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  1. An eskimo would have the same problem on Why Computers Still Don't Understand People · · Score: 3, Insightful

    An eskimo would have the same problem, does that mean he cannot understand people ?

  2. , can accept cloned ... on US Horse Registry Forced To Accept Cloned Horses · · Score: 1

    What about if they start tweaking it ?

  3. Vote with your money ... on Schneier: The NSA Is Commandeering the Internet · · Score: 1

    Very simple, the internet should slowly and effectively hand privacy to the users. The privacy of my message and its metadata should depend on me and my destination somehow. That's all, and any company offering that as much as possible should be prefered.

  4. Re: sex, shrugs, docked with trolls on The Pirate Bay Is 10 Years Old: 'We Really Didn't Think We'd Make It This Far' · · Score: 1

    Are you sure ? I would say "we" wildly out number them even at $1 each we add up to much more.

  5. Re:Why read newspapers? on New York Times Sells Boston Globe At 93% Loss · · Score: 0

    If you don't read it, the metrics will show it, so paying will do nothing for you. Its game over for papers but the internet has the millions of eyes theory that hopefully will make up for it. The papers in the end got mostly bought out and simply served their masters.

  6. "It's not totally clear why that occurred" on Tim Cook May Not Know Why, But Samsung Is Winning in China · · Score: 0

    Damned if he tells them, damned if he doesn't but it is pretty clear. The product is loosing it's "I gotta have it appeal" as well as the innovative lead as well as, wow that looks futuristic/different ... and they are doing nothing about it, partly because their spiritual leader has left down some laws that are hurting apple.

  7. Upto 90% accuracy ? on Would You Let a Robot Stick You With a Needle? · · Score: 1

    1 billion blood draws a year at 90% accuracy making 100 million blue of skin death events :-) G

  8. As a devils advocate on Rise of the Warrior Cop: How America's Police Forces Became Militarized · · Score: 1, Informative

    When you have 50,000 raids a year ... you will get the ones that will swing wide off the mark. I am sure they will get the address wrong, a cat will fall on the officer's face as they break in and they will gun down a whole convent. The officers are shit scared that 12 year old is holding a fully automatic weapon as per it's God given right.

  9. Re:Turn the question around on Congress Demands Answers From Google Over Google Glass Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    NO ... don't turn the question around. That is standard misdirection. I can't believe all these geeks are jumping to defend Google against very reasonable questions by the government ... the very one they elect and represent them.

    If the government is doing something wrong, that's another episode. On this occasion though, the questions are very well defined and should be clearly answered without .. oh look shiny !!!

  10. Re:pfftt... on A Computer-based Smart Rifle With Incredible Accuracy, Now On Sale · · Score: 1

    And twelve year olds that had a fight with your twelve year old ... only now they can camp in the next suburb for him

  11. Ammm a little detail ... on Peppers Seem To Protect Against Parkinson's · · Score: 1

    Smoking it delivers it to your lungs that have not evolved to deal with the complex chemicals. Your stomach on the other hand can deal with acids ... eat nicotine so you can remember more

  12. Re:a discrimination case waiting to happen on So What If Yahoo's New Dads Get Less Leave Than Moms? · · Score: 1

    No problem, so lets change the wording ... For any citizen in a relationship that bares the child ... 12 weeks. The partner ... 6 weeks.

  13. Re:"Needs"? on Europe Needs Genetically Engineered Crops, Scientists Say · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Soooo if I can grow less crops with less pesticides in the same block of land leaving the rest for nature is a bad thing ? How about we all go organic and have the population settle at the 2 billion and solve another problem as well.

  14. The original Amazons want their name back on The Amazon Rainforest Wants Its TLD Back From Amazon.com · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The original Amazons called and they want their name back from the rain forest.

  15. Re:Easy come easy go... on Tweet From Hacked AP Account Causes High Freq. Traders To Drop DOW 150 Points · · Score: 1

    Wow are you trying to slashdot the market with keywords picked up by HFT scripts ? :-)

  16. So can Jack Wang claim to have a Nobel medal now ? on Crick's Nobel Medal Fetches $2.3 Million At Auction · · Score: 1

    It appears that this Jack Wang can claim to have a Nobel medal in his advertising and he would be syntactically correct !!!

  17. Some cut'n pasting on Nuclear Power Prevents More Deaths Than It Causes · · Score: 2

    "Although the concentration of Uranium and Thorium in coal is extremely low, a typical 1000 MW coal fired plant burns about 4 million tons of coal every year. This results in an unregulated release to the environment of 5.2 tons of Uranium along with 12.8 tons of Thorium from a single coal plant each year. This does not include the large amounts of radium, radon, polonium and potassium-40 that is also released from coal plants."

    There are 7000 coal power plants in the world with many more planned making alternative energy solutions completely insignificant. Consider that in the US almost twice as much uranium is released into the environment by coal plants than is used, stored in fused glass and buried by nuclear plants!

  18. Re:Long term? on Nuclear Power Prevents More Deaths Than It Causes · · Score: 1

    Stick it in the ground, in shallow holes they were radioactive when they were in there. They are less so now that they have been used, so what is the problem. Dilute them 100 fold and then stick them in the ground if you wish. In a lump of coal there is more energy in its uranium and thorium than in the coal itself but we seem, happy to leave it lying around or even making road surfaces out of the leftovers.

    http://www.ornl.gov/info/ornlreview/rev26-34/text/colmain.html

  19. I would say these are the last throws of creationism. It is a case of, please pick a fight with me, I am important. Science has credibility, so if they give creationism some attention, some of that credibility rubs off on them. It is sad state for them.

    All you have to do is look up bible inconsistencies and off you go. Next you can simply ask to use creationism as a means to predict stuff ... and you are stuffed as it has no predicting ability. I can make an imaginary consitant story and ask that it is disproven ... The fact that nobody can come forth and disprove it, does not mean that it is true.

  20. Re:Copyright on Scientists Have Re-Cloned Mice To the 25th Generation · · Score: 1

    OK what if that clone somehow gets your memories as well. Who has the right to your property then ?

  21. Although amazing ... on Man-Made Material Pushes the Bounds of Superconductivity · · Score: 1

    I am tired of hearing "could lead to breakthroughs in ..." So I lean towards extraordinary evidence

  22. Re:"42% of stake" on Eric Schmidt To Sell Up To 42% of Stake In Google · · Score: 1

    Much like bidding $Pi Billion dollars, is selling the meaning of life in shares something to worry about ?

  23. Draw a circle the size of a plate on No Transmitting Aliens Detected In Kepler SETI Search · · Score: 1

    Draw a circle the size of a plate, then take your pen and put a dot near the rim but not too close. Say an inch. That is the extent our radio signals have traveled if our galaxy was to be shrunk to the size of a soup pate. Give it time, it takes about 100,000 years for our signal to get to the other side of our milky way alone. By then we would have discovered warp drive and we would have sent giant vacuum cleaners to suck up our radio signals :-) G

  24. That's not a bug that is a feature on Mars Rover Curiosity: Less Brainpower Than Apple's iPhone 5 · · Score: 1

    It is like saying this is a better car because it has bigger wheels. Curiosity has the specific computational power to achieve the specific job. Is there any doubt it succeeds doing what it is meant to do ? Why would you hope the CPU is twice or ten times faster ? This idea of an ever faster computer has died on desktops and is almost dead with mobile devices too. Who cares if the iPhone doubles it's computational power. Can it do what it is meant to do without requiring a person to recover it from a hiccup ? Curiosity can !!

  25. Pitty on Will Renewable Energy Ever Meet All Our Energy Needs? · · Score: 1

    I agree with the title and the intent but the guy is very thin on logic. The way he extrapolates population, you wont be able to have solar panels because you need that spot for somebody to stand on.