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  1. If Only on Michigan Sues HP Over Decade Long, $49 Million Incomplete Project · · Score: 1

    If the Federal government would start doing this we could save hundreds or millions or possibly billions in tax payer money.

  2. Re:Duh on IBM Tells Administrators To Block Tor On Security Grounds · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I didn't say blocking Tor made you secure, I simply said traffic coming out of Tor is malicious and should be blocked. If you think blocking Tor makes no difference you are wrong. A lot of attacks are coming out of Tor and you can eliminate them with little effort.

  3. Duh on IBM Tells Administrators To Block Tor On Security Grounds · · Score: 1

    Yes, I know some people just use Tor because they don't want the government watching them, but I block Tor on general principal. Most of the traffic coming out of Tor is malicious. The only exception would be if I was running a site with information I wanted to provide to oppressed countries.

  4. Re:No-information voters on Internet Search Engines May Be Influencing Elections · · Score: 2

    Or maybe the moderate Republicans are more open minded about who to vote for and aren't set on any one candidate.

  5. Gurren Lagann on Study Details What Happens When Galaxies Collide · · Score: 1

    Thanks to Gurren Lagann we already know:
    http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-...

    They also make effective melee weapons.

  6. Re:artificial sweeteners spike insulin on Pepsi To Stop Using Aspartame · · Score: 1

    I assume you are referring to the study conducted on 7 people. Granted they did do a survey that consisted of 400 people, but the direct research sample was very small. This was also a single paper. The results are interesting and should prompt more studies, but it should not be used as a basis to determine if artificial sweeteners are bad for you without a more comprehensive study.

    The worst case scenario is that something that has been studied for decades on thousands of people is replaced with something that has not been studied as thoroughly and that is later to discovered to have bad effects. It's fad science.

  7. IBM Mints Money on IBM Reported To Be Developing Blockchain-Based Currency Transaction System · · Score: 2, Funny

    Step 1: Someone develops a cool open source technology
    Step 2: IBM slaps their name on it
    Step 3: IBM sells it to the government for millions of dollars
    Step 4: Profit!

  8. Re:Conservatives crying "no fair"? on Conservative Groups Accuse FCC of Helping Net Neutrality Advocates File Comments · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You are lumping all conservatives in with two special interest groups. That seems to be the point of this article as well as most articles on news sites these days, anything that rings partisan politics generates a lot of comments.

  9. Re:real problem is patent and copyright length on Software Patents Are Crumbling, Thanks To the Supreme Court · · Score: 0

    What about drugs where it takes 10 years just get through clinical trials? Your patent would expire before you could even sell your product. The problem might be more of an issue of trying to apply one system to industries that are very different.

  10. Unions on Tech Looks To Obama To Save Them From 'Just Sort of OK' US Workers · · Score: 1

    I don't like unions, but this is one case where the lack of unions is hurting US tech workers. There is no lobbing group to call out companies on this kind of BS. You would need a very large well funded organization to even think of going up against the tech giants in the political arena. Maybe you could call attention to it on something like change.org, but I don't think it would be very effective without some lobbing money behind it. Anyone have any ideas that would actually work, because whining about isn't accomplishing anything as we've seen for many years now.

  11. Missing Someting? on About Half of Kids' Learning Ability Is In Their DNA · · Score: 1

    Am I missing something here? The study showed a high correlation between math and reading skill in twins. So if one twin is better at math then they will be equally better at reading than the other twin. How do you derive from this that genetics is determining your intelligence? If it was than the twins should be equally good math and equally good at reading, but the study actually shows they are not equal since this is difference they are using to show the correlation between math and reading skill.

  12. Re:Case closed on Senior RIKEN Scientist Involved In Stem Cell Scandal Commits Suicide · · Score: 2

    Suicide is the leading cause of death in men aged 20–44 in Japan.
    Wikipeida http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...

  13. Re:boo hoo on Supreme Court Rejects Appeal By Google Over Street View Data Collection · · Score: 2

    I think a better analogy would be if you printing out your emails and web history and scattered the sheets of paper around your yard and the street in front of your house. Then someone driving down the road took a picture of your house and street which included the information you left laying out in the open.

  14. Re:Long Overdue Use of "free space" on Maglev Personal Transportation System Set For Trial In Tel Aviv · · Score: 1

    Similar things have been done before like the PRT system in Morgantown
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...

    This system is quite old. It is faster than a regular transit system because you only stop at your destination. However, there are complexities in the track design and you have a lot of little cars to maintain instead fewer larger ones.

  15. Re:Most qualified and motivated candidates? on Yahoo's Diversity Record Is Almost As Bad As Google's · · Score: 4, Insightful

    66% of Computer Science graduates are white, 15% Asian, 3% black, and 5% Hispanic. I'm surprised they have such a high percentage of Asian workers. Of course 60% of students graduating with master's degrees in computer science aren't Americans so maybe that's where they are coming from. Also 80% of Computer Science graduates are male and 20% are female, so it's not surprising that tech companies have primarily male workers.

    http://cra.org/uploads/documen...

  16. Re: I predict the future.... on Comcast Predicts Usage Cap Within 5 Years · · Score: 2

    In Kansas City Google will give you a free 5 Mbps connection. That's enough to do most things you'd want to do on-line like email, Web browsing, even streaming video. I would think that would cover most people who can't afford the $20-$30 a month.

  17. Re:Fuck me I hate updating flash. on Adobe Flash Remote Code Execution Flaw Exploited In the Wild · · Score: 1

    All the other software companies have fixed all of their security flaws. What is wrong with Adobe. If it wasn't for Flash the internet would be 100% secure.

    I assume the sarcasm tags are not needed.

  18. Prestige of Online Degrees on Interview: Ask President Anant Agarwal About edX and the Future of Education · · Score: 1

    I received an under graduate and master’s degree from traditional universities. I also received two masters’ degrees through on-line classes. In my opinion programs like edX are the future of education, but on-line degrees are still not regarded with the same level of prestige as those received through traditional education. In part this has been due to questionable practices of some on-line educational institutions. How can this perception be changed and do you have and do you have any plans in that regard?

  19. The cost of education on Interview: Ask President Anant Agarwal About edX and the Future of Education · · Score: 1

    The cost of college education has been growing at an unsustainable rate. What do you think the underlying cause is and what effect will programs like edX have?

  20. Yo Dawg We Heard You Like Comments on Comments About Comments · · Score: 1

    So we added comments to your comments, so now you can comment on your comments.

  21. Re:Why aren't more women in science fields? on Could a Grace Hopper Get Hired In Today's Silicon Valley? · · Score: 1

    I got my CS degree in the late 80s and there were only a handful of women in the program. My son is majoring in CS now and I don't think the ratio has really changed the much over the past 25 years. That's just my observations the actual data seems to suggest that it was about 30% when I was in school and it's around 12% now. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_computing.

  22. Check the Y chromosome on Scientists Seek Biomarkers For Violence · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure you will find correlation between the Y chromosome and violence.

  23. Re:I dont see the difference on SCOTUS Says DNA Collection Permissible After Arrest · · Score: 3, Informative

    They aren't putting your entire genome into the database. They only collect 13 specific markers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CODIS). The possibility that one of these markers is tied to a genetic disease is possible as referenced in Wikipedia. What you can determine from the DNA doesn't appear to be any greater than the information available in a photograph. DNA reveals non visible information, but a lot more information can be gleaned from a photograph.

  24. Adobe has been working on something similar on Mozilla's Open Source Project Shumway To Translate SWF To HTML5 · · Score: 1

    http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2011/03/flash-to-html5-conversion-tool-on-adobe-labs.html

    Despite everyone's hatred of Flash, it exists because there was no other way to get that type of functionality on the Web until relatively recently. I remember when FutureSplash came out in 1995 and it was very impressive compared to state of what you could do on the Web at the time. When Macromedia added the programming capability it was even more impressive. However, the time has come to move on to next great thing. Such is the way of technology.

  25. Re:There is more to farming than bushels per acre on Organics Can't Match Conventional Farm Yields · · Score: 0

    The point of organic farming it to charge more for your crops. Farming is a business.