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  1. Re:Why doesn't the president just take it to Congr on Military Drone Attacks Are Not 'Hostile' · · Score: 3, Insightful

    To fuck over Obama, same reason they do everything. They demanded that he intervene in Libya specifically so that they could use it against him. If he had refused to intervene, they would have used that against him too. Their one and only goal is to destroy him. They've come out and said so on multiple occasions. People just tend to assume it's a joke, or something.

  2. Re:Yep, not the change I voted for on Military Drone Attacks Are Not 'Hostile' · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No, it's not. Assisting NATO in overthrowing a cruel dictator is not even remotely fucking comparable to kidnapping and fucking torturing people . There is no comparison. There never will be a comparison. Torture is evil, always.

  3. Re:I can't believe it... on Online Poker Legalization Bill Coming Next Week · · Score: 2

    Fear not. I'm sure they will tack on a last-minute amendment outlawing food banks, or some such.

  4. Re:We will lose. on Kilobots — Cheap Swarm Robots Out of Harvard · · Score: 1

    They can't climb or burrow. They have all the mobility of my phone in vibrate mode.

  5. Re:We will lose. on Kilobots — Cheap Swarm Robots Out of Harvard · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure a decent pair of boots is all you'd need to defeat a swarm of these things.

  6. Re:Reality check on Teen Builds Nuclear Bomb Detector · · Score: 1

    His own lab? Please tell me they didn't let a little kid in the lab unattended. Undergrads are bad enough.

  7. Re:Fair & Balanced on Galaxy Tab 10.1 Judged 'No Match For iPad' · · Score: 2

    You must not be familiar with how Fox works. "Fair and balanced" is a slogan, not a description. Similar to how McDonald's could start calling themselves "the healthy choice", only for some reason people take Fox seriously.

  8. Re:Much more detailed review at Ars on Galaxy Tab 10.1 Judged 'No Match For iPad' · · Score: 1

    Time to market is the number one consideration in consumer tech. Did the Windows 7 phones launch feature complete? Who knows? They were too late for anyone to notice.

  9. Re:Terrible Review on Galaxy Tab 10.1 Judged 'No Match For iPad' · · Score: 1

    You got that last sentence backwards.

  10. Re:Informationweek sucks up to Kundra on Vivek Kundra Quits As Federal CIO · · Score: 1, Interesting

    What you remember was the typical character assassination hatchet jobs. They make headlines like "Is Kundra a fraud?", and you remember "Kundra, fraud".

    Of course, you were probably predisposed to hate him. The fact that you would write something like "Obama was obeying India" shows that you have no understanding of the world outside the poison Fox and Friends pours into your mind.

  11. Re:proof on Indication of Neutrino Transformation Observed · · Score: 5, Informative

    How many possible sources of "noise" you have in 300 km? (i.e. radioactive particles that just decided to emit a neutrino?)

    The odds that a random bit of radioactive material creates a neutrino that just so happens to hit your detector are very small. And they can be controlled for...

    Can you control all the radioactive decays that lead to a neutrino somewhere in those 300 km?

    I get the feeling you're not well versed in science. You don't "control" every radioactive decay. You control for them. You run a control experiment and figure out how many and what sorts of neutrinos you expect to see. Then you turn on your neutrino source, and see how the counts change.

    And here's a source for the existence of neutrino beams: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_horn

  12. Re:How can they detect anything at all? on Indication of Neutrino Transformation Observed · · Score: 2

    Almost never isn't never. I can't speak for all neutrino detectors, but a friend of mine works in a lab where they use tanks of scintillator, studded with PMTs, and lined with tons of shielding to keep out everything else. Every now and then a lucky neutrino bumps into a scintillator molecule, and creates a little flash. The PMTs amplify the fuck out of it, and by carefully analyzing the resulting data you can pick out specific types of neutrinos from the noise.

  13. Re:proof on Indication of Neutrino Transformation Observed · · Score: 1

    a. What does a mole have to do with anything? You don't have a mole of neutrinos.
    b. Neutrinos don't tend to care what gets in their way, and move really fricken' fast. I doubt 300 km matters much.
    c. Neutrino beams are possible and do exist.
    d. Yes, there are lots of sources, but those sources can be measured and controlled for.

  14. Re:Tiny lil' bastards! on Indication of Neutrino Transformation Observed · · Score: 2

    Seriously, you should. A friend of mine does this. She spends weeks at a time at the bottom of an abandoned mineshaft, with a swimming pool full of scintillator, working 14 hour days, and earns doctoral candidate pay, which is to say, slightly less than your average FedEx driver.

  15. Re:what? on Chinese Legislature Conducts Large Online Vote · · Score: 1

    But when they vote no, what next? Did they say no because they wanted the bill to do more, or to do less? One of the benefits of a representative government is that they'll negotiate and find some middle ground.

    Theoretically at least. The present-day GOP seems to have realized just how effective brinksmanship is, and if they manage to retake the White House, I'm sure the Democrats will be happy to turn their tactics against them.

  16. Re:what? on Chinese Legislature Conducts Large Online Vote · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I recall that during the Beijing Olympics, they set up a protest zone where would-be protestors could apply for a permit. They then arrested those who applied and sentenced them to several years in a forced labor camp. So China's government certainly does have recent history showing a willingness to set traps for undesirables.

    All the same, this particular action may be legit, and it would be nice if we could have something similar in the US. However, it runs into the problem of how you phrase the questions. Push-polling is a well refined art. Congress would spend as much time arguing about the wording of the poll as they ultimately would over the bill itself.

  17. Re:That's just great on Vivek Kundra Quits As Federal CIO · · Score: 1

    Considering Sotha Sil was and remains dead, I think he'll do whatever it is that dead gods do. Get digested by maggot gods, probably.

  18. Re:The universal response to this on Microsoft Releases Kinect SDK For Windows · · Score: 1

    Kinect has voice recognition, doesn't it?

  19. Re:Once again... on New Android Malware Attacks Custom ROMs · · Score: 4, Informative

    Nice flamebait, but Android phones can leave the walled garden with a simple checkbox in the options menu. Flashing your own ROM is something else entirely.

  20. Re:oh noez! on What LulzSec Logins Reveal About Bookworms, and Passwords · · Score: 1

    "spelling/grammer"

    I'll assume that was in jest :-P

  21. Re:Are you sure? on What LulzSec Logins Reveal About Bookworms, and Passwords · · Score: 1

    I once changed a friend's BIOS password to 'idunno'. I tried telling him, but he just got increasingly aggravated.

  22. Re:That's what he gets for trusting the closed sou on $500,000 Worth of Bitcoins Stolen · · Score: 1

    Consider the fact that he did not spin his own processor. Consider the fact that he did not design and build his own car. Consider the fact that he did not review the drawings for his home to ensure stability.

    Unless you are capable of singlehandedly rebuilding civilization, you should live in a cave and eat only berries!

  23. Re:"the end" on $500,000 Worth of Bitcoins Stolen · · Score: 1

    Since you apparently need it explained... You're supposed to think "that would never happen to me, I'd secure my things." You're left with the impression that bitcoin's legit, and the "security breach" doesn't affect your thinking.

  24. User feedback is overrated on New Technique To Help Develop MMORPG Content? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Asking users what they think is generally a bad approach to game development. People don't really know what they want. Your questions are likely to be leading (you are not a professional pollster). They might lie about what they found to be difficult if they're embarrassed about losing, or alternatively they might demand that everything get simplified because they want to win, not realizing that it wouldn't be fun if it were too easy. And in competitive games, forget about it. Every class/weapon/tactic that kills them must be nerfed, whatever they like to use must be buffed.

    It's far more effective to simply watch them play the game, without speaking to them at all, and see what frustrates them, what confuses them, what they enjoy, and so on.

    Unfortunately, the method in TFA(bstract) seems to just evaluate player behavior based on what achievements they have. That will, apparently, tell you what aspects of the game they like best, but it's not going to help much with the small stuff. I suspect Blizzard is already gathering that data anyway.

  25. Re:I like how they think people actually owe them on British Tax System Uses Web Robots To Find Cheats · · Score: 3, Informative

    What you "know" is incorrect. The interest we pay on the national debt is $251B. The total revenue from income taxes is $1121B. And that doesn't count other taxes, such as corporate or excise taxes. If you tally up all of the United States revenues (excluding Social Security taxes), you get $1633B, more than six and a half times the debt interest.

    Additionally, the long term trend (average over the previous decade) is that the debt is for the interest payments to grow at half the rate at which revenues are growing.

    There's a lot of fear mongering going on about the American economy. It's very persuasive, but most of it is based on lies. We should absolutely reduce spending. We should also raise revenues. Repealing the Bush tax cuts, trimming back on military spending, removing the tax cap for Social Security, and applying some form of means testing to SS & Medicare are all reasonable approaches. Just don't find yourself falling for the FUD that we need to privatize everything right away or go bankrupt, because it's simply not the case.

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