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  1. Re:unfiltered information will make people THINK! on How the Internet Is Taking Away America's Religion · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Meanwhile the more extreme fanatics of religion pushes hard for creationism in schools in an attempt to counteract the trend.

    The losers will be the kids that will get confused by contradictions. There's an 18 year limit on porn in many countries, why not the same for religion?

  2. The cost is not entirely relevant on Most Expensive Aviation Search: $53 Million To Find Flight MH370 · · Score: 2

    Even if the money dedicated to this search has reached that sum it is not wasted money, in some cases this involves services with a continuous running cost that would have been 'idle' at standby anyway.

    The value of this is an exercise in cooperation, refining search methods and when the wreck finally is found it may be possible to find out what really happened. Unlikely at it seems it may even end up being caused by a meteorite - as was caught on camera by a Norwegian skydiver.

  3. Re:After a lifetime of being inundated with them on Ad Tracking: Is Anything Being Done? · · Score: 1

    I think that parent essentially do tell what many of us feel.

    I can accept that sports events at the beginning have a short infomercial that "This event is sponsored by ACME inc" (Wiley.E.Coyote) or whatever and that I may see that logo in various places, but when someone shouts my head off for something I don't want then it's time to flush the loo.

  4. Re:nope! on Will Cameras Replace Sideview Mirrors On Cars In 2018? · · Score: 1

    The idea is to replace the mirrors with cameras and have a display, and that may be a way to cover the "dead angle" problem as well.

    However cameras and displays are a lot more sensitive than a simple mirror and they are also adding to the cost of a vehicle. It may be worth for the car developers to look for other options as well, most of the aerodynamic designs today basically only considers the laminar flow of air around a vehicle and not much when it comes to the application of for example a trapped vortex.

  5. Re:Weaponize on How a 'Seismic Cloak' Could Slow Down an Earthquake · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you use waves to cancel out the quake I see two problems.
    1. The amount of energy needed to cancel it out.
    2. The risk that it may actually result in a worse situation somewhere else, possibly trigger an unexpected quake instead.

  6. Re:Severe drought, but irrigated fairways on Titanium-Headed Golf Clubs Create Brush Fire Hazard In California · · Score: 2

    Probably - because if you can afford to play golf then you can afford to have the water imported from Canada.

    But you are right - cut the water to the golf courses - if someone insists on playing golf, then do that where it isn't a water shortage.

  7. Re:Aluminum on Titanium-Headed Golf Clubs Create Brush Fire Hazard In California · · Score: 1

    I'd rather use brass, that's what used for many applications where sparks can be a problem. Bronze may also be good. If it's too light then fill the head with lead.

    If you still want "sexy" materials it's worth to look into composite plastics.

  8. The chain of trust is broken. on Fake PGP Keys For Crypto Developers Found · · Score: 0

    The chain of trust is broken. This because today a certificate is only authorized by a single source, not by several. In addition to this the model has the flaw that it does not easily allow a point to point scenario where only two parties are involved.

  9. Re:I know why they're annoyed on Nate Silver's New Site Stirs Climate Controversy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Extreme weather cost more due to several factors:

    • Inflation.
    • More people living in sensitive areas.
    • More expensive housing in sensitive areas.

      • It's just a trade-off between ability to get an income and the risk of suffering extreme conditions.

        If the weather gets worse - it's harder to tell since you have to cover the weather for decades to see through the statistical noise. If storms hits a coastal region on average every 10 years it may still be a month between the storms and then 20 years of silence.

  10. By your actions you will be known on UK Government Wants "Unsavory" Web Content To Be Removed · · Score: 1

    By your actions you will be known, not by what you say.

    The blocking of sites is nothing else than censorship, and instead of blocking the sites and tracing the active on those sites the only thing that happens is that the sites will move, become more extreme and still be accessible by the followers.

    And by that I mean that by imposing censorship on the terrorists you actually become what the terrorists want you to become.

    Terrorists and children do share some common treats - it's when it gets silent that something serious has happened or is going to happen.

    One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.
    Salman Rushdie

    Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.
    Anna Quindlen

  11. Re:Too bad. on UK Government Wants "Unsavory" Web Content To Be Removed · · Score: 1

    Don't forget Max Headroom.

  12. Sounds like a whiner. on Sons of Anarchy Creator On Google Copyright Anarchy · · Score: 1

    Kurt Sutter seems to be a whiner that can't understand that they have to adapt and make the customers feel appreciated for purchasing the content.

    One of the first things that must go away is those extremely annoying copyright warnings that we are forced to see when we have bought the film, but are nowhere to be seen on "pirated" movies. Only thing those warnings are good for is to know that now it's a good time to do #1 & #2 before I watch the movie.

  13. Don't rule out technical malfunction on Malaysian Flight Disappearance 'Deliberate' · · Score: 1

    Don't rule out that it may have been a technical malfunction. Somewhere it's stated that it was 14 minutes between the disabling of two different systems. An electrical problem that resulted in a fire may very well be the culprit in this rendering the aircraft without any feasible means to communicate and navigate.

    There have also been speculations about structural failure causing decompression.

    Until the aircraft is found we frankly don't have a clue about what happened and everything is speculation. It's always easy to blame the human factor.

  14. Re:I will never on Lies Programmers Tell Themselves · · Score: 1

    Welcome Erlang!

  15. Re:From Scratch on Lies Programmers Tell Themselves · · Score: 1

    Considering some code out there rewriting it may actually be a better alternative.

    That applies especially to commercial code.

  16. I don't need to fix compiler warnings. on Lies Programmers Tell Themselves · · Score: 4, Informative

    People that don't think that they need to fix compiler warnings produce programs that aren't always reliable.

    And even if the code is free of warnings - there may still be a need to run 'lint', 'findbugs' or any similar tool that does a more thorough analysis of the code in order to detect problems that can grow over time.

  17. Re:which animals? on Power Cables' UV Flashes Apparently Frighten Animals · · Score: 1

    There are high voltage transformers as well, but it takes larger critters than squirrels to short them out. Maybe a raccoon can, but more likely it has to be human sized.

  18. Re:FUD? on Power Cables' UV Flashes Apparently Frighten Animals · · Score: 1

    And is it the UV light or is it the sound that suddenly appears when there's a discharge that scares away the animals?

  19. Re:Stop on Crowdsourcing Confirms: Websites Inaccessible on Comcast · · Score: 1

    I'm running my own DNS feeding directly on the root servers to avoid a lot of headache.

  20. Re:Shill on Meat Makes Our Planet Thirsty · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not all farm land is suitable for growing vegetables, but it may be suitable for grazing. The big problem we have is that the herds are larger than what the growth on a certain land area can sustain and therefore carbohydrate supplements have to be purchased.

    In contrast there's a balanced farming where the area of a farm only have the amount of animals that it can support, no more. Some supplements may be needed even then, but in those cases it's mostly a question of minerals, not carbohydrates.

    The amount of water consumed by a bovine is only to some extent wasted, the majority ends up as urine that completes the cycle of returning nutrients to the land where the grazing occurs.

    Overall - the major problem with water consumption for beef production is when the farm is unable to support the herd without artificial support.

  21. Good if they succeed. on Oregon Withholding $25.6M From Oracle Over Health Website Woes · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Too many companies deliver sub-standard software without any risk at all, especially in big projects.

    Mistakes do happen, but underbidding is too common.

  22. This also raises the question - can the banks detect this?

    It is a great security hole that would be very attractive to every hacker out there - hack a company firewall and get MITM attack vector for free.

    They probably don't even have to hack it, just subvert the company one way or another.

  23. Re:@Z00L00K - Re:Good web browsers. on Ask Slashdot: What Software Can You Not Live Without? · · Score: 1

    For some F-ed up reason the Outlook Web interface works best in Opera, and doesn't work well in FF - and doesn't work at all in IE!

    (My work uses the Outlook Web interface, so I have no choice...)

    And Opera has better privacy.

  24. Good web browsers. on Ask Slashdot: What Software Can You Not Live Without? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Firefox and Opera are on my list of good ones so far.

  25. Re:Huh? on Your Next Car's Electronics Will Likely Be Connected By Ethernet · · Score: 1

    Which means that you use separate segments.

    B.t.w. Bieber sucks worse than Beta.