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  1. Re:I prefer my method on Goodbye, IQ Tests: Brain Imaging Predicts Intelligence Levels · · Score: 1

    Just assume that anyone that actually pays attention to the built-in spell checker is reasonably intelligent.

  2. Re:More! on How Much Detail Is Too Much For Games? · · Score: 1

    Water doesn't line up in perfectly straight lines like that. It is lens flare, which is consistent with wearing goggles or glasses in real life as well.

  3. Re:The UK has some lead time on this on Additive Manufacturing (3D Printing), Gun Control, and Patent Law · · Score: 1

    They aren't bothered by smart people being able to get guns. There aren't enough of them to make it worth worrying about.

  4. Re:If you don't have javascript, you're a bot? on Company Claims 80% of Facebook Ad Clicks Are From Bots · · Score: 0

    It isn't really a problem as long as Facebook has nothing do do with the generation of the clicks, it just changes how much the clicks should be worth. If Facebook is running the bots or paying someone to run them, (which wouldn't really surprise me) then it is a problem.

  5. Re:Reality bites on Mark Zuckerberg's Big Facebook Mistake · · Score: 2

    Winning the bet now and then doesn't mean it isn't gambling.

  6. Re:How Difficult Is It Really? on 7,000 Irish e-Voting Machines To Be Scrapped · · Score: 1

    Putting it into the ballot box doesn't mean you have to count the paper ballots, they're just there if anyone wants to verify the machine's results.

  7. Re:awwwww on 7,000 Irish e-Voting Machines To Be Scrapped · · Score: 1

    The first post is in response to the summary, if it merely says something that's in the summary it would be correct to mod it redundant. Note that this is a hypothetical point, and in this case the moderation seems odd.

  8. Re:Tracking employees is just wrong on Google Touts Worker Tracking As Own CEO Goes MIA · · Score: 1

    More fun to leave it at work, convince the trackers you're secretly putting in 128 hours of overtime a week.

  9. Re:Movies on 'Nuclear Free' Maryland City Grants Waiver For HP · · Score: 1

    Written speech is frequently quite different from spoken speech even when spelled and pronounced "correctly."

  10. Re:Huh. on How Many Seconds Would It Take To Crack Your Password? · · Score: 1

    Adding one symbol, if it is not required or encouraged by the password policy, does increase the effective strength significantly since a brute force attack will generally leave out symbols to reduce the search space a the cost of missing out on the relatively small number of passwords that use them. However, if it is required, all of the passwords will use them resulting in an overall loss of strength since there are fewer symbols and most people will use exactly one.

  11. Re:People should pay for their choices on California City May Tax Sugary Drinks Like Cigarettes · · Score: 1

    What makes you think people with no self control are the minority?

  12. Re:Welp... on US Courts Approve 30,000 Secret Surveillance Orders Each Year · · Score: 1

    It has to be enabled by default or most people won't use it.

  13. Re:Innovation on How Chemistry Stymies Attempts To Regulate Synthetic Drugs · · Score: 1

    This is already the way it works, however this does not apply to things that are not intended to be consumed.

  14. Re:Who cares about poor people anyway? on CS Professor Announces Run For VT State Senate On a Platform of Internet Polling · · Score: 1

    Too bad there isn't a place where people can access the internet for free, regardless of economic standing. While we're at it, lets put a bunch of books there for people who can't or don't want to buy their own so they can educate themselves as well.

  15. Re:Numbers are BS on Who Sends Google the Most Takedown Notices? Microsoft · · Score: 1

    That would actually be every 22 hours, or more likely, every 24 hours with the requests not being evenly distributed.

  16. Re:Paradox! on Microsoft Tests Social Search Waters With 'so.cl' Network · · Score: 1

    Actually he's not ignoring the "if," as that's what makes it a hypothetical question in the first place.

  17. Re:Station Wagon Full of Tapes on Mega-Uploads: The Cloud's Unspoken Hurdle · · Score: 1

    That improves the already good bandwidth but doesn't do anything for the latency.

  18. Re:Public Domain / FOIA? on Protecting State Secrets Through Copyright · · Score: 1

    They sue over things which were not produced by the government but for which the government holds the copyright.

  19. Re:Education, cost and need on Americans More Worried About Cybersecurity Than Terrorism · · Score: 1

    To be able to learn when "a man is talking rot" you need both positive and negative examples.

  20. Re:fearmongering on Americans More Worried About Cybersecurity Than Terrorism · · Score: 1

    Science classes at pre-college levels rarely distinguish between things that are "known" to be true and things that are useful models that fit the evidence.

  21. Re:Better with AI assistance... on "Brainput" Boosts Your Brain Power By Offloading Multitasking To a Computer · · Score: 1

    Having the user participate somewhat all the time keeps them active and aware of current conditions in case of a crisis of some kind.

  22. Re:What a dumb idea on Engineer Thinks We Could Build a Real Starship Enterprise In 20 Years · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Oddly enough, helping more people survive tends to lower population growth.

  23. Re:This will not help those who claim to be allerg on Anti-WiFi Wallpaper Available Next Year · · Score: 1

    The best part is you don't even have to pay for the expensive wallpaper, just get the regular stuff.

  24. Re:They still wouldn't do it probably on Anti-WiFi Wallpaper Available Next Year · · Score: 1

    Well if they don't hide the fact that you can't get a signal in the screen and seats area, you'll probably know where you have to go to get signal. This would probably save them the liability of a lawsuit and they could even bill it as a feature of their theater.

  25. Re:Seems typical, actually. on Yahoo Board Director Patti Hart Stepping Down Over Thompson Scandal · · Score: 1

    That is generally what we mean when we use the phrase 'digging up dirt on someone.' Lies don't work nearly as well.