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  1. Re:you're thinking of "raises the question" on Google Pressure Cookers and Backpacks: Get a Visit From the Feds · · Score: 1

    > . The statement changing the puppet doesn't change the puppeteer" implies without question that the president is a puppet. That does assume, and there is a specific term for a assuming the answer to an important question. That term is "begging the question". It will be found on most lists of logical fallacies. you are thinking of "raises the question". Raising the question ask for an answer. Begging the question assumes the answer. The word begging is used in the sense of "humor me for a moment and assume ...". You're begging the audience to overlook your unwarranted and important assumption.

    Where did I say "begging the question"?

  2. Re:Bush on Google Pressure Cookers and Backpacks: Get a Visit From the Feds · · Score: 1

    Where did I say "begging the question"?

  3. Re:Bush on Google Pressure Cookers and Backpacks: Get a Visit From the Feds · · Score: 1

    Um... no. The statement "changing the puppet doesn't change the puppeteer" implies without question that the president is a puppet. The question that is begging to be asked is the one the child post asked: Who is the puppeteer?

  4. Re:Really? Only $430 million? on Aussie Wi-Fi Patent Nears Expiry In the United States · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ~$0.08 per device for one of the most significant and widely known technologies in use today, someone got a good deal, wasn't the Aussies

    I don't know. Yes, WiFi is everywhere now, and it's easy to conclude that they should have charged more. but would WiFi have taken off in the same way if they had charged more? Perhaps not. Hindsight is easy. Foresight isn't.

    Besides, I think I could retire quite comfortably on $430 million, even in Australia.

  5. Since Islam also uses the Old Testament, it too could conclude a 6000 year old universe.

    Not all churches take the old testament literally. There are plenty that take it figuratively and have no problem with modern cosmology, nor biology and evolution either.

    Very good! So don't go painting all of Christianity with the brush of Young Earth Creationism. There's a few noisy cults/sects here and there, mostly in the US it seems, but not all Christians are Young Earthers.

  6. Since Islam also uses the Old Testament, it too could conclude a 6000 year old universe.

  7. Re:Remember this on Liberal Saudi Web Forum Founder Sentenced To 600 Lashes and 7 Years In Prison · · Score: 0

    Don't confuse Christianity and Catholicism.

  8. I find it odd that that site is blocked. There is no "objectionable" material on it; ie nakedness, weapons, hatemongering, etc. Just a clipart style poster with icons you can hover over, and a link to buy the poster.

  9. Re:What are they going to call it? on Microsoft Will Have To Rename SkyDrive · · Score: 1

    I'm sure some Russian corporation has Drivesky.

  10. Re:LOL Corporations! on Fifth Circuit Upholds Warrantless Cellphone Location Tracking · · Score: 1

    RIght, but if corporations are people, then their business records are clearly "personal effects and papers," no?

    The amendment doesn't work if the "person" willingly hands their data over.

  11. Re:LOL Corporations! on Fifth Circuit Upholds Warrantless Cellphone Location Tracking · · Score: 1, Interesting

    By extension, the records of a Private Investigator following someone are clearly a business record as well. So the cops can just hire PIs to follow suspects around, record their conversations, etc. without search warrants. Sigh! Why bother with a constitution at all?

  12. Re:Don't be evil (some of the time) on Google Argues Against Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    "Directors have a legal obligation to maximize shareholder returns,

    Where did you get that nonsense from?

  13. Re:resin+gel as support material on 3D Printing In Gel Enables Freeform Design and an Undo Function · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well, three to position the extruder within the gel, and three to orient it. The extruder is like a needle, and if you move it sideways, the gel will try to slosh around it to fill in the gap, so you want to be moving the extruder lengthwise as much as possible to minimize the effect.

    However, I'm guessing that the real reason is that they happened to have a 6 axis manipulator lying around and using it would have been cheaper than building a specialized unit.

  14. Re:resin+gel as support material on 3D Printing In Gel Enables Freeform Design and an Undo Function · · Score: 3, Informative

    They are not extruding layer by layer, but they are moving an injector needle on a path through a block of gel. It allows the injector to follow a 3D path without having to wait for the model to be built up slice by slice.

  15. Re:fuck tags on Ask Slashdot: Tags and Tagging, What Is the Best Way Forward? · · Score: 3, Informative
  16. Re:Made up problem on Ask Slashdot: Tags and Tagging, What Is the Best Way Forward? · · Score: 1

    Tooked out? Is that some sort of hobbit speak for making something more adventurous?

  17. Re:Made up problem on Ask Slashdot: Tags and Tagging, What Is the Best Way Forward? · · Score: 1

    They're identical concepts, except tag is easier to spell and say. Oh, and sometimes tags have a hash (#) in them.

  18. Re:How? on Russia Proposes Banning Foul Language On the Internet · · Score: 1

    Obviously there'll need to be some powerful advances in natural language processing. Once machines can determine the intent of words, then they will be able to appropriately block content.

  19. Re:Future? on Russia Proposes Banning Foul Language On the Internet · · Score: 1

    And the past.

    Ever since the Neolithic Revolution screwed things up.

    Yes, new rock is revolting.

  20. Re:Obligartory on Russia Proposes Banning Foul Language On the Internet · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not use foul language? On the Internet? How will I Tweet?

    Switch to fowl language?

  21. Re:This /. headline is sensationalist drivel on Second SFO Disaster Avoided Seconds Before Crash · · Score: 1

    Yes, they were below the glidepath, and yes they blew the approach and had to go around: but this is hardly seconds from disaster or even a close thing. 600' at a normal approach speed is not "close" to the ground and 3.8 NM is more than 3 minutes at Vref which is certainly adequate time to respond.

    You're calculating time as horizontal distance to runway. That's irrelevant. The critical figure is the vertical distance to ground figure. They were below the glide path which means they were closer to the ground than they should have been. What's the descent rate? How much time did they really have?

  22. Re:What? on Second SFO Disaster Avoided Seconds Before Crash · · Score: 1

    ... if you are working off of a map, you basically can just read the NM with your protractor.

    Good luck with that. The only way you can read NM with a protractor is if you're looking at a cross section of the globe.

  23. Re:Stop the ball from rolling on Thailand Government Declares Bitcoin Illegal · · Score: 1

    Governments are not going to allow an alternate form of currency to gain traction that they have no control over.

    Ah! That would explain why US currency isn't accepted anywhere else on the planet.

  24. Re:Always use multiple sources of information on College Students Hijack $80 Million Yacht With GPS Signal Spoofing · · Score: 1

    Back in the before times, I was on a flight to England. I asked if I could visit the cockpit. While there (they have a fabulous view, by the way), they showed me the navigation console. It showed three positions: Inertial guidance, GPS, and VOR? If one was seriously out of whack with the others, it would have been readily apparent. Ships too have multiple nav systems.

  25. Re:My oh my on "Slingatron" To Hurl Payloads Into Orbit · · Score: 1

    What? Governments are democratically elected on Earth?

    Of course not. That's why they're revolting.