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  1. Re:power over phonelines on WSJ: Prepare To Hang Up the Phone — Forever · · Score: 1

    you are making some assumptions about use of your car in protracted emergency. what if the shit hits the fan and you are miles from home with your car but can't drive anywhere. so you make a long trek home without your 2000 lbs. "charger".....

  2. Re:In other words... on U.S. Court: Chinese Search Engine's Censorship Is 'Free Speech' · · Score: 1

    nonsense, even google shapes their results according to internally set criteria. don't like a particular engines criteria, or question it, don't use it.

  3. Re:Shocked and saddened on One Person Successfully Removed From US No-Fly List · · Score: 1

    no, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) would let the president release prisoners to countries that would accept them...but guess what? no one wants them.

    Also, under that law the president could release the prisoners at the time hostilities against Al Qaeda are declared over. but that fight is not over. in fact, with the way the "war" in Afghanistan done, Al Qaeda was driven to many, many other nations. Our "war" with Iraq turned that country, where Al Qaeda wasn't, into a recruiting and playground for Al Qaeda.

    So Gitmo is going to stay open and full of prisoners for a long, long time until such time as Congress makes new law. The President's hands are tied.

  4. Re:It's all a part of the plan... on WSJ: Prepare To Hang Up the Phone — Forever · · Score: 1

    "we only wish to serve mankind"

  5. Re:It hinges on a single premise. on Researchers: Rats Didn't Spread Black Death, Humans Did · · Score: 1

    ah, so if true we rename the disease the Black Breath

  6. Re:Shocked and saddened on One Person Successfully Removed From US No-Fly List · · Score: 1

    learn who has what authority. Congress has to close gitmo; the president can only use pulpit to push for that

  7. Re:Shocked and saddened on One Person Successfully Removed From US No-Fly List · · Score: 2

    well, I'm not a fan of him but in this case he at least makes "pushes" to close it. most recent here:

    http://www.politico.com/story/...

    we can talk about dozen other campaign lies, but not this issue

  8. Re: Meet the new boss: on GNOME 3.12 Released · · Score: 1

    no but as alternative to GNOME they capitalize it. so you only need to find out why GNOME is capitalized 8D

  9. Re:In other words... on U.S. Court: Chinese Search Engine's Censorship Is 'Free Speech' · · Score: 1

    but even if corporations had no individual right (which they should not), I still would support their freedom to choose to return whatever the hell they want in search engine. Even if that corporation had some racist or religious bias in results it wanted to return.

  10. Re:Scientists "know"? on Physicists Produce Antineutrino Map of the World · · Score: 1

    mainstream science:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...

    and even moon had recent cooling:
    http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pa...

    its smaller diameter means it loses heat faster anyway, even if it were stone cold in interior would not be valid point to make

  11. Re: Meet the new boss: on GNOME 3.12 Released · · Score: 5, Funny

    even if you were at home on a desktop, GNOME would be making your screen into a big goddamn single-task-at-once cell phone anyway

  12. Re:If BITC are property.. on IRS: Bitcoin Is Property, Not Currency · · Score: 1

    I have sad news, when you are accused in tax court you are very likely going to be found guilty, without anything resembling real "due process". best not to go there...

  13. Re:Scientists "know"? on Physicists Produce Antineutrino Map of the World · · Score: 1

    no, very well known it should NOT be "dead cold like the moon", the latent heat of formation is expected to be roughly half the heat. But the surprising thing is how hot the core is, much more than expected, so we'll give you partial credit.

  14. Re:Tainting on Microsoft Posts Source Code For MS-DOS and Word For Windows · · Score: 1

    you are a poseur talking out of your ass

      raw output of disassembler is near worthless for anything without hours of study per 100 lines of code

    there are thousand of ways to write code for what ms-dos does even if data structures and commands known

    ms-dos is still used, on industrial controllers where the interrupts and overhead of an OS are unneeded and unwanted. very common manufacturing/CNC applications.

  15. Re:Make them stop using all fuel on WHO: Air Pollution 'Killed 7 Million People' In 2012 · · Score: 1

    news flash for you, those working people heated their homes. Of course, your suppositions are no more ridiculous than WHO's ....

  16. Re:Bigfoot on Drone-Assisted Hunting To Be Illegal In Alaska · · Score: 1

    we did, he was delicious

  17. Re:Make them stop using all fuel on WHO: Air Pollution 'Killed 7 Million People' In 2012 · · Score: 0

    indeed, the WHO forgot to mention not only would the 7 million have died sooner without the fuel use, but so would hundreds of millions of others.

    In short, WHO is spewing agenda driven nonsense

  18. Re:If BITC are property.. on IRS: Bitcoin Is Property, Not Currency · · Score: 1

    they may find out from the other half of the participants in transactions; then you are in the proverbial deep doo-doo

  19. Re:3D printing very old on How 3D Printer Maker Aleph Objects Pushes the Open Source Envelope · · Score: 1

    just for example, powder metal laser sintering for making "soft tools" (dies, etc.) and even working metal engine parts for prototypes was mature tech two decades ago. Been there, did that.

  20. Re:3D printing very old on How 3D Printer Maker Aleph Objects Pushes the Open Source Envelope · · Score: 1

    what?

    I'm talking about the tech manufacturers used in the mid 90s for making real things and rapid prototypes.

    not about hobbyist toys for making Yoda heads or other artsy-fartsy

  21. Re:Corrected title - that's Ukraine's land. on Russians Take Ukraine's Last Land Base In Crimea · · Score: 1

    no you did that with little phrase " nazi extremism in Russia"

    I just thought that was funny in historical context.

  22. Re:If BITC are property.. on IRS: Bitcoin Is Property, Not Currency · · Score: 2

    your lawmakers, state and federal, have a different opinion of the subject. Also the IRS.

  23. Re:Corrected title - that's Ukraine's land. on Russians Take Ukraine's Last Land Base In Crimea · · Score: 1

    last I checked Ukraine assisted in offing Jews and Poles. three letters for you, UPA

  24. Re:Laughable that some still say hunting is a spor on Drone-Assisted Hunting To Be Illegal In Alaska · · Score: 1

    yeah for that tasty salmon and mango sauce I had yesterday the fish was totally killed for my pleasure by the fish monger's supplier. let's all shed a tear for the fish and for another one I'll have later this month

  25. Re:Physical Access = owned on Remote ATM Attack Uses SMS To Dispense Cash · · Score: 1

    look up how they're made, you won't be "chipping a small hole" in anything to access its system and you will set alarm off