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  1. Re:How far should discovery go? on YouTube Must Give All User Histories To Viacom · · Score: 1

    Funny... but also insightful. As much of an environmentalist as I am (and I am), I'd say give it to them on paper. Maybe compromise, on 100% post-consumer fibre paper.... They want reams and reams of information that they don't really have a right to, and a judge is going along with it, so give it to them. In a format that will take them a decade to sift through, by which time it won't be relevant any more.

    better - hemp paper

  2. Re:Tagged "fuckviacom" on YouTube Must Give All User Histories To Viacom · · Score: 1

    This is just as much reason to avoid Google, or any company that keeps any kind of logs of your behavior.

    Call your ISP and cancel your services, call your cell phone company and cancel your services, call your utility companies cancel your services, call your employer and quit so all your benefits are gone, then just go hide in a cave for the rest of your life. Also cancel all your bank accounts or transfer the money to me as well as, your credit cards.

    Are outa your freakin mi... Hm, mod parent interesting.

  3. Re:dark energy? on Huge Lenses To Observe Dark Energy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The stupid reporter doesn't know the difference between dark energy and dark matter.

    As for dark energy, which I guess is what they're going for since it's called the Dark Energy Survey, to paraphrase Einstein, "It's dark, like fudge."

  4. Re:Instrument memory... on Wood Density May Explain Stradivarius Secret · · Score: 1

    I have toyed with the idea of hooking up a new fiddle to a digital output and running it 24/7 through a range of notes to try to "burn" the ideal frequencies into it, but that's not something I've had time for yet. No idea how significant the effect would be either.

    Or you could save time and get the robot to do it.

  5. Re:In past it was chemical treatments and soaked w on Wood Density May Explain Stradivarius Secret · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I heard something similar from a violin maker in Indiana. He said the wood was treated by submerging it in the acidic bogs around Cremona. Supposedly this efficiently removed the pectin leaving only the cellulose.

  6. Re:Blah on FBI's New Eye Scan Database Raising Eyebrows · · Score: 1

    These might be what you're looking for. And AFAIK atropine isn't addictive

  7. Re:The article is exiting gibberish on Discovery of a "Flat" Atom Hailed as Quantum Computing Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    I agree. It sounds like the reporter is totally clueless and just parroting what he though he heard researchers say.

  8. Re:Quantum State on Discovery of a "Flat" Atom Hailed as Quantum Computing Breakthrough · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I think "interdeterminatable" refers to the Bush state.

  9. Re:Quantum State on Discovery of a "Flat" Atom Hailed as Quantum Computing Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    Sorry, thought /. didn't save my post. I didn't notice before that the text was lifted directly from TFA.

  10. Quantum State on Discovery of a "Flat" Atom Hailed as Quantum Computing Breakthrough · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This is a sad commentary on the state of science reporting. The electron can't be in an intermediate state since there are only 2 possible states. Probably "indeterminate quantum state" is what was intended.

  11. Quantum State on Discovery of a "Flat" Atom Hailed as Quantum Computing Breakthrough · · Score: 5, Informative

    Don't you mean indeterminate quantum state? The electron can't be in an intermediate state since there are only two possible states.

  12. Re:Who does age matter to? on Algorithm Names Powell 'Ideal' Vice President Candidate · · Score: 1

    So you're saying people don't care about their children? Well, maybe you have a point.

  13. Re:Meet the new boss... on Algorithm Names Powell 'Ideal' Vice President Candidate · · Score: 1

    Their lives and their families lives were threatened, which makes it understandable, though still inexcusable.

  14. Re:Meet the new boss... on Algorithm Names Powell 'Ideal' Vice President Candidate · · Score: 0

    Moron.

  15. Re:Only in the United States would a war criminal on Algorithm Names Powell 'Ideal' Vice President Candidate · · Score: 1

    ... eat your hate when your buddies come back from the front and start offing themselves in the bathroom because of the shit you sent them to do.

    Except they'll take a few of YOU with them.

  16. What, My Lai? on Algorithm Names Powell 'Ideal' Vice President Candidate · · Score: 1

    I have had it far up past where I can stand for so long! WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU FUCKING IMBECILES?

    I feel so robotic parroting George Santayana, but his truth is being utterly ignored: Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

    So we've got John "bomb Iran" McInsane, Barak "bomb Pakistan" Obama, and the prime instrument in the cover-up of the My Lai Massacre?

    We have NO HOPE.

  17. Re:the boogie man will get you on Al-Qaeda's Growing Online Offensive · · Score: 1

    So they maybe should have seen that there was a problem and stopped supporting them. Instead, Clinton brought them into former Yugoslavia en masse to help wreck that place.

  18. Re:Change we can believe in on House Votes For Telco Immunity; Obama Will Support? · · Score: 5, Funny

    You see, Google & Obama combined their slogans. It now reads, "Change no evil"

  19. Re:May the Microsoft Bashing Begin... on Bill Gates Reveals Secret of Microsoft's Success · · Score: 1

    I have no problem with Microsoft, or Bill Gates. ... You're obviously far too young.
  20. Re:Explain developed on Bill Gates Reveals Secret of Microsoft's Success · · Score: 0

    BTW, the guy didn't "write" it - It was a straight translation of CP/M from Z-80 to x86 minus pip, which was the most useful utility in CP/M.

  21. Re:Thus the "handed" portion on Bill Gates Reveals Secret of Microsoft's Success · · Score: 3, Informative

    I recall 2. I had the choice of shelling out $175 for DR's CPM/86 or accepting PC-DOS which came with the machine for free. The other one you referred to I'm sure wasn't free. Now if that doesn't constitute a monopoly for MS, it's because you're playing with the meaning of words.

  22. Re:when haven't we promoted drugs? on Media Dustup Pits Bloggers and Wired Against NYTimes · · Score: 1

    But that said, I have also ran into crazed pro-pot fanatics that have the same problem as prohibitionists, in reverse: They have already decided that marijuana does no harm, and will reject any study that even hints otherwise. This is to the point of some of them even arguing that inhaling smoke from burning pot plants does no damage to your lungs. That's just as biased. As crazy as they may be, they don't have the power to throw you in jail.
  23. Re:PUT THEM IN JAIL. on MediaDefender's BitTorrent-Based DOS Takes Down Revision3 · · Score: 1

    Even if you didn't RTFA you had previous posts to read. So once more, for the record: THE BASTARDS CONFESSED TO DOING IT Cleared that up.

  24. Re:Why? on Bits of Tassie Tiger Brought Back from Extinction · · Score: 1

    "Nature" is overrated.
    So go find somewhere else to live.
  25. Re:Eeek! on Bits of Tassie Tiger Brought Back from Extinction · · Score: 1

    And they get more mileage from the fact that a large part of the DNA is in the form of interons, which don't code for protein. As long as you get the coding portions right, the critter will at least have the "look and feel" of the original. Also when they clone, the embryo gets the mitochondrial DNA of the host so if they used a mouse it would still have lots of mouse DNA. I'm wondering why they don't use a devil since it's the closest living relative.