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  1. Perspective on Medical Records Worth More To Hackers Than Credit Cards · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There is at least two ways to look at this issue.
    A. Using stolen health information is very lucrative due to the lack of security.
    B. Using stolen credit card information has become a lot less lucrative due to the increased security used by credit card companies.

    I suspect a little from column A and a little from column B.

  2. Re:Maybe not so silly on Blood For Extra Credit Points Offer Raises Eyebrows In Test-Mad China · · Score: 1

    It's a slippery slope (because of all the blood).

    All slippery slope arguments do is stop something that might be good now because they might lead to something bad in the future. The problem with slippery slope arguments is that they rely on the idea that something bad will "inevitability" happen. The bad things are not inevitable. They can be stopped before they happen while allowing the good things to go forward. "Don't do something good now because something similar but bad may happen in the future" is not a valid argument.

  3. Re:What to expect? on Blood For Extra Credit Points Offer Raises Eyebrows In Test-Mad China · · Score: 1

    This is about entrance to the school not graduation.

  4. Re:4-8 LITERS?! on Blood For Extra Credit Points Offer Raises Eyebrows In Test-Mad China · · Score: 1

    Split between 2 parents that is 2-4 litres each. Since blood can be donated every 56 days it would take 4-8 months to donate the maximum. It's not really that difficult

  5. Re:Another Factor? on Sierra Nevada Corp. Files Legal Challenge Against NASA Commercial Contracts · · Score: 1

    Therefore Dream Chaser isn't vulnerable to either of the causes of loss of a shuttle orbiter,

    Those were the dramatic failures. There were other issues with the Space Shuttle. There were other issues as well. One big one being that, due to the complex shape of a lifting body, the insulating tiles were very complex themselves. Even in an "uneventful" flight many tiles were damaged and needed to be manufactured and replaces. This caused extended turnaround and delayed flights. It also increased the cost of each flight significantly. It is much easier to replace panels on a simple form like a capsule than a lifting body.

    Dragon is already flying and Boeing is using the same technology. Dream Chaser has only had drop tests and is not scheduled to launch before 2016. I would think that the choice between a tried a proven technology over an untested technology that has had issues in the past would be a simple one.

  6. Another Factor? on Sierra Nevada Corp. Files Legal Challenge Against NASA Commercial Contracts · · Score: 1

    It couldn't possibly be the fact that the two companies that got approved use a simple capsule like the Russians and Sierra Nevada uses a spaceplane. After the issues with the Space Shuttle I can see why NASA rejected that plan.

  7. Re:OK, so set up a tiny company owned "dealership" on State of Iowa Tells Tesla To Cancel Its Scheduled Test Drives · · Score: 1

    Iowa Code 322.3.14. A manufacturer or importer shall not directly or indirectly be licensed as, own an interest in, operate, or control a motor vehicle dealer.

  8. Re:Unscientific. on Consumer Reports: New iPhones Not As Bendy As Believed · · Score: 1

    The actual number of people who reported a problem to Apple? 9.

    The actual number of people who reported a problem to the place where they had purchased the phone? Unknown. Most people go back to the point of purchase with problems not the manufacturer.

    The probability that Apple is under reporting the issue? High.

  9. Re:In other words... on Consumer Reports: New iPhones Not As Bendy As Believed · · Score: 2

    In other words, iphone6 chose looks over function, a common design problem. Like it was said, looks like Jobs is sorely missed in Cupertino.

    Is this the same Steve Jobs that insisted that the NeXT cube be a perfect cube and thereby increasing the cost of an already overpriced machine? The main reason the NeXT did not sell was the price and Jobs' design decisions did not help. Another issue being the insistence on not using fans in some products? Lack of fans lead to lower performance and overheating issues. Jobs chose form over function many times.

  10. Re:Big Goverment no backup on Nearly 2,000 Chicago Flights Canceled After Worker Sets Fire At Radar Center · · Score: 1

    The way air traffic control works is responsibility for each aircraft is handed off from center to center as the move between area. The issue is the controllers have to work together to ensure safety and separation. If you "distribute the load" to different buildings you decrease communication and therefore decrease safety. When you are dealing with aircraft going hundreds of miles an hour you can not wait a couple of minutes for a question to be answered.

  11. Re: dehumanization in action: on Nearly 2,000 Chicago Flights Canceled After Worker Sets Fire At Radar Center · · Score: 1

    Overall I don't know and neither do you because there are no real numbers. There are plenty of example of workers slacking off. Just go to any road construction site.

  12. No

  13. Re:Big Goverment no backup on Nearly 2,000 Chicago Flights Canceled After Worker Sets Fire At Radar Center · · Score: 1

    They have a backup for the hardware but when the building had to be cleared the controllers had to leave their stations. Sorry but it is not feasible to have a complete crew sitting around in another complete office just in case something goes wrong.

  14. Re:dehumanization in action: on Nearly 2,000 Chicago Flights Canceled After Worker Sets Fire At Radar Center · · Score: 2

    Alternate view;
    You come in late, leave early and do as little as possible while you are here. When someone calls you on it you try to burn the place down. Keep up the good work.
    Is there any wonder there are disgruntled employers?

  15. Re:Smart move moron on Nearly 2,000 Chicago Flights Canceled After Worker Sets Fire At Radar Center · · Score: 0

    Considered that the article refers to him as a "worker" and not an "ex-employee" he may not have even been fired yet. If he wasn't fired before he definitely will be now and no unemployment benefits as it is termination for cause.

  16. Re:Oh good on Miss a Payment? Your Car Stops Running · · Score: 1

    so you might also consider removing the bit of wiring from your vehicle's electrical system bringing power to the device.

    Which would be tampering with the operation of the device and therefore may be considered breaking the contract.

  17. Re:Negative Idea on Seattle Passes Laws To Keep Residents From Wasting Food · · Score: 1

    It is not ignoring you it is just not catering to the lowest common denominator. It could also result in you and people like you not being allowed to use the public disposal system.

  18. Application on FAA Clears Movie and TV Drones For Takeoff · · Score: 1

    Maybe they made a reasonable application to the FAA and were given authorization to use drones. Filming a movie or TV show has a few aspects that is very different than a general approval;
    - The drone will operate close to the ground so It can film actors so no interaction with other aircraft.
    - All people being filmed will be associated with the filming so no privacy issues.
    - The area being filmed will be under the control of the company so no privacy issues
    - There will be no other drone permits in the area so no interaction with other company's drones.

    This is very different that permitting a company to fly a drone over wide areas that they do not control. I wonder if any Search and Rescue organizations have applied and been turned down.

    I find it interesting that on this list there are many people who want more drones to be used for more things but there were also many people who were against the FAA permitting 15,000 drones to fly over the US by making permitting easier.

  19. Re:Ooops ... sorry on Seattle Passes Laws To Keep Residents From Wasting Food · · Score: 1

    Sieved sort by size and not material. a sieve can not tell the difference between an apple and a plastic ball. I think you might want to take a closer look at what is actually being sorted in your town. Anything finer takes people and space. Sorting the thousands of tons of waste that comes out of a large city like Seattle is very different than doing it for your small town.

    And sure it won't be perfect but it is evidently good enough for them.

    It is only useful for separating non-organic recyclables from trash. It is useless for separating organic recyclables from trash.

    We can scrub the hell out of the exhaust stream until we have practically nothing but water vapor and CO2

    I do not believe trading one problem, landfill capacity, with another problem, CO2 emissions, is a good idea.

  20. Re:Negative Idea on Seattle Passes Laws To Keep Residents From Wasting Food · · Score: 1

    You don't seem to understand the issue. It is not about marmots it is about finding room to put your trash. By taking compostables out of the waste stream that goes to landfills the landfills will fill up much slower. You will be saying a different tune when your garbage fees skyrocket because they have to haul your mixed garbage even further away. There will eventually be a time when places to put garbage will run out. We are trying to delay that as long as possible.

    So you are a selfish (you will only do thinks for compensation), lazy (you won't take 3 cans to the curb), self centred (you don't care if it does not effect your directly) person who cares nothing about the environment (you wont reduce the waste stream). I get that. That does not mean we should tailor regulation to cater to people like you. Regulations are meant to change behaviours not accommodate them.

  21. Re:Ooops ... sorry on Seattle Passes Laws To Keep Residents From Wasting Food · · Score: 1

    Well, I do. In my town, everything goes in one can.

    Then your town does not recycle while Seattle does.

    A motorized sieve would do fine.

    A motorized sieve will not be effective when the ground are wet and stuck to garbage. It was also only an example of the difficulty in separating organics from inorganics. How would you separate the following?
    vegetable peals,
    fruit pits/cores,
    soups,
    egg shells,
    flowers,
    soiled paper,
    etc.

  22. Re:Negative Idea on Seattle Passes Laws To Keep Residents From Wasting Food · · Score: 1

    I would rather pay someone else, who needs a job worse than I do, to separate it at the recycling facility.

    Separation of organic material from garbage after they have been mixed together and compressed is next to impossible. Your "solution" is not a solution.

    The plastic bag can't go in the compost bin so it'll just get dumped wherever I find it.

    So you are tool lazy to tear a hole in the bag, dump it in the compost can and throw the bag in the garbage can.

    You forgot, I'm terribly lazy.

    So you are too lazy to decrease the landfill issue. We can blame you and people like you when we run out of landfill space.

  23. Re:Why not google on Drones Reveal Widespread Tax Evasion In Argentina · · Score: 1

    312 square miles is only 17 miles square. That is not much area and can be observed from a drone in less than a day. When you are surveying large areas year after year the costs add up quite quickly. The drone would pay for itself in the first year and every year after that it is just the operator time which would be much less than $13/square mile.

  24. Re:Why not google on Drones Reveal Widespread Tax Evasion In Argentina · · Score: 2

    According to this it would cost from $13-$16 per square mile for photos. An operator with a $5000 drone can out do that quite quickly. Then there is the issue of cloud cover.

  25. Re:Drones are cost effective? on Drones Reveal Widespread Tax Evasion In Argentina · · Score: 1

    We are talking Argentina here. If the building is a couple miles from the property line on a private, gated road the motorcyclist may not see it. A 'lot' could be very large.