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  1. Re:Romney - VOTE FOR YOUR FUTURE on Ask Slashdot: Storing Items In a Sealed Chest For 25 Years? · · Score: 1

    nonsense, here in illinois we have several schemes to soak the poor for what little they have. One is the State Lottery, there are at least six more.

  2. Re:Endless hard disk on Ask Slashdot: Storing Items In a Sealed Chest For 25 Years? · · Score: 1

    we already have such archives that are pertetually on the net, like many of the text usenet discussions. It would be easier for several people in your class to run websites, and just mirror the archive. Allow new additions as people's life story has major events.

  3. Re:Traditional English Fruitcake on Ask Slashdot: Storing Items In a Sealed Chest For 25 Years? · · Score: 1

    actually, there is a protocol for VERY long term storage of fruitcake that has been already properly treated with alcohol. it is wrapped in an unbleached muslim cloth soaked in the same hard liquor, then the whole thiing "buried" in confectioner's sugar which is sealed into a metal case. Good for decades, sometimes more than a century.

  4. Re:Before you start throwing missiles on Harvard Study Suggests Drone Strikes Can Disrupt Terror Groups · · Score: 1

    Get a clue, a wedding in that country doesn't look like anything else, they are quite unique. The serious assertion is made that we are terrorizing the populace of that country for greed and political coin

  5. Re:Before you start throwing missiles on Harvard Study Suggests Drone Strikes Can Disrupt Terror Groups · · Score: 2

    wait a tick, bombing weddings with drones for political coin is terrorism. that would be the US government.

    executing people for not following the law, that's just ruthless theocracy

  6. nothing unusual on Ask Slashdot: Storing Items In a Sealed Chest For 25 Years? · · Score: 1

    that's only due to the 1, high salt content 2. dessication, not the other preservatives. Essentially the same things that make jerky last. nothing to see, move along

  7. Re:scotch on Ask Slashdot: Storing Items In a Sealed Chest For 25 Years? · · Score: 1

    whiskey at least won't deteriorate fast. Almost all wine actually loses flavor over the long haul, check out the "cellar years" to maturity, usually 8 to 15. However, there are a very few types that have the 50 to 100 year ranges, such as sweet Vouvray with a century maturation!

  8. Re:Jesus fucking Christ... on 12 Dead, 50 Injured at The Dark Knight Rises Showing In Colorado · · Score: 1

    hanging, excution by shooting, and public floggings were not considered cruel and unusual punishment when the words were penned. Old School is consitutional.

  9. Re:The movie was too violent for me on Movie Review: The Dark Knight Rises · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Let me help you with 18th century english comprehension. "well-regulated" meant "properly functioning"; i.e. to have a properly functioning militia the citizens need to be armed. The Second Amendment says nothing about being in an oraganized militia to have arms. The militia was every able-bodied male. even my Illinois state constituion defines it that way.

  10. Re:Amazing how he has the only solution! on Is It Time To End Our Love Affair With the QWERTY Keyboard? · · Score: 1

    you can have the same strain-relieving benefits by using a properly ergonomic QWERTY

  11. Re:dumb question on Interviews: Ask Physicist Giovanni Organtini About the Possible Higgs Boson Disc · · Score: 1

    nonsense, relativistic mass is a very real thing with real world consequences.

  12. U.S. Government, big drug cartel on Google Joining Fight Against Drug Cartels · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Federal agencies get funding from illegal narcotics when congress says no to programs, that's why our troops in Afghanistan protect drug lords, fields, shipments. Some federal reserve banks launder money for the cartels, that also big business. The victimless crimes that keep at least a third of the prison population are also fodder for the huge business of the prison systems. Therefore, the price of narcotics must be kept high and so the "war on drugs" escalates. We fight both sides of the "war on drugs", it's big money and agenda driver.

  13. Re:And The Source? on Modest Proposal For Stopping Hackers: Get Them Girlfriends · · Score: 1

    also, why all the heteronormativity?

    because gay IT guys get more sex than their straight counterparts

  14. Re:Many troll articles today on Modest Proposal For Stopping Hackers: Get Them Girlfriends · · Score: 1

    he won't be a robber if he stays in jail. jail is a big business in this country, talk like yours won't grow the bottom line

  15. probably the case with most terrorists too on Modest Proposal For Stopping Hackers: Get Them Girlfriends · · Score: 1

    I notice these religious whackjobs with harems are often able to goad single young men into blowing themselves or other things up

    get 'em a women

  16. irrelevant, it is not peace, it is enabling war

  17. Re:Laws of physics on Interviews: Ask Physicist Giovanni Organtini About the Possible Higgs Boson Disc · · Score: 2

    the so-called "laws of physics" are man-made constructs. Many have exceptions or are general guidelines (e.g. Ohm's Law vs. real materials which are not linear and some even have opposite properties of Ohm's law. So we alter the "laws of physics" all the time with new discoveries or better models.

  18. Re:dumb question on Interviews: Ask Physicist Giovanni Organtini About the Possible Higgs Boson Disc · · Score: 1

    Nonsense, photons have zero rest mass but non-zero relativistic mass. E=mC^2 will give you that relativistic mass given the photon's energy.

  19. The SSC would have taken protons to 20 TeV, for 40 TeV collisions, six times that of the LHC. It might have found new particles predicted by some variations of the Standard Model

  20. That's an excellent question, and the answer according to Standard Model is that the Higgs boson has no spin, is its own antiparticle, is CP-even, and has neither electric nor color charge.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_boson

  21. Re:Print the data on sheets of gold with a laser on A Million-Year Hard Disk · · Score: 1

    a shiny, easily melted or formed metal that's always been used as money as long as there was civilization? that's silly. big ten ton blocks of granite with deeply engraved letters, not portable, not scare to be valuable.

  22. Re:easy answer. on A Million-Year Hard Disk · · Score: 1

    it's shockingly right in many cases. the problem with linear A is we don't know what language it represents. we *can* read 5,000 year old language like proto-chinese pictograms.

  23. Re:terrible beauty: public domain in the modern wo on Ask Slashdot: How To Get Old Commercial Software To Be Open-Sourced? · · Score: 1

    But to formally *register* for copyright with the US government (separate matter from default copyright protection), copy of work is required.

  24. nonsense, the superpowers fought massive proxy wars with millions of casualties. The superpowers bully and wage war against smaller states. Nuclear weapons, enabling warfare, genocide, theft of resources.

  25. Re:terrible beauty: public domain in the modern wo on Ask Slashdot: How To Get Old Commercial Software To Be Open-Sourced? · · Score: 1

    The protection of "trade secrets", also known as "confidential information", is done by non-disclosure and non-compete clauses. Software is not automatically a trade secret. Software can be protected by copyright and patents. Software may be protected by certain parties releasing information by NDA or NC, but those not a party to those might leak, discover or receive such information.