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  1. Re:Who would stand to benefit from such a study? on Flash Can Rob 2 Hours From MacBook Air's Battery Life · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Evolution never anticipated anything, full stop.

  2. Re:Seriously? on Jammie Thomas Hit With $1.5 Million Verdict · · Score: 1

    Why?

    She's had a few years to move money/assets out of her name. Just keep fighting until her lawyers stop working for free and then declare bankruptcy. Whether the judgement is for $20,000 or $20,000,000 makes no difference.

  3. Re:Outside of the design of the system on Jammie Thomas Hit With $1.5 Million Verdict · · Score: 1

    The second part was an opinion, the first part though it a statement of fact (or fiction depending on those cites...)

  4. Re:So why the Pre-Christmas Spike? on Facebook Knows When You'll Get Dumped · · Score: 1

    Because you know you just can't one more Christmas with that damn family.

  5. Re:Doesn't matter what he did on The Science of Battlestar Galactica · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Heroes went downhill pretty fast after season 1 (though season 1 was so good that it would have been really hard not to). I watched every episode and would watch more, but it ran its course and the writers seemed to run out of ideas.

    Caprica never really grabbed me, though I watched it hoping it would get interesting.

    Stargate Universe also never grabbed me, though I never watched any of the other Stargate shows so that's probably just my taste...

  6. Re:One of the reasons - fragile democracies on An Anonymous, Verifiable E-Voting Tech · · Score: 1

    Surely Scrutineers work just as well - http://www.aec.gov.au/Voting/scrutineers.htm

    Of course the election is run by an independant of the parties organisation in that case as well.

    I will *never* understand the way elections are run in the US. From having them on a weekday, to not just hand counting votes (there's no preference flows, it's so simple to put them in piles...), to political parties running the show, to having elections every two years so that campaigning never stops,

  7. Re:Problem is voter intent on An Anonymous, Verifiable E-Voting Tech · · Score: 1

    It's not perfect, people do occassionaly check the wrong box or unintentionally invalidate their ballot. But I suspect at a lower rate than people make similar mistakes with touch screens or that mechanical hole punchers fail to punch the hole...

    Plus we can just label those people "idiots" whereas when a machine is involved the problem might be on its end.

    I see no no need to electronic counting either... Counting ballots is not exactly difficult. But I'm obviously a luddite.

  8. Re:One of the reasons - fragile democracies on An Anonymous, Verifiable E-Voting Tech · · Score: 1

    Are you willing to hand your voting over to a UN agency? Other than just handing over the country is there a way to lose more sovereignty than that?

  9. Re:Yet another neutrino flavor on Fermilab Confirms Evidence of 4th Flavor Neutrino · · Score: 1

    Why would they be irritated? Surely that's a Nobel prize which isn't something most people would be irritated to get.

  10. Re:Speaking of bias on Google Sues US Gov't For Only Considering Microsoft · · Score: 1

    So the FTC should investigate forever?

    Companies following the tax laws shouldn't be allowed to raise money for political purposes? Political parties shouldn't take such money?

    You're off by an order of magnitude on that effective tax rate. Hint, foreign tax != corporate income tax.

  11. Surely a bet for (or on) climate change? on How the Global Seed Vault Aims To Fight Future Famine · · Score: 1, Insightful

    if climate change doesn't happen then the value of their seed vault won't be what they are expecting and they lose.

    Buying coastal real estate would be a bet againt climate change.

  12. Re:Charles Stross has a great article on this. on The Galaxy May Have Billions of Habitable Planets · · Score: 1

    All you need to do is reach just above escape velocity for the solar system when pointed in the right direction (reading planets as stars).

    Now if you want to do it in less than a million years you might want to try a different way.

  13. Re:Put this on the list on Facebook Adds Friend Stalker Tool · · Score: 1

    Except that these days going to the pub while on vacation and having a photo show up is enough to get you sacked from your teaching job.

    The solution is so simple though - don't use facebook.

  14. Re:Security? on Wireless HDMI At 1080p, Lag-Free WHDI Tested · · Score: 1

    All the encryption to make sure you can't make a copy of the video yourself will apply equally to eavesdroppers.

  15. Re:Unfair advantage on Prosecutors Request Closed Courtroom For Goldman HFT Programmer's Trial · · Score: 1

    Shuffling things around 20 times a second instead of once minute means 1200x the fees for the exchange.

    HFT systems means the exchange gets to make more money charging for both rackspace and data feeds.

    Yes a much larger tick size would benefit everyone except the exchange and the big players who exploit the current system.

  16. Re:Unfair advantage on Prosecutors Request Closed Courtroom For Goldman HFT Programmer's Trial · · Score: 1

    Volume is lost. Which you might not consider being "of value" but to the exchange it's the very valuable.

  17. Re:Oh, just great on Researchers Find a 'Liberal Gene' · · Score: 1

    What's "liberal" about feeding homeless drug addicts?

    From my impressions of US politics the "liberal" view would be that the government should feed them, and the "conservative" view would be that private charity should do so. In which case you did the "conservative" thing...

  18. Re:Dear Mr. B. on British Airways Chief Slams US Security Requests · · Score: 1

    One of those things can be fixed in 20 minutes and involves spending less money. The other can be fixed after months or years of work and involves spending a fortune.

  19. Re:What I find more interesting... on The First Photograph of a Human · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why would they get deleted out of hand? Keeping the digital image around is orders of magnitude easier than keeping around negatives or bothering to make prints from them and keeping those.

    I would expect the digital camera user to also just shoot and shoot and shoot and check the photos afterwards as well. With the cost of each click being far less to boot.

    Sure going through them afterwards is also going to be difficult due to the sheer volume. Whenever I dowload images from my camera they get put in YYYY-MM-DD folders and nothing ever gets deleted. A professional photographer is going to produce far more pictures but they also likely have far more disk space to burn too.

  20. Re:It's all in how you phrase the question. on Most Americans Support an Internet Kill Switch · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Or:

    "The President should have the ability to shut down Google in the event of a coordinated malicious cyber attack on irs.gov."

    or:

    "In the case of a malcious DDoS attack the President will assist with the mother of all DoS attacks."

  21. Re:Let's just encrypt everything all the time on How To Protect Against Firesheep Attacks · · Score: 1

    You can just set the cookie to be sent only on an SSL session and not bother using a different domain. Then put all the stuff that doesn't require authentication (and hence can be cached in the first place) on http links.

    Of course idiot browsers stop you from doing this in practice because the popup a scary alert about insecure content on a secure page and default to not showing it.

  22. Re:Good for us Sellers on Amazon Prevails In State Sales Tax Dispute, Thus Far · · Score: 1

    No they won't, since that isn't what the case is about.

    But feel free to make up ever more outlandish things this might end up making you have to do.

  23. Re:Good for us Sellers on Amazon Prevails In State Sales Tax Dispute, Thus Far · · Score: 1

    That's irrelevant to the situation, since they do and challenges to them doing so have been rejected.

    But, yes I do think they should be allowed to do that. Taxing interstate commerce at a higher rate than local commerce would be a problem. Taxing interstate commerce that doesn't involve their state would be a problem.

  24. Re:consistency on The Hobbit To Be Filmed In New Zealand After All · · Score: 1

    Sure, but they did label the foreign currency value as being foreign. Swapping the primary currency being referenced was a little silly, I agree.

  25. Re:Films? on The Hobbit To Be Filmed In New Zealand After All · · Score: 1

    Maybe if you bothered to check your units.