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  1. Re:Great on Bell Labs Fighting To Get More Bandwidth Out of Copper · · Score: 1

    Ever see a big black box hanging on a line between telephone poles? It's a repeater. A weakened, degraded signal comes in, is boosted and resynchronized, and is sent out as good as new for another XXX meters. Rinse and repeat, just apply money.

  2. Re:No, Food. on Did Natural Selection Make the Dutch the Tallest People On the Planet? · · Score: 1

    Natural selection happens in seconds for unsuccessful prey animals, and sometimes in a single generation in cases of newly introduces disease.

    For something operating relatively fast, consider the population of American elms compared to other trees after the introduction of Dutch Elm Disease.

  3. Re:Yeah, right on Did Natural Selection Make the Dutch the Tallest People On the Planet? · · Score: 1

    Let's not see the same post repeated by a jerk who is compensating for some lack of size in a critical location.

  4. Re:Women like to look up - Science! on Did Natural Selection Make the Dutch the Tallest People On the Planet? · · Score: 1

    According to wikipedia Napoleon was of average height (1.68 m, 5' 6", in modern measure.)

  5. Re:Not necessarily on Did Natural Selection Make the Dutch the Tallest People On the Planet? · · Score: 1

    Unusually tall women tend to be less curvy and have lower levels of estrogen. This might imply lower fertility.

  6. Re:Dinos on Did Natural Selection Make the Dutch the Tallest People On the Planet? · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Dutch are 0.001 furlongs taller than 150 years ago, or 6.5e-18 parsec.

  7. Re:Not a surprise on Verdict Reached In Boston Bombing Trial · · Score: 1

    manufacture enough testimony

    Right there you're admitting he's guilty.

  8. Re:Not a surprise on Verdict Reached In Boston Bombing Trial · · Score: 1

    No, the defendants, regardless of citizenship.

  9. Re:More 'climate change' bullshit from Slashdot on Feds Boost Goal To 75k New Solar Power Workers By 2020 · · Score: 0

    Obama gave NASA the job of advancing the cause of Islam. From that moment onward, nothing from NASA is to be trusted.

  10. Re:Why different policy on this to Junior IT posit on Feds Boost Goal To 75k New Solar Power Workers By 2020 · · Score: 0

    The problem with the federal government funding this is that the expense will not be minimal, and in all likelihood the training will be superfluous. What will happen is gov't money will end up in the hands of proselytizing greenie professors and their employers, to provide less useful information in hundreds of hours than apprenticing 10 hours to a licensed electrician would provide.

  11. Re:Cool to hear I guess on GCC 5.0 To Support OpenMP 4.0, Intel Cilk Plus, C++14 · · Score: 1

    Would you mind reposting, this time using English?

  12. It does not require "a deep understanding of how internet works" to know that what she wants is both illegal and nearly impossible. All Senators should have a knowledge of the internet at least equal to the average U.S. adult.It's roughly equivalent to being able to drive a car.

  13. Re:Don't use that book anyway, very bad advice on Sen. Feinstein Says Anarchist Cookbook Should Be "Removed From the Internet" · · Score: 1

    The Poor Man's James Bond isn't much better; some of the material is quite similar.

  14. Re:I do not understand on Sen. Feinstein Says Anarchist Cookbook Should Be "Removed From the Internet" · · Score: 1

    Pelosi is vicious and delusional, but her delusions are shared by her constituency. Boxer and especially Feinstein are openly corrupt, but again their ideology is a good fit for California.

  15. Re:I do not understand on Sen. Feinstein Says Anarchist Cookbook Should Be "Removed From the Internet" · · Score: 1

    Boehner faced a primary last time around and won about 70% of the vote. His primary opposition was considered serious enough that he actually campaigned, something he generally doesn't bother with. He very nearly did not win reelection to speaker inside the house, even though nobody really had the guts to make a strong stand against him. Both Boehner and McConnel are nasty people who punish those inside the party who stand up against their leadership.

  16. Re: I do not understand on Sen. Feinstein Says Anarchist Cookbook Should Be "Removed From the Internet" · · Score: 1

    Which Charlie Wilson?

  17. Re:I do not understand on Sen. Feinstein Says Anarchist Cookbook Should Be "Removed From the Internet" · · Score: 1

    [citation needed]

    Occupy Wall Street.

  18. Re:I do not understand on Sen. Feinstein Says Anarchist Cookbook Should Be "Removed From the Internet" · · Score: 1

    Jefferson I believe, founded the Democratic Party

    WRONG. Jefferson was the primary force behind the "Democratic Republican" party. The Democratic Party came into existence around 1828, under Andrew Jackson's influence; its primary focus was to preserve slavery. When that failed, it became the party of theft in the spirit of William Jennings Bryan. The GOP activities in the post-bellum South were in part necessitated by the war, and excesses came from both sides (consider carpetbaggers and the KKK).

  19. Re:I do not understand on Sen. Feinstein Says Anarchist Cookbook Should Be "Removed From the Internet" · · Score: 1

    The compromise between food and poison is death.

  20. Re:I do not understand on Sen. Feinstein Says Anarchist Cookbook Should Be "Removed From the Internet" · · Score: 1

    Nixon ... endless war

    Under whose administration did the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War start? Under whose administration did it end?

  21. Re:I do not understand on Sen. Feinstein Says Anarchist Cookbook Should Be "Removed From the Internet" · · Score: 1

    Districts should be drawn by computer algorithm. Start with the NW corner of the state, and draw district outlines to achieve the best result for a function that takes into account population equality between districts and minimum district border length. Done.

  22. Re:I do not understand on Sen. Feinstein Says Anarchist Cookbook Should Be "Removed From the Internet" · · Score: 1

    Any state that uses plurality for its presidential electors immediately makes itself irrelevant. It's a trick the minority party in a state uses to hoodwink the majority. Do the math.

  23. Re:I do not understand on Sen. Feinstein Says Anarchist Cookbook Should Be "Removed From the Internet" · · Score: 1

    That you think "duty" refers to anything in reality, indicates that your mind has already been corrupted beyond repair.

  24. Re:Sen. Feinstein on Sen. Feinstein Says Anarchist Cookbook Should Be "Removed From the Internet" · · Score: 1

    Most people are completely unaware of which congresscritter is generating in-state federal contracts. Most votes go on the basis of "Yay My Team", followed with a tie between "My favorite issue" and "how much money will I personally get." In 4th place is "this person is honorable and competent."

  25. Re:Sen. Feinstein on Sen. Feinstein Says Anarchist Cookbook Should Be "Removed From the Internet" · · Score: 2

    The powers in the Democratic party are far more racist and violent than those in the Republican party. You need look no further than Eric Holder.