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  1. The energy per person is astronomical. You send on on Should Nuclear and Renewable Energy Supporters Stop Fighting? · · Score: 1

    The energy per person is astronomical. You send one, you spend the equivalent for 5000. Now if you start a world war, that is a different story. Nuclear will solve all your problems again.

  2. Nutty parents on Peanut Allergy Treatment Trial In UK "A Success" · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I know of parents that don't give peanuts to their kids since babies, just in case they have allergies. So the kid does not develop protection. They give them allergies out of paranoia

  3. Not much of a story ... on 23-Year-Old Chess Grandmaster Whips Bill Gates In 71 Seconds · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Bill Gates is not a polymath, I am sure he is no longer competitive in coding, let alone most tasks requiring intellect only because you need to have the knowledge, the talent and the intellect. Hi might have the second and he probably has the third but he can't make up for the first.

  4. Re:Fail by all posters so far on the issue on Protesters Show Up At the Doorstep of Google Self-driving Car Engineer · · Score: 1

    This is crazy, ok ... your property has skyrocketed in value. You suddenly are an asset millionaire but you can't afford your house. You like the fact that what used to be a run down neighbourhood with crime and poverty and cheap housing is now affluent. When you sell it, choose a house that was exactly like it was when you could afford it and you should be hunky dory with lotsa cash left over. It may suck a little, but the world keeps moving on, kids might step onto your lawn ... buy a rocking chair and a shotgun, this is America.

  5. Re:The next logical step ? on DNA Detectives Count Thousands of Fish Using a Glass of Water · · Score: 4, Informative

    Ammm that is how things are done. They tracked Polio in India by this method http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303848104579312453860810752?mod=WSJ_hps_LEFTTopStories

  6. Re:We could not make them on Weapons Systems That Kill According To Algorithms Are Coming. What To Do? · · Score: 1

    The problem is that we can both agree, and I can still build them in the background. I mean a flying aeroplane can be a fully autonomous killing machine, and there is no way to know. At least nukes emit radioactivity, chemical weapons smell bad. Smart weapons are only smart when you press the funky key combination.

  7. Planets and billiard balls on Experiments Reveal That Deformed Rubber Sheet Is Not Like Spacetime · · Score: 1

    Are you saying that electrons and planets don't behave like billiard balls ?!?!

  8. Replace the steering wheel ? on Google Launches Android Automotive Consortium · · Score: 1

    Does that mean we can now swipe left ?

  9. Cancer is a symptom not a cause on Why a Cure For Cancer Is So Elusive · · Score: 1

    Cancer is a symptom not a cause, so it is tricky to fight it. Removing symptoms does not stop more symptoms from coming along. The other reality is that we help more people to survive that would normally would not, which was how natural selection cleaned out the gene pool. So we use technology to make up for it, but it is a battle with a negative feedback loop.

  10. Window shopping on Are High MOOC Failure Rates a Bug Or a Feature? · · Score: 1

    Is a shop a failure if only a tiny percentage of people looking at their window display actually buys something ? People who enrol have no skin on the commitment. That is all. If you can change that, then good on you. The courses are brilliant and for the few that pursue them and are inspired to go on to bigger and better things ... then they are incredible value for money for them and for society.

  11. Re:They named a country after a bird? on Prime Minister Wiretapped — Vast Corruption Upending Turkey's Government · · Score: 1

    Well in Greek, a Turkey is called a "Gallos" and and a French mand is also called a "Gallos", and Americans hate the French. Is there a connection ?

  12. Mobile is never like Desktop on Ask Slashdot: Why Do Mobile Versions of Websites Suck? · · Score: 1

    One of the main reasons is that people that are accustomed to desktop are let down by mobile because it is a different interface. You can make a good mobile site, but people will hate it because it is not the same as the desktop.

  13. Limited in what way ? Buy now ! ... the warehouse will only ever have 100 of these at any one time ... for ever

  14. smallest precision attainable on "Perfect" Electron Roundness Bruises Supersymmetry · · Score: 1

    smallest precision attainable does not mean what you think it does. You meant highest precision attainable

  15. DRM is simply an artificial barrier to entry on DRM Has Always Been a Horrible Idea · · Score: 1

    DRM is simply an artificial barrier to entry. A good investment requires a company with a good product and a high barrier to entry. In the 80's they had it good. It was too hard to copy movies and songs. Then it started becoming easier and easier and now it is almost as easy as a click and watch, or click and listen any content. So they are trying to stuff the rabbit back in the hat after it has procreated. It is game over.

  16. Armed guard on Switzerland Wants To Become the World's Data Vault · · Score: 1

    What is the armed guard there for ? Who cares if they pinch the hard drives. Prove to me that nobody has access to it by simply giving me the encryption keys. I want to know the data is inaccessible even if they are hosted by the NSA.

  17. Windows on a bra on Microsoft's New Smart Bra Could Stop You From Over Eating · · Score: 1

    Hang on, I like the idea of windows on a bra. Finally they might get an upvote from me.

  18. Re:If you've got good signal, digital is better, b on Final Days For Australia's Analog TV · · Score: 1

    Yea but you can get many more digital signals with the energy of a single analogue signal. Which means with the energy of a degraded analogue signal you can still get a perfect digital signal. In the reverse case, by the time the digital signal is failing, had you had an analogue signal there you would be getting absolutely nothing.

  19. Re:methane ice underwater on Siberia's Methane Release Larger Than Previously Thought · · Score: 2

    Those two put out what they swallow. The undersea stuff ... not so

  20. We can cut out the human factor altogether on Google Wants To Write Your Social Media Responses For You · · Score: 1

    The Google+ ... who needs subscribers

  21. Re:Took the virtual tour, could clearly see graffi on Google Maps, Lasers Reveal Vatican Catacombs · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The writing you could not decipher was Greek

  22. Re:This is not a fair comparison on Nexus 5 With Android 4.4 and Snapdragon 800 Challenges Apple A7 In Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    Hihi ... wooosh :-) I have a Nexus 5

  23. This is not a fair comparison on Nexus 5 With Android 4.4 and Snapdragon 800 Challenges Apple A7 In Benchmarks · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is not a fair comparison, the iPhone is twice the price.

  24. Re:Making an underage sex bot on Researchers Use Computer-Generated 10-Year-Old Girl To Catch Online Predators · · Score: 1

    There is a reason they publish this. To get these guys scared, and second guess and by extension save some children. This is a good thing, even if it was CGI and entrapment.

  25. Big brother on EU Considering Sensors In Sewers To Detect Bomb-Makers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well with smart meters accurate enough to tell when you are watching TV and what, Now with these sensors knowing what you are flushing down the toilet How about some environment monitors so they know what we exhale ... Its getting pretty creepy