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  1. Re:At Least... on Dotcom Search Warrants Ruled Illegal · · Score: 2

    No. My Dad is from New Zealand. If there's one thing I can tell you, there is no New Zealander that won't fly.

  2. Re:Jurisdiction on Dotcom Search Warrants Ruled Illegal · · Score: 1

    I thought Afghanistan was giving young BOYS to men?

  3. Re:And why is this bad? on Dotcom Search Warrants Ruled Illegal · · Score: 1

    Maybe when this starts happening, the US will re-think its position on this.

  4. Re:the fact that this worked is on Carderprofit.cc Was FBI Carding Sting, Nets 26 Arrests · · Score: 1

    But crafty/sly people make tons of money in IT with zero risk.

  5. Re:the fact that this worked is on Carderprofit.cc Was FBI Carding Sting, Nets 26 Arrests · · Score: 1

    There are some very bright criminals out there.

    Yeah, they're usually CEOs.

  6. Re:The trick? on Carderprofit.cc Was FBI Carding Sting, Nets 26 Arrests · · Score: 2

    They're not telling anyone in particular to steal the bait car. They're just parking it in a crime-ridden neighborhood with the doors unlocked with the key in the ignition. It still has to be stolen by somebody.

    In the same way, the FBI can make it as easy as possible to steal credit cards. You still have to steal them.

    Neither one can counsel any particular individual into doing it.

  7. Re:Do we miss stories where they fight for people? on EU Commissioner Reveals He Will Ignore Any Rejection of ACTA · · Score: 1

    You did very well, IMO.

  8. Re:Backlight on Asus Joins High Density Display Club With New Transformer Tablet · · Score: 1

    "If it's different than all-powerful Apple, it must be worse..."

  9. Re:We don't need to "kill" anything on Asus Joins High Density Display Club With New Transformer Tablet · · Score: 1

    That's why I didn't buy an iPhone. Dirty, second-class device...

  10. Re:We don't need to "kill" anything on Asus Joins High Density Display Club With New Transformer Tablet · · Score: 1

    what's this obsession that if you're not the market leader, you're not worth buying? If that were the case there'd be no market for Android phones, or even WM7 phones. Is there perhaps some deep-seated personal feeling that if you don't buy number one, you're by extension not a winner and instead a second-class individual?

    Congratulations. You've just described Apple Fanboi.

  11. Re:Pay for it on State Media Rushing Into Coverage Void Left By Dying Newspapers · · Score: 0

    Stop turning the schools into liberal brainwashing camps and focus on Education and many homeschool parents would send their kids back. But as long as teacher's unions always support the Democratic candidate and lying, cheating pedophiles like Harvey Milk are held up as great men, they're staying away.

  12. Re:Complete Hogwash on More Hot Weather For Southern California, Says UCLA Study · · Score: 1

    But the best meterologists in the world that work for AccuWeather or the Weather Channel, don't?!? Do you think they didn't study science?

  13. Re:Problem and fix on Faulty Patch Freezes Millions of UK Bank Accounts · · Score: 1

    Get a good barrister...

  14. Re:They outsourced their IT dept... on Faulty Patch Freezes Millions of UK Bank Accounts · · Score: 1

    A later commenter did: http://www.computerweekly.com/news/1280093677/Royal-Bank-of-Scotland-cuts-1000-IT-jobs

    The Unite union says RBS plans to offshore upwards of 500 technology roles to its existing IT operations in the US, India and the Far East.

  15. Re:3D Anyone? on The Hobbit's Higher Frame Rate To Cost Theater Operators · · Score: 1

    Seriously this. If I try to watch a 3D movie longer than the 10 minutes or so at an amusement park, I start getting a headache. And the cutoff of the 3D effect at the edges of the screen really pulls me out of the movie all the time.

  16. Re:"privatization" on Sen. Rand Paul Introduces TSA Reform Legislation · · Score: 1

    Not to mention that you are failing to see that the security company has to compete with other security companies that can do a better job for the same price.

  17. Re:"privatization" on Sen. Rand Paul Introduces TSA Reform Legislation · · Score: 1

    In Southern California there ARE 4 airports next to each other that I can easily choose from. LAX, Orange County, Long Beach, Ontario. And Long Beach, Ontario and LAX are all about equidistant from me.

  18. Re:Erm... on Aussie Online Retailer Impose IE7 Tax · · Score: 1

    Nope. IE9 uses the 3d desktop compositing which is only available starting with Vista.

  19. Re:Who would have thought on Comcast Refusing To Comply With Piracy Subpoenas · · Score: 1

    My kids and I don't want Aspartame in gum. But nobody in the US sells any anymore without it (Dentyne Fire is the only one now, if I can find it).

    So, my choices are...?

  20. Re:666 on An HTTP Status Code For Censorship? · · Score: 1
    No. A couple early manuscripts copied it as 616. But even in the second century, about 50 years after the writing of Revelation, church father Iraneus was already arguing that 616 was wrong:

    Such, then, being the state of the case, and this number being found in all the most approved and ancient copies [of the Apocalypse], and those men who saw John face to face bearing their testimony [to it]; while reason also leads us to conclude that the number of the name of the beast, [if reckoned] according to the Greek mode of calculation by the [value of] the letters contained in it, will amount to six hundred and sixty and six; that is, the number of tens shall be equal to that of the hundreds, and the number of hundreds equal to that of the units (for that number which [expresses] the digit six being adhered to throughout, indicates the recapitulations of that apostasy, taken in its full extent, which occurred at the beginning, during the intermediate periods, and which shall take place at the end), I do not know how it is that some have erred following the ordinary mode of speech, and have vitiated the middle number in the name, deducting the amount of fifty from it, so that instead of six decades they will have it that there is but one.

  21. Re:Parents care, school systems don't on Ask Slashdot: Teaching Chemistry To Home-Schooled Kids? · · Score: 0

    Creationists don't want to "dumb down" science classes. They want to smarten them up by presenting scientific challenges to current ideas that are held for mostly political/ideological reasons. Science is supposed to be about the free exchange of ideas that are proven to be true by experimentation. True science has no fear because the truth always wins in the end. But scientists and science programs seem deathly afraid of the claims of creationists. Why?

    I'm certainly not afraid for my kids to learn that some people still believe in a flat earth or that some people deny the Holocaust or that some people deny landing on the moon, even though I don't hold any of those positions myself. I have faith that my kids will see the evidence and come to a conclusion based on that. So why is everyone so afraid of creationists?

  22. Re:Thought so. on Ask Slashdot: Teaching Chemistry To Home-Schooled Kids? · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Kids raised in strict religious homes are far less likely to suffer from risk factors such as alcoholism, drug addiction, teen pregnancy, criminal behavior, etc. They are more likely to succeed based on those factors alone.

  23. Re:Thought so. on Ask Slashdot: Teaching Chemistry To Home-Schooled Kids? · · Score: 1

    Or both. That way you might actually get knowledge AND wisdom.

  24. Re:Thought so. on Ask Slashdot: Teaching Chemistry To Home-Schooled Kids? · · Score: 0

    So if Creation Science follows the scientific method (in many cases more than traditional Evolution-based teaching that expects the hearers to take its claims as face value [Oort cloud anyone?]), then it is not science?

    You can live in your fantasy world where that's the case if you like, but in my world (and any good scientist's world) following the scientific method = science, even when done by creationists.

  25. Re:AOD on AMD/ATI Video Drivers: Unsafe At Any Speed · · Score: 1

    So? You're a Linux admin! Change your browser string.