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Adam503··on Is Al Gore asking permission to spam from your social networking account?
Nobody debunked "An Inconvenient Truth. What part of "ALL Nobel Prize winning scientists agree global warming is threat to humanity." do you not understand?

There is no more controversy about global warming in the scientific community than there is about evolution. Both concepts are considered settled.

There lots of discussion in the corporate owned media because oil companies buy a whole lot of television time falsely claiming the science on global warming isn't settled.

Adam503··on Eagles singer Don Henley: EFF, Google "aid and abet" criminals
I wonder if Don Henley knows the record companies are now trying to define musicians legally contract employees. All that music Don Henley recorded wouldn't belong to musicians. Musicians would be contract labor. Those rights would all belong to the record companies.
Adam503··on Major ISPs agree to "six strikes" copyright enforcement plan
Comcast customer service has a resemblance to retail shopping in the old Soviet Union. Ohh... you think it can't possibly be that bad. You get stuck having to take your cable box to a Comcast customer service center. You'll see.
Adam503··on Major ISPs agree to "six strikes" copyright enforcement plan
I suspect the content owners are going to get a big load of IP addresses from the ISPs and file a big huge pile of criminal charges or civil lawsuits against the people who the ISPs finger. The ISPs will then pretend to act hurt when the content owners violate this agreement.

Give your internet account to a fine business establishment who doesn't do something as ridiculous as trusting Time Warner or Comcast with confidential customer information.

Adam503··on Sal Khan has started videos about Python
Willing to cut the guy a break, huh? How big of you.

Are you willing to actually do any work to improve it, or give a big cash grant so KhanAcademy.org can hire those professional programmers to help out?

Adam503··on Sal Khan has started videos about Python
More proof that no good deed goes unpunished.

Will you be putting up your own website of free programming tutorial videos done the way you think they ought to be done? Will you offer to volunteer your time to Khan Academy.org to produce programming videos the way you think they should be done?

Yeah... that's what I though.

Adam503··on Firefox update policy: the enterprise is wrong, not Mozilla
You're wrong. The Mozilla Evernote add-on is broken right now. The Chrome Evernote addon is working fine.
Adam503··on Firefox update policy: the enterprise is wrong, not Mozilla
How are Mozilla developers like you going to keep my Evernote add-on working in Mozilla now? You guys will be breaking all the add-ons every 3 months, too.

Mozilla developers needs to be thinking about more than what is convenient for Mozilla developers. There's a whole of eco-system of add-ons, themes, etc that other people provide that makes for Mozilla you are going to be breaking every couple of months now.

Adam503··on Firefox update policy: the enterprise is wrong, not Mozilla
Firefox isn't just killing their Enterprise customers. This is going to hurt all the users who like to use add-ons with Firefox.

I'm an Evernote premium user. New versions every 3 months means the Evernote add-on gets broken for a month every 3 months. That's not gonna work.

Adam503··on Yes, it is possible to cross Dublin without passing a pub
At 30,000 ft.
Adam503··on Detroit DIYer cooks up stronger, lighter steel, shames scientists
My dad had a PhD in metallurgical engineering from a Big 10 university. I heard more about steel growing up up, than... well. you know. Anyway, I got curious about steel in samurai swords one time, and I asked him about that.

He said there's lots of legends about this material or that could be remade at the research lab my dad worked at that were not feasible to be mass produced. Process too costly, or too toxic, or maybe too dangerous when you have to make several thousand tons of it.

If my Dad had been given two weeks to just go and play at his company's lab, he could have walked out the door with Excalibur.

Adam503··on Response from Senator Menendez (NJ) in regards to the PROTECT IP act
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) blocked the PROTECT IP act at the end of May.

"Wyden Places Hold on Protect IP Act

Overreaching Legislation Still Poses a Significant Threat to Internet Commerce, Innovation and Free Speech

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Washington, D.C. – Continuing his opposition to legislation that aims to protect intellectual property at the expense of free speech, technological innovation and the very foundations of the Internet, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden has issued the following statement announcing a hold on the motion to proceed to the Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act (PROTECT IP)...

more at http://wyden.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/?id=33a39533-...

Adam503··on PyCodeConf: The Future Of Python
Miami in early October? That's still Hurricane season, ya' big dummies.

http://www.accuweather.com/blogs/news/story/38555/rememberin...

Adam503··on Blunt and necessary review of programming language books.
Check these guys out. They're trying new model book publishing, too.

http://www.unbound.co.uk/

Adam503··on Bill Gates On Nuclear Energy: Compared To Coal, It Is Still Safer
Eating uncooked meat from Jack in the Box is safer than playing Russian Roulette.

I'll wait for the next option, thanks.

Adam503··on Bill Gates On Nuclear Energy: Compared To Coal, It Is Still Safer
Doesn't need to blow up like a nuke to kill 10% of the population inside the quarantined zone within 10 years from cancer caused by radiation exposure.
Adam503··on Angst in the United States - What's wrong with America's economy?
All America's working capital is being hoarded outside the US economy by the rich. There's no capital left to flow the economy.
Adam503··on To the young brilliant minds
I'm flabbergasted you're still peddling the ridiclous notion that the single payer health care system that is working for every other nation in the Western World is broken.
Adam503··on To the young brilliant minds
Rubbish.

America is the only country in the Western World paying these astronomical prices. The only reason health care is so expensive in the US is because "for-profit" health care costs twice as much as single payer heath care.

Adam503··on SpaceX Falcon Heavy announced: 53 metric tons to low earth orbit
You better not let a US military-industrial corporation like Boeing acquire SpaceX. Those low cost launches will disappear instantly.
Adam503··on Could thorium make nuclear power safe?
No nuclear energy is cheap. It's a big lie.

The primary cost of nuclear power generation is decommissioning the reactor after the power generation is over. The Federal Government has 1 trillion dollars in nuclear reactor coming down the road. The nuclear power "industry" is long gone at that point. The decommissioned reactors get spun off into their own little corporation , and the parent corp has it declare bankruptcy, sticking us with the cost of clean up.

Adam503··on Could thorium make nuclear power safe?
I would suggest human beings are unsafe. It's human beings that put all Fukushima's 20 backup diesel generators in the basement, but put no backup diesel generators a few stories above or on stilts raised above a flood. Two backup diesel generator installed a few stories up, and none of this happens.

The Dutch have put their water pump generators up a few stories for a long time. New Orleans had power for their water pumps raised a few stories pre-Katrina.

Adam503··on Could thorium make nuclear power safe?
You don't get to say x is safe if x has had an accident that took many years off the lives of half a million people.

All human beings make mistakes. Nuclear reactors do not tolerate mistakes.

Adam503··on Kids are making friends in the Arab world - via Call of Duty
Thanks. Now Glenn Beck's gonna have "Call of Duty" up on his blackboard screaming "Islamic terrorists groups are now recruiting American children!"
Adam503··on Rails for Zombies - Learn Rails from the comfort of your browser
We're getting really, really close to the "one zombie thing too many" threshold as a culture.

But this is pretty sweet :)

Adam503··on Ubuntu moves away from GNOME
or... GNubuntu :-D
Adam503··on Rethinking the Multivitamin
Nonsense. It's in the pharmaceutical industry to get people to stop taking cheap vitamins. They more money when people are sick.

I've lost all confidence that people in the pharma industry wouldn't act like that. Those same people have watched a whole lot of people in Africa and the 3rd world die from illnesses that could easily prevented with a few cents of medicine.

They most certainly do act that way.

Adam503··on Wikileaks dumps 400,000 more files
Got any links to any evidence whatsoever? No? Didn't think so.
Adam503··on Wikileaks dumps 400,000 more files
Another Karl Rove student with no link to any evidence whatsoever that make those claims anything but meritless rants
Adam503··on Wikileaks dumps 400,000 more files
You can be as bummed as you want. I don't see where you have posted a source for your claim that's more reliable than a Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, or one of Glenn Beck's equally unreliable compatriots at Fox News.

ONLY thing linked NY Times article and aaronbrethorst claim share is founders name.

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