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  1. Re:Wavelength on UK Researchers Build Micron LED Light Based Wireless Network · · Score: 1

    The receiver doesn't have to know from where the signal originates, so a simple detector of the used wavelength would suffice.

  2. Re:'cept we HAD insurance until Obama made us drop on Google Gives 15,000 Raspberry Pis To UK Schools · · Score: 1

    You are so very ignorant. No wonder you are online arguing against socialised health care. You poor fool.

  3. Re:Provoking on Machine Gun Fire From Military Helicopters Flying Over Downtown Miami · · Score: 2

    It is conceivable they are practicing for doing this over foreign cities, which obviously they can't do in training. Yes, they could paint lines in the desert, but that won't exactly provide the same setting as a city drenched in neon and full of tall buildings at night, would it? The police are involved, but then they would have to be if distractions such as these are happening in a crowded city - I've not seen it written anywhere that the police are actually practicing the same thing as the military.

    I'm the first one to doubt the intentions of the US military, but there really are simple explanations for this which first have to be discounted before leaping to the conclusion that it is planning for attacks on US citizens at home. That's what critical thinking is all about.

  4. Re:"Secret" as in "well signposted"? on Secret UK Uranium Components Plant Closed Over Safety Fears · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's actually called SIS, not MI6.

  5. Re:The key question becomes on Silicon Nanoparticles Could Lead To On-Demand Hydrogen Generation · · Score: 2

    Like, say, the amount of CO2? Honest question.

  6. Re:You just know it's coming... on German Federal Court Rules That Internet Connection Is Crucial To Everyday Life · · Score: 1

    Grow up.

  7. Re:share movement causality questionable on Boeing 787 Dreamliner Grounded In US and EU · · Score: 1

    Likely won't affect the future success? That's wonderfully optimistic. Wonderfully. Every single 787 sold in the world is now grounded.

  8. Re:share movement causality questionable on Boeing 787 Dreamliner Grounded In US and EU · · Score: 2

    So you are attempting to redress the balance by being unbalanced yourself? That is not how adults do these things. Your hard-on for Boeing is getting in the way.

  9. Re:We need gas control! on New York Passes Landmark Gun Law · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The system will always fail some people. The question is - how deadly do you want the failures to be? Yes, weapons can always be found, but the time taken to construct and deploy a weapon is directly proportional to it not being used - the longer a person needs to be deadly, the more chance they will either cool off or be stopped.

  10. Re:Good on Indiana Nurses Fired After Refusing Flu Shots On Religious Grounds · · Score: 4, Informative

    Viruses live longer inside the body than outside, and so if a person is immunised against a particular virus, the time they can transmit it is reduced significantly. It's not a case of the immunisation making a person an incompatible target for the virus, but the immunisation making the person's body a place the virus simply can't exist in any dangerous form for a substantial length of time.

  11. Re:Your tax DOLLARS at work on Israel To Get Massive Countrywide Optical Upgrade · · Score: 1

    The "wiped off the map" quote is not correct. It would help your argument if you didn't repeat nonsense.

  12. Re:good on UK Government Mandates the Teaching of Evolution As Scientific Fact · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Teaching a child that the scientific method doesn't work is not "education" by any stretch of the word. It's lying.

  13. Re:Who cares about US airports! on British Skylon Engine Passes Its Tests · · Score: 1

    It doesn't need to launch from the Equator.

  14. Re:Misleading Title on British Skylon Engine Passes Its Tests · · Score: 1

    It would help you to understand what you're talking about before attempting to shit on it.

  15. Re:Misleading Title on British Skylon Engine Passes Its Tests · · Score: 1

    Luckily the people working on this aren't as arrogant as you and your gut.

  16. Re:Screw US Airports on British Skylon Engine Passes Its Tests · · Score: 1

    It does have a pilot, just not in the craft itself.

  17. Re:North American not behind in IPv6 on IPv6 Deployment Picking Up Speed · · Score: 1

    Of course, as the US has over 300m people. Compare it to the EU, for example, which is a more comparable size, and you realise that the US is not ahead.

  18. Re:It's a sad sign of the times on Tapping Shale Reserves, US Would Become World's Top Oil Producer By 2017 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Maybe they didn't like drilling because of the ecological damage drilling causes? If it were gravy they were drilling for, they'd still feel the same. Stop looking at things so simplistically. It's really not helping you look rational.

  19. Re:If there was a Bad at Math Map... on Secession Petitions Flood White House Website · · Score: 2

    California is socially liberal and fiscally conservative. It has little to do with Hispanics and Asians, just Californians in general being Californian in their outlook.

  20. You know next to nothing about Germany, it seems. Thanks for making that painfully obvious.

  21. Re:A Revolution without Losing Authority? on The Information Age: North Korean Style · · Score: 1

    NK would call SK out for doing that, and quite rightly so. There are ways to help, and actively pissing NK is not one of them.

  22. Re:Blame them! on What To Do After You Fire a Bad Sysadmin Or Developer · · Score: 1

    Grow up.

  23. Re:Here be Dragons on What To Do After You Fire a Bad Sysadmin Or Developer · · Score: 1

    That is assuming you know all the available access methods...

  24. Re:Misleading article is misleading! on Samsung's Galaxy S III Steals Smartphone Crown From iPhone · · Score: 1

    Add in the Galaxy S2 numbers, and things start to look a bit different. Add in *all* Samsung's models, and you can barely see the iPhones.

  25. Re:Purse Phone on Samsung's Galaxy S III Steals Smartphone Crown From iPhone · · Score: 1

    That thing is a joke compared to the stylus thing on the note.