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  1. Re:Uh... on Somebody Stole 7 Milliseconds From the Federal Reserve · · Score: 0

    Someone made a lot of money by being a very productive member of society. He was in fact too productive, thus breaking several productivity laws set in place to give an illusion of productivity being fairly distributed and productive.

  2. Re:Looks like you were had on A Timely Revision of Elop's "Burning Platform" Memo · · Score: 3, Informative

    There's more to be sour about than bad investments in this case. The whole nokia board and elop included should be dragged out into the street and shot for their extreme mismanagement of the company.

  3. Re:Control signal jamming on Boeing Turning Old F-16s Into Unmanned Drones · · Score: 1

    You mean that a $200k HARM can destroy a $50 microwave with the door taken off. Doesn't sound too unlikely, microwaves do run on quite high power after all.

  4. Re:So, how about... on Imprisoned Physicist Honored For Refusing To Work On Iran's Nuclear Program · · Score: 0

    "former Mossad director Shabtai Shavit told Reuters that the option of extrajudicial execution was considered in 1986, but rejected because "Jews don't do that to other Jews."[34]"

    In short, had he not been a jew, he'd been found dead from autoerotic asphyxation in female underwear instead of kidnapped.

  5. Re:First! on Imprisoned Physicist Honored For Refusing To Work On Iran's Nuclear Program · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, something that will never get nuked are that guys student loans.

  6. Re:Burden of enforcement on FAA May Let You Use Electronic Devices During Airplane Takeoff and Landing Soon · · Score: 1

    Can you actually turn a kindle off? I just flick mine to screensaver mode for 30 seconds if they ask, otherwise I just continue reading.
    Anyhow, a heart, not to mention a pacemaker, probably have a larger electromagnetic footprint than a kindle and they're not asking passengers to turn those off.

  7. Re:The solution is simple: on Emotional Attachment To Robots Could Affect Battlefield Outcome · · Score: 1

    Just let politicians control the robots, we arlready know they don't give a shit about the humans so why would they care about the robots?

  8. Re:Monolithic vs. standards on Abandoned UK National Health Service IT System Has Cost $16bn... So Far · · Score: 1

    Because the moron with the cash listens to the psychopath that wants an early retirement.

    The moron with the cash doesn't even have to spend his own cash, it's tax money after all, so he just signs whatever sounds good and goes home.

  9. Re:Shadow economies on True Size of the Shadow Banking System Revealed (Spoiler: Humongous) · · Score: 1

    Surgically remove your conscience, you'll get a letter of invitation a week later.

  10. Re:Definition of 'scary' on DoD Declassifies Flu Pandemic Plan Containing Sobering Assumptions · · Score: 1

    Last time I had the flu, rioting in the streets weren't exactly on the top of my todo list.

    But of course, because movie plots exist then people in real life will behave strangely too.

  11. Re:That Duh Factor Strikes Again on DoD Declassifies Flu Pandemic Plan Containing Sobering Assumptions · · Score: 1

    Single entry point for international travel wouldn't help it would likely make it even worse as a once that place is infected then everyone travelling into the US will be a vector, that will then take domnestic flights to their hometown and whatever.

    And closing the borders? Don't be ridiculous. What about work? export? import? That's international travel of both goods and people. Close the borders and the economic implosion will be worse than having to deal with pandemic flu.

  12. Re:Definition of 'scary' on DoD Declassifies Flu Pandemic Plan Containing Sobering Assumptions · · Score: 2

    Don't be ridiculous. Assuming a biological attack on said complex you'd seal off the area and then evacuate with normal health hazard protocols(hazmat suits, isolate, remove and discard clothes, belongings, wash people, keep under observation.) And for normal airborn contagion(as in no biological attack, just normal spread pattern) you'd likely not do decontamination and isolation protocols for everyone in the area, you'd track down friends family and coworkers, put them on sickleave and observation and that's it.

    You've watched too many zombie movies. You don't just napalm sick people. End of story.

  13. Re:Ridiculously Easy to Trip Up on Mitsuku Chatbot Wins Loebner Prize 2013 · · Score: 1

    Pretty much every statement that requires continuity or more complex grammar trips them
    "How many apples do I have if I start with two and eat one" will give you a garbage answer every time. I don't see why chatbots don't focus on functionality over some hollow illusion of a conversation.

    I guess I'll have to pick up AIML and see what the issue is.

  14. Re:They are using only 5 people and a PS4... on Japan Controls Rocket Launch With Just 8 People and 2 Laptops · · Score: 5, Funny

    Japan have a company called Cyberdyne.
    Japanese rocket launches are AI controlled.

    I see where this is going.

  15. Re:Free Market? LoL on How Car Dealership Lobbyists Successfully Banned Tesla Motors From Texas · · Score: 5, Funny

    The invisible hand of the market determines who gets what resource by slipping fat checks into the right persons pockets.

  16. Re:Basic Statistics Deception on Arctic Ice Cap Rebounds From 2012 — But Does That Matter? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's business as usual in AGW-land. Yet another unforseen event? No worries, blame it on CO2 and add another complexity layer on the model.
    I expect their models to start matching reality at about the same time as global climate control becomes reality.

    Hopefully they will stop predicting catastrophes all the time by then.

  17. Re:So basically 2012 was an outlier on Arctic Ice Cap Rebounds From 2012 — But Does That Matter? · · Score: 0

    What if 2012 was the norm and everything else is an outlier?!

  18. Re:A screen on California Legislature Approves Trial Program For Electronic Plates · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't forget the part where everyones plates show gay pornography gifs after some 14 year old hacks their system.

  19. Re:Beware of Microsofties bearing gifts on Official: Microsoft To Acquire Nokia Devices and Services Business · · Score: 1

    They could've said "yeah we'll make android phones!" and seen their stock double instead of halve.

  20. Re:Wrong issue on More Bad News From Fukushima · · Score: 1

    So you're just pulling numbers out of your ass.
    So...
    Pi = 4
    Avogadros number = 12
    And the year is 2339
    And they're all true, it's just that the internet didn't exist at one time so we can't find citations for them.

  21. Re:Wrong issue on More Bad News From Fukushima · · Score: 1

    Because the pool is not such a pressing and critical issue as they make it out to be. The spent fuel pool is pretty much like a swimming pool, there's no need for massive circulation pumps, it's not a pressure vessel, the fuel in it is quite cool.

    The only way something bad could happen is if you pump away all the water, and then sit down with a good book for a few days while leaving them to heat up.

  22. Re:Wrong issue on More Bad News From Fukushima · · Score: 1

    "1 million deths"
    Citations please.
    From somewhere reliable thankyou.

  23. Re:Wrong issue on More Bad News From Fukushima · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sounds like you sourced that from HystericGreenAlarmism.com

  24. Re:Where were the professionals. on More Bad News From Fukushima · · Score: 1

    I wonder how the values are measured. Is the values measured at some fixed distance to the source to do they have some waterproofed sensor they immerse?

  25. Re:Yet another anti-Obama article on Court: NRC In Violation For Not Ruling On Yucca Mountain · · Score: 1

    "An unlawful combatant, illegal combatant or unprivileged combatant/belligerent is a civilian or military personnel who directly engages in armed conflict in violation of the laws of war. An unlawful combatant may be detained or prosecuted under the domestic law of the detaining state for such action; subject of course to international treaties on justice and human rights such as everyones right to a fair trial"

    Unless your domnestic law states that people can lose all their rights(which is a slippery slope) then they have rights. By demonstration of several government organs, the US either can either convert any of their citizens to a rightless husk by law, or they simple ignore the law, neither of these are a very charming concept.