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  1. Re:What about the plague? on Columbus Blamed For Mini Ice Age · · Score: 1

    Because whole "climate science" has just as much science innit as finance... If someone missed it, they don't do the "experiment" stage of real science.

    I guess this isn't an experiment then?

    If only there was some way to measure the effect of extra carbon dioxide in the air.

  2. Re:Google delta CCR5. This is old. on Gene Therapy May Thwart HIV · · Score: 1

    cure for HIV will probably be developed in the US, and approved in Europe. (Then approved in the US after decades of routine use overseas.)

    Sounds like decades of free human testing to me...

  3. Re:Uh... art?! on $5M In Torrented Files Presented As Art · · Score: 1

    What it is, however, is a coherent political statement that actually says something

    So is Voltaire's Candide not art either then?

  4. Re:He is right. on PayPal Co-Founder Gives Out $100,000 To Not Go To College · · Score: 2

    o in short, even our education system, even if it is conducted with a 'modern' approach, is, 96% inefficient. we load 96% crap into brains of people, only to give a formation that is worth 4%.

    Think of it this way: That 4% is "how to learn/apply something" and the 96% is your practice set.

  5. Re:That's just it - safety and workplace laws on RIAA-Backed Warrantless Search Bill In California · · Score: 1

    Actually (I work in environmental and safety compliance) a lot of those inspections aren't even truly warrantless. You can deny an inspector access to a private facility and they do have to come back with a warrant. Its just that nobody in their right mind would do so because then the inspector is going to be pissed and assume you are hiding things.

  6. torrents would slow down when trying to access on No Pirate Bay for Comcast Customers · · Score: 1

    Whenever I would try to go to TPB last night my running torrents would drop down to 0kbps for a few minutes then start back up eventually. Comcast customer near Seattle, WA.

  7. Re:Anybody believe this? on White House Explains Transport-Energy Future · · Score: 3, Informative

    How do we expect to continue increasing oil production when he's not approving permits? The fact is, people are not going to be able to afford heating oil and gas for their home this winter.

    Obama administration approves fourth Gulf deepwater drilling permit

  8. Re:mixed feelings and abstract hate. on Apple Removes Gay Cure App From App Store · · Score: 1, Troll

    Then they came for me. And there was no one left to speak out for me.

    All of us who avoided walled gardens and have been speaking out against them for ages will still be here to speak out for you.

  9. Re:It's a trebuchet on Drug Catapult Found At US-Mexico Border · · Score: 1

    I'd say that launching rotten tomatoes in a catapult would be mid-evil. Launching pillows would be low-evil, and launching nails and rocks hi-evil. But that's just me.

    What would you say to a large wooden badger?

  10. Re:In before... on FCC Vote Marks Effort To Take Greater Control of the Web · · Score: 1

    We've been over this, but for you and the rest of the slow-learners...

    Free market principles have are antithetical to slavery, where you get (virtually) free labor out of a human. Free markets do quite well at pricing labor. Forced labor is outside of that realm.

    You'd think folks like you could come up with an actual example, but I suppose you're just saying this for the echo chamber (which put you up to +5).


    The Market had less regulation (e.g. more "free") when slavery existed. Therefore more market freedom does not prevent slavery. QED

  11. Re:In before... on FCC Vote Marks Effort To Take Greater Control of the Web · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You do know that it's government keeping only a few Cable providers available don't you? (ie: I can't start up my own cable company tomorrow and offer service to my neighborhood without going through my local government.) They also sign deals with cable companies to have exclusive rights to areas for certain periods of time (effectively granting a monopoly to said company.)

    You want government to fix a government problem by adding more government?

    How else do you propose cable companies secure the right to lay cable across sufficient public and private property to actually provide the service?

  12. Re:How much is your time worth on Handmade vs. Commercially Produced Ethernet Cables · · Score: 1

    A guy in my company did exactly this. He lost his job, was sued, and sent to jail. It is a bad idea.

    Why would selling cables to a company you work for be illegal?

  13. Re:Modern day Indulgences on The Inexact Science of Carbon Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Modern day Indulgences And nothing more. Spend the money by planing some trees.

    Offsets are typically generated from emissions-reducing projects. The most common project type is renewable energy, such as wind farms, biomass energy, or hydroelectric dams. Other common project types include energy efficiency projects, the destruction of industrial pollutants or agricultural byproducts, destruction of landfill methane, and forestry projects.

    Wikipedia: Carbon Offset

  14. Re:How is that different than /.? on Google Wants You To Be Its Unpaid Muse · · Score: 1

    From the TOS link at the bottom of this page:

    With respect to text or data entered into and stored by publicly-accessible site features such as forums, comments and bug trackers ("SourceForge Public Content"), the submitting user retains ownership of such SourceForge Public Content; with respect to publicly-available statistical content which is generated by the site to monitor and display content activity, such content is owned by SourceForge. In each such case, the submitting user grants SourceForge the royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, and display such Content (in whole or part) worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed, all subject to the terms of any applicable license.

  15. Re:since they are the market leader on iPhone Tops Windows Mobile Share; MS Releases iPhone App · · Score: 1

    can we expect an onslaught of viruses? It is much easier to attack a single platform, if I understand the virus marketing info properly.
    No, that is the reason Apple won't let you run an iTunes competitor. If I understand the Apple marketing properly...

  16. Re:"falsely accused"? on RICO Class Action Against RIAA In Missouri · · Score: 1

    That platitude only applies to criminal law. In civil cases, they just say that the plaintiff bears the burden of proving his case

    So, what you are saying is that I am innocent until the plaintiff proves that I am guilty?

  17. Re:Why would ISPs even want to censor? on Network Neutrality — Without Regulation · · Score: 1

    Your cable company, on the other hand, might prefer you to watch their pay-per-view rather than watch Netflix streaming...

  18. Re:Oh my on Ghostbusters Game Coming From Atari · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You don't need to wait 5 minutes, that game (as the review said) was horrible from second zero. I remember renting it back in the day and being so angry at how bad it was. There was actually a pretty fun arcade version that I remember playing at the time.

    Anyway, the nostalgia grabbed me and the narrator said there would be a followup. The link is here, it was a bit difficult to find.

  19. Re:Duh! on Obama Beats McCain In Spam Landslide · · Score: 1

    John McCain knows how to use email. He doesn't because injuries he sustained as a POW in Vietnam make it painful for him to type.

    "I don't e-mail, I've never felt the particular need to e-mail," Senator John McCain

    Reference: here

  20. Re:I don't get it... on Give Up the Fight For Personal Privacy? · · Score: 1

    xaxa is not kidding: check Grimbleton's info page and google "StarKnightGoku"... You can find his name and the city he lives in in about 5 minutes.

  21. Re:yes and no on Strong Methane Emissions On the Siberian Shelf · · Score: 1

    Real science. Grandparent is correct, and if you spend a few minutes researching the subject you'll (easily) find his missing link.

    If it is such an easy assertion to support why did neither of you do so?

  22. Re:2 - The Great Flood (Where are all the Unicorns on Review of Discovery Institute's Evolution Textbook · · Score: 1

    Anyway I think that the Slashdot usage of the term "Creationism" should be replaced by the phrase "Young Earth Creationism" (YEC for short)

    Slashdotters, everyone else on the planet, and dictionary writers you mean...

    Creationism Defined:

    Some excerpts:

    the doctrine that matter and all things were created, substantially as they now exist, by an omnipotent Creator, and not gradually evolved or developed.

    Belief in the literal interpretation of the account of the creation of the universe and of all living things related in the Bible.

    the literal belief in the account of Creation given in the Book of Genesis; "creationism denies the theory of evolution of species"

  23. first appropriate use! on Why Mozilla Is Committed To Using Gecko · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Holy begging the question Batman!

    Yes, I did check Wikipedia to make sure a million angry slashdotters weren't going to kill me for its usage.

  24. Re:California Strikes Again on Don't Share That Law! It's Copyrighted · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe if we all pirate these laws it will reduce the financial incentive of these "artists" to create new works.

  25. Re:Politics in Science on The Sun Has First Spotless Month Since 1913 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Now why might this have happened? Why do papers predicting a period of low solar activity fail to be published (see the full articles)?

    Sun spot cycles we a well known phenomenon.

    The low point of the cycle has been predicted for 2007-2008 for the last 20 years!

    This graph is one such prediction that you say has been suppressed.