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  1. Re:DOH! on House Panel Moving Forward With SOPA · · Score: 1

    Not only that, but I do not wish to be "protected" from foreign ideas.

  2. Also check out Fold.it, the protein folding game on Video Gamers Advancing Genetic Research · · Score: 1

    http://fold.it/portal/

  3. Re:For the love of Christ... on Ask Slashdot: To Hack Or Not To Hack? · · Score: 1

    How can it be immoral to look at something exposed to public view?

    Are you insane?

  4. Re:Land? on California Going Ahead With Bullet Train · · Score: 1

    Actually, some people--most people?--believe something in the middle of those two extremes you describe.

    Seriously, calm down.

  5. Re:And exaggeration can ruin anything on California Going Ahead With Bullet Train · · Score: 1

    You are...obviously unaware of what actually works.

    Look at Fox News.  It works.  It is not rational.

    Just sayin'.

  6. Re:This editor should be shot! on All French Nuclear Reactors Deemed Unsafe · · Score: 1

    Don't kid yourself that no one died--or is dying--from the effects of the Fukushima accident.

    The Japanese are not exactly famous for their complete open honesty and transparency about their own massive fuck ups.

    Like--you can be sure they are sweeping all *kinds* of shit under the carpet, for now.  The truth will out, though....

  7. Re:Show me the source. on Android Ice Cream Sandwich Source Released · · Score: 1

    What was that reason, that they didn't release Honeycomb?

    Srsly I never heard the rationale...

    It matters to me because I support Android very much *because* it is open.

  8. Re:But this is the wrong decision on HP Delays WebOS Decision · · Score: 1

    No, they don't make money off it directly.  But who do you think controls the platform?

    But no, I'm sure your plan is much better.

    ...and I wouldn't have said it was a good idea to pay a billion dollars for WebOS!

  9. Re:Awww on Is American Innovation Losing Its Shine? · · Score: 1

    "Stolen" is such an ugly word.

    I prefer "plundered"! ;-D

  10. Re:Can you back up this claim? on Microsoft Killing Silverlight? · · Score: 1

    There just hasn't been the motivation to do so.  See PS3 multi-OS booting.  But with bittorrent still going strong, there is simply no point to ripping crappy Netflix streams.

    I mean...why would you want to?

    If it's running on a PC, it can be captured, one way or another.

  11. Re:And... on Microsoft Killing Silverlight? · · Score: 0

    You seem to think:

    a) HTML5 can be crippled
    b) somebody is in an authority position to do so.

    No.  Don't worry about that--we have plenty of real problems.

  12. But this is the wrong decision on HP Delays WebOS Decision · · Score: 1

    The real decision should be whether to open source it or not.

    If they had a lick of sense, they'd give that a shot.

    But they don't.  And they won't.

    Android really needs some competition...(and no, that crappy iOS doesn't count--I mean real, proper, open source OS competition).

  13. Re:they ignore us. on The White House Responds To We the People Petition · · Score: 1

    No, it's not.  Talk to someone who's actually lived through a violent revolution (like in Iran) and they will imediately inform you that you are an idiot.

    If things are bad enough, people will indeed vote more radical people into office who will actually do things.

  14. Re:I'm starting to wonder why people care on Dolphin, a 3rd Party Android Browser, Relayed URL Data · · Score: 1

    Dude...how else do you think they've gotten the Unions to disintigrate?

    The general disparity of knowledge is part of the greater disparity between individuals and various corporate entities, including the government.  If Amazon wants to track me, well, I say I should get to track Amazon more, too.  Lots of data, publicly available to everyone *they* track.

  15. Re:We're not there yet... on Droughts Linked To Global Warming · · Score: 1

    It's not that a given temperature is "good" or "bad".  It's the extremely rapid rate of change (on a geologic scale) that is harmful to us.  1 degree C in a century is super fast--let alone 4 or 5.

    I agree largely with your second statement, however.

  16. Re:Why bother with a 4th amendment at all on TSA Doing Random Truck Searches On Tennessee Highway · · Score: 1

    No, it's not the liberals, it's supposedly "liberal" administration.  But really it's the same institutions no matter which "party" is in power.

    People who are very fearful *are* making it possible, however, and that is mostly people who call themselves conservatives.

  17. Why does it only work under Windows 7 then? on NVIDIA Launches 3D Vision 2 · · Score: 1

    I was using Nvidia's 3d technology in the year 2000 with my Riva TNT 2 card on Windows 95/98.

    Suddenly, you have to have Windows 7 to use this fancy new tech, and it has an extremely limited hardware list as well.

    Very boring, Nvidia.  Very boring, indeed.

  18. oblig. on Verizon's 'Can You Hear Me Now' Fleet Testing 4G · · Score: 1

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SkeGC-5gXQ

  19. Re:It can only get better... on Microsoft Finalizes Skype Acquisition · · Score: 1

    mod parent up

  20. Re:licenses on Oracle's Ambitious Plan For Client-Side Java · · Score: 1

    As long as it's performant, it doesn't matter.

    Performance has long been an issue with most Java apps, however.  But resouce usage on the client should not be too important since your application is the only thing the system will be used for.

    Security matters as well, but that's generally down to your software design skills, and not he language used.

  21. Re:carpool discount, possible reason for the camer on Big Brother Calls 'Shotgun' In Illinois · · Score: 1

    You would accept removing the cover every time  you paid a toll?

    Christ, we are fucked.

  22. Re:Curious question, on Canadian Court Finds Website Scraping Infringes Copyright · · Score: 1

    Here you go:

    http://xkcd.com/810/

  23. Re:Shocking. on Senators Slam Firm For Online Background Check · · Score: 1

    If you have any pictures of yourself on your pseudonymous Facebook account, it is only a matter of time (and a fairly short time, too, I'll wager) before  your real identity is known.  Facial recognition has come a long way.

  24. No flights outside U.S. on Google Unveils Flight Search · · Score: 1

    First flight I tried:

    Sorry, locations outside the U.S. are currently not supported.

    Almost pointless, as far as I'm concerned.  I wonder why they would start this way?  Obviously they'll do it eventually...

  25. Hurt Locker is the Metallica of movies on Hurt Locker Lawsuits May Reach Canadians, Too · · Score: 1

    Just sayin'.