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  1. Re:Hmmmm on Photographers Want Their Cut From Google's Ebooks · · Score: 1

    Advise given by someone who cares not about their prints! Any pro worth spit re-prints and would NEVER pay without seeing the work first! Kiosk?!?! That's a $5000.00 dye sublimation printer that is the same as your crappy home printer but bigger. The ones in a good shop are about 20-100k and are digital dry printers like this http://www.noritsu.com/Products/Digital+Dry+Printers/default.aspx .
    At the best shop in my town they give you a proof free to use as a sample. Never mind colour correcting and submission errors and file mess ups, what do you mean my adobe 1998 profile is messed up? Whats pro RGB? I thought CMYK was better?!? mwahahah good luck!

  2. Re:Hmmmm on Photographers Want Their Cut From Google's Ebooks · · Score: 1

    Yea like try making a fat ugly bride look good for 500 pictures! Its way harder than event/war shooting. You won't get shot but you may want a gun by the end of the wedding! Protests are easy, Sports is easy, fashion is easy (assuming your model/hair/makeup/clothes are good). Weddings are hella pain some times! It's hard getting a nature shot of a specific animal no doubt, but it's more in your control if you want to leave or not, the stupid wedding just has to be perfect! After all I've been paid in advance!

  3. Re:Hmmmm on Photographers Want Their Cut From Google's Ebooks · · Score: 3, Funny

    I just let these puns slide off me! Geta Holga yourself man!

  4. Re:Am i missing something? on Japanese Guts Are Made For Sushi · · Score: 1

    And what did you base this on ? Zero research and no knowledge it would seem like (no insult). Why don't some south Americans need Beno ( http://www.beanogas.com/ ) when they eat a lot of beans? Cuz they have the enzymes already. And they are genetically passed down as well. This is REALLY complex to follow here is some results from one study it seems really thick!
    http://content.karger.com/ProdukteDB/produkte.asp?Aktion=ShowFulltext&ArtikelNr=000022787&Ausgabe=225921&ProduktNr=224250
      If you are in the dark, then read the link below, it should shed light on the utter complexity of our gut bacteria. This is not a new science. But it is so complex we keep discovering more!
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8547454.stm
    Enzymes are in breast milk as well but we are also born with the ability to make them. They are also in some uncooked food and unprocessed food.

  5. Re:But then it makes no sense on Japanese Guts Are Made For Sushi · · Score: 1

    ENZYMES. To make it simple, a Wiki quote "Some of the enzymes showing the highest specificity and accuracy are involved in the copying and expression of the genome. These enzymes have "proof-reading" mechanisms. Here, an enzyme such as DNA polymerase catalyzes a reaction in a first step and then checks that the product is correct in a second step.[20] This two-step process results in average error rates of less than 1 error in 100 million reactions in high-fidelity mammalian polymerases.[21] Similar proofreading mechanisms are also found in RNA polymerase,[22] aminoacyl tRNA synthetases[23] and ribosomes.[24]

    Some enzymes that produce secondary metabolites are described as promiscuous, as they can act on a relatively broad range of different substrates. It has been suggested that this broad substrate specificity is important for the evolution of new biosynthetic pathways.[25]" And morek specifically "Induced fit model
    Diagrams to show the induced fit hypothesis of enzyme action.

    In 1958, Daniel Koshland suggested a modification to the lock and key model: since enzymes are rather flexible structures, the active site is continually reshaped by interactions with the substrate as the substrate interacts with the enzyme.[27] As a result, the substrate does not simply bind to a rigid active site; the amino acid side chains which make up the active site are molded into the precise positions that enable the enzyme to perform its catalytic function. In some cases, such as glycosidases, the substrate molecule also changes shape slightly as it enters the active site.[28] The active site continues to change until the substrate is completely bound, at which point the final shape and charge is determined.["

  6. Re:So... on Family Has Right of Privacy In Decapitation Photos · · Score: 1

    As an avid extreme sport guy I would agree!

  7. Re:WE have the power! on Landmark Canadian Hyperlink Case Goes To Supreme Court · · Score: 1

    True dat! you just have to re-feed through a paid pipe no doubt every once and a while. Considering net access is being considered a basic human right I see no point in claiming anything.

  8. Re:WE have the power! on Landmark Canadian Hyperlink Case Goes To Supreme Court · · Score: 1

    That's about as smart as saying that the houses built the people not the other way around. You just don't get what I am saying, do you? The net IS the users. The content, every character typed is an extension of the user. The pipes built to connect many of them are interchangeable. I could build an internet in my own city with a wireless mesh. Computers are being built with mesh capabilities that work even when they are off. As a business man I can tell you, no venture can be taken without a user base. IE: They don't build the pipes unless users are there to pony up. So while we don't control "the" airwaves we control OUR airways. City by city block by block. So, to the controllers... bring it on.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_mesh_network

  9. Re:So... on Family Has Right of Privacy In Decapitation Photos · · Score: 1

    I call bullshit! Look at the faces of people watching horror scenes they are happy! Really the public wants to see the spattered bodies because they hunger for blood! EVERYONE looks at the scene of an accident to see if they can see gore! And if we saw it all the time it would have no shock value and we would be totally desensitized. Like bags of hamburger meat thrown at a wall for fun. People don't need to see that shit all the time. Unless you think we need more violent people around. And no while watching gore may not MAKE you do anything but if you do flip your wig and you are a fan of looking at mutilation for fun then I don't wanna a see what happens. Look at these stupid cops, what gives them the right to make a photo of a loved one killed into a joke or a Xmas card or a Halloween card. If someone punched those cops in the face really hard I don't think I would be sad , I guess that makes me violent. And if that was my daughters picture....

  10. Re:Science = religion on Science Attempts To Explain Heaven · · Score: 1

    You have it backwards. Religion is about belief and morals. The church is what is not moral and so forth. When there is a building with people who go into it and a person who directs them then you have an organization. Said organization with people needs guidance as a group so you have a control. Where there is opportunity for control you have a chance to seize power. That power is easy to corrupt to serve the hungers of man. Individual religious beliefs however are very moral. Individual moral choices take strength of character and happen inside you. Often to stick to your beliefs you must sacrifice and show self discipline. However, get a group together and pretty soon its other things that get sacrificed. Like people (Aztec) or other religions (See Spanish inquisition). You may wish to see the fact that religions played a key factor in creating a social contract that is deep programmed (not easily changeable) and was used to define order in a sort of pre-courthouse 'law'. Borders in the history of humanity have been drawn by the groupings of religions. Now we have grown up and have courts and laws written outside the scope of the religious cannon.

  11. WE have the power! on Landmark Canadian Hyperlink Case Goes To Supreme Court · · Score: 1

    We created the net and we own it. If they make laws that are unreasonable we shall program around it. As we have always done. Make hosting a web page illegal? Well then we can go undernet or do a new one and do a bit-torrent style distributed content for web pages. Lets see them try and bust encrypted distributed web pages! All we would have to do is download them, not see them real-time. The net has never been regulated! Just the seething masses that inhabit it. The net IS the sum total of its parts, and those parts for better or worse ARE US! The rest just connects the users. Try stopping us as you will but you cannot change what we are.

  12. Re:Heh on Hacker Will Try To Restore Linux Support On PS3 · · Score: 1

    The amount of different organizations buying ps3 for research is staggering. So don't think this won't effect their bottom line. US Army buys them in bulk lots of 1000-2000 at a time. The air force etc. Total number of ps3 sales from research per year is probably huge all though I cannot track down an actual percentage of sales. As a society interested in progressing... I wonder if this will impact projects like the folding protein project. It uses the public as a mass supercomputer (like the SETI @ home project) on ps3's. This is a sad day for science if that's the case.
    http://news.cnet.com/PS3-power-requested-for-research-project/2100-11393_3-6167491.html

  13. Re:Kids love the lack of reality... on Decrying the Excessive Emulation of Reality In Games · · Score: 1

    I could go into the points you ignored or your quick twitch response and your lack of understanding of my comment but hey that would take waaay too much typing and I'm not getting paid for this! And hey you sucking at 1st person shooters ain't the point but you do if you die and don't know what happened I thought maybe you suck. Sorry for being an ass ! Next time I won't direct comments at the poster sorry!

  14. Re:Kids love the lack of reality... on Decrying the Excessive Emulation of Reality In Games · · Score: 1

    You got stuck on a point because you think I was calling you a kid and that's funny! I guess you can play a game that does not train hunter gathering skills but I don't know what that would be. Really you just died that fast (in COD4) because you suck at 1st person shooters and find reality mode no fun because you can't rabbit hop like unreal tourney. So sad! Stay playing beautiful Katamari ...but thats still gathering :P

  15. Kids love the lack of reality... on Decrying the Excessive Emulation of Reality In Games · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I was chatting with my kid and his friends (11-13) about video games. I was saying how I hated games where you have to shoot someone more than once/twice (I only play hardcore (reality mode) on Modern Warfare 2). I was specifically making fun of Halo and no skill gamers. One kid piped up "why would I want to have it all real! Real is no fun!". Kids play with a big smile and want the fantastic, myself I play with a serious scowl and try real hard to outdo my last games performance. In other words I don't play at games, I try hard at games. Real effort is better rooted in reality unless playing to addictions like gear collectors. We play to hone what we are as a species, like a kitten chasing a floating leaf to hone hunting skills. The gear collectors are driven not by fun but hours of collecting (See work!). PVP reminds me of kids because of the way it plays out in some arenas with taunting and all the silly talking however... I've seen adults freak the f out over PVP games because of how much work/hours they put into character development. To sum up, you can change where we play (in game environment) but not what we are (hunter gatherers).

  16. I've seen this BS before... on Warner Brothers Hiring Undercover Anti-Pirates · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This issue is complex because the students who are being hired have no legal rights as any type of law enforcement. Therefore as shown in prior cases where private investigators gather information illegally (wiretap laws etc) from the inside of a persons computer the evidence is useful in a case by case basis, depending on the state, province or country's laws. Computer evidence is like the old time date stamp on a video tape; you can forge the whole thing (See Strange Brew :P). Prosecution cannot bring in evidence created in a vacuum, the state has to gather it. That's why lawyers supina records from ISP's through the court, otherwise evidence would just "pop up" as needed, if you get my drift. So really who cares about this weak lame attempt at coercive entrapment. All they are trying to do is get some dirty goods on you so they can convince you to settle for big bucks. Anyone who can should rotate MAC addresses and not use P2P, grow up and use encrypted torrents. Maybe a P2P or Torrent client should rotate your MAC address every 1-4 days so the end user cannot be railed in the ass.

  17. Re:Title misleading? on IE8, Safari, iPhone All Fall At Pwn2Own Contest · · Score: 1

    Funny enough the only time Firefox crashes for me is when I allow all scripts to run on Slashdot...it just hangs forever!

  18. I was in a hot tub with a Chinese national and she on Chinese Reactions To Google Leaving China · · Score: 3, Informative

    I was in a hot tube with a Chinese national and she was sooooooo convinced that Taiwan is "owned" by China and she basically parroted the party line down to every illogical point. She was fresh off the boat, I would like to see her opinion after she gets to see an unfiltered reality, without paid fake people telling her a fake reality. The Chinese government even tracks its own dissidents, and plants undercover agents inside of the groups while out of country! It's like they live in the matrix! Time to unplug meatbags, don't fear the truth!

  19. Re:What is the atmosphere inside China? on Chinese Reactions To Google Leaving China · · Score: 1

    How the hell would you ever even know if they are really unhappy when its clearly illegal to even voice any concern. Please, you speak with the utmost ignorance and from the inside (for shame)! That's how the big red wants it! Give me a break! Did you get your 50 cent pay for that post ?! What a joke !

  20. Re:And what's the problem here? on US Lawmakers Eyeing National ID Card · · Score: 1

    Except for the fact the the families of the displaced native Americans still live! Don't be calling it old hat like that when there are actual existing bands with self government! There is a total difference when the actual people still effected by this so called history still walk the land!

  21. They are not Warriors on ACLU Sues Over Legality of "Targeted Killing" By Drones · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Bunch of pussies shooting a $30000.00 bullet far away at some people, without accountability. No warriors, only point and click. Now you can be fat and not even be able to walk to kill. The civilian victims should start suing the government(s) responsible. They are wronged and this should clearly be illegal. I am very pro democracy and without accountability you are not in a real democracy. More like a republic led by pseudo dictators. I call them dictators because they say "national security" then they dictate what will happen, no debate, no constitution, no UN, no Geneva convention just... dictation.
    I do hope all taliban/terrorists die, it just has to be done right or WE are the terrorists. They are hurting innocent people and to stop them from doing that we do the same? Strange world.

  22. Re:Well - Since its Harriet Harman involved on UK Gov't Wants Facebook To Feature Child Safety Button · · Score: 1

    Try reading a dictionary, not some losers 5 page rant on feminism! It's backed by page turners like "An Ambivalent Alliance: Hostile and Benevolent Sexism as Complementary Justifications for Gender Inequality" sounds like someone is into the movement (movement= leftist fascist elite). Try humanism if you want to grow up.
    All dictionary's consider sexism to be " 1 : prejudice or discrimination based on sex; especially : discrimination against women
    2 : behavior, conditions, or attitudes that foster stereotypes of social roles based on sex

    The author of that book, in his web write up he talks about women and Jews being the focus of "paternalistic prejudice toward women, envious prejudice toward Jews"
      I guess we all envy Jews and patronize women! According to him we ( I guess non Jewish men only) either hold women down by looking down upon them or, hold them down by looking up to them! (see Hostile and Benevolent Sexism). It just keeps getting better!

    I understand the ideas they just don't apply to me. I do believe all people are created equal with some talents being inherently stronger. We work every day at being better and those who stick with "it"prevail!
    how hard was that!
    http://glick.socialpsychology.org/ (the authors web writeup)

  23. About the .com bubble... on Dot-Com Craze Peaked 10 Years Ago This Week · · Score: 1

    Aww shutup!

    Nuff Said.

  24. Re:Technically, not installed... on HTC Android Phones Found With Malware Pre-Installed · · Score: 1

    RTFA
    Har
    less than 1% - of the Video iPods available for purchase after September 12, 2006

  25. What I would love is... on Microsoft Demos Three Platforms Running the Same Game · · Score: 1

    Give me a portal to my xbox360 and make the device a good gamepad,with all the controls there. Being able to play MW2 on a portable phone/psp type device would rock!