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  1. Re:Does he have all the best gearr on Man "Beats" World of Warcraft · · Score: 1

    He doesn't have the BB King achievement in Winter Veil for World Events. He isn't done yet.

  2. Re:Codenames on Intel Shows 48-Core x86 Processor · · Score: 1

    Bangor is in Washington

  3. Re:$5/machine? Depends on the machine... on SETI@Home Install Leads To School Tech Supervisor's Resignation · · Score: 4, Funny

    What if the aliens have a cure? Duh.

  4. It's a joke. Laugh. on Canadian Blood Services Promotes Pseudoscience · · Score: 5, Funny

    I find that mostly the people who buy into these things are either Libras or Scorpios. Us Virgos don't fall for all that bunk.

  5. Re:obligatory on Scientology Charged With Slavery, Human Trafficking · · Score: 1

    It makes me wonder where they really get messages from "Anonymous." Do they troll /b/?

  6. Re:Touch screens and the like on Apple vs. Microsoft Multi-Touch Mouse Comparison · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Us old folk might think "tech-savvy" is a bit generous for you iPhone-using youngsters.

  7. Re:Honestly on Brazilian Breaks Secrecy of Brazil's E-Voting Machines With Van Eck Phreaking · · Score: 3, Informative

    Of course, use LCDs, as the CRT circuitry is the bad one.

    Wikipedia would disagree with an annoying PDF.

  8. In addition to a Faraday cage as you suggest, the NSA recommends scrambling the least significant bit of the image to increase the difficulty of descrambling.

  9. Re:What? on Federal Judge Says Corps of Engineers Liable For Katrina Damage · · Score: 1, Funny

    Never fear, socialism is here!

  10. Re:Water on moon, why not uranium? on CERN Physicist Warns About Uranium Shortage · · Score: 1

    We could always bring the entire moon down onto the surface of the earth. Eliminates the shipping problem.

  11. Re:Water on moon, why not uranium? on CERN Physicist Warns About Uranium Shortage · · Score: 1

    I meant with regard to the fact that it discusses the feasibility of mining on the moon in great detail. It will not be less complex to mine and refine uranium-235/238 than helium-3.

    Additionally, is it bad that I got confused when he said he was getting glibc?

  12. Re:Water on moon, why not uranium? on CERN Physicist Warns About Uranium Shortage · · Score: 1

    You may find this informative.

  13. Re:Its time to think about the future, not the pas on Copyright Time Bomb Set To Go Off · · Score: 1

    I did it all for the cookie.

  14. Re:The alien god on Vatican Debates Possibility of Alien Life · · Score: 1

    Maybe he just has a different version of nice.

  15. Re:Problematical on URL Shorteners Get Some Backup · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Little known fact, but Fergie's original lyrics used "problematicalisticious," but the studio had her change it.

  16. Re:The alien god on Vatican Debates Possibility of Alien Life · · Score: 1

    Well, maybe God just has a different version of coal. It's on steroids.

  17. Re:So the bullshitters change their story. on Vatican Debates Possibility of Alien Life · · Score: 4, Informative

    People are leaving that organization in droves.

    I would beg to differ. Several top Google hits suggest that they are growing, but at a rate less than the world population. Thus, as a percentage of world population, Catholocism is shrinking, but it's still growing in numbers. People are not, as you suggest, leaving it in droves.

    Another great statistic I just found was that an average of 171,000 Christians are "martyred" for their faith every year. That's pretty wild! I'd make a joke about some well-fed Roman lions, but that would be in very poor taste.

  18. Re:Spread the word! on Vatican Debates Possibility of Alien Life · · Score: 1

    Typically these questions are patently absurd, such as the ones you mention. The fact there there is a debate in the Catholic Church about something at all is typically a good indicator that the vast majority of the world has already recognized the truth. For example, your examples.

  19. Re:Of course, there is another solution on Vatican Debates Possibility of Alien Life · · Score: 1

    It might be a stretch to define science as the knowledge of all things.

  20. Re:Of course, there is another solution on Vatican Debates Possibility of Alien Life · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you believe that's a valid argument, then I've got a tiger-repellent rock to sell you.

  21. Re:Good on MS on Microsoft Takes Responsibility For GPL Violation · · Score: 1

    Sometimes I find it tedious to have to sift through dozens of ports of popular open source software to find a premade version for my particular flavor of linux, should it not be readily available in my distro's repository. It makes me reconsider my operating system of choice.

    Then I hear stories like this.

  22. Re:I can't tell if you are being sarcastic or not. on City Laws Only Available Via $200 License · · Score: 1

    ... did not say that 1/10th or even 1/100th of the people in jail should be guilty!

    I've tried, I really have. I just cannot understand what you're saying. I think I know what you're trying to say, but your words are not bringing you there.

    I know that the common interpretation of that quote is letting guilty people go free to prevent imprisoning the innocent, but as I have already discussed, the logical extrapolation is how many guilty can go free before imprisoning an innocent? That is what I am getting at.

    I think there should be no limit, that no innocent should be imprisoned. Blackstone clearly differs in that 10 guilty should go free per innocent. If you'd read that link, you'd see the construction of this argument in more detail.

    Really, though, it's an entirely academic debate. There is no magical metric of law that lets 10 guilty people free per innocent or something. The law pretty much lets the rich free and imprisons the poor. But that's an entirely different debate.

  23. Re:I can't tell if you are being sarcastic or not. on City Laws Only Available Via $200 License · · Score: 1

    Well, if you say that 10 guilty go free per innocent, then 11 guilty would be too many. Therefore, for every 11 guilty people punished, there should be one innocent punished. I know it's a bit of an explicitly literal interpretation, but that aspect of that quote has always bothered me. It seems to imply that there's some upper limit on the number of guilty to go free per innocent. The link I used goes into much more detail here.

    I would suggest that we should have no limit on the number of guilty to go free per innocent. But that's not really going to happen. It still hold that it's stupid that the system has to be this way.

    It would be nice if everyone was just honest all the time. And it rained donuts. And I won the lottery. Shame that won't happen.

  24. Re:I can't tell if you are being sarcastic or not. on City Laws Only Available Via $200 License · · Score: 2, Informative

    Our justice system is built on the premise that it is better to let 10 guilty people go free than to punish one innocent person.

    So, something like 9% of prisoners in jail being innocent is a good target? I believe the quote you were referring to was actually:

    Better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer

    - English jurist William Blackstone, from a UCLA page

    Which is stupid. There should be no innocent people in jail. Period. People spend their lives in prison for crimes they didn't commit, because the legal system is mass producing justice. It's not good.

  25. Re:30 seconds on Intel's New E-Reader For the Visually Impaired · · Score: 1

    I believe you may be confusing blindness with no light perception.