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  1. Re:The problem is "apps" on Windows 9 Already? Apparently, Yes. · · Score: 1

    A) So?
    B) apps are just that small programs that don't do much. It's not like that's all windows will do, or that large applications have gone away.
    Some people just hate the word 'apps' and then hate anything that uses them.

  2. Metro is fine on Windows 9 Already? Apparently, Yes. · · Score: 1

    and I like it's idea, a lot. The issue is in implementation.
    The need to shore up the consistency, continuity.
    The need to adjust conveyance.

    Of course they can't shore up the multitude of whiners that hate change, even though it can be logically explained to them why it's technically better.

  3. Re:"A molecule nearly identical" on Metal-Free 'Rhubarb' Battery Could Store Renewable Grid Energy · · Score: -1, Troll

    No, but this is:
    http://goo.gl/hWdVpn\

  4. Re:Bluetooth on CES 2014: A Powered, Remote Control Paper Airplane (Video) · · Score: 1

    Not hard, but the range would be pretty limited for RC.

  5. what? on CES 2014: A Powered, Remote Control Paper Airplane (Video) · · Score: 1

    "This is obviously a suitable toy for anyone with a two-digit "
    Stop underestimating children. My son was flying an RC helicopter at 8.

  6. Re:And thus ends Yelp. on Court Rules Against Online Anonymity · · Score: 1

    Have you only gone to places with low marks and not regretted?

    What you are saying isn't the opposite of what I said. In fact it's complete nonsense.

  7. Re:And who would manufacture them? on Who Is Liable When a Self-Driving Car Crashes? · · Score: 1

    Maybe you should actually read the docs on those cases?
    cause you look like an idiot.

  8. Re:laws change on Who Is Liable When a Self-Driving Car Crashes? · · Score: 1

    Wrong.

    Current Law not appropriate for Future Technology = Law makers are not precogs.

    Should we repeal horse riding laws as soon as the car was being produced?

    The concept that no new technology will come out that won't create it's on set of issues is false.

  9. Re:Safety on Who Is Liable When a Self-Driving Car Crashes? · · Score: 1

    The emergency situation will be handled by the system. In fact, that will be the greatest reason for increased driving safety.
    The .5% is for places like parking garages, dirt trails, and other edge cases.

  10. Re:Efficiency. on Who Is Liable When a Self-Driving Car Crashes? · · Score: 0

    Why would there be a need for passing? You will get on the road, get into the lane best for the distance you are traveling and then go the regulated speed. The vehicle will talk to each other via a VMN (Vehicular Mesh Network).

    Traffic will adjust dynamically.

    You are not important, maintaining good traffic flow for society does.

  11. This has been dealt with on Who Is Liable When a Self-Driving Car Crashes? · · Score: 1

    It would be the exact same liability that it is now: the manufacturer is at fault for manufacturing defaults, software or otherwise.

    This isn't an issue.

  12. Re:Good Idea on Japan To Create a Nuclear Meltdown · · Score: 1

    Except for the fact that there have been many tests like this in many places, this is just the first one in Japan.
    Another conspiracy theory crushed against the rocks of facts.

  13. Re:your favorite monster sucks on Japan To Create a Nuclear Meltdown · · Score: 1

    Insisting bad things didn't happen only ensures they will happen again.
    Lets use them as a reminder on why we should check our expectations in the future.

  14. Re:Hey... waitaminute! on Canada Quietly Offering Sanctuary To Data From the US · · Score: 1

    Assuming the encryption doesn't have a back door see: RSA

  15. Re:Meaningless on Canada Quietly Offering Sanctuary To Data From the US · · Score: 1

    "where they will not be forced to include backdoors for the NSA."
    paid, actually not forced.
    If they move out of country, do you think they will actually stop taking money to put a back door in?

  16. Re:TRUST NOBODY on Canada Quietly Offering Sanctuary To Data From the US · · Score: 1

    Not really.
    Being crazy and then happening to be right doesn't make you less crazy.

  17. Re:Snowden likes to be raped by horses on EU Committee Issues Report On NSA Surveillance; Snowden To Testify · · Score: 1

    The internet has grown up, and you should to.

  18. Re:Online sights should on Court Rules Against Online Anonymity · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that will work~

  19. Re:Another one bites the dust on Court Rules Against Online Anonymity · · Score: 1

    You should read the court ruling. In short, if some one posts a lie, and the company can show that it is likely to be a lie, then Yelp my have to divulge the information about the anon reviewer.

  20. Re:And thus ends Yelp. on Court Rules Against Online Anonymity · · Score: 1

    I have found yelp to be extremely accurate. I have never gone to anyplace with high marks on yelp and regretted it.

  21. Re:Appropriate Supreme Court Quote on Court Rules Against Online Anonymity · · Score: 1

    Every century sine it was written thing have happened that some people consider constitution abuses.

  22. Re:Appropriate Supreme Court Quote on Court Rules Against Online Anonymity · · Score: 2

    If someone was using anonymity to harm you, would you not have the right to find out who that person is?

  23. Re:We could not make them on Weapons Systems That Kill According To Algorithms Are Coming. What To Do? · · Score: 2

    The cruise missil is more accurate. I'd be happy to watch you shoot an arrow a 100 miles and be withing inches of the center of the target.

    Or stop comparing apple to oranges.
    The mission for each of those is different. You will note that advance in tech have made arrow more precise, or an kenetic weapon.

    You want to hit something 100 miles a way, a really brief history:
    10,000 mean supplies, stomp on everyone and everything in there way, then destroy the building
    1000 men go through territory with tanks, destroy target
    several bombers and escort fly over target and drops dozens or hundreds of bombs over a large area
    a bomber flies of drops 5 bombs destroy target and area around it.
    one cruse missile launches from a ship that this its target, weaponered to explode 4 nano seconds after initial impact and only takes out the interior of the building.

    Fewer people needed, fewer people killed and less resource with each iteration.

  24. Re:ENOUGH. OF. THE. BITCOIN. on A Rebuttal To Charles Stross About Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    Good luck using it during a black out.

  25. Re:ENOUGH. OF. THE. BITCOIN. on A Rebuttal To Charles Stross About Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    plus, you can't hide secrets from the future with math.