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  1. Re:Delegates Won on Mathematics Says Romney and Santorum Tied In Iowa · · Score: 1

    Currently Romney has the most delegates because he has support from delegates not tied to elections. Romney has 18, Santorum has 8, Paul has 7 delegates total.

    Which just shows how clearly the elections are a sham.

  2. Re:So... what's the difference? on Mathematics Says Romney and Santorum Tied In Iowa · · Score: 1

    Bullshit. People still need to work even if they are getting less back for it, unless they have some large savings built up. Actually, they need to work more, in order to support themselves. Of course, other people might decide not to hire.

  3. Re:So... what's the difference? on Mathematics Says Romney and Santorum Tied In Iowa · · Score: 2

    Taxing accumulated wealth would stimulate spending instead of saving, reducing inflation and moving money through the system. This is good.

  4. Re:So... what's the difference? on Mathematics Says Romney and Santorum Tied In Iowa · · Score: 1

    I thought Perry was the Bush 3.0. Santorum is something else...a total Godbot. Maybe he can win the Republican primary, but I don't see any way he can win over significant numbers of people outside his base to secure a national election.

  5. Re:Higher Power on Mathematics Says Romney and Santorum Tied In Iowa · · Score: 1

    The correct acronym for the Supreme Court of the United States is SCOTUS.

  6. alternative on Germans Increase Office Efficiency With "Cloud Ceiling" · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Or, you know, they could just install windows. (lowercase w)

  7. Humanized Enso on The Semantic Line Interface · · Score: 1

    It sounds like the article is proposing a solution very similar to Humanized's Enso Launcher.
    http://humanized.com/enso/launcher/

    I tried Enso for a bit. It seems like a nice concept, but one thing that annoyed me to no end was having to type "open" over and over. I want to open something by default.

  8. Re:How do you determine healthy food? on IBM Granted Your-Paychecks-Are-What-You-Eat Patent · · Score: 1

    It's not healthy to just eat lentils and oatmeal. It's good to include some fruits, nuts, and greens, and these are pretty expensive except for bananas.

  9. Re:Don't work "for free" on Ask Slashdot: Handing Over Personal Work Without Compensation? · · Score: 1

    I can think of a third time: the organization is working for the betterment of humanity. Unfortunately, that's a rare one, so it's acceptable that you skipped it.

  10. Re:Four years until it's available? on HIV Vaccine Approval For Human Trials · · Score: 1

    Quit your whining. Four years isn't a long time for phase 2 and 3 testing. Do you really want to mass inoculate people before you know it's safe?

  11. Re:Wow on HIV Vaccine Approval For Human Trials · · Score: 1

    How do vaccines manage to have so many side effects if they are made from killed viruses? And what does it mean to kill a virus?

  12. Re:Is working at age 80 even legal over there? on Superannuated Scientists Still Productive · · Score: 1

    It's legal to work until you drop here. And it's illegal to discriminate against someone for many employment related things on basis of old age.

  13. Re:Well, let's ask on India To Cut Out Animal Dissection · · Score: 1

    I get the impression that human cadavers are still ok to dissect.

  14. Re:Oh just great on India To Cut Out Animal Dissection · · Score: 2

    People create euphemisms for things they don't like to think about.

  15. Re:Seems you missed Dr. King's point on FBI Cybercrime Director Comments On Hacktivism · · Score: 1

    Actually, it's something between. It's more like a sit-in blocking the entrance to a store. A DDoS often involves connecting to the server several times a second, which is far more than normal use, so it can't really be equivalent to loitering, unless you are purposely loitering in the doorway.

  16. Re:They do, sometimes on FBI Cybercrime Director Comments On Hacktivism · · Score: 1

    Did you say that right? You said nonpolitical.

    I think corporations should not be allowed to donate to political parties and should not be allowed to endorse or advertise for political parties. But they ought to be able to donate to charities if they want to. I would even go so far as saying corporations should be allowed to advertise for a particular policy, but not for a particular candidate.

  17. Re:And you think the DMCA and SOPA are bad. on Google Deal Allegedly Lets UMG Wipe YouTube Videos It Doesn't Own · · Score: 1

    Once they had their IPO, it doesn't matter what the founders' initial philosophy was. IPO is the very definition of selling out.

  18. Re:And you think the DMCA and SOPA are bad. on Google Deal Allegedly Lets UMG Wipe YouTube Videos It Doesn't Own · · Score: 1

    UMG would sue them. There's a reasonable chance the courts would grant an injunction,

  19. Re:too bad on JPMorgan Rolls Out (Another) FPGA Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    What would be even better is if the person who needed cash the most sold directly to the person who needed the asset the most.
    Middlemen (retailers) are useful for tangible things like staplers because they increase efficiency in transporting goods and provide customers with a large variety of products at a single location. But the finance market is just a bunch of digital debts being shuffled around, never to be consumed. There is no value to finance hedging.

  20. too bad on JPMorgan Rolls Out (Another) FPGA Supercomputer · · Score: 5, Insightful

    These banks aren't just siphoning money, they are also siphoning talent away from more important projects. The people working on these things could be brilliant physicists or engineers, if they weren't sucked into the dark side.

  21. Re:Ludicrous! on NTSB Recommends Cell Phone Ban For Drivers · · Score: 1

    Actually, texting while driving is banned in 28 states in USA,

  22. Re:Trying to do too much on Firefox Too Big To Link On 32-bit Windows · · Score: 1

    That's a good idea. They could call them "add-ons" or maybe "plugins" or "extensions"

  23. Re:Apparently... on Judge Dismisses 'Other OS' Class-Action Suit Against Sony · · Score: 1

    now this is just slandering, unless you have some evidence to back that up

  24. Re:Did you argue when they demanded hands-free? on NTSB Recommends Cell Phone Ban For Drivers · · Score: 1

    Ok, now your argument is making some sense. There needs to be some kind of cost-benefit analysis to determine what an acceptable level of risk is. That's a purpose for all these studies on the statistics of car crashes. Of course, that's only part of the problem, because the other half is to determine what the benefit of talking on phones in the car is. Some level of enjoyment, I guess. But how do you quantify that? Is your increase in enjoyment greater than a small probability of causing great suffering to someone else? There's also a question of fairness. Should you be allowed to risk someone else's life for your own increased enjoyment?

  25. Re:Good! on NTSB Recommends Cell Phone Ban For Drivers · · Score: 1

    This is some fallacious reasoning. Distraction isn't a binary quantity, but rather is additive. Let's put this in algebraic terms:
    Distraction(driver with phone and no baby) > Distraction(driver with no phone and no baby)
    Distraction(driver with phone and baby) > Distraction(driver with no phone and with baby)
    Therefore, phone increases distraction.
    It's just not relevant if Distraction(driver with phone) is greater or less than Distraction(driver with baby). It's a red herring.
    I see this kind of argument often, but it just doesn't make any sense game theory wise.