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  1. Re:Possible countermeasure... on Indiana State Police Acknowledge Use of Cell Phone Tracking Device · · Score: 1

    In other words, it causes poor cell reception for LOTS of people in return for investigative data on a few people.

  2. Re:99% men on Thousands of Germans Threatened With €250 Fines For Streaming Porn · · Score: 1

    Yes, if they were addressing them in English, that would be a possibility.

  3. Re:Hey Mr. "Open Book" anonymous jackass on California Man Arrested for Running 'Revenge Porn' Website · · Score: 1

    ...horny?

  4. Re:Sounds Like Paypal's eCheck on JPMorgan Files Patent Application On 'Bitcoin Killer' · · Score: 1

    Exposed public address...to receive payments. An account number? I may be American, but isn't that the way Europe handles cash transfers from one bank to another?

  5. Re:Maybe the Patent Office will notice on JPMorgan Files Patent Application On 'Bitcoin Killer' · · Score: 4, Informative

    First to file still considers prior art.

  6. Re:Math is math on EV Owner Arrested Over 5 Cents Worth of Electricity From School's Outlet · · Score: 1

    No matter how you pronounce it, nor what scripts you reference, it's still gigawatts.

  7. If it was sitting on my lawn, then it's abandoned property in my eyes.

  8. These interpretations of the law are getting silly. True, open/unsecured networks doesn't necessarily mean free. But if a business advertises free wifi, then it's free unconditionally. If they had signs up that say free wifi for customers, then that's different.

  9. Not everyone has a battery-powered vacuum cleaner. Are you arguing that designing a building for proper custodial care is akin to setting up a free electricity booth? Public funding is for everyone to get benefit. When you take things that aren't meant for you, you're not using just the share you paid for - you're using part of someone else's share too.

  10. Re:Do we need sings on each outlet in a public pla on EV Owner Arrested Over 5 Cents Worth of Electricity From School's Outlet · · Score: 1

    Do we need sings on each outlet

    I've always thought that if law enforcement needed one more thing to help it, it's musicals. The question is whether informative music or annoying music are more of a deterrent.

  11. Re:Don't expect the cop to know how much was stole on EV Owner Arrested Over 5 Cents Worth of Electricity From School's Outlet · · Score: 1

    In fact, that little datum will in many cases prevent various corporations from ever hiring him if he ever desires to take employment with them. Frankly,that officer showed extreme lack of judgement and at the very least ought to be reprimanded.

    No, that sounds more like an extreme lack of judgement on the part of the corporations.

  12. Re:More than theft on EV Owner Arrested Over 5 Cents Worth of Electricity From School's Outlet · · Score: 1

    Yeah, if I lived next to a park, I'd run my whole house off one long power cord and stop paying the power bill. After all, it's public!

  13. Re:'Miracle' cancer cures = junk science on Killing Cancer By Retraining the Patient's Immune System · · Score: 1

    You're probably just a moderately talented troll, but I'll respond anyway.

    Skin cancer tends to be of near ZERO concern, for instance (save in those nations where cancer scare propaganda runs out of control, like the USA and Australia) because skin cells have little to ZERO opportunity to travel to sensitive parts of your inner body. No 'cancerous' tumour on the surface of your body can harm you significantly there. The cancer cells need to get 'inside' to do real harm.

    Skin needs blood. Metastasis can happen directly via the blood vessels that supply the cancerous skin.

    Systemically, it would seem obvious that there are forms of cancer (in other words, cell types and locations) that will always be near impossible to 'treat' usefully. One would need a machine that could 'scan' the entire body, mapping EVERY cell, and then have a means to SAFELY get to cell clusters identified as 'cancerous' and safely kill those cells. However, micro-tumours in key organs would, as you may imagine, be unthinkably hard to 'kill' unless one had some magic '3D' 'zapping' technology that could safely place disruptive energy into precisely the location of the cancer cells, without harming the cells around them.

    Seems you missed the summary and the article here. Your immune system happens to do that job for the most part. The mentioned treatment improves your odds of success significantly.

  14. Re:This is evil... on Killing Cancer By Retraining the Patient's Immune System · · Score: 1

    Yes. And if you're a woman, Monsanto will sue you for simply having unprotected sex with a GMO man.

  15. Re:Avoid cancer on Killing Cancer By Retraining the Patient's Immune System · · Score: 1

    because they eat nothing but carbs. Oh, wait.

    Not saying you're entirely wrong, but are you familiar with rice?

  16. Re:Cancer cured! on Killing Cancer By Retraining the Patient's Immune System · · Score: 1

    if health care was god forbid affordable then people would not need insurance at all.

    Maybe they foresaw that and decided to buy a law that would force everyone to buy insurance.

  17. Re:How long were his previous remissions? on Killing Cancer By Retraining the Patient's Immune System · · Score: 1

    Or to put it another way, the average person probably has 30+ types of cancers in their body at any given moment. Those failures are a normal part of cell replenishment, but the vast majority of these mutations are successfully destroyed.

  18. Re:Can they recreate old world wine? on Scientists Uncover 3,700-Year-Old Wine Cellar · · Score: 1

    But it's the American roots with the European wine varieties. They're still grafted and both varieties are still around. The grapes would have mostly the flavor of the grafted European grape and not the American root.

  19. Re:Can they recreate old world wine? on Scientists Uncover 3,700-Year-Old Wine Cellar · · Score: 1

    Here's your citation:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_French_Wine_Blight

    Looks like it's still not solved. And that even bringing back the old grapes won't help because the aphids are still around.

  20. Re:Yo Dawg I Heard You Like Water on Scientists Discover Huge Freshwater Reserves Beneath the Ocean · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't exactly count as sequestration in that case, but...nevermind that. I like the idea of cave soda.

  21. Re:Sophisticated? on Scientists Uncover 3,700-Year-Old Wine Cellar · · Score: 2

    I read their whole comment thinking - wow, that's really a long criticism for accidentally picking the wrong article (a vs. the). Before I could comment on it, you confirmed it!

  22. Re:The problem with all this... on Scientists Discover Huge Freshwater Reserves Beneath the Ocean · · Score: 1

    You're missing something important. As coal heads towards depletion, costs go way up. For energy, alternatives will be used. For steel production, it will just get more expensive, but would go along much farther than 2052 considering how small a portion of our coal is used for steel production.

    And don't forget that steel is highly recyclable.

  23. Re:The problem with all this... on Scientists Discover Huge Freshwater Reserves Beneath the Ocean · · Score: 1

    Being able to exercise in all weather is not exactly without merit. Walking from the car to the gym would probably be a less efficient use of time than the workout inside. Busy people who would otherwise claim to be "too busy to exercise" certainly benefit from close parking.

  24. Re:The problem with all this... on Scientists Discover Huge Freshwater Reserves Beneath the Ocean · · Score: 1

    Probabilities. Calculated risks. You don't want to inconvenience yourself for your entire lifetime by using resources strictly only to have the Earth destroyed by an asteroid a short time later.

  25. Re:The problem with all this... on Scientists Discover Huge Freshwater Reserves Beneath the Ocean · · Score: 1

    you'll still need mass to eject or you'll never move at all.

    Well, theoretically you may be able to produce matter from large enough amounts of energy and eject that.