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  1. Re:Programmable Number Plates on California Wants To Put E-Ads On License Plates · · Score: 1

    Who says I would hack my plate.
    Other peoples are much more fun!

  2. Boxing! on Study Shows Standing Up To Bullies Is Good For You · · Score: 2, Interesting

    My Dad tells me that when he was in school he had gotten into a fight. A teacher stopped the fight and took him and the other guy to the gym and put boxing gloves on them. They were then allowed to duke it out with supervision. After It was finished, they were good friends. The problem was solved.
    Now, in more "enlightened" times, we would never do this. Instead, we make sure the kids can't resolve conflicts until one day someone flips out and does the murdering. We even go on to suggest how this should happen by having mock attack "lock downs".
    I'm glad someone is starting to see reason.

  3. Re:Why not high school? on Too Many College Graduates? · · Score: 1

    Don't tell them about the degree and you can stack cans with the best of 'em.

  4. It's my bandwidth on FCC Moving To Retain Control of Net Neutrality · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why does the FCC have to step in and regulate. It's a simple matter of fraud and falls under the jurisdiction of the justice dept. I pay the ISP for my connection with a certain bandwidth. I choose to use that bandwidth to access youtube. What gives the ISP the right to throttle my bandwidth or charge the third party money for me to access their service. What this is about is the cable companies want to shut off access to these online services so they can compete with special for pay services like on demand movies. Its pay to play predatory monopoly business practices and has nothing to do in any way with net neutrality.

  5. They really don't care. on Don't Talk To Aliens, Warns Stephen Hawking · · Score: 1

    What do we have that aliens, capable of traveling between stars, would want.
    Gold --NO(more common in space, asteroids etc.)
    Platinum --NO(more common in space, asteroids etc.)
    Hydrogen/water --NO(more common in space comets etc.)
    Tritium etc. --NO(more common in space, solar wind etc.)
    A place to live. --NO(Earth has nasty creepy crawlies and aliens have ammonia for blood etc.; They might be robots -- Earth has nasty corrosive atmosphere, and electrolytes every where. Mercury might be better. )
    Our culture/knowledge. --NO(Earth has boring ignorant creatures with limited life span that only have pain and suffering to offer.)


    We just aren't that special or attractive to advanced civilizations.
    They just don't care.

  6. Re:As someone totally ignorant in this stuff on Ham Radio Still Growing In the iStuff Age · · Score: 1

    The originator station is responsible.

  7. Fixed that for you. on House of Commons Finds No Evidence of Tampering In Climate E-mails · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You want disaster? Try a 2 fluctuation C warming or cooling across all our most important foodbelts! Even a minor, persistent decline or increase in ecological carrying capacity will cause serious production issues.

    You want disaster? Try halving or doubling the amount of precipitation (rain and snow) available to a few dozen major watersheds across the globe. Even a minor, persistent decline or increase will lead to all kinds of resource conflicts, quite possibly even the shooting kind like is happening now.

    Bottom line? When you build a complex, resource-intensive society of ~7 billion people, and run that society really close to the margins of earth's natural carrying capacity (as we are today), then arbitrarily messing around with a bunch of climate parameters is a stupid idea. It might work out okay, or it might not.

    I am so bold as to to say, the conclusions of this type of research is stretched beyond what can safely be predicted of a chaotic system.
    The more bold claims are used by power mongers to take more control of peoples lives.
    People ought to be able to look for themselves how far the data is being stretched.

  8. What! on High Fructose Corn Syrup Causes Bigger Weight Gain In Rats · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    That it's EXACTLY THE SAME as regular sugar and IT'S FINE in moderation!

  9. Multi-platform C++ on Recommendations For C++/OpenGL Linux Tutorials? · · Score: 1

    Why it's an absolutely seamless transition.
    C++ is multi-platform.

    #include "stdafx.h"
    #include "resource.h"

    #define MAX_LOADSTRING 100

    // Global Variables:
    HINSTANCE hInst;                                // current instance
    TCHAR szTitle[MAX_LOADSTRING];                                // The title bar text
    TCHAR szWindowClass[MAX_LOADSTRING];                                // The title bar text

    // Foward declarations of functions included in this code module:
    ATOM                MyRegisterClass(HINSTANCE hInstance);
    BOOL                InitInstance(HINSTANCE, int);
    LRESULT CALLBACK    WndProc(HWND, UINT, WPARAM, LPARAM);
    LRESULT CALLBACK    About(HWND, UINT, WPARAM, LPARAM);

    int APIENTRY WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance,
                         HINSTANCE hPrevInstance,
                         LPSTR     lpCmdLine,
                         int       nCmdShow)
    {
         // TODO: Place code here.
        MSG msg;
        HACCEL hAccelTable;

        // Initialize global strings
        LoadString(hInstance, IDS_APP_TITLE, szTitle, MAX_LOADSTRING);
        LoadString(hInstance, IDC_XX, szWindowClass, MAX_LOADSTRING);
        MyRegisterClass(hInstance);

        // Perform application initialization:
        if (!InitInstance (hInstance, nCmdShow))
        {
            return FALSE;
        }

        hAccelTable = LoadAccelerators(hInstance, (LPCTSTR)IDC_XX);

        // Main message loop:
        while (GetMessage(&msg, NULL, 0, 0))
        {
            if (!TranslateAccelerator(msg.hwnd, hAccelTable, &msg))
            {
                TranslateMessage(&msg);
                DispatchMessage(&msg);
            }
        }

        return msg.wParam;
    }

  10. Re:so sick of this on LHC Will Be Shut Down In 2011 Because of "Mistake" · · Score: 1

    My skateboard has eight wheels.

  11. Re:isn't the memorial already in the public domain on Court Rules Photo of Memorial Violates Copyright · · Score: 1

    The army coup of engineers should have all of this Artists statues halled off and dumped in his front yard at his expense. He, after all, wanted to keep is art.

  12. Re:Am I alone or on How Slums Can Save the Planet · · Score: 1

    This is a model of a wonderful green community http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQSjyYRTDVM
    !!!WARNING this is hard to watch!!! Terrible suffering
    But I have come to realize that Detroit is a fricken SUPER UTOPIA!

  13. Re:Gov't for the people, by the people on US Government Poisoned Alcohol During Prohibition · · Score: 1

    This program is still enforce. Go to the hardware store and buy some "denatured"(POISONED) ethyl alcohol. It pisses me off that the solvent I need to use for cleaning engine parts etc. could be nontoxic but for a prohibition era law.

  14. Re:Chop Chop on Cellulosic Biofuel Finally Ready For the Road · · Score: 1

    No problem! We can grow it in the urban prairie.

  15. Re:First (cheap gas?) on Cellulosic Biofuel Finally Ready For the Road · · Score: 1

    Ah the how virtuous to have expensive gas.
    And now the guy that works at the gas station can't afford to drive to work.
    Advancement means cheaper better faster. This is what pulls us out of the mud.
    If switch grass can do this then that's awesome.
    That said corn ethanol is just playtime.

  16. Re:Ethanol is BAD for engines! on Cellulosic Biofuel Finally Ready For the Road · · Score: 1

    My engine has 200000 miles on it with 10% ethanol.

  17. Re:Well, duh (For sure No Anti-matter) on RHIC Finds Symmetry Transformations In Quark Soup · · Score: 1

    How do we know other galaxies and stars are not anti-matter. It's not like we can touch them and find out.
    Would it not be likely that thermal explosions could have sorted the two into far flung clumps in the early days of the universe.
    Interactions might not be observed if all of the clumps are already flying away from each other.

  18. We'll make great pets! on When Will AI Surpass Human Intelligence? · · Score: 1

    "...result in an outcome that's bad for humanity...and four estimated that probability was greater than 60% -- "regardless of whether the developer was private, military, or even open source."

    My friend says we're like the dinosaurs
    Only we are doing ourselves in
    Much faster than they
    Ever did
    We'll make great pets!
    We'll make great pets!
    --Porno for Pyros

  19. Temporary increase in profit ... on NY Times To Charge For Online Content · · Score: 1

    Temporary increase in profit at the expense or relevancy. I vaguely remember a radio talk show host. Howard something. He was very popular at one point but moved to XM radio for more money. I wonder what ever happened to him.

  20. The future sux and everyone's an A-hole. on Has Sci-Fi Run Out of Steam? · · Score: 1

    How often does Sci-Fi venture outside of the genre "The future sux and everyone's an A-hole". Usually the plot could be in any setting. Just swap the scenery. From horses in the old west, Ships at sea, etc. to Space ships with ray guns. Or LA-triot gang world to seedy space station.

    Sci-Fi can be good with situations completely impossible in other types of writing, but no one puts the work into it. It would also help if some of the people doing the writing were scientist or at least versed in modern science.

  21. Re:installed versus auto-start on Who Installs the Most Crapware? · · Score: 1

    The only reason to have your program start and consume memory and processor cycles all the time is to monitor your actions and send data home to daddy.

  22. Re:Could a Meteor Have Brought Down Air France 447 on Could a Meteor Have Brought Down Air France 447? · · Score: 1

    No, http://www.spaceweather.com/glossary/nasameteorradar.html
    It would have been near midnight there. It would be more likely in the morning hours.

  23. CAN buss on You've Dropped Your Landline — Now What? · · Score: 1

    Controller area network is a two wire communication protocol. It it usually run on a twisted pair but try it out.

  24. make an offer on Buying a Domain From a Cybersquatter · · Score: 1

    make an offer and be willing to walk away.

  25. People must notice the block. on Twitter, Flickr, Hotmail, Others Blocked In China · · Score: 1

    Doesn't it draw more attention to it when these sites are blocked. The imagination usually fills a vacuum with a bigger more damning picture than reality. If they did nothing it would likely be ignored.