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  1. Re:There is no FIRE IN SPACE YOU DUMBA on Fire Burns Differently In Space · · Score: 1

    Tell that to the sun

  2. Natural selection at work on Muslim Medical Students Boycott Darwin Lectures · · Score: 1

    You see, they exclude them selves from science ...
    That's OK ... they will only rise to the potential they allow them selves.
    Its a matter of time, but the truth is on it's way

  3. Re:this just in on 4.74 Degrees of Separation on Facebook · · Score: 1

    People on average have less than two feet.

  4. Google TV/Revue ... on Intel's Plans For X86 Android, Smartphones, and Tablets · · Score: 1

    Well that is based on an Intel platform, so they do have some experience

  5. Re:I can't possibly be the only one... on Pirate Party Gains Another Seat In EU · · Score: 1

    I would say that is a brilliant name for a party !!! Can you imagine a member take the stand and talk on some mundane issue in a full purple polka dot clowns outfit !!

  6. Re:When lawyers speak, they are advocates on Google's Patent Lawyer On Why the Patent System Is Broken · · Score: 1

    You're saying it like it is a bad thing ?

    I can fork a device and have other companies adds or no adds at all ...

  7. Re:When lawyers speak, they are advocates on Google's Patent Lawyer On Why the Patent System Is Broken · · Score: 1

    Very simple ... Google develops driverless cloud printing and releases code and API into public domain.
    Apple develops driverless cloud printing and somehow gets a patent and respective clamping down.

    Very different mindsets

  8. Re:This makes sense! on India To Build A Thorium Reactor · · Score: 1

    Well you could build a prototype that consumes more energy than produces but is still a reactor *cough* fusion *cough* ... sniffle ...

  9. Re:We don't care. We don't use iPhones. on iPhone 4S Has Been Jailbroken, Hack Enables Siri on iPhone 4 · · Score: 1

    So does an abacus ... you could even unearth one and it might still be functional ...

  10. What about KPIs for financial advisers ? on Why Economic Models Are Always Wrong · · Score: 1

    There is one single change that will have an immediate affect on all this business.

    KPIs on financial advisers.

    If you go to a financial adviser, and pay him money to advise you where to put your money.
    You should be able to choose the financial adviser that has made the most profit for his customers.
    Well that information is only known to banks. Why is that ? Because even though you pay financial advisers, they actually work for banks and not for you !

    Most financial advisers are actually crap, and don't make money for their customers. When you walk in their office, they show you amazing trend graphs, What they don't tell you is that they started with 1000 funds 20 years ago, and slowly retire the bad performing funds, and introduce new ones as time advances. So amazingly ... all the funds in their collection are making money !!! They tell you ... had you invested your pocket money in 1980 ... you would have been a millionaire.

    Now be careful how they word it. They say ... had you invested in those funds that started 20 years ago, you would have been a millionaire. That is like saying had you bought the lottery ... because that chart behind them is made up with the winning funds. The loosing funds have been removed from the collection that makes the trend, as they are no longer available to invest in today, so why include them in the trend of the funds they are offering that you invest in !! Off course they keep saying past performance is not indicative of future trends :-) ...

    Where do they make their money you ask ... selling insurance my friend as well as fees and charges on their advice (PS: Fees and charges is the same word, they just invented two words to charge more :-)

    One last detail ... if your investment starts turning south, somebody that works for you might advise you to move your money into a safer investment.
    Somebody that works for the bank might rather keep the money there to protect the fund.

    Guess who the financial adviser protects ?

      I love this stuff ... you couldn't make up such a scam (at least I couldn't) :-) even though I am being burnt by it as we speak :-)

  11. Re:The US will just cripple its own tech on Apple Granted Patent For Slide To Unlock · · Score: 1

    Well many features started cropping up in jailbroken iOS before they where implemented. Others still wait there ...

    tethering, large file download on 3G, facetime on 3G, notifications and so on

  12. Well what about this ? on Apple Granted Patent For Slide To Unlock · · Score: 5, Informative

    Announced 1Q, 2005
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj-KS2kfIr0

    Go to 4:00 to see the slide to unlock in action ...

    Now Apple requested the patent on December 2005, I am guessing some form of prior art should kill that.

  13. Re:Service Guarantees Citizenship on Security Researcher Threatened With Vulnerability Repair Bill · · Score: 1

    So if I disclose all your bank password, would that make me immune ?
    I agree in part, but it is a problem.

    If as a delivery dude, I find your key under the front door mat, can I make a 1000 copies and drop them off all over the city with your address to teach you to be safer ?

    I am genuinely asking, I don't have the answer.

    If I simply return your key, and you keep putting it under the mat, then what do I do.

  14. Re:Idiot judge wants to be like the ones on TV on Samsung Lawyer Fails To Differentiate iPad and Galaxy Tab In Court · · Score: 1

    Same goes with an Ipad and a digital photo frame. This should be in favor of Samsung, not against.

  15. Looks interesting, but on 3D Printer For Your Kids · · Score: 1

    Looks interesting, but isn't lego a faster means to express their imagination
    with less mess ?

  16. Rare earths are not quite ... rare on Massive Rare Earth Deposit Found In Australia · · Score: 4, Informative

    In fact they are quite common. One of te big problem with rare earths is that if you extract them, you generally find them in company with thorium. Now even though it is naturally there, one you took it out of the ground you are obligated to treat it as a radioactive waste. You are not aloud to mix it back into the ground at the same consistency you found it. The result is that one of the few places on earth you can get rare earths is ... China. Who by the way is storing the thorium, and is moving ahead into building Gen IV reactors.

    In fact there is a dude that is petitioning to be allowed to extract "rare" earth metal and be allowed to store the thorium. This one mine will be able to produce all the energy the US needs as a ... byproduct. Now that is handy

    http://energyfromthorium.com/2011/03/10/free-thorium/

  17. Re:Do a test to find the psychopaths/sociopaths... on Evaluating the 'Doofus Factor' In Corporate Governance · · Score: 1

    I think my pointy went over your head.

    If you are given a rate of increase you also need a sample size and a proportion of a sample to make use of it. Even if the rate of psychopaths is higher in CEOs s-why just jumps to the point as if that is the reason companies are run that way. It doesn't follow unless you want me to say it in Latin to give it extra weight.

    I made a suggestion that was just as ridiculous, but effectively think of it like this. People with red hair might make better CEOs. People with red hair might be more likely psychopaths. It does not mean that CEOs are by and large psychopaths.

  18. Re:Head Start? on Australian Aboriginal DNA Suggests 70,000-Year History · · Score: 1

    Amm ... the chance of you dieing a violent death is a one way graph of continuous reduction. Hunter gathers where most likely than all to be killed be man of beast or nature. I think there is one book I would recommend, Mat Ridley's Rational optimist. Most warm and fuzzy recollections of the long past are dramatically misplaced and the references are all a click away.

  19. Re:Head Start? on Australian Aboriginal DNA Suggests 70,000-Year History · · Score: 1

    A favorite way of hunting was to burn the forest and wait for the animals to run out in fear.

  20. Re:What is the point on MIT's $1,000 House Challenge Yields Results · · Score: 2

    More importantly, can you go up ... most poor places are also high density. Where it is low density, it is probably because of the elements which this house might have problems with.

  21. They now have a vested intrest in not spamming on When Does Signing Up Become 'Opting In?' · · Score: 2

    Simply put, if they spam you and you click them as so, then even their legitimate emails will end up in other peoples spam folder.
    If they are a little agresive in sending you emails without a easy way to opt out ... SPAM

  22. Re:Do a test to find the psychopaths/sociopaths... on Evaluating the 'Doofus Factor' In Corporate Governance · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Junk ... this is an example of statistical manipulation for emphasis. If it is four times more likely to be psychopaths , and the ratio is 1 in a million. Then all you have is 4 in a million.

    Simply put, these groups suffer from group think. Happens to every group, and we likley suffer from it as well (e.g. in any group of like thinking people say organized religions, sport clubs, political followers). They can walk down a one way dead and each will pat each other on the back all the way.

    PS: Do not forget, it may take a marginal psychopath to run those companies. Your statistics did not say if these psychopaths are the successful CEOs or not.

  23. Android on The Linux Counter Relaunches · · Score: 0

    Well ... 500,000 Android activations a day, that should "count" for something ... or is that Gnu/Android ?

  24. Re:Awesome... on Algorithmic Trading Rapidly Replacing Need For Humans · · Score: 1

    Very very good point ?!

  25. Re:so SkyNet is really a Wall Street computer? on Algorithmic Trading Rapidly Replacing Need For Humans · · Score: 1

    So in fact if we combine this Wall street computer with the way Google algorithms are developing we may have Skynet almost here. If a billion people contribute in decisions that an algorithm makes, is it still human intelligence or emerging intelligence from this "Internet computer" ?