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  1. Let's be logical on US Army To Transport American Ebola Victim To Atlanta Hospital From Liberia · · Score: 1

    2 contagious people being looked after by well trained and equipped people...

    Now where is the panic
    30000 die on our roads every year and yet everybody thinks its a good idea to be on the road.
    Don't know how many hundreds or thousand die by accidental bullets...like this kid who died a couple of days back just being in bed and a bullet came in through the wall from the street....highly communicable death...and yet we live in neighborhood loaded with loaded guns and no panic yet !

    What can go wrong ...okay all the people treating these guys in the contained ward may die...much less than 30000 say !!!

  2. Re:I think this is bullshit on Brendan Eich Steps Down As Mozilla CEO · · Score: 1

    Indeed a true libertarian would have said ...government is in no business of recognizing any marriage ..
    wherether gay, straight, old couples, multiple people, people and dogs etc...

    what have making kids to do with marriage...old people marry so why not gay...
    why prevent 3 or 4 people in a loving relationship be not allowed to be married because some of us cannot understand it ?

    The simplest solution..let people do what they want as it is not our business and not the government's one too.

  3. Re:This cost NASA $670 M, at a time when Congress on MAVEN Ready To Launch Today · · Score: 1

    Which in turn cost ~1% of NSA's budget $50B and they can't keep a secret !

  4. Fiscal conservatives cannot do math on Slashdot Asks: How Does the US Gov't Budget Crunch Affect You? · · Score: 2

    Fiscal conservtives are trying to save money supposedly ...close the guvmint damn it because the deficit is too large...and yet they voted yesterday ..
    all of them ...the centrist to the righties...(there are no elected lefties in the US except for may be the Vermont Senator)
    to pay and make us stay home...
    Yup great fiscal conservatism. ...its like trying to drown a carp !

    The problem is not government it is idiots running the government.

  5. Re:I'm sure the Jews in Germany though... on EFF Sues NSA, Justice Department, FBI · · Score: 1

    The IRS targetting of tea party was finally found to be bogus there was no explicit tilt in targetting as of last and it was the media only reporting what initially appeared to be ...but forgot to follow on when no simplistic story line was found.

    A good and free press is necessary in a democracy ...not just a free press....otherwise they are free to report only on the royal baby or juicy event and forget to tell you what really is happening with people in power

  6. should not all of us get drunk and drive on NTSB Recommends Lower Drunk Driving Threshold Nationwide: 0.05 BAC · · Score: 1

    If say 30% of accident are caused by drunks ...70% are caused by sober people...thus sober are more dangerous than drunks
    thus having everybody drunk will reduce accident rate right ?

    Just joking though ..it is no joke for those who have lost people in drunk driving accidents.

  7. Re:Fat, squat, and stupid on Mayan Pyramid In Belize Leveled By Construction Crew · · Score: 1

    And that i am sure you include in your description the white folks in Arizona who ground the petrified trees in the petrified forest region for use as industrial abrasive material.
     

  8. too late ! on John McCain Working On Legislation For 'a La Carte' TV Channel Packages · · Score: 1

    You tube is coming with specialized channels at $ 1 per month (hopefully i'll get all the sports i'm interested like world-football/ MLS etc) along with netflix/amazon-prime for series/movies (i don't care if i am a few season behind) ...i'm good.

  9. Re:bollocks on US Senate Passes Internet Tax Bill 69 To 27 · · Score: 1

    For many people...

    Socialism == Communism == Totalitarianism

    Using the same standard
    I wonder why
    democracy != corruption / bad governance ...as in Democratic Republic of Congo for e.g

    or

    capitatlism != despotism/corrupt

    as in Franco/Pinochet etc etc

  10. Re:Please Explain on Gmail Drops Support for Connecting To Pop3 Servers With Self -Signed Certs · · Score: 2

    It is the reverse they are talking about..
    Using gmail to check your other e-mails on other servers using POP-3 (as an individual user you are allowed 5 different of such connections)...This is not about reading your gmail mail in your favorite e-mail program.

     

  11. Re:Bureaucracy on Solar Panels For Every Home? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Indeed as usual ...we should fix what is not working...free market without control and checks will just kill people they don't need.
    E.g the tunnel in Japan that just collapsed...private toll paid tunnel.

  12. Please don't mix things on Alan Cox to NVIDIA: You Can't Use DMA-BUF · · Score: 2

    0) People chose GPL v2 for the kernel for very good reasons and the sheer success of it from phones to all Top 500 clusters is proof ..nuf said on that.
    1) You can use LGPL if you want to release code that is GPL but allow people to link with proprietary blob but without forbidding users to see and modify the LGPL code.
    2) Linux kernel is GPL V2.0 licensed not LGPL...so if you want to bind to it and release the binary then you have to release the code under GPL V2 of your stuff that is calling the kernel stuff...you don't need to contact any body if you abide by this
    3) You can request all the copyright holders in the kernel code to release that bit of the code to you under another license if you do not like GPL.

  13. Re:Not just the GBT on Astronomy Portfolio Review Recommends Defunding US's Biggest Telescope · · Score: 3, Informative

    Just a clarification: NRAO manages only the GBT and VLBA ..the optical telescopes are managed by a sister institute NOAO (note the O for optical).
    So NRAO at best can fight/defend the cases for GBT and VLBA only.

    Yes sucks big time for everybody though as even small funds for hardware/instrument development for astronomy at universities is recommended to be defunded.

  14. Maps is not the only issue on Why Apple Replaced iOS Maps · · Score: 1

    The problem is the map app telling you where you are by using your gps + tower connection and giving you a routeway to go from where you are to where you want to be..without knowing the address of where you are...and keeps updating it as you move and suggesting alternate routes in traffic etc etc.

  15. Fragmentation is a problem ? on Google Releases Jelly Bean Updates For the Nexus S · · Score: 2

    Is fragmentation a problem or is it freedom for each company to do whatever they want to support at a price they can make money ?

    Or do people want the competition to be just like apple ...a controlled garden of 1 device ....1 appstore ...1 updates for 1 thing.

    Fragmentation is the difference...it allows you to have amazon fire, the nook tablet, all kind of cheap and crappy tablets or phones to expensive and better supported ones etc etc...
    who cares at least i can buy something from $79 to $500 ...i have a choice on my means even if its not what i want because sometimes i can't afford what i want.

    If it is apple v/s pseudo apple ...then i would not have a tablet or a smart phone

  16. Because on EPIC Files Motion About Ignored Body Scanner Ruling · · Score: 1

    When something bad happens ...we all cower and agree to whatever the government does in the name of protecting the country...remember 2002/2003/2004....
    no ?

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  17. Re:Simple on Why Ultra-Efficient 4,000 mph Vacuum-Tube Trains Aren't Being Built · · Score: 1

    This applies to highways /roads/DOTs and aiports/ntsb/faa etc etc which we ignore when comparing the cost of trains to other forms.....
    Every form of public transportation is heavily subsidized, period.

       

  18. A graphic novel on Everything You Need To Know About the June 5/6 Venus Transit · · Score: 3, Informative

    A comic pamphlet that explains the historical importance etc...

    http://mutha.ncra.tifr.res.in/ncra/for-public/transit-of-venus

  19. Re:Clearly a very serious issue, but on Another Afghan School Poisoned — 160 Girls Hospitalized · · Score: 1

    It has got to do with girls ...we male geeks who hang out on /.
    need geeky girls...and if they are getting killed...we have to take our
    laser guns and go and save them. No ?

  20. Right people in the right place on US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Embraces FOSS, Publishes On Github · · Score: 1

    Whether private or government...when putting the right people in the right place....the thing can
    be made to work with logic and sense.

  21. BULLSH!T on 'Twisted' Waves Could Boost Capacity of Wireless Spectrum · · Score: 1

    Indeed it is bullshit.
    They are talking of using a different basis to send the energy ...e.g Sine waves is a commonly used mathematical basis.
    So they are using different functions here and they are saying they will be able pack more energy in ...they have not shown that at all
    and the fact they are talking "infinite" capacity...tells me there is more "you know what" that real proof here.

  22. Re:Corporations = new government. on Obama's Privacy Bill of Rights: Just a Beginning · · Score: 1

    If this is your standard about protecting individual rights...

    Who has more control an individual rights your senator or Goldman Sachs ?

    If killing people is your standard about lack of protecting individual rights... ...then i'll say count the toll of tobacco companies, oil in 3rd world countries, including your mac manufacturers in china etc etc... it is definitely more than all the wars in the last 30 years combined. BTW a billion is a lot...on an aside i'll let you decide what is more ignorant ...please do your historical new math to account for 1 billion death in the last 100 years (the estimated death toll in .WWII is 60 million http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties)

  23. Corporations = new government. on Obama's Privacy Bill of Rights: Just a Beginning · · Score: 1

    Corporations and cartel are what the government used to be...so coorporation cannot do certain things to individuals...and that is the bill of right !

  24. Sue them for damaging private property on 300k Organic Farmers To Sue Monsanto For Seed Patent Claims · · Score: 5, Interesting

    My neighbor's dog come into my yard and damage my yard...my neighbor has to pay for restitution

    Mosanto pollen come to my yard and modify/damage my plant and its output...Mosanto has to pay for restitution, No ?

    Or should it that i have to pay Mosanto for the opportunity of getting my plant screwed up without asking for it ?

    Logical legal and patent system please.....please
    .

  25. Level is not the danger on Huge Freshwater Bulge In Arctic Ocean · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It is the breaking of the well established currents.
    More water in the system will destroy some of the well established ocean currents that drives the weather on the planet and have caused some stability for the last 15000 years or so.