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  1. This is the company that reads our email, right? on Google Forbids Advertising On Glass · · Score: 1, Interesting

    If they're not going to blast these glasses with ads then it's because they've found a better way to exploit you. Probably selling your movements, then letting local merchants spam you.

  2. Re:Yet.... on Steve Forbes: Bitcoin Not Money · · Score: 1

    Kind of like a bag of chips is about 1/2 air; but they let you know this by claiming "contents may settle during shipping".

  3. Re:FX? on Steve Forbes: Bitcoin Not Money · · Score: 1

    I have. About 10-15 years ago this guy name Lucas massively inflated an F/X bubble that exploded all over the US. I think it was called the Great Binks.

  4. Re:Odd thing to come from Forbes... on Steve Forbes: Bitcoin Not Money · · Score: 1

    Why not? Jim Cramer based his career off using his own media outlets to do the same thing.

  5. Re:Fiat Currency on Steve Forbes: Bitcoin Not Money · · Score: 0

    He's talking about new car prices obviously.

  6. Re:Fiat Currency on Steve Forbes: Bitcoin Not Money · · Score: 1

    Well that's a silly, pedantic statement. The "value" of a bitcoin is determined by how much you can exchange it for. What you wrote is like saying the value of my house is one house, but what I can buy with one house changes.

  7. Re:why? on U.S. Senate's Big Immigration Bill Seeks Centralized Database For H-1B Jobs · · Score: 5, Informative

    Corporate America's solution to unemployment is importing cheaper labor from other countries. I watched mouth agape as Bill Gates suggested this in an interview when asked about his ideas on how to deal with the Recession. Of course, corporate media never challenges their masters when they make these ludicrous statements.

  8. Re:Turbine-themed limericks on U.S. Offshore Wind Farm Receives $2 Billion From Japanese Banks · · Score: 1

    The Red Sun planned a farm in Nantucket.
    But not corn, it was wind that they shuck-ed.
    The rich folks they cried,
    until Congress denied.
    But when Kennedy died, they said "fuck it."

  9. Re:Video of the actual explosion on Explosions at the Boston Marathon · · Score: 2

    These explosions are set up to be anti-personnel. They throw out shrapnel, not fireballs (that's Hollywood). Note the old guy who drops; probably hit with shrapnel.

  10. Re:tell me again on Explosions at the Boston Marathon · · Score: 1

    I haven't seen a word of anyone blaming Republicans. What I have seen is Conservatives all over the internet trolling forums from here to IMDB about Obama's incompetence and conspiracy theories.

  11. Re:tell me again on Explosions at the Boston Marathon · · Score: 1

    lol Benghazi never spoken about at all????? You miss all the news stories and Congressional testimony? Or, did your favorite radio/cable news blow hard tell you that?

  12. Re:what eats them? on Giant Snails Invade Florida · · Score: 1

    How are you going to get a gorilla to eat a snail?

  13. A test problem from my applied probability class on NOAA: Arctic Likely Free Of Summer Ice By 2050 — Possibly Much Sooner · · Score: 3, Interesting

    We took a look at past average temperatures and plotted the standard deviation and where the last 10 years of temperatures lie. The odds of this being a natural trend basically exceeded the age of the universe.

  14. Re:The spotless Democrat on Russia Adding $50 Billion To Space Effort · · Score: 1

    He probably wants to build the world's first pedo-station free from critical eyes and international laws.

  15. Re:the summary is more appropriately on Russia Adding $50 Billion To Space Effort · · Score: 1

    lol what planet are you from, Mr. New Alien Visitor? The Soviets had a lot of firsts, but what the US had been doing has far surpassed Russia. Russian dominance ended with the Apollo program. Even now when the US is in a lull, our achievements in manned and *unmanned* space exploration and commercialization are unmatched.

    Launching a metal soccer ball into space before any one else 60 years ago doesn't mean shit in the grand scheme of things.

  16. Re:Constitution = null on IRS Can Read Your Email Without Warrant · · Score: 1

    I followed you, I was just posted the text to back up the point ;)

  17. Re:Constitution = null on IRS Can Read Your Email Without Warrant · · Score: 1

    Take a look at the 4th amendment:

    The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

    Meaning you can't search my body (person), my property, my records, my belongs (including my car) can't be searched w/out a warrant and you'll need probably cause to get that warrant. And, that search has to be reasonable (body cavity searches on a roadside seem pretty unreasonable). It gets raped on a daily basis; sometimes we get raped quite literally by law enforcement.

  18. Is it possible that some exploit had itself burrowed into her system so that whenever she turned it back on, she could see evidence it was working again? Keep in mind that the uninitiated don't have the vocabulary to express what's actually happening (boot scripts, hacked MBRs, etc). I can see how a non-techie could make those kinds of silly assumptions ("my laptop stays 'alive' so why can't my desktop?").

  19. Slightly OT: Dolphins doing the same thing? on Ocean Robots Upgraded After Logging 300,000 Miles · · Score: 1

    Years ago I watched a documentary where scientists determined that dolphins (maybe sharks too?) were migrating much further than should have been possible with the amount of food they were eating. They figured out they were also using some kind of wave-powered cruise mode, but I can't recall how the mechanics of it worked. I tried a while back to look it up but couldn't find anything. This ring a bell w/ anyone?

  20. Re:Local businesses will feel this on Sequester Grounds Blue Angels · · Score: 1

    I scrolled through all the Libertarian back-patting to find this post. Part of their naivety is that they can't understand the purpose of any government spending if there isn't some immediate and direct profit or gain. That's why Libertarianism is viewed, even by Conservatives, as a "youth movement".

  21. Re:Terrible idea on Speeding Ticket Robots — Laws As Algorithms · · Score: 1

    I don't remember but there's a clause somewhere about setting specific charges for any crimes. It's unConstitutional to say "the penalty for murder is execution". There has to be at least a reasonable range of years or punishments for any crime.

  22. Terrible idea on Speeding Ticket Robots — Laws As Algorithms · · Score: 2

    The Constitution makes it pretty clear that laws and punishment shouldn't be discretely related. Laws (and algorithms) are written by humans and humans aren't infallible. There's always an exception. Case in point, look at the way sexual predator lists are being abused by over-exuberant prosecutors.

  23. Re:Kim Jong Un says: on Navy To Deploy Lasers On Ship In 2014 · · Score: 1

    You're joking, but I don't doubt he's got propaganda stories floating about that are just as ridiculous. I watched a bit of the VICE footage from North Korea. That guy is the closest thing to a 1984ish dictator that the world has seen. One elementary school teacher claimed he invented the school desk!

  24. Re:An Infra-red laser? Why? on Navy To Deploy Lasers On Ship In 2014 · · Score: 1

    So, the way to take out the US Navy is just like Vin Diesel took on those bats in Pitch Black!

  25. Re:with frickin' lasers! on Navy To Deploy Lasers On Ship In 2014 · · Score: 1

    So, would that be a haser? Or, an iraser? The latter sounds better for the intimidation factor.