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  1. Re:PC is the only one that counts on Fallout 4 Will Be Skipping Xbox 360 and PS3 · · Score: 1

    Fair warning: You'll get out of F:NV what you put into it. If you strictly follow the critical path, you'll be disappointed. If you look around, talk to your companions, do side quests, you'll have a much better time of it.

  2. Re: Was it EXIF data? on US Bombs ISIS Command Center After Terrorist Posts Selfie Online · · Score: 1

    sigint is the diligent use of human stupid.

    SIGINT is HUMINT without needing to get out of your chair.

  3. Re:Which Stormtrooper is it... on Stormtrooper Arrested · · Score: 1

    So the cops go out, find out it's some guy in a suit, pose for some pix, and bid him a good day.

  4. Re:Maybe we SHOULD fear guns on Stormtrooper Arrested · · Score: 1

    Same reason they should be familiar with dogs, pools, household cleaners and chemicals, the big-ass knives in the kitchen, power tools in the house, and so on:

    So they know how to safely interact with them if it's not possible to avoid them.

  5. Was it EXIF data? on US Bombs ISIS Command Center After Terrorist Posts Selfie Online · · Score: 1

    I hope it was EXIF data.

  6. Re:Modern Fallouts suck ass on Fallout 4 Announced · · Score: 0

    None of the modern fallouts recreate and capture the spirit of the two first ones.

    Somebody here hasn't played Fallout: New Vegas, and it isn't me.

  7. Re: We do not consider it abuse to request a refun on Valve Introduces Steam Refunds In Advance of Summer Sale · · Score: 2

    Same reason you have rebate offers instead of sales; they count on a percentage of buyers not bothering.

  8. Re:Odd comment on Diphtheria Returns To Spain For Lack of Vaccination · · Score: 1

    No, he's saying that the kid's right to not be exposed to a deadly disease trumps the parent's right to force their religion/philosophy/stupidity onto the child.

  9. Re:Just why is 10G ethernet still so expensive? on Intel Adopts USB-C Connector For 40Gbps Thunderbolt 3, Supports USB 3.1, DP 1.2 · · Score: 2

    Nah, same reason why 100baseT was around so long; it was good enough.

    gig-e is more than adequate for almost anything that involves a desktop computer, so there's nothing driving prices down. Eventually, it won't be, and prices will drop like a rock.

  10. Re:Tubes on Ways To Travel Faster Than Light Without Violating Relativity · · Score: 1

    Your mass prevents it from happening. As you get closer and closer to c, your mass increases, requiring more energy to accelerate you further.

    To actually move at c, you'd require infinite energy. You don't have infinite energy, hence you can't hit c.

    Now, the trick with the tube would be this:
    Take, say, a six foot by six foot square of material. Lets say light can move 3 feet/second, and you can move 1 foot/second, and you want to get a dinky car, represnting you, from the middle of the left edge to the middle of the right edge.

    Light will do that in two seconds. The dinky car will do it in six seconds.

    Now, pick up the cloth, and hang it over a clothes line. Hook a dinky-car sized flexible tube from point A to point B on the two edges. They'll be an inch or two apart. Light still travels along the surface, and takes two seconds to get there. Your dinky car, however, gets there virtually instantly.

    Your car didn't move any faster, you just warped space to decrease the distance you had to travel.

  11. Re:Military service can be mandatory, can cause ha on California Senate Approves School Vaccine Bill · · Score: 1

    I'd love to hold society to the standard that no child should have to risk death due to parental stupidity. That's just not California. If you really want to uphold this ideal, you'll have to crusade for myriad causes, including gun control, obesity-fighting measures, tighter distribution of driver's licenses, promotion of breastfeeding, etc, etc. On the list of annual deaths in California caused by parental stupidity, lack of vaccination is near the bottom of the list.

    All of this is true. However, lack of vaccination will rapidly climb the lists if America's current anti-science, anti-education and anti-logic trends are allowed to continue.

  12. Re:Life of Crime (Major GTA V Spoiler Alert) on Grand Theft Auto V Keeps Raking In Money · · Score: 1

    Son, it sounds to me like you're ready to play Saint's Row.

  13. Re:Since there's no downside, why not go all out? on Los Angeles Raises Minimum Wage To $15 an Hour · · Score: 1

    I don't think there's a downside to a minimum wage, or at least, not a compelling one.

    As to specific implementation details. I really don't know. Not my field. My lay opinion would be that, well, it needs to be tied to the local cost of living and what not, but it would be a bitch to administrate. But no, having the minimum wage in Buttfuck Arkansas and Los Angeles be the same is probably sub-optimal.

    I intended more to point out that while a small increase is basically a cost-of-living raise, a large increase will, indeed, likely do more harm than good.

  14. Re:Military service can be mandatory, can cause ha on California Senate Approves School Vaccine Bill · · Score: 1

    I don't think there's any downside. But there are all sorts of upsides to working towards eliminating preventable, fatal diseases.

    No child should have to risk death because their parents are stupid.

  15. Re:Since there's no downside, why not go all out? on Los Angeles Raises Minimum Wage To $15 an Hour · · Score: 1

    Since apparently there is no downside to drinking water, some, why not drink a bunch?

    If some is good, more is better, and much more is much more better, right?

    Why not a minimum water intake of 5 gallons/hour?

  16. Re:Military service can be mandatory, can cause ha on California Senate Approves School Vaccine Bill · · Score: 1

    I'd support a bill like this if it also included provisions for criminal charges against parents who 'opt out' and their child winds up having long-term effects, or dying, of preventable diseases.

    Say, do you also believe that, say, seatbelts are a matter of personal choice?

  17. Re:Pay Settlments from Police Pension Funds on Baton Bob Receives $20,000 Settlement For Coerced Facebook Post · · Score: 1

    I think the idea is that it would eventually render bad cops uninsurable, and thus, unemployable.

    Really, though, these are all suggestions to get around the central issue; cops look out for their own, even in the face of blatantly criminal behavior. It's a cultural issue, more than anything.

  18. Re:I can see this running afoul of.... on California Senate Approves School Vaccine Bill · · Score: 1

    Not being a Christian isn't a provable health hazard. Not being vaccinated is.

  19. Re:Military service can be mandatory, can cause ha on California Senate Approves School Vaccine Bill · · Score: 2

    Put this another way:
    If measles goes through a small town public school with a thousand kids, three of those kids will die. Several will have life-long aftereffects.

    If you vaccinate every human being in a large city, *1* will have *some sort* of adverse effect.

    If 'reducing possible harm to children' is actually your end goal, there's no way in hell you'd argue against vaccines.

    The problem, really, is that there are entire generations who've never seen a playmate die of measles, or have the polio leg braces, or the like.

  20. Re:Understanding why some people fear vaccines on California Senate Approves School Vaccine Bill · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but that's all on the level of pointing out that dihydrogen monoxide is a universal solvent, causes horrible burns in it's gaseous state, induces tissue necrosis in it's solid state, will suffocate you in it's liquid state, and that excessive doses will cause seizures, among other problems.

  21. Re:They wore him down. on Douglas Williams Pleads Guilty To Training Customers To Beat Polygraph · · Score: 2

    Yes, this. It seems like the logic here is 'to get a gov't job, you must pass a polygraph test. This man taught people how to skew the results of that test.'

    Note that the requirement to get the gov't job isn't 'be truthful and accurate when answering questions about things like criminal history,' but 'pass the polygraph.' Validity of the polygraph doesn't enter into it.

  22. Re: 23 down, 77 to go on Religious Affiliation Shrinking In the US · · Score: 1

    Hey, there's a lot of science and engineering that goes into making a good combat-capable sword.

  23. Re:The trouble with modern Christianity... on Religious Affiliation Shrinking In the US · · Score: 1

    Well, that's the other issue; historical and cultural context.

  24. Re: 23 down, 77 to go on Religious Affiliation Shrinking In the US · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "We shall spread the word of our God by the Sword!" -- heard many times in history.

    "We shall spread rational inquiry and the scientific method by the Sword!" -- never heard in history, to my knowledge.

  25. Re:The trouble with modern Christianity... on Religious Affiliation Shrinking In the US · · Score: 1

    The bible is written that way because it is trying to translate Ancient Hebrew and Ancient Greek. You can make a readable translation or an accurate translation to English, but not both.

    Correct. Personally, I would hope that, when translating what is purported to be 'instruction manual for avoiding eternal damnation, and methods for right thought and living,' they'd go with 'accurate.' This has, however, been objectively proven not to be the case.