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Comment: Re:Not news to me (Score 0) 485

by DarkOx (#39072565) Attached to: James Randi's Latest Debunking Operation

He is not debunking anything though, it's all pseudo science that is as harmful to real understanding as that which he is trying to debunk. The summary mentions Adam Savage so to compare with myth busters, which does not always get it right, is fair. Adam and Jame usually test something very specific, If you do X then Y will happen. They don't try to prove Y can happen or Y happened. There are always testable preconditions or actions.

This guy is not proving anything other than $Deity is not a required condition, not that $Deity was not present or responsible when the event is stories to have happened. Suppose I show you I can make girl disappear with smoke, mirrors, and a try door. That does nothing to prove they last guy did not use "real" magic.

Comment: Re:You'd think, but... (Score 1) 603

by DarkOx (#39067759) Attached to: Aderall Or Nothing: Anatomy of the Great Amphetamine Drought

The methotrexate problem exists because the FDA (Government) shutdown one of the largest producers. If your kid does not get his or her methotrexate you have Washington to blame. You can argue that you also have washing to thank for the fact that all the methotrexate that has been injected into your little cancer patient has not been tainted and you might be right. The short is government caused however; its a simple fact.

Comment: Re:yet more biblical contradictions (Score 1) 883

by DarkOx (#39063039) Attached to: Why People Don't Live Past 114

And a 3 year old has no understanding why you don't put your fingers in the electrical outlet either but can still obey its parents.

That is the point prior to the apple, all they did was seek pleasure, avoid pain and obey. Consumption of the apple empowered them to make their own judgements rather than simply accept that of the father; which is not so they lacked free will before simply judgement.

Comment: Re:Shareholder interest is in profits not right/wr (Score 1) 106

by DarkOx (#39057763) Attached to: SEC Decides Telcos Must Give Shareholders a Vote On Net Neutrality

Well that us the problem bless the queues are empty at every interface you can't prioritize anything without degrading something else. What we really need to talk about is classification without regard to source. Ie you treat everyone's smtp the same and everyone's VoIP the same, etc. If you prioritize VoIP traffic for your service then you do it for google voice and vonage as well.

Comment: Re:Shows that detection intrusion is critical (Score 1) 178

Something needs to change here, and the only thing I can think of is personal criminal liability of those that fail to put reasonable security on their IT installations.

I am sorry but that would be insanely unjust. Should you be held 'criminally' responsible if you house is burgled because you did not have deadbolt lock on all your doors? Obviously no. At the same time if all you have is light weight little knob locks you are not doing much to protect your own assets.

If you really want to see change the insurance industry needs to spine up. Just like your homeowners rates are higher if you don't do basic security like have deadbolts corporate insurance rates need to go up sharply for companies that can't demonstrate they have effective and actively maintained IT security controls. When that happens you will start to see change.

Comment: Re:With [not-]Friends like these... (Score 1) 178

Does not matter what the credit rating of the USA is, its the reserve currency. Either lenders will lend to the US when asked, or will have their holdings confiscated through the use of the printing press. The US is unique in this given its accidental geographic location, and the outcomes of WWI and II, not that they were really separate wars.

Comment: Re:With [not-]Friends like these... (Score 1) 178

Right if the debt held by China is an issue at all its a tiny one. The bigger problem is all the American business that have huge parts of their supply chain made of product sourced from China, or from subsidiaries and divisions in China.

20/20 hind sight and all but we should have slammed the door on China shortly after Nixon opened it. It was possibly a good opportunity to dump farm products and surplus industrial production like most of Africa and South American remain. The time to get out was the moment we spotted them developing their own industrial capacity, it should have been obvious their sheer numbers would make them formidable.

Comment: Time to change distroes pal (Score 1) 644

by DarkOx (#39030755) Attached to: GNOME 3: Beauty To the Bone?

Ubuntu is dropping support for KDE. Why don't you just move to Debian? All the value of a distro is the polish. Scripts, canned configs with sane defaults, packages built with sane compile time options, dependencies if you are into that, etc. You will be getting none of that where KDE is concerned from Ubuntu in the future, actually it will all start to get in the way.

When you distro drops support for a major platform you like your best options are get with the program or go to one of the many many other places. Why fight with it. Especially when moving from Ubuntu to Deb would see few other real changes

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