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  1. Re:I lament the degeneration of the English langua on Physicists Spot Potential Source of 'Oh-My-God' Particles · · Score: 1

    It's only wage-slave click-baiting modern journalists who are responsible for this. It only takes one scientists to slip up and use a funny or sensational nickname for a particle (which will happen eventually), and then these media idiots run with it.

  2. Re:real vs pretend on Here Comes the Panopticon: Insurance Companies · · Score: 1

    What class action lawsuit? Did you not read about the binding arbitration agreement?

  3. Re:Car Insurance Companies Too! on Here Comes the Panopticon: Insurance Companies · · Score: 1

    Furthermore, ECU integration isn't that important. If the device has a set of accelerometers and a GPS receiver (which I'm pretty sure they all do), they can know all about how the car's being driven even if it has a carbed engine.

  4. Re:If everyone loses their jobs... on Foxconn Replacing Workers With Robots · · Score: 1

    Grow them below the tree canopies where the recon drones can't spot them too easily, and in areas which are hard for the enforcement droids to reach?

  5. Re:If everyone loses their jobs... on Foxconn Replacing Workers With Robots · · Score: 2

    Oh so a few engineers will have to be thrown a doggie biscuit (6-digit salary), I guess their plan will never work since you won't be able to overpower their morals with money! That's why the military-industrial complex never took off after all.

  6. Re:Prior art on Airbus Patents Windowless Cockpit That Would Increase Pilots' Field of View · · Score: 1

    You know what is prior art though? The F35, any helicopter with an onboard nightvision system and helmet-integrated display (AH64, RAH66), and every UAV in existence.

  7. Always clear skies over the US embassy on IBM Tries To Forecast and Control Beijing's Air Pollution · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The Chinese government HATES it when people measure and publish "unofficial" pollution level readings...you can bet that pollution controls upwind of the US embassy are especially strict.

  8. Re:Any Memory?? what judge will go on just that? on Police Using Dogs To Sniff Out Computer Memory · · Score: 1
  9. Re:Any Memory?? what judge will go on just that? on Police Using Dogs To Sniff Out Computer Memory · · Score: 1

    On a serious note, that could actually be illegal in some places.

  10. Re:Don't let politicians control the discussion th on When Beliefs and Facts Collide · · Score: 1

    Seriously... Al Gore has personally done more damage to the AGW cause then anyone else in the world.

    THIS. He massively increased the politicization of the issue and almost single-handedly created the incentive to turn climate denialism in the US from a fringe conspiracy theory to a mainstream belief. I don't think things would be massively different today if he had stayed out of climate issues, but the brakes wouldn't be dragging nearly so hard on the science train. I don't think climate policy would be more contentious than any other environmental policy issue.

    I'd say the biggest catastrophes in climate policy are:

    1. Al Gore, for contributing massively to the politicization of climate science

    2. Disinformation campaigns funded by fossil fuel companies and conservative think-tanks

    3. Michael Chrichton's State of Fear, the Book of Revelation for climate denialists.

  11. Nope on Google Reader: One Year Later · · Score: 2

    I went to g2reader and didn't miss a beat.

  12. Re:The cost. on Train Derailment Dumps Two 737 Fuselages Into Clark Fork River · · Score: 1

    That's assuming the planes aren't all the same spec, and the probably are (at least at this level since interiors haven't been fitted). They can just reassign planes and only 2 will be delayed.

  13. Re:Alcohol on Train Derailment Dumps Two 737 Fuselages Into Clark Fork River · · Score: 1

    A lot of wiring insulation these days is made of a soy-based material, critters love to chew on it!

  14. Re:Cheaper Solar Cells ! on Polymer-Based Graphene Substitute Is Easy To Mass-Produce · · Score: 1

    Patent to be purchased by fossil fuel company in 3,2,1...

  15. Re:Are we sure it's about boredom? on Study: People Would Rather Be Shocked Than Be Alone With Their Thoughts · · Score: 1

    One participant administered 190 shocks to himself.

    Hahaha holy hell, imagine how batshit-crazy that guy is! If that was in a 15-minute period, those shocks were less than 5 seconds apart on average!

    "GAHH, THE WAITING! *ZAP* MAKE IT STOP! *ZAP* I CAN'T TAKE IT! *ZAP*"

    I probably hate waiting more than anyone else alive today, and I figure I would press that button somewhere between zero and 2 times, depending on how curious I feel about the operation of the button and how much being zapped hurts.

  16. First post! on Use of Encryption Foiled the Cops a Record 9 Times In 2013 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Rapelcgvba SGJ!

  17. Re:Know your history on NSA Considers Linux Journal Readers, Tor (And Linux?) Users "Extremists" · · Score: 4, Informative

    You forgot about one of the dangerous communists he was tracking, Isaac Asimov.

    (TFA in that link is worth a read, or you can read my spoilers)

  18. Re:Why do they not exempt 5 eyes countries? on NSA Considers Linux Journal Readers, Tor (And Linux?) Users "Extremists" · · Score: 1

    To be serious, I'd have to imagine they're wasting the vast majority of their resources on this crap. There are a lot more Linux users, privacy advocates or cipherpunks than terrorists in the world, and that's not even getting into the human rights activists, world leaders, phone users from the Bahamas, etc.

  19. Re:Paging cold fjord and c6gunner! on NSA Considers Linux Journal Readers, Tor (And Linux?) Users "Extremists" · · Score: 5, Funny

    Really? Check out the beards on Islamic fundamentalists and l33t *nix sysadmins. Are you ready to assume that's a coincidence?

  20. Re:Why do they not exempt 5 eyes countries? on NSA Considers Linux Journal Readers, Tor (And Linux?) Users "Extremists" · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They give you the Five Eyes exemption until you do something really dangerous like read a Linux magazine or look up encryption tools. Then you've shown that you are a potential threat like all those shady characters who live in every other country on the planet.

  21. Re:BINGO! on NSA Considers Linux Journal Readers, Tor (And Linux?) Users "Extremists" · · Score: 4, Funny

    -sh: /usr/bin/laden: not found

    Muahahaha! >:-D

  22. My whole card's filled out!

    I guess that makes me Cyber Bin Laden?

  23. Re:Parents are all guilty on Austrian Tor Exit Node Operator Found Guilty As an Accomplice · · Score: 2

    The exit node is what let the traffic get out of the darknet and to the target of the attack...although it would indeed be only slightly more stupid to charge all the parties you listed as accomplices as well (equivalent to charging Michelin, Raybestos, and Shell for helping that Volkswagen be used as a getaway car).

  24. Oh please on IeSF Wants International Game Tournaments Segregated By Sex [Updated] · · Score: 1

    There are sports that are a lot more physical than gaming (although 1 is also a lot more than 0) where men and women compete against each other. Online, in arcades, in split-screen games on couches - that is, in the "real world" of gaming, men and women compete against each other. I'm pretty sure in Chess, which is roughly as physical as gaming, again men and women compete against each other.

    This is silly.

  25. Re:Faith in God on Site of 1976 "Atomic Man" Accident To Be Cleaned · · Score: 1

    I was wondering if, regarding the recent ruling on health insurance in the US, businesses owned by Scientologists can refuse to pay for any form of health insurance, except for "touch healing."