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  1. Re:Consider me fired. on Doctors "Fire" Vaccine Refusers · · Score: 1

    Chicken Pox vaccine is only 80% effective as a life long immunity. One can lose the "immunity" from the vaccine after a few decades, when you're much older and more likely to die from it. For all intents and purposes, the natural way is 100% life long.

    Wow. I mean - that's just wrong. The "natural way" is *not* 100% life-long. And you *can* get boosters later in life to any vaccine. Where the hell do you get your medical news? Natural news.com?

  2. Re:Cool on Followup: Ultraviolet Vision After Cataract Surgery · · Score: 1

    An example of something truly black would be a black hole, as it absorbs all light, matter and energy around it, meaning that it is truly the only surface in the universe we are aware of that can truly be known as black.

    Well, that and Don Cheadle

    Not to mention the cover of "Smell The Glove..."

  3. Re:Not even that complicated on Ask Slashdot: Smartest Way To Transfer an Old Domain/Site? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And most importantly, the submitter shouldn't have needed to even ask this. Dearest submitter, please turn in your geek card on your way out.

    Perhaps he does, or maybe simply hadn't thought of it. Either way he's looking for options and advice based on personal experience. What's wrong with that?

  4. Re:Let alone on Defendant Ordered To Decrypt Laptop Claims She Had Forgotten Password · · Score: 1

    "I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God." (Title 10, US Code; Act of 5 May 1960 replacing the wording first adopted in 1789, with amendment effective 5 October 1962).

  5. Re:Maybe it was ... on Defendant Ordered To Decrypt Laptop Claims She Had Forgotten Password · · Score: 2

    I love how you persist in this idiotic delusion.

    Judge: Show us the partition we're asking for.
    Taco Cowboy: They're encrypted using a password that was derived from a very interesting algorithm using multiple...
    Judge: I find you in contempt. See you in a few days. If you don't present it then you'll stay in contempt.
    TC (being carried away): But but but but the algorithm!

  6. Re:What was it? on Text Message Brands Quebec Man a Terror Suspect · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That's precisely part of the problem. Security isn't about CYA it's about catching bad guys and not arresting innocent people (the latter seems to be forgotten a lot). And this CYA behavior is being reinforced by "management" rather than discouraged. So if somebody find a battery on the ground near a building and suggests "it looks suspicious" then all the way up the line people are thinking "IT'S A BOMB DESTROY IT" without any justification or disagreement.

  7. Re:Great loadbalancer on Nginx Overtakes Microsoft As No. 2 Web Server · · Score: 1

    So it's used more like squid than Apache?

  8. Re:Err on Holo Theme Is Now Mandatory For Android Devices · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    If asking a stupid question that's answered within the article isn't a reason to mod-down a post then what is? C'mon mods, do your thing!

  9. Re:Marketing on Google Punishing Chrome Results For 60 Days · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Of course, the "RIGHT THING" costs them nothing, as the search term that Chrome is being punished for--"browser"--shows a paid-for Chrome link right at the top of the page, which cost them nothing since they pay themselves!

    Really? It costs them nothing? Then they should buy out *all* the ad spaces! They'll make a fortune!

  10. Re:Cost on What's Keeping You On XP? · · Score: 1

    Same - the only reason I run Windows XP at home at ALL is because Turbo Tax stopped working under Windows NT 4.1...

  11. Re:All devices? on HTC Unlocks Bootloader For All of Its Devices · · Score: 2

    News that matters. Nobody cares about Windows Phones.

  12. Re:U.S. is established on religion, so on America's Turn From Science, a Danger For Democracy · · Score: 1

    This is true. In fact there is *more* evidence for Santa seeing as I got many presents from him as a kid. Jesus? Not so much...

  13. Re:U.S. is established on religion, so on America's Turn From Science, a Danger For Democracy · · Score: 1

    I love how "no belief" is categorized as "belief"...

    Atheism is a term that shouldn't exist. Non-belief is the default assumption when one doesn't know whether something does exist (i.e. there isn't enough evidence to support it). If I told you "elves exist" you would be "aelf" until shown otherwise (unless you were a credulous moron). Most atheists don't believe in God in *exactly* the same way they don't believe in Santa Claus and for the same reasons.

  14. Tools? on Why Can't We Put a BASIC On the Phone? · · Score: 1

    My limited experience with Android development showed using Java to be obtuse and downright obnoxious to do anything (at least without Eclipse, and even with it doing anything non-standard required digging through horrendous ant buildfiles).

    Yeah, I find walking to be a bit limiting too (at least after I cut off my feet and blindfold myself).

  15. Re:I think we should ban cosmetics completely on US Watchdog Bans Photoshop Use In Cosmetics Ads · · Score: 1

    Truer words have never been spoken on slashdot....

  16. Re:So.. on Google Donating $11.5M To Fight Modern Slavery · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Due to f'd up US laws Google *is* a person...

  17. Re:Legalize it. on Google Donating $11.5M To Fight Modern Slavery · · Score: 1
  18. Re:And Another Thing ... on Nokia Exec: Young People Fed Up With iPhone and Android · · Score: 1

    That is an *awesome* idea!

  19. Re:World's simplest? on Kindle Touch Gets World's Simplest Jailbreak · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://unrevoked.com/

    Plug in phone. Run app. Make tea. Really the last part was the difficult step.

  20. Re:MOD PARENT UP on Ask Slashdot: Ubuntu Lockdown Options? · · Score: 1

    "I don't know" is not the same thing as "you're doing it wrong." Geeks tend to answer the latter when they mean the former.

    IOW if you can't answer the question then shut the fsck up. I don't know why people feel compelled to answer if they have nothing to say that will help.

  21. Re:the cake is a lie on Ask Slashdot: One Framework To Rule Them All? · · Score: 1

    Isn't it past your bedtime?

  22. Re:Pisses me off on 'Alternative Medicine' Clinic Attempts To Silence Critics · · Score: 2

    No, there isn't. If your support is a movie he made then you have no support.

  23. Re:Before you make fun... on The Physics of Wine Swirling · · Score: 1

    Making wine is a process of turning sugars into alcohol. You can't discuss the one without the other. It's as if you said "frequency of light has nothing to do with wavelength."

  24. Re:Obligatory: RAID is not a backup on Which OSS Clustered Filesystem Should I Use? · · Score: 1

    Ummm. What? Wear out disks? Waste CPU? I'm pretty sure you know nothing about rsync...

  25. Re:This is the stupidest headline ever on Nokia Unveils Its First Windows 7 Phone · · Score: 1

    Beautiful? Every time I see a WP7 video all I can think of is "what's with the Win 3.1 icon themes?" I realize this is probably something that can be changed but what moron at MS thought 2-tone fugly icons were the way to go?

    That and the screens make me claustrophobic. I understand the concept of having things "trail" off screen to let you know there is more to be seen - but it makes me feel like I'm looking at a poster though a tube of toilet paper. I keep wanting to scroll out to see more...

    Not trying to persuade, just my $0.02.