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  1. Re:reasons this may not catch on in the US on Electric Bicycles Surging In Popularity · · Score: 1
    it's total nonsense to claim riding a bike in traffic is safe. your in a slow moving less visible vehicle, and your highly exposed with no metal chassis to protect you. if anything hits you your fucked.

    the only place for bikes is in their own seperate lane, anything else is like bringing a knife to a gun fight.

  2. Re:This has its perks on Making It Hard For Extraterrestrials To Hear Us · · Score: 1

    you haven't thought this out. energy isn't the only resource they might require (too much peak oil bunk you've been reading i suspect). a habitable planet is worth a lot more then just energy. even a huge energy source is useless if you don't have air to breath.

  3. Re:Amazing Google on Google Deducing Wireless Location Data · · Score: 0, Troll
    since when has an unfiltered web search been elevated to the status of a human right? access to the internet at all could be called a luxury for most of the worlds population.

    and it's stupid to think a single hack on google is going to scare them out of china, what do you think this is, 8th grade? companys the size of google are not frightened in the slightest.

  4. Re:Probably because cell phone use isn't a factor on Phone and Text Bans On Drivers Shown Ineffective · · Score: 4, Insightful
    your data is a total failure, because the only time people at fault in an accident will admit to anything is when they have no choice due to overwhelming proof. given the option of admitted they were talking on the phone, or claiming the other car was speeding/cut them off/did something else random, which do you think they are going to claim?

    all you have succeed in doing is proving it's difficult to CATCH people who cause accidents due to cell phone use. it's bloody obivous that to anyone with 1/2 a brain that yammering away on the phone with one hand on the wheel is dangerous, and there is NO need for it. call them back ffs.

  5. TFA is a thinking fail. on Phone and Text Bans On Drivers Shown Ineffective · · Score: 3, Insightful
    yeah right, because as soon as the law was passed people all stopped using phones in the car and they are crashing because of something else (preferably something they can't be blamed for).

    what a fucking crock of shit, i see people taking their eyes off the road to send txt messages all the time. without a hands free kit you've only got one hand on the wheel and 1/2 your focus on the road. any god damn fool can see how that will end in disaster.

    you know what would actually see a reduction in crashes? more cops on the road since that visible presence is the biggest deterent there is. if you think there's a cop around every corner that will book you for speeding/DYI/txting a lot less people will risk it.

  6. Re:Talk to your users on How To Spread Word About My FOSS Project? · · Score: 3, Informative

    spot on. no one wants to commit to using software that will disappear if you get hit by a bus.

  7. Re:Android fanboyism on Canadian Android Carrier Forcing Firmware Update · · Score: 1

    openmoko - FAIL

  8. Re:but but !! on Canadian Android Carrier Forcing Firmware Update · · Score: 1

    whooooooooshhhh...

  9. Re:Well duh? on Darwinian Evolution Considered As a Phase · · Score: 3, Insightful

    anyone that thinks the world is 6000 year old and that a big man in the sky planted fossils to test our faith is nuts. it's about as fesible as the flat earth believers, and since they REFUSE to listen to any of the 10000000's of peices of evidence one can only conclude they are in fact crazy.

  10. Re:It's still natural selection on Darwinian Evolution Considered As a Phase · · Score: 1

    I guess, I only considered external factors and not a total change in the animals physiology.

  11. but but !! on Canadian Android Carrier Forcing Firmware Update · · Score: 1

    micheal moore has told me all about how wonderful canada is and how all it's government control and regulation has made it a paradise!!

  12. Re:It's still natural selection on Darwinian Evolution Considered As a Phase · · Score: 1

    and what causes them to be social animals? their genetics. no amount of environmental factors is going to cause say, a great white shark, to suddenly become a social animal.

  13. Re:Genetic Engineering on Darwinian Evolution Considered As a Phase · · Score: 1

    actually that's a myth, you can't just stick random genes into any organism and have it survive. it's one of the nonsense arguments the anti GM fanatics spout while they foam at the mouth about so called frankenfood.

  14. weak. on TSA Plays Joke On Traveller At Screening · · Score: -1, Troll

    she's an idiot, she's a woman she has the ultimate built in defence not even the TSA can touch - "sexual harrassment". she should have claimed he threatened to plant the bag on her if she didn't go on a date with him.

  15. Re:It's so typical for whiny slashdotters... on Getting Company Owners To Follow Their Own Rules? · · Score: 1

    so so true. it aligns with the mentality that you have the source so you should fix it, as if we are all somehow in the business of writing code.

  16. Re:Who do the owners report to? on Getting Company Owners To Follow Their Own Rules? · · Score: 1
    No. he said small and he mentions owners. that means this is a small business.

    frankly i'm not sure why this guy cares. if the owners want to do shit that endangers their data then let them unless you think there is a real risk of the business failing because of it. in which case it should be easy to make the case to stop them.

  17. Re:just let them do it? on NASA To Propose Commercial Space Initiative · · Score: 1

    I think you should try launch something into space and then come back and tell me nothing was stopping you. the level of red tape involved would be astronomical.

  18. just let them do it? on NASA To Propose Commercial Space Initiative · · Score: 4, Insightful

    how about you just let private enterprise go to space or not, and just get out of their way? government $ is the last thing we need to give the private sector at this point.

  19. Re:congrats. on NZ School Goes Open Source Amid Microsoft Mandate · · Score: 1

    so why use linux then? after all they already have a bulk license that's paid for by the government, there's no extra cost to use windows.

  20. Re:Windows has some _really_ big no-nos on NZ School Goes Open Source Amid Microsoft Mandate · · Score: 1

    what a load of crap. there's nothing preventing you violating a license on linux either. wine anyone?!

  21. Re:congrats. on NZ School Goes Open Source Amid Microsoft Mandate · · Score: 0, Troll
    You are meant to be giving kids the tools to cope in the real world that they will be going into in the very near future, not 10 years time. If they want to learn to program or some other advanced topic then secondary education is where they will learn those skills.

    swapping a school to free software to save few buckets and satisfy some nerds linux fetish = failing at education.

  22. Re:congrats. on NZ School Goes Open Source Amid Microsoft Mandate · · Score: 0, Troll
    maybe for the likes of you and I, but for most people out there just moving the button across the screen stumps them.

    i'd be pissed off if my kid was being taught to use applications 99% of the business world don't use.

  23. Re:congrats. on NZ School Goes Open Source Amid Microsoft Mandate · · Score: 1

    do you really want to start comparing market share ? because you'll lose.

  24. congrats. on NZ School Goes Open Source Amid Microsoft Mandate · · Score: -1, Troll
    now your students will have no idea what to do when they go out into the real world of business where everything is microsoft.

    you MIGHT have saved a few bucks at the students expense. bravo.

  25. sky is falling. cats/dogs living together on IPv4 Free Pool Drops Below 10%, 1.0.0.0/8 Allocated · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    please, i'm so bored with this constant bullshit about ip4 running out. they were predicting the end of the internets due to lack of ip space back in the 90s. ffs FIND A NEW STORY YOUR TWATS!!!!

    ip6 hasn't rolled out in any big way because there's no need, end of story PLEASE!