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  1. Re:What does it take? on Pakistan Court Orders Facebook Ban Over Mohammed Images · · Score: 1

    I agree, this is my kind of censorship. I'm certainly all for it.

  2. The 'stock market' is just another form of gamblin on New "Circuit Breaker" Imposed To Stop Market Crash · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you want to gamble, thats your business.

    If you invest too much money in stocks, you don't diversify, and you loose your life savings on the stock market ... thats YOUR problem.

    I have a really REALLY simple solution ... don't invest in the stock market if you can't deal with the consequences.

    The stock market has no basis in reality. They like to pretend it does, but it doesn't. There are all sorts of excuses and 'reasons' why it does, but it has no more basis in reality than paper currency.

    And yes, I think paper currency is retarded as well. When you're trading something that can be easily manufactured you are going to loose unless you're the guy who makes it.

  3. I stand corrected on Google Wave Now Open To All · · Score: 1

    It is now listed on my non-premier account as a service I can add.

    It really wasn't there an hour ago, thats the first thing I went to do.

  4. Re:The link you actually care about on Google Wave Now Open To All · · Score: 1

    It seems to be part of premier to me. I can not enable it on my non-premier account.

    If you follow the link at wave.google.com about it for AFYD then it clearly states its for premier apps accounts.

    From wave.google.com:

    New! Google Apps domains can turn on Google Wave.
    Anyone can now use Google Wave. No invitation needed!

  5. Re:The link you actually care about on Google Wave Now Open To All · · Score: 1

    Okay, so the wave story was submitted first or timothy read the wave story first or only god knows, don't get your panties all app in a knot there buddy, you'll be okay. Sometimes things don't always go in the order you want.

  6. Re:The link you actually care about on Google Wave Now Open To All · · Score: 1

    Because no one submitted a story about what you want to be posted.

    You should learn how slashdot works rather than posting random stuff in another thread that its completely unrelated too.

  7. Re:Privacy on Google Wave Now Open To All · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You can turn off the advertising on the web interface as well, just go into your settings and turn it off.

    Its optional, and on by default, its also so unintrusive that I actually turned it back on just because occasionally I'll see something I actually care to learn about and I'd rather they get some occasional cash for letting me use their services for free.

    You do realize that if you never give them any incentive to give you the free service they will eventually stop giving it to you ... right?

  8. Re:The link you actually care about on Google Wave Now Open To All · · Score: 4, Informative

    Should also note, its actually open to Apps for your Domain as well.

  9. The link you actually care about on Google Wave Now Open To All · · Score: 5, Informative
  10. Re: Stupid... on Water Not a Good Enough Guide To Find Alien Life · · Score: 1

    0%

    There has yet to be a part of the ocean that life has not been found in. We may not notice it right away, and it may be a little less common or recognizable, but there is no part of the ocean devoid of life.

    From the Marianas trench to the 400 degree volcanic vents to the coldest parts of the world ... we've found some form of life in all of them.

    There is really no place on this planet where we haven't found life.

  11. Re:Does Not Change Anything on Water Not a Good Enough Guide To Find Alien Life · · Score: 1

    Of course the deep trenches of the Atlantic and Pacific will throw off your rates but

    Not really, we've learned more recently that there is a fair amount of life there as well.

    There are MASSIVE amounts of deep water coral for instance that we never really knew existed until very recently.

    The problem is ... we say 'life can't exist in that environment' ... then we go find out ... life does actually exist in that environment, using methods to survive that we never even considered.

    Theres nothing wrong with assuming theres a better chance that we'll find life where we find water, but my problem is we (this isn't fair, the people who REALLY know their shit don't think tis way) keep assuming we understand life in all its forms ... only to find out next week that we found it in some place we previously thought it could not possibly exist.

    The deepest parts of the ocean being a perfect example. Our first trip to the one of the deepest parts of the ocean resulted in immediately seeing a fish swim away. We saw life in the trenches the first try, that was either REALLY REALLY lucky, or an indication that its a lot more common than we realize.

  12. Re:Why? on iPhone 4 Beta Shows AT&T Tethering · · Score: 0, Troll

    To put it bluntly for the mentally challenged such as yourself ...

    because tethering isn't THE ONLY THING people care about in a phone?

    because I like having all the other features of the iPhone more than I care about tethering which I use once or twice a year?

    because theres a lot more to a phone, like being a phone, than the one thing you seem to think is the only thing people care about if they want tethering.

  13. Re:Really? on NASA Finds Cause of Voyager 2 Glitch · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Its also extremely important to note that not a single item you own is made to the specifications that Voyagers were made, even though made over 30 years ago.

    Its also rather important to note that as unstable as most OSes are, they are several million times more complex than the code Voyager 1 and 2 run.

    Finally, joke about Windows all you want ... if you do a default installation of Windows and you don't install any additional drivers or software, it is extremely stable and will just sit there for ages happy to do nothing but tick away.

    Its also entirely feasable to find 1 stuck or flipped bit even using Java and .NET, you just have to actually understand the inner workings of this code which is not something pretty much any developer working in these environments has time to do these days.

    Both things may be computers that run code and use electricity to do so, but thats about where the shared bits end. These guys have been using the same code for 30+ years ... they kinda know how it works and all its quirks at this point.

    With all that said ... you're still right, its freaky impressive.

  14. Re:Article is Also Phenomenal on Researchers Restore Youthful Memory In Aging Mice · · Score: 0

    Hey, I get laid once out of every 12,000 tries too ... no one is going to sit around pointing at me like I'm a stud for it. Its just what happens when you do something over and over again, eventually the pattern breaks just out of randomness.

    I have excellent karma, not because I'm great at posting comments but because most people don't vote down, so the fact that I regularly run into the max posts per day limit means my karma goes up because one out of a hundred is thought to be good, which means I get a lot of good posts and the bad ones are ignored. Anyone posting as often as I do probably has good karma as well unless they really go out of their way to be a dick.

    kdawson is still a douche, even if once in a blue moon he approves something that actually is not dumber than a box of rocks.

    If he wouldn't have approved it, someone else would have. You're argument for him is pathetic.

  15. Re:Good hint for slashdot users on Justice Not As Blind As Previously Thought · · Score: 0, Troll

    He's not weeping quietly ... more like begging bubba to stop at the top of his lungs ...

  16. Re:Did they adjust for meth and crack use? on Justice Not As Blind As Previously Thought · · Score: 1

    Yea, using vain college students probably didn't have anything to do with it either. Or them knowing that there was no real change to the persons life regardless of what they said about them.

    Yes, if you use HotOrNot as your jury, ugly people are screwed, no shit.

  17. Re:If you can't beat them, join them... on Firefox Is Lagging Behind, Its Co-Founder Says · · Score: 1

    Other than that would basically result in starting from scratch?

    WebKit doesn't do what Gecko does, so you can't just drop webkit into Firefox.

    In Chrome and Safari, you have an application that uses a WebKit rendering area for drawing the web page you see.

    In Firefox you have an XUL renderer and everything else (the UI and HTML viewing areas) are just 'sub pages' more or less.

    Think of Firefox as a web browser built in a web page. Its far more complex than that, but in principal thats what you get.

  18. Re:odd question on "Fair Trolls" To Fight Patents With Patents · · Score: 1

    Because its 'obvious' and the big companies would fight it on those grounds alone and spank anyone who tried. Then of course there is prior art.

    Smaller companies can't really fight against someone like MS when the argument is 'its obvious'

  19. Re:Bad Google Bad Bad Google on Google Stops Ads For "Cougar" Sites · · Score: 1

    Do you realize that makes no sense what so ever?

  20. Re:Google Slap on Google Stops Ads For "Cougar" Sites · · Score: 1

    Reality check ... when you base your business on someone elses business, you are at their whim. This is why Google for instance is a big fan of the 'not invented here' syndrome ... when they invent it, no one else can screw them over.

  21. Re:why on Google Stops Ads For "Cougar" Sites · · Score: 1

    And what happens when they're the only store in town, or when all the stores adopt the same policy?

    Move out of the sad little town you live in and finally realize that majority rules, regardless of your personal preferences.

    In that case, the only thing standing between freedom and tyranny is a handful of managers personal opinions.

    Oh my god will you people stop with this bullshit. A store not selling a porn mag or google not selling ads for a cougar site is not fucking tyranny. Every time you make such retarded statements you just turn words like tyranny into meaningly words that no one gives a shit about. Get some god damn perspective, you don't always get your way. You aren't entitled to tell other people what to do.

  22. Re:why on Google Stops Ads For "Cougar" Sites · · Score: 1

    Because they can. Its their service, they can do whatever they want.

    What I want to know is why its so hard for people to grasp that simple concept.

  23. Re:Castration? on US Supreme Court Upholds Indefinite Confinement · · Score: 1

    No, it wouldn't. Castration won't (generally) stop the behavior unless you do it before puberty. Once puberty hits, the mind is changed and you can't go back. You can cut off a rapists penis and he'll still be a rapist, he just won't have his preferred tool anymore.

  24. Re:It is a very sad day. on US Supreme Court Upholds Indefinite Confinement · · Score: 1

    WTF? It happens all the time. A life sentence doesn't mean your entire life. Prisoners are regularly let out earlier for 'good behavior' due to over crowding and expense.

    The sentences are regularly changed without a formal trial and have been for years, not real sure where you live but this is just more of the same.

  25. Re:The real problem on US Supreme Court Upholds Indefinite Confinement · · Score: 1

    The adult should know better than to think the 16 year old is capable of handling sex.

    Just because she has a vagina and saw some whores on CSI doesnt' mean she has any fucking clue what she's getting into, the adults is supposed to have a little more idea that the child isn't capable of handling the situation or even understanding the consequences.

    I've seen 8 year olds that think they can drive, you want to let them just because they think they can and then claim the adults are the victim?

    If you don't understand why the adult is wrong, you need to seek psychiatric help and never be allowed to be responsible for any children. You probably shouldnt' be left alone with them since you seem to think children come out of the womb with fully formed brains and experiences to deal with dirt bags such as yourself.