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  1. Re:What makes it really interesting... on Political Party's Leadership Election Hit By DDoS Attack · · Score: 1

    I dunno about John. He wasn't above dirty tricks himself. Outright literal vote buying wasn't uncommon in his time (secret ballots weren't used until Mackenzie was PM), and there's the whole CPR thing.

    Though he'd likely have less than complimentary things to say about the competence of the current governing party.

  2. Re:Obviously... on Political Party's Leadership Election Hit By DDoS Attack · · Score: 2

    Thomas Mulcair was elected as the new NDP leader on Saturday.

  3. Re:On a side note on Political Party's Leadership Election Hit By DDoS Attack · · Score: 4, Informative

    They didn't change it. They never were the "democratic" party (There've been two of those, both in BC, both short lived and unsuccessful).

    In 1958, the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (a socialist political party formed in the 1930s) and the Canadian Labour Congress (a union federation) jointly form the National Committee for the New Party to form a new social-democratic political party. The organizations surrounding the committee took up the "New Party" bit and when the party was actually founded in 1961, they decided to just keep the "New" bit as it was already well recognized.

  4. Re:Obviously... on Political Party's Leadership Election Hit By DDoS Attack · · Score: 2

    Unlikely. Quebec was all over the NDP last election.

    Unless they changed their minds since Jack's gone.

  5. Re:But now... on Facebook: Legal Action Against Employers Asking For Your Password · · Score: 3, Funny

    But then you're a anti-social and therefore likely to go on a shooting rampage.

  6. Re:uhhhh....no on Aspirin Helps Prevent Cancer, New Studies Show · · Score: 2

    The idea of a daily aspirin regimen is that ASA is a mild anti-coagulant, so you won't have sizable clots forming and finding a section of narrowed/hardened artery to block.

  7. Re:Software sims? on Apple vs. Nokia, RIM and Motorola On Nano-SIM Standard · · Score: 1

    CDMA does have sim cards (they're an optional part of the spec and are called CSIMs). North American carriers just never implemented them as locking in the customer via every means possible is highly beneficial for them.

  8. Re:Tennessee Universities on Tennessee Passes Bill That Allows "Teaching the Controversy" of Evolution · · Score: 1

    The Ivy League is an NCAA conference formed of those 8 schools.

    Vanderbilt is a "southern ivy", schools that are considered comparable in athletic and academic prestige, but aren't members of the Ivy League itself. There was an attempt in the 50s to create a "Southern Ivy League" athletic conference and another attempt in the 60s to create a similar "Magnolia League". Neither attempt got off the ground, but the naming is still used to refer to such institutions and "Ivy" in general gets used to refer to post-secondary institutions with a high level of athletic and academic prestige.

  9. Re:It gets better on Tennessee Passes Bill That Allows "Teaching the Controversy" of Evolution · · Score: 1

    It gets better.

    When exactly? Other than a brief surge of sanity during the Apollo years, TN has steadfastly maintained this position for 87 years.

  10. Re:Tennessee Universities on Tennessee Passes Bill That Allows "Teaching the Controversy" of Evolution · · Score: 1

    Huh? Are we talking about the same Ivy League here? Neither Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, nor Yale are located in Tennessee.

  11. Re:I've never understood... on Tennessee Passes Bill That Allows "Teaching the Controversy" of Evolution · · Score: 1

    This is TENNESSEE. This was the state that produced the hilarity known as the Scopes trial and has hardly backtracked on it (other than a brief outbreak of sanity during the Apollo years) in 87 years.

  12. Re:Simple solution... on Tennessee Passes Bill That Allows "Teaching the Controversy" of Evolution · · Score: 1

    They haven't heard of Epperson v. Arkansas, Edwards v. Aguillard, Daniel v. Waters, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, or McLean v. Arkansas either.

  13. Some day, I'm hoping that all these retarded laws get bitch slapped back. Is it just that I'm young or are these people become more shrill and outspoken about this kind of idiocy? I'm only 25 and I'm hoping this is just a phase before we inevitably tell them all the shut the hell up and move on with things.

    Laws identical to this have been consistently struck down since Daniel v. Waters in 1975, which was also regarding a Tennessee law.

    They keep putting them back up regardless.

  14. Re:Science should be taught in science class. on Tennessee Passes Bill That Allows "Teaching the Controversy" of Evolution · · Score: 1

    I dunno, Satanist week might be even more entertaining.

  15. Re:YES on Is It Time For the US Government To Back Fusion At NIF Over ITER? · · Score: 1

    The fuel pellets contain tritium, which as far as I know requires a fission reactor to produce.

    That's one way, but bombarding deuterium with fast neutrons will result in tritium. And conveniently, a fusion reactor is a rather good fast neutron source.

  16. Re:General Fusion on Is It Time For the US Government To Back Fusion At NIF Over ITER? · · Score: 1

    He means a project in a similar manner to the "hero" projects of old, like Apollo

    Yeah, which as he said, we haven't done again for 40 and counting years.

  17. Re:Of course on Is It Time For the US Government To Back Fusion At NIF Over ITER? · · Score: 1

    No, the US has a United States Customary fuckton of thorium.

  18. Re:Anything like adblock on Mobile Ads May Serve As a Malware Conduit · · Score: 1

    Yes, etc/hosts exists on Android and works exactly the same as any other Linux.

    There's a fine app called adaway that'll do it all for you. Obviously requires root though.

  19. Re:Apple / Macintosh's ideal of a closed system on iFixit's Kyle Wiens On the War On DIY Electronics · · Score: 1

    The CPU and GPU appear to be superior to the Nook Colour. The screen is probably where they're trimming money. It's only 2/3rds the resolution.

  20. Re:Does it perchance... on Woman Wants To Replace Her Non-functioning Hand With a Bionic Prosthesis · · Score: 2

    Closer to $29 million.

    Inflation is a bitch.

  21. Re:Shortwave? on Express-AM4 Satellite Salvage Plan For Antarctic Internet In Jeopardy · · Score: 1

    but i don't see why they wouldn't be able to go faster, almost a decade later.

    I can think of three. Claude, Ralph, and Harry.

  22. Re:Recycling legislation? on iFixit's Kyle Wiens On the War On DIY Electronics · · Score: 1

    Might be article 11 of Directive 2006/66/EC.

    Member States shall ensure that manufacturers design appliances
    in such a way that waste batteries and accumulators can
    be readily removed. Appliances into which batteries and accumulators
    are incorporated shall be accompanied by instructions
    showing how they can be removed safely and, where appropriate,
    informing the end-user of the type of the incorporated
    batteries and accumulators. These provisions shall not apply
    where, for safety, performance, medical or data integrity
    reasons, continuity of power supply is necessary and requires a
    permanent connection between the appliance and the battery
    or accumulator

    EU members were to pass laws to implement the directive by September of 2008, though the directive was more focused on further restriction of mercury and cadmium in batteries, similar to directive 91/157/EEC, only more so, and improving recycling programs, and this bit seems to have gone largely unenforced.

  23. Re:It's all about size on iFixit's Kyle Wiens On the War On DIY Electronics · · Score: 1

    My new HTC Sensation is just as thin as an iPhone4

    But it's 2mm thicker!!! It won't fit in the pocket of my spray-on jeans!

  24. Re:follow my lead on iFixit's Kyle Wiens On the War On DIY Electronics · · Score: 1

    That was back in 2006, specifically part of directive 2006/66/EC. EU member states were to create laws to implement it by September of 2008. The "user replaceable batteries" bit was a minor part of it and in general it was more focused on further restricting mercury and cadmium in batteries and improving recycling programs, building on the 1991 directive.

    Enforcement of that part of it appears to be somewhat lacking.

  25. Re:Apple / Macintosh's ideal of a closed system on iFixit's Kyle Wiens On the War On DIY Electronics · · Score: 1

    So you're not expecting Apple's market share to spike for a couple or three quarters with the release of the ipad 3?