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  1. Re:Yeah yeah on Climate Change To Drive Weather Disasters, Say UN Experts · · Score: 1

    what's causing it? climate change. The climate has been changing forever too. The whole summary was like...so?

  2. Re:Yeah yeah on Climate Change To Drive Weather Disasters, Say UN Experts · · Score: 1

    I think the GP and GGGP posts are arguing, and justifiably so, that "likely" does not convert to scientific law. It is theory. And not evolutionary theory, but a lower level theory.

    Remember, we are talking science. Not democracy. The majority doesn't win the day. Statistics don't win the day. Proof wins the day.

  3. Re:No Source? on VISA, MasterCard Warn of 'Massive' Breach At Credit Card Processor · · Score: 1

    He can find $5 parking; There are several places where you can park for 10 minutes for around that price.

  4. Re:business tool, just like a photocopier on RIM Firing (Nearly) Everybody · · Score: 1

    He more or less saying it is like a scanner/printer vs a scanner/printer/copier. It has what you need, but when you need to make a copy, you have to scan and then print.

  5. Your Fired! on Scientist Who Oversaw OPERA's Faster-Than-Light Neutrino Study Resigns · · Score: 1

    Nice to see Einstein is still making an impact on lives 60 years later.

  6. Re:Police/Fire dept doing this now on House Kills Effort To Stop Workplace Requests For Facebook Passwords · · Score: 1

    If you are irreplaceable, that would work. You are likely not and they will just end the interview.

  7. Re:Teacher aid FIRED for not allowing Facebook acc on House Kills Effort To Stop Workplace Requests For Facebook Passwords · · Score: 2

    Unless you are employed by the government, you do not have a right to privacy. In fact, you don't have a right to privacy. You have a right to keep your things private. Privacy comes into play when you have 1 option: divulge. In this case you have 2 options: divulge or quit.

  8. Re:I just wish... on Boston Pays Out $170,000 To Man Arrested For Recording Police · · Score: 1

    Someone in the City government has got to know a lawyer, right?

  9. Re:The finicky environmentalist on Hoover Dams For Lilliput: Does Small Hydroelectric Power Have a Future? · · Score: 1

    Hydro is by far the best out of all energy generation we use today. A nuclear plant can't last that long, has direct fueling costs, and low maintenance. A dam just has HUGE upfront real estate costs. Or in the case of Niagara Falls (4.4 GW), flow changes to a natural wonder.

  10. Re:Google: World's biggest statistical service on What Does Google Get Out of Voice? · · Score: 1

    95% of the revenue they get from ads (which make up 96% percent of its revenue) is their ability to use statistics to best target the users they are delivering ads to.

    So Google is a data mining company, not an ad company. Ads are just their currently outlet at leveraging the data they have collected and will collect in the future.

    In a few years, when Google knows you are hungry (based on patterns) and knows you are next to a restaurant you loved a year ago and it suggests that you go there without you even asking the phone, then you'll know that it is about the data mining.

    They could leverage the data into other spaces outside advertising. Like catching a terrorist, criminal activity, monitoring competition for clients, credit rating, etc... It doesn't have to all be about selling you something.

  11. Re:What kind of congress is that? on Congress Capitulates To TSA; Refuses To Let Bruce Schneier Testify · · Score: 1

    The Federal government has exceptions on which they can govern. One is inter-state commerce. The people have exceptions on what rights they DON'T have and none pertain to transportation or what people can purchase. If you believe their business is inter-state commerce, then what isn't interstate commerce? It is about interstate commerce as taxis, a farm, Hollywood, or even a church.

    So if a government doesn't regulate, then nobody regulates? I guess customers don't exist anymore... Businesses can just wreck havoc across everything and suppress everyone...oh wait, there is only one entity with those powers.

  12. Re:This is perfectly consistent on Congress Capitulates To TSA; Refuses To Let Bruce Schneier Testify · · Score: 1

    If the airline had control over the TSA, then I would agree with your premise. But since the TSA is mandated, it is not a private entity choosing to search their passenger's luggage and persons. It is effectively government entity performing warrant-less searches.

    The government can't quarter troops in your home, but this is like them allowing a private company, by law, to quarter their employees in your home on business trips.

  13. Re:reminds me of blue laws in Massachusetts on Maybe the FAA Gadget Ban On Liftoff and Landing Isn't So Bad · · Score: 1

    This happens in PA too. The laws promote the practice of "stocking up" rather than "drinking less". And "stocking up" leads to "drinking more". Go into any alcohol drinker's basement in PA and you'll find their own little distributor.

  14. Re:Pub? Where? What? on Hobbit Pub Saved By Actors Stephen Fry and Sir Ian McKellen · · Score: 1

    Or the car analogy would be using them!

  15. Re:or it is used as a tool on DoD Networks Completely Compromised, Experts Say · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is that like putting a bird in a crypt?

  16. Re:or it is used as a tool on DoD Networks Completely Compromised, Experts Say · · Score: 1

    With an RSA public encryption key around his neck

  17. Re:yawn on Historic Heat In North America Turns Winter To Summer · · Score: 2

    Do you believe this kind of anomaly has never happened before? Or do you choose to believe weather started existing in 1870?

  18. Re:That money and jobs are not lost on The Numbers Behind the Copyright Math · · Score: 1

    And even the money in "tax heavens" winds up coming back to employ people or it will employ people in other countries who needed jobs as well.

  19. Re:Jobs and Profits on The Numbers Behind the Copyright Math · · Score: 1

    Or they bought audio books or free speeches/readings

  20. Re:Redundancy on Clever Clues Clobber Crossword Computer · · Score: 2

    A human can cleverly clobber a crossword computer with brute force.

  21. Re:Pornographic? on Teacher Suspended For Reading Ender's Game To Students · · Score: 1

    She should be fired for not having a class of teenagers read the book themselves. What a waste of class time...

  22. Re:Ignorance of the Law is supposed to be no excus on Liberating the Laws You Must Pay To Read · · Score: 2

    They don't have to be inane. Simply a ridiculous amount of laws leads to forced ignorance.

  23. Re:buy it used on Ask Slashdot: Any Smart Phones Made Under Worker-Friendly Conditions? · · Score: 1

    Can I buy a used MP3?

  24. Re:If they don't like it they can quit on Ask Slashdot: Any Smart Phones Made Under Worker-Friendly Conditions? · · Score: 1

    Any sane person would say that...unless we are talking about forced labor. No one has a right to a job. They have a right to work (or not work).

  25. Heavily Slanted Bias on Patent Troll Targets Samsung and RIM With Emoticon Button Patent · · Score: 1

    I sense that someone REALLY hates patent trolls.