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  1. Re:As a brewer on The Race To Beer With 50% Alcohol By Volume · · Score: 1

    As a brewer you should know that freeze distillation is pretty much the opposite of distillation. The name is just badly chosen. Look it up, and hang your head in shame.

  2. Re:Yeah.... on How a Virginia Law Firm Outpaces the MPAA at Suing Over Movie Downloads · · Score: 1

    It's illegal and immoral, but it isn't stealing.

    So... how does it feel, being brainwashed by the **AA?
    It’s not immoral. THEY are immoral. They created a business model based on an imaginary world where information is a physical good and you can use business models for physical goods for information. And it exploded in their faces.
    So they bought the law, which is the only reason it is illegal.
    Now they are extorting thousands of people so they can keep up their perverse delusional model, and you dare to support them?

    The whole concept of selling information that you already sold, is completely fucked up. When it’s passed on, control is gone. Period. They should have asked for what they wanted for it when they first passed it on. Now it’s too late. Cry me a river. Boo-hoo. ...fuckin’ Idiots.

    You statement is like saying that it’s illegal and immoral to obey gravity, by falling, but at least it isn’t stealing.
    Because someone decided to sell the act of falling, and bought a law that gives him exclusive rights to pass on that right.
    What’s next? It being illegal to sing a children’s song for your kids? Oh wait, they already thought of that.

    Man, you do not deserve to be a citizen of any non-evil country. Especially not mine.

  3. SMARTER. Than TV anyway! on Does the Internet Make Humanity Smarter Or Dumber? · · Score: 1

    But it depends on laziness (the one that’s hurting oneself).
    I, for example, did learn so much from the Internet, I could not have learned it in 10 offline lives with books.
    Just because it takes less than 30 seconds to look something up. And because the stuff you learned in the past, combined with the new stuff, makes you realize even more things.
    Of course if you just watch the latest pop shit on youtube and basically don’t do much more than if you’d do it in front of a TV, you can’t be helped.

    And even if nothing changed, intelligence-wise, the freedom and communication speed we gain from the Internet, makes it the greatest invention mankind ever had.
    Only with the Internet can you really say that our ideas have become life-forms of their own, growing, dying, reproducing, transforming, etc.

  4. Different gut bacteria? What the hell? on Urine Test For Autism · · Score: 1

    If you took antibiotics, the first things you eat when it wears off, will rule your guts.

    Imagine the poor child who now thinks it has autism, just because it ate a bad thing at a bad time.
    Imagine the retarded parents and doctors, who will trust this test more, than they trust the actual facts. (If a doc says it, is must be true, right?

    I smell a lot of false positives and negatives.

  5. Re:How is this human? on Part-Human, Part-Machine Transistor Devised · · Score: 1

    Then good luck with the fever denaturing your proteins at > 42C.
    I would like to have some cooling fins with that!
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    AQUAMAAAAN! He can speak with the fish, and compute 20 trillion operations per second!

  6. Re:Stop. Just... stop. on FTC Staff Discuss a Tax on Electronics To Support the News Business · · Score: 1

    I’m doing what wrong?

    Yours truly,

    George

  7. Re:Clearly, they would be much more impressed... on Mobile Phones vs. Supercomputers of the Past · · Score: 1

    You mean until he steals them both like I would have done in the first place? ;)

  8. Re:Things like this... on Mobile Phones vs. Supercomputers of the Past · · Score: 1

    "Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow." -Kay

    Whoever that Kay is, he did not see Goatse coming, did he? ^^

    Imagine what you’ll know tomorrow. Indeed. ;)

  9. Re:What's the big deal? on EU To Monitor All Internet Searches · · Score: 1

    That is a double-plus-good motion! As a inner party member, I second that!

  10. Re:Eh, this is to stop child abuse, not CP on EU To Monitor All Internet Searches · · Score: 1

    Well, you just declared that you are a mentally insane (religious schizophrenia. the disease where you believe in a made-up delusional reality) dangerous person (those delusions make people act in irrational ways that can hurt and even kill people. See: Inquisitions, terrorist bombers, the pope not being allowed to have sex and therefore doing it with children, George W. Bush justifying mass-murder in Iraq/Afghanistan and of US soldiers with “God” telling him to do it, etc, etc, etc.), and hence you have no place in a healthy society until you are healed.

    Now I personally think that there is only one acceptable punishment to all crimes: Separation. (E.g. trough expelling.)
    So murder or jail is not acceptable for me. But apparently it was for GP poster. Which means I’d expel him too, until he changed his views to be compatible with mine. (You can also see it all from the other p.o.v. The point is not expelling but separation. It’s based on there not being a absolute right or wrong.)

    Luckily you already are in another country. So you can rape children or kill non-believers or whatever you crazy people do, and I will do my thing. Then let’s see who will be more successful in general evolution. Let nature decide... as she always does. :)

  11. Re:Just wanna say on Doctor Slams Hospital's "Please" Policy · · Score: 1

    Let me tell you something you will never experience yourself, but hospital doctors can be some of the biggest ego-centric pricks you will never meet - really, you have no idea the sense of self importance they carry with them. It's a God complex - "I save lives, so get out of my FUCKING way, you worthless turd".

    I can say that this was true for every single doctor I or anyone I know ever met. I don’t have to rely on lies or insults. As the reality is worse than what I would come up with. Psychology literally has a field dealing with doctors’ got complex.

    And the worst thing is that it actually kills people.
    Because most docs don’t care much for further training. And they think what they know is a indisputable absolute truth.
    But it’s worse with what they not know. Because if they don’t know something, they act as if it does not exist. And even get angry if you ever dare to question them. Even if you got real physical proof. Even when you have 50 years of experience with 30,000 patients, and lots of studies to prove it.
    Nooo, he’s god, if he doesn’t know it, it does not exist. Even if that means that people are in horrible pain or die.

    One example is to ask your doctor about healing your auto-immune disease. Like allergies or asthma caused by pollen.
    They will tell you that “There is no cure”. Not “I don’t know of a cure yet.” No. “There is none”. Period. And most patients, not knowing better, have to believe that.
    Now I personally know people who got rid of their auto-immune diseases. The trick was a change in diet. Back to unprocessed food. Nothing that was wrecked by heat (especially dangerous: animal proteins). No extreme concentrations or imbalances. Everything else did stay the same. Food got tastier (heat also kills flavors). And cheaper (processing costs money). And it went away. Completely.
    But as soon as they ate bad again, it came back.
    Yet, not a single doc accepted to even mentally process this fact.

    Noo, that would have threatened his inner model of him being perfect and a god!
    We can’t have that!

    Really, from a psychological standpoint, they are mentally insane. Not on a extreme level. But still enough to justify a therapy.

  12. Re:Story is from The Sun on Doctor Slams Hospital's "Please" Policy · · Score: 1

    It’s interesting how you equal checking the sources with proving it to be a fact.
    The one has nothing to do with the other.
    It’s all subjective. Which source appears to be more trustworthy. Which is calculated by how consistent they are with their past output, and how much they fit your own world views / bias. So it’s a bias compatibility check and a consistency check. (There is no such thing as objectivity.) Which has nothing to do with what really happened. Hell, you did not even state from what p.o.v. the observer of that event is supposed see it. (The event happened right of me / The event happened left of me. Both is what you might call “bias”, but unavoidable.)

  13. Re:18 months in isolation on Mars500 Mission Begins · · Score: 1

    I give you the most horrible thing you could ever imagine: 20 minutes lag on Slashdot!

  14. Re:For those who aren't bilingual... on Free Software Wins Court Battle in Quebec · · Score: 2, Funny

    I’m quadrolingual, you insensitive clod!

  15. Re:Hybrid or electric on Traffic-Flow Algorithm Can Reduce Fuel Consumption · · Score: 1

    That is physically impossible. There always are energy losses. Or is that thing fully made out of superconductors?
    What you mean is: “Significantly less”.

  16. Re:It astounds me on Traffic-Flow Algorithm Can Reduce Fuel Consumption · · Score: 1

    It’s impressive how using your own brain for a change possibly becoming legal is such a special thing. I mean WTF?
    If there is no freaking car for a mile, I cross the freaking street! I’m not wrong. The retarded rules are!
    And the idiots enforcing them ignore the reason those imperfect rules were created in the first place: To accelerate traffic while lowering the risk of accidents. Which driving trough a red light when nothing is within a mile clearly is!
    But nooo... most of the idiots out there are not much better than drones. It’s not in their pre-programmed hard-wiring, so they are mentally impossible to comprehend it. They literally even follow the rules, when it results in the opposite of what was once the intention that resulted in that rule.

    Yay for bureaucracy and cattle mentality... NOT!

  17. Re:But did the school have a right to suspend them on PA Appeals Court Weighs Punishment For Students' Online Parodies · · Score: 1

    Actually, there is a reason why there are courts. Because we as a society decided that allowing lynching / vigilantism is bad for us all. Which this essentially is.

    The schools should be forbidden for punishing them themselves, and either have gone to court (real legal consequences, but not big ones. remember, the point is to teach for betterment. not to introduce them to a life of crime!), or STFU.

  18. Re:Whoa, graphics on the CPU? on AMD's Fusion Processor Combines CPU and GPU · · Score: 1

    Technically, GPUs are just vector processors with some graphics I/O attached nowadays. Fixed (e.g. OpenGL) pipelines are gone, and only the driver still offers them. And vector processors is general purpose for everything where you have to do lots of equal operations on lots of data. Which makes them extremely fast is exactly those cases where normal CPUs are slow. And vice versa. So it’s kind of a ying/yang. And generally a very good idea.

  19. Re:Enough with hyping eye candy on AMD's Fusion Processor Combines CPU and GPU · · Score: 1

    There is too little abstraction of the data so each coder writes their own linked list, red-black tree, or whatever algorithm instead of just using the methods from the OS.

    On the low level, this is because of the C/C++ programmer attitude, by which you are only a “real hacker” if you re-invent your own memory management and data structure wheels for everything. Regardless of there being standardized solutions and libraries with literally decades of testing and optimizing.

    Bloat is indeed a big problem, programs are exploding into GIGABYTE sizes, which is insane. OTOH linux reusing libraries seems not to have worked.

    On the high level it’s only bad because pretty much all desktop applications rape the Unix philosophy with their monolithic do-all kitchensink-included approach.
    I never understood the need to bundle file models with their views/controllers and with the functions to process them one a monolithic application. My GIMP paintbrush should work in every format that allows embedding pixel data. My line drawing tool should work in every format that has SVG compatibility. I should be able to combine them into one custom tool with a tiny two-line script, and make that a button on my shelf.
    If Maya can do it, so can we!

  20. Re:Is this how they can do wifi location detection on Germany Finds Kismet, Custom Code In Google Car · · Score: 1

    Ah, OK. Thank you for clarifying that. :)

  21. Re:So, to sum up: Life possibly on Titan on Hints of Life Found On Saturn's Moon Titan · · Score: 1

    Horrible rubber-suit aliens,

    So not much has changed then: http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/dw/episodes/b00sm031/galleries/cold_blood_wallpapers

  22. Re:Oh jeez on Hints of Life Found On Saturn's Moon Titan · · Score: 1

    Depends. Maybe they are more like us, than we ourselves are. ;)
    Maybe we are very tasty and/or a easily harvestable resource to them.

  23. P.S.: on 'Month of PHP Security' Finds 60 Bugs · · Score: 1

    LOL, yes, the above PHP example will complain about the semicolon missing behind the "PHP". *sigh*

    Anyway... I thank PHP... for giving me the motivation to finally learn Haskell. :)

  24. Re:In other words... on J. P. Barlow — Internet Has Broken the Political System · · Score: 1

    And replacing it with the next veil of pretend democracy.

    Why do you think banana republics have so many revolutions, but yet nothing gets better?

  25. Re:Missing Inaction on Windows 7: The Missing Manual · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think you are misunderstanding how the MS software design process works.
    I can put it in geek terms for you:

    app = code(design(BASIC_ARCHITECTURE)) # original design and intentions are instantly forgotten
    bf = marketing.getBlingFactory()
    while (sales.sell(app)) {
        f = bf.getNewFeature()
        management.fuckUp(f)
        sales.addLockIn(f)
        hammerIntoSomethingPhysicallyPossible(f,IGNORE_MANAGEMENT)
        try {
            code(f)
        } catch (ManagementExpectsItToBeFinishedAlreadyError) {
            tieTogheterLooseStrings(f,[SPAGHETTI_STYLE,IGNORE_BUG_HAZARDS,MAKE_HASTE])
        }
        try {
            app.add(f)
        } catch (DoesntFitArchitectureAnymoreError) {
            p = code(new Patchwork(NASTY))
            p.add(f)
            app.add(p,USE_BRUTE_FORCE)
        }
    }

    Which results in what I call the “upside-down pyramid” model of software design. Except that the pyramid looks like MIR in its late days. ;)