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  1. Re:Pesky critics on Climate Unit Releases Virtually All Remaining Data · · Score: 1

    So you're saying we should just fuck the world, and live like kings for a century or two, and hope something happens that stops climate change? Awesome logic.

  2. Re:We talk about this need a lot at work. on Interviews: Ask Technologist Kevin Kelly About Everything · · Score: 1

    An old laptop? Of course. I don't know why you'd want all the media-based nonsense in a server.

  3. Re:We talk about this need a lot at work. on Interviews: Ask Technologist Kevin Kelly About Everything · · Score: 2

    They are hardly servers. Not even close.

  4. Re:Massacre on The Oslo Massacre and Violent Video Games: the Facts · · Score: 1

    "Massacre" describes how, "terrorism" describes why. Farting could be an act of terrorism if it was meant as such, and nuking a capital city could not be terrorism if it was not. Terrorism is a motive, not a deed.

  5. Re:ha on Netflix Killing DVDs Like Apple Killed Floppies? · · Score: 1

    True, but USB really took off once SE came out, as it had vastly-improved USB support.

  6. Re:Proof? on For Texas Textbooks, a Victory For Evolution · · Score: 1

    The fact you probably thought you made sense when you wrote that speaks volumes. Wow. Seriously hilarious while utterly troubling.

  7. Re:Have to share this - holy crap! mod parent up on For Texas Textbooks, a Victory For Evolution · · Score: 0

    There is not one single shred of evidence pointing to the theory of evolution being false. It will never be disproved, it will only be made more accurate as the years progress. So yes, evolution and the theory describing it will never be proven false. Just as if someone thousands of years ago said that "Pi is somewhere between 3 and 4" they wouldn't be wrong to this day, or ever, they just wouldn't be as accurate as our current understanding. Every piece of evidence supporting the theory is a step towards the ridiculous possibility of "disproving" it. So far, as a species, we're doing pretty well.

  8. Re:ha on Netflix Killing DVDs Like Apple Killed Floppies? · · Score: 2

    *cough* Windows 98 SE *cough*

  9. Re:I.... don't really see a problem on Massachusetts Plans To Keep Track of Where Your Car Has Been · · Score: 1

    So, by that logic, get rid of the police too. Awesome.

  10. Re:Everybody aboard the tinfoilhat-train! on Linux Receives 20th Birthday Video From Microsoft · · Score: 1

    What? Did you expect Tux to go to Bill's house on his birthday? How else could it have worked? Of course Bill had to go to Tux to give him his cake, and of course as Tux doesn't particularly like Bill, takes his cake away from Bill. It's no slight.

  11. Re:Won't quiet the racists on Neanderthal Genes Found In All Non-African Populations · · Score: 1

    But then you have to concede that we lack many of the distinctive features of all our other ancestors, meaning all our ancestors are extinct, meaning we don't exist. Or something. I'm wasted.

  12. Re:i stopped reading after that on Researchers Debut Proxy-Less Anonymity Service · · Score: 1

    You don't. You rely on one ISP between your dodgy ISP and the censored site you actually want to visit. If there's a friendly ISP on the route, you'll get your traffic diverted to the desired server, and if not, you'll get the traffic you actually requested (which is unblocked by the censoring government).

  13. Re:Such a pity on Queen Elizabeth Sets a Code-Breaking Challenge · · Score: 1

    And you obviously didn't read the post I was replying to :)

  14. Re:Children? The Queen? on Queen Elizabeth Sets a Code-Breaking Challenge · · Score: 1

    Centuries ago, the Royal family signed over vast swathes of land to the British government in return for a perpetual stipend, which is dwarfed by the price of the land in question. They also bring in a crap-tonne of tourists. They generate a definite, sizeable net profit for the country.

  15. Re:Secret Code Answer... on Queen Elizabeth Sets a Code-Breaking Challenge · · Score: 1

    Mod points! Mod points! My kingdom for mod points!!!

  16. Re:Such a pity on Queen Elizabeth Sets a Code-Breaking Challenge · · Score: 4, Informative

    It was the government. The monarchy had nothing to do with it.

  17. Re:The 18-year-old Rubyist isn't a good programmer on Study Shows Programmers Get Better With Age · · Score: 1

    Java for ajax? Funny. Thanks for showing you don't really know what you're talking about.

  18. Re:Constitution in trouble on Police Increasingly Looking To Smartphones For Evidence · · Score: 1

    Who the fuck cares? The police can look over every inch of my phone. I'm not so far up my ass to have a problem with that.

  19. Re:Constitution in trouble on Police Increasingly Looking To Smartphones For Evidence · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Don't commit crimes and you'll be OK.

  20. Re:To answer your question on 41% of Chinese Websites Shut Down In 2010 · · Score: 1

    Cameras in London? You mean the cameras which are overwhelmingly in the hands of private citizens, which are not run by the state, and from which anyone can request copies of any footage of themselves they might have captured? It's not really a valid comparison :) The "open web" is perfectly possible in all but the handful of countries which block sites.

  21. Re:The Doomsday Scenario on New Scottish Wave Energy Generator Unveiled · · Score: 1

    The gravity of the tidal bulges being displaced would have some measurable effect on the moon.

  22. Re:Unfortunately... on New Scottish Wave Energy Generator Unveiled · · Score: 1

    Because Scottish people, on the whole, are not an oppressed minority. They live in a first-world country (heck, even the last Prime Minister and his 2nd-in-command, who were in power for over 10 years, were Scottish). So yeah, it is different.

  23. Re:also on Panetta Says Defeat of Al Qaeda 'Within Reach' · · Score: 1

    I've lived in many predominantly-Muslim areas. I know how Muslims, free from external pressures, are just as normal as everyone else free from external pressures. Funnily enough, when you have a country that has been fucked with for decades, the people in said country don't particularly appreciate those who have been doing the fucking. Weird, huh?

  24. Re:also on Panetta Says Defeat of Al Qaeda 'Within Reach' · · Score: 1

    Nothing to do with it, eh? Apart from the massive amounts of documentation that links both the CIA and British intelligence to his ousting?

    And Somalia? Really? Read some fucking history. Seriously. It's embarrassing. You really should at least make the effort to appear educated when you wade into a discussion, otherwise you end up looking like you do - misguided, ignorant, and borderline dangerous.

  25. Re:also on Panetta Says Defeat of Al Qaeda 'Within Reach' · · Score: 1

    You ignored everything I wrote. Thanks.