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  1. Re:Inquisition on Lawmakers Seek Information On Funding For Climate Change Critics · · Score: 1

    Great. So you come up with a solution to AGW...

    But let me guess, you conveniently reject the science.

  2. Re:Steps to winning a failed argument: on Lawmakers Seek Information On Funding For Climate Change Critics · · Score: 1

    The Koch Brigade is out in force today.

  3. Re:Inquisition on Lawmakers Seek Information On Funding For Climate Change Critics · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So investigating a conflict of interest is now "going after citizens"?

  4. Re:Inquisition on Lawmakers Seek Information On Funding For Climate Change Critics · · Score: 1

    I'm not clear as to what you are referring to. What "smells like fascism"?

  5. Re:Government-Funded AGW on Lawmakers Seek Information On Funding For Climate Change Critics · · Score: 1

    Yes, governments.

  6. Re:Seriously? on Lawmakers Seek Information On Funding For Climate Change Critics · · Score: 1

    Who is jackbooting anyone? Last time I checked, it was the psuedo-skeptics who were comparing scientists to child molesters.

  7. Re:Inquisition on Lawmakers Seek Information On Funding For Climate Change Critics · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I see, so pseudo-skeptics can be as shrill and hyperbolic as they please, and that's just fine, but the scientific community is just supposed to endlessly take it up the rear.

    What are you afraid of? That it will turn out most of the shit people like you believe is bullcrap invented by the Koch Brothers?

  8. Re:Oh great ... on Google Now Automatically Converts Flash Ads To HTML5 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'd rather go to a "Autoplay site owners should be beaten into comas" model, myself.

  9. Re: Don't buy it on The Case Against E-readers -- Why Digital Natives Prefer Reading On Paper · · Score: 1

    Sigh.... I need the blinking "This Is Irony" sign.

  10. Re:Don't buy it on The Case Against E-readers -- Why Digital Natives Prefer Reading On Paper · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't be a silly bastard. If you did that, you would get the actual answer to the question you're posing, and not the answer you want.

    Jesus, what a unsophisticated provincial type you are.

  11. Re:As a millenial on The Case Against E-readers -- Why Digital Natives Prefer Reading On Paper · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I read at least two novels a month (sometimes more if I get the time) on my tablet and my phone. Most of my reading is on my tablet, because it's a 7" and a damned good size to read on, but when I'm on the road, I'll use my phone. The app syncs between the two so I can swap between the two. I generally use the Kobo app, and by and large it hides the status bar at the top so I'm not bothered by incoming emails. I've never had a problem.

    Actually, the very first book I read on a portable device was a crappy little LG Keybo feature phone that I installed a nice little J2ME reader on. The font size was punched up a bit so I usually only got a paragraph of text per screen, but still didn't have any problem.

    I'll be honest, I haven't bought a physical book in over a year. Even the technical books; a Powershell book and the OpenVPN official manual, are all eBooks.

  12. Re:good bye to US datacenters on NSA Director Wants Legal Right To Snoop On Encrypted Data · · Score: 1

    If I'm encrypting my data with my own keys, how exactly, other than brute force, is the NSA going to get access to the data?

    If I was to use an online service like, say, Dropbox or Google Drive, to story confidential data, it would be to use them simply as file storage. The files themselves would be locked down by my own keys, which would not be stored on these companies' servers.

  13. Re:Not unambiguously bad on Only Twice Have Nations Banned a Weapon Before It Was Used; They May Do It Again · · Score: 1

    Kirk interfered with lots of alien women, so why not alien cultures? The guy is as a walking talking monkey kicking fuck machine, and he knew that the Prime Directive was for sexless pinko pussies. "You are not of the body!" "Fuck you Landru. Once I'm done screwing your women and your culture, in that precise order, it's phasers on kill for your computer tape machine ass!"

  14. Re:visibility doesnt matter. on Al-Shabaab Video Threat Means Heightened Security at Mall of America · · Score: 1

    Perhaps it has something to do with the difficulty, particularly in Western countries with as strong a set of protections of free expression as the First Amendment, of actively censoring anyone. I personally refuse to watch ISIS videos of people being beheaded or burned alive, and I have a dim view of those that do, but I'm not sure I like the idea of anything other than a voluntary take down of these awful videos.

    Beyond that, of course, is the sheer impracticality of ever hoping to take down any more than a fraction of these kinds of videos. Sure, you can seize some sites, but there are so many ways that terrorists can get their torture porn on the web that it's literally a game of whack the mole, with thousands of moles.

  15. Re:It looks like on Al-Shabaab Video Threat Means Heightened Security at Mall of America · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Oh come on. Even during the Blitz, Britons made jokes about the Germans. Humor is how people cope with stressful situations, and it is a hell of a lot better a way to deal with terrorist threats than running around screaming your fool head off, or worse, in some ways, become a hyper-serious worry wort believing at any moment you're going to die in some terrorist bomber's explosion.

  16. Re:It was a movie--duh on Why Hollywood Fudged the Relativity-Based Wormhole Scenes In Interstellar · · Score: 1

    I would have found Anne Hathaway's character's story more interesting than McConaughey's story. McConaughey's storyline is more like Frank Poole's, and about as interesting.

  17. Re:It was a movie--duh on Why Hollywood Fudged the Relativity-Based Wormhole Scenes In Interstellar · · Score: 1

    I thought it was a shitty rewrite of 2001. I was completely disappointed by the film. If they'd cut 30 minutes off of it, at least one could not have accused it of being overly long.

  18. Re:The lesson here on Lenovo To Wipe Superfish Off PCs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They're taking steps to fix the situation, after having been busted putting spyware on them. That doesn't exactly make them sound honorable.

  19. Re:Us vs them on How "Omnipotent" Hackers Tied To NSA Hid For 14 Years and Were Found At Last · · Score: 3, Funny

    I didn't mean to upset the Michael Bay fans. I know how they all think Pearl Harbor is the highest achievement in cinema history, apart from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.

  20. Re:Us vs them on How "Omnipotent" Hackers Tied To NSA Hid For 14 Years and Were Found At Last · · Score: 4, Funny

    Let's face it. If you're a Michael Bay fan, The Interview probably would come off as high art.

  21. Re:Now they just need intensity from the actors. on Star Trek Continues Meets Kickstarter Goal, Aims For Stretch Goals · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I watched Doomsday Machine a few months ago, and within 5 minutes I'd forgotten about the mid 60s sets and effects. The story and acting was that good.

  22. Re:More liberal than libertarian on Low Vaccination Rates At Silicon Valley Daycare Facilities · · Score: 1

    Infants are sickly?

    I have a feeling you're an undiagnosed sociopath.

  23. Re:More liberal than libertarian on Low Vaccination Rates At Silicon Valley Daycare Facilities · · Score: 1

    "You're free to do whatever you want!"
    "Great, I'm going to drive down a crowded sidewalk in a Hummer at 90mph."
    "That was really stupid why did you do that, go to jail!"

    You see, there's no such thing as absolute liberties.

  24. Re:More liberal than libertarian on Low Vaccination Rates At Silicon Valley Daycare Facilities · · Score: 1

    Because children too young to be vaccinated are some sort of selfish interest group out to steal your liberties...

  25. Re:Sure, 8 million tons, but that's the free marke on Study: 8 Million Metric Tons of Plastic Dumped Into Oceans Annually · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, you're quite right. All that really counts is money, so providing someone is making money by not dealing with plastic trash entering waterways, that's good. Aquatic life, future generations, they don't really make us that much money, so fuck them, each and every one.