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  1. Re:... lol. on North Korea Missile Launch Fails · · Score: 1

    That's a great idea, we'll just invade a country filled with nut jobs and an infantry of almost 10 million. No problem...

  2. Re:... lol. on North Korea Missile Launch Fails · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Like sending submarines into the territory of sovereign nations, just to laugh at them

    [citation needed]

    detaining Canadians, then sending them to Syria or Guantanamo Bay

    Are you fucking serious? Yeah we've detained a Canadian, we found him in Afghanistan shooting at US troops, frankly he's lucky to be alive at all.

    Killing Canadian troops.

    Shit happens in war, do you honestly think those friendly fire accidents were intentional?!

    your description is remarkably close to fitting your own country

    Honestly you are simply way off base.

  3. Re:First thing I want to get data on on Data.gov To Launch In May · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I do find it highly likely that he is a US Citizen, but there is a difference between a certificate of live birth and a certification of live birth, he provided the later which has less legal qualifications to obtain, for example if the certificate of live birth is destroyed it's still possible to get a certification of live birth. So the claims that he never proved citizenship aren't all that absurd, but really i doubt that he would be president right now if the GOP could have proven he wasn't a citizen.

  4. Re:Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is on Obama Calls For Nuke-Free World · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually the vast majority of the active arsenal are W88 and W78 warheads which are 475kt and 100kt respectively. The missiles have multiple warheads, but each warhead is less than a megaton.

  5. Re:Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is on Obama Calls For Nuke-Free World · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You might want to check you're math.
    The current main weapon in the United States nuclear arsenal is the W88 on a Trident II
    The Trident II is capable of having 8 W88s
    A W88 is a 475kt warhead which gives it an effective area roughly the size of a medium sized city.
    Now remember that there are 8 of those on each missile.
    Now remember that on actively deployed submarines there are roughly 400 Trident II missiles.
    The destruction that a small subset of the US nuclear arsenal is capable of would be more than enough to level almost any country.
    You might find this interesting btw http://www.fas.org/programs/ssp/nukes/nuclear_weapon_effects/nuclearwpneffctcalc.html

  6. Re:The assumption here on Why Doctors Hate Science · · Score: 1

    Guilt and not wanting to kill or maim people

    Seriously how many doctors do you think there are that want to kill or main patients?

  7. Re:The band in question on French President Busted For Copyright Violation · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I believe what I see, what is testable and falsifiable

    Why do you believe what you can see? Sight is not objective it's merely the brains interpretation of electrical signals from the eyes. You see everybody has to simply accept something as being true at some point or else you're left with nothing but existing in someway because you are thinking.

  8. Re:USA is losing because we think we're winning on Bunnie Huang on China's "Shanzai" Mash-Up Design Shops · · Score: 1

    Except that there genuinely is a limit to the rate of growth in the global economy.

  9. Re:USA is losing because we think we're winning on Bunnie Huang on China's "Shanzai" Mash-Up Design Shops · · Score: 1

    The Chinese getting richer actually does have a negative impact on the United States.

    The rate at which the Chinese economy is growing is faster than the rate at which the global economy is growing.

    The difference between the rate of global expansion and the rate of chinese expansion is growth that is lost by everybody else.

    So while the economy is not a zero sum game you can still have the growth of one economy have a negative impact on others.

  10. URL Generation on New Conficker Variant Increases Its Flexibility · · Score: 1

    Basically the code now generates a random URL based on the date obtained from a remote server and then verifies any updates on the generated URL with RSA.

    Seems sort of obvious

  11. Re:great, only 7 years late on Verizon.net Finally Moving Email To Port 587 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
  12. Re:Do not bite, it's a gimmick! on Canadian Federal Government Mulling Open Source? · · Score: 1

    You linked to a wholly-owned subsidiary of GM.

    GM Canada counts towards Canada's GDP but towards the United States of America's GNP

  13. Super Sonic Rounds on IBM Files Patent For Bullet-Dodging Bionic Armor · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The vast majority of sniper rounds are super sonic. (the speed of sound is only about 1,100 ft/s)

    So the bullet will hit it's target before the sound wave warning has arrived

  14. Re:Metre vs Meter. on Satellites Collide In Orbit · · Score: 2, Informative
  15. Direct Link to WMV on I'm a PC and I'm 4-1/2 · · Score: 1

    Like usual you can count on Microsoft to unnecessarily require some random propriety technology.

    http://mediadl.microsoft.com/mediadl/www/w/windows/videos/kylie4.wmv

  16. It's Simple Really You Pay Someone Who Knows How on Website Security Without Breaking the Bank? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Either you spend the time to teach yourself about security.

    Or you pay someone to do it for you.

  17. FOSS At Its Best on HP Releases New Netbook GUI For Ubuntu · · Score: 5, Insightful

    HP has taken a solid product improved it and is using it to improve the value of it's own product.

    Everybody involved benefits (except microsoft...).

  18. Direct Link to the Flv on Is It Windows 7, Or KDE 4? · · Score: 1

    ZDNet's flash player sucks and didn't load so I found the actual flv.

    http://media.cnetnetworks.com.au/video/2009/02/22470997/22470997.flv

  19. Direct Link to the Flv on Microsoft Caves, Will Change UAC In Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    ZDNet's flash player sucks and didn't load so I found the actual flv.

    http://media.cnetnetworks.com.au/video/2009/02/22470997/22470997.flv

  20. Re:Qt on The Case For Supporting and Using Mono · · Score: 1

    lol *cute

  21. Re:Qt on The Case For Supporting and Using Mono · · Score: 1

    Linux users tend to have a far higher comfort level with trying new things on their machines.

    Riiiiggggggggghhhhhhhhhhht.

    The legions of bot infested PCs out there disagree with you. Windows users will install ANYTHING, ooh cut kitty screen saver? count me in!

  22. Re:Makes you wonder on US Becomes Top Wind Producer; Solar Next · · Score: 4, Informative

    That's funny last I checked Indians had terrible health care and in general are ridiculously poor.

  23. Re:Dave is a great guy on NFL's IT Chief Gears Up For His 25th Super Bowl · · Score: 1

    So why not just transmit over the cell network?

  24. Re:32MB On Disk Cache on WD's Monster 2TB Caviar Green Drive, Preview Test · · Score: 1

    The disk cache is simply another layer of cache, the link between main memory and the CPU is faster than the link between the hdd and the CPU, so if it is cached in memory it will be faster than if cached on the disk but faster than if a read has to occur.

  25. OpenID on SUSE Studio — Linux Customization For the Masses · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Finally someone actually using OpenID as a consumer.