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  1. Re:Talking Point on UN Study Shows Record-High Increases For Atmospheric CO2 In 2013 · · Score: 1

    Could you point out which ones require passwords? I'll contact the site and recommend that they are at least put into a separate section for password-protected (I'm assuming paywalled) sources.

  2. A working heart is not much on In France, a Second Patient Receives Permanent Artificial Heart · · Score: 1, Funny

    Even if you can fix our hearts and our telomeres and the cancer, there are all kinds of cognitive problems associated with old age - Alzheimer's and plain ol' AAMI.

    So even if you can keep your 20s body into old age, at some point you'll be unable to remember things that happened recently such as whether you put your pants on this morning, and of course to check that you're wearing pants before you leave the house. Having a prime physique will make it much less horrifying for innocent bystanders, but still...

  3. Re:Talking Point on UN Study Shows Record-High Increases For Atmospheric CO2 In 2013 · · Score: 1

    Someone modded me Overrated after the first mod-up for linking to information the GP requested and proving one of his points fallacious.

    GP says that science is literally as political as politics and is closely comparable to a religion, remains unchallenged at +5.

    WTF?

  4. Re:Talking Point on UN Study Shows Record-High Increases For Atmospheric CO2 In 2013 · · Score: 2

    There have been studies on volcanoes in the past, in general the influence of volcanoes is very small vs. man-made emissions:

    http://www.skepticalscience.co...

  5. Re:But he DOES know better than you do! Duh. on UN Study Shows Record-High Increases For Atmospheric CO2 In 2013 · · Score: 3, Informative

    There's a thriving skeptic group actively doing just that, so you can still feel you're among your own kind when you look into it.

    A "skeptic" group already did this. The other "skeptics" didn't like the outcome:

    http://www.csmonitor.com/Envir...

  6. Re:Talking Point on UN Study Shows Record-High Increases For Atmospheric CO2 In 2013 · · Score: 0

    The models aren't perfect but they're pretty good IMO. There haven't been any big surprises, even the "hiatus" is just a failure to predict exactly where the heat went. They're much better than anything the denialists have come up with so far, so I'll stick with our best knowledge

  7. Re:Talking Point on UN Study Shows Record-High Increases For Atmospheric CO2 In 2013 · · Score: 5, Informative

    You haven't reviewed the data, you can't, its not public, so stop acting like you know any better than I do what the truth is.

    This data?

    http://www.realclimate.org/ind...

    Looks public to me.

  8. Bad for the rich - this will end soon on Private Police Intelligence Network Shares Data and Targets Cash · · Score: 1

    Rich people often personally move large quantities of cash around - for reasons that are often illegal and almost always unethical, but that's not the point here. The point is that the first time a rich dude has his DIY cash shipment intercepted, this idiocy will end quickly. But what are the odds of an expensive and classy car with a classy, usually white person behind the wheel getting pulled over?

    Hmm, if drug dealers moved their cash in Maybachs they'd go untouched!

  9. Re:Pronounced how? on Private Police Intelligence Network Shares Data and Targets Cash · · Score: 1

    Funny or Interesting? O_O

    Very unfortunate name...

  10. Re:Pseudoscience on How Scientific Consensus Has Gotten a Bad Reputation · · Score: 3, Informative
  11. Re:I don't get it on GM To Introduce Hands-Free Driving In Cadillac Model · · Score: 1

    It just turns the combination of auto-follow/auto-brake and auto-lane-hold that negligent jackasses have been using like an autonomous driving system into a proper, integrated feature.

  12. Re:New branch of life? on Mushroom-Like Deep Sea Organism May Be New Branch of Life · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure, maybe the author should spend a few more pages describing it.

  13. Double-edged sword on NYPD Starts Body Camera Pilot Program · · Score: 1

    When these cameras are used to feed a policeman's AR glasses and are running full-time face recognition, gait analysis and LPR along with a comms interface, you're going to have hivemind supercops, not necessarily a good thing with a so very imperfect set of laws.

  14. Re:Why "SJW"? on Combating Recent, Ugly Incidents of Misogyny In Gamer Culture · · Score: 1

    "Misandry" is like "anti-white oppression." Completely valid as a concept, surely happens somewhere in real life if rarely, but mostly just a rallying cry of bigots in practice.

  15. Re:Seriously? on FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler Says Switching ISPs Is Too Hard · · Score: 1

    For example, ISP services usually don't offer IMAP, SMTP, AND web interface access, while many free services do. The storage on the ISP-hosted mail is also usually pathetic by modern standards - and if you're someone like me who accesses their mail exclusively through the web interface, that's important.

  16. Re:Seriously? on FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler Says Switching ISPs Is Too Hard · · Score: 2

    This is why you never ever use the email address provided by an ISP. Not only is it a blatant lock-in tactic, but these days the email service they provide is inferior in every way to the free offerings out there.

  17. Re:Actions Against People Who Happen to be Women on Combating Recent, Ugly Incidents of Misogyny In Gamer Culture · · Score: 1

    It's also worth considering that if you play online, you'll get called a faggot, a nigger, and receive rape & death threats even if you're a straight white guy. If you give these pissed-off manchildren access to solid information on your race/gender/sexuality, all that does is give a specific target to the insults so they don't have to take the shotgun approach.

  18. Re:Why "SJW"? on Combating Recent, Ugly Incidents of Misogyny In Gamer Culture · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I love when people use the acronym "SJW," it's even more efficient than "misandry." It says "I am unapologetically backwards as fuck on a wide variety of issues, to the point that I am upset at the existence of people who are opposed to my backwardness."

  19. Re:No on Does Learning To Code Outweigh a Degree In Computer Science? · · Score: 1

    Don't forget being saddled with enough debt that they'll think very carefully about any risky job changes.

  20. Re:A body in motion etc. on Welcome To Laniakea, Our New Cosmic Home · · Score: 1

    If we were only thinking in terms of human lifespans, most science would be irrelevant. Geology and climatology? That stuff hardly changes in a human lifetime! Astronomy? Why bother with anything beyond Pluto?

    Thinking within a human lifespan is very short sighted for anything but what you want to achieve before you die. You could even argue that the grouping is practically permanent for the lifespan of our species, but that grouping would still be technically wrong compared to our best knowledge.

  21. Re:NSA involvement on Interview: Ask Christopher "moot" Poole About 4chan and Social Media · · Score: 1

    I'd like to add that if needed, Moot should feel free to copy Linus Torvalds' response to this question.

  22. Re:My moot question on Interview: Ask Christopher "moot" Poole About 4chan and Social Media · · Score: 1

    Huh? He's not Ayn Rand.

    >:)

  23. Re:Sue the bastards on In Maryland, a Soviet-Style Punishment For a Novelist · · Score: 1

    That would mean not voting for the Repubmocrats at the very least, or more likely, abstaining altogether...

  24. Re:Sue the bastards on In Maryland, a Soviet-Style Punishment For a Novelist · · Score: 4, Funny

    Someone should write a dystopian sci-fi novel about this (oh wait/Yo Dawg...).

  25. Re:Makes sense on Code.org Discloses Top Donors · · Score: 1

    Oh and a side-effect this will have that the Silicon Valley elite wouldn't care about if they'd even thought of it, is that outside of the tech hotspots, coding and IT work will become minimum wage jobs right across the board.