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  1. Re:I finally understand.... on FISC Chief Judge: We Can't Effectively Oversee the NSA · · Score: 4, Funny

    Finley Dunne, American writer and humorist: "Justice is blind an' deaf an' dumb, an' has a wooden leg".

  2. Re:Is it really? on Debian Turns 20 · · Score: 1

    (note: use of "superior" above is totally sarcastic)

  3. Re:Is it really? on Debian Turns 20 · · Score: 2

    funny, at work the clamav has caught java jar vulnerabilities and malware our superior proprietary tools missed, and it isn't yet at 1.0

  4. Re:One of the best on Debian Turns 20 · · Score: 2

    said the anonymous coward. Meanwhile, I really do admin over 400 production servers of various distros (and a little Unix and windows too), some run by groups with Ubuntu server and I have indeed seen the folly of using that bleeding edge distro

  5. Re:Fact. on Why Weather Control Conspiracy Theories Are Scientifically Ludicrous · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I live very close to Chicago (less than five miles and O'Hare (which is #1 or #2 of world's busiest airport depending on year). some days many contrails happen to look like grid pattern just because so many jets fly in different directions. But all made by different jets, not a single jet passing back and forth. Since a contrail is just a cloud, whether visible or whether it lingers depends whether a cloud at that same altitude would linger. that could be a short time, could be a long time.

    In illinois there were indeed experiments done with cloud seeding with silver iodide, even into the 1980s. Not done from jets, but you can read about them online, they were small experiments and downstate not near chicago. *yawn*

    in short, nothing suspicious regarding contrails seen in half a century by me and I am aviation buff. This year's airshow in Chicago to be a bit strange due to lack of military craft. see you there

  6. Re:Aha! on Bone-Eating Worms Found In Antarctic Waters · · Score: 2

    plenty of slashdotters use the sriracha like most americans use ketchup

  7. Re:One of the best on Debian Turns 20 · · Score: 1

    stability and massive amounts of testing are valued on production servers. if you're running latest bleeding edge releases of either kernel or langauge or major server packages you *will* have problems

  8. Re:Is it really? on Debian Turns 20 · · Score: 4, Informative

    wrong, 0.01 was released August 1993 and was usable

    in fact, if you are referring to the 1.0 release in 1995 that had the bad CD with wrong stuff on it

  9. Re:Have they fixed their "Firefox" problem yet? on Debian Turns 20 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    just download the latest tarball from mozilla and unpack it into a directory like /local or /opt, then run firefox/firefox on that path what's the big deal?

    http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/

  10. Re:I've been wondering about something on New Treatment From Australia For All Cancers · · Score: 1

    you might lose 99% of all patients.

    plenty of people don't seek modern cancer treatment, ask Steve Jobs how that went for him

  11. Re:SCIENCE! on New Treatment From Australia For All Cancers · · Score: 1

    wood is not leaves from the "nightshade" family of plants

  12. Re:SCIENCE! on New Treatment From Australia For All Cancers · · Score: 1

    not in the mass quantities of today's two and three pack a day smokers, and not with the chemicals used for processing

  13. Re:What is this stuff? on New Treatment From Australia For All Cancers · · Score: 2

    the rats in my country hold public office

  14. Re: evils of sugar on Study Ties High Blood Sugar To Dementia · · Score: 1

    I think you'd find an asian diet with brown rice, veggies and fruits, and a little lean meat (6 oz or less a day) would shed the pounds too

  15. Re: evils of sugar on Study Ties High Blood Sugar To Dementia · · Score: 1

    wonder if real wheat is a problem, what we call "wheat" in the USA is a sixfold genome bioengineered franken-wheat.

  16. Re:Wow on Area 51 No Longer (Officially) a Secret · · Score: 1

    the width part not a problem (assuming pilot with brass cajones), the U2's had widths from 80' 2" to 104' 9".....C130 with 133' wingspans can land and take off from carriers.

  17. Re:What is it with momentum wheels, anyway? on NASA Abandons Kepler Repairs, Looks To the Future · · Score: 1

    it's the hard drive problem, which for gyroscopes and such in space has been going on for over 40 years. we can make a batch of such systems such that some last for years, but some will fail before then. Kepler won the lottery.

  18. Re:SCIENCE! on New Treatment From Australia For All Cancers · · Score: 1

    no, a Prince Arjuna is worried about whether to attack an enemy or not. Vishnu appears incarnated as Krishna and converses with him.

    (Arjuna): Tell me who are You in such a fierce form? My salutations to You, O best of gods, be merciful! I wish to understand You, the primal Being, because I do not know Your mission.

    The Supreme Lord Vishnu said, I am death, the mighty destroyer of the world, out to destroy. Even without your participation all the warriors standing arrayed in the opposing armies shall cease to exist.

    Therefore, get up and attain glory. Conquer your enemies and enjoy a prosperous kingdom. All these (warriors) have already been destroyed by Me. You are only an instrument, O Arjuna.

  19. a fix on NASA Abandons Kepler Repairs, Looks To the Future · · Score: 4, Interesting

    deploy another gyroscope and rpg in a package that can be attached to Kepler, a practice run for comet sampling missions

  20. Re:2 gyroscopes left... on NASA Abandons Kepler Repairs, Looks To the Future · · Score: 2

    useless for finding the very slight variations in brightness on a pixel and nearest neighbors when compared to same over month or more than a year, on which kepler's detection methods depend.

  21. Re:SCIENCE! on New Treatment From Australia For All Cancers · · Score: 1

    yes, the processes and machinery used are very much the products of science. do you imagine modern agriculture, machinery and chemical reactors are not?

  22. Re:SCIENCE! on New Treatment From Australia For All Cancers · · Score: 1

    wrong, there is evidence of what you say in recent decades, but the whole time period of which I spoke tells a different story. Let's use one example, the mass production of cigarettes, before which people hand rolled a few smokes a day....

  23. Re: evils of sugar on Study Ties High Blood Sugar To Dementia · · Score: 1

    but the healthiest groups of people in the world don't follow that high-fat diet. Rather, complex carbs, little simple carbs, some protein, some fat and much fiber. or if you're French, add more sugar and some wine.

  24. Re:SCIENCE! on New Treatment From Australia For All Cancers · · Score: 0

    rather ironic phrase, since the massive increase in the rate of cancers over the last two centuries is entirely due to products that are the results of science

  25. Re:SCIENCE! on New Treatment From Australia For All Cancers · · Score: 5, Informative

    that actually was a quote of Vishnu in the Hindu scriptures Bhagavad-Gita.