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  1. Re:It must be true! on Dark Matter Particles May Have Been Detected · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's because your logic is fundamentally flawed. If you were really questioning, and not just accepting everything at face value, you would say this:

    Characterization: Isn't that where we are finding that galaxies aren't behaving as we expect them to, and that behavior is in the form of gravitational interactions which shouldn't happen given the amount of mass which we can see.

    Hypothe- err, fuck that, I mean PROOF:
    It's God. Literally God!! He's got his hand in that galaxy like it was a Jeff Dunham puppet.

    Deduction: If God is weakly interacting with the galaxies, all you heathen sciency evolution types are fucked! Richard Dawkins won't be able to save you from getting cornholed by fire demons for the rest of eternity.

    Experimentation:
    Invoke the spirit of Charles Darwin. Ask him how hot Hell is. Fall on your knees, and hear the Angels sing. Never question God or me again. Now I will call you saved, please deposit $200 into the jar.

    That's how you really fight the dogma of science.

  2. Re:How would that work on Police Arrest Man For Refusing To Tweet · · Score: 1

    You are incorrect! There is no 5th amendment in Canada. We only got up to four.

    We keep trying to write a 5th, but we get bogged down in all the superfluous "u"'s and keep having to stand up whenever the Queen walks by. Chip chip chirrah!

  3. Re:dumb idea on Pittsburgh To Tax Students · · Score: 1

    I think the AC is from Pittsburgh

  4. Re:Lots of speculation. on Micro-Black Holes Make Poor Planet Killers · · Score: 1

    I've got news for you; this is as good (or should i say precise) model of these things as you are going to get right now. It's the cutting edge of our understanding of how MBHs work, and _that_ understanding in turn depends on a quite large, quite solid foundation of math, physics and observations.

    Fixed that for ya.

  5. Re:Wasn't the MPAA who shut down the network on MPAA Shuts Down Town's Municipal WiFi Over 1 Download · · Score: 1

    Not sure how "a public, city-owned router for illegal activity" is dumb though? Makes it very hard to link the perpetrator to the activity. Strikes me as rather smart. Dumb would be doing it from home.

  6. Re:Evacuate this universe! on LHC Shut Down Again — By Baguette-Dropping Bird · · Score: 1

    The good news is those dedicated folks at CERN will just keep pecking away...

  7. Re:Uh-oh on LaserMotive Finds Success In Space Elevator Competition · · Score: 1

    Easy, just open a window!

    Err... better hang on to something though.

  8. Re:Where's the... on Murderer With "Aggression Genes" Gets Reduced Sentence · · Score: 1

    Everyone in jail, and probably many offenders out of jail, regret their violent behaviour after the fact. What I don't get is why people without a detected genetic predisposition towards violence get heavier sentences.

    Imprisonment serves a few purposes:

    1. Remove the dangerous element from society. The sentence reduction here doesn't make sense, the person is more dangerous.
    2. Punishment. The notion of "paying one's debt to society" (since the financial burden of a prisoner on the taxpayer is substantial, I don't entirely get this). Given that the consequences for the friends & family of the victim are unaffected by a genetic predisposition, lighter sense doesn't make sense here.
    3. Rehabilitation. Since prisons have been shown to have deleterious rather than beneficial effect on inmates overall, this is a miss. Further, even if prison is rehabilitive, less time for someone with a genetic predisposition towards violence still doesn't compute.

    Am I missing something?

  9. Re:So now it's four pieces? on Volcanic Activity May Split Africa In Two · · Score: 4, Funny

    I cordially invite you to come to my house and explain to my kids that half a cookie is in fact a cookie. Good luck. If you're successful, I'll even pay for your airfare.

  10. Re:Where's the... on Murderer With "Aggression Genes" Gets Reduced Sentence · · Score: 1

    "This person has a high inclination towards violence. He'll flip out and kill someone at the drop of a hat!"
    "Indeed? Well, then, what's this person doing in a cage? He should be out on the street, amongst children and the elderly!! Release him, post haste!!"

  11. Re:This proves one thing on Secret Copyright Treaty Leaks. It's Bad. Very Bad. · · Score: 1

    Ron, is that you?

  12. Re:Everything but the first two films? on Terminator Franchise To Be Auctioned Off · · Score: 2, Funny

    I heard Kevin Smith was already working on the sequel...

  13. Re:So? on AT&T Suggests To 300K Employees To Lobby the FCC · · Score: 2, Funny

    Actually, he can tell. You see, Bill Gates has developed a new email tracking software, so if you forward that to the fcc, you could win $100,000

  14. Re:Big deal on SCO Terminates Darl McBride · · Score: 1

    This would imply buoyancy, hence an easier time swimming. No, we still haven't gotten to the crux of this yet...

  15. Re:The Right Tool for the Right Job on Yet Another Premature Declaration of Email's Death · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What's more inherently professional about an email than a message on Facebook?

    The lack of Farmville updates...

  16. Re:Money on FBI Investigates Liberator of Court Records · · Score: 1

    I'll manage. In left 4 dead, I pwn with the dual pistols. Real life can't be too far removed from that...

  17. Re:Money on FBI Investigates Liberator of Court Records · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Big pew-pew and boom-boom, make ruskies go bye-bye, cost lots of bling-bling.

  18. Re:Goverment on Canadian ISPs Fight Back, Again · · Score: 1

    Actually, these monopolies/limited markets derive from ownership of wired infrastructure. ADSL is either bought directly from Bell/Telus, who own the phone wires, or a reseller.

    The other option is the cable company, who owns the coaxial cable network.

  19. Re:Bad Mischaracterization on The Duct Tape Programmer · · Score: 1

    Additionally, a good architect will discuss and collaborate with the Duct Tape Programmer.

  20. A little more info on your app may help on Data Locking In a Web Application? · · Score: 1

    What software, framework, persistence package, and db are you using?

    Hibernate, for example, has both optimistic and pessimistic locking. Optimistic is done with timestamps or version numbering.

    Pessimistic locking is backed by the db, so in some instances it does nothing. On mysql, using their innodb engine, as an example, all threads trying to access a locked record will actually block until the lock is released. The latter is often problematic in web apps, but is sometimes desireable.

    Hope that helps, and if you care to give more info, I might be able to give more specific answers.

  21. Re:Hooray! GDT!!! on Tolkien Trust Okays Hobbit Movie · · Score: 1
    GP to your post:

    Pan's Labyrinth sucked.

    Your post:

    nobody said Pan's Labyrinth isn't a good film

    Not much into reading, are you?

  22. Re:Grrr... on US Nuclear Power Industry Poised For a Comeback · · Score: 5, Funny

    Agreed. One might even say they're the Cadillacs of analogies.

  23. Re:Blaming the Govt. Strawman on Slow Oracle Merger Leads To Outflow of Sun Projects, Coders · · Score: 1

    In addition, I had read that the DOJ delivered their opinion well before the deadline they defined. This was perceived to be the american gov't attempting to protect jobs at Sun. Not sure why they're getting any blame?

  24. Re:just Turing? on Alan Turing Apology Campaign Grows · · Score: 1

    A real apology might be to name a privacy or anti-discrimination act after him.

    Actually, that's a pretty fucking good idea. I agree, not likely to happen though.

  25. Re:What the? on Alan Turing Apology Campaign Grows · · Score: 3, Funny

    At least the pies are good...