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  1. Re:Kudos on Stewart and Colbert Plan Competing D.C. Rallies · · Score: 1

    How can you say that someone ignoring the bulk of scientific research in the past 150 years could run for office in the most powerful country in history and expect that detail to be discounted as an amusing insignificance? A country with leaders who renounce and oppose basic education is in trouble.

  2. Re:Some simple math... on Some Netflix Users Have Rated 50,000 Shows · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Who says you have to watch something to rate it? Are you the one who actually reads links in Slashdot?

  3. Re:Evidence on Some Netflix Users Have Rated 50,000 Shows · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Or watching more than one show per day. Or having watched them in the past, long before Netflix was around, and rating them in their system.

  4. Re:Problem is lack of importance on 75% Use Same Password For Social Media & Email · · Score: 1

    You could add some additional salt to them by always appending/prepending a component of the domain you're logging in, like "passwordYahoo!". It'll shield you from most automated attacks.

  5. Saturn? on Saturn's Moon Prometheus Spawning Moonlets · · Score: 1

    I thought they got canned by GM.

    *Ducks*

  6. Re:Nonsense. on The World's Strongest, Most Expensive Beer Served Inside a Squirrel · · Score: 1

    The point is that the bacteria that ferments grain into beer cannot live past a certain alcohol concentration. The same thing goes for wine, with the limit around 14-15% for most types.

  7. Re:55%, not 110 proof on The World's Strongest, Most Expensive Beer Served Inside a Squirrel · · Score: 1

    Only in the US.

  8. Re:On the other hand... on The World's Strongest, Most Expensive Beer Served Inside a Squirrel · · Score: 1

    I've been saying this very same thing to non-vegetarian animal rights activists and people who generally find hunting for food disgusting. One thing is true: If I could choose between being a farm animal or a wild one that's hunted down, I'd pick wild every time.

  9. Re:It can be done - Spain example on In Oregon, Wind Power Surges Disrupting Grid · · Score: 1

    California is very very similar to Spain in many senses, geo- and demographically. There's one big population center right in the middle, and then lots of dense areas throughout the coast. In comparison, California's population is much more concentrated in 2-3 areas. Besides, what does that have to do with managing variable output?

  10. Re:Not Just Hollywood on Hollywood Accounting — How Harry Potter Loses Money · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I know people who work for consulting companies on precisely these type of internal, cross-border deals. Their task is to ensure that their internal transactions are "arm's length", or at market value. If you know something about it, the IRS will surely welcome a tip.

  11. Re:Unanimous bi-partisan support... on California To Drop State Rock Over Asbestos Concerns · · Score: 1

    At least business in silicon valley are starting to move to Austin, TX. They see the hand writing on the wall. That, and UT is full of talented minds to feed the industry.

    Any evidence of this? I'm not questioning your point, just interested.

  12. Re:Unanimous bi-partisan support... on California To Drop State Rock Over Asbestos Concerns · · Score: 1

    Midwesterners have been laughing at California since before WWII.

    Yes, because the Rust Belt is doing so well.

  13. Re:--- Flamewar starts here on Knuth Plans 'Earthshaking Announcement' Wednesday · · Score: 1

    I must be new here.

  14. Re:God hates shrimp on Google To Add Pay To Cover a Tax For Gays · · Score: 1

    Don't be a dumb bass.

  15. Re:that's not parallel on Scaling To a Million Cores and Beyond · · Score: 1

    That type of job is called "embarrassingly parallel", which is parallel indeed.

  16. Re:--- Flamewar starts here on Knuth Plans 'Earthshaking Announcement' Wednesday · · Score: 1

    I think a *swoosh* sound would be appropriate here :).

  17. MOD PARENT UP on Knuth Plans 'Earthshaking Announcement' Wednesday · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sums up the whole thread. This is also the main argument against constructivist teaching, on which, for example, the failing modern Spanish education system is built upon.

  18. Re:There are only three sports on Digitally Filtering Out the Drone of the World Cup · · Score: 1

    Have you seen cats (I assume the same is true for wilder animals) training their kitties to hunt mice? They catch the prey and weaken it until it's almost passed out, then hand it over to the kitties. They play with it, biting and tapping on it. Eventually, the mouse gets a hold of itself and attempts to escape, only to again being trapped by the adult cat, and the game begins all over. I know, we're more rational than cats and should know better than to torture animals, but my argument is that the 15 minutes of suffering for a "toro bravo" are nothing compared to what your typical cattle head goes through for life.

  19. Re:There are only three sports on Digitally Filtering Out the Drone of the World Cup · · Score: 1

    And my point is that it's not a sport. It's a show, entertainment basically. As per the cat argument, I don't see your point. For a bull, there seem to be two life options here in the West: Meat source or show business (and then most likely also meat source). If I were to pick one, I'd go for the latter. Protesting bullfighting while eating meat or dairy products is cynical at best.

  20. Re:There are only three sports on Digitally Filtering Out the Drone of the World Cup · · Score: 1

    Funny, nobody in Spain calls it a sport, neither supporters nor opponents. Besides that, bulls do retire undefeated on a semi-regular basis. They're spared when they're considered exceptional, and they become luxury studs for their owners. Don't get me wrong, I don't like bullfighting; Never been to a "corrida" although both my grandfathers loved it. But if you're against bullfights and you're not a vegan, I'd be tempted to use the hypocrite card. The life of a bullfighting bull, even the ones that are not spared, is much better than that of most animals in our food chain.

  21. Re:iNelson on MA High School Forces All Students To Buy MacBooks · · Score: 1

    No, you can't :). Sorry.

  22. Re:iNelson on MA High School Forces All Students To Buy MacBooks · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's caramba.

  23. Re:Questionable Accounting on UK Gov't Spending Details Now Online · · Score: 1

    70 megabytes at 1 megabit/s take 573 44 seconds, which can be honestly rounded up to 10 minutes.

  24. Re:I don't like ads BUT on Apple iAd Drawing Antitrust Scrutiny · · Score: 1

    You should try a car analogy.

  25. Re:WTF? on Google Wave Now Open To All · · Score: 1

    I believe his point was pointing out the permeating nature of religious puritanism of this country, even in some of the most educated social circles, such as the high tech industry.