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  1. Sometimes Freedom Hurts on Gizmodo Blows Whistle On 4G iPhone Loser · · Score: 1

    It is fine that the engineer will suffer a career set back. The free flow of information need never be blocked. Restricting the publication of such an error may harm the engineer but it may be of great benefit to employers both directly and indirectly. Screening out security risks is not a negative.

  2. Convicts Or Cows on Cows On Treadmills Produce Clean Power For Farms · · Score: 1

    Considering the super numerous convicts clogging our prisons and jails perhaps that treadmill could be better powered by them than by cattle.

  3. More! on The Sopranos Meet H-1B In New Jersey · · Score: 1

    Twenty years is not enough and I hope they sweep up the entire company!

  4. Re:Oh dear on Studying For Certification Exams On Company Time? · · Score: 1

    Personally I have documented completely the wrongdoing of two employers and obtained counsel while still employed. Then I lowered the boom and sued them into the next universe. It was refreshing. In both cases they never saw it coming.

  5. Twenty Years Of Ash on EU Conducts Test Flights To Assess Impact of Volcanic Ash On Aircraft · · Score: 1

    Has anyone even vaguely considered that ash clouds from volcanoes can last for very long periods and the effects that shutting down the commercial airline industry might have upon the world? Although the economics of such a loss might be serious the general health of the world population might improve due to less disease propagation from travellers.

  6. Half Way Open on NY Bill Would Require Online State Records · · Score: 1

    I only worry if records are not absolutely open to all with ease of computerised search. Things go wrong when some people or some businesses are allowed to hide some information while other peoples' lives are an open book.

  7. No Jahid Needed on Another WW-I Chemical Site In Washington, DC · · Score: 3, Insightful

    We seem intent enough upon killing ourselves. Outside help need not apply!

  8. Re:I'm not as optimistic about Bilski on Is the Tide Turning On Patents? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Maybe not! Hard times have changed the public attitude in some strange and unpredictable ways. People feel betrayed by businesses in many ways and for many people revenge is about a wink away. I would think that our politicians may not wish to be seen as business friendly right now.

  9. Sober? on Ireland May Be Next To Censor the Internet · · Score: 1

    Does the government of Ireland rise up from the floor of the pub and actually make laws? If so why?

  10. Used After Convictions or Before? on Innocent Until Predicted Guilty · · Score: 1

    It was often argued that the study of murderers might enable schools to find potential murderers before they commit their crime. That is a lofty goal to pursue. However it may take quite some time to work the kinks out of such a bit of software.
                    Yet there are already circumstances in which not only software but almost any literate person could easily predict a correct outcome. For example picture a convict who goes to prison at 25 years of age without ever having worked at a job and gets released at the age of 60. Obviously he will have no pension. He will have no real Social Security to fall back on and he may live in a state in which welfare for single men does not exist. Mix that with no marketable job skills as well as health that will not let him work full time and anyone can see what will surely come to pass. The man will not starve and curl up dead on a side walk. Someone out there is going to be robbed. Software that suggests keeping him locked up might help a brainless parole board.

  11. A Cold Day In Hell on Canadian Judge Orders Disclosure of Anonymous Posters · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It's a cold day in hell for free speech. Perhaps it is brain freeze from Canadian winters.

  12. Amature Radio on Where To Start In DIY Electronics? · · Score: 1

    Your local ham radio club is one part of learning as well as school courses. Do not underestimate what you can learn by simply taking things apart. Take a look at speakers in a cheap or broken radio. In essence an electromagnet pulls a cone towards itself when the magnet gains strength due to increased current. As the current changes quickly the vibrations create sound. Usually the cheap stuff is easier to figure out than more exotic stuff.

  13. Re:We had this happen in California on Red-Light Camera Ticket Revenue and Short Yellows · · Score: 1

    Considering that one must stop at the beginning of a yellow light I think you were simply smacked by a bad driver.

  14. Read The Hand Book on Red-Light Camera Ticket Revenue and Short Yellows · · Score: 1

    You must completely clear an intersection before the light turns red. You can not enter an intersection unless you have time to clear it. This means that when you see yellow you stop. It also means that if there are cars in the intersection or you are driving slowly you must not enter the intersection. In urban traffic this is next to impossible. As a matter of fact if people did not use the yellow lights to make some turns we would have total grid lock.
                  The worst part of this crap is that people who are required to drive tens of thousands of miles every year are the most vulnerable. And if you think it is hard to obey the law in the family car try it in a large truck! If people actually read the hand book and obey it we would all be out of luck. For example heavy trucks in my state are supposed to stop 200 feet behind the next vehicle. Considering 60 foot long trucks plus 200 ft. gaps while stopped three or four trucks could tie up some towns completely.

  15. Free Comcast DVRs on Comcast Disables VCR Scheduling In New Guide · · Score: 1

    If you check out the bundled packages from Comcast you may find that the DVR can be free or very low cost as long as you take the right package deal.
                  I will say that Comcast is thin on content these days and we need to find a way to force prices down and get better movies etc..

  16. Time and Money on Larry Sanger Tells FBI Wikipedia Distributes "Child Pornography" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There they go again with another waste of tax dollars. These must be the same people who want Big Bird to wear pants on Sesame Street.

  17. Re:a better question on Should Kids Be Bribed To Do Well In School? · · Score: 1

    No! Little Delray will use that money to buy better guns to go bang a drug dealer and rip off his cash and dope. Morals are instilled early on in children and behavior and education are not locked at the hip. Children raised by sociopathic personalities will tend to grow up as a menace to society as a generality.
           

  18. Too Dumb To Protest on Chicago Mayor Calls For "Brainiac High" · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Infested with the lies of corporatism and capitalism our general public is far too dumb to make intelligent demands for education. It
    has reached the sad point where one supposed leader has remarked that education should be run like a business. That translates rather
      easily into giving students as little as possible while taking as much from the public as they can get.
                  Limit summer holidays to three weeks in total. Stop honoring lesser holidays. Get rid of teacher work days. Make school a 8 am to
    5 pm activity with half days on Saturday. Get rid of equivalency diplomas and be quick to permanently expel students who either show
    little interest in academic life or have behavior problems. Let the parents pay for private schooling for the expelled.
                  In essence every student should know that endless help is at hand for excellence but endless rejection and failure are also very real and immediate consequences. Make courses just hard enough so that some good students can not pass them.
                  Be certain that Texas has no influence over text books. And isolate schools from parental influence or complaints. Pay teachers as if they were professionals in the same sense that doctors or lawyers or CPAs get paid.
                  That will do the trick. Do less and we will serve foreign masters.

  19. Maybe Not on Why Mozilla Needs To Go Into Survival Mode · · Score: 1

    Normally the reasoning may apply. If we compare it to the auto industry where having way too many brands available makes it too difficult for auto makers to survive it would be a false comparison. We pay for cars directly. But most browsers are either free or come with a distro where no cost is obvious. It may be possible for numerous browsers to survive with only a small user base. We are in an new area in which conventional economics may have less meaning.

  20. Lunatic D.A. on Wisconsin DA Threatens Arrests Over Sex Ed · · Score: 1

    I would love to watch this fool try to prove that sex education promotes sexualization of a child much less sexual attacks or whatever. The greater puzzle is where we get people like this and how do they get a college degree and put in a public position. This fellow clearly needs remedial help and a job raking leaves in happy valley.

  21. It's Getting Warm on Largest Sodium Sulfur Battery Powers a Texas Town · · Score: 1

    I wonder how much heat is released in the charging and discharging of such a battery. Could we cure winter in Wisconsin or will the oceans simply rise another inch or two?

  22. It Depends on Google Gives the US Government Access To Gmail · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If a person is sending email to those suspected of contributing to terror groups then our government needs to be able to study those emails. That does not imply that the government has either the intention or the man power to be studying every trivial bit of email that we send or receive.

  23. Don't Need Nukes! on Obama Unveils New Nuclear Doctrine · · Score: 1

    I'll bet money that the US has weapons way beyond nuclear bombs and these new treaties simply reflect that we have options our enemies have never dreamed of in their worst nightmares.

  24. And More on Can a Video Game Solve Hunger, Disease and Poverty? · · Score: 1

    Our leaders have failed to confront the fact that technology is eliminating jobs ever more quickly. We are
      fast reaching the point where pay checks will come from the government, machines will do the work, corporations will compete with ever more robotic produced goods.
                  The social pecking order must be preserved. Requiring that a portion of one's government check be wagered on game success would maintain our social structure. Play would be mandatory but game choice would be up to the individual. Some may like checkers or chess while others may prefer games requiring manual skills.
                  This could be combined with games that seek solutions to common issues such as fair water usage to the farms and cities.

  25. A Second Mind on Look At Sick People To Give Your Immune System a Boost · · Score: 1

    That is evidence that we have some sort of second intelligence within ourselves that is not regulated by our conscious abilities. I sometimes get that effect when I choose the wrong note on my euphonium and my fingers disobey and play the correct note despite my conscious intentions. It is like the opposite of a mistake. I am familiar with the sheet music but get distracted and when my mind gets off track some sort of memory kicks in for me.