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  1. Re:So from here on out ... on Supreme Court: Affordable Care Act Is Constitutional · · Score: 1

    And now it's been proven constitutional.

    If the Supreme Court says 1 = 2, that does not make it true.

    Do you have a suggestion how to make laws more democratically?

    Democracy has nothing to do with justice.

  2. Re:Wrong units. Please correct the summary. on New Manufacturing Technology Enables Vertical 3D Transistors · · Score: 1

    Miles and feet are better because they're only one syllable.

  3. Re:oh really? on New Manufacturing Technology Enables Vertical 3D Transistors · · Score: 1

    Step 7. Profit!

  4. Re:Only Two Questions: on New Manufacturing Technology Enables Vertical 3D Transistors · · Score: 1

    Why would you expect reliability issues? it's not as if things like thermal stress and diffusion rates can't be calculated. What sort of issues do you expect to show up?

  5. Re:Insomnia? on Fundamentalist Schools Using "Nessie" To Disprove Evolution · · Score: 5, Funny

    With his daughter.

  6. Re:Uhh on Ask Slashdot: No-Install Programming At Work? · · Score: 1

    In California, and perhaps other states, it is law that an employer cannot claim ownership of work done on independent projects not using the employer's property. Contract terms to the contrary are overruled by the law.

  7. Re:An Actual - Real - Female Scientist Responds on Sexy Female Scientist Video Draws Fire · · Score: 1

    He commonly takes an antagonistic view to help draw out a more in-depth response.

    Some people use the term "devil's advocate." I use the term "asshole."

  8. Re:Sexist? on Sexy Female Scientist Video Draws Fire · · Score: 1

    It's likely that this is not a single cause phenomenon, nor is it necessarily possible to distinguish cause from effect.
    People under stress tend to think more, be more creative, and act in more unconventional ways than those not stressed.

  9. "Leaders" on Bryson Crash Reveals Threat of Headless Government · · Score: 1

    "Our leaders' failure to establish plans to ensure that our Constitution survives is irresponsible."

    The fact that Ornstein uses a phrase like "Our leaders" shows that the concept of responsibility is unknown to him.
    Do you allow yourself to be led ? Then you are not exercising responsibility over your self.

  10. Re:Good plan. on Cyanide-Producing GM Grass Linked To Texas Cattle Deaths · · Score: 1

    There's a moral point to be made here, and it lies not with people who make it possible for others to live longer, richer, better fed lives. The bad people are those who irresponsibly create offspring they cannot support, offspring who will never be able to support themselves.

    A second moral point is that those who blame innovators in agriculture for some mythical future Malthusian disaster are more than just bad, they're evil.

  11. Re:Strange sense of morals on Hacker Group Demands "Idiot Tax" From Payday Lender · · Score: 1

    Do you have any idea what the default rate is on payday loans? Any idea what the overhead expenses are, especially compared to the small amount of money usually involved?

    If payday loans are such a cash cow, why don't you and a few friends get together and start such a company with low interest rates?

    I anxiously await news of your impending bankruptcy.

  12. Re:Strange sense of morals on Hacker Group Demands "Idiot Tax" From Payday Lender · · Score: 1

    By your reasoning, I could be arrested for trespassing whenever I walk through an unfenced forest not posted "hiking is authorized." Internet common practice and reasonable assumption is that anything neither protected nor explicitly prohibited, is allowed.

  13. Re:Strange sense of morals on Hacker Group Demands "Idiot Tax" From Payday Lender · · Score: 1

    Just out of curiosity, is it illegal to use another person's bank account information to deposit money in his account without his permission?

  14. Re:Strange sense of morals on Hacker Group Demands "Idiot Tax" From Payday Lender · · Score: 1

    If it's available from the internet and there is no protection against accessing it (such as requiring a password), how is a person to know he's "not authorized"? The assumption on this internet is if a person can type in an address, he's authorized to view data at that address. Do you see a message on the slashdot home page "You are authorized to view this page and the pages linked from here"? I thought not.

  15. Bad definition on Hacker Group Demands "Idiot Tax" From Payday Lender · · Score: 2

    Extortion is "acquisition by violence, threat, oppression, or abuse of authority." A threat to release information is still a threat, so blackmail falls within that definition. Thus blackmail is not necessarily much less serious than extortion.

  16. Defective article on The Physics of the Knuckleball · · Score: 1

    TFA states that if there is no initial spin on the ball, the curve of its trajectory will be constant. However, if a ball starts with no spin and a seam is oriented to make more air friction than the opposite side of the ball, that will impart a spin to the ball as it travels.

    Furthermore, TFA states that the uncertainty of the ball's position is 0.3 inches, and the claim is that they can reliably declare that the knuckleball has an rms unpredictability of 0.45 inches versus other pitches' 0.4 inches (choosing the right side of the displayed graph). The raw measurements need to be much better before claims can be made about trajectories that are buried in noise.

  17. Standard Treatment on Patch Makes Certain Skin Cancers Disappear · · Score: 1

    Isn't this usually treated with liquid nitrogen? Freeze a patch of cancerous skin, the cells rupture and die, leaving behind a nasty scar. How is radiation better?

  18. Re:I'd agree with them on that.. on NVIDIA Responds To Linus Torvalds · · Score: 1

    The most likely reason for their unwillingness to release specs is incompence.

    In things like written English?

    Nvidia is one of the last holdouts.

    It's worth noting that Nvidia is the only remaining major independent video hardware manufacturer. I don't like the secrecy, but it's hard to argue with success.

  19. Re:At least open the specs. on NVIDIA Responds To Linus Torvalds · · Score: 1

    Would you care to repeat that anything making closed-source anything harder ... is fantastic, when all video cards won't work with anything but a VESA text driver?

  20. Re:Non story on Black Death Discovered In Oregon · · Score: 1

    Rodent overlords!

  21. Re:stupid on Black Death Discovered In Oregon · · Score: 1

    Mountain lions have been spotted in New England. It's not unreasonable to assume they'll be in all the contiguous states within 20 years or so.

  22. Re:Not a big deal. on Black Death Discovered In Oregon · · Score: 1

    The question of whether "the good of the many outweigh the good of the few, or the one" is unrelated to forced inoculation, because it is good for those inoculated and everybody else.

    Once cannibalism and other leftist ideologies are rejected, there are very few cases where "the good of the many" is opposed to "the good of the few".

  23. Re:Darwin in action. on Black Death Discovered In Oregon · · Score: 1

    There are also many underwater cities yet to be ... discovered.

    For example?

  24. Re:Effective lobbying locks out competition on Ask Slashdot: Why Are Hearing Aids So Expensive? · · Score: 1

    Never had your ear clogged with ear wax, have you?

  25. Re:...the world of medical tech... on Ask Slashdot: Why Are Hearing Aids So Expensive? · · Score: 1

    Simple hearing boosters are available for less than $30. For people with only mild hearing loss, this should be good enough. No need for the FDA BS, simple power-limited amplifiers are just too easy to make. Any electronic hobbyist should be able to do it.