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  1. Re:I agree on Will Your Answers To the Census Stay Private? · · Score: 1
    According to TFA: "James Bovard, who worked as a census taker in 1980, is ... a policy adviser to the Future of Freedom Foundation."

    From the FFF website: "for well over a century, the American people said "No" to such anti-free-market government policies as income taxation, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, welfare, immigration controls, economic regulations, drug laws, gun control, public schooling, and foreign wars...The time has come for us to reevaluate our relationship to our government — to repeal, not reform, these immoral and destructive government programs"

    None of that changes the facts of this matter, but like you, I'm not very happy about the company I'm keeping right now.

  2. Re:My issue with it on Computer Buying Experiences at B&M Stores · · Score: 1

    That's a good idea. Instead of using my weekend to shop, you know I think I'll just leave work a little early today. Why don't some of you sterile losers cover for me. Thanks a bunch.

  3. Re:From the non-tech perspective on What Would You Demand From Your IT Department? · · Score: 1

    This is why IT people aren't taken seriously. The parent asked for a reasonably secure system against outside access and you're proposing some ridiculous CIA-field-obscured-until-mouseover display - FOR A DOCTOR. Do you think a doctor might need to see more than one data point at a time? The only thing sadder than the post is the fact that it's rated +5.

  4. Re:Tomography on Three-Dimensional Structure of HIV Revealed · · Score: 1

    The data set is a collection of electron microscope images. Purified samples of the HIV in an aqueous solution are deposited on a grid and snap-frozen in liquid ethane. The rapid freezing produces vitreous (no crystals) ice which is suitable for imaging. The grids are imaged at tilts up to 60 or 70 degrees (-68, +64 in this case) and the tilt images are combined after aligning based on fiducial markers (small gold particles, necessary because there is always some shift in the field of view as the grid is tilted.) After aligning, the 2-dimensional projections are combined into a 3-d volume using IMOD. This processing could be done on a desktop, but a small cluster is more useful.

  5. Re:Suggestion: Pepperdine. Or Biola. on UCLA Students Urged to Expose 'Radical' Professors · · Score: 1

    There's no "point of view" about ID. Either you're right or you accept it. Denying evolution in a biology class is like denying gravity in a physics class. This is the problem with POV-neutrality - too many stupid people seem to think that they have a right to their own point of view.

  6. Re:Temporary Closing on Washington Post Shuts Down Blog · · Score: 1

    The problem here is that the decision to cut off the blog until the hooligans "just go away" is reflective of the underlying incompetence. The Post is apparently in way over it's head if the only game plan the adminstrators can come up with is to hide until the bullies leave. I think a political blog that has to go dark whenever a controversial issue comes along is not going to be very useful, eh?

  7. Re:sports viewing without commentators? on OpenTV Like TiVo on Steroids · · Score: 1