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  1. Re:Any Memory?? what judge will go on just that? on Police Using Dogs To Sniff Out Computer Memory · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hell I can smell a bluray. Optical storage has a far bigger and more unique odor than a usb stick.

  2. Re:The goal of 1st world countries on No Shortage In Tech Workers, Advocacy Groups Say · · Score: 1

    Who says that the free stuff "utopia" is not the terrible future.

  3. Re:Have you actually tried hiring these days? on No Shortage In Tech Workers, Advocacy Groups Say · · Score: 1

    Well pushing tech, tech, tech to everybody and their grandmother does create a glut of workers, but it does not necessarily get you any more truly competent workers (or get you any more people interested in anything other than the salary). In fact the glut of incompetence might actually ruin a few ones with potential.

  4. Re:Not surprising. on When Beliefs and Facts Collide · · Score: 1

    Yes, absolutely. But at the same time no one ever said that Science was a democracy. Just because 97% of scientists believe that the current model is correct does not really give any more credence to it than is only 3% believed it. The majority of people believe that there is a god, that doesn't mean that the model saying that "god created the universe" is the most likely to be correct one (made even more so since it has been the accepted one for tens of thousands of years). I guess at the end of the day scientific fact/knowledge is an individual pursuit. The data and the methods are there for anyone to use and you cannot just survey and go with the percentage over 50%.

  5. Re:Deep-Space? on NASA Approves Production of Most Powerful Rocket Ever · · Score: 1

    It is it more that 99.99% Vacuum, "Nothing but vacuum" is a correct statement.

  6. Deep-Space? on NASA Approves Production of Most Powerful Rocket Ever · · Score: 1

    So what is "deep" space supposed to mean? I came in thinking that it must be outside the solar system, but apparently "deep-space" rockets take you to the moon. Which really by my definition is hardly even space. On the moon you are still basically still at Earth, it is part of the system of the planet as much as the gasses that are trapped by its gravity (which we call its atmosphere).

  7. Re:Not Aluminum? Not a good sign. on Tesla Aims For $30,000 Price, 2017 Launch For Model E · · Score: 1

    "One of many, many parts that's had to be swapped out over the past year due to rust damage." Which I think is were the costs saving come in. You do not get ongoing revenue generated from deteriorated parts when the parts are made of something that does not rust.

  8. Re:A good idea, but... on European Commission Spokesman: Google Removing Link Was "not a Good Judgement" · · Score: 1

    Canada here. Google does not appear to be listing any hidden results, but I am also not getting any results that appear relevant on the first page. But google is very location dependant, it probably only used to return that result for people (on the first page) in the general area of that specific will brooker and his scams. I would probably have to type in the town, province, or country name to get the result.

  9. Re:Well, duh... on European Commission Spokesman: Google Removing Link Was "not a Good Judgement" · · Score: 1

    That is another big problem. Google should onyl get requests for content they specifically host, and in the cast of google blogs it should go to the original content creators themselves. Google should be getting zero requests the only content they create is a few employee blog posts and new announcements.

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

    I was going to say the same thing. That button is not the boss of me.

  11. Re:Were Denisovans really a DIFFERENT SPECIES? on Tibetans Inherited High-Altitude Gene From Ancient Human · · Score: 1

    Well in general it is normally the opposite. Inner breeding between genetically similar individual produces genetically unstable offspring, making mongrels with some very different genes produces the more stable offspring.

  12. Re:We're Sorry on Facebook Fallout, Facts and Frenzy · · Score: 1

    "caught" so this was leaked?

  13. Re:Never meant to upset? on Facebook Fallout, Facts and Frenzy · · Score: 5, Informative

    Except that the purpose of this experiment was to play with emotions of their users. And upset was one of the expected results.

  14. Re:Were Denisovans really a DIFFERENT SPECIES? on Tibetans Inherited High-Altitude Gene From Ancient Human · · Score: 1

    Except that it is not.

    A lot of different species can interbreed, and a lot of animals in the same species cannot.

    There are a huge varieties of dog breeds, many cannot viably mate unless through intermediate dog breeds.
    Loads of birds rely of feather patterns to keep them uninterested why being perfect genetic matches for interbreeding.
    The preponderance of evidence suggests that humans could interbreed with other great apes. We have done it in the past, hundreds of thousands of years ago, and some scientists have stated that there is a decent chance that it would work (the Nazi's got increadibly close to trying).

    And yet I think all of these categorizations are correct. Dogs are all quite related and since there is a range there is no anyway sensible cutting point. They have to be the same species or we need a new word to call it. The birds do not naturally interbreed, the is the whole point of the feathers. And just because many of the great apes can interbreed does not make them one giant species.

    At the end of the day "species" is a layman term and is used loosely and with great flexibility.

  15. Re:What a crazy situation on Encryption Keys For Kim Dotcom's Data Can't Be Given To FBI, Court Rules · · Score: 2

    Personally, to me, all of that is peanuts next to random beatings and killings of unarmed, defenceless and subdued people.

  16. Re:Just pay him not to work on Amazon Sues After Ex-Worker Takes Google Job · · Score: 1

    That sounds pretty easy to take advantage of.
    "Ya, my brother is starting up a finance firm that is doing the exact same thing as you, he says he will pay me 150% of my current salary to go work for him.
    According to my contract this means you now have to pay me 50% more than my current contract and I can sit at home and do nothing, or maybe take on a little work on the side under the table"

  17. Re:Non-competes should not make you unemployable on Amazon Sues After Ex-Worker Takes Google Job · · Score: 2

    Hardly sounds fair for the employee. Your career is still stopped cold. And it is never easy to restart a career with a multiple year jap in the middle.

  18. Drivers Test on Unintended Consequences For Traffic Safety Feature · · Score: 1

    When I was getting prepared for the drivers test I was told that paying attention to the crosswalk signs was a necessary step. I wa told that unless you did that you might be caught unaware of a light change and fail your test.

  19. Re:Economy on Unintended Consequences For Traffic Safety Feature · · Score: 1

    How does that make any sense? If you are the government and already know the best solution, why not just implement it?

  20. Re:Lines to purchase new Apple products. on Disappointed Woz Sells His "Worthless" Galaxy Gear Watch · · Score: 0

    Standing in line for an Ipad 8.5, while you have a box of unopened ones back at your mansion is not normal. It is just a way of looking for applause from the plebs.

  21. Lines to purchase new Apple products. on Disappointed Woz Sells His "Worthless" Galaxy Gear Watch · · Score: 1

    Seriously? He cannot get Apple to send him preview builds of their hardware?

  22. Re:That was dictated? on Baton Bob Strikes Back Against Police That Coerced Facebook Post From Him · · Score: 1

    Strangely, the punctuation points match the style of the message. Both look like there were written by a 12 year old girl.

  23. Legal Precedent? on Microsoft Takes Down No-IP.com Domains · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What is the legal precedent for taking ownership of a company's assets (without apparently even informing them beforehand) and randomly giving them to some other company to use? How is that even a legal possibility?

  24. Political/Moral on How Often Do Economists Commit Misconduct? · · Score: 1, Troll

    These are people who analyze and predict the health of countries. Of course their results are more politically motivated than evidence based. Would it even be ethical to tell a truth that would cause an economic disaster? If economists had known in advance of one of the great depressions that it was going to happen, and releasing the results would of only sped-up the collapse, should they release the information? And it will always be better politically for the government to be just as surprised as everyone else when things go belly up, instead of being the president who predicted, but was unable to solve, the coming collapse.

  25. Re:He was threatened with six months in low-securi on The Internet's Own Boy · · Score: 1

    He had already destroyed his career, parole conditions or not.