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  1. Re:Economy is not a science. on Australian Economists Predictions No Better Than Flipping a Coin · · Score: 1

    The US isn't, even the idiots know that Obama isn't Keynesian. Look for yourself.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBrHkxqNT7s

  2. Re:Good for them. on Apple Angers Mac Users With Silent Shutdown of Java 7 · · Score: 1

    So let them provide a pop up warning of the dangers instead of making the data completely inaccessible. And no, if the in house Java app is the only java running on the system, it no more compromising then it was before.

    You can disable Java in most all browsers and still have it run applets and programs on the desktop. This is what I have done with windows machines so we aren't needing to replace $60k software packages because apple doesn't understand things.

  3. Re:Tin foil hat time on NASA Planes Fly Over Bay Area To Measure Air Pollution Levels · · Score: 1

    Why would you think chem trails is just a conspiracy?

    Its well known that the US government has studied the threat of biological and chemical attacks on the US. It would be completely irresponsible of them if they did not check into spraying something from a plane..

  4. Re:Why? on DNA Confirms Parking Lot Remains Belong To King Richard III · · Score: 1

    More then likely, he was found with jewelry or something that gave the hint.

    My question is, why would he be buried under a parking lot? I mean without looking up how he met his end, I would assume royalty, whether hated or not, would have been buried somewhere that we knew of and could simply say, permit to build X denied because it's on a grave yard.

  5. Re:And you call me retarded after that :) on Peugeot Citroen To Introduce Compressed Air Hybrid By 2016 · · Score: 1

    lol.. And you think you have. Listen troll, the msds for h2o2 is not much different then for gasoline as the concentration that would be neccesary, and the previous engine attempts didn't have the advantage of modern materials or attempt to use an air motor of this design.

    It's like you are saying Ford should have never used a diesel engine because when Freight-liner did, it polluted more then gas.

    Yes, with you in the room, it is easy for dumbasses to feel a lot smarter then they are.

  6. Re:Compressed air. on Peugeot Citroen To Introduce Compressed Air Hybrid By 2016 · · Score: 1

    lol.. Who said anything about saving energy? I was talking of emissions.

    You are one seriously retarded troll.

  7. Re:Kid's artwork? on School Board Considers Copyright Ownership of Student and Teacher Works · · Score: 2

    If pushed, a waiver like that would likely never be enforceable under the doctrine of undue influence and duress. A challenge by a competent lawyer and it would be as if the wavier was never signed.

  8. Re:Wow on Internet-Deprived Kids Turning To 'McLibraries' · · Score: 1

    I think you might be confusing metrics.

  9. Re:Wow on Internet-Deprived Kids Turning To 'McLibraries' · · Score: 1

    Your right, they are finding them when the drug abusers steal and stash them in order to sell or trade them for more drugs later.

    Actually, it is more likely they have an Obama phone (which was started long before Obama was president) and some second hand devices donated or given to them somehow.

    And if the homeless person begs properly, they can make a very good paycheck. There have been numerous reports on people pretending to be homeless and panhandling at the off ramp while making in excess of 60K a year doing so. I think there are even examples of this in California where people were driving foreign spots cars and got caught on film by a news station.

  10. Re:Compressed air. on Peugeot Citroen To Introduce Compressed Air Hybrid By 2016 · · Score: 1

    I thought you said you knew about these things. Why would I have to explain something to a know it all? The peroxide expands something like 15 to one and can boil water instantly. That has been stated already. The same size air tank that gives 20 miles could give over 200 miles. Add water to the mix which expands as it transforms to gas and you can increase the range cheaply.

    You go on about being the smartest person in the room and fail to fucking comprehend what is being said. It's sad that you troll this way. I would think someone who thinks as much of themselves as you do would have something better to do. Perhaps your entire existence is an illusion.

    But go ahead and keep on trolling. It doesn't bother me a bit. You can make a fool of yourself all you want. Now take a bit of time and go clean yourself up.

  11. Re:"fan guards in the system" on Apple To Discontinue Mac Pro In EU Over Safety Regulations · · Score: 2

    Not really. I've seen situations where you accidentally put a hand or palm into or on a fan because of something else you were doing near by. You simple get overly concentrated on a specific task and don't notice how close you are getting to the fan. It's not like the fans in a computer are overly dangerous or anything. You will survive an encounter to one generally with no serious harm.

    You are simply making too much out of this as is the EU.

  12. Re:It seems to me that a few days is more than eno on Ask Slashdot: How Long Do We Give an Online Service To Fix Issues? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Empathy has nothing at all to do with it. I can feel bad for a destroyed data center owner but that feeling does not negate the reason and purpose for using them in the first place. the bottom line is that there is no reason to have an ISP that doesn't allow you to get online, there is no reason to keep buying bus tokens when you do not ride the bus, and there is no reason to continue paying for an online service when they cannot deliver whatever it is that you needed in the first place. In most cases, if the service or whatever was needed, it will likely need to be usable therefore replicated when the service isn't provided. Being sad or feeling sorry for the service doesn't change that.

  13. Re:Compressed air. on Peugeot Citroen To Introduce Compressed Air Hybrid By 2016 · · Score: 1

    All you had to do is not comment. I mean you and someone else was the only ones who did. I'm not sure what you mean by bait unless you are trying to tell me that you are so gullible that you had to comment because you think someone on the internet is wrong.

    But hey, troll on. I don't care.

  14. Re:Does it mean... on Twitter #Hacked · · Score: 1

    I'm wondering how Java led to a server being exploited unless it was a computer inside their network that allowed remote access and an attack on the servers from within.

  15. Re:Really complex problem on Missile Defense's Real Enemy: Math · · Score: 1

    I was thinking you had a point until the point started sounding like it was ignorant of reality. Then you pushed politics into the mix and I'm sure you have a problem there.

    First, a missile defense shield is not some impenetrable force field. It will protect basically high value targets. It is meant to stop first strikes from taking out large population centers and military assets and give time to mobilize efforts to retaliate. It might be able to fend off an all out attack by a small entity but it would be nothing like the article suggests.

    Second, The type of force needed to over whelm a defense shield like what is being talked about will be far too large for terrorist groups to do. It will be a clear state enemy and putting that in check is a lot easier then what the Israelis had to put up with. We wouldn't have to worry about only hitting the terrorist groups hiding within a civilian population. We would in stead, be targeting the country's ability to wage war and pop missiles our way and swarm resources in to take them out from multiple directions. From there, it would be a matter of how much we wanted to pursue the matter to how badly we destroyed the country.

    My only hope is that should a situation like that ever happen, our commander in chief at the time is not too much of a pussy to use nukes to stop the threat.

  16. Re:The other real enemy: logic on Missile Defense's Real Enemy: Math · · Score: 1

    But then again, "missile defense" was NEVER about getting a system that works, it was always just a handy way to shovel massive piles of tax dollars at defense contractors - a mission which it has succeeded and continues to succeed at.

    Actually, it was never about getting an impenetrable force field. It was about lessening the probability of a debilitating first strike.

    Japan nearly won WWII with pearl harbor had they pushed the US more right after it. They didn't but they severely hampered or ability to seriously retaliate until we moved some resources around and the war machine. Advances in radar and early warning systems from WWII and the cold war that followed made an attack like pearl harbor near impossible unless you start counting ICBMs and missiles in bordering countries. There is very little time between knowing about an attack and receiving damage from it with missiles where an aircraft carrier or whatever else coming within striking range would have magnitudes of more time associated with it.

    The entire idea of mounting nukes in subs was based around this. The enemy can first strike all they want but with enough nuclear missile floating in the oceans in movable and secrete locations, you can't remove the threat of a retaliation with a first strike. Now our threats are less capable and missile defense systems give a non nuclear option to negating the impacts of a first strike.

  17. Re:Simply put... No. on Missile Defense's Real Enemy: Math · · Score: 1

    A missile defense system isn't really a force field designed to permanently shield something from any dangers. It's a tactic to buy time and increase the costs of entry. Terrorist groups are not going to get enough missiles to completely over whelm a system, their harassment will be largely just that, harassment.

    A nation attacking on the other hand could potentially overwhelm a system. However, the benefit of a missile defense is to buy time to appropriately respond to the attack. It may be that moving the civilian population or military assets around is all that is needed to protect the country while massing a devastation response. It largely removes first strike benefits making a modern pearl harbor next to impossible. Missiles and drones are not the only munitions in the arsenal.

  18. Re:Compressed air. on Peugeot Citroen To Introduce Compressed Air Hybrid By 2016 · · Score: 1

    Not any more then an air powered car or a steam engine would. Both of which are realities in this world. hence a troll or idiot out of their depth but still keeping their mouth open. Which are you?

  19. Re:Compressed air. on Peugeot Citroen To Introduce Compressed Air Hybrid By 2016 · · Score: 1

    The Neither the compressed air or the fuel moving the vehicle in the first place is created with magic. No one said anything about a miracle solution that ran on unicorn farts or anything but you. Like I've already said before, go troll elsewhere.

  20. Re:Football field unit. on NASA Says Asteroid Will Buzz Earth Closer Than Many Satellites · · Score: 1

    The chains are only used to measure first down.

  21. Re:That's not possible on Real-Time Fact Checking With "Truth Teller" · · Score: 1

    Its even worse because a lot of statements that fall into those categories also contain opinion which is neither true or false until after the fact has happened and we can see how accurate it might have been.

    Ive seen people who have expressed opinions supported by mountains of evidence and end up being wrong. I'm sure there have been opinions based on little more then gut feelings that have turned out to be correct.

  22. Re:Provoking on Machine Gun Fire From Military Helicopters Flying Over Downtown Miami · · Score: 1

    Tyranny can exist long before people are willing to do something about it. It's the response to that tyranny that we are talking about, not the tyranny itself.

  23. Re:Compressed air. on Peugeot Citroen To Introduce Compressed Air Hybrid By 2016 · · Score: 1

    No, I said that h2o2 would be better then compressed air and would offer ranges comparable to ICEs and you could get rid of them. You are the one who went into the entire hydrogen costs and so on that took us down some winding road. The emissions save is a given since this compressed air tech is already trying to do that. Teh h2o2 can use the same tech. There won't be much difference.

    It really is that simple. If you cannot follow along, then ask questions instead of inserting moronic commands and declarations. Or go troll somewhere else.

  24. Re:I saw this coming 5 years ago on 50 Million Potentially Vulnerable To UPnP Flaws · · Score: 2

    Steve Gibson of grc.com had been warning about plug'n play since late 2001 when windows XP was on it's first release. He even offered a service to quickly turn it off and scan for it.

    Of course that was back when MS claimed their software firewall on XP was enough to put your computer directly onto the internet and you could use the XP machine as a router with internet connection sharing actually working easily on it. And if doing so, the average time from fresh install to infected was about 5 minutes or so- Often before you AV could update and detect the infection. I think that rose to about 15 minutes after some updates and I lost track of what it might be now.

    Anyways, the alarms have been going up for about 12 years now. I wasn't aware that routers were implementing it until recently so I'm sure I'm in the problem pile on this.

  25. Re:Compressed air. on Peugeot Citroen To Introduce Compressed Air Hybrid By 2016 · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I'm calling you a troll. There is no magic involved unless we are talking about your inability to comprehend a concept. But it's ok, I do not really care if you endorse it or not. i don't really care what you think of it because I don't think you are capable of making informed comments on the subject.

    Now go troll someone else.