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  1. Re:Sureeeeee on Do E-Readers Spell the Demise Of Traditional Schooling? · · Score: 1

    Also, add canning to the list of juvenile punishments for defacing property

    Canning? Into what food? I'd rather not play Soylent Green.

  2. Re:No. on Will Hackers Try To Disrupt the Iowa Caucuses? · · Score: 1

    Ron Paul wants to define life as starting at conception, build a fence along the US-Mexico border, prevent the Supreme Court from hearing cases on the Establishment Clause or the right to privacy, permitting the return of sodomy laws and the like (a bill which he has repeatedly re-introduced), pull out of the UN, disband NATO, end birthright citizenship, deny federal funding to any organization which "which presents male or female homosexuality as an acceptable alternative life style or which suggest that it can be an acceptable life style" along with destroying public education and social security, and abolish the Federal Reserve in order to put America back on the gold standard. He was also the sole vote against divesting US federal government investments in corporations doing business with the genocidal government of the Sudan.

    The other Republican candidates could live with most of this (maybe not abolishing the Fed or disbanding NATO).

  3. Re:Hello Dystopia on Will Hackers Try To Disrupt the Iowa Caucuses? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I don't recall hacktivists running Gitmo, or waterboarding people, or renditioning them, or claiming that the AUMF authorizes the President to assassinate American citizens. Am I missing something?

  4. Re:Control the devices on Ask Slashdot: Is E-Learning a Viable Option? · · Score: 1

    That might be why I put an "On the other hand . . ." in my response. And what of students who prefer Linux to iOS, or LaTeX to word processors? Or who want more compilers/interprets on what they carry?

    I prefer that they be opposed to SOPA/PIPA, but I suspect that's not what Bill Gates wants (he donates to charter schools). Just a hunch.

  5. Re:Control the devices on Ask Slashdot: Is E-Learning a Viable Option? · · Score: 1

    Students may feel it, but how much does IT owe them? On the other, school officials may be overbearing enough as it is.

  6. Re:1% of all nuke plants have melted down now. on Report Condemns Japan's Response To Nuclear Accident · · Score: 1

    I spent eight years operating and maintaining the reactor that I slept less than 100 feet away from.

    Say hi to Marge, Bart and Lisa for me.

  7. Re:Dunno on Report Condemns Japan's Response To Nuclear Accident · · Score: 1

    I wasn't raised in a barn; were you raised in a reality where social cohesion trumped facts?

  8. Re:The "right" to bear arms is an Americanism on A Right To Bear Virtual Arms? · · Score: 1

    Americans used guns from 1775-1783 to wage war against Britain. Could that have had some bearing in proposing the Second Amendment?

  9. Re:The "right" to bear arms is an Americanism on A Right To Bear Virtual Arms? · · Score: 1

    Mariano Rivera?

  10. Re:Cat4? Cat5? Cat6? on Customers Gleefully Mock Best Buy's $1,095.99 HDMI · · Score: 1

    Cat 6 can go 1 gigabit/s. Some Cat5 might as well, I'm not sure. Otherwise Cat5 is 100 megabit/s

  11. Re:Everyone here is WRONG. Ppice is NOT incorrect! on Customers Gleefully Mock Best Buy's $1,095.99 HDMI · · Score: 1

    Why is it stupid of Best Buy? Even if few people buy it, it's not taking up much shelf space.

  12. Re:close on Customers Gleefully Mock Best Buy's $1,095.99 HDMI · · Score: 1

    the "sucker" use comes from someone who's getting fucked over....

    Isn't that the point of hiring a sex worker?

  13. Re:They may be mocking the price but on Customers Gleefully Mock Best Buy's $1,095.99 HDMI · · Score: 1

    But is the cabling supporting the bridge authentic HDMI?

  14. Re:We used to play boxes on the grid paper on Ask Slashdot: Is E-Learning a Viable Option? · · Score: 1

    Can you actually program iPad apps on an iPad, or does it require a Mac?

  15. Re:Control the devices on Ask Slashdot: Is E-Learning a Viable Option? · · Score: 1

    So we are going to condition our students to think that they cannot have control over their computers,

    Their computers? You even quoted the part where the GP siad they were school property.

  16. Re:Control the devices on Ask Slashdot: Is E-Learning a Viable Option? · · Score: 1

    How long have you been writing for InfoWorld?

  17. Re:"Right on/top marks" but... on Android Approved By Pentagon · · Score: 0

    Windows NT, the forerunner/ancestor of modern Windows OS'? Last I knew of, it had 30 million++ lines of code

    Does the ++ apply to million, making it 31,000,000, or is it just 30,000,001?

  18. Re:Well good to know on Anonymous Hacks US Think Tank Stratfor · · Score: 1

    And they don't? Or should I just "Whoosh" myself?

  19. Re:Industrial Espionage. on Russia, Europe Seek Divorce From U.S. Tech Vendors · · Score: 1

    i'd take that for 1944.. 109 miles achieved and a max of 128 miles (as max on vertical launch) that with a little more work (and again not a world war) they would have easily gotten there.

    In the absence of a World War, would the rocket program receive funding? The US and Soviets launched their programs as part of the Cold War.

  20. Re:Industrial Espionage. on Russia, Europe Seek Divorce From U.S. Tech Vendors · · Score: 1

    To orbit the earth at a height of 206 km would require an orbital velocity of 7 km/s. The highest speed the V-2 attained was less than 2 km/s. And that doesn't even get into the guidance system.

  21. Question on What Do We Do When the Internet Mob Is Wrong? · · Score: 1

    Why did you use appeal to sympathy" instead of ad misericordiam?

  22. Re:Industrial Espionage. on Russia, Europe Seek Divorce From U.S. Tech Vendors · · Score: 1

    I was aware of that. According to The Rocket and the Reich by Michael Neufeld, A V-2 reached an altitude of 176 km (109 mi) on a vertical launch. That's not going to give you much of an orbit.

  23. Re:Microsoft, bitches! on Russia, Europe Seek Divorce From U.S. Tech Vendors · · Score: 5, Funny

    Microsoft forever, faggots, and there isn't a goddamned thing you can do about it.

    I'm pretty sure the Russians could still hit Redmond with an ICBM.

  24. Re:Industrial Espionage. on Russia, Europe Seek Divorce From U.S. Tech Vendors · · Score: 0

    And how many V-2s achieved orbit? How many ever carried a human? The Soviets may have had German scientists, but they had to do more than copy.

  25. Re:Nurturing accuracy on What Do We Do When the Internet Mob Is Wrong? · · Score: 1

    If you watch TV shows and movies, there are so many inaccurate and misleading interpretations of technologies or scientific laws to enable the story.

    And if people attempt to learn history in such a manner, is that good?