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  1. Re:god-like vs. measuring observer on First Experimental Evidence That Time Is an Emergent Quantum Phenomenon · · Score: 1

    Yet there's no reason to think things can exist independently. Everything is relational. Something that doesn't interact with anything in any way becomes non-existent. Our need to imagine that it would still exist and that there can be independent things is most likely just a human conceptual limitation resulting from our evolution.

  2. Re:Immigration reform? on What Employee Lock-In Means At Facebook · · Score: 1

    Legalizing the undocumented would help wages, compared to keeping them forever as an underclass with no legal recourse and limited options like we do. Companies prefer the status quo of easy exploitation.

  3. Re:Illegal, Not Undocumented. on What Employee Lock-In Means At Facebook · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Time to relocate all humans to the exact part of Africa where the species first evolved, then. Everyone elsewhere is an undocumented immigrant who the native species did not welcome.

  4. Re:Illegal, Not Undocumented. on What Employee Lock-In Means At Facebook · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Perhaps that rule should be applied fairly to all. Deport everyone (perhaps at their 18th birthday if not at birth) to a specially created territory, and only allow people to come back as US citizens by standing in line and earning it. Having accidentally been born somewhere shouldn't give you special privileges.

  5. Re:I know the scientist... on DNA Sequence Withheld From New Botulism Paper · · Score: 1

    War criminals should use your defense at their trials. "But your honor, we get a few million dead every year from starvation and other diseases. What's the difference if I round up a million for execution by firing squad?"

  6. Re:Statistics on No, the Earth (almost Certainly) Won't Be Hit By an Asteroid In 2032 · · Score: 1

    That's many thousands of miles.

  7. Re:waste of money on Elon Musk Making a Working Version of James Bond's Submersible Car · · Score: 1

    Employing a bunch of smart people to work on his fun silly idea seems a lot better than just investing it in the stock market like most would.

  8. Re:Not really sure what I was expecting on Aeromobil Flying Car Prototype Gets Off the Ground For the First Time · · Score: 1

    There are already places where people park their planes in their driveways: special neighborhoods connecting to small local airports, with streets designed wide enough that you can taxi you plane down the streets to your house. I used to live near one and saw lots of planes in driveways. If you're rich enough to afford a plane, perhaps you might as well just move to a neighborhood like that instead of waiting for roadable aircraft which will cost more than regular aircraft and probably be less safe than cars on the road.

  9. Re:As a tall man, I beg to differ on Redesigned Seats Let Airlines Squeeze In More Passengers · · Score: 1

    There' nothing dangerous about 6'1" 140 lbs. I was 5'8" 110 lbs for many years, was perfectly healthy.

  10. Re:Stop carrying life jackets? on Redesigned Seats Let Airlines Squeeze In More Passengers · · Score: 1

    5'6" 180 lbs is awfully fat, so I think you mean the average American not the average human.

  11. Re:Obvious question on Sleep Is the Ultimate Brainwasher · · Score: 1

    11 days is the all-time world record: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Gardner_(record_holder)

  12. Re:Obvious question on Sleep Is the Ultimate Brainwasher · · Score: 1

    White noise generators solve the noise problem, for me anyway. I suspect the bigger problem for shift workers is trying to coordinate with daytime people and attend social/family events without messing up their sleep schedule.

  13. Re:Steve Gibson is a... on New Standard For Website Authentication Proposed: SQRL (Secure QR Login) · · Score: 1

    It's a logical fallacy to claim that using a logical fallacy to attack a claim adds weight to the claim. Also, ad hominems like other fallacies can be good arguments -- just not deductively valid in a formal sense. If someone spews 99% nonsense, it's a waste of valuable time to invest hours into providing deductively that their latest spew is also nonsense.

  14. Re:Bunch of smug "Rice-Cakers"... on No, Oreos Aren't As Addictive As Cocaine · · Score: 1

    This is just evidence that cocaine and morphine aren't much fun. You can get more pleasure from eating an oreo than from doing drugs, according to their evidence -- at least more immediate concentrated pleasure. That says nothing about addiction, but if anything could be an indication that people do those drugs more because of being addicted since they don't have the obvious pleasure explanation like oreos have.

  15. Re:Every Price Point on Is Choice a Problem For Android? · · Score: 1

    Users will pay for features they need, but most users don't need much from a phone.

  16. Re:Like your own product on Oracle Attacks Open Source; Says Community-Developed Code Is Inferior · · Score: 1

    If you just want a cheaper RHEL, I'll support CentOS for you for $100. Nevermind that I don't have a clue, I'm cheaper. I suspect the qualify of support from Red Hat for their flagship product they develop is a lot better than Oracle's support for a minor product they repackage without doing any work on.

  17. Re:Charles Babbage was the first programmer. on The Curious Mind of Ada Lovelace · · Score: 1

    Babbage never completed the analytical engine which Lovelace's programs were written for, and the difference engine that was built isn't considered a proper computer in the same programming sense. The most accurate thing to say would be that Babbage and Lovelace collaborated on the first computer programs, but neither of them ever ran any of the programs since they didn't have a computer. If there are no computers to run your program, are you a computer programmer?

  18. Re:One Billion BCE on Billion Year Storage Media · · Score: 1

    See Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness.

  19. Re:This medium will last only until... on Billion Year Storage Media · · Score: 1

    The chances of any particular rock being destroyed by a meteorite within a billion years seem quite low.

  20. Re:Fail-safe on Xerox "Routine Backup Test" Leave 17 States Without Food Stamps · · Score: 1

    $70 a week? I spend $40 a week on food and I'm not really trying to economize much. If you pick your foods carefully buy in bulk and don't splurge on whatever looks tasty, you could easily eat on $20 a week.

  21. Re:Talk about sexism... on Scientific American In Blog Removal Controversy · · Score: 1

    We get an article complaining about Linus' rants once a month. You say "you hardly ever hear of anyone crying about it" yet you've heard all about it, and we've all heard all about it so clearly it happens a lot. So we might as well get an article complaining about the whore comment too.

  22. Re:Apple sacrifices functionality for looks... on A Peek At Apple's Planned $5B HQ · · Score: 1

    They made a mouse with no buttons? Do you bang it on the table to click?

  23. Re:good news for space exploration on Diamond Rain In Saturn · · Score: 1

    And write off the cost of the city you crater.

  24. Re:Israel? Oh, you mean occupied Palestine. on Nobel Winners Illustrate Israel's "Brain Drain" · · Score: 2, Informative

    Who do you think palestinians are? They're the descendents of ancient Israel who never left. The fact that they changed religion in the intervening centuries does not invalidate their claim to their own land they've been living on for millennia.

  25. Re:Cool, but why? on Open-Source Intel Mesa Driver Now Supports OpenGL 3.2 · · Score: 1

    Today AMD and Intel has official open drivers, for nVidia there's the community built Nouveau

    What open drivers does AMD have? I'd love to get one for my AMD but as far as I've seen the only open options are pathetically inferior to the closed AMD drivers.