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  1. Re: Wannabe soldiers on OSINT Analysis of Militia Communications, Equipment and Frequencies (wordpress.com) · · Score: 1

    Can't you modify those Beofungs to do encryption just by installing
    some new firmware? Seems like it should be really easy to do. I've even had
    nightmares that the Chinese could do so "over the air".

  2. Re:Comp Sci requires good Math skills on The President Wants Every Student To Learn CS. How Would That Work? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Maybe instead of Common Core, we should be teaching Common Lisp?

  3. Re:oblig on How Procrastination Can Be Good For You (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Speaking of procrastination... I've been putting off looking for a really
    good nootropic stack that is cheap and effective and can be obtained easily
    at brick and mortor places like CVS/RiteAID/Target/Walmart. I would like to
    hear your stack suggestions and some usage notes.

  4. Re:My nose on The Dirty Truth About 'Clean Diesel' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    What if the problem came more from the black asphalt road surface grabbing
    sunlight and radiating the heat back into the atmosphere than the engines
    spewing diesel smoke? (a massive 'Urban Heat Island'

    http://heatisland2009.lbl.gov/...

    a continent wide and replicated many times to allow vehicular access to the
    interesting areas) If that were the case, how would switching back to dirt
    roads affect your choice of transportation? I'm thinking a monster truck
    with high ground clearance and extra winches for getting unstuck in the mud
    would be a much better choice for driving to the grocery store to pick up
    your 150# of groceries or dropping off your kid at school. Of course, that
    would reduce the Govs opportunities to tax you.

  5. Re:When at work. on Psychologist: Porn and Video Game Addiction Are Leading To 'Masculinity Crisis' · · Score: 1

    Zimbardo is just doing more market research to find out if he is going to
    make more money writing a book that exploits young men with Asperger's
    Syndrome. He knows these clinical subjects probably won't sue him because
    they are too busy with their Pr0n and Geamze.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...

    Let's prove him wrong!

    Also, when I'm at work, I'm thinking about how I can make a potion using
    Bear Claws + Giant's Toe + Hanging Moss to Damage Magicka Regen + Fortify
    Health + *Fortify One-Handed*.

    I might give Zimbardo more credence if he also looked at porn that occurs as a
    natural story line inside the video game, making them dependent and linked
    to one another in inexplicable ways. Using a shotgun approach and blaming
    this one behavior on two possible motivations without making a distinction
    that one activity might be leading to another is being lazy as a
    researcher. Maybe he should publish a book on how to make money selling
    snake oil. That's probably too much to ask...

  6. Re:Every week there's a new explanation of the hia on Cause of Global Warming 'Hiatus' Found Deep In the Atlantic · · Score: 1

    I think what we are seeing here is caused by the "publish or perish"
    paradigm. The deep ocean currents capturing energy and storing it and moving
    it around the globe has been known for a long time. The climate modelers
    chose to ignore it so they could simplify things and write something that
    looked "close enough" and publish *something* before their funding ran out.
    Or they hand-waived and said it was too expensive to acquire accurate
    time-series data from deep ocean currents, and hence, ignored. The "peer
    review" cycle is just so much crap, since if I constantly poo-poo your
    results, you'll do the same for my results. If we aren't in positions to do
    that, then we aren't 'peers'.

    The corollary here is that climate models simply cannot be made to be
    accurate without 'all the data', and 'all the data' is either too expensive
    to acquire, or can't be acquired in a short enough time to publish in the
    peer review cycle.

    It happens all the time in academia, and is a big part of this whole
    problem. How do you tease out the "close enough" BS results from the "what
    really happens" models? Good luck with that! Just don't claim 'deniers' are
    the problem here. They are obviously not the problem.

  7. Re:GPS and laser guidance systems for centuries? on FarmBot: an Open Source Automated Farming Machine · · Score: 1

    Any machine left in the garden does what? That's right! It RUSTS! Or, is
    trampled by the deer herd that comes to eat your perfectly grown tomatoes. I
    guess you could open-source mount a rifle with laser guided computer optics
    to handle the deer, but what about the rust problem? Also, in California
    anyway, the Santa Ana's kick up and blow everything around, including dust,
    sand, grit, and pollution film from China that will gum up anything you put
    on a machine to prevent rust. Not trying to be an Eeyore, just giving the
    DIY designers a 'heads-up' on some potential problems that I happen to know
    about from experience.

  8. Re:Garden Bot on FarmBot: an Open Source Automated Farming Machine · · Score: 1

    The robot could lay down enough rails in front of it to move in that
    direction, then pick them up and move them along itself. I think I saw this
    in a claymation movie once. Nick Park?

  9. Re:But is it really plankton? on Scientists Find Traces of Sea Plankton On ISS Surface · · Score: 1

    Maybe there was a layer of dead plankton that built up over time, and
    provided some 'cushion' so later arrivals had a softer landing on the
    surface of the ISS?

  10. Re:don't drive with nobody in it? on FBI Concerned About Criminals Using Driverless Cars · · Score: 1

    All those cars travelling too close together at high rates of speed will
    become a large, bloody, smoking hole in the world if a moose misses the
    "Moose Crossing" sign and tries to cross at the wrong spot. Food for
    thought.

  11. Re:don't drive with nobody in it? on FBI Concerned About Criminals Using Driverless Cars · · Score: 1

    What if your robocar drops you off at work, then parks itself in the parking
    garage and waits for your signal to drive back to the front door to pick you
    up and take you home. But, while it's parked, some bad guy uploads a virus
    to it, and it runs around and kills people, then parks itself, and
    resets/reloads to saved sane backups. When you call it, it comes around to pick
    you up at the front door, but it's covered in blood and body parts. Pop
    quiz: what do you do, wildcat? (constraint: Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper,
    Sandra Bullock are all on vacation. You are on your own.)

  12. Re:Less. on FBI Concerned About Criminals Using Driverless Cars · · Score: 1

    Couldn't you just stick a colored lens over the driverless cars' visual
    sensors, and change all the lights to 'green'?

  13. Re:How fitting on Study: People Would Rather Be Shocked Than Be Alone With Their Thoughts · · Score: 1

    Nowadays, It's not "loner". It's "gamer". (as in video gamer)

  14. Re:Where's the article? on Ninety-Nine Percent of the Ocean's Plastic Is Missing · · Score: 1

    Maybe the study has published results based on data collected using an
    aperatus that had a hole in it, and the plastic they were collecting leaked
    out, instead of being counted.

  15. Re:Blaming the cables? on Tesla's Having Issues Charging In the Cold · · Score: 1

    Cables used to recharge electic cars don't work very well after you have
    driven over them a few times with your dually diesel one-ton pickup truck
    because your wife left them drapped across the gravel driveway.

  16. Re:It's about time! What movie were they watching? on Man Shot To Death For Texting During Movie · · Score: 1

    Maybe Hollywood has been putting subliminal messages into their flicks that
    cause people to go wacko in movie theaters?

  17. Re:Education con game on Questions Raised By Education Dept's Road Show On College Value · · Score: 1

    Let's face it... Most largish Universities are just Billion dollar hotels
    with no "checkout time". Stay until you run out of money, whether it's your
    money or money that comes from someone else. They REALLY don't care.

  18. Re:Governor Appointed on Nebraska Scientists Refuse To Carry Out Climate Change-Denying Study · · Score: 1

    So, it's looking more and more and more like the political science is
    settled. AGW is purely a political conclusion, not fact.

  19. Re:Location, Location, Location on As Hurricane Season Looms, It's Disaster-Preparedness Time · · Score: 1

    It seems everyone has their own notion of 'low risk geographical area'. Mine
    is Utah.

  20. Re:We need gas control! on New York Passes Landmark Gun Law · · Score: 1

    You might want to read "Living with Guns - A Liberal's case for the Second
    Amendment", by Craig R. Whitney. The second chapter talks about the gun
    culture that led to the creation of the Constitution. It wasn't about
    hunting critters. Indians, French, English, all were trying to kill them
    off. Federal vs State powers are a very delicate balance that can, at any
    time, be thrown out of balance and spiral us all into another civil war,
    with the destruction of the Republic as the result. That would leave us open
    to foreign invaders who could scavenge our resources or who would want to
    expand their religion. Be careful what you wish for...

  21. Re:Congress Sucks on Congressional Committee Casts a Harsh Eye On Vaccination Science · · Score: 1

    If you look at UK health care, it's pretty obvious that when the government
    takes over health care, and then the government goes bankrupt, the people
    don't get health care.

  22. Re:Right on on To Encourage Biking, Lose the Helmets · · Score: 1

    I thought we were all required to wear seat belts, because people who lost
    family members in car crashes sued the car manufacturer. The car
    manufacturer, trying to reduce or eliminate future losses in litigation,
    pushed laws requiring seatbelts so you can no longer sue the car
    manufacturers if you get killed in one of their cars. Isn't that right?

  23. Re:But that's not the real problem. on To Encourage Biking, Lose the Helmets · · Score: 1

    That's funny. That happened to me once. I stopped at a stop sign after
    riding uphill for a couple of miles, and I couldn't get my cleat unclipped
    from the peddal, and I fell over to the left side. Tried to catch myself
    with my left arm, but it popped out of my shoulder socket. I was taken to
    the ER by a nurse who was on her lunch break and happened to be driving by
    and saw it happen. I'll never ride another bicycle.

  24. Re:Hopefully it's an outlier on July Heat Set U.S. Record · · Score: 1

    Let's experiment... Let's bulldoze NYC and surrounds, and maybe San Fran and surrounds, into the ocean. Replace all that asphalt with grassy knolls and trees, and see if that makes a difference in the temp readings we take from those areas.

  25. Re:Good grief.. on Save the Planet, Eat Your Dog · · Score: 1

    Goats are great for hillside munching. And then, you can eat them. But you have to share with the mountain lion. Until the mountain lion makes more mountain lions. Then, there are no more goats to eat. If there are no more goats to eat, then I'll have to turn to spamming hacked email accounts on the internet to get food. Or maybe I should just try smoking the grass on the hillside, instead of letting the goats eat it. I won't live too long, but I'll die happier.