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  1. Lawyers on Apple Wins iTunes DRM Case · · Score: 1

    Apple's lawyers were not working to bring out the truth or present anything that Apple did that hurt the competition. Their job is to win. Half-truths and ridiculous scenarios being presented as helping the customer are all part of the game. The lawyers succeeded in steering the jury to see Apple as a humble, helpful, servant of the people. Preventing possibly corrupted music files from inhabiting their ecosystem was a noble goal. Lies, but apple Apple wins.

  2. SyFy channel appreciates the input on Last Three Years the Quietest For Tornadoes Ever · · Score: 1

    "More storms, more violent storms, the coasts scoured down to bedrock by hurricanes, the interior a hell of violent weather." The result is Sharknado. Keep looking up people!

  3. Questions about this. on Bank Security Software EULA Allows Spying On Users · · Score: 1

    What does IBM plan to do with the collected information? If malware is present, will IBM inform you of that fact, or simply record what type it is for their records? Will IBM remotely remove said malware and then expect payment from us for doing so? Hmmm.

  4. Free, like broadcast TV, with ads on Chinese CEO Says "Free" Is the Right Price For Mobile Software · · Score: 1

    Free mobile apps make money from ads and from freemium sales. These are commercial products and are not open source. Claiming the apps are "free" is good marketing.

  5. This is just silly on Scientists Develop "Paint" To Help Cool the Planet · · Score: 1

    The surface area to paint is insufficient to have a meaningful intended effect. 1) It won't stay clean for long reducing effectiveness. I know, as the former white roof of my business is now a spotted light gray. 2) Coating adhesion is not eternal. It's expensive to repaint often. 3) The greenhouse effect would just bounce much of the reflected infrared right back to heat up some other part of the earth. Paint to cool the planet is a nice idea, but terribly useless. Just go plant a tree somewhere and call it a day .

  6. Re:Mindfulness is the best pain killer on Researchers Discover an "Off Switch" For Pain In the Brain · · Score: 1

    Meditation leads to relaxation which results in less perceived pain. Try meditating while under a stressful timetable and focusing on the job at hand so the work is completed ASAP while the next job awaits, all while arthritis is causing your joints to beg for a massage that isn't coming. This is why we take analgesics. Meditating isn't often practical when pain relief is needed the most.

  7. Fairness in the US system on Mathematicians Study Effects of Gerrymandering On 2012 Election · · Score: 2

    Nice study. However, 21st century US systems are set up to benefit those in power, or their corporate sponsors. Redistricting is not going to change to be more fair.

  8. Re:Um, what? on Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Considering US Presidential Run · · Score: 1

    At least she didn't trade Sammy Sosa to Dell.

  9. The Lord has spoken. on The Schizophrenic Programmer Who Built an OS To Talk To God · · Score: 1

    I am Davis. Look at what the Lord has given me. Here are fifteen (accidentally hits backspace key), er, ten commandments.

  10. 80% is not 100% on Corning Reveals Gorilla Glass 4, Promises No More Broken IPhones · · Score: 2

    From the PCMag article: "The company said it survives drops up to 80 percent of the time." That's from a three foot drop. Corning does not promise no more broken iPhone screens as the headline reads. Slashdot, please stop with the click bait headlines. Present facts, please.

  11. Re:Why doesn't Bennett get his OWN blog? on Big Talk About Small Samples · · Score: 1

    Bennett Hazelton is making himself into this generations' John Dvorek.

  12. Galactic Oort-type cloud on Physicists Resurrect an Old, Strange Dark Matter Theory · · Score: 2

    Does this imply that there might be an Oort-style cloud, or bubble-like sphere, on the galactic edges made of small clumped matter, the total mass of which is many times that of the observable galaxy?

  13. Libertarian on New GCHQ Chief Says Social Media Aids Terrorists · · Score: 1

    If you are in the US and don't vote Libertarian, where a candidate is available, then you are continuing the corrupt two party system. Otherwise, follow the old advice: If they're in, vote 'em out. Every time.

  14. Re:Climbing Everest is around 2% on Some Virgin Galactic Customers Demand Money Back · · Score: 1

    The difference is sitting on your ass at 5% risk, or busting your ass while freezing at 2% risk, with additional risk of frostbite or non-lethal injury. Tough choice.

  15. Re:Tentative summary on Researchers At Brown University Shattered a Quantum Wave Function · · Score: 1

    Thank you for a superb, comprehensible summary.

  16. Complete waste on The Future of Stamps · · Score: 1

    Because... lasers are freaking cool. Postage etched with lasers. How long before a postal worker turns the lasers on everyone on the room?

  17. North Korea moves South on South Korean ID System To Be Rebuilt From Scratch After Massive Leaks · · Score: 1

    5 million more stolen ID's and the entire population of North Korea can apply for South Korean benefits.

  18. Continually improve fission. on The Physics of Why Cold Fusion Isn't Real · · Score: 1

    Cold fusion is magic. It doesn't work and has been debunked over and over again. I suspect that some cold fusion researchers are great salesmen that sell the dream of an eventual big payday and historical fame to investors. Instead of cold fusion nonsense, nuclear engineers should be working on improving existing small fission reactors, like Toshiba's 4S. That's something mankind can use. Not never ending "ten years from now" promises of cold fusion.

  19. Agreed. Some researchers, apparently to obtain funding, redefine entanglement effects as teleportation. Much cooler sounding.

  20. Re:pencil/paper on How To Enter Equations Quickly In Class? · · Score: 1

    ..and paper never crashes or needs to be recharged.

  21. Fewer commercials are possible on Stargate Universe · · Score: 1

    Watch it online to avoid the long commercial breaks.

  22. Re:So stupid on AU Government To Build "Unhackable" Netbooks · · Score: 1

    These are student PC's. No one would want to hack into them, except to steal homework. It would be easier and faster to just do the homework rather then the hack. A screwdriver will make the machine valuable to a thief as all the security can be rendered useless with the parts removed and sold on eBay.

  23. Re:So which is it on Star Trek's Warp Drive Not Impossible · · Score: 1

    Just before the Big Bang time existed, but space did not. Space's rapid creation formed space/time and gives one the impression, looking back 13 billion years into the night, that everything was moving faster than light. Not so. Space's rapid expansion moved it along.

  24. Re:empowerment 20% of the time. on How To Encourage Workers To Suggest Innovation? · · Score: 1

    Recessions do not last forever. Negotiate for gain sharing for the innovators so that when business improves you will get your hard earned extra cash. Any managers that refuses to do so are laid bare as liars. Get it in writing, or update your resume.

  25. Re:Solved? on New Paper Offers Additional Reasoning for Fermi's Paradox · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Communication using quantum entanglement, over any distance, has the instantaneous speed of subspace radio, with no snooping as the point to point message would be destroyed if decoded and snooped on, assuming a species was capable of doing so. Our inability to recognize such a system doesn't mean there are no other life forms capable of communication. On the contrary, our primitive forms of analog and now digital transmissions may seem to be only slightly more advanced then cave paintings.