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  1. Re:Science reporting at its best! on Researchers Claim a Few Cat Videos Per Day Helps Keep the Doctor Away · · Score: 2

    Perhaps they could reveal to the placebo watcher that it wasn't a real cat.

  2. Risk? on Malware Attacks Give Criminals 1,425% Return On Investment · · Score: 1

    Sure the returns are high, just like they are on cocaine smuggling. But what is the risk?

  3. Re:But we know that USA is the *GOOD GUY* on Glen Greenwald: Don't Trust Anonymous Anti-Snowden Claims · · Score: 1

    Sarcasm, I know. But this claim came from the UK government. DO they have an expression like 'Uncle Sam' over there?

  4. Re:Not a Canal on 3D Printed Steel Pedestrian Bridge Will Soon Span an Amsterdam Canal · · Score: 1

    This page is in English, not Dutch. Hence, it is a canal.

  5. Re:FDA Certification Part of the Problem on Report: Evidence of Healthcare Breaches Lurks On Infected Medical Devices · · Score: 2

    Vendors like to claim this, but the FDA clarified over 10 years ago that vendors are expected to apply security patches and other updates outside of the core clinical software. Re-certification is not required, the vendor merely has to certify that they tested the update for any effect on clinical function.

  6. Re:Google Fiber on Why Americans Loathe Cable Companies · · Score: 2, Informative

    Exclusivity deals are illegal under US Federal law 47 U.S.C. 253(a): "No State or local statute or regulation, or other State or local legal requirement, may prohibit or have the effect of prohibiting the ability of any entity to provide any interstate or intrastate telecommunications service."

  7. Re:Why is this on Slashdot? on Governments of the World Agree: Encryption Must Die! · · Score: 1

    A technologist is the same thing as an ethicist.i .e. someone with an opinion on a subject who wants to create a false sense of credibility

  8. Re:Reasons to be skeptical on Siri, Cortana and Google Have Nothing On SoundHound's Speech Recognition · · Score: 1

    millions of simultaneous users ... Cortana support(s ed.)

    Citation needed.

  9. Devil's advocate on US Airport Screeners Missed 95% of Weapons, Explosives In Undercover Tests · · Score: 1

    Disclaimer: I don't agree with the following, but here are the counter arguments that I think would apply. To an extent described in the article.

    1. Willing suicide bombers are rare. This means that if there is a significant chance they will be caught pre-explosion, they will seek another avenue. So the goal of TSA measures is not to catch 100% of smuggled weapons, it is merely to make airplanes too risky a target. If the bomber/hijacker is caught, the expensive resource is squandered.

    2. These tests are performed by the agency's own 'red team' who have extensive knowledge and resources to draw on. It is common practice to have training tests far exceed the level of threat one is likely to encounter in the real world. In other words, the real world adversary is nowhere near as skilled and capable as the red team.

  10. Good on Orange County Public Schools To Monitor Students On Social Media · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The school is doing its job. Is there a better way to educate students about the value and practice of privacy?

  11. Danger Will Robinson on The Tricky Road Ahead For Android Gets Even Trickier · · Score: 1

    Reading the article about Cyanogen, I realize I need to be as wary of them (and their Microsoft partnership) as I am of the other big players. Time to check out some other Android variants.

  12. Testing for "risk" is risky on Gene Testing Often Gets It Wrong · · Score: 1

    I am sure gene tests for conditions that are 100% due to genes are accurate. But how does one determine if an estimate of risk is accurate or not? If the lab tells me I have a 10% chance of getting cancer, and I do, that doesn't establish anything unless I can live the same life repeatedly. The article doesn't say anything about tests being 'often wrong' instead it is about different labs judging risk differently, and the need to share information to try to narrow that variance.

  13. Re:Don't buy a router unless it suports openwrt. on Exploit Kit Delivers Pharming Attacks Against SOHO Routers · · Score: 2

    I expect parent was saying that OpenWRT has bugs fixed regularly, and was not making a claim for free software in general. Also, free software is not the same as open source software. :)

  14. Re:No one votes on Privacy Behaviors Changed Little After Snowden · · Score: 1

    I presume you are talking about the USA. How much does policy change in nations where voter turnout is higher?

  15. seems inevitable on Tech Bubble? What Tech Bubble? · · Score: 1

    With base interest rates at effectively zero, it isn't hard to predict that asset values like this would inflate. In other words, financing is so cheap that things that wouldn't get it at higher interest rates now find it easy to come by.

  16. Re:They're bums, why keep them around on Greece Is Running Out of Money, Cannot Make June IMF Repayment · · Score: 1

    That's one bone of contention in the whole mess. While Greece borrowed money it could not pay back, shouldn't the lender also take some responsibility for giving the money to them in the first place? I keep waiting for Greece to say something like 'all these banks are going to take a haircut or we drag all of you down with us'

  17. Re:Germany should pay war reparations for WWII on Greece Is Running Out of Money, Cannot Make June IMF Repayment · · Score: 1

    Should Greece abandon them because Germany said austerity is the way?

    This is a false dichotomy. What is often overlooked is that fiscal 'austerity' is only a small part of the bigger issues afflicting Greece. If half your economy is dependent on government spending, and government spending goes down, well there goes your economy. So what happened to the rest of the Greek economy? They are crippled by a huge list of counterproductive regulations from some dreamland they have been in for decades. I don't mean regulations like 'dont dump poison in the river' I mean regulations like 'there can only be one pharmacy in each town' or 'all freight has to be driven by a Greek driver'. Getting rid of all that garbage is the other half of the austerity program that is typically overlooked.

  18. Re:Germany should pay war reparations for WWII on Greece Is Running Out of Money, Cannot Make June IMF Repayment · · Score: 1

    Just a few years ago Poland was looting retirement funds and pensions, so it can't be far behind Greece.

  19. Re:New Jersey and Other Fictions...t on The Economic Consequences of Self-Driving Trucks · · Score: 1

    If there is one pump and one line, that would be true. Usually there are 8-12 pumps and one or two guys manning them all.

  20. Antivirus business on Eugene Kaspersky: "Our Business Is Saving the World From Computer Villains" · · Score: 1

    And do they have a a successful antivirus business?

  21. Already proven pointless on Genetically Engineered Yeast Makes It Possible To Brew Morphine · · Score: 1

    The whole idea is just DRM on meth. It is just information, and you can't lock up information.

  22. here they come on Arab Mars Probe Planned For 2020 · · Score: 1

    Here come the Fremen

  23. Re:3.5 million truckers on The Economic Consequences of Self-Driving Trucks · · Score: 1

    "autonomous driving systems" makes me think of trains.

  24. Re:New Jersey and Other Fictions... on The Economic Consequences of Self-Driving Trucks · · Score: 1

    Nowadays this law sticks around because people who are unable to pump their own gas (i.e. would need to seek full service pumps) and people afraid to get out of their cars raise a huge stink whenever repeal is considered.

  25. the world's first sea turtle to receive a 3D printed implant

    Turtles have come a long way. I suppose it had to happen sometime.