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  1. Most Popular? on Climate Change Could Drive Coffee To Extinction By 2080 · · Score: 1

    Most cheap is more likely.

  2. Re:No platform is 100 percent secure? on Windows 8 Defeats 85% of Malware Detected In the Past 6 Months · · Score: 1

    Security through obscurity only works until someone tries to break it.

  3. Re:Definition of a Good Politician on Would Charles Darwin Have Made a Good Congressman? · · Score: 1

    No, even in a representative democracy the idea is that your representative is supposed to exercise their powers for the wishes of the electorate.

    In real world situations you never have pure ideologies being practiced, so you will always find some amount of acting in the best interests of the people even if is not exactly what they say they want.

    But that idea is completely contrary to the democratic idea.

  4. Re:Definition of a Good Politician on Would Charles Darwin Have Made a Good Congressman? · · Score: 1

    Except that is not the definition of a democratic politician.
    You are talking about different, more totalitarian, government types.

  5. Scientists would make horrible politicians on Would Charles Darwin Have Made a Good Congressman? · · Score: 1

    A good scientist's main concern is always the truth.
    A politician, in a democracy, does care about the truth just is instead a mediator and a interpreter of the public's will.

    A good scientist is unlikely to be able to turn off his knowledge and intellect and serve the peoples will, and instead would want to enact laws and projects that actually worked and were based on facts and truth.

  6. Apology is not there on Apple Stops Hiding Samsung Apology On Its UK Site · · Score: 1

    At the bottom of the screen, had to scroll down, is a paragraph stating that they did not correctly follow the apology ruling, and a link to an "apology".
    This apparently new "apology" is just a statement of what the ruling said, and in no way could be considered an apology. And let me reiterate, it is NOT on that or any Apple homepage, it has its own specific page (http://www.apple.com/uk/legal-judgement/).

  7. Confidence Boosters on Do Recreational Drugs Help Programmers? · · Score: 1

    Well if you take a drug that boosts your confidence, you will think you just wrote the best code of your life.

  8. Re:You're asking the wrong question. on Do Recreational Drugs Help Programmers? · · Score: 3, Informative

    I have seen code produced by a drunk person before, it is ridiculous,
    You might think you can, but you cannot code drunk.

  9. Evolution on Do Recreational Drugs Help Programmers? · · Score: 1

    They very well might improve imagination, but for serious scientific tasks no.
    Some might keep you awake, and improve your typing speed, but they will also have you making more mistakes (and have you suffering longitudinal problems from lack of sleep).

    If there was a way for out current body/brain structure to be improved with just a little stimulation then evolution would of picked up on that missing feature a long time ago.

  10. How about instead of arbitrarily banning products on Buckyballs Throws In the Towel · · Score: 2

    How about instead of arbitrarily banning products that some obsessed mothers think are somehow more dangerous for their toddlers, mostly because it is new, we just force all packaging to list the number of lives the contents have cost.

    Buckyballs (Killed 20 infants since 1995) For example (I have no idea how many, if any, have died of been seriously injured by BBs).
    Then we can make informed choices and be held responsible if we allow children to kill themselves will objects we know are dangerous. BB are not designed to be given to infants, just like a nail gun is not designed to be given to an infant; That does not mean they should be banned.

    Personally, I love dangerous things and would consider that as good advertising, for those of you with overprotected children well they do no have to buy one.

  11. Re:Just block? on Australia Scales Back Internet Blacklist, Nixes Full-Scale Censorship · · Score: 2

    I imagine that since all government employees spend all their time on porn sites they through it would be a good way of keeping track of them.

  12. Re:Full circle on New Dinosaur Named After the Eye of Sauron · · Score: 1

    Real life Earth little people are not called hobbits, they are called dwarfs. But real life dwarfs are more likely to look like a hobbit. If I wanted the child to grow a large beard and work in a mine I would call him Gimli.

  13. Re:When do the General's get charged? on Bradley Manning Offers Partial Guilty Plea To Military Court · · Score: 1

    When shit roles uphill and hell freezes over.

  14. Re:Full circle on New Dinosaur Named After the Eye of Sauron · · Score: 2

    If I parented a dwarf I would totally call him Bilbo.

  15. Gravity on Super-Earth Discovered In Star's Habitable Zone · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I wonder if this will prevent walking animals.
    I imagine a snake or a fish should not have nearly as much trouble as a dog or human.

  16. Re:open source but only for Mac and Win. on MIT Slows Down Speed of Light In New Game · · Score: 1

    It is, or will be, open source code.

    Code is not OS dependant. They have just not spent time testing and tweaking it on Linux.

  17. Re:Facebook Chat killed it on Microsoft Retiring Messenger, Replacing It With Skype · · Score: 1

    The great thing is that instant messaging and emailing/PMing is the same thing in Facebook and you seamlessly transfer between them.

  18. Re:Do Not Trust on Neuromorphic Algorithms Allow MAVs To Avoid Obstacles With Single Camera · · Score: 1

    Yes, and moving eyes should make it even easier, in my estimate.

  19. Re:Do Not Trust on Neuromorphic Algorithms Allow MAVs To Avoid Obstacles With Single Camera · · Score: 1

    Except, there are many ways to fake depth perception with only one stationary eye.

  20. What is this a good thing? on Should a Teenage Entrepreneur Sell Out To Facebook? · · Score: 1

    So the storage is more densely packed, but you probably need twice the cooling to keep it from melting. So do you even save any space all things considered and do you use more power per byte because of this density?

  21. Re:Sell! on Should a Teenage Entrepreneur Sell Out To Facebook? · · Score: 2

    Personally, I would put enough away to live on and use the free time that gives you to make something bigger.
    Not turn around and spend all your earnings on a risky venture.

  22. There are already a lot of modern Space Sims. on David Braben Kickstarts an Elite Reboot · · Score: 1

    Unless he gives me a reason to believe he has a particularly interesting spin or the ability to create the most polished space sim experience yet, why should l I care?

  23. Re:13GB? on Software Uses Almost 1/2 the Storage On 32GB Surface Tablet · · Score: 1

    That is less than I would expect from a computer install of these products.

  24. Couple Days. on What's the Shelf Life of a Programmer? · · Score: 0

    Well they normally start to smell funny after only a couple days.

  25. Re:Open Source??? on The Survival Machine Farm · · Score: 1

    There will definitely be some functioning microprocessors of every variety left if any humans survive.

    That is the thing with existing commercial tech, you do not even have to reverse engineer it for a long time, as it already is mass produced and available everywhere.