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  1. Re:Where do I sign up? on Every Day Is Goof-Off-At-Work Day At the US Patent and Trademark Office · · Score: 1

    Not just patent examiners: Patent Examiners the telework.
    So a small group of a small group.

  2. Re:Where do I sign up? on Every Day Is Goof-Off-At-Work Day At the US Patent and Trademark Office · · Score: 1

    "Corporations don't have the means of coercing people to buy their services, don't even bring them up here."
    BWAHAHAHAHAHHAhahhaa.

  3. Re:Where do I sign up? on Every Day Is Goof-Off-At-Work Day At the US Patent and Trademark Office · · Score: 1

    I like how you went from some people abusing telework(the article) to health care.

    Agenda much, asshole?

  4. Re:Where do I sign up? on Every Day Is Goof-Off-At-Work Day At the US Patent and Trademark Office · · Score: 2

    I've seen federal employees get fired. Several time.
    They are not unfirable. They are difficult to fire to protect them against political whims, and crazy panic public irrationality.

  5. Re:Public servants don't give an arm and a leg on Every Day Is Goof-Off-At-Work Day At the US Patent and Trademark Office · · Score: 1

    That's a cute view of companies. I have worked at several large corporation, an frankly they have little clue as to who is really productive.
    I currently work cor a city government. There is so little waste here compared to any public government.

    What I want to know is why government workers get bonuses.

  6. Re:This is why I'm leaving academia. on Geneticists Decry Book On Race and Evolution · · Score: 1

    "We are in full agreement that there is no support from the field of population genetics for Wade’s conjectures."

    Typical modern ass hat post/response to anything scientific. you copy one quote, use that as a basis for you post instead of looking at the scientist SPECIFIC objections.
    You are pathetic, you are a fol., and you and your ilk harm scientific discourse.

  7. Re:What are the complainer's conclusions? on Geneticists Decry Book On Race and Evolution · · Score: 1

    They do that sort of thing all the time.

  8. Re:I don't get it. on Geneticists Decry Book On Race and Evolution · · Score: 2, Informative

    It was racist to say because it isn't true and it was created specifically to maintain a separation of blacks from whites.

    I don't think you know what 'race' means.

  9. Re:I don't get it. on Geneticists Decry Book On Race and Evolution · · Score: 1

    That's not it at all.
    He makes claims like: Genetics show the are 3 to 5 races; which is factual wrong.

  10. Re:Politically Correct Science on Geneticists Decry Book On Race and Evolution · · Score: 1

    Wrong. The Author says he thing they haven't read it, when in fact it's pretty damn clear they would have HAD to of read it to make the statements they make.

    The Scientist making t make SPECIFIC points the author does not address and simple states

  11. Re:The problem is false negative on DARPA Wants To Kill the Password · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Yes, we've all seen dozens of those science fiction stories where they steal people's eyes, or cut off their fingers, or take swabs of their DNA."
    cute, but not what the poster is talking about.

    Your info, weather its a password, or the bio-metric info will get turned into a string and stored in a database.
    Once that database in compromised, your bio-metric info on EVERY system you log into needs to be change to a different bio metric. They don't actually need to physical eye.

  12. Re:All good until someone simulates biometrics... on DARPA Wants To Kill the Password · · Score: 1

    Do not verify password with remaining eye.

    Joking aside, I suspect DARPA is aware of those issues and taking them into account.

    " Finger print scanners are fooled by gummy bears."
    Some.

  13. Re: There we go again on DARPA Wants To Kill the Password · · Score: 1

    Depends on the hash used, if its a external attack, or if someone has a copy of the db and is trying to figure out what the passwords are.

    If you can see everyone hashed password, patterns will emerge.

  14. Re: There we go again on DARPA Wants To Kill the Password · · Score: 0

    Rainbow tables can take care of most hashes.

  15. Re:An economic and environmental disaster on Toxic Algae Threatens Florida's Gulf Coast · · Score: 1

    The fact that you seem to think you can't have a natural phenomenon be a disaster is mind boggling.

    Also, Red Tide is 10 times stronger then they where 50 years ago specifically due to human activities.

  16. Re:Synthetic Grass on Toxic Algae Threatens Florida's Gulf Coast · · Score: 1

    I just like the way it feels on me toes.
    However, I'm not obsessed with perfect lawn.
    I also try to put my clippings into my yard. either around plant to minimize weeds, or a cycle it into the planter areas.
    I would rather have weeds then use a poison.

  17. Re:Please give examples of the obstacles on Floridian (and Southern) Governmental Regulations Are Unfriendly To Solar Power · · Score: 2

    The business models that have made solar systems financially viable for millions of homeowners in California, New England and elsewhere around the country are largely illegal in Florida, Virginia, South Carolina and some other Southern states. Companies that pioneered the industry, such as SolarCity Corp. and Sunrun Inc., do not even attempt to do business there.

  18. 2. Wrong.
    4. Cleansing,as you say, is done at the home, by the home owner.

    You do know this isn't about money and about reducing green houses gases, right?.

  19. Re:Try a TRILLION DOLLARS, for starters. on Floridian (and Southern) Governmental Regulations Are Unfriendly To Solar Power · · Score: 1

    " We need reliable baseload power cheaper than coal first."
    If we keep using that, there won't be a down the road.
    We need to aggressive stop coal use NOW. I'm sorry if keeping the Earth habitable for human civilization inconvenient and expensive.
    \It's going to cost more money ONLY if you don't take health related issues from coal, global warming impact, and other ancillary cost into account.

    You sentiment was fin 25 years ago. If the pubs didn't fight to stop it 25 years ago, we would be off coal today.
    OH now, it might cost money. That's the cry of a quitter and a bitch who has no real argument.

  20. Re:Then they preach to the world about capitalism on Floridian (and Southern) Governmental Regulations Are Unfriendly To Solar Power · · Score: 1

    Adam smiths view could only exist in the mind of an Economic Philosopher, and he new that.
    Adam Smith's philosophy was NEVER a practical for valid real world concept.

  21. Re:Then they preach to the world about capitalism on Floridian (and Southern) Governmental Regulations Are Unfriendly To Solar Power · · Score: 1

    There's also a "moral" component which makes capitalism work and be beneficial and that's eroded a lot since 1880.

    FIFY

  22. Re:maybe it's the reality of the business on Floridian (and Southern) Governmental Regulations Are Unfriendly To Solar Power · · Score: 1

    I read it and hos point remains valid. Weather or ont you like him is irrelevant and being used to prop a biased opinion.

    Stop it.

  23. Re:Translated into English on Floridian (and Southern) Governmental Regulations Are Unfriendly To Solar Power · · Score: 1

    And people like you is why the world will burn.

  24. Re:Translated into English on Floridian (and Southern) Governmental Regulations Are Unfriendly To Solar Power · · Score: 1

    " Florida gets half to one quarter the solar energy at the rooftop that California gets to for the same power usage you have to install twice to four times as many panels."
    WTF? who told you that? You need to slap who ever told you that.
    That's insane., and you are being lied to. You believe that lie because they are preying on your ignorance. DO some actual research on how it works, and where it's optimal.

  25. Re:Translated into English on Floridian (and Southern) Governmental Regulations Are Unfriendly To Solar Power · · Score: 0

    Yes, it's copy and pastes error, not your error. *rollseyes*