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  1. Except by ACs who don't want their own posting history examined. :)

  2. Re:Profitable, if self-contradictory on Elon Musk: We Must Put a Million People On Mars To Safeguard Humanity · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Pedantry is often mistaken as philosophy.

  3. Re:Profitable, if self-contradictory on Elon Musk: We Must Put a Million People On Mars To Safeguard Humanity · · Score: 1

    Universal entropy shouldn't be used in conversations concerning the future of humanity at all. Any solution to that problem won't be affected by it so it's simply a herring, red or otherwise, thrown out to sound grandiose.

  4. Re:Profitable, if self-contradictory on Elon Musk: We Must Put a Million People On Mars To Safeguard Humanity · · Score: 1

    Our observations at the moment are akin to an infant first looking out the screen door onto the back yard and should be taken as just as worthwhile in value for determining what we know of the universe.

    "All evidence indicates that..." Not relevant, human society will not last anywhere near long enough for that to matter.

  5. Re:Profitable, if self-contradictory on Elon Musk: We Must Put a Million People On Mars To Safeguard Humanity · · Score: 2

    Not relevant except to a pedant. Nothing humanity is concerned with except in the abstract necessitates consideration of the entire universe, only our tiny portion.

  6. Re: Getting kinda tired.... on Antarctic Ice Loss Big Enough To Cause Measurable Shift In Earth's Gravity · · Score: 1

    Al Gore isn't sequestering anything. He's running a scam to increase his wealth.

  7. Re:Getting kinda tired.... on Antarctic Ice Loss Big Enough To Cause Measurable Shift In Earth's Gravity · · Score: 1

    It's worth nothing. He's a damn comedian.

  8. There's no script. on Tetris To Be Made Into a Live Action Film · · Score: 2

    I would imagine that this will be the kind of a movie that will be in the five dollar bin at Walmart's within a month of release. And there will be a lot of them that simply stay in that bin.

  9. Re:ET would disprove God on Are the World's Religions Ready For ET? · · Score: 1

    Which religion would that be? I'm not aware of any that take that stance.

  10. Re:Small steps... on Are the World's Religions Ready For ET? · · Score: 1

    Most religions do evaluate.

  11. Re:Note: Theologians on Are the World's Religions Ready For ET? · · Score: 2

    WIngnuts are everywhere. Those who believe that aliens built the pyramids and in the Annunaki will fall to their knees. One cannot evaluate mankind on the uber fringe.

  12. Re:Can this peer-to-peer like Bittorrent on LTE Upgrade Will Let Phones Connect To Nearby Devices Without Towers · · Score: 1

    That may have been what the writer meant, but it was not what the writer wrote. If you don't understand mockery...

  13. Re:Nostalgia gone awry on Yahoo Shuttering Its Web Directory · · Score: 1

    Lot of US fud there. As for the horses, you're apparently unaware of current horse training methods. Or... more fud.

  14. Re:Not that new on Researchers Develop Purely Optical Cloaking · · Score: 1

    Maybe the really, really huge lenses were out of the camera shot.

  15. Meh on Infinite Crisis' Superhero Origins Story · · Score: 1

    One of the reasons I don't play Wow or LoL is the lack of fine tuned character control. This looks like just another version with different characters. Besides, I can already get a DC fix with DCU Online.

  16. Re:I dunno about LEDs, but CFLs don't last on The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy · · Score: 1

    Most showers are located in bathrooms. What you're advocating is to always have two story or more houses with the shower located above the bathroom or have some pumping system to raise the gray water. That's not going to fly.

  17. Re:Hmmm ... on Ask Slashdot: Is Reporting Still Relevant? · · Score: 1

    Your last sentence is forgotten, ignored or pompously presumed an imposition far too frequently by far too many in IT.

    The business is their client. If they were freelancing and pulled the same attitude, they would immediately be looking for another client to replace the one who just walked.

  18. Re: Unfortunately on Ask Slashdot: Is Reporting Still Relevant? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Because managing a mailing list for each individual report is bullshit work, a waste of time that can and should be avoided.

    Not your decision to make. The rest of your post depends from this.

  19. Re: Unfortunately on Ask Slashdot: Is Reporting Still Relevant? · · Score: 2

    Dud/ette - you *are* his underling. It is your job to do your job, that being what you're assigned. Until you can wrap your mind around the fact that your manager is higher up the hierarchy than you, you will remain in the class of geeks many people really don't like.

  20. Re:The geek with a 2x4 foot chip on his shoulder. on Ask Slashdot: Is Reporting Still Relevant? · · Score: 1

    Not his job. It's ours.

  21. Re:OpenID on Ask Slashdot: How To Keep Students' Passwords Secure? · · Score: 1

    It's not like they're going to completely avoid explaining/teaching them how to do this. Just tell them, allow them to screw up and then *grade* them on their performance like you do with every other subject you teach them. Password security is easily infected with paranoia and being over done. At the elementary school level, it's not like there's anything worth keeping under heavy security.

  22. Re:Emma Watson is full of it on Emma Watson Leaked Photo Threat Was a Plot To Attack 4chan · · Score: 1

    So in your mind it couldn't possibly be that women actually *want* children?

  23. Re:"Has hit?" on South Australia Hits 33% Renewal Energy Target 6 Years Early · · Score: 1

    Indeed. It's political talk, therefore it's all obfuscation.

  24. Re:don't really like that term on South Australia Hits 33% Renewal Energy Target 6 Years Early · · Score: 1

    Yes we can. It won't. Useful (in this case) is in terms of human needs. Three hundred and fifty million years is not a useful span for that.

  25. Re:They need to get their shit together on South Australia Hits 33% Renewal Energy Target 6 Years Early · · Score: 1

    If the environmental movement took things seriously we would have more nuclear facilities right now. That would be even more efficient. That massive an installation of solar facilities in that location would require the building of the infrastructure to get that energy to Vermont, Alaska, California and Florida as well as massive maintenance. It's not a put it up and it's done thing. Not to mention eliminating 2/3 of the Mojave Desert. Run that one by the enviros.