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  1. What about the men? on Evolution's Path May Lead To Shorter, Heavier Women · · Score: 1

    If tall and fit men have more children than their stouter brothers, the two effects might cancel each other out.

  2. A couple of points on Save the Planet, Eat Your Dog · · Score: 2, Informative

    - If you are worried about the eco footprint of your dog, just reduce your own meat consumption accordingly.

    - And as others have already pointed out, dog/cat food grade meat has not the same carbon foodprint as meat for human consumption.

    - The comparison of eco footprints between pets and cars is flawed, as long as most cars run on fossil fuels. Pets need arable land, cars consume fossil fuels and add CO2 to the biosphere.

    - Their math may be a bit off. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiesel/ gives the example of 445.5 m2 of land for 47.4l Biodiesel. Scale that up to one hectar (10,000m2) and you get 10,652 Liters of Biodiesel. You either need a very efficient car to go 10,000km with that (1l/100km or 235 miles per gallon) or a vastly more efficient energy plant than rapeseed. (Apologies if I made a mistake, corrections are welcome)

  3. Re:you're wrong. on Sequoia Voting Systems Source Code Released · · Score: 1


    How about this?

    You select your candidate / party / referendum option on screen.
    The computer prints out a ballot paper and records your vote.
    You put the ballot paper in the ballot box.
    The returning officer selects a sample of ballot boxes at random and checks them to the computer.

    You could even use slightly modified point-of-sales systems from your local McDonalds for that.

  4. Re:Job search licence on SCO Terminates Darl McBride · · Score: 2, Interesting

    SCO basically claimed to own the rights UNIX (incl LINUX) and kindly offered not to sue companies using it, if they paid 699$ per installation. For details, check groklaw.net.

  5. Re:I beg to differ on MIT Project "Gaydar" Shakes Privacy Assumptions · · Score: 1

    Can you actually tag pictures of non-users and if yes would that be searchable? I assumed that a tag is basically a link to another user's page.

  6. Re:I beg to differ on MIT Project "Gaydar" Shakes Privacy Assumptions · · Score: 1

    How would you know who my friends are? If you know me well enough in meatspace to know my friends, chances are that you know my sexual orientation.

  7. Re:I beg to differ on MIT Project "Gaydar" Shakes Privacy Assumptions · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Arg. Find me on FB...

  8. I beg to differ on MIT Project "Gaydar" Shakes Privacy Assumptions · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "That pulls the rug out from a whole policy and technology perspective that the point is to give you control over your information -- because you don't have control over your information."

    I have control over my information. And that is why you wont find be on Facebook.

  9. Good Job on Scientists Clone Oldest Living Organism · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So they cloned a plant that has hitherto successfully cloned itself for a thousands years without any help?

  10. Re:1M bail and 1yr in jail...? on 3 of 4 Charges Against Terry Childs Dropped · · Score: 1

    So in a medical misconduct trial you want 12 doctors on the jury, able to understand the medical evidence? JWR was talking about that the current system would exclude any doctor (in practice probably everyone who knows the difference between Eustachian and Fallopian tubes) from the jury in such a case.

  11. Re:Can't have digital security on UK National ID Card Cloned In 12 Minutes · · Score: 1

    Just check the London buses, underground and taxis for lost laptops and USB sticks. At the current loss rate, this shouldn't take more than a few weeks until someone loses a copy of the private key.

  12. male vs. female good looks on Are Women Getting More Beautiful? · · Score: 1

    Something that should be considered: A good looking father would pass the genes for a strong chin, muscular build etc. to his sons and his daughters alike. The daughters wouldn't get the best deal here.
    It might be interesting to study if good looking fathers have "ugly" daughters who in turn might have good looking sons again.
    And of course the other way round too.

  13. Re:Could someone please explain on Solar-Powered Moon Rover To Explore Apollo Landing · · Score: 1

    It might be interesting to see how the hardware that was left behind aged. Do those instruments still work or how badly did they suffer from radiation and extreme temperatures?

  14. Re:Why didn't this happen sooner? on Lawyer Jailed For Contempt Is Freed After 14 Years · · Score: 1

    After 14 years, that is a pretty big if. Any sane person would have payed after a few months, so IMHO chances are that he didn't have the money and the judge wasted 14 years of his life, never mind a large sum of taxpayers money.

  15. Re:ok so the company lost money... on Most Expensive JavaScript Ever? · · Score: 1

    OK, let's assume that you would want to rent out parking space to a local shop. It might make sense to ban brand X cars, if they would require extra wide and long spaces. But if you really want to sell your parking spaces to a brand X car shop, this strategy would be full of fail.

  16. Re:Pravin Lal is correct again... on Wikipedia Debates Rorschach Censorship · · Score: 1

    I distinctly remember having seen the one with the two butlers rocking a cradle/two tribal women grinding maize before. In one movie, a patient even recognizes plate 7 as two dancers.
    The others are just genitalia anyway :)

  17. Pravin Lal is correct again... on Wikipedia Debates Rorschach Censorship · · Score: 2, Insightful

    See quote in signature.
    Seriously, even without having searched for the blots previously, you just can't grow up without seeing a few of them in movies and such. So, if the test requires secrecy to work, it has failed a long time ago.

  18. Re:News at 11 on Strong Passwords Not As Good As You Think · · Score: 1

    Winter.2009
    Spring.2010
    Summer.2010
    Fall.2010

    Easy to remember and meets most password policies :)

  19. Re:A good translation for default to other languag on On the Humble Default · · Score: 1

    In German, the default is to simply use "default", at least in the context of computers. An alternative would be "Werkseinstellung" literally "factory setting2

  20. Re:And this is the government... on German Interior Ministers Seek Ban On Violent Games · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Control freaks will suffer no other control freaks in their territory.

  21. Speaking for myself... on What Do You Do With a Personal Domain? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I use my personal domain for my "good" email address and also to host personal stuff like photo albums, avatars, bookmarks and such.
    Call me old fashioned, but I like to keep my private stuff away from corporations, so I try to avoid photobucket, flickr etc.

  22. Obfuscation? on Cox Communications and "Congestion Management" · · Score: 1

    Did anyone design a P2P protocol that looks like VoIP or Video streaming yet?

  23. Re:If it were free-form, and not multiple choice, on Personality Testing For Employment · · Score: 1

    Actually drinking the blood might be a bad idea if you have no water reserve. IIRC it would be too salty. But maybe one shouldn't elaborate during the interview.

  24. Taxing Monopoly money next? on IRS Eyeballing Virtual World Tax Policies · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Gaming companies by and large insist that they own everything within the game. Basically a player "owns" stuff the same way a monopoly player "owns" his cards, houses and money, i. e. only in the context of the game. If there is a transition to real world money (gold on ebay), that is already taxable.

  25. Re:Is Hanlon's Razor sharp enough to cut this? on Open Source Program Reveals Diebold Bug · · Score: 1

    That should be fairly easy to implement, as you would only need a slightly modified supermarket POS terminal.
    - Press button, machine registers and counts the vote
    - get paper slip (aka ballot)
    - drop ballot in box

    If you ask nicely, you are allowed to re-count the paper ballots if you suspect foul play.