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  1. Re:Same as controlled burns in grasslands.. on BP Permanently Seals Gulf Oil Well · · Score: 1

    They did cause it this time but oil leaking from the sea floor, and sometimes in large quanities, is a natural phenomenon. Oil seep has happened before and it will happen again.

    That's like saying deforestation isn't a concern because trees occasionally fall down on their own.

  2. Re:no permit yet on Stewart and Colbert Plan Competing D.C. Rallies · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Limited? What, they're going to wall off the National Mall and block the 25,001st person to attempt to enter?

  3. Re:Youtube? on Facebook the Most Dangerous Social Tool For Businesses · · Score: 1

    No, that'd be getting infected with the Flash malware.

  4. Re:Cannot really be prevented on Google Engineer Spied On Teen Users · · Score: 1

    That's like saying because someone took a nap in your house you've the legal right to take a look inside them with a speculum.

  5. Re:Youtube? on Facebook the Most Dangerous Social Tool For Businesses · · Score: 1

    Doesn't it require Flash?

  6. Re:Cannot really be prevented on Google Engineer Spied On Teen Users · · Score: 1

    I'm sure a DA could get him on a variety of wiretapping, invasion of privacy, unauthorised access to a computer system, etc. charges.

  7. Re:What's wrong with this picture? on Femtocells To Replace Parts of the 3G Network · · Score: 1

    That's not what this article is talking about. The cell phone carriers are just putting small mini-towers on lots of telephone poles instead of putting in massive towers. Less regulatory hassle, less NIMBY, and more targeted coverage.

  8. Re:What a crock of shit..... on Security Guards, Alarm Companies Object to Australia's National Fiber Network · · Score: 1

    The alarm's communication line can't be cut--accidentally or intentionally.

    It can, and more easily than physically cutting a line. http://www.google.com/search?q=cell+phone+jammer

  9. Re:Who's paying for all of this on The Nuclear Bunker Where Wikileaks Will Be Located · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They're buying space in an existing colo facility with probably hundreds of other paying customers. Probably just a couple of cabinets. They're not building the thing.

  10. Re:To be clear: The code is visible, but not FOSS on iPhone App In App Store Limbo Open Sourced · · Score: 1

    No, that CC license wouldn't suit. He's OK with commercial redistribution, but only if it's significantly modified. Attribution-NonCommercial forbids commercial resale, regardless of how much you extend it.

  11. Re:Read the license on iPhone App In App Store Limbo Open Sourced · · Score: 1

    You're conflating open source and Open Source.

  12. Re:Considering both used sound effects in space on How Star Wars Trumped Star Trek For Scientific Accuracy · · Score: 1

    I liked how the new Star Trek handled that. One scene showed a furious, noisy battle going on. The camera then followed a crew person out a hull breach into absolute silence. Seemed to indicate the sounds are generated by the ship's computer to give the crew an indication of what's going on outside.

  13. Re:Needs a Supreme Court ruling on GPS Tracking Without a Warrant Declared Legal · · Score: 3, Informative

    Scalia and Thomas voted to uphold sodomy laws. They're quite happy to be authoritarian when they feel like it.

  14. Re:Complication for mars missions? on Bacteria From Beer Lasts 553 Days In Space · · Score: 1

    Not necessarily. It's pretty unlikely that any Martian microbes will be strains at all similar to ones found on Earth - billions of years of evolution will have resulted in wildly different genomes and selected behaviours.

  15. Re:Blimps vs. 747s, a good reason to keep helium. on Why the World Is Running Out of Helium · · Score: 1

    And how much food, water, additional living space, waste storage, etc. does it need for the now-lengthy journey?

  16. Re:Assange can post whatever he wants... on Wikileaks Now Hosted By the Swedish Pirate Party · · Score: 1

    If you reveal the affair immediately after he says "I'd kill my wife if she had an affair - look, here's the gun I have on me for just that situation", I imagine the cops take a different approach to prosecution.

  17. Re:Assange can post whatever he wants... on Wikileaks Now Hosted By the Swedish Pirate Party · · Score: 1

    What bullshit. Taking a course of action you know will result in harm to others makes you at least partially responsible.

    If you started a Rube Goldberg machine going that would kill someone, you're responsible, even if there's three dozen intermediary steps between the button and the gun that kills the person. The same thing is true if those intermediary steps are Taliban members instead of machines.

  18. Re:Assange can post whatever he wants... on Wikileaks Now Hosted By the Swedish Pirate Party · · Score: 1

    Uh, no, it's not. The problem in that instance is the fact that my actions will directly result in lots of deaths.

  19. Re:Assange can post whatever he wants... on Wikileaks Now Hosted By the Swedish Pirate Party · · Score: 1

    "Hey North Korea, the codes to the nuclear arsenals of Russia and the United States are ______."

  20. Re:Assange can post whatever he wants... on Wikileaks Now Hosted By the Swedish Pirate Party · · Score: 1

    They should be.

  21. Re:about fucking time on Robonaut To Escort On Space Shuttle Mission · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because robotic teleoperation, while handy, is far from perfect?

  22. Re:Good for padding membership numbers on Can Twitter and Facebook Deal With Their Dead? · · Score: 1

    I'm reasonably certain investors know enough to ask for active users, not total counts.

  23. Re:So, regulation haters... on EFF Reviews the Verizon-Google Net Neutrality Deal · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If Verizon owns the bandwidth lines leading to your community (or to the specific site you're attempting to access), it doesn't matter who your end ISP winds up being.

  24. Re:matter from light? on Lasers Approach Their Ultimate Intensity Limit · · Score: 1

    Actually, I typoed - 1997, not 2007. As the summary says, "late 1990s".

    http://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/16/science/scientists-use-light-to-create-particles.html

  25. Re:matter from light? on Lasers Approach Their Ultimate Intensity Limit · · Score: 1

    Yes, it's news (from 2007)... and the OP's questions are answered in said news article.