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  1. Re:As an Arizona resident on Is Daylight Saving Time Worth Saving? · · Score: 1

    Take this week to contemplate that there are other places and people in the world, and how actions can effect them.

    Then change your clocks twice a year and expect every one else in the world to deal with it. Changing the clock does not change the amount of daylight in the day - explain this to the guy that does choose the hours for the business day and bob's your uncle.

  2. Re:Electricty has made daylight savings obsolete on Is Daylight Saving Time Worth Saving? · · Score: 1

    Sounds good. Business changing their work hours from 9 to 5 to 8 to 4 needs to be done in sync. That's why it's nearly impossible to do business across the time zones.

  3. Re:Solution on French Police Unsure Which Twin To Charge In Sexual Assaults · · Score: 1
  4. Re:warrantless wiretapping on Canadian Internet Surveillance Bill Could Come Back In New Form · · Score: 1

    smbc about it.

  5. Re:The funny thing at my university on Professors Rejecting Classroom Technology · · Score: 1

    They really should make Low capacity SD cards for really cheap so that people can us them for passing data around in cases where you might not get the SD card back.

    There are still some laying around. And I'm sure it wouldn't take much for any university to get their hands on a big pile of them and hand them out to students.

  6. Re:Primitive and woefully inadequate on China's Radical New Space Drive · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Your link (what few pages I could skim before I got bored) seems to provides no evidence (or insight) of any kind. It's just a bunch of speculative wishing and dumping on real physicists. My favorite:

    From my perspective, Einstein muddied the entire subject by equating reality with what is observed and using that false premise

    The new scientific method is here! Make some wild guess about how the universe must work because that's how you'd like it to work, then call all previous work foolish and flawed. Done. Wait, didn't we used to do something similar to that?

  7. Wikipedia talk page on When a Primary Source Isn't Good Enough: Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    Here is the wikipedia talk page.

  8. Re:This fundamentalist applauds loudly on Science Wins Over Creationism In South Korea · · Score: 2

    Probably something to do with this "firmament" thing. Genesis 1:14

  9. Re:Impressed on Artificial DNA Replicates and 'Evolves' · · Score: 1

    This thread is starting to sound like the early script for an episode of "The Big Bang Theory"...

  10. Re:Info library for the ages stored in organisms? on Artificial DNA Replicates and 'Evolves' · · Score: 1

    Because saving our species means saving a lot of others as well? And if we do bother to save ourselves then the best evolutionary strategy for all other (earth) life suddenly becomes "Be useful to humans."

  11. Re:This 21st Century isn't really starting right. on Posting Photos of Olympics Could Land You In Court · · Score: 3, Funny

    Burma Shave

  12. Re:It could have been worse on Snoozing Pilot Mistakes Venus For Aircraft; Panic, Injuries Ensue · · Score: 1

    I can't wait until 2620 when astronomers will rename Uranus to end that stupid joke forever...

  13. Re:go catch real crooks cops on The Laws of Physics Trump Traffic Laws · · Score: 1

    I use the high tech method of moving my head to patch the blind spot issue. Works great.

  14. Re:Very few women drive bin lorries. on The Ugly Underbelly of Coder Culture · · Score: 1

    Troll? Really? Seems like a fair question to me. Why not substitute any other male dominated unpleasant job? Would that fix the "troll" mod? Ok, I didn't check the stats, for all I know there are a ton of female sanitation department workers that I've never seen out there but it does seem that a lot of the most physically demanding and disgusting jobs in the world are mostly handled by men. My industry is. We have the occasional woman, and they do the job just fine, they just usually don't keep on doing it.. Perhaps they just want to prove something to themselves or perhaps they're just smart enough to get out while they can :)

  15. This seems familiar on Why Your IT Spending Is About To Hit the Wall · · Score: 2

    Don't we hear this same story every so often? Before it was trace width or storage density or whatever. Perhaps some day we'll run out of tricks to making better cheaper hardware but there seems to be a long way to go yet. I mean, we don't even have tenth generation AI hologrammatic computers with IQs of 6,000 yet!

  16. Re:Do Chinese leaders feel no guilt? on China Erases New Internet Rumors, Shuts Down Sites · · Score: 1

    They don't want critical thinkers. They ask hard questions when you try to lie to them repeatedly.

  17. Re:Can't possibly be in Oregon on Matt Groening Reveals Springfield Is In His Home State of Oregon · · Score: 1

    Oh no! A sad day for us all. He will be missed.

  18. This is a good thing! on Iran Plans To Unplug the Internet, Launch Its Own 'Clean' Alternative · · Score: 1

    We need something to point to next time some wacky internet regulating legislation comes up. And I'm sure the Iranian people will have nothing but good will towards their government for keeping them so safe from knowing what is happening in the world. Everybody wins.

  19. Re:Depth on How James Cameron Pumped Volume Into Titanic · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought depth was kind of the problem... The Titanic had too much.

  20. Re:This WAS news... on Innocent Or Not, the NSA Is Watching You · · Score: 1

    The outcry died down and they started it up again. If everyone gets uppity again, they'll put it on the back burner for a couple years or change the name...

  21. Re:Only restrict, never grant. on New CISPA Cybersecurity Bill Even Worse Than SOPA · · Score: 1

    Ahrg. You are correct*. I was thinking more that there may be better ways to design the voting system, but even with the present method those two choices were still picked by voters in the first place. And I would agree that we can still save it all bloodlessly and within the current government system if enough people pay attention.

  22. Re:Only restrict, never grant. on New CISPA Cybersecurity Bill Even Worse Than SOPA · · Score: 2
    I'm not sure if I can agree with that... How often do you hear "I'm voting for x so that y doesn't win" or that voting 3rd party is a waste of your vote? Voting to choose between two candidates that will do the same thing doesn't really "work fine."

    Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos!

  23. Re:But... on Young Butchered Mammoth Discovered In Siberia · · Score: 0

    Reminds me of this.

  24. Re:Not a flying car on Flying Car Makes Successful Maiden Flight · · Score: 2

    It could grip it by the husk...

  25. Re:Old school on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Note-Taking Device For Conferences? · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of the complicator's gloves.