Comment: Re:Recommendation vs mandate (Score 1) 569
No, all of your choices should be taken away. Simply because you equate "refusing vaccination" with "intentionally spreading disease".
Comment: Re:Hahahaha good luck (Score 1) 126
It's too bad people today have conflicting and insane ideas of what constitutes "socially irresponsible".
And is it really the fault of everyone else that a planned economy in the Soviet Union didn't take off like a jet plane and so enjoy the grand successes of all the other planned economies of the world? No and hehe.
Maybe it was just removing the decision making process, and the personal freedom required, far away from those that would directly benefit from making "good" decisions. Maybe.
Comment: Re:Got my vote (Score 1) 681
Yeah, because there are no cities with more than one airport available. Oh, wait ...
Do you really wonder which entity has the ability to make sure you "go f___ yourself": 1) a private security company or airline, or 2) a department of the federal government? Because I don't.
Do you really wonder which entity has the ability to make sure you "go f___ yourself": 1) a private security company or airline, or 2) a department of the federal government? Because I don't.
Comment: Re:AGW (Score 1) 961
Well said.
Has anyone exposed the inner workings of their climate model(s) to the light of day yet? I mean, they are "pumping mud", so they can't be too valuable IP-wise.
Who knows, someone might fix them.
Comment: Sun Shmun (Score 0) 70
The Sun can't even vary the Earths _temperature_ as much as mere human beings. If the title was "Man May Disrupt Spacecraft and Satellites In Coming Decades" it would be far more believable.
Comment: Thank You Mozilla! (Score 1) 284
"Given the extreme popularity of Skype, this has ramifications for millions of users"
The only one that matters: now some browser tasks will complete 300 times faster than before.
I don't like it when a installation program wants me to install some browser related thing by default ("uncheck the box"), much less give me no choice in the process. These things collect like dirt on your browser.
Startup's Submerged Servers Could Cut Cooling Costs 147
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from the alliteration-alternation dept.
from the alliteration-alternation dept.
1sockchuck writes "Are data center operators ready to abandon hot and cold aisles and submerge their servers? An Austin startup says its liquid cooling enclosure can cool high-density server installations for a fraction of the cost of air cooling in traditional data centers. Submersion cooling using mineral oil isn't new, dating back to the use of Fluorinert in the Cray 2. The new startup, Green Revolution Cooling, says its first installation will be at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (also home to the Ranger supercomputer). The company launched at SC09 along with a competing liquid cooling play, the Iceotope cooling bags."
Obama Administration Withholds FoIA Requests More Often Than Bush's 601
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from the no-conspiracy-necessary-note dept.
from the no-conspiracy-necessary-note dept.
bonch writes "Agencies under the Obama administration cite security provisions to withhold information more often than they did under the Bush administration. For example, the 'deliberative process' exemption of the Freedom of Information Act was used 70,779 times in 2009, up from the 47,395 of 2008. Amusingly, the Associated Press has been waiting three months for the government to deliver records on its own Open Government Directive."
Comment: Nothing trivializes violence ... (Score 1) 580
... like equating it with paintball.
Comment: Re:Yawn. (Score 2) 1088
"the difference is that Franken's message about the conduct of the recount and the election contest has been consistent from day 1"
That's certainly not what I am seeing and reading in the local news, but please: don't let the facts get in the way of your agenda.