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  1. Re:Check truth in political speech on Real-Time Fact Checking With "Truth Teller" · · Score: 1

    And watch as they go home, incredibly radicalised because of what was done to them (starting under Bush) and become part of terrorist networks. It's happened quite a number of times in the past. Something needs to be done, but just letting them all walk is very much not the answer.

  2. Re:Check truth in political speech on Real-Time Fact Checking With "Truth Teller" · · Score: 1

    Trying to close Guantanamo and failing doesn't make him a lier, it means he broke his promise. A lie is when you say you will do something, but have no intention of doing it, breaking a promise is when you honestly try and fail. He wanted to move the prisoners to other facilities, but none of the State Governers wanted to take them or have the appropriate kinds of facilities built in their back yard.

  3. Re:Check truth in political speech on Real-Time Fact Checking With "Truth Teller" · · Score: 2

    Oh, but the leftist news channels did the same kind of thing once or twice, so the huge number of times Fox News did it are okay!!! Even The Young Turks (TYT) pulled it once recently, they were talking about an interview Quentin Tarantino did with a UK news channel where he refuses to answer a question about violence, saying his position is well known and has been public for 20 years, and he refused to regurgitate it for their show to use as new footage. After that uncomfortableness, the interviewer changed direction and Tarantino quite happily answered a whole slew of other questions. TYT didn't show that part of the interview, and just slammed Tarantino for blowing up and some of the words he used while he did it. I usually agree with the majority of TYT's viewpoints, but I get shitty when a channel I like pulls that kind of stunt. Now it's only an interview with a movie director, it's not a politician lying or covering something up, but I still think they should hold themselves to a higher standard.

  4. Re:Need to be two of these on Solowheel is for People Who Think a Segway is Boring (Video) · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't work, the person's centre of gravity is supposed to be over the Solowheel's center.

  5. Re:Couldn't we just charge them tuition? on Does US Owe the World an Education At Its Expense? · · Score: 1

    Hard to run a business without customers. If there are huge numbers of college grads living in their parent's basements then they're not working, buying houses, cars, etc. You need a group of people with disposable income or be able to give them a good/service at a lower price than existing, simply having educated employees is no magic way to run a good business.

  6. Re:We have the same... on Does US Owe the World an Education At Its Expense? · · Score: 1

    This person's post needs more exposure than the one it is replying to, a pity it was AC

  7. Re:Educating the US on Does US Owe the World an Education At Its Expense? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yeah, but your point isn't in the vein of the slightly zenophobic summary, so noone else wants to engage with you *sigh* An educated world is one less likely to have as many terrorists, reactionaries, etc., one more willing to use modern science and medicine to solve problems instead of war, but nooooo, it's too expensive, we should solve our own problems first, other countries should look after themselves *facepalm* Why did Australia build schools in Indonesia under a conservative (for Australia) government? Because the best schools at that time in Indonesia were funded by Muslim Radicals, they had the best teachers, the best facilities, etc., so people sent their kids there even though there was a chance they'd become radicalised and join an extremist group. If you offer a good alternative people will use it. The more educated\experienced people are, the more willing they are on average to sit down to solve problems, education is a way of imbuing people with knowledge from past generations so it doesn't take years of experience for them to realise violence should be a last resort.

  8. Re:Let the bashing begin! on Microsoft Surface Pro Arrives Feb. 9 · · Score: 1

    High Schools sick of trying to manage huge fleets of iPads will go for Win8 tablets in Droves

  9. Re:Let the bashing begin! on Microsoft Surface Pro Arrives Feb. 9 · · Score: 1

    Exactly, Apple has had to bodge together a whole suit of programs to get iPads to some kind of manageable state for large-scale Enterprise rollouts, with an x86 architecture a Win8 tablet will use a Huge amount of existing WinXP/Win7 systems and allow huge ease of use, especially authenticating to corporate networks wirelessly which is a Huge pain on an iPad. Most Enterprise systems lock an account after too many failed password tries, and require users to regularly change passwords. iPads don't know how to ask a user for an updated username/password if it can't connect wirelessly and keeps hammering the connection, forcing all kinds of nasty dodges.

  10. Re:And? on Microsoft Surface Pro Arrives Feb. 9 · · Score: 1

    And it's a swivel-screen laptop rather than a flat tablet with a removable keyboard.

    If you want a Surface competitor, look at the HP Envy X2 http://www8.hp.com/us/en/ad/envy-x2/overview.html

  11. Re:One word: Lawsuits on Moscow Plane Crash Caught On Passerby's Dash Cam · · Score: 2

    In the absence of other contradicting data, video footage from a random bystander who has no stake in the outcome of the decision is going to be highly valued by the Police.

  12. Re:Extra safety on How Do You Give a Ticket To a Driverless Car? · · Score: 1

    I love the scenario, just not sure how long it will be until the robot car is going to have that kind of recognition technology

  13. Re:Neck and Neck is advantage Intel on Intel Challenges ARM On Power Consumption... And Ties · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think you're confusing Surface RT with Surface Pro. The RT uses a different chip and requires different coding. Win8 Pro runs on any machine that runs Win7.

  14. Re:Neck and Neck is advantage Intel on Intel Challenges ARM On Power Consumption... And Ties · · Score: 2, Informative

    What people? Enterprise IT staff are going to buy Huge numbers of Win8 mobile devices that can authenticate to their networks at the OS level, removing the need for every app itself to authenticate. We have iPads that refuse to forget wireless accounts, meaning a user can get locked out (hitting the bad login limit quite fast) in a few minutes, and the iOS on them doesn't prompt the user for a corrected username/pw. Apple's support for Enterprise environments has been late and shoddy, especially if you don't live in the USA. And good luck trying to print properly from an iOS device to a Server 2003-based printer, which a Lot of people still run.

    I for one am going to be Really happy when I can give Surface devices to our users and swing them away from getting iPads, they're good for home use, but are a Huge hassle en mass.

    I've asked our corporate purchasing staff about 'droid devices, their response was: Can't get a serious warranty, platforms rollover too fast, and they're Far too easy to get root access to.

  15. Re:KSP FTW on Learning Rocket Science With Video Games · · Score: 1

    That looks quite interesting (I work at a high school), thank you

  16. Re:Nobody will have predicted ... on Australian Uni's Underground, Robot-Staffed Library · · Score: 1

    That looks more like fire then water damage rather than just a flood.

  17. Re:Scientists need to be careful to avoid bias on Lamar Smith, Future Chairman For the House Committee On Science, Space, and Tech · · Score: 1

    one year where winter snowfall doesn't melt

    So this would happen Randomly, with no cause, just 'because'?

    You're talking about Massive climactic variance on a huge scale, which would have be caused by something. A volcanic eruption, massive earthquake that changed geology on a huge scale, massive meteor impact, etc. The Earth has a lot of feedback loops that keep things in stasis over certain time periods as long as certain conditions are met. We're messing with those conditions and thus are almost certain to kick in feedback loops that are hostile to our continued gentle existence

  18. Re:Skeptic is ok... on Lamar Smith, Future Chairman For the House Committee On Science, Space, and Tech · · Score: 0

    *sigh*

    I'll bite.

    What various logical fallacies do you see coming from the 99%+ of the scientists around the world who agree that Global Climate Change is a reality, if not being completely human-caused? The polar ice caps are melting, the glaciers are melting, Kilimanjaro is clear of snow for the first time beyond living memory, the Siberian Tundra that stores huge quantities of methane are melting, the Insurance Industry can show you graphs of increasing intensity in storms going back to before WWI, the evidence is vastly on the side of Global Climate Change as being a reality now, not any hypothesis.

    Perhaps you don't Want it to be a reality? I don't either, but from many data sources we may well be fucked anyway and stuck with a 2 degree increase in global averages no matter what we do, which will cause many changes that threaten our way of life.

  19. Re:Yes but the effect was negated on Google Glass Could Be the Virtual Dieting Pill of the Future · · Score: 1

    Science says you're right

    http://www.fitsugar.com/Health-Benefits-Kissing-18527605
    Even just kissing boosts your metabolism and helps you burn calories, plus there are other health benefits. If Google spent less time on making Oreos look larger and more time helping us geeks get decent dates, they'd achieve the same effect. Not as good for sales of Google Glasses though...

  20. Re:"private sector" on The Cyber Threat To the Global Oil Supply · · Score: 1

    I was wondering why this post didn't have a good score, then realised it was posted by AC. I only saw it because I browse with my /. filtering set to -1, normal users won't see it.

  21. Re:Quality Control on Mars Rover Solves Metallic Object Mystery, Unearths Another · · Score: 1

    Exactly, you build something that complex, send it that far on a journey that violent, something's going to come loose. It could have been a part from so many places on the whole lander assembly!

  22. Re:Crossing my fingers on Mars Rover Solves Metallic Object Mystery, Unearths Another · · Score: 1

    If it needs to be restarted, where are we going to find an amnesiac super-spy with an identity crisis to restart it for us? We already have the three-breasted 'professional' lady

  23. Re:Amounts on The Pacific Ocean Is Polluted With Coffee · · Score: 1

    now There's a useful metric!

  24. Re:Are people still playing this? on Star Wars: The Old Republic Adding Free-To-Play Option In November · · Score: 1

    I was just about to join a player-run UO shard based locally, and then they shuttered in prep for GW2 :(

  25. Re:Bunnies on the roads on Chicken Vaccines Combine To Produce Deadly Virus · · Score: 1

    I used to get quite antsy when I visited my mother last Christmas, she was swerving and/or braking to avoid birds that were flying up as she went speeding down country roads in her ute (pickup). There was a much greater danger to the car's three occupants than the birds, which are much more maneuverable than a vehicle travelling down the road at a perhaps not-quite-legal speed.