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  1. Re: Apple not in my best interests either on Why Apple Should Open-Source Swift -- But Won't · · Score: 1

    Yeah, no body use WebKit, wait what.

  2. Anti-CD47 most promising on If We Can't Kill Cancer, Can We Control It? · · Score: 2

    Anti-CD47 is just entering the first human trials at Stanford, and shows a lot of promise. We really should start seeing declining deaths rates and better quality of life.

  3. Re:Love this stuff on Medical Milestone: Scientists Reset Human Stem Cells · · Score: 1

    I can do that myself for cheap, and it would be more fun that way. I'm thinking a psychedelic with a heroine chaser.

  4. Re:hoooray on Medical Milestone: Scientists Reset Human Stem Cells · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I can understand the cynicism , but allow the early adopters to pay the extremely high prices so that better and better, less expensive versions and techniques can be made.

    The amazing thing about nature, it will always find a way to kill you! Sooner or later she's going to get you. Appreciate the beauty :-)

  5. Love this stuff on Medical Milestone: Scientists Reset Human Stem Cells · · Score: 2

    I love seeing these breakthroughs! But it's time to start making some jumps in the real world applications. I would pay $5k right now to get get rid of my presbyopia and myopia, hell, maybe even $10k if I had a guarantee of 20-30 yrs (free updates).

  6. Age old question on Who Is Buried In the Largest Tomb Ever Found In Northern Greece? · · Score: 0

    Where's Waldo?

  7. Re:LSD does not enhance creativity on Is There a Creativity Deficit In Science? · · Score: 1

    My sarcasm sensor may be broke.... Or I'm tripping.

  8. Lemmings rule.... on Is There a Creativity Deficit In Science? · · Score: 1

    When you believe I need to get a grant and I need to publish this or that to make a major breakthrough you are just being a lemming.
    Now take the teenager who had the desire to create a Pancreatic Cancer Test and didn't have all those rule drubbed into him, he just did it.
    Those formally trained in research do splendid formal research, those with desire and no rules make amazing breakthrough.... Maybe :-)

  9. Re:Executive Orders Need to Expire, and Quickly on The Executive Order That Led To Mass Spying, As Told By NSA Alumni · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If the president had to go through congress to do everything, nothing would get done. I think the Obama administration is still trying to get appointments through congress from 2 years ago.

    On the other hand the expiration idea has merit.

  10. 0% on Slashdot Asks: How Prepared Are You For an Earthquake? · · Score: 1

    We are so resource constrained we just get by, if a large quake hit the San Jose area we'd be down functionally for weeks....

  11. And now.. on A 24-Year-Old Scammed Apple 42 Times In 16 Different States · · Score: 1

    He'll be serving 5-10 yrs. Brilliant.

  12. So a victim gets sued by victims? on Sony Agrees To $17.75m Settlement For 2011 PSN Attack · · Score: 0

    If the criminals (hackers) had physically (instead of virtually) broken into Sony, physically stolen customer information would Sony be responsible in that case also? At what point is it just a crime against both Sony and it's customers?

    I can see people writing that the security should have been better, well the same can be true in a physical crime also. Just seems odd to me, and how do we define when a company/person is liable in this kind of situation where they are also the victim?

  13. Re:Black box data streaming on Russia Prepares For Internet War Over Malaysian Jet · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So we can put Wifi internet on airplanes, but not a virtual black box?

  14. Black box data streaming on Russia Prepares For Internet War Over Malaysian Jet · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why haven't all airplanes been upgraded so the black box data is streamed to satellites/ground stations? It's so dumb to have to search for a airplane to find the data, that should be the fallback plan. Hey FAA, you listening?

  15. Re:Apple Actually Cares About Privacy on iOS 8 Strikes an Unexpected Blow Against Location Tracking · · Score: 2

    What Apple tracking options? iBeacon I suppose could be used for that but users have the option to enable or not.

  16. Re:Apple Actually Cares About Privacy on iOS 8 Strikes an Unexpected Blow Against Location Tracking · · Score: 3, Informative

    Big difference iBeacon needs to be enabled per app, the user has control! Here the user was scanned without their consent, this new privacy feature is awesome.

  17. That mean it's just not corporations on NSA and GHCQ Employing Shills To Poison Web Forum Discourse · · Score: 1

    Whether it be governments or corporations or trolls, there will always be posters with less than the best intentions.

  18. Apple's Search Engine on Apple Rumored To Be Exploring Medical Devices, Electric Cars To Reignite Growth · · Score: 1

    I wonder if Apple will go into the Search Engine space? Imagine all iOS and Mac OS defaulting to Apple's own Search Engine, would that cause a ripple in the search market?

  19. GPU failures seem frequent in MacBook on GPUs Dropping Dead In 2011 MacBook Pro Models · · Score: 1

    I know from my last 15 yrs of experience with MacBooks, the GPU seems be a problem area from Apple.

  20. The Tesla Model S has a 5* Rating on NHTSA Tells Tesla To Stop Exaggerating Model S Safety Rating · · Score: 1

    A 5* (or 5 Star) has to be better than 5 and definitely better than 5.4.
    Plus they can claim it was a footnote that was mistakenly left off.

  21. Re:Vitamin D 25-OH only $20.35 on Affordable Blood Work In Four Hours Coming To Pharmacies · · Score: 1

    The management team is a Who's Who of former US government/military

  22. Vitamin D 25-OH only $20.35 on Affordable Blood Work In Four Hours Coming To Pharmacies · · Score: 1

    Wow, Vitamin D 25-OH for only $20.35 according to their page. that +$200.00 less than LabCorp charges. It's nice to see Silicon Valley expanding its menu.

  23. Bring back sabbaticals & get rid of lazy manag on Don't Call It Stack Rank: Yahoo's QPR System For Culling Non-Performers · · Score: 1

    One of the things bean counters got rid of is the extended paid sabbatical, companies should bring it back!! It encourages two things: cross training and extended personal reflection (that leads to transitions). By bringing these back companies would encourage those who are ready to leave to leave on their own (instead of hanging around doing the bare minimum) and those who want to stay to be invigorated and ready for more focused work.

    Second get rid of the lazy manager, managers that use ranking systems to determine the quality of their workforce don't spend the time to really get to know their employees and instead focus on serving the bureaucracy of the company. If you can't trust your managers to manage or grow the staff, get rid of them.

  24. Natural Progression on Hardware Is Now Open (sourced) For Business · · Score: 1

    It's a natural step, but probably more so a financial step. If a company can take an open piece of hardware and use it to save money, win, win.

  25. Explains a lot on 30% of Americans Get News From Facebook According To Pew Research Poll · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So many people, so misinformed.