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  1. Re:Hopefully not like their TV remotes... on Logitech Aims To Control the Smart Home · · Score: 1

    Yep.

    The last thing you need is all this shit hooked up to some site on the internet. If they were smart, they would deliberately design it so it can't get to the internet. Because you know some dickhead will break in and wreak havoc and then claim they were just trying to expose weak security or some other bullshit like that.

  2. Re:The UK Cobol Climate Is Very Different on College Students: Want To Earn More? Take a COBOL Class · · Score: 1

    So, in other words, a professional work environment where you work on something that is essential to the economy.

    Making web pages, cool widgets, etc may be fun, but there is and always will be a need for people to maintain the systems essential to running the economy.

    If you think that working on "systems which have undergone years of maintenance by probably dozens of different developers", try doing that on something written in C or and of the other Alphabet languages.

  3. Re:well on WSJ Reports Boeing To Beat SpaceX For Manned Taxi To ISS · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I thought the Dragon vessel was well on its way to being man-rated, or, certified. I haven't heard/seen anything from Boeing at all.

    Perhaps Politics plays a bigger role than innovation and even costs?

  4. Re:Of course there is more ice in Antarctica. on Extent of Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches Record Levels · · Score: 1

    I get better gas mileage when I'm driving South because it's downhill.

  5. Too Fine Grained. on Extent of Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches Record Levels · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think one thing is clear. All these studies are way to focused and fine grained. They look at micro aspects of the climate and then try to apply the observations to a system that is many orders or magnitudes larger.

    It's like examining 1" square sections of the Sistine Chapel paintings and then trying to predict the color in the next 1" square based on the color in the current square. Hit and miss, misleading successes and baffling failures because you don't understand the totality of the entire painting.

  6. Re:Connecting I-80 and U.S. 50 on Direct Sales OK Baked Into Nevada's $1.3 Billion Incentive Deal With Tesla · · Score: 2

    So the view of the other single wide mobile homes and the washer dryer sets in the front "yard" will be obscured?

      Nevada, for the most part, is dirt and weeds.

  7. Re:Why is this legal in the U.S.? on Direct Sales OK Baked Into Nevada's $1.3 Billion Incentive Deal With Tesla · · Score: 1

    As an American, I find the multitudes of taxes, fees, charges, and other blood sucking extortion schemes run by Government to be bizarre.

  8. The Way It Works on Link Between Salt and High Blood Pressure 'Overstated' · · Score: 2

    Being in the midst of trying to control mine, here is a basic explanation provided by my Endocrinologists with some help from Wikipedia.

    It all comes down to the Renin–angiotensin system.

    When the Kidneys think they don't have enough fluid volume to do their job, they send out signals that ultimately come back to themselves, causing them to retain salt and ditch potassium. Water, naturally, follows the salt and results in increased blood volume and subsequently, pressure. That's why many BP meds contains diuretics.

    Too much salts mucks up all the complex feedback mechanisms.

    Something that is apparently under diagnosed is a condition called Aldosteronism, where the adrenal glands make too much of a hormone called aldosterone, a primary messenger in this cycle. Aldosterone levels are not part of the standard blood workup done by your average family physician and diagnosing the condition requires a special, hours long process. It's is kind of a Zebra in diagnostic terms but is looking more and more like a horse.

    So if you are afflicted with High BP and you're not having much luck controlling it, ask your doctor about aldosterone levels. High BP that is a result of this condition is more dangerous in the long term, but possibly curable by suppressing the aldosterone or removing one of the adrenal glands.

  9. Re:Empirical Data Trumps Information Theory on Information Theory Places New Limits On Origin of Life · · Score: 1

    The phrase "...places new limits on..." suggests that they have found that Life is even less likely. But the phrase, "...favorable to life are unlikely to be unusual...", however awkwardly, suggests that Life is more likely.

  10. Re:80 million people? on UK's National Health Service Moves To NoSQL Running On an Open-Source Stack · · Score: 1

    I expect they don't usually keep their appointments.

  11. Re:How quickly will they run back to Oracle? on UK's National Health Service Moves To NoSQL Running On an Open-Source Stack · · Score: 1

    Clearly, you have never heard of database normalization.

  12. Re:Meanwhile in the real world... on UN Study Shows Record-High Increases For Atmospheric CO2 In 2013 · · Score: 1

    I think you don't really understand the word, "Exacerbated". Hint: It's not what you do in the shower on Friday nights.

  13. Re:Talking Point on UN Study Shows Record-High Increases For Atmospheric CO2 In 2013 · · Score: 1

    Funny...citing a misleading talking point to call something else a misleading talking point.

  14. Re:Science creates understanding of a real world. on How Scientific Consensus Has Gotten a Bad Reputation · · Score: 1

    Point to the AC.

    At least he bothered to look at the links.

    However, Hansen says that "deniers" should be tried for "crimes against humanity". This petty much equates to putting people in jail if not executing them should they be found guilty, however unlikely.

  15. Re:Science creates understanding of a real world. on How Scientific Consensus Has Gotten a Bad Reputation · · Score: 1

    I see.

    There must be some fallacy that is the opposite of the appeal to authority...something like, "I reject you evidence because I don't like the publication which provides it.

  16. Re:Science creates understanding of a real world. on How Scientific Consensus Has Gotten a Bad Reputation · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Are you sure?

    Absolutely positive?

    Seems to be quite a few.

  17. Re:Hell no on Bill Gates Wants To Remake the Way History Is Taught. Should We Let Him? · · Score: 0

    I hope they won't teach in the same asshat way the teach addition .

  18. Hijacking this comment on Dell Demos 5K Display · · Score: 1

    Anyone know the effective resolution and screen size of the Oculus Rift?

    Can we envision one day the elimination of external monitors in favor of lightweight and inexpensive versions of Oculus Rift with a form factor closer to that of Google Glass?

  19. Re:Too much pop-culture on Ask David Saltzberg About Being The Big Bang Theory's Science Advisor · · Score: -1, Troll

    BBT is about Penny's tits, plain and simple. If not for her and her frequent bra-less scenes, the show would be a failure.

  20. Re:How does he on Ask David Saltzberg About Being The Big Bang Theory's Science Advisor · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Also...Are Penny's tits as big as they look?

    Or, is it just T.V that makes them look big?

  21. Re:Just use a relay... on Could Tech Have Stopped ISIS From Using Our Own Heavy Weapons Against Us? · · Score: 1

    Then North Korean terrorists would take over the White House and try to get the Cerberus codes.

    Or, would it be the other President ?

  22. Re:Glucose on Researchers Harness E. Coli To Produce Propane · · Score: 1

    5 to 10 years away...that's better than Fusion at least.

  23. Re:Ban on testing would give tech only to cheaters on The Argument For a Hypersonic Missile Testing Ban · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's Ha Ha Hao.

  24. Re:Yelp has gone way downhill on Appeals Court Clears Yelp of Extortion Claims · · Score: 1

    Yep,

    You have no way of knowing who is posting reviews on Yelp. Is it the business owners? Their competitors? Is it some customer who didn't get their bread sticks in time? Or, is it the crap that is alleged in the lawsuit?

    Better to start with TripAdvisor. If you want REALLY good reviews, then the Michelin Guide.

  25. Re:Union? on In Maryland, a Soviet-Style Punishment For a Novelist · · Score: 2

    It is a mistake to think of this from a viewpoint on Unions/No Unions. The school has no power to have this man arrested. The school has no power to have him "medically evaluated". They have no power to prevent him from traveling and in fact cannot ban him from the campus without a court order.

    The State of Maryland is the most egregious offender here. THEY are the ones who have violated this man's rights. THEY are the ones who can apparently do this to anyone under the guise of security. The School is merely an excuse, an enabler of the State.

    If this issue is not resolved quickly, with the authorities paying lots and lots of money and government employees being punished in some manner, be afraid.

    Be Very Afraid. Because the jokes about the Soviet Union will no longer be so funny.