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  1. Re:And of course... on Congressman Seeks Scientists' Personal Data · · Score: 1

    Now, just go hunt up that "definition" for us and post that whenever you get the chance.

    Sure, it is right here, I suggest you study it thoroughly. This second definition may also help you to better understand not only my comment, but many of those posted to slashdot every day.

    The rest of your reply is just an elaborate attempt to ignore the point that the scientific method inherently deals with bias, when people choose to skip the application of the scientific method - be it those who agree or disagree with some particular finding - it is equally poor form.

  2. Re:Not black and white. on Congressman Seeks Scientists' Personal Data · · Score: 1

    If scientists use the scientific method "by definition," as you assert,

    Yes, by definition because "a person who uses the scientific method" is the definition of a scientist. Simply calling yourself a scientist is not sufficient, just like calling yourself an astronaut is not sufficient to be an astronaut.

    then one-third of the published authors are not scientists. This throws the whole "peer review" process into question.

    So, you point to a study that repudiates previous studies. Sounds like the scientific method in action to me.

    The rest of your comment is not clearly articulated enough for me to draw any conclusions about your point. Please restate.

  3. Re:Not black and white. on Congressman Seeks Scientists' Personal Data · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Maybe the congressman should disclose in who's pocket he is.

    Agreed - the kind of stuff Barton is asking for is way above and beyond the kind of information that required by campaign finance reporting laws.

    Additionally, and this is key here - scientists, by definition, work via the scientific method and thus bogus conclusions will be challenged and repudiated.

    Politicians, by definition work by demagoguery and hot air and thus bogus claims will often go unchallenged and even supported by specious argument and distraction.

    Barton is using the later to try to attack the former, which to anyone with even a hint of scientific training, is ridiculous.

  4. Re:Anonymity on The Seven Laws of Identity · · Score: 1

    Actually, rule zero is really that there is no global identity management system. Kim says this several times in the video, although this point never really came through strongly enough in the laws.

    That's because he did not know how to phrase it correctly.
    If he were a student of pop culture, he would have known to say it like this:

    The first rule of identity is there is no identity.

  5. Re:In light of recent events... on V For Vendetta Trailer · · Score: 1

    Let me guess, you lack the basic reading comprehension skills to understand the meaning of "out the front door?" But, you make up for it with your ability to tirade off-topic.

  6. Re:Fly Safe .... on TSA Violated Privacy Act · · Score: 1

    they could give us all those skimpy hospital gowns though... that would cover us "enough" bonus points if its red, white, & blue.

    We would call them...

    Freedom gowns!

    Freedom to dangle that is.

  7. Re:Any PCs handled this resolution? on V For Vendetta Trailer · · Score: 1

    But they don't support the new QuickTime 7 format (H.265).

    That's H.264, and VLC supported the codec before Quicktime itself did. Why don't you give it a try? I know it worked for the H.264 versions of the Batman and Serenity trailers, because I used it to play them myself.

  8. Re:Any PCs handled this resolution? on V For Vendetta Trailer · · Score: 1

    Try vlc - http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
    or mplayer - http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/dload.htm l

    Not that I have downloaded the clip yet myself, but those players have been able to play that kind of content in the past, mplayer in particular tends to be very high-performance/high-efficiency.

  9. Re:In light of recent events... on V For Vendetta Trailer · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If I wanted to immerse myself in a world where the evil and malicious win time after time, I'd just walk out the front door.

    You would be hard pressed to find that kind of world in your personal experience. Walk out the door and you'll find the majority of people you meet are getting on with their lives just fine.

    Its only the "news" and conservative talk radio where "the evil and malicious win time after time." You, my anonymous friend, have bought into the American culture of fear, hook, line and sinker.

  10. Re:In light of recent events... on V For Vendetta Trailer · · Score: 1

    In the graphic novel the hero, V, is a terrorist and a psycho. He blows things up, killing the guilty and the innocent. He not the leader of a popular uprising, he's a loner. The closest thing he has to an ally is Evey - a girl he keeps imprisoned and tortures until she comes around to his way of thinking. The brilliance of the graphic novel stems from the fact that the reader identifies with the main character, even though he's cruel and clearly totally out of his mind.

    I've not read V, but from your description, it sounds like Save the Green Planet! is the kind of movie V wants to be - except instead of blowing up buildings, the sympathetic, insane anti-hero tortures people to death to prove they are or are not aliens.

    The movie is WAY too extreme for Hollywood, but Korean cinema kicks-ass so not a problem for them. You can find STGP floating around the net, or pick up the US region-1 release on DVD in a few months.

  11. Re:It's true--and they know about it on AMD Alleges Intel Compilers Create Slower AMD Code · · Score: 1

    All I have to say is that Intel claims to support Intel CPU's. Period. Get this in to your stupid, pea sized brain. AMD IS AN INTEL COMPATIBLE CPU!

    Clearly you fail to understand the very simple fact that:

    Intel != Intel compatible

    Pull your head from your ass and figure out what the case is about. Your idiotic tangents have nothing to anything.

    You sound like, "blah..blah...compatible....blah...blah...ass...bl ah...troll"

  12. Re:It's true--and they know about it on AMD Alleges Intel Compilers Create Slower AMD Code · · Score: 1

    Tell me where Intel has ever claimed it is their job to certify compatibility of non-Intel CPUs and then I'll admit you *may* have some ground to stand on

    Put your money where your mouth is and tell me where Intel has ever claimed that their software supports non-Intel hardware and then I'll admit you may have some ground to stand on.

    While you are at it, tell me where Intel has prevented anyone from using the documented CPU dispatch functionality to force execution of any compiler output on any cpu whatsoever.

    Pathetic, dumbass troll...

    Impressive, it only took you 10 days to learn how to spell "pathetic." You have clearly demonstrated your top-notch credentials with that move!

  13. Re:And this is why... on U.S. House Votes to Extend Patriot Act · · Score: 2, Informative
    One of Osama's stated goals is to destroy, through holy war, America (the Great Satan). One of the things that made us great was our Constitution, that great document which protects our freedoms. Yet here goes the House of Representatives, doing exactly what bin Laden wants: Taking away our freedom.

    Anyone who doubts this claim, read Osama's own words on the topic:

    "I tell you, freedom and human rights in America are doomed. The U.S. government will lead the American people in -- and the West in general -- into an unbearable hell and a choking life."
    -- October 21st, 2001
  14. Re:smegness fine! on Using Google Maps to Get Out of a Traffic Ticket · · Score: 1

    bubbah boy, how do you get 'was fined' from:

    "my case was dismissed. the judge even appologized for my wasted time."

    Smeggy is what yo mama wipes off your organ.

  15. Re:Hopefully the guy was innocent. on Using Google Maps to Get Out of a Traffic Ticket · · Score: 1

    And while I'm bitching, when you get to a 4 way stop sign, TAKE YOUR TURN!. Don't be polite and wave other people through. Don't think about whether it's "really" your turn or not. The system works well when everyone keeps the system moving. Politeness only slows everyone down.

    Holy shit is that a pissah.

    I really hate these people who think they are being polite by breaking the rules of the road and waving the other guy(s) on. Half the time it happens to me, I'm busy looking around preparing to go in 10-15 seconds when my turn should be up, so I don't even see them waving at me and things get all out of whack.

    Just fucking go already and let me worry about me!

    Damn!

  16. Re:yeah, and did you hear the one about the... on Using Google Maps to Get Out of a Traffic Ticket · · Score: 0

    dumbass, you must not have read the end, he didn't get fined. He does sound a little smeggy though.

  17. Re:Hopefully the guy was innocent. on Using Google Maps to Get Out of a Traffic Ticket · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Or you can pay a lawyer for the privilege and he'll do the exact same thing, except you'll be out more money than the fine was worth (incentives work both ways).

    Except that the fine is only a small part of the cost of a speeding ticket. The real cost can be thousands of dollars due to increased insurance premiums over the next 5-7 years. If your insurance only goes up by $50/quarter that is still $1,000 over the next 5 years. For a lot of people - young, male, single - it would not be unheard of to see your insurance rates increase by $100-$200/quarter. Auto insurance is legalized robbery.

  18. Re:Hell no, not me! on IP Telephony Drives in Power over Ethernet · · Score: 1

    euhm, and how is this handshaking done when there is no power for the device to do the handshaking?
    This sounds like BS to me, and I didn't read it in TFA.


    Google is your friend - you pay me and I will go look it up for you. I have lots of first-person experience playing with this stuff since the phone on my desk at work is a PoE VOIP (Avaya) phone, but I've used the jack for all kinds of non-PoE equipment without any problem.

  19. Re:Hell no, not me! on IP Telephony Drives in Power over Ethernet · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Besides, being the RJ45 connection could be standard eithernet, what's to prevent your casual user from making a BIG mistake.

    PoE is smart enough not to send the juice down the wire until the PHYS layer handshaking has determined that the other end is PoE-compatible.

  20. Re:No 911? Quote the VOIP reseller... on IP Telephony Drives in Power over Ethernet · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    A real man makes his obscure post and leaves it to the wise to mod it up or explain it to the unwise. When you do it yourself, it is like riding a bicycle with training wheels.

  21. Re:Dear dumb**** on Got Spyware? Throw out the Computer! · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What is this amazing "hardware firewall" supposed to protect me from again exactly?

    Dear anonymous dumbass,
    I suggest that you purchase one of these hardware firewalls and then suck it and see.

  22. XM & Sirius Radio on Are There Any Real-Time GPS+Traffic Solutions? · · Score: 3, Informative

    XM has their NavTraffic service which works with the Pioneer AVIC-N2 for some big bambucha dollars:
    http://www.xmradio.com/newsroom/screen/pr_2004_11_ 02.html

    Sirius has something going on with NavTEQ
    http://www.navteq.com/NewsUserServlet?action=NewsD etail&newsId=297

  23. Re:Dear dumb**** on Got Spyware? Throw out the Computer! · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Parent is NOT flamebait.

    Anyone without a hardware firewall needs to get one ASAP, and anyone doing "virgin" installs without one is really a dumbass.

    These firewalls are literally $20, a year ago even the top-of-line ones with fancy stuff like stateful-packet-inspection were under $40.

  24. Re:firecow on Firefox Gains on IE Again in June · · Score: 1

    People's Republic of China, home of the Chinese Communist party and a boatload more people than Taiwan

    Where a boatload more people than the entire population of Taiwan speak cantonese.

  25. Re:firecow on Firefox Gains on IE Again in June · · Score: 1

    I suppose in Mandarin it's red fire cow?
    Or small fire from cow because running capitalist dogs steal the rest?


    Mandarin is the official language of that hyper-capitalist state called Taiwan.