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  1. Somebody call a whaaambulance. on Inquirer Blasts Mozilla for Microsoft-Style Bashing · · Score: 5, Interesting

    There's a pretty big difference between bashing somebody for a malicious intent, and bashing someone because they need to get bashed. From the article, it seems like AOL put out a fixed version of the browser a day after he made the comments.

    Perhaps if he'd known Netscape was going to put out a new browser, he'd have refrained from making those comments. But he probably didn't. Anyway, he was still correct (by a day)

    Security is more important then people's feelings.

  2. DUCE sounds cooler anyway on Hormel Back on The Spam Offensive · · Score: 1

    Hormel has been trying to get people to use "UCE" Unsolicited Commercial Email for what is normaly called email-spam these days. Hormel has been pretty polite about the whole thing, maybe they'll pay for a new trademark.

  3. Re:John Hurliman is a shithead plagerist on Library to Require Fingerprint to Use PCs · · Score: 1

    Many of which contain viruses and spyware, or at least popups, which is one of the main reasons I started Autopr0n.com.

  4. Yes, it's stupid on Exporting Knowledge Via Students · · Score: 1

    I'm just arguing that there is *some* logic in the policy, but I think it's its stupid and discriminitory.

  5. John Hurliman is a shithead plagerist on Library to Require Fingerprint to Use PCs · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'm not affiliated with that site. Could contain spyware, viruses, who knows. It's owned by someone named John Hurliman.

  6. wow, wtf on Library to Require Fingerprint to Use PCs · · Score: 1

    rrrrrrrr, shitty little plagerist.

  7. Re:Hidden Agenda? on Exporting Knowledge Via Students · · Score: 1

    Number of nuclear programs in India: 1
    Number of nuclear programs in Saudi Arabia: 0


    I think that about sums it up. It's a stupid policy, but India did test nukes knowing they were going to incur sanctions.

  8. Oh please. on Exporting Knowledge Via Students · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The cold war was the same issue: Governments trying to hold onto personal power over others. They got away with it because the system was touted as a modern form of government that was for the people and by the people. And like all such governments, it collapsed in the face of the true ideals of individual freedom. The US is a real shining beakon of human liberty. Where else can you get taserd by a cop for mouthing off? Where else but mighty America could doctors go to jail for proscribing pain medication? Where else could the government be free to confiscate land to build corporate headquarters and factories? Where else could the military be free to keep citizens locked up for years without trials or charges? Only in America!

  9. What if they write the software? on Exporting Knowledge Via Students · · Score: 1

    Well, if we're talking about indians they'll probably be writing the software themselves. Will they need to apply for an import license to turn in their homework?

    India is working on the bomb, but come on. if they really wanted to "leak" something they'd just pirate it. If software is available to collage students it can't be that important.

  10. Stupid on Library to Require Fingerprint to Use PCs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Naperville library officials said the technology cannot be used to reconstruct a person's actual fingerprint. The scanners, made by Naperville-based U.S. Biometrics Corp., use an algorithm to convert 15 or more specific points into a unique numeric sequence. But there's nothing to prevent anyone from taking an actual fingerprint and converting it into one of these codes. Either from a crime scene or an old database.

  11. Re:Code Morphing, obviously on Xbox 360 Gets Backwards Compatible, Final Fantasy · · Score: 1

    How does a Transmeta Crusoe processor split up i686 instruction code into multiple instructions for its VLIW core? Not very quickly.

  12. Re:Life starts at conception on Stem Cells Derived from Human Clones · · Score: 1

    When a woman gives birth, it is not merely moving the baby from one place to another. The fetus goes from being demonstrably dependant upon another organism (the mother) for survival, to being able to survive independently (i.e.: it is now a baby). How exactly is it "demonstrably" dependant on another organism? Premature babies do have some trouble, but most of them do survive. If you were to cut an 8-month old baby out of a woman's womb, it most likely wouldn't have too many problems. There have actually been cases where babies have been stolen from pregnant women and the babies lived(!!!!!) In fact, the exact opposite is demonstrateable. The earlier along in the pregnancy, the less likely this becomes. In theory a baby is "a live" after just 4 months, although survival at this stage is pretty unlikely.

  13. Re:traffic of organs on Stem Cells Derived from Human Clones · · Score: 2, Insightful

    so what's the difference between getting some kid's organs and killing an embryo to harvest them? Also, doesn't it sound a little ackward to dispose an all-new human life just to improve the quality of an old one - that possibly won't last much longer? A very sick person will last a lot longer then an embryo in a petri dish.

  14. Wrong on Stem Cells Derived from Human Clones · · Score: 1

    I don't belive this kind of research would be legal at all, because it involves cloning a human embryo.

  15. Re:Libertarians on Tweaking the CAN-SPAM Act · · Score: 1

    That the Internet can handle its own problems, perhaps? I don't think Libertarians belive harrasment should be legal.

  16. "easily" on Xbox 360 Gets Backwards Compatible, Final Fantasy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Emulation is never really that "easy". Unless the X-box and ps3's graphic controller is compatable, I kinda doubt it would be possible. And how on earth are you goin to split up X86 instruction code so that it can run on seperate parts of the cell processor?

  17. Article in question on Maureen O'Gara No Longer Welcome at LinuxWorld · · Score: 1

    Read it for yourself at: this google cache, or at any of these pages.

    Intresting, but I'm sure if you took all the odd things about anyone you could make them seem like a freak.

  18. Religion? on Maureen O'Gara No Longer Welcome at LinuxWorld · · Score: 1

    Where does religion fit into this? What's PJ's religion and why is that supposedly a big deal?

  19. Wha? on UK to lnstall Wireless Mics on London Streets · · Score: 1

    What kind of motor offenses land you in Jail? Here in Iowa (in the US) only Drunk Driving will put you in jail, and usualy only for multiple offenses.

  20. Intresting on UK to lnstall Wireless Mics on London Streets · · Score: 1

    I take it the signs are still labled in MPH then?

  21. "They say" is right on UK to lnstall Wireless Mics on London Streets · · Score: 1

    This is actualy false. If you put a frog in water and slowly turn up the heat, the frog will eventualy jump out.

    On the other hand, if you actualy do throw a frog in boiling water, they will die instantly.

  22. "Due process of law" on Charter School Firm Attacks Online Criticism · · Score: 1

    Unfortunetly, "due process of law" which you seem to like so much also requires that in order to lose a libel case, you have to prove that the other person knew they were lying. So, even if you prove the claims false, you have to prove they knew they were false...

  23. Re:*Please* RTFA on U.S. National Identity Cards All But Law · · Score: 1

    Um. Huh? With the exception of RFID, how in the living hell would you not know you're "giving your information away"? Because RFID is not excepted. Duh.

  24. heh on Kansas Challenges Definition of Science · · Score: 1

    all those words are there to hide the fact that they took "natural" out of the properties of the explanation.

  25. There is a subtle, hidden flaw in the second one. on Kansas Challenges Definition of Science · · Score: 1

    The second definition of science does not require "natural" explanation, opening the door for "unnatural" ones. All the other words are there to hide that fact.