstairs, messing around with one of my telescopes, and my mom called up to me that I needed to get down there right away. I came down, saw the TV, and like Charliemopps, I watched the news the rest of the day. What I remember most are two things. One, how they played the tape of the launch and explosion over. . .and over. . .and over. . . Two, that I still wanted to be an astronaut. Didn't happen of course, but even at age 8 I understood that risk was a part of space exploration. I need to get on explaining that to my kids, since at least my daughter, and to a lesser extend my son, want to be astronauts, which scares the living shit out of their mother.

  24. Re:I played Beneath a Steel Sky for the first time on The Rise and Fall of Graphic Adventure Games · · Score: 1

    Fedora as well, which also has Drascula and Lure of the Temptress.

  25. I like it. on Facebook Launches Social Login and HTTPS · · Score: 1

    I was traveling recently and it had me do the social login thing because I was outside the usual range of IPs. I actually liked it. It was a no-brainer for me to do, and very few people that weren't me could have done it correctly, since the pictures of people were from all over my social map. +1 to Facebook for this one.