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  1. Re:Beware of the next step on Snowden NSA Claims Partially Confirmed, Says Rep. Jerrold Nadler · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If I were a Teabagger, and I am not, I would be looking for any hint that NSA spy data was used to help Obama and Democrats to win the election. Now I don't believe this is so, but I believe it will be so within the next 4 presidencies if this widespread spying continues. So if I were a Teabagger, I would definitely be looking for anything that can be made to look like this happened, couple it with the IRS scandal, and two things will happen 1) bye bye and 2) spying program will be brought to a halt

  2. Re:revolt on NSA Building $860 Million Data Center In Maryland · · Score: 1

    Ha! My spelling mistake.

  3. Re:I'm Okay With It on US Mining Data Directly From 9 Silicon Valley Companies · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There are so many laws, one breaks one or two everyday without realization. With so many laws there can be no equality before the law, because law enforcement can arbitrarily select whether it will enforce a law or not on whomever it pleases.

  4. Re:Money quote... on US Mining Data Directly From 9 Silicon Valley Companies · · Score: 1

    Or as part of an antivirus update. Hell antivirus programs probably spy quite a bit.

  5. Re:land of the free... on US Mining Data Directly From 9 Silicon Valley Companies · · Score: 5, Insightful

    BTW, its not about being surprised. Its about taking the moment of outrage and national attention and trying to effect change.

  6. Re:land of the free... on US Mining Data Directly From 9 Silicon Valley Companies · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I have been pretty sure for a while now that a good portion of cookie based data collection is sold as a product to the US government, but also other governments. Hell, some companies may just be fronts for surveillance activities.

  7. Re:revolt on NSA Building $860 Million Data Center In Maryland · · Score: 0

    Your comment has been recorded. I mean, all this surveylance needs data centers to store and process it.

  8. Re:The PhD is not an end-point on Ask Slashdot: Advice For Summer Before Ph.D. Program? · · Score: 1

    In other words, turn around and run far far far away never to look back.

  9. Re:Girls on Ask Slashdot: Advice For Summer Before Ph.D. Program? · · Score: 1

    or should be.

  10. Re:The obvious answer on Will Renewable Energy Ever Meet All Our Energy Needs? · · Score: 1

    Gold? Seriously? Are you one of THOSE people? We have a fiat currency system. Gold has nothing to do with anything. There is no limit to the amount of money the U.S. can mint or print, but the practical limits are given by inflation and deflation.

  11. Re:Doubt that'll happen on How Proxied Torrents Could End ISP Subpoenas · · Score: 1

    Anonymous freedom of speech fliers.

  12. Re:First on Japan Launches Two New Spy Satellites · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Better watch out for my Godzilla blasta Slimey!

  13. Re:I've never understood... on Twitter's Vine App Ready To Bomb Internet With GIF-Like Videos · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I should start a twitter for intellects, and require > 140 characters to post.

  14. Re:Their conclusion, my conclusion. on Male Scientists More Prone To Misconduct · · Score: 1

    im sure they did their science right. The problem with this study is selection. Presumably women must fight more to get into academia, and to be considered serious. Thus the women frauds are weeded out earlier than men.

  15. Re:How is this news? on The Problem With Internet Dating's Frictionless Market · · Score: 1

    Complexity theory obviously. Anyway, I also think that the problem with these kind of markets is that effort to find the best deal has reduced economic payoff. Thus, it reduces the number of footholds small up-and-coming enterprises can use their ingenuity to climb faster than the competition. Also, the lack of market inefficiencies pushes consolidation to the biggest (i.e. Amazon). Also, it makes shopping boring. Seriously.

  16. Re:Can't America get its acts together ? on Congressman Introduces Bill To Ban Minting of Trillion-Dollar Coin · · Score: 1

    Oh Please. The only constraint on government spending is inflation. 'Debt' can always be repaid by fiat currency creation. If this notion was understood better generally, the debate would not be about 'debt' and having enough money to pay for this or that, but would be about whether spending that much would undermine the value of the dollar or not.

  17. Re:What? on The Release Candidate For Linux Mint 14 "Nadia" Is Out · · Score: 2

    hmm is Mint the most popular Linux Desktop distro? I've heard about Mint, and that it was a response to Unity. Still I hadn't kept tabs on it lately, and didn't know whether it had fully capitalized on the Unity debacle. Also, I'm not shopping for Linux systems lately since I've been using NeuroDebian and centOS exclusively in my fMRI analyses.

  18. Re:What? on The Release Candidate For Linux Mint 14 "Nadia" Is Out · · Score: 1

    well for one thing it moves to MATE 1.4 and Cinnamon 1.6 . No I have no idea what those do.

  19. Re:names are so cool, not! on The Release Candidate For Linux Mint 14 "Nadia" Is Out · · Score: -1, Troll

    you are a jackass

  20. Re:Now take it a step further on Mathematicians Extend Einstein's Special Relativity Beyond Speed of Light · · Score: 1

    crap sorry about the bold

  21. Re:Now take it a step further on Mathematicians Extend Einstein's Special Relativity Beyond Speed of Light · · Score: 1

    or alternatively what happens at zero (relative) velocity? Making a wild no-stakes speculation, the ultimate truth will turn out to be that every than c particle with identical difference of velocity from c. Speeding one particle up, slows the other particle to conserve energy. lol orrrrrr ha ha ha maybe the other particle always has identical mass...and velocities change to conserve energy really...the problem with me reading this stuff is I get to have fun pondering, but I will never get a chance to really know what I am talking about, given career demands..

  22. Re:Did you take any science courses at all? on Mathematicians Extend Einstein's Special Relativity Beyond Speed of Light · · Score: 1

    Can there be a consistent 'mirror existence' where all such examples do have applicable meaning?

  23. Re:Infinite velocity on Mathematicians Extend Einstein's Special Relativity Beyond Speed of Light · · Score: 1

    I really don't know the math but two probably dumb questions.. 1: Would the relative velocity between an object going slower than c and an object going faster than c be restricted by c somehow? 2: Given the suggestion that objects lose mass the faster they go on the other side of c, is it possible for two objects to have identical mass, but be going wildly different speeds? ..one going faster than c, and the other slower than c?

  24. Re:Tachyons on Mathematicians Extend Einstein's Special Relativity Beyond Speed of Light · · Score: 5, Informative

    How do journal fees support my research? While there is some cost to publishing, most of the labor is unpaid for by the publisher (reviewers and researchers). It would be better to publish online without a for profit company, and make it open access. Mild submission fees could be used to cover operating costs related to hosting.

  25. Re:Get with the times on What Happened To Diaspora, the Facebook Killer? It's Complicated · · Score: 1

    I agree. I use Diaspora and I think the service is not too shabby for being relatively new to the game. Right now there is a good population of techies, and such there.