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  1. Re: Flip flop .... on Trump Admits 'Some Connectivity' Between Climate Change and Human Activity (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    no silly, he wants to make boatloads of money out of it too !

  2. What's the point of having a futuristic-ally armed ship anyway ? aside from its ability to transport a lot of supplies, fly the flag visibly and to do humanitarian missions in pirate infested seas all of which can probably work very well with regular naval guns.

    For any real war I would have thought the best way to take out a ship would be from a submarine or from a land- or space- or air-launched missile.

    and who's to say there isn't some clever way to make the guns more effective with "smart shells" or something

  3. Re:Climate change on Facebook's Fight Against Fake News Was Undercut by Fear of Conservative Backlash (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    or they were bad stories. The truly bad idea was in trying to implement a filter in the first place.

  4. That's nothing on Robot Solves Rubik's Cube In Less Than a Second (livescience.com) · · Score: 0

    with a can of paint I could " make each side of the Rubik's Cube show a single color" in half that time. With a decent research grant I might even be able to make each face a different color.

  5. I watched the video, you misrepresent it. around 4:40 BO makes the case that for households where some people are not eligible to vote, citizens that are eligible have an obligation to vote so that the opinions of at least someone in that house will be recorded and he also says that lawful voters in that household can vote without fear that their vote will not be confidential or that the authorities will use the fact that they voted to track down their family members.

    In other words - if you are legally allowed to vote, vote

    .

  6. Re:Hillary is a queen on US President Barack Obama Criticizes Facebook of Spreading Fake Stories (www.bgr.in) · · Score: 1

    God can only judge things down to the weight of a mustard seed. Anything smaller, like say atoms, are too small. Presumably that extends to the affairs of atoms or however they may choose to arrange into collections.

  7. Re:Hillary is a queen on US President Barack Obama Criticizes Facebook of Spreading Fake Stories (www.bgr.in) · · Score: 0

    That's just another manufactured "justification" that the religious fuckwads give for why they feel they have the right to dictate everyone's lives.

    File it with the rest of the Manifest Destiny BS

  8. Re:BuzzFeed? on US President Barack Obama Criticizes Facebook of Spreading Fake Stories (www.bgr.in) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If it's not this "joke" then it's some other "joke", a call to say there's no need to vote or that you're guilty of a voting violation.

    It's all mean spirited, disrespectful and crooked and should be prosecuted whichever side is doing it.

  9. Re:And that's how it is done on Secret Service, DHS Scramble To Secure America's Election (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1
  10. Re:Trump supporters less able to identify a fake s on Teenagers In Macedonia Launch Fake Pro-Trump Sites To Earn Money (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Depending on the cycle one side or the other will be the most outraged. They're monetizing outrage and this cycle it happens to be Trumps turn. Eight years ago I seem to remember there was plenty of anti-bush outrage to be mined. It probably helps that Trump's approach is to play on the outrage, but it seems there is a never ending supply to tap into from both ends of the spectrum.

  11. The whole scam seems to rely on the ability of the Hawalas to ship Money across national borders. But I find it hard to believe that they would use 100s of these people, presumably this boils down to a handful of bent Hawala agents that can be tracked, or has bitcoin rendered that unfeasible ?

  12. They could halve the number of false positives by simply ignoring every other result from the current scanners.

  13. Re:Poifect! on Delta Now Lets You Track Your Baggage In Real-Time (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    those are great flights though - I want to be able to leave NY at 07:00 and arrive Bermuda 08:20. Or did the date field just get stripped out ?

  14. Re:I have one of those watches on New Smart Guns Will Have Fingerprint Readers (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately they seem to crop up quite frequently. Here's an example of a report of one...

  15. Re:Ignoring the reality of gun use... again. on New Smart Guns Will Have Fingerprint Readers (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Big surprise, I'm anti most gun ownership claims. I suppose I might consider getting a shotgun if I lived in the woods, but I digress. The issue for me is the attempt to ensure deadliness to the attacker, anyone considered "offensive" or any innocent that happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. The real goal here should be to find some technology that is convenient to carry, keeps the bearer safe in most of the same circumstances as a gun might, and leaves everyone alive and with no permanent injuries afterwards.

    I think if such a thing were available more people would carry them and more lives would be protected, It might even reach the levels of "herd immunity" that are just out of reach for firearms carry no matter what BS the lobby promotes

    Of course such a thing would never be approved even if it were invented

    But the guns have to become less prevalent, especially in cities, they just cause more problems than they solve, way beyond what is commonly discussed

  16. Re:I have one of those watches on New Smart Guns Will Have Fingerprint Readers (computerworld.com) · · Score: 0

    is that why they're always "cleaning it" when it goes off and hits their kid.

  17. Re:LOL @ Zeitgeist on Samsung Announces 10nm SoC In Mass-Production (anandtech.com) · · Score: 0

    You're right, sorry. We should stick to the technology discussion. I hear they're going to use this in the Kindle.

  18. Re:for those of us who don't work next to Bunny Hu on Samsung Announces 10nm SoC In Mass-Production (anandtech.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Source of Conflagration

  19. wow on Samsung Announces 10nm SoC In Mass-Production (anandtech.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    this is going to be HOT

  20. Re:Resiliency in the face of malicious inputs on When Mercedes-Benz Starts Selling Self-Driving Cars, It Will Prioritize Driver's Safety Over Pedestrian's (inverse.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly, the ethics come into play before the accident too. I wish I could mod your post up.

  21. Re:Security Concerns on WikiLeaks' Big Tuesday Announcement Will Now Take Place Via Video (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Assange is dead. The "video announcement" will be a simulation created by the Russians base on their earlier prototype "max headroom"

  22. Bringing home bacon on SpaceX Shows Off Its Interplanetary Transport System in New Video (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    So let's say I save up $200k for a ticket to Mars. How do I sustain myself when I get there ? become an "organic" potato farmer ? Plus the return trip seems to only involve returning the capsule for re-use, not a large payload of people or manufactured goods or raw materials. Mars needs an economy as well as an atmosphere.

  23. Worse than that, they should have used the Libraries of Congress unit for storage capacity, not the ream.

  24. I wish fire alarms would put an LED on or flash in some distinctive fast pattern when they are going through their "last gasp" series of chirps. I've had enough of being woken in the early hours to try and find which of them is chirping once per minute.

  25. Re:Yes, definetely on Should We Seed Life On Alien Worlds? (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Or act as a local enemy that we created.