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  1. Re:Identity confusion on NSA Revelation Leads FTC To Propose "Reclaim Your Name" Initiative · · Score: 1

    Well, that is your own fault. You should have told your parents to give you a different name.

  2. Re:Warning Systems on Seismic Data Set Could Improve Earthquake Forecasting · · Score: 1

    Yes, and in the places far away, the warning is of no use. Another earthquake in Japan, doesn't mean much if you live in the UK.

  3. Re:It's still a fast changing field on Seismic Data Set Could Improve Earthquake Forecasting · · Score: 1

    Bull.

  4. Re:AltaVista on Yahoo Puts AltaVista To Death · · Score: 2

    You'll have to pry Archie and Veronica out of my cold dead hands...
    What do you mean gopher is not working?

  5. Re:Oh Sure. More Supply == More Demand on Immigration Bill Passes the Senate, Includes More H-1B Visas · · Score: 1

    Of course salaries increase when immigration increase - in their countries of origin...

  6. Plastics shrink in space on Cute Japanese Robots To Be Launched Into Space · · Score: 3, Informative

    Nice ASCII art. The problem with putting cute things in space is that it will degrade quite rapidly. Any volatiles boil off faster and plastics - even (consumer grade) nylon - shrinks in space. Eventually it cracks up and falls apart. All that happens much faster than down on the surface. So plastics designed for space is different and more expensive.

  7. Johnny Tables on Automated Plate Readers Let Police Collect Millions of Records On Drivers · · Score: 1

    Someone needs to get a 'Johnny Tables' vanity plate.

  8. Re:Obviously due to global warming on Was That A Tsunami? · · Score: 1, Funny

    Obama? I thought global warming was caused by Al Gore.

  9. Re:server build? on IE 11 Getting WebGL, SPDY/3, New Dev Tools · · Score: 1

    LOL. How will swap slow your machine down if swap isn't used? Maybe you should get a real computer.

  10. Re:Bring a rifle. on Ask Slashdot: Getting Hired As a Self-Taught Old Guy? · · Score: 1

    You either need to know someone on the inside who will hand your resume to the right person, or you got to use that old dot matrix printer in your basement and print your own certs and transcripts for some obscure foreign college.

  11. Re:It's clever, no? on Obama Reveals Climate Change Plan · · Score: 1

    The reason the European emissions is not down so much, is because Europe has been using gas for electricity production and heating long before the USA started to modernize.

  12. Re:Didn't think it was possible on Obama Reveals Climate Change Plan · · Score: 0, Troll

    If you have ever been to Africa, or just watched CNN or BBC a little bit, then you'd realize that Africa doesn't have anything to lose. Africa is just one big shit hole with a permanent case of dysentry.

  13. Re:Let's just bypass the Constitution on Obama Reveals Climate Change Plan · · Score: 1

    The Prez can plan and call all he wants. Congress doesn't have to listen to him. All the Prez is responsible for is foreign affairs and war.

  14. Re:No real solutions - and we're doing what? on Obama Reveals Climate Change Plan · · Score: 1

    Build your harbours inland and wait for the sea to get there.

  15. Re:Great!! on Obama Reveals Climate Change Plan · · Score: 1

    Well, if the NSA cannot monitor the citizens, then it has to monitor something else you know...

  16. Re:Don't believe the hysterics on Obama Reveals Climate Change Plan · · Score: 0, Troll

    Here are a few thoughts for you:
    1. Periodic Ice Ages. The last one was 11,000 years ago. The earth is still warming up towards 'normal'. What we have now, is not normal yet. The cavemen must have burned a helluvalot of wood to bring the last ice age to an end...
    2. Layered coal seams. Each seam represents a period of 150 to 200 million years of fern covered swamps. We are now in a cold period, before the next coal seam will be created.
    3. Medieval mini ice age. The earth is still colder than it was during the height of the Roman empire, when people produced wine in England.
    4. The earth is mostly covered with water and most of the land is desert. Humans only mess with a small percentage of the earth's surface and in those areas, we mostly replace wild grass with special grass, bisons with cows, boar with pigs, birds with chickens etc. Farming is controlled by the climate and farmers only produce what will grow in that particular area - they don't really change anything, while the surface area covered by cities is very small indeed.
    5. Radiation is related to the square of the temperature difference. If you heat the atmosphere slightly, heat is radiated faster into space.
    6. What caused those hot swampy periods? Dinosaur farts?
    7. Climate change is real, but man has precious little to do with it, if anything.

    Just think about things rationally.

  17. Re:Open source equates to freedom. on The IRS vs. Open Source · · Score: 1

    Ha, ha, snort... Uhm, pardon, but you are too funny. You realize that the underground railroad runs from the USA to Canada right? That is for people trying to escape from the freedom loving USA...

  18. Re:So... on New Links Found Between Bacteria and Cancer · · Score: 1

    Even worse, the poor sap is organic! Unfortunately he won't get that either.

  19. Re:So... on New Links Found Between Bacteria and Cancer · · Score: 1

    So would you rather die from malnutrition and cholera at the age of 30 in Uganda, or from heart disease due too much rich food at the age of 75 in America?

  20. Re:huh? on The Glorious Return of the Twinkie · · Score: 1

    I have eaten one twinky. Had to see what it was, but it wasn't anything special. Guess you got to grow up with it, an acquired taste.

  21. Re:Broken Link on NSA Releases Secret Pre-History of Computers · · Score: 4, Funny

    Got it for you. It is called stuxnet-prehistory.pdf.exe

  22. Re:Unfortunately on Obama's Climate Plans Face Long Fight · · Score: 1, Informative

    No, actually, the rational people do not agree on what needs to be done or even whether anything needs to be done. It is only the irrational people that agree that extreme and possibly quite useless things need to be done.

    Rational people look at the facts that the earth is still cooler than before the medieval cold spell and that the temperature increase halted for the last 15 years, while irrational people do not want to be confused by these facts.

  23. Spied on == Terrorist on Tennessee Official: Water Complaints Could be "Act of Terrorism" · · Score: 1

    Of course, since the NSA is spying on almost everybody, almost everybody are terrorists. These water police just make sure that the rest of the populace don't fall through the cracks.

    Now stay in line citizen and don't spill that cup of water...

  24. Re:Scare tactics on Tennessee Official: Water Complaints Could be "Act of Terrorism" · · Score: 1
    Depends on where you are in the world - Mutton means Goat, more often than not.

    In Britain:
    Lamb = young sheep
    Mutton = old sheep
    Kid = young goat
    Goat = old goat

    USA:
    Lamb = sheep
    Mutton = goat
    Kid = human child
    Goat = old fart

    and you can only eat the first two, while all of them may be chewy...

  25. Re: Allegedly Venezuela By Way of Cuba on Edward Snowden Leaves Hong Kong · · Score: 0

    Why are you moaning about the few million non-free people in Venezuela, compared to the 300 million people in the United Democratic Republic of America?