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  1. I don't know on 1.8 Million-Year-Old Skull Suggests Three Early Human Species Were One · · Score: 1

    We have found distinct groups, and we have called they species.
    At the same time we know they could interbreed, and there was no reason why they would not intermingle at times.

    Just because they found a few bones that were in-between these species does not suggest anything like, "these species never existed".

  2. Re:Not sure. But I am opting out of the new slashd on When Opting Out of Ad Tracking Doesn't Opt You Out · · Score: 3, Informative

    Why would anyone think it was a good idea to turn a good looking, well working site, into something that looks like a blogspot blog?

  3. Re:"The chance of an impact will certainly drop"? on No, the Earth (almost Certainly) Won't Be Hit By an Asteroid In 2032 · · Score: 1

    I think what he means is that they have already made up their minds that it will miss us, so as their calculations get better the probability that it will miss is going to go up from .9 to 1.0.

    But, right now we have calculated that there is a .9-whatever chance that it is going to miss us, and their is a .0-whatever that it is going to hit us. In the real world it has already been decided, but we are unsure what which course is already set in stone.

    So there is a 99% chance that there is a 100% chance that it will miss us, so 99% of the time the 99% chance would go up as our measurements increase.

  4. Why not an actual Sequel on Myst Creators Announce Obduction · · Score: 1

    Screw this spiritual crap, we want an actual sequel/prequel.

  5. Re:1.1 Mil? on Myst Creators Announce Obduction · · Score: 2

    First off, most actual studios who ask for KS funds are only asking for a kick-start in the finances, and will be looking for more cash (as 1 million is nothing when it come sot game design my actually full studios).

    Secondly, no they do not. You try running a studio full of people for ten years without producing anything even slightly viable. They were the most successful studio coming up on twenty years ago, and they had 2 successful projects, many ports, and a few licencing deals. Then the AG industry went to shit and they could not produce anything that even got close to breaking even. They spent like 6 years creating the abysmal failure that was their MMO adventure game, that never even really got a proper launch, and really was never that good of an idea, or well executed to begin with. I have no idea how they did not declare bankruptcy 5 years ago, but they have dragged themselves along with remakes and ports to tablets in recent years, but the audience is small and those games are always super cheap. I doubt they have two cents to rub together.

  6. It Also on Sleep Is the Ultimate Brainwasher · · Score: 1

    Gives to time to better process and analyse the data that you collected during the day. Most of what you learn, you learn in your sleep, while unconscionably looking over the stuff that you just did not get while awake, distracted by all the other input going on.

  7. Will and Grace on A Thermoelectric Bracelet To Maintain a Comfortable Body Temperature · · Score: 1

    Did it like 15 years ago, which I assume was some sort of product placement.

  8. So when they say $100 million on IsoHunt Settles With MPAA, Will Shut Down And Pay Up to $110 Million · · Score: 1

    They mean they have agreed to declare bankruptcy.

  9. Re:insouciance? on Online Journalism Is Becoming a Billionaires' Plaything (Again) · · Score: 1

    ubiquitous is not an "extensive vocabulary" word, it is a common, everyone known it word.

  10. Re:If that's true, Most parents are NUTS! on Most Parents Allow Unsupervised Internet Access To Children At Age 8 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You cannot filter everything they see and are aware of forever. It is the Internet, not real life, they cannot actually get hurt, decapitated, or disabled while using it.
    That is why the Internet is such a great place for children to explore unfettered. Little Jonny can wonder off alone and learn about the word and himself, and you do not actually have to worry about them being eaten by a wolf or breaking their leg like our parents/grandparents used to, when learning about the worded entailed large amounts of real danger and life threatening situations.

    As far as I am concerned, knowingly filtering a child's knowledge, and retarding their ability to learn, is nothing sort of child abuse.

  11. Re:I can now get arrested for NOT killing somebody on Facebook Comment Prompts Arrests In Cyberbullying Suicide Case · · Score: 1

    But the bullies did not want the kill her any more than the thief did, they were after making them selves feel superior, not her actual death.

  12. Re:National Security? on David Cameron Wants the Guardian Investigated Over Snowden Files · · Score: 1

    I think that is how they want it. The government love to define "damaging nation security" as doing anything the government does not like.

  13. Re:Why on Facebook Comment Prompts Arrests In Cyberbullying Suicide Case · · Score: 1

    OK, but were they so intrusive that they filtered everything you said to your friends to make sure none of it was incriminating?
    Simply being involved and watchful of their kid would only of told them that the kid was on FB chatting with her fiends, I for one have always been able to have private discussions with my friends.

  14. Re:I can now get arrested for NOT killing somebody on Facebook Comment Prompts Arrests In Cyberbullying Suicide Case · · Score: 1

    But only Rebecca caused her own death, these other kids were not just particularly nice to her when she was alive.
    Are we going to blame the barista who got her order wrong, the thief who stole $20 dollars out of her purse, the washer-machine that ruined her favourite dress, or the boy who broke up with her (theoretical occurrences).

  15. Re:I can now get arrested for NOT killing somebody on Facebook Comment Prompts Arrests In Cyberbullying Suicide Case · · Score: 1

    So let me get this straight. The idea of being responsible for your own actions, regardless of outside stimuli, lead you to claim that this means drunk driver are not responsible for the people they kill?

  16. Re:I can now get arrested for NOT killing somebody on Facebook Comment Prompts Arrests In Cyberbullying Suicide Case · · Score: 2

    Well at least it looks like they are only going after them for stalking, and not for murder or not caring that she died on a FB post.
    Unfortunately, the death is sure to increase the sentence.

  17. Should the parents of taken away her cell phone, and started spying on their daughter, just because she was questioned by police?

  18. I would never program a self driving vehicle on Finland's Algorithm-Driven Public Bus · · Score: 0

    Driving always entails risks.
    But if you put 1000 cars/buses on the road, driving under your algorithm, you are going to kill people.They might be your fault, for not programming perfect, or they might be completely unavoidable. Either way, there is no way to estimate how the public (read media) will react and who they will hold responsible. Even if you are completely legally un-responsible, that does not mean your life will not be ruined.

  19. Re:British police rarely carry weapons on British Police Foil Alleged Mall Massacre Copycat Plot · · Score: 2

    But honestly, your guns and your prison pollination have little to do with eachother. Your prisons are full because you have a very successful and profitable prison industry, and they are filled with people who were caught with a few grams of marijuana on them, not robbers, and killers.

  20. Re:Impossible circumstances on Lessons From the Healthcare.gov Fiasco · · Score: 1

    From what I heard you pretty much just register on the site, other than needing to support a rather large number of concurrent users, there are already suits of programs that do everything that this projects needs.

    You could set up a Drupal forum in a week with the required content, and then just buy some ultra plan on Amazon cloud servers.

  21. Re:Romance and Erotica is not the same on Books With "Questionable Content" Being Deleted From ebookstores In Sweeping Ban · · Score: 1

    That is hardly erotic literature, that is literature that is just not completely devoid of sex.

  22. Re:Romance and Erotica is not the same on Books With "Questionable Content" Being Deleted From ebookstores In Sweeping Ban · · Score: 2

    I am pretty sure their is no such thing as erotic literature for men, erotic novels are a synonym for romance novels, which is just a fancy way of saying lady porn.
    I guess in the billions of books out their, there must be some erotic ones aimed at men, but hardly enough to be labeled a category. If erotic literature for men existed in any major form I am pretty sure I would be aware of it.

  23. Re:Good. on UK Court Orders Two Sisters Must Receive MMR Vaccine · · Score: 1

    Well of course, the US has some of the worst healthcare of the entire world, it would be a huge shock if staying at home and receiving no treatment did not decrease your risks there.

  24. Re:Good. on UK Court Orders Two Sisters Must Receive MMR Vaccine · · Score: 1

    Yes and no. You do not have to include the high risk patients, and we do have a good reason to rule them out of that data.
    Just compare the patents that a competent midwife would of warned away from a home-birth.

  25. Re:Good. on UK Court Orders Two Sisters Must Receive MMR Vaccine · · Score: 0

    Well statistically you would expect the deaths to go way down, as modern hospitals have far higher rates of child and mother mortality than non hospital deliveries.