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  1. Number of Immunizations? on Measles Resurgent Due To Fear of Vaccination · · Score: 1

    Here goes my Karma.

    Some parents are a little concerned about the number of immunizations that children receive in a very short time. There seem to be concerns that
    27 separate immunizations over the first 18 months of a child's life may be stressing the immune system a little too much. If you start forcing people to do things they don't not understand they will resist, I hope society would stop calling them stupid, treat the parents like rational people and give them an educated choice.

  2. Re:Wrong idea on Will Climate Engineering Ever Go Prime Time? · · Score: 1

    Funny.

    But seriously I wish people would change the word "money" to "resources".

  3. Best wishes on Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot · · Score: 1

    Thank you for starting and maintaining a great web news portal. My hopes for the best go out to you. Enjoy.

  4. Re:You know, I've got to say one thing for NASA on Humanoid Robot Wakes In Space, Tweets · · Score: 1

    And I didn't think I could get any more depressed today after putting silicone in the propellant flow paths of PRCS and VRCS thrusters.
    Thanks.

  5. waste of resources and used to persecute on Fed Goes Hunting For Malcontents · · Score: 2

    More HSPD12 crap. I went though a more invasive background check for a "position of public trust" than friends that got "secret" clearances. And everything I work on is public domain except for some private information from my contractor company.

    If my government(USA) starts treating everyone like criminals they are going to start acting like criminals. Or is that to hard of a concept to understand for congress and the administration.

  6. I can promise only one thing on Assange Could Face Execution Or Guantanamo Bay · · Score: 1

    If anyone I have an opportunity to vote for is in favor of persecuting Assange then they will not get my vote.
    Unfortunately, that is all I can really do about this.

  7. Re:Governmental Fail on Senate Trying To Slip Internet Kill Switch Past Us · · Score: 1

    God forbid the government goes to a neutral third party, say a judge, clearly and consciously documenting their reasoning to shut down a service provided by a private company.

    I wish my countries government would go back to getting warrants.

  8. perfect excuse... on Minority Report Style Iris Scanners In Mexico · · Score: 1

    ...for me to get those mirrored contacts I've thought about since college. Originally I just wanted to freak out my professors.

  9. "Sustainability" kool-aid on Abandon Earth Or Die, Warns Hawking · · Score: 1

    Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for using resources in an intelligent manner and getting the most out of them. The planet is a resource, eventually resources run out, no matter how efficient (or “sustainable” for the kool-aid drinkers) you make a process. Even if we destroyed every gasoline powered car, coal fired power plant and incandescent light bulb eventually we will use up all the resources on this planet. It won’t be in my lifetime, but it won’t be a million years either.

  10. Re:Yeah, but where does this get ME? on Abandon Earth Or Die, Warns Hawking · · Score: 1

    Porn.

  11. Re:Proven delivery system on Senate Bill Adds Shuttle Flight, New Shuttle-Derived Vehicle · · Score: 1

    None of those are man rated. Which isn't a small feat.
    But no one seems to care about that.

    People complain that the Shuttle and Ares programs are expensive and dangerous. These same people will complain how dangerous Falcon is first time it blows up on the pad with people on top.

  12. save money on postage... on Stanford, U.C. Berkeley Offer Students Genetic Testing · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it have been more cost effective to make the kits available for pickup to the students that wanted to participate. Instead of possibly confusing the issue by mailing the kits to "...every incoming freshman and transfer student."

  13. Office 2007 on Firefox 4.0 Beta 1 Released · · Score: 0, Troll

    Looks like MS Office 2007, which SUCKS!!!!
    Please leave the option of using the classic interface. Concentrate on making it standards compliant and less blot.

  14. Getting worse on Google Relents, Will Hand Over European Wi-Fi Data · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Still not as bad as the state of New Mexico, where you can be convicted and go to jail for driving "impaired" based solely on the officers "expert" opinion.
    No breathalyzer.
    No blood test.
    You don't even have to fail the field sobriety test. All up to the police officers expert opinion. Some judges are convicting these cases when they should be tossed out.

    The burden of proof is shifting to the defendant, not good in my opinion.

  15. More Executive power? on Obama Will Nominate Elena Kagan To the Supreme Court · · Score: 1

    http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/04/09/us/politics/20100409-stevens-candidates.html

    Elena Kagan
    49 years old
    Solicitor general
    Princeton, 1981; Oxford, 1983; Harvard Law School, 1986

    With no judicial record, Ms. Kagan is less known. As dean at Harvard Law School, she hired conservative professors to expand academic diversity and has supported assertions of executive power.

    Sounds like someone Bush/Cheney would have nominated.

  16. bueller? bueller? on RFID Checks Student Attendance in Arizona · · Score: 1

    If the student wants to waist their money by not attending, let them. They are adults.
    If the student has something truly more important to do at that time, don't punish them.
    If the professor's ego is so big that he has to demand the captive audience but is to lazy to take attendance, fire him/her.

    How lazy can we get as a species?

    Anecdotal evidence of a good professor, In a 400 level (senior) engineering class I had a professor that stopped one student from waking another student who had fallen asleep. The professor explained why he didn't mind as he knew his class was not boring and that the student put forth the effort to attend even though it was obvious he was exhausted. That is a good professor, one that can see things from the students point of view. A lot of college students are working thier way though school and realize the value of the education, sometimes they can not make it to class or should not make it to class. College age students are considered adults, treat them as such or they will never act as such.

  17. No discent among civil servants. on NASA Unveils Sweeping New Programs For Next 5 Years · · Score: 1

    Shame that if Bolden, or any civil servant, publicly disagrees with the administrations plan they violate their employment contract. There are a lot of NASA employee's that do not like the new direction they just can't say so publicly.

  18. GPS Selective Availability on Senate Votes To Replace Aviation Radar With GPS · · Score: 1

    So what happens to private pilots and civil air patrol when the GOV turns on Selective Availability?
    No personal electronic devices? what about the electronic E6B flight computers?
    or the many iPhone apps that perform flight planing and navigation calculations?
    or my hand held Garmin III+ GPS? etc etc etc .... and how the hell will the FAA know if I'm texting my friends in the left seat of a Cessna 172?

  19. Re:Truecrypt on Encryption Cracked On NIST-Certified Flash Drives · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There should be nothing preventing you from putting a Truecrypt volume on the FIPS140-2 compliant drive. It would be similar to having a hidden truecrypt volume within another encrypted volume. So this would satisfy the 'pointy hair boss' with compliance to FIPS140-2 while keeping data secure from the 'crack' mentioned in the article.

  20. Re:Death is not an inconvenience? on Fixing Security Issue Isn't Always the Right Answer · · Score: 1

    [sarcasm] Yes by all means we must think of the children.[/sarcasm]

    Even at the expense of condemning them to a third world quality of life. I suspect furby076 is the type of person that wants to live till he/she is 120 years old even though the last 40 are spent in a coma. For people like that life is about quantity not quality.

  21. Re:Nonsense. on EFF Warns TI Not To Harass Calculator Hobbyists · · Score: 1

    This is where, hopefully, Jury Nullification of Law would come into play. Judges and Prosecutors prevent jury pool from being informed of their right to disagree with the judge and the Rule of Law.

    http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/zenger/nullification.html

    http://fija.org/

  22. Nobel for wishful thinking.... sign me up. on Barack Obama Wins the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 1

    I wish the world was a better place.
    I wish people would get along.
    I wish people would help each other when needed.
    I wish people would let others live their own lives.
    I wish people wouldn't force their beliefs on others.

    Ok, where is my Nobel?

  23. High Gravity on Making Babies In Space May Not Be Easy · · Score: 1

    what would the effect be of higher gravity on development?

    Any women out there want to spend 9 months in a centrifuge?

  24. solution: on Satellite Glitch Rekindles GPS Concerns · · Score: 3, Funny

    Buy an atlas.

  25. Maybe next time... on The State of Iran's Ongoing Netwar · · Score: 1

    I'm glad this didn't happen in the US for our last Presidential election. But maybe next time, riots for 2012!!!