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  1. Re:Why do people need science to replace religion? on The Hidden Reality Draws Ire From Physicists · · Score: 1

    Whereas other people find the first two questions interesting.

    Oh noes! There are people who have different opinions to you! Get some torches and pitchforks!

  2. Re:Like Apple gives a shit on Netgear CEO Says Jobs's Ego Will Bite Apple · · Score: 1

    I didn't say from when Apple went public. I said "the same time period". You know take Apple's stock price in 2003 and compare it to the stock price today.

  3. Re:Actually, it is a lot less on EFF Uncovers Widespread FBI Intelligence Violations · · Score: 1

    Obviously 38,400 is the 40,000 number.

    Those assumptions are all stated plainly (well except 3 which is completely irrelevant) there's no need to make up what they "seem to be". If you think they are invalid then obviously you don't believe the number. That doesn't change the math from being a simple extrapolation.

    Thinking the assumptions and hence logic is crap is one thing. Thinking the math is wrong is completely independant.

    Calling those assumptions "new math" is just being retarded. The math is the multiplications of the factors, it has nothing to do with whether those factors are actually valid.

  4. Like Apple gives a shit on Netgear CEO Says Jobs's Ego Will Bite Apple · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Netgear's stock has increased in price by 100% since it went public. Apple's stock, over the same time period, has increased in price by over 3100%.

    Now stock price isn't everything, but it is to these people...

  5. Re:People like me on Researchers Track Mouse Movements and Hesitations · · Score: 1

    It obviously doesn't. Just like eye tracking doesn't work for people who are blind.

    And it doesn't matter since something doesn't have to work with everyone to be useful.

  6. Re:Can't reduce anything by more than 1X on Molybdenite As an Alternative To Silicon · · Score: 1

    English is not mathematics. And no, the rest of us aren't changing our language to match your obsessive needs for it to be so.

  7. Re:Actually, it is a lot less on EFF Uncovers Widespread FBI Intelligence Violations · · Score: 4, Informative

    That "new math" you don't understand is the simple arithmetic and multiplication the rest of us learned before they let us *into* high school.

    Summary for you, the idiot:

    1. The data the EFF isn't everything and doesn't claim to be everything, however 33% of the potential violations in that data are NSL violations.
    2. Back in 2008, Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine told the House Judiciary subcommittee that a 10% review of FBI field office NSLs found 640 potential NSL violations from 2003 to 2006.
    3. Oh look primary school math: (640 * 10) / 4 * 8 * 3 = 38,400. Or in words, if 10% were 640 then there were 6400 potential NSL violations over 4 years, so 1600 per year. So over the 8 years the EFF data is for 12800. Those type are 33% in the EFF data so multiply by 3 for 38400.

    And yes that's extrapolating an extrapolation. But that make that very clear in their report.

  8. Re:Well, duh. on Kilogram Gets Controversial; Why Not Split the Difference? · · Score: 2

    I think it'd be a spiral.

  9. Re:What about an emergency? on Sensor Measures In Fingertips If Driver Is Drunk · · Score: 0

    No one is forcing you to drink a couple of beers either.

  10. Re:So what haopens with false readings? on Sensor Measures In Fingertips If Driver Is Drunk · · Score: 2

    No MADD would rather no one drink, ever.

  11. Re:What about an emergency? on Sensor Measures In Fingertips If Driver Is Drunk · · Score: 0

    What if you can't find the keys. Oh no the car won't allow you to drive, too bad your friend dies. Better get rid of the keys too I guess.

    One dead drunk in the woods seems a fair trade off for a few less dead children on their way home from soccer anyway.

  12. Re:It won't work. on Sensor Measures In Fingertips If Driver Is Drunk · · Score: 1

    It adds a pretty blatant intent factor when they do that though.

  13. Re:I disapprove of Approval Voting on New Hampshire Bill Could Lead To Adoption of Approval Voting · · Score: 1

    Maybe Participation Criteria is considered important to the people proposing this?

    And you really like Schulze but don't think that approval voting is better than first-past-the-post? If not why would you want people to stop advocating for a improvement even if it isn't the "ultimate" improvement.

  14. Re:Why spread the data around? on Connecticut AG Opts For Street View Settlement, Without Seeing the Data · · Score: 1

    They already gave a pretty simple reason for why they did so. And given that explanation matches the data they gathered - *everything* -- what light are you expecting?

  15. Re:Let's deplete helium sooner! on Atomic Disguise Makes Helium Look Like Hydrogen · · Score: 2

    Are you serious????

    It's an experiment confirming QM predictions of reaction rates varying with mass, not a way to produce a hydrogen alternative for general use (because a fast decaying hydrogen that you need a particle accelerator to make is so useful...)

  16. Re:That was fast on Sony Sends DMCA Takedown Notice To GitHub · · Score: 1

    How are they commiting perjury? And how is a fraudulent request.

    They tick all the boxes in the things you quote.

  17. Re:wrong plaintiff on Facebook Spammer Fined $360 Million · · Score: 1

    you're an idiot.

  18. Re:For the last time on Stem Cell Research Running Into IP Brick Walls · · Score: 0

    It says "government research bans". Which surely means "bans on research done by government" or "bans on research with government resources". Otherwise it would just be "research bans". Parsing "government research bans" is "research bans placed by the government" seems silly since who else can ban it in the first place?

  19. Re:mathematical formula ? on What Exactly Is a Galaxy? · · Score: 1

    OK, orbit instead of spin if you want.

    The stars in an elliptical galaxy are still orbiting the center of mess, they just aren't aligned with each other.

    A cluster would similarly see the component galaxies orbiting the center of mass, since otherwise it's not going to be a cluster but a dense blob as they all fall into the center of mass...

    Though of course IANAA.

  20. Re:mathematical formula ? on What Exactly Is a Galaxy? · · Score: 1

    Everything that is gravitationally either spins or collapses. "sit there and hang out" isn't an option.

  21. Re:wrong plaintiff on Facebook Spammer Fined $360 Million · · Score: 1

    PR damage isn't lost money, so i already said that.

  22. Re:wrong plaintiff on Facebook Spammer Fined $360 Million · · Score: 1

    Facebook is the victim. They lost some users which results in fewer eyeballs for them to sell to advertisers. Plus the cost of dealing with the complaints and the PR damage (yeah yeah it's Facebook like they have any PR left to damage).

    Other people are free to pursue their own lawsuits against that individual (of course there's any money that might have been available to collect isn't anymore...) if they believe they have been damaged by that individuals actions.

  23. Re:I wouldnt mind content priortization If... on Senators Bash ISP and Push Extensive Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Why is your stream quality more important than my time to start watching?

  24. Re:Too soon? on Challenger 25 Years Later · · Score: 1

    Yeah people who do their jobs suck.

  25. Re:Eh no. on Egypt Shuts Off All Internet Access · · Score: 1

    So snipers never shoot at anyone who isn't a direct threat to them right now? Why don't they just stay hidden then, so that even enemy snipers aren't a threat to them?

    An air superiority fighter exists in order to shoot down other fighters. A sniper on the other hand exists to shoot individual enemy non-sniper soldiers and happens to also be good at counter-sniping. Or do you really think that is there were no enemy snipers that we wouldn't deploy any?