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  1. Re:The US slides back to the caves on Limiting the Teaching of the Scientific Process In Ohio · · Score: 1, Funny

    Still using Imperial measurements?

    Do you find your 10-day workweeks more convenient, now that you've completely gone over to the metric system?

  2. Re: I do not know how you can laugh ... on 850 Billion NSA Surveillance Records Searchable By Domestic Law Enforcement · · Score: 1

    Not satire. US person number will look like 703-XXX-XXXX or something like that. Lets you know the number is known and is associated with a US person. You can also label a number as US and it will then be masked. There are other safeguards as well.

  3. Re: I do not know how you can laugh ... on 850 Billion NSA Surveillance Records Searchable By Domestic Law Enforcement · · Score: 1

    Icreach user here. Records are not dossiers, but call metadata, as in this number called that other number. Or did you think there were 850 billion people alive? Also, congress mandated NSA share data after 9/11, and icreach was created to do that.

  4. Re:But snooped on with what? on Your Phone Can Be Snooped On Using Its Gyroscope · · Score: 1

    The gyroscopes and accelerometers are two different things. The gryoscope measures tilt of the device, like when you play a racing game. The accelerometer measures change in velocity, like when you shake the phone to shuffle a playlist. Two different sensors.

    And no, the gyroscope in your phone does not spin; it is solid state.

  5. Re:Cutting edge news? on Your Phone Can Be Snooped On Using Its Gyroscope · · Score: 0

    The event isn't until 2 days from now. That's ludicrous speed for /..

  6. Re:How about a way to prove you're a human once on Research Unveils Improved Method To Let Computers Know You Are Human · · Score: 2

    Brilliant! Then the next time you log in, you just have to prove you're the same human from last time! Wow, that's so much easier!

  7. Re:Similarities seem kind of tenuous on Machine Vision Reveals Previously Unknown Influences Between Great Artists · · Score: 4, Informative
    I suppose that's why they say this then:

    ...Saleh and co do not claim that this kind of algorithm can take the place of an art historian. After all, the discovery of a link between paintings in this way is just the starting point for further research about an artist’s life and work.

  8. Re:US NFL aggressively enforces copyright on Posting Soccer Goals On Vine Is Illegal, Say England's Premier League · · Score: 2

    That would be a very relevant and interesting comment if we weren't talking about a completely different sport in a completely different country.

  9. Re:WHAT? 2009 pandemic came from Mexico, not China on How to Maintain Lab Safety While Making Viruses Deadlier · · Score: 1

    Can there be only one pandemic in a year or something? The fantastic summary said nothing about swine flu.

  10. Re:easy enough... on Android Motorcycle Helmet/HUD Gains Funding · · Score: 1

    How well does it work with a helmet on?

  11. Re:easy enough... on Android Motorcycle Helmet/HUD Gains Funding · · Score: 1

    I wasn't aware the Google Glass had a rear-facing camera.

  12. Re:Would it be weird? on Android Motorcycle Helmet/HUD Gains Funding · · Score: 2

    Half the reason of owning and riding a motorcycle is the excuse to look awesome.

  13. Oh man on Android Motorcycle Helmet/HUD Gains Funding · · Score: 5, Funny

    a head-up display (HUD), GPS navigation, and a 180-degree rearview camera

    Shut up and take my money already!

    Helmets are available starting at $1,399

    Well, let's not be hasty.

  14. Re:Wrong problem to focus on on Sniffing Out Billions In US Currency Smuggled Across the Border To Mexico · · Score: 1

    I haven't been impacted by illegal drug lords in Mexico, either here in the states or while traveling in Mexico. I have been impacted by getting stopped by the border patrol and their sniffing dogs. Sounds like money going to Mexican drug lords is a Mexican problem.

    I guess you haven't figured out that a nation run by large violent drug cartels and a wave of immigration from that nation might be related. If you want to stop the poor immigrants from washing into our country (mind you, I'm not convinced that's a problem), then work to make Mexico less of a failed state, and that has to involve working against the drug cartels.

  15. Re:Ipv6 to ipv4 interoperability is only way on The IPv4 Internet Hiccups · · Score: 1

    Can't figure out if you were going Insightful or Funny.

  16. Not ready for v6 yet on The IPv4 Internet Hiccups · · Score: 1

    There's still plenty of time to postpone that. Not until the last /2 is sold will I start to worry. And can't we start using a few 127.x.x.x? Do we really need 16 million addresses for testing?

    /sarcasm

  17. Re:Plutonium on Scientists Who Smuggle Radioactive Materials · · Score: 1

    That XRF instrument was just a bunch of old pinball machine parts!

  18. Re:Wrong problem to focus on on Sniffing Out Billions In US Currency Smuggled Across the Border To Mexico · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There is not a lot of problems associated with drug money going to the Mexico.

    30 billion a year going into the hands of violent drug cartels isn't a problem? I disagree.

    On the other hand, waves of unskilled, poor, desperate people and who can't legally work here is a recipe for social problems that will last generations.

    Are you American Indian? If not, from which wave of poor desperate immigrants did your family arrive?

  19. Re:Easier option on Sniffing Out Billions In US Currency Smuggled Across the Border To Mexico · · Score: 1

    It would be easier to sniff for a trace amount of something on the thing you're looking for, than to just sniff for the thing itself? Better alert the authorities right away!

  20. Re:Freya on Elementary OS "Freya" Beta Released · · Score: 1

    Maybe you're thinking of Froyo?

  21. Re:Metadata on Yahoo To Add PGP Encryption For Email · · Score: 1

    Metadata is actually the proper term, and used appropriately. IAA Intelligence Analyst. The metadata debate revolved around phone collection, not email. Take your conspiracy theories elsewhere.

  22. Let's not forget on What Do You Do When Your Mind-Numbing IT Job Should Be Automated? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Homer once automated his job with a plastic dipping bird, with disastrous results.

  23. Re:What could possibly go wrong? on Ecuador To Forge Ahead With State-Backed Digital Currency · · Score: 1
    I did look it up. On several sites. Wikipedia (and several of the links thereon) define fiat currency as one backed by a government. If you have a better source that says the opposite, please post it.

    Perhaps you should look up a what talk about

    What?

  24. I'm impressed on 2D To 3D Object Manipulation Software Lends Depth to Photographs · · Score: 2

    I don't do anything like this for a living, but I must say I'm impressed. I'm fairly certain someone will say this was done back in 1997 though so it's nothing new.

  25. Re:What could possibly go wrong? on Ecuador To Forge Ahead With State-Backed Digital Currency · · Score: 1

    A fiat currency, by definition, is one backed by a government. If you don't know what words mean, look them up.