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  1. Banning other Users? on BitHammer, the BitTorrent Banhammer · · Score: 1

    So without any admin access to the network they are on, or the torrent site, you can ban another random torrent user? How does that work?

  2. Re:Humanzee on Chimpanzee "Personhood" Is Back In Court · · Score: 1

    Humans do not have the same number of chromosomes as other humans, and can still breed fine with them.

  3. Re:Practice colony in Antarctica first? on MIT Study Finds Fault With Mars One Colony Concept · · Score: 1

    Well I did not mean for a short period of time, I meant sustainable for you entire life (and your life is not cut far short). I sort of doubt anyone has done a longitudinal trial.

  4. Humanzee on Chimpanzee "Personhood" Is Back In Court · · Score: 1

    I always wondered. These wackjobs or obviously crazy enough and these legal routes are obviously never going to get them anywhere, even they must know that.

    Why not just reopen some of the long abandoned Human/Ape interbreeding studies? All it would probably take in one open minded woman and a little access to a Ape. And even if worst came to worst, and we were not that compatible, all they would need is one fertility specialist and access to some fertility equipment. It would not cost that much, even if they could not find a volunteer to do it for free.

  5. Re:"Finds Fault" is faulty reporting on MIT Study Finds Fault With Mars One Colony Concept · · Score: 1

    A plan to colonise Mars is not Science, it is simply a plan.... It does not matter how many blinking lights or "Lasers" it involves, "a plan" never gets promoted to Science, as it is a completely different thing.

  6. Re:Practice colony in Antarctica first? on MIT Study Finds Fault With Mars One Colony Concept · · Score: 1

    Mars should have loads of water, you just need to drill a big whole or melt it. Also, worst case scenario you get Oxygen from the water as well. I would think that it might actually be the other parts of our atmosphere that are harder to recreate. You ?cant? just breath pure oxygen. And I hear that we have yet to find a good portable solution to all the radiation you encounter outside of the atmosphere.

  7. Re:Same as it's been forever. on What's Been the Best Linux Distro of 2014? · · Score: 1

    How exactly is RHEL and its derivatives different from Ubuntu-likes? Other than I assume the business OSes do not radically overhaul their interfaces every 3 months.

  8. Online Murder on It's an Internet-Connected Wheelchair (Video) · · Score: 1

    For those of you asking how the first online murder would play out, here is your answer.

  9. Rabble Rabble Rabble! on Systemd Adding Its Own Console To Linux Systems · · Score: 1
  10. Re:This doesn't add up on Infected ATMs Give Away Millions of Dollars Without Credit Cards · · Score: 1

    I doubt that is it. You can bet that they continually audit these machine, and if missing several thousand dollars or even 10 dollars between filings, they find out what went wrong.

  11. Re:Why? on Google's Security Guards Are Now Officially Google Employees · · Score: 1
  12. Re:I got this one. on Why the FCC Will Probably Ignore the Public On Network Neutrality · · Score: 1

    But the summery says it does Not operate like a democracy, so that can't be it.

  13. Re:What do you expect? on Test Version Windows 10 Includes Keylogger · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This. What would even be the point of releasing a test version of windows if they were not tracking what you do?

  14. Re:Or how about... on Only Two States Have Rules To Prevent Cheating On Computerized Tests · · Score: 1

    Grade inflation happens and even in the same school one class might have a teacher that always scores higher than another.

    SO? Universities/etc. can still work out who knowns what using different methods, they just have to look at more than one single number; which ultimately leads to a better understanding of the individual, not less. Have you seen a study that compared the predictiveness of SATs to HS grades in college success, barbecue I have and HS grades won hands down.

    Loads of countries do not use any kind of standardized testing to normalize school marks, and they get along just fine.

    Add to that that we have had standardised testing in America for a long time and have yet to see any study show any effect except a negative one. Every study I have every heard of that concerns standardised testing is that, at the very least we have no reason to believe you they are good at predicting success. And that the tests existent seems to retard the learning ability of all who will and are taking them.

  15. Re:What an asshole on The Single Vigilante Behind Facebook's 'Real Name' Crackdown · · Score: 0

    I disagree, normally cops/etc. normally use the word "informant".

  16. Re:What an asshole on The Single Vigilante Behind Facebook's 'Real Name' Crackdown · · Score: 1

    How do you know? Maybe they just make up 90% of all fake names? Maybe these are the type of accounts in his network of friends/likes/subscriptions?

  17. Re:What an asshole on The Single Vigilante Behind Facebook's 'Real Name' Crackdown · · Score: 2

    I disagree, "snitch" is definitely synonymous with "an asshole", "a dickhead" or "a pathetic jerk"

  18. Re:Selection bias on Fortune.com: Blame Tech Diversity On Culture, Not Pipeline · · Score: 1

    Well the study does not even seem to be that women are treated at all differential than men, just that "look at these poor women who have not be coddled and protected, above and beyond their peers"

  19. Re:Maternity Leave. on Fortune.com: Blame Tech Diversity On Culture, Not Pipeline · · Score: 1

    But in the same companies where women are refused maternity leave?

  20. Maternity Leave. on Fortune.com: Blame Tech Diversity On Culture, Not Pipeline · · Score: 2

    So they men get maternity leave then, I guess is what you are implying.

  21. One of the biggest challenges? on WSJ: Google X Display Team Works Toward Bezel-Free Modular Displays · · Score: 2

    One of the biggest challenges is figuring out how to stitch images together across screens, both electronically and through software.

    Umm, Every OS on the market already does this when you hook multiple monitors up to it.

  22. Re:Pot calling kettle black? on Code.org: Blame Tech Diversity On Education Pipeline, Not Hiring Discrimination · · Score: 2

    How does that make any sense when all the tech giants have numbers of "minorities" greater than the industry mean. How can you both discriminate against under-represented people, and end up hiring far far far more of the under-represented people who apply for your job opening than the over-represented people.

  23. Re:$1000!? on Marriott Fined $600,000 For Jamming Guest Hotspots · · Score: 1

    Are you saying they jammed cell phone lines? Or where they onyl jamming the local wireless routers, "individual", And no one thought to buy a cable?

  24. Re:$1000!? on Marriott Fined $600,000 For Jamming Guest Hotspots · · Score: 1

    There is so much you could do with a K. Why not spend a few hundred and get internet over cellphone. At least then if they want to jam you they need to block everyone's cell and face huge jail time if caught?

  25. Re:Why not... on Online Creeps Inspire a Dating App That Hides Women's Pictures · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Because these systems are built on milking the ugly men who have no real chance of ever doing anything but creeping out women. Banning them removes the sites bread and butter.