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  1. Re:Criminals already use encryption on FBI Director Continues His Campaign Against Encryption · · Score: 1

    You wold have ea point if the headline was even close to correct.

  2. Re:The FBI hurts public safety on FBI Director Continues His Campaign Against Encryption · · Score: -1, Troll

    Since you can only think up to two things at a time, your opinion is pretty worthless.

  3. Re:(Re:The Children!) Why? I'm not a pedophile! on FBI Director Continues His Campaign Against Encryption · · Score: 1

    "The constitution is a whitelist of things the government can do, not a blacklist of things it can't. So of course it does."
    and on the white list is the right for the government to search you if it follow procedure.

  4. Re:(Re:The Children!) Why? I'm not a pedophile! on FBI Director Continues His Campaign Against Encryption · · Score: 1

    You know tat amendment gives the government the right to search your papers and effects as long as they follow procedure.

    What he wants is the ability to get a warrant and carry out a search; which is a reasonable.

    And the reason he uses are legitimate reasons.
    People commit crimes, he wants to be able to find evidence and build a case is evidence is found.

  5. Re:The quesiton that interests me on Saturn's 'Death Star' Moon May Hide Subsurface Ocean · · Score: 1

    If it has liquid water, it has heat. Therefore there could be life.

  6. Re:That's No Moon on Saturn's 'Death Star' Moon May Hide Subsurface Ocean · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How awesome would that be? On closer inspect, it is a defunct battle station of unknown origins.

    We would be there in a decade, easy.

  7. Re:Gamergate is NOT about defining "gamer" on For Game Developers, It's About the Labor of Love · · Score: 0, Troll

    Gamregate is, and always has been, a hate group.
    http://goo.gl/MKIfXX

  8. Re:I just can't... on For Game Developers, It's About the Labor of Love · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Nope, it is not. Not by any stretch. Gamergate is based around made up 'issues' as an excuse to attack people who point out the rampant sexism.
    Ganmergate is a bunch of people who realize the industry is changing and they don't like change.
    They use propaganda, lies, and threats to push an ideological agenda.
    They are a hate group.

  9. Re:Let me get this right on Bill Gates: Piketty's Attack on Income Inequality Is Right · · Score: 1

    The VAT was implemented to tax consumption, not replace income tax.

  10. Re:Let me get this right on Bill Gates: Piketty's Attack on Income Inequality Is Right · · Score: 0

    The Fair tax as been torn apart many times. In fact, I'm surprised to see it mentioned again on /.
    IN short, the Fair Tax would destroy the middle class with any practical implementation.

  11. Re:Let me get this right on Bill Gates: Piketty's Attack on Income Inequality Is Right · · Score: 1

    It needs to be both.
    The most excess consumption of the rich will be far less then their capital growth; which leads to a fewer and fewer people having wealth.
    The minimal consumption on the poor will still be more then there wealth growth.
    You need to tax where the money is.

  12. Re:intelligence wont matter on Scanning Embryos For Super-Intelligent Kids Is On the Horizon · · Score: 1

    "a recently graduated yet unemployed due to lack of experience computer programmer"
    They are either in the wrong area, or have no motivation. It is an in demand field.

  13. Re:What is the definition of intelligent? on Scanning Embryos For Super-Intelligent Kids Is On the Horizon · · Score: 1

    IN this case? the mean smarter. They aren't talking about id something is intelligent.

  14. Re:Smart but no common sense on Scanning Embryos For Super-Intelligent Kids Is On the Horizon · · Score: 1

    Those are separate things. You can also have smart and well adjusted people.

  15. Re:not a repost on Scanning Embryos For Super-Intelligent Kids Is On the Horizon · · Score: 1

    We did do the least expensive o first. What? you think changing society would be cheap?
    First, you need to get people to realize that no, they don't actually instinctively know whats best for their child, and yes we all should pool are knowledge about children together.
    Right now we live in a 'She is my child, therefor I know everything that's best for her' mentality that is hurts children and society.

  16. Re:You're making a baby, not a D&D character! on Scanning Embryos For Super-Intelligent Kids Is On the Horizon · · Score: 1

    You are under the delusion there is some sort of balance.. With genetic selection you can max them all out.*

    *their potential, yada yad, etc . . .

  17. Re:Why Not???? on Scanning Embryos For Super-Intelligent Kids Is On the Horizon · · Score: 1

    It will go into the home recycler and energy machine a bunch of smart people invented.

  18. Re:Science fiction has solutions for this on Scanning Embryos For Super-Intelligent Kids Is On the Horizon · · Score: 1

    Of course natural selection is working, there is just fewer ways to be selected out. I.e. the pressure has changed.

  19. Re:I hate to say it... on Scanning Embryos For Super-Intelligent Kids Is On the Horizon · · Score: 1

    "we pretty much switched natural selection off.."
    no. We just changes the pressure.

    " seeing as look are very much dependent on the current fashion"
    there are several things that are timeless, and the ones that aren't are social.
    about 6 feet, strong and athletic is pretty much always in style.
    People are now attracted to fat people? eat more doughnuts. Thin? don't eat doughnuts
    Muscular? Lift more doughnuts.(not to your mouth) Party and skinny? eat doughnuts made with heroine.

    Man I'm craving doughnuts.

  20. Re:What a terrible, terrible idea. on Scanning Embryos For Super-Intelligent Kids Is On the Horizon · · Score: 1

    Welcome to reality.
    Also: Compared nest to the rest of the universe, you are so small as to statistically not even exist.
    Also: You are very likely to die someday.

    Maybe you should focus on other things then the fact we are just a sack of chemicals walking around for a bit. Like climbing, or building, or killing spys in TF2*

    *The most noble and worthy cause. F'n OP spys.

  21. Re:What a terrible, terrible idea. on Scanning Embryos For Super-Intelligent Kids Is On the Horizon · · Score: 2

    "and a perfectly peaceful man can commit a horrible murder if everyone believes him to be perfectly peaceful."
    that is. literally, nonsense.

    "and a violent man can commit a horrible murder if everyone believes him to be perfectly peaceful."

  22. Re:What a terrible, terrible idea. on Scanning Embryos For Super-Intelligent Kids Is On the Horizon · · Score: 1

    IQ isn't everything, but it is a thing, and important. So yes we should increase it.
    I think one of the problem is that everyone thinks there is some balance that happens. Like spending points on a character sheet.

    There isn't. If they raise the IQ 15 point everything else is still there. Nothing gets worse. Same genetics otherwise, same household.

  23. Re:What's the big deal with intelligence? on Scanning Embryos For Super-Intelligent Kids Is On the Horizon · · Score: 0

    So you would choose the easy path with no consideration of their future? You are exactly the type of selfish person who should not have kids.

  24. Re:Cue slippery slope arguments now... on Scanning Embryos For Super-Intelligent Kids Is On the Horizon · · Score: 2

    Because not giving a dowry would make the family a social outcast.

    Outside of the lab, economics is never simple. Society is a much more important.

  25. Re:Cue slippery slope arguments now... on Scanning Embryos For Super-Intelligent Kids Is On the Horizon · · Score: 1

    historically, The problem of too many men has been solved with war.