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  1. Change on Can Computers Be Used To Optimize the US Tax Code? · · Score: 1

    The politicians are afraid of the very thing they claim the people wanted: change. Their "change" means continuing to push the USA toward dependence and ruin, while real "change" would be to end the framework of exploitation created over the last 100 years.

  2. Re:Wrong place on An IP Address For Every Light Bulb · · Score: 2

    You've just conceived of the scenario where the possession of a simple incandescent light bulb could be grounds for a charge of treason and punishable by death.

  3. EVERY light? on An IP Address For Every Light Bulb · · Score: 1

    What about the LEDs in my devices? Should the device running the network stack for my device LED also have an LED to indicate it's functioning? If so, do we also give that LED an IP address? If so...

  4. Re:Facts have a Liberal Bias on Bill Clinton Suggests Internet Fact Agency · · Score: 2

    Alanis Morrisette can tell me if this is really ironic, but it's kind of hard for anyone to call Colbert unbiased when the character he plays every night is a satirized conservative and he makes statements like the above. Clearly, the media does NOT always report the truth, because they're human and flawed. Furthermore, the fact that journalists come up heavily left-wing in every poll tells you that at least some of them must let their opinions get in the way of their reporting and therefore, the bias skews to the left.

  5. Re:Facts and References and Facts on Bill Clinton Suggests Internet Fact Agency · · Score: 1

    Speaking of facts... "Roe v. Wade" (not Row vs. Way) concerned a purely voluntary abortion; there was no medical issue or rape involved. Otherwise, your post was rather insightful.

  6. Re:Would it really be so bad? on Bill Clinton Suggests Internet Fact Agency · · Score: 1

    No, the opposite of the Ministry of Truth would be never allowing the government to have any influence whatsoever in the media. Instead, we're trying to make it have more.

  7. Re:Waste, Again on Bill Clinton Suggests Internet Fact Agency · · Score: 1

    The point that AC was trying to make was that part of why we're only collecting $2.5T is that we hand out over-sized tax cuts to rich individuals

    I'd like to see your proof that raising taxes will increase revenue.

    (tax cuts that weren't necessary to drive the dot-com boom)

    The tax cuts came after the .bomb.

  8. Re:That what you get on Thousands Marched Against Censorship · · Score: 2

    Actually, that's pretty much how pure democracy works-- which is why the Constitution was written to form a republic, which does a better job of protecting the rights of the minority.

  9. Re:And this is a surprise? on Win 7's Malware Infection Rate Climbs, XP's Falls · · Score: 1

    No, actually they are still putting out security patches for it and will do so until 2014. Sadly, I've recently had an auditor claim that XP is unsupported as well when this information is readily available.

  10. Re:And this is a surprise? on Win 7's Malware Infection Rate Climbs, XP's Falls · · Score: 1
    The Morris worm didn't affect VMS.... but the WANK/OILZ the next year did. So HA!

    Incidentally, 1989 was probably the last time VMS had a worm or virus.

  11. Re:but but on High-Tech Gas Drilling Is Fouling Drinking Water · · Score: 1

    Or, we can be little Erin Brockoviches and unleash class-action lawsuits on big companies based on little more than anecdotes.

  12. Re:how is babby formed on No Pirate Bay for Comcast Customers · · Score: 1

    did they died?

  13. Re:I said it before and I'll say it again... on No Pirate Bay for Comcast Customers · · Score: 0

    What's your evidence for either of your assertions?

  14. Re:Brass? on Glove Emulates Musical Instruments · · Score: 1

    It looks like it has an air pressure sensor, which would allow one to adjust volume but not pitch. I can't look at the video now, so I can't say whether this is how they interpreted the data or if they erroneously use air pressure to adjust pitch as can be done with recorders (but not brass instruments).

  15. Re:Woohoo! on Exabit Transmission Speeds May Be Possible · · Score: 1

    They learned from the government. Have you noticed how many taxes are on your telecom bill from Federal, state, county, and sometimes local government? My $54.95 phone/internet bundle comes out to $74.

  16. Re:Faster than silicon on Exabit Transmission Speeds May Be Possible · · Score: 1

    Pulse tube coolers? Bolometer mixers? Modulating lasers? Right. So I bet you'll just solve the problem by channeling the beam through the main deflector dish, right?

  17. Re:Maybe missing some context? on Vintage Collection of Tech Failures · · Score: 1

    No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.

  18. Re:Documentary About Fracking on High-Tech Gas Drilling Is Fouling Drinking Water · · Score: 1

    It worked for Erin Brockovich.

  19. Re:How much are they getting paid though? on High-Tech Gas Drilling Is Fouling Drinking Water · · Score: 1

    That's because the product is already being taxed. Why should there be a special tax? Would you like if there was a "source code" tax imposed per kloc?

  20. Re:Documentary About Fracking on High-Tech Gas Drilling Is Fouling Drinking Water · · Score: 2

    It didn't happen to those people till the fracking started which leads to the conclusion that it was because of the hydro fracking.

    Yup, that's the conclusion. No further research necessary. On a totally unrelated note, I stepped on a crack and, sure enough, my mother is in traction as we speak.

  21. Re:Documentary About Fracking on High-Tech Gas Drilling Is Fouling Drinking Water · · Score: 1
    Ah, the good old "poisoning the well" fallacy.

    Sorry for the obvious pun.

  22. Re:Documentary About Fracking on High-Tech Gas Drilling Is Fouling Drinking Water · · Score: 1

    I had a neighbor who had methane pollution in her water, and no gas drilling had occurred anywhere near her house. It can happen naturally. I'm embarrassed that I should need to point this out, as I thought we were interested in science on Slashdot.

  23. Re:New? on High-Tech Gas Drilling Is Fouling Drinking Water · · Score: 1

    Documentaries are reality TV for the "intellectual" set. I saw it on TV, so it must be real, right?

  24. Re:but but on High-Tech Gas Drilling Is Fouling Drinking Water · · Score: 1

    Cute, but since no one tested the water BEFORE the fracking, science has not been satisfied.

  25. Re:but but on High-Tech Gas Drilling Is Fouling Drinking Water · · Score: 1
    The only regulation I would like to see here is scientifically based. What researchers have found is that methane levels are elevated near the wells-- but this doesn't mean that the elevated methane levels are due to the drilling. Methane can contaminate wells just fine on its own without human intervention, as we know the earth is far from static.

    What we need to do is drinking water surveys BEFORE drilling. If the water shows as clean before drilling, then we know that if it doesn't later that there is a likelihood of it being caused by the drilling.

    Unfortunately, legislators and SIGs don't care about this, so we can look forward to either stalling and oppressive energy prices or abandoned homes and displaced homeowners.