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  1. Re:news @ 11 on Cory Doctorow Calls Death To Music, Movies, Print · · Score: 1

    There is no longer a need for reporters to tell us what has happened..... I'M SEEING IT MYSELF, and I don't want their narration or stupid opinions about it.

  2. Nothing new on Court Reinstates Proof-of-Age Requirement For Nude Ads · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You don't get publicly carded for buying beer. The transaction is only between you and the store, unless there is evidence of a crime being committed.

    It is a deliberate tactic for anti-sex groups to threaten porn stars with stalkers. If they can't shame them into obedience, then they expose them to sexual predators.

  3. Re:this wasn't one of them, though on Judge Dismisses Google Street View Case · · Score: 1

    I wonder how this judge would feel having her home exhibited thanks to Google. Suddenly she'd be good friends with Barbra Streisand...

  4. Problem solved on Repairing / Establishing Online Reputation? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    define:affidavit

    How to Write an Affidavit

    Write out the situation like you explained it to us, but use formal language.

    Keep it under one page. Have it notarized. Attach a copy with every resume.

    Any other issues we can help you with? Are you brushing your teeth enough? :-)

  5. Re:Compared to doing what? on High Tech Misery In China · · Score: 1

    Well, either the subsistence-farmers-turned-factory-workers disagree with you or they are unable to get any arable land for subsistence farming ...

    They can farm if they want to. Their brothers and sisters are doing it. They left home to "make it" in the world because they are dreaming like Dorthy in Oz.

    They want to be higher class than their original background. This strong desire is what factories exploit.

    Every social class is ashamed to be associated with the next lower class, except rich kids who think it's cool to be poor only because they have never suffered that way.

    Government regulation only makes the political class rich and powerful. They will give a free house to the loudest peasant crying for help, and the rest will be shot in the night.

    The best solution is to be happy as a "poor" person. This will bankrupt the factories, and the pigs at the top will have to learn how to farm for themselves.

    But they know that human temptation is too great and the workers will choose to stay rather than go home ashamed to be poor. So really there is no solution, and millions of workers are doomed.

  6. In my opinion on "Liquid Wood" a Contender To Replace Plastic · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Plastic == sequestered carbon Wood == biodegradable == CO2, water, methane == greenhouse gases kdawson == moron

  7. Re:here we go on NASA and Google To Back New "Singularity University" · · Score: 1

    Is it just me or is Kurzweil turning his cult into a religion?

    Ironic how egalitarians are the most elitist hypocrites sometimes. For some reason technocrats often fall into this category.

    The only reason they obsess about equality and human rights is because they secretly know what abusive jerks they are themselves. They could solve most of the issues they raise by fixing their own personalities and stop with their "advocacy" (ie. lobbying).

    Naturally their real goal is power and self-validation, since the Utopia they sell you isn't likely to function without their divine leadership.

  8. Re:TED conference on NASA and Google To Back New "Singularity University" · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's basically an event where you pay for the privilege of schmoozing with famous people, be they celebrities, scientists, politicians, etc.

    That's what college has become - very expensive entertainment: http://www.edububble.com/dpp/

  9. Re:My first thought from reading this on Miscalculation Invalidates LHC Safety Assurances · · Score: 1

    Everyone is entitled to an _informed_ opinion.

    Like everyone is entitled to vote "responsibly". To speak "thoughtfully". To privacy "within reason".

    "Muriel, reading over the Seven Commandments to herself, noticed that there was yet another of them which the animals had remembered wrong. They had thought the Fifth Commandment was 'No animal shall drink alcohol,' but there were two words that they had forgotten.

    Actually the Commandment read: 'No animal shall drink alcohol TO EXCESS.'"

  10. Re:why bother about their laws being implemented on How the US Lost Its China Complaint On IP · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you asked Britain in the 1800s, China had no right to refuse the "free trade" of importing opium no matter who it killed.

    Following China's defeat in the Second Opium War in 1858, China was forced to legalize opium and began massive domestic production. Importation of opium peaked in 1879 at 6,700 tons, and by 1906, China was producing 85% of the world's opium, some 35,000 tons, and 27% of its adult male population was addicted--13.5 million addicts consuming 39,000 tons of opium yearly. From 1880 to the beginning of the Communist era, the British attempted to discourage the use of opium in China, but this effectively promoted the use of morphine, heroin, and cocaine, further exacerbating the problem of addiction. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium#Prohibition_and_conflict_in_China

    For losing to the British invasion, China had to pay $15 million in restitution to British merchants, open their ports to the drug trade, and cede Hong Kong to Britain.

    But they were only enforcing trade agreements!

  11. Re:Researchers on Oldest Weapons-grade Plutonium Found In Dump · · Score: 1

    By "Researchers" they mean "Homeland Security officers" who were contacted by "Police" who were contacted by "Hospital Staff" who had become sickened by "vagrants" admitted to emergency rooms with strange "green glowing skin" who had admitted to trying to sell a "Safe" they found in the "dump".

    By "nerds" Slashdot means "kids who play video games"... whose quick use of Google is used to fake their "intelligence"....

  12. Re:Get well, Steve on Steve Jobs Takes Leave of Absence From Apple · · Score: 2, Funny

    Love 'em or hate 'em, he's changed a lot in the tech sector. His presence will be missed.

    I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.

  13. Re:Constitutionality on Sex Offenders Must Hand Over Online Passwords · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think with sex offenders, like with any criminal conviction, once you do your time...

    Terms of pleas, probation, and reduced sentences can require you give up some rights in exchange for NOT doing your time.

    I didn't RTFA, I'm just saying...

  14. Re:News! OS X update breaks MBPs and /. decorum! on Apple OS X 10.5.6 Update Breaks Some MacBook Pros · · Score: 1

    1. Linux not liked because no corporation stands behind the OS potentially misbehaving. This is a real problem in the minds of many corporate managers who have to oversee risk.

    So it's not even that help isn't available if something goes wrong -- there IS support out there... managers just don't like Linux because there's nobody to sue!

  15. Re:Communist? on Vietnam Imposes New Blogging Restrictions · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Vietnam is communism in name only (not even that since it calls itself socialist). Since 1986 Vietnam is, like China today, just yet-another undemocratic country. Communism is mostly an economic concept, and the Vietnamese economy has largely shifted to a free market system.

    Where ever it fails - killing millions and/or placing the vast majority of people into abject poverty - a good communist says that "real" communism doesn't really exist there, and has never truly been tried.

    Or they just say that YOU have never existed and then try to erase your history. The concept was never a bad idea, however, and certainly not worth resisting or warring against...

  16. Re:640 X 480 on Configuring a Windows PC For a Senior Citizen? · · Score: 1

    The morons I work with (all college grads) were given widescreen displays recently. Every one of the idiots refuses to use 1:1 height and width resolution. I fixed three machines so that when they are showing their ugly family photos to me (ie. not working) their relatives won't have even more grossly wide butts and faces than they already have in reality.

    They ALL bitched to me in a whiny tone that they "liked it the other way! put it back! wah wah wah!"

    Stupid fcks. Merry Christmas.

  17. Re:Opportunity Cost on ACM Urges Obama To Include CS In K-12 Core · · Score: 1

    These people see their own career interests as the only acceptable measure of success for everyone else!!! Not only success, but everyone's intelligence, moral and economic value are to be judged against the personal standards of a few neurotic /. editors.

    Forcing non-technical people to study CS is as pretentious and stupid as making technical people take figure skating lessons. "The time has come for that," an ice champion would say...

  18. Re:California is a at will state on Diskeeper Accused of Scientology Indoctrination · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Who begs to protect children more than a closet pedophile? Perhaps a convicted one. The point is those who preach frequently have something to hide.

    In order for your example to make any sense, it presumes that able straight white people ROCK, and everyone else sucks or else why do they need legal protection? Oh right, because of all the racists...

    The fact is you are projecting your own superior feelings if you really believe the world is so full of prejudice.

  19. Not buying it on Sleep Mailing · · Score: 1

    She was either SLEEPY and doesn't remember well, or she was drinking alcohol and thought it would be cute to show friends how drunk she was (later regretting it).

  20. Re:Flat screen monitor flat on the desk on The Age of Touch Computing · · Score: 1

    I think goggles are the future. Not soon, but not too distant. "Total immersion" is the idea - having a desktop as big as your field of vision, with layers or stacks somehow involved. As many as a person can manage.

  21. virtual life on The Age of Touch Computing · · Score: 1

    How is having a screen flat on the desk any different than the work situation for someone who works at a desk where the computer isn't their primary work interface?

    The same way a blowup doll is better than having a girl to fuck.

    You could also install big displays at every window in your home, and have cameras running to show what's happening outside. It could even be done in 3D someday.

  22. Re:Mouse will be dead? on The Age of Touch Computing · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Try poking your computer screen for more than a few seconds. People's arms get tired FAST. It would be awful for the user to have to do it even occasionally.

    Touchpads and tablets are the way to go. There's plenty of room for development in that area.

  23. Re:Y-chromosome on Chemical Pollution Is Destroying Masculinity · · Score: 1

    "Except for the sex chromosomes and gonads all bodily differences between men and women must be attributed to the actions of sex hormones." -Henk Asscheman, MD and Louis J.G. Gooren, MD

    Google the source. Endocrinology is fairly united on what hormones do to a person.

    I give you estrogen, your voice will change. Other traits will become more feminine too.

  24. Re:Y-chromosome on Chemical Pollution Is Destroying Masculinity · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It's not a mystery. Certain chemicals mimic natural hormones. Sex chromosomes have nothing to do with it.

    No, your d!ck won't fall off or anything, but your sperm count goes down and you will behave "like a fag" for lack of adequate terms. That's a fact.

  25. Re:Why does her condition matter? on RIAA Sues 19-Year-Old Transplant Patient · · Score: 3, Interesting

    While I do have sympathy for the girl, I shall certainly not condone treating people differently based on their income levels or their medical conditions

    Renounce your senior discounts now, and return what you saved in child and student rate admissions over the years!