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  1. Might want to read the fine print... on Canadian Nuclear Accident Study Puts Risks Into Perspective · · Score: 5, Informative

    From the study: "The radiological exposure to people (beyond the first seven days) and its resulting short and long-term health impacts are not assessed in this study."
    In other words, the flow of radionuclides through the environment, and expected specific dispersal and concentration pathways resulting in human exposure and the resulting cancers risks were not studied.

  2. Next Up: *Delay* delay send on After 6-Year Beta Test, All Gmail Users Get 'Undo Send' · · Score: 2

    With future upgrades to the functionality for the foreseeable future.

  3. Re:Instead... on 'Mobilegeddon': Google To Punish Mobile-Hostile Sites Starting Today · · Score: 1

    Obligatory xkcd reference.

  4. Re:Giant Dinosaur FOSSIL Unearthed In Argentina on Giant Dinosaur Unearthed In Argentina · · Score: 1

    I logged in just to make this point... a moment or two after giggling at the giant bird-lizard that had been cooped up for some-odd millions of years, but was now free to roam around.

  5. Re:Pen on Ask Slashdot: What Old Technology Can't You Give Up? · · Score: 1

    bic 4-color multi-pen (preferably orange barrel, fine point), plus the lime green barrel purple/pink/cyan/lime green one.

  6. pine on Ask Slashdot: What Old Technology Can't You Give Up? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    (Well... alpine.)

  7. Ok, but you're not in before: ECOLOGICAL FALLACY! on Students From States With Faster Internet Tend To Have Higher Test Scores · · Score: 1
    Not to mention other cross-level fallacies. See for example: Diez-Roux, A. V. (1998). Bringing context back into epidemiology: variables and fallacies in multilevel analysis. American Journal of Public Health, 88(2):216--222.

    The upshot: Even if a causal relationship corresponds to the study's findings, causes of state-level rates of test achievement are fundamentally different things than causes of student-level rates of test achievement.

  8. Stack Exchange reputations? on New Digital Currency Bases Value On Reputation · · Score: 1

    That seems like it might be a proposal for ways to spend things like SE reputation for things other than bounties on SE. :)

  9. *WAS* a scam? on FTC To Trap Robocallers With Open Source Software · · Score: 1

    I got robocalled by "Rachel from Cardholder Services" last week.

  10. Pics or GTFO on Scientists Have Developed a Material So Dark That You Can't See It · · Score: 1

    No pictures of the material under ambient lighting with other recognizable objects or this is vapor.

  11. Nope:iOS malware only works on jailbroken devices on They're Spying On You: Hacking Team Mobile Malware, Infrastructure Uncovered · · Score: 1

    I notice that you are still not answering the question How to wipe an infected device. Is basic reading comprehension too challenging for you?

  12. Re:iOS malware only works on jailbroken devices!! on They're Spying On You: Hacking Team Mobile Malware, Infrastructure Uncovered · · Score: 2
    And you also answer the question by way of spreading FUD about taking control of one's own general purpose computer like a complete jackass.

    My question was: given that the researchers identified ways to uninstall/trigger wipes of the malware from one's phone, how does one go about doing so? "Don't jailbreak an iphone." is not an adequate answer to that question.

  13. Re:They mention "uninstall" and "wipe" but not how on They're Spying On You: Hacking Team Mobile Malware, Infrastructure Uncovered · · Score: 1

    Way to not answer the question by way of spreading FUD about taking control of one's own general purpose computer, jackass. My question was: given that the researchers identified ways to uninstall/trigger wipes of the malware from one's phone, how does one go about doing so? "Don't jailbreak an iphone." is not an adequate answer to that question.

  14. They mention "uninstall" and "wipe" but not how to on They're Spying On You: Hacking Team Mobile Malware, Infrastructure Uncovered · · Score: 1

    So: how to prompt such malware to uninstall itself on one's devices?

  15. Re:this is totally wrong!!! on OKCupid Warns Off Mozilla Firefox Users Over Gay Rights · · Score: 1

    "I truly think and feel OK cupid is wrong for forcing their agenda those whom do not necessarily agree." Do you mean like Prop 8 supporters forcing their lifestyle choices on same sex couples desiring to marry? Cause, like: it is very difficult to understand how you can mean what you wrote without blatant glaring, bigoted hypocrisy.

  16. Add some sharks and I am SOLD! on Lasers May Solve the Black Hole Information Paradox · · Score: 0

    What we all want is spaghettified laser sharks. Amiright!?

  17. Subcreation on Apocalypse NAO: College Studies the Theological Ramifications of Robotics · · Score: 1

    The summary puts me in mind of Tolkien's essay How Like a Leaf (and the companion short story "Leaf by Niggle"), wherein he explored the act of "subcreation" (i.e. creating fiction, whether literary, imaginary, visual, etc.) as part of what "in god's image" means: acting in a smaller capacity as a creator was for Tolkien inseparable from his spiritual beliefs as a christian trying to live in the image of god. Caveats: I am not christian, nor am I asserting that "in god's image" is universal among deistic religions, or that it does not have other interpretations, yadda yadda yadda...

  18. Oh come on! on Stack Overflow Could Explain Toyota Vehicles' Unintended Acceleration · · Score: 0

    How in the world can the StackExchange formun StackOverflow be responsible for such anomolous acceleration events? I mean praise reddit or IRC alternatives to stackoverflow.com all you want, but tone down the rhetoric willya? Sheesh.

  19. Re:Personal faith != alternative to legal system on US Justice Blocks Implementation of ACA Contraceptive Mandate · · Score: 2

    Hahahaha! You've never worked in the non-profit world, huh? I certainly paid income tax, social security, etc. when working in the non-profit world.

  20. Personal faith != alternative to legal system on US Justice Blocks Implementation of ACA Contraceptive Mandate · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Just like if one's personal faith entails, say, pacifism (of the no support for institutional violence variety), that does not mean that one gets to opt out of, say, taxes that support the military, the police, or the prison system. Not sure how mandating that birth control is part of a federally stipulated health care package and religious (yet Sisyphean) objections to heterosexual sex are going to change that reality.

  21. This looks like a job forCarl Malamud on DoD Public Domain Archive To Be Privatized, Locked Up For 10 Years · · Score: 1
  22. 'Cause if there's 'legitimate rape' on The Mathematics of 'Legitimate Rape' and Pregnancy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There must also be 'illegitimate rape,' right? Send that clown packing back to the anti-woman nut house he escaped from.

  23. What about trailer tractors? on Intel Team Takes On Car Hackers · · Score: 1

    Is building up viably secure automotive computing platforms part of a push toward a fleet of automated teamsters?

  24. The ONLY international GHG framework on Kyoto Protocol Renewal Efforts Struggling · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The Kyoto Protocol's emissions targets were woefully inadequate to avert the worst of greenhouse gas (GHG) related climate change. However, the Kyoto Protocol was the ONLY international framework for negotiating multilaterally on curbing emissions of greenhouse gasses. The Bush/Obama administration in the US and China sure did a good job destroying that framework putting multilateral efforts to ameliorate climate change on an even more glacially slow path. To quote Stephen Colbert "Enjoy that metaphor, by the way, because your grandchildren will have no idea what a glacier is."

  25. you misspelled "peaceful-demonstrators" on Weaponizable Police UAV Now Operational In Texas · · Score: 1

    as "c h a s i n g - p e r p s".