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  1. Huh? https://arcticwwf.org/species/... and huh? https://polarbearsinternationa... Fact check, Blenkinsop, fact check.

  2. Logic does not work how you think it works.

  3. Global warming predicts a less stable climate with more severe extremes, so yeah...you point?

  4. Re: What if... on Global Warming Could Exceed 1.5C Within Five Years, Report Says (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You are called a denier because your reasoning is identical to that of other types of denier. And whining about ad hominem and then banging in about "Marxist echo chamber at school" is pure absence of self-awareness.

  5. Re:What if... on Global Warming Could Exceed 1.5C Within Five Years, Report Says (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In *your part* of Canada. They are moving, because their habitat is being destroyed. By climate change.

  6. Played like a cheap violin.

  7. Crikey.... on Legend of Loch Ness Monster Will Be Tested With DNA Samples (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    ....I didn't know shadows and reflections had DNA.

  8. Standards you say? on How PR Subverts Wikipedia · · Score: 0
    the rigorous checks and standards put in place by its hierarchy of editors and admins

    When you say "rigorous.....

  9. This item... on Will Apple's Lion Roar For Business? · · Score: 1

    ...appears to rest on the posit that Apple cares about IT managers, rather than wishes to eliminate them as a class, Kulak style.

  10. The could do that... on US Navy Creates MMO To Fight Somali Pirates · · Score: 1

    ...or they could just implement a proper convoy system

  11. Re:Nice conspiracy theory, but... on The Real Reason Apple Is Suing Samsung · · Score: 1
    You seriously believe a company like Apple cannot ramp up production if there is demand?

    Learn the concept of marginal returns. I am quite certain Apple could buy up more production capacity. I am equally certain it could not do so in an economically viable way. Not all demand is profitable. The other makers are equally constrained, which is why none of them can produce a viable tablet to compete on price with iPad.

  12. Re:If Google bought music labels on Why Google Should Buy the Music Industry · · Score: 1
    Google sells eyeballs to advertisers.

    What about those of us who don't want our eyeballs sold?

  13. Re:Right on. He's an idiot. on Why Mac OS X Is Unsuitable For Web Development · · Score: 1
    This clown should be catapulted into the sun.

    Actually, catapulting something into The Sun is much harder than it looks. Just sayin'...

  14. Re:Hilarious on Safari/MacBook First To Fall At Pwn2Own 2011 · · Score: 1
    Since when is "virus takes out small company's computers" a story that shows up on the news?

    Are you serious? You don't think Gizmodo, Engadget, Ars, and all the rest wouldn't be all over this like a rash? And Giz has a track record of paying cold hard cash for stories...

  15. Re:Hilarious on Safari/MacBook First To Fall At Pwn2Own 2011 · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Yet oddly, this amazing event didn't make the news.

    I suspect your pants are on fire.

  16. Trolling in the OP, now? on Safari/MacBook First To Fall At Pwn2Own 2011 · · Score: 0
    Apple has just released Safari 5.0.4 and iOS 4.3 a few minutes before the Pwn2Own contest in an attempt to save face

    Yes. I'm sure dissing pose2own was foremost in Apple's thinking when planning its release schedule.

  17. Re:Peer review is broken on The Encroachment of Fact-Free Science · · Score: 1
    But then they "prove" that it doesn't.

    No, they showed that it is less effective at primary prevention the previously supposed, (but still very effective at secondary prevention).

    The trick is to develop the hypothesis properly. Also, there is a lot more to "proving" than a null hypothesis - that is just a useful logical device, especially when using statisitcal significance as a metric (as well as helping to check that the hypothesis is amenable to falsification).

    And the statins I take are generic and long out of patent, so "big pharma" is way past caring about them.

    Real science is hard and takes time. What is taught in a few paragraphs today took Newton a lifetime to perceive.

  18. Re:Peer review is broken on The Encroachment of Fact-Free Science · · Score: 1
    Things are getting more difficult to prove.

    Only if you use the mathematical definition of proof, which science does not.

    "Proof" in science, is more-or-less synonymous with "test". As in proving grounds, proof-spirit, the exception that proves (ie tests the limit of) the rule...

  19. Re:Generic Trademarks on If App Store's Trademark Is Generic, So Is Windows' · · Score: 1

    Indeed - so it isn't generic is the way the geekerati assert.

  20. Re:Generic Trademarks on If App Store's Trademark Is Generic, So Is Windows' · · Score: 2
    However, when you say the word "App Store", I think that conjures up images of just about any sort of app stores that we have nowadays - Palm's, Blackberry's, Windows Phone's Android's, etc

    That is rather Apple's point: the others are living off the goodwill created by Apple's innovation ("passing off", in the parlance). ie, Apple's argument is that it has become generic because others lifted it. And I believe US trademark law operates on a "use it or lose it" principle that requires trademarks to be defended actively.

    Also, I would bet a reasonable amount of cash that if you did a survey of non-geek smartphone users, most would think "iPhone" to the prompt "App store".

  21. Re:It was just a matter of time on Backdoor Trojan For Windows Ported To Mac OS · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up!

  22. Re:It was just a matter of time on Backdoor Trojan For Windows Ported To Mac OS · · Score: 1
    but what are all those mutations if not evolution in action?

    Coders, coding. Or "God" if you prefer. Computer viruses: the creationists' wet dream.

  23. Re:It was just a matter of time on Backdoor Trojan For Windows Ported To Mac OS · · Score: 2

    Consensus according to whom? Your evidence is?

  24. Re:It was just a matter of time on Backdoor Trojan For Windows Ported To Mac OS · · Score: 1, Insightful
    The medical model for disease works for computer viruses too.

    Except it doesn't. Biological viruses are not driven by self-aware controllers with a financial interest, nor do they evolve in the biological sense.

    But apart from that, a sound analogy.

  25. Re:Or... on Backdoor Trojan For Windows Ported To Mac OS · · Score: 3, Informative
    I didn't say they wrote it.

    But Sophos has pushed out alarmist trolling press releases every quarter or so for years now all implying how OSX is about to be hit by a tidal wave of viruses, worms etc (other sites have credited Sophos as the source of this story - not Slashdot though, it seems.