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  1. Re:It must be profitable, but how? on Facebook Will Track What Physical Stores You Go Into (popsci.com) · · Score: 2

    You're looking for "The Hidden Persuaders", or more recently "Under the Influence". They'll answer your questions.

  2. Re:Not worried, frankly. on WHO: Drinking Extremely Hot Coffee, Tea 'Probably' Causes Cancer (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    You're oncologist's statement doesn't do anything to explain the reason a teenager might get cancer.

    Sure it does. One of the main causes of teenagers getting cancer is not dying in infancy.

    The sole cause of teenagers is parents.

  3. "Facebook is wrong" on Facebook Is Wrong, Text Is Deathless (kottke.org) · · Score: 1

    OP should have stopped right there.

  4. Finally.... on Scientists Amplify Light Using Sound On a Silicon Chip (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    ...after 136 years we'll finally get a photophone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... rather than a phone that takes photos.

  5. Re:Oh the hassle on Microsoft Is Buying LinkedIn For $26.2 Billion (microsoft.com) · · Score: 1

    So now I have to upload mi resume

    No, the AI will make one up for you out of thin air and contact scrapings.

  6. Does this mean on Google's AI 'TensorFlow' Software Is Coming To iOS (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    that OCR will finally work?

  7. Sherlockium on Four Newly Discovered Elements Receive Names (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    ... it's elementary!

  8. Entirely consistent on Mark Zuckerberg's Twitter and Pinterest Accounts Hacked (thestack.com) · · Score: 2

    1. Z's given up any expectation of privacy.
    2. He thinks you should too.
    3. Profit (for him)!!!

  9. Re:Silver poisonning on Antibiotic-Resistant E Coli Reaches The US For The First Time (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but silver's expensive and copper or bronze will work, without being stolen. Stainless steel, not so much.

  10. Re:Antibiotic abuse and biodiversity on Antibiotic-Resistant E Coli Reaches The US For The First Time (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    it's already too late

    I call bullshit. Sure we need new antibiotics, but if we don't correct the institutional malpractices, those too will become useless before long.

  11. Re:Antibiotic abuse and biodiversity on Antibiotic-Resistant E Coli Reaches The US For The First Time (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Doctors are way too quick to wrote prescriptions when they aren't necessary.

    True, but they're also way too reluctant to culture samples on the patient's first presentation. That has nearly no downside (except cost) and avoids the guessing game of "Well, it didn't respond to that antibiotic, let's try this one", which created an increased evolutionary pressure toward multiple resistance.

  12. There's also more than a few TLA's in Virginia. Coincidence? I think not.

    I suppose there are, but TPC is in New Jersey, and it's a TLA too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  13. Re:Not defending NASA on this one on Billionaire Technologist Accuses NASA Asteroid Mission of Bad Statistics (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wouldn't that be some beautiful irony, if the NASA research was wrong because of a bug in software Myhrvold's company had a hand in developing?

    Except 99% of physicists and astronomers use MacOS and/or some flavor of Linux....

    But then again, 98.37% of all statistics are made up.

  14. It looks in the press release ( http://www.iaf.fraunhofer.de/e... ) that they've got about a 0.6m dish diameter, so at 4mm wavelength that's about 50dB gain and 0.5 degree beamwidth. Match that at the Rx end for 100dB total antenna gain. Use the full 1W Tx power they claim to have. Suddenly you've got a lot of room for loss in the channel.

  15. There is also that blanket robots.txt set up by domain squatters are allowed to retroactively alter the visible record.

    Key term there is "visible". So long as the archive is preserved, the court can access it.

  16. Re:Better for Science, not politics. on Wikipedia Editor Says Site's Toxic Community Has Him Contemplating Suicide (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Encyclopedia entries for politicians didn't used to happen during their tenure

    Good idea, we should bring back the 15-second term limit !

  17. Wouldn't it be earilier if they just detected the smoke instead?

  18. Re:What's the difference? on Government Spy Truck Is Disguised As A Google Street View Car (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Can the police legally impersonate a corporation?

    Corporations are people. Police are not.

    The Corporation of the City of Philadelphia is not a person?

  19. How did this get into slashdot? This National Enquirer level crap "science".

    Apparently from gizmodo. Again. Hey Slashdot: we *still* need "clickbait" and "troll" labels for proposed stories.

  20. Re:What is SpaceX's carbon footprint? on Elon Musk: 'We Need a Revolt Against the Fossil Fuel Industry' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Clearly he thinks the cost hit he'll take at SpaceX will be dwarfed by his sales gains at SolarCity and Tesla. Sure, he can execute the ass off of bot the auto industry and the launch industry, but he knows that his bottom line is what will enable him to settle Mars, and he's not about to walk away from that goal.

  21. Re:Wait, wait on Ted Cruz Drops Out Of The Republican Presidential Race (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Wait a second... Rafael Cruz AND Glen Beck both said Ted Cruz was "anointed by god" to be the next president. How could god have gotten it so wrong??

    "God is watching us", not them.

  22. Re:Marketers... on Marketers Hunger For Data From Wearables (readwrite.com) · · Score: 1

    Worse than? I thought they *were* the combination.

  23. Re:ResearchGate is Legal Alternative on Who's Downloading Pirated Scientifc Papers? Everyone (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    I used my university alumni email to join, don't believe it is necessary to gain access

    There are other ways to join, but join you must if you want ResearchGate to work for you. This still creates a barrier to entry: without established academic credentials of some kind, you can't read the papers there. Certainly, you can't do so anonymously.

  24. The important bit on Supreme Court Gives FBI More Hacking Power (theintercept.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... is "the officer must make reasonable efforts to serve a copy of the warrant and receipt on the person whose property was searched or who possessed the information that was seized or copied. Service may be accomplished by any means, including electronic means, reasonably calculated to reach that person." So after they search your machine and identify you, they still have to let you know they did it. If it happens too often, voters might start to care. Of course, the cameras everywhere one turns don't seem to bother voters much, so perhaps that's a bit optimistic.

  25. Re:Nice try, NSA... on Intel Wants To Eliminate The Headphone Jack And Replace It With USB-C (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    Someone please mod parent up. That is exactly what fitbits, iwatches, etc are made for. If you think tracking ads are scary now, wait till you put that sucker on and they learn what details turn your personal crank.