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  1. Re:Just like email recall on College Papers Won't Rewrite History For Alumni · · Score: 4, Insightful
    exchange server allows it. your shitout of luck if it's across the internet though. really if your a twit when your young the best course of action is to admit you were an idiot and say you've learnt from your actions.

    it's rather retarded to think some 50 yo CFO who has had an outstanding career is any less capable because he was arrested for drunk and disorderly 30 years ago. frankly i find such things refreshing knowing the big guns are human as well.

  2. Re:can you shut it off? on Towards Artificial Consciousness · · Score: 2, Insightful

    yep i'd believe the emotional maturity of a 3yo, it's one reason i can't stand fuckheads who are cruel to animals

  3. Re:can you shut it off? on Towards Artificial Consciousness · · Score: 1
    actually i think a dog has just as high level of consciousness as a person. they know their name, they have emotions and they feel happiness and pain. they also consider beings outside of themselfs. really they just lack the high level reasoning and opposible thumbs.

    on the topic of shutting off an AI, i think pulling the plug would be no different to putting them into a coma as long as all the details of the consiousness are saved first.

  4. Re:School vs Industry on Students, the Other Unprotected Lab Animals · · Score: 0, Troll
    yes, do you? the money thats supposed to be evil is in fact saving people.

    thanks for playing.

  5. Re:School vs Industry on Students, the Other Unprotected Lab Animals · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    very true. i work in one of the most dangerous industries in the world (resources) yet i'm much safer at work than i am doing DIY work at home. it's rather ironic that the whole lefty money is the root of all evil crowds that populate most university's permit their workplace to be so much more dangerous.

  6. Re:Microsoft Requested It on Microsoft Cancels EU Antitrust Hearing · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Ms bundling IE was a better deal, that's what capitalism is all about, offering a better deal and an improved product. if netscape had management with a brain they would have seen the writing on the wall for selling browser software and moved more agressively into the server market than they did.

  7. Re:Microsoft Requested It on Microsoft Cancels EU Antitrust Hearing · · Score: 0, Troll
    windows 95/98 and vista are perfectly capable desktop OS's. yes 98/95 weren't multer user friendly but at the time that wasn't Ms's core market. the bad press against vista is over rated. i've used it and it was fine, atleast as fast a XP Sp3.

    the only thing Ms need a spanking over is it's treatment of OEM's who want to offer alternative OS's, in that respect they try to punish them by removing the bulk discounts OEM's enjoy. the whole bundling arguement is horseshit.

  8. pedo's on Smile! Urine Candid Camera! · · Score: 1

    correct me if i'm wrong but isn't filming the genitals of the under age considered pedophila in the states? this means the federal goverment is commiting this exact crime.

  9. Re:Not 1%. Much more. Enough with the 1% on Is Linux's "Overall Market Share" Statistic Meaningful? · · Score: 1

    and your basing this on what? i have no trouble believing only 1 in 100 computers has linux on it

  10. of course it means something numbnuts on Is Linux's "Overall Market Share" Statistic Meaningful? · · Score: 3, Insightful
    it's 1% of how they were measuring it. what you really want to know is how meaningful are the metrics used to produce that 1%.

    slashdot, missing the point as usual....

  11. Re:Works for everyone except on Paro the Therapeutic Robot Baby Seal · · Score: 1

    actually roo culling is to prevent them breeding till there is a plague and they starve. man created dams and thats given roo's year round water so they breed year round

  12. cheap? on Plastic and Fuel That Grow On Trees · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    where the fuck does it say it's now cheap to make, kdawson? FTFA

    "Although it is a fairly simple process to convert HMF into plastics or biofuel, it is seldom used because HMF is costly to make"

    they go on to say they made it less expensive, but no where does it state they have broken into a price range that makes it useful aka "cheap".

    seriously if this is the level of reporting the bio faction are going to stick to, be prepared to laughed at a LOT.

  13. Re:Improved Version Coming Next Year on Energy Star For Servers Falls Short · · Score: -1

    no doubt they paid consultants thousands for this crap i could come up with in a weekend.

  14. yes the WoW community is different - on Throwing Out the Rulebook For MMOs · · Score: 1, Funny

    - they have females, real ones.

  15. Re:Cue postgres fan bois on Has MySQL Forked Beyond Repair? · · Score: 0, Troll

    if i'm a fan boi because i prefer the better database, then guilty as charged sir...

  16. not my children on Database of All UK Children Launched · · Score: 4, Insightful
    if i had kids i'd refuse or give bogus details.

    if ever their was a reasonable cause to scream think of the children, this is it. and lets not forget that these kids will grow into adults, do we really believe the government will let go of that information once it has it?

  17. Re:What about the CueCat?! on Top 10 Disappointing Technologies · · Score: 0, Troll

    your apple apologising just made me throw up in my mouth a little...

  18. isn't this owned by the people? on Canada Gov't Censors Parliament Hearings On YouTube · · Score: 1
    i was under the impression in most countries with sane leadership and laws, government work was owned by the people. so unless they are calling on some inane interpretation of the law claiming because it's hosted outside of canadian servers it's copyright infringement since canada owns it, i can't see how removing access to parilment debates will lead to anything but protests in the streets.

    you have to view this as the government trying to remove people's access to views opposing it's own, since parilemtn time is primarily where the opposing parties get to make their rebuttals to the government.

  19. Re:Well... on Radiation-Resistant Plants Could Be Used In Space · · Score: 5, Funny

    bred?! you backwards hick we will be CLONED

  20. Re:Public Perceptions on Radiation-Resistant Plants Could Be Used In Space · · Score: 4, Insightful
    the media has a lot to answer for imho, it's the same reporting that has people believing that a single fibre of asbestos will kill you, when in fact the stuff is everywhere being brought up by natural springs etc since forever.

    people will squeal like stuck pigs about food colourings, radiation, asbestos, CO2 (hah seriously) and then they will pop open a diet coke and eat some geneticly enhanced chicken mcnuggets.

  21. fake? on Shuttle and Hubble Passing In Front of the Sun · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    looks like something someone did in paintbrush. has anyone actually verified this as legit, it wouldn't be the first time the intrawebs fell for a hoax.

  22. Re:"Shockingly"?? on The Dangers of Being Really, Really Tired · · Score: 1

    i think the traditional wisdom that a person would simply fall into a deep sleep eventually that you couldn't wake them from until their system had recovered enough. i admit i'm suprised, i would have thought coma would have been the worst you could do.

  23. it's ok any time you please. on When Does It Become OK To Make Games About a War? · · Score: 1

    that's what freedom is. anyone who is opposed is a freedom hating commie.

  24. Re:I know where . . . on Hosting a Highly Inflammatory Document? · · Score: 2, Interesting
    they might keep the serial number when they scan the item and record it against the reciept. they could then canvas all the shops in the area for that serial number and make the time of the reciept to their in store camera.

    if you really wanted to make an anonymous drop of information that could be very very destructive to your saftey/privacy and you think the public really needs to know, drive to the next town, find something low tech which doesn't have a camera or only a camera aimed at the cash draw so it doesn't record you at the copy machine. make about 10 copies of the information all the while wearing gloves (not surgical gloves you don't want to call attention to yourself). pay cash for the copies and some envolopes and one of those label making gadgets (never handwrite anything). next go to a public rest room and take some hair samples (truck stop would be perfect) and drop different hairs into each envolope, just to really throw them off the beaten track if they are REALLY going to come after you (i'm asuming worst case, you know who killed JFK style stuff here).

    then mail these 10 copies off to news agencies at all four corners of the country as well as somewhere like wikileaks. most importantly of all though make sure the information itself doesn't relate to you or give even the tinyest amount of identifable information away about you because that's teh fastest way for them to track you down.

  25. Re:Enough of "Too Big to Fail"! on DOJ Nixes Lax Policy, Hardens Antitrust Enforcement · · Score: 4, Insightful

    the problem is too big to fail was a bullshit notion to begin with. they just had trouble saying "old boys club".