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  1. Re:What's really scary.... on Crackdown On Counterfeit Networking Gear · · Score: -1, Troll

    My cousin is out there right now, and to know that operation critical hardware could fail because it's a knock-off and poorly manufactured - is the worst crime. These are our troops, brothers, sisters, friends, and family members. I would hate to think my cousin died because somewhere in someplace a network card failed to relay operational data.

    I'll take the troll hat...
    Isn't the worst crime to send him in a poorly designed war ?

  2. Re:does Wales still have any authority? on Wales Supports Purging Porn From Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    And I may add that if you are unhappy with it, the content is opened. You are free to fork. I think the issue is that porn can take a lot of resources. It is not a "morality" issue

  3. Re:It's not a contest at all. It's marketing. on Gamer Wins $1M For Pitching Virtual "Perfect Game" · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yeah, I'm jealous too :-)

  4. Re:It's Always the Chess Players on Russian Officials To Investigate Regional President's Alien Abduction Claims · · Score: 1

    Any political campaign that involves a real flying penis has enough insanity for me :
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haRZxPw0JYg

  5. Re:Scribd adds what value, exactly? on Scribd Switches To HTML5 · · Score: 1

    That's for people who don't know how to install a decent pdf viewer.

  6. Re:It's Always the Chess Players on Russian Officials To Investigate Regional President's Alien Abduction Claims · · Score: 2, Informative

    No, Kasparov is running as a candidate in the opposition party against to Vladimir Putin. This can be labelled as "batshit crazy" as well, I must admit.

  7. Re:Lawsuit? on Hacker Develops ATM Rootkit · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Can the clients of the banks file lawsuits at them ? I can't stand companies not taking security seriously.

  8. Re:Wow on Crowdsourcing HIV Research · · Score: 1

    I have the feeling that you are only 3 hours of wikipedia-surfing away from being able to translate it into a pattern-matching and algorithm-finding problem. If you know how to code and are good at algorithms, you could help.

  9. Re:Location Location Location on Austria Converts Phone Booths To EV Chargers · · Score: 1

    This company does not want to make a usable EV recharger network, they just want to be part of it. They want to transform what they already have into something that can make marginal money instead of costing some money.

  10. Re:God save flash! on Is Apple's Attack On Flash Really About Video? · · Score: 0

    Maybe people here understand that the enemy of your enemy is not necessarily your friend. I haven't seen people here praising flash. But now instead of bashing just flash, we bash Jobs's attempts as posing as a defender of the openness of the Web.

  11. Re:But... Trust Issues on Looking At Google's Flashified Chrome · · Score: 1

    Well, just check by yourself :
    http://code.google.com/p/chromium/

  12. Re:Here is how you do science. on Second Inquiry Exonerates Climatic Research Unit · · Score: 2, Informative

    The point made by the original poster still remains. Publish your data and analysis details. That's how you do science, instead than comparing credentials. We have all been warned about the "magister dixit" bias in our science classes. It applies today as well.

    I don't think there is a conspiracy, but there have been scientists trying to do politics a bit clumsily in order to raise awareness on a phenomenon. Awareness is there now. They should now go back to science before their names, works and, more dangerously, whole field get bad reputation. Now the general public knows there can be bad consequence to climate change. It is time to get finer models and better predictions now.

  13. Re:Lovely. on Do Gamers Want Simpler Games? · · Score: 1

    Where are my 500+ hours games like starcraft and counter strike ?

  14. Re:My personal favorite on Top 10 Things Hollywood Thinks Computers Can Do · · Score: 1

    And yet, it uses dumb ballistic bullets instead of smart micro missiles that wouldn't give a chance to the protagonist. It is funny how this kind of movies that depict a futuristic killer as an almost melee machine can exist in a world where the US army has the technology to kill people and destroy the building they use for cover from a distance of several miles.

  15. Re:My personal favorite on Top 10 Things Hollywood Thinks Computers Can Do · · Score: 1

    Actually, today, Joshua would send several predator drones that can qualify as 'robotic minions'.

    http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/more_accurate.png

  16. Re:Blackberry? on BlackBerry Predicted a Century Ago By Nikola Tesla · · Score: 1

    Indeed, it is about text messages. I was merely pointing out why walkie talkies did not apply

  17. Re:Blackberry? on BlackBerry Predicted a Century Ago By Nikola Tesla · · Score: 1

    It talks about the ability for the user of a portable device to send text message to an operator anywhere in the world.

  18. Re:The rights of the accused vs the public on Judge Closes Online Access To Info On Civil Case · · Score: 1

    But if the jury is made of people too dumb to be able to correctly understand that some informations are not reliable even when warned against them, there is a problem in its composition, too. If the judge wants to warn against some information, he just has to add informations and warnings. There will be truth and lies mixed in the speech of lawyers that the jury will hear. Lawyers are professional liars. You ask a jury to find the truth between lawyers' speech and you don't trust them to sort good and bad information from internet ? Isn't there a contradiction there ?

  19. Re:Don't worry BP ... on How Bad Is the Gulf Coast Oil Spill? · · Score: 1

    We are relying on oil but we don't have to. Going from fuel cars to electric cars can take 10 years if the political will was here. This should be 2010-2020 Apollo program. Otherwise, Chinese cheap cars should be in US around 2025 I guess. And electricity generation should be nuclear.

  20. Re:...f on Rich Pretexter, Poor Pretexter · · Score: 1

    What can I say ? If your vote didn't work, try the pitchforks next time.

  21. Re:...f on Rich Pretexter, Poor Pretexter · · Score: 2, Informative

    That is because he erased incriminating files on his computer.

  22. Re:Kill the lawyers. on The MPEG-LA's Lock On Culture · · Score: 1

    And joint the pirate party despite all its shortcoming. The world is so silly that this has become necessary.

  23. Re:A Few Skeptical Points on Life's Building Blocks Found On Asteroid 24 Themis · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's never been clear to me why this mechanism is any better than just forming the danged organics on Earth surface. The Urey-Miller experiments demonstrated nicely that you can form organics under a wide range of conditions.

    Yes, I too wonder why people bother to report discovery of simple carbon compound that we know can be easily synthesized in any soup with the good elements.

    I always thought the panspermia hypothesis supposed that some basic life forms could cross interplanetary (or even interstellar) gaps thanks to asteroids. It doesn't seem to be the most favored hypothesis for the apparition of life on earth but it could lead to interesting things if it was confirmed. However, the Urey-Miller experiment showed us that amino acids are completely uninteresting substances when it comes to test this hypothesis.

  24. Re:The sad thing is... on Australian Government Delays Internet Filter Legislation · · Score: 1

    If he is intelligent and non-religious, he is clearly not representative of the majority of ordinary people with voting rights in Australia.

  25. Re:Rality distorsion field on Steve Jobs Publishes Some "Thoughts On Flash" · · Score: 1

    That's true. The flash support was incomplete...