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  1. Re:Hi speed chase, hum? on The First Person Ever To Die In a Tesla Is a Guy Who Stole One · · Score: 1

    Sure, but what does that have to do with law enforcement? They're not the "car enthusiast revenge squad."

    Of course they are; the middle classes pay taxes to try and get a police force which frowns on this sort of thing and reacts accordingly.
    Actually when it happened to me they chased the car intermittently across 3 counties and couldn't catch it.

  2. Re:Hi speed chase, hum? on The First Person Ever To Die In a Tesla Is a Guy Who Stole One · · Score: 2

    Your car is a mass produced automobile, it's not part of your soul.

    My car was anything but a mass produced automobile, maybe this will help you

  3. Re:First contact? on Arecibo Radio Telescope Confirms Extra-galactic Fast Radio Pulses · · Score: 1

    Just because a theory causes our understanding to fall to pieces is not sufficient reason not to question everything. A theory is often an approximation to what happens until a better one comes along.

  4. Re:Hi speed chase, hum? on The First Person Ever To Die In a Tesla Is a Guy Who Stole One · · Score: 0

    Having had the experience of having my own performance car stolen temporarily, and damaging it to the extent of needing a new engine and reupholstering, at the time I felt capital punishment is not enough.

    You may think this is a little severe, but people who are into cars feel they have had part of their soul ripped out of them if it is stolen and trashed, especially if it is their personal hobby and they are doing it at the limits of their budget.

  5. I find it ironic on US Tech Firms Recruiting High Schoolers (And Younger) · · Score: 1

    ...that as the Western World has campaigned against children working long hours in underdeveloped nations, here we are encouraging our kids to work insanely long hours tethered to a keyboard grinding out code.

  6. Obi Wans opinion on the Blackberry on BlackBerry's Innovation: Square-Screened Smartphones · · Score: 2, Funny

    I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.

  7. Re: So you can reuse the PC board? on New Single Board Computer Lets You Swap Out the CPU and Memory · · Score: 1

    You just have to make sure you keep your connector clean and well maintained!

  8. Re: Feedly was too instable... currently liking Di on Google Reader: One Year Later · · Score: 1

    Never had it crash, but never had it update my feeds properly either

  9. Re:Feedly: Google Reader Reloaded on Google Reader: One Year Later · · Score: 1

    Feedly has a great interface, but they had some issues with Craigslist and since then RSS feeds into Feedly from them seemed to suck, only updating occassionally despite the fact they claim their issues have been solved

  10. Feedly on Google Reader: One Year Later · · Score: 1

    I don't find that Feedly is very good at updating my feeds. Sometimes days go by before it updates my feeds.
    I've also tried Feeder and that seems to suffer from similar issues.

  11. Re:Blame Google. on Following EU Ruling, BBC Article Excluded From Google Searches · · Score: 1

    IIRC, there is a time limit on the information that may be used by credit reference agencies. I think its somewhere between 6 and 10 years

  12. Why would Congressmen vote to end being bribed? on Lawrence Lessig Answers Your Questions About His Mayday PAC (Video) · · Score: 2

    It would be like turkeys voting for Thanksgiving.

  13. Personally on Why China Is Worried About Japan's Plutonium Stocks · · Score: 2

    .I love the way Japan's Defense Force isn't really an army/navy/airforce through clever use of terminology. Take this aircraft carrier^H^H^H^H destroyer for example...

  14. Re:boo hooo hoooooo on British Army Turns To Oculus Rift To Take the Sting Out of Battlefield Trauma · · Score: 2

    I think you misread the article - its about training medics how to deal with casualties whilst they are under fire and is probably as close as you can get short of having them on a real battlefield. The "battlefield trauma" relates to injuries on the battlefield, not whether medics are traumatized in dealing with the situation, although improving the ability of them to handle the situation they are in will reduce the likelihood of this happening.

    Battlefield medics have to make hard decisions, including deciding not to treat casualties who are unlikely to survive if they are under severe pressure.

  15. Re:Or Coffee? on Fasting Triggers Stem Cell Regeneration of Damaged, Old Immune System · · Score: 1

    Coffee has like 5 calories...and is basically water.

    I am amazed that my frothy latte with chocolate sprinkles, a dose of cinnamon syrup and 3 sugars is only 5 calories.... :-)

  16. Retaliation on Open Source Robot OS Finds Niches From Farms To Space · · Score: 1
  17. On behalf of lettuce everywhere on Open Source Robot OS Finds Niches From Farms To Space · · Score: 2

    I just wish everyone would lettuce alone....

  18. Re:Irresponsible on 3D Printed Gun Maker Cody Wilson Defends Open Source Freedom · · Score: 1

    ...or you could phrase it as the UK that had to preserve the independance of Canada by burning down the White House... ..or the UK that assisted with the development of codebreaking and radar so you could win against the Japanese ...or the UK that got the US started on jet and atomic weapon technology

    etc etc.

  19. How does that affect the Drake Equation on Red Dwarfs Could Sterilize Alien Worlds of Life · · Score: 1

    Does it make ne extremely low in the Drake equation?

  20. That explains why on Red Dwarfs Could Sterilize Alien Worlds of Life · · Score: 1

    It's cold outside, there's no kind of atmosphere.... Red Dwarf

  21. Re:Irresponsible on 3D Printed Gun Maker Cody Wilson Defends Open Source Freedom · · Score: 1

    BTW, you're not anti gun, you're just against anyone but the government having guns. I'll bet you're all for Police, Military and agencies like the BLM having assault rifles and tanks....

    No even in these cases we believe that gun use should be controlled and limited. Your average UK policeman does not carry a gun, although I accept he/she can call on backup which does. The military is only allowed to play with guns when the Prime Minister says so...

  22. Re:Who Cares? on 3D Printed Gun Maker Cody Wilson Defends Open Source Freedom · · Score: 2

    Nobody is going to be able to create a massacre with a printed gun, they just aren't up to the task for a variety of reasons. It's also pretty unlikely that anyone is going to be murdered with one either. An accidental death, sure, but intentionally snuffing someone, not any time soon.

    Why not for intentionally snuffing someone? As a murder weapon, a plastic gun has a lot of benefits - you can simply melt the gun after the event and therefore eliminate a major source of forensic evidence.

  23. Re:But... on UK Ballistics Scientists: 3D-Printed Guns Are 'of No Use To Anyone' · · Score: 1

    So the 200,000-2,000,000 lives saved by defensive gun use are just not worth it?

    Citation needed

  24. Re:Others exist on UK Ballistics Scientists: 3D-Printed Guns Are 'of No Use To Anyone' · · Score: 1

    Royal Ordnance (now BAE Systems Global Combat Systems Munitions)

  25. Re:It's an interesting question on Iran Court Summons Mark Zuckerberg For Facebook Privacy Violations · · Score: 1

    Google is not arbitrarily farming personal data, it is providing a link to an item that was in a local paper. The information in the local paper is a matter of public record. As you have stated yourself, local papers should be able to have searchable archives and these archives should exist for eternity in my humble opinion.

    I am not of the opinion that people should be screwed forever, but if I vote for someone I definitely want to know his entire history for a lot longer than 6 years. Every side has a chance to mud-sling and it should be easy for people to fact check for themselves. If one side is mud-slinging I want to be able to find out for myself if the mud-slinging has a basis in fact or is an unsubstantiated allegation. There is an equal belief in America that people are allowed to get back on their feet after screwing up - its almost a badge of honour to have a failed business startup and the big question is whether they learned from their mistakes.

    From browsing your comments, you seem to take an actively hostile and abusive, ad-hominem line in your arguments when someone has the temerity to disagree. I think this law will gain "mission creep" and is antithetical to the idea of the ability to easily access information that the Internet supports today.