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  1. Re: Rate of use on Federal Study: Marijuana Use Doesn't Increase Auto Crash Rates · · Score: 1

    In Colorado they use a spit test that measures active THC, or they're supposed to anyway.

  2. Re: Questionable on Jon Stewart Leaving 'The Daily Show' · · Score: 1

    The daily show head smashing scene, I assume the ggp thought it was the linked scene in scanners, I'm 99% sure it came from the story of ricky oh, a different movie.

  3. Re:Leave Oliver Alone! on Jon Stewart Leaving 'The Daily Show' · · Score: 1

    John Oliver's show is so amazing because (at least the first few I saw, when I had HBO) it is essentially him talking the entire time. It's amazing to me that it's still compelling. No bits, barely any clips, just him, talking.

  4. Re:Who will take credit first? on Jon Stewart Leaving 'The Daily Show' · · Score: 1

    I miss the Craig Kilbourn Daily Show, but it isn't something that could be done once the name was out. Sort of like Sasha Baron Cohen lost his power once people were on to him.

  5. Re:Questionable on Jon Stewart Leaving 'The Daily Show' · · Score: 1

    He's credited as executive producer, and according to Drew Carey (he said don't sleep with them for a part on a TV show, they don't have that power), that essentially is an honorific given to the more valuable writers. I think he does a lot more than just read the prompts.

  6. Re:Questionable on Jon Stewart Leaving 'The Daily Show' · · Score: 1

    Wasn't it story of Riki Oh?

  7. Re: More than a little retarded on The Technologies That Betrayed Silk Road's Anonymity · · Score: 2

    The lack of end game is key.

    If you're making real money doing illegal things, yup I need an end game, and it needs to be a relatively soon date. Unless you're real smart, there's a practical limit to what can be spent anyway.

  8. Re: Hardware? on The First Ubuntu Phone Is Here, With Underwhelming Hardware · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I scimmed tfa, and I'm not sure they touched the phone.

  9. Re:Dealers will gut this on Automakers Move Toward OTA Software Upgrades · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure with the Apple/Android car systems, that time is past.

  10. Re:Sex tourist's dream... on Smartphone Attachment Can Test For HIV In 15 Minutes · · Score: 1

    I figured it was a joke, but as someone that has sex, I figured I'd correct anyone that thought otherwise.

    Especially with the cheap spit tests available now at drug stores.

  11. Re: Regulation Strikes again on Farmers Struggling With High-Tech Farm Equipment · · Score: 1

    I suect that once standard they are actually less expensive. Moving parts are rarely the cheaper option.

  12. Re:bank I use ... allows (weak passwords) on Why Gmail Has Better Security Than Your Bank · · Score: 1

    Why? the damage that can be done to me by a compromised gmail account is worst.

    From my bank you can read my financial records, and mail checks. I can notice this before the check ever arrives.

    From my gmail, you can reset most of my passwords to everything, and impersonate me, doing much personal if not economic damage, maybe even some light blackmail.

    I'd like to see paypal be more secure, as they can actually spend my money, though I get an instant notification, and am sure could call and reverse it before damage is done (I actually think adding someone to send checks to does the same at my bank).

    There's very little real damage to be done from my online banking. My credit card doesn't have a password, I hand to a half dozen people a day, and even that has cost me only 2 hours of a pain in the ass over 15 years.

  13. Re:Sex tourist's dream... on Smartphone Attachment Can Test For HIV In 15 Minutes · · Score: 1

    Unless it counts viral load (which I doubt, but not RTFA), I wouldn't trust it for that.

    The screening tests need about 6 months of infection to be reliable.

  14. Re: Yes meanwhile.. on Google Quietly Unveils Android 5.1 Lollipop · · Score: 1

    I've found it closes background apps all of the time.

    On my nexus five, if navigation is running, the voice stops my podcasts for example.

    I like a lot of the changes, but that has made it miserable.

  15. Re: Other sources for music on Music Doesn't Feature In the Pirate Bay's Top 100 Biggest Torrents · · Score: 1

    I was actually trying to reply to the same "Gr8Apes' comment you were, sorry. I guess that's what I get for trying to internet on a phone with a half broken screen.

    I'm with you that mass appeal pop is pretty much garbage (it's hard to appeal to everyone and still be good, it can be done, but it's certainly not the majority).

    The idea that there's only a couple good songs a year is what I found surprising, music exploration and discovery is made so much easier now, obviously if Bach is your thing, that's a lot less relevant though. I wouldn't dare to compare Bach to modern music, not because I think one is so much better or worse, but because they're not comparable.

    Anyway, sorry if I offended.

    PS, Is there a definitive JS Bach discography? as in the one that should be the one listened too?

  16. Re: Vinyl sucks on Music Doesn't Feature In the Pirate Bay's Top 100 Biggest Torrents · · Score: 1

    The way I read it was that vynil is good, because it means uncompressed music is available (audio not data).

    It's part of the high quality trend. Vynil itself isn't great, what's great is the release of better audio it requires.

  17. Re: Other sources for music on Music Doesn't Feature In the Pirate Bay's Top 100 Biggest Torrents · · Score: 1

    I can't tell if you're serious or not, but if you like and explore various types of music, there is plenty.

    Doomtree et Al, sunflower bean, hail Mary mallon are all things I've started listening to quite regularly fairly recently. The amount of music created is immense, and a lot of it really good.

    The reason not to torrent music is that a Spotify or google play music subscription will introduce you to new music, and provide a way to listen to it for free (after subscription).

    There's nothing wrong with music not really being your thing, but the attitude that it's all bad and the same is wrong, we are at a golden age of music discoverability.

  18. Re:LOL. Just miles behind Flash on Book Review: Core HTML5 2D Game Programming · · Score: 1

    The Binding of Isaac remains pretty much my favorite game right now.

    Also in flash.

  19. Re:removing the speed of light barrier on New Micro-Ring Resonator Creates Quantum Entanglement On a Silicon Chip · · Score: 1

    Essentially, you cannot control the outcome of how the entanglement works. You just know it's the same on both sides.

    Basically, a random event happens simultaneously on both sides, but it's still random. the example of Alice and Bob both pressing simulteneiously buttons, and always pressing the same one is illustrating this principal as I read it.

    Note, how I read it as a layman, so not really answering from the authority you want.

  20. Re:LOL ... on Opera Founder Is Back, WIth a Feature-Heavy, Chromium-Based Browser · · Score: 1

    I must erroneously remember the navigator line based on gecko being closer to mozilla then.

    Because I remember it as being mozilla, plus AOL branding, pretty much the pits.

  21. Re:LOL ... on Opera Founder Is Back, WIth a Feature-Heavy, Chromium-Based Browser · · Score: 1

    Is this a real statement?

    Netscape Navigator 4.x was so bad that I switched to Opera, even though it was less compatible.

    It was just so much better.

  22. Re: Who eats doughnuts with the doughnut men? on Police Organization Wants Cop-Spotting Dropped From Waze App · · Score: 1

    Cops feel under attack because of decades of escalating their own protection.

    For better or for worse (and I have a personal opinion of worse, but I don't really know), police are less in touch with their communities than in the past.

    The distance means that even the law abiding citizens only have negative interactions with the police (this is where my opinion is formed). Once the "good" people of a questionable community no longer support the police and want to help them, you get a feedback loop where the police rapidly become only the enemy.

    I don't know how to fix it, but if the police weren't the enemy already, fergeson would not have happened.

  23. Re: Big Myth #1 on Davos 2015: Less Innovation, More Regulation, More Unrest. Run Away! · · Score: 1

    Just looked into your first example, the details on Wikipedia are obviously false (with a sentance that amounts to "before founding YouTube, dude was tagging videos in youtube", but all were from PayPal. I suspect they were already wealthy before YouTube.

    I could be wrong though, but on the face of it, it reads like three guys rich went on to use their money to found something else.

  24. Re: He'll win in a landslide on Fark's Drew Curtis Running For Governor of Kentucky · · Score: 1

    In Pennsylvania there were issues because you needed a special exemption to have a birth certificate without a raised seal count.

    Unfortunatly for the poor Philadelphia and delco residents, many were birthed by midwives in the segregated south.Those certificates didn't have raised stamps.

    This probably cost tens of thousands of votes in a state where it really may have been relevant.

    I think on principal, id shouldn't be needed, but that it also in general is not a big deal and a whole lotta fighting about nothing.

    Real fraud happens without someone showing up, old fashioned ballot stuffing is the ideal way to commit it.

    The old people without access it ids are also dieing off, in ten years it won't be an issue.

  25. Re: Size on What Will Google Glass 2.0 Need To Actually Succeed? · · Score: 1

    Image analysis of what you're looking at.

    It doesn't need to be able to take picture, or record video, but I can see value to it having a camera.