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  1. Re:seriously, the USA is just making a martyr on Icelandic MP Claims US Vendetta Against WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    If the U.S. is instigating the situation with the rape accusations I don't think they're just doing it to get hold of Assange.

    Wikileaks released thousands of diplomatic cables and god knows what else since Assange's arrest and what has anyone heard about their contents? All I hear in the mass media is "blah blah rape blah blah extradition". I think this would pass as a masterful bit of misdirection.

    They may very well even not bother extraditing him from Sweden, maybe just make sure he goes down for rape, so the story just fades away and all everyone remembers is a weird rapist.

  2. Re:Page switching speed on UK Company Demos Color Video Animation On Electronic Paper · · Score: 1

    the time to go from page to page is too long

    What are you, johnny five? :p

  3. Re:Put in a marine alternator on Ask Slashdot: How To Add New Tech To Old Van? · · Score: 1

    Could he bypass the need for AC to his computer by using a DC-DC boost convertor directly into a laptop supply, or a DC-DC ATX PSU to a standalone PC and a display panel that has a DC input for an external supply, with the relevant convertor?

  4. No, I'm not. on BT Starts Blocking the Pirate Bay · · Score: 1

    Re-read this thread and try to comprehend my post properly. I'm not the OP and I'm agreeing with you. Oh dear indeed.

  5. Re:BLOCK ALL YOU WANT on BT Starts Blocking the Pirate Bay · · Score: 1

    Can you back those 90% somehow? I don't believe for a second that it's 90% or even close.

    I can smell some kind of tautological No True Scotsman logic where "casual users" are defined as the people of whom 90% will leave due to this disruption.

  6. Re:It WAS privatized before TSA on Sen. Rand Paul Introduces TSA Reform Legislation · · Score: 1

    *crickets chirping*

  7. Re:Strange sense of morals on Hacker Group Demands "Idiot Tax" From Payday Lender · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That is like saying that if I drop my credit card in the street I have "published" its details for everyone to see due to my own carelessness.

    Yes, that's precisely what you've done.

    "just copying" information is so fucking harmless

    Correct. It's what's done with the information afterwards that inflicts the harm.

  8. Re:Obligatory on FunnyJunk Sues the Oatmeal Over TM and "Incitement To Cyber-Vandalism" · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but does he know the Mayor of Boston, and does he "wwebsite as on the internet"?

  9. Re:kinda cheating on Chinese Firms Claims It Can Build World's Tallest Tower in 90 Days · · Score: 2

    Taking that logic to it's conclusion, if that building contains any wood they have to factor in the decades it took for those trees to grow. Erecting a building is always a process of assembly of prefabricated elements. You don't sit up some scaffolding baking bricks, laying them as they cool.

  10. Re:It WAS privatized before TSA on Sen. Rand Paul Introduces TSA Reform Legislation · · Score: 1

    You haven't looked very hard have you? It's almost as if you don't want to see a refutation. Google, 5 minutes. You're welcome.

  11. Re:It WAS privatized before TSA on Sen. Rand Paul Introduces TSA Reform Legislation · · Score: 1

    Unless you are personally qualified to review the paper, you can only go on the reputation of the reviewers.

    Your claim isn't "i've reviewed this paper and here is why it's true", you claim is "this paper has been reviewed by trustworthy and reliable people, that's why it's true".

    The counter-argument that Bentham have a dubious reputation is perfectly valid in this case. Bentham have dropped the journal that paper was published in, and have a reputation for recruinting reviewers via the medium of indiscrimate spam emails.

  12. Re:Speed versus complexity on Intel Dismisses 'x86 Tax', Sees No Future For ARM · · Score: 3, Informative

    There are two versions - speed optimised @2ghz and power optimised @800Mhz to ~1GHz. Speed optimised draws 1.9W and power optimised draws 0.5W.

  13. Re:economy of scale on Aussie Online Retailer Impose IE7 Tax · · Score: 1

    That moron would be you it seems...

    Wow, that unprovoked hostility came right out of leftfield at the end there. I imagine you're not that unneccesarily rude to people face to face.

  14. Re:economy of scale on Aussie Online Retailer Impose IE7 Tax · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If that's the case why are they wasting all this time and money supporting IE7 when they could simply stop supporting it and put a message saying "this website will not work with IE7, please upgrade to IE8 or later or one of these other browsers.."? Not that I'm doubting you, it just makes no sense.

  15. economy of scale on Aussie Online Retailer Impose IE7 Tax · · Score: 1, Insightful
    Presumably if this has the intended impact of motivating people to upgrade their browser, or even if it just drives them away from the site, as the number of IE7 using customers decreases, the rate of tax will have to increase.

    The same amount of effort will be required to make the site IE7 compatible, but there will be less people paying to cover that cost. Eventually I suppose it would come to a point where the tax would need to be so high that everyone will have upgraded or left.

  16. Re:Scientific review on Why Groundwater Use May Not Explain Half of Sea-Level Rise · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Any individual study can be reviewed at any time. This rarely has any significant impact on the consensus formed by the weight of all other existing related studies. If there are two interpretations of a study based on two different sets of assumptions, the question can be resolved by testing the assumptions. The fact that a single study is ambiguous does nothing to cast doubt on the remaining vast preponderance of scientific studies which unambiguously indicate that climate change is both real and man made.

    'Climate Change' is a done deal

    The scientific community has overwhelmingly agreed that Climate Change is occuring, and that there is a greater than 90% chance it is man-made.

    That this is the consensus is a cold, hard, unambiguous fact. If you want to believe that climate change is not real, or not man-made, the only remaining avenue of rationalisation is that the scientific community a wrong or lying for some reason. This puts climate change deniers on the same ground as creationists.

  17. Re:example from an MIT course on Patent Granted on Mandatory Digital Keys to Prevent Textbook Piracy · · Score: 3, Funny

    If internet porn has taught me anything, and it has, it's that you don't need money to negotiate grades with your college professor.

  18. Re:April fools? on Meebo Discontinuing All Services Except for Meebo Bar · · Score: 4, Funny

    I accidentally the whole meebo bar

  19. Re:What happened to the good old days? on Raunchy Dance Routine a PR Nightmare For Microsoft · · Score: 1

    thankyou, you don't know how difficult it was to resist replying to myself.

  20. Re:Did he crack any random passphrases? on Lessons Learned From Cracking 2M LinkedIn Passwords · · Score: 1

    that's the same combination i have on my luggage!

  21. Re:What happened to the good old days? on Raunchy Dance Routine a PR Nightmare For Microsoft · · Score: 1, Redundant

    and thus a meme was born

  22. Re:2048x1536 @120hz here. RIP CRT's :( on Where Are All the High-Resolution Desktop Displays? · · Score: 1

    It's very likely that you CRT can be serviced/repaired. It's probably just an aged capacitor.

  23. Re:Crappy AMD drivers?! on AMD/ATI Video Drivers: Unsafe At Any Speed · · Score: 1
    Scold

    Scald

    I think dousing them with boiling water is a bit of an overreaction :p

  24. Re:leads to two classes on Sequencing the Unborn · · Score: 1

    I can imagine it being very likely that the test would cost less than a day's minimum wage, and in countries with socialised healthcare, it would be free to everyone. This kind of technology is rapidly diminishing in cost.

  25. Re:Less Important on Carmageddon: Reincarnation Linux Version Confirmed · · Score: 1

    fucked up and childish

    you did play carmegeddon didn't you?