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  1. Re:Title Is stupid on New Hampshire Cops Use Taser On Woman Buying Too Many iPhones · · Score: 2

    Because now we live in a totalitarian regime, where the "authorities" must be obeyed?

  2. Re:The taser was excessive on New Hampshire Cops Use Taser On Woman Buying Too Many iPhones · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Giving tasers to the police was supposed to be a way for them to protect themselves from violent people without using guns. If this old lady was really threatening them then they need to be kicked off the force for being too unfit to serve as a police officer.

  3. Re:or just know how to search on Google's Second Brain: How the Knowledge Graph Changes Search · · Score: 1

    Exactly, if I type "Taj Mahal Restaurant" I'm not particularly interested in a blogger telling me that he saw Taj Mahal last night at a restaurant.

    Sometimes I feel that i need to make my search terms too specific but when I really want to find specific information I like the new way a whole lot more.

  4. Re:US has extradition treaty with Belize on Guatemala Deports McAfee To the US · · Score: 0

    Actually it is correct, he has indeed been charged with rape. If he had said that Assange had committed rape that would be incorrect and libelous, but it's not a requirement to be charged.

  5. Re:Why would they stop developing weaponry? on North Korea Launches Long-Range Rocket · · Score: 1

    The other big difference is that the 6 million killed in the Holocaust were largely white, while the 58 million Indians were more of a brown colour. I don't like to be the one crying racism, but it's kinda hard to get away from.

  6. Re:didn't ever really feel sorry for him on Guatemala Judge Orders McAfee Released · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure that policy was around long before Obama...

    You know who has it even worse? People who come from other countries to work in the USA. I don't have any investments back home, but if I did the US government would feel entitled to get a cut from them. I guess the US has been poking their nose into other countries laws enough that now they think it's part of the US.

  7. Re:HFT versus self-driving car analogy on High-Frequency Traders Use 50-Year-Old Wireless Tech · · Score: 1

    Slashdot is not a single hive-mind, that very scenario gets brought up most times there's an article about self-driving cars. Also, if you'll look up the thread you'll see some people coming out in favour of HFT. Mind=blown?

  8. Re:The political construct is unraveling on Draft of IPCC 2013 Report Already Circulating · · Score: 1

    Even though you've already been thoroughly debunked, I feel the need to chime in about this global cooling malarky.

    See, there are two types of gasses that make a difference to these discussions. Carbon oxides and sulphur oxides. Sulphur oxides reflect heat, so warmth from the sun bounces back out into space and the earth cools down a little bit. Fortunately for us, scrubbing our exhaust gasses and purifying our fuels meant that we could stop pumping suplhur oxides into the atmosphere. Yay us!

    Carbon oxides behave a little differently, they absorb heat, so any heat that would be radiating out gets caught by the carbon oxides and makes them wiggle a little faster, which warms up all the air around it. Unfortunately, no one has come up with an "easy" way to stop pumping carbon oxides into the atmosphere, everything we have would require us to change what we are doing. We don't want to change, so the science telling us about it must be wrong.

  9. Re:Wasting Sick days on Stay Home When You're Sick! · · Score: 1

    Well, I count "going out of town for a long weekend" as a good enough excuse to take a sick day, so I can't really fault him.

  10. Re:Hydrogen isn't that bad on Dirigible Airship Prototype Approaches Completion · · Score: 1

    I'm intrigued as to how you think we'd be getting around without naptha...

    All of life is a risk trade-off. I took a huge risk by getting out of bed this morning, any number of things could have killed me by now, but I don't want to spend my life lying down.

  11. Re:The annual staple of science magazines. on Dirigible Airship Prototype Approaches Completion · · Score: 1

    Are you sure they weren't telling you it's inflammable?

    On a more serious note, relating to the comment of the AC, one of the ways to make a fuel oil storage tank more safe it to pump fuel gas into it. The idea behind it is that if the entire atmosphere is hydrocarbons you can keep the oxygen concentration below the LFL and have a very low risk of fire. With proper safeguards hydrogen should be no more dangerous.

  12. Re:NRPGA on Murder Is Like a Disease (No, Really) · · Score: 1

    Any of those would make golf more exciting. I'm thinking: instead of hitting the golf ball with a club, you load it into a cannon with what you think is the right amount of powder, point it in what you think is the right direction, then boom! Putting would also become more interesting.

  13. Re:The habitable zone is an invisible line. on Other Solar Systems Could Be More Habitable Than Ours · · Score: 1

    The habitable zone gives us something we can focus on. Sure there could be all kinds of weird and wonderful life forms that can survive on planets far hotter or colder than Earth, but that gives us no scope to limit our search. There are a lot of planets out there so we need to look at the ones which are most likely to have life we'd recognise first.

  14. Re:SAY NOTHING on Congressional Committee Casts a Harsh Eye On Vaccination Science · · Score: 1

    It's an example of limiting freedoms for the general good, the only difference is that no one has faked a study to show that driving down the correct side of the highway causes autism.

  15. Many of the links on Movie Studios Ask Google To Censor Links To Legal Copies of Their Own Films · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The good news is that Google has so far left many of the links up.

    No, good news would be that Google has completely disregarded any communications. The fact that the word "many" was used rather than "all" means that it is in fact quite bad news.

  16. Re:Hm... on Movie Studios Ask Google To Censor Links To Legal Copies of Their Own Films · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Perfect time to show them what Google really does for them: any page that includes the name of the studio, or any of the movies that the studio has ever made will no longer appear in search results. See how long it takes them to realise their folly.

  17. Re:you are illogical on Congressional Committee Casts a Harsh Eye On Vaccination Science · · Score: 1

    I am not "believing" I am accepting the conclusions of multiple independent studies. I am willing to force others to conform to my views if it meets the right balance of liberty and safety.

  18. Re:you are illogical on Congressional Committee Casts a Harsh Eye On Vaccination Science · · Score: 1

    First, where did the "more than 1 in ten" figure come from? All of the vaccines with which I'm familiar have effectiveness of >99%.

    Second, if you don't want to get vaccinated, kindly stay away from me and my family, you've claimed that there's a >10% we're not protected from you even if we're vaccinated, and I don't want to take that risk.

  19. Re:SAY NOTHING on Congressional Committee Casts a Harsh Eye On Vaccination Science · · Score: 2

    Good point, to continue to express my liberty I'll be driving home down the wrong side of the highway, with spray nozzles squirting oil under the tyres of the cars coming the other way. My freedoms shall not be abridged!

  20. Re:Misunderstanding of stock markets on Even Capped Prediction Markets Can Be Manipulated · · Score: 1

    Most companies work on loans. Very few companies have enough money that they can spend it on the day to day running of the business. When banks give loans to companies, one of the things they look at is the value of the company. If you push the value of a company up to the level where a bank will give them the loan they need, it will help them out. Not in the direct sense that you are implying, but the author is talking about people dumping huge amounts of money into a stock, so the regular understanding of how the stock market works falls a little short.

  21. Re:A Short Explanation on Notch Expands On 0x10c, Microsoft and Quantum Computing · · Score: 2

    Then you'd just get people asking what Minecraft is. There are comments asking what bitcoin is, so I don't think there's a level of prior knowledge you can assume people to have, you just need to accept that not everyone will get it and no one really cares.

  22. Re:Mojang? on Notch Expands On 0x10c, Microsoft and Quantum Computing · · Score: 2

    +1 Informative.

  23. Re:Skeptic is ok... on Lamar Smith, Future Chairman For the House Committee On Science, Space, and Tech · · Score: 1

    No, we can't put a thermometer on every square inch of the world, and we have no reason to do it anyway. Not all science needs a second "control," see for example everything we know about Astrophysics they didn't line up different stars and do different tests on each of them, they looked at what happened and developed their theories from observations. For global warming, we look at the temperature from the recording stations we have, make allowances for heat island effects etc and see the trends.

    Not that we really need to see the trends, as we already know that CO2 is more active in the IR range than O2, N2, or other significant components of the atmosphere, leading it to "trap" heat. We also already know that it is a very stable molecule and has a very high residence time. We also know that as the atmosphere warms more water is evaporated, which also "traps" heat. We also know that for the last century or so, human industries have relied upon releasing CO2 into the air. We can quibble about the exact magnitude of the change but it is beyond any reasonable level of doubt that human activities are causing the climate to increase in temperature.

  24. Re:So explain the Costco story then? on In a Symbolic Shift, IBM's India Workforce Likely Exceeds That In US · · Score: 1

    I keep coming back to this point: Yes, it might be hard to get by on $70k, but how are those Walmart workers on $24k doing?

  25. Re:TinEye on The Secret To Iranian Drone Technology? Just Add Photoshop · · Score: 1

    Is there some reason to use google for everything and never consider alternatives?