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  1. Re:List of NSA employees on NSA Collecting Millions of Faces From Web Images · · Score: 1

    I don't think he's with them anymore.

  2. Re:False comparison on The Energy Saved By Ditching DVDs Could Power 200,000 Homes · · Score: 1

    Yes but when you buy the DVD you are locked into seeing the warning from the FBI and if you are really lucky you aren't able to forward past the previews for movies that came out five years ago!

  3. Re:Fully autonomous probably not possible on Kids With Wheels: Should the Unlicensed Be Allowed To 'Drive' Autonomous Cars? · · Score: 1

    Maybe the first thing autonomous cars will do is take over the taxi service and then the whole parking issue won't be an issue, or at least it becomes one of finding a spot to drop passengers off.

  4. Goes Automatically to Children on Kids With Wheels: Should the Unlicensed Be Allowed To 'Drive' Autonomous Cars? · · Score: 1

    I like how when mentioning unlicensed people it automatically assumes children. There are adults that don't have a drivers license whether through choice or not. If the car is fully autonomous then I would hope that unlicensed people could use them.

  5. Re:I call BS on HP Makes More Money, Cuts 16,000 Jobs · · Score: 1

    I can't remember the exact name of the HP blades but they were probably the P-class and the IBM blades were the ones out at the same time. With the HP blades we had many memory modules fail, the heat coming off of the blades was horrible, I didn't like the management software, and when it came time to change something like a power supply you had to power down the whole rack of blades. None of that applied to the IBM blades we had. The only issue we had with the IBM blades was with the SCSI drives failing after about three years. Not that it wasn't expected since drives fail. Plus we were migrating everything over to a SAN at the time so we had plenty of spares for replacements. And since we were using RAID fixing the broken drive was easy as replacing it with a spare and letting the blade copy the data over from the good drive.

  6. Re:Badly run company does badly... on HP Makes More Money, Cuts 16,000 Jobs · · Score: 1

    A few years ago I had a job where I had to look after blades from IBM and HP. There was no contest. The IBM blades were so much better that I tried to move all of my stuff over to the IBM computers because the HP blades were junk.

  7. Re:Innovation? on HP Makes More Money, Cuts 16,000 Jobs · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately as long as the CEO is keeping the share price going up then they are doing a good job.

  8. Wrong conversation on Botched Executions Put Lethal Injections Under New Scrutiny · · Score: 1

    I think when you are killing over 4% of people who are innocent then you need to be talking about whether you should be using the death penalty in the first place.

  9. Re:Nitrogen asphyxiation on Botched Executions Put Lethal Injections Under New Scrutiny · · Score: 1

    I've seen a couple of shows about the death penalty and you always see a couple of people against using things such as Nitrogen or Carbon Monoxide because the death is too good for the offender. Capital punishment is about revenge for them and the messier the better.

  10. Re:Frosty on Botched Executions Put Lethal Injections Under New Scrutiny · · Score: 5, Informative

    According to this study the rate is about 4.1%. The rate of people currently being found innocent after being sentenced to death is 1.6%.

  11. Re:Pipe Dream I suspect on Are Glowing, Solar Smart Roads the Future? · · Score: 1

    Well, in the North East part of the US and the Eastern part of Canada storms can easily cover multiple states and provinces. Happens every year in that season we call winter.

  12. Re:Pipe Dream I suspect on Are Glowing, Solar Smart Roads the Future? · · Score: 1

    Yes but then what is the point of having the panels if you require coal/oil powered electrical production plants on standby to melt snow and to keep the road surface above freezing when the road isn't generating? You would be way better off salting/plowing the road and using the electricity elsewhere in a more efficient manner or not generating it in the first place.

  13. Monsanto Mammoth on Efforts To Turn Elephants Into Woolly Mammoths Are Already Underway · · Score: 4, Funny

    And they sue you when it tramples your house.

  14. Re:Times sure are changing on Efforts To Turn Elephants Into Woolly Mammoths Are Already Underway · · Score: 1

    In all of your examples where people are happy with technology we understand the science and have had time to come to grips with the consequences of our actions. However that is not the case when we blindly throw genes from one species into another. Just because we have the ability to do something doesn't mean that we have the knowledge to use it appropriately.

  15. Re:How did it come to this? on As NASA Seeks Next Mission, Russia Holds the Trump Card · · Score: 1

    I would also include the politicians changing the direction that NASA is supposed to take every two to four years. They just get started on their priorities and their masters in Washington change bringing new orders that makes all of their previous work obsolete. It also doesn't help when NASA is also trying to be used as a jobs program so politicians try to create/keep positions in their ridings.

  16. Re:Shoot Them? on Meet Canada's Goosebuster Drone · · Score: 1

    The geese are better than all the kids running around. Besides the geese have been using the area for far longer than Ottawa has been around.

  17. Re:Shoot Them? on Meet Canada's Goosebuster Drone · · Score: 1

    It's in the middle of a city. In Canada we prefer not to have firearms discharged within our cities and towns. We're strange that way.

  18. Doesn't matter what it's called on Let's Call It 'Climate Disruption,' White House Science Adviser Suggests (Again) · · Score: 1

    Because nothing major is going to happen in the next couple of years it's in human nature to do nothing about it as we think tend to think the future will have the best possible outcome.

  19. Re:I told you so on Climate Scientist: Climate Engineering Might Be the Answer To Warming · · Score: 1

    Actually I was thinking more about the fact that you are going to reduce food production by reducing sunlight to the planet.

  20. Re:Taboo?? on Climate Scientist: Climate Engineering Might Be the Answer To Warming · · Score: 1

    My problem with it is that in general people aren't as smart as we believe we are. We keep coming up with new things that have terrible side effects but when something new comes along we don't possibly believe that anything could go wrong with it. Maybe we are just hopelessly optimistic.

  21. Re:I told you so on Climate Scientist: Climate Engineering Might Be the Answer To Warming · · Score: 1

    So you want to reduce the amount of growth in plants by reducing the amount of sunlight they get?

  22. Re:Brilliant! on Climate Scientist: Climate Engineering Might Be the Answer To Warming · · Score: 0

    That worked so well with DDT.

  23. Re:Hero ? on GM Names Names, Suspends Two Engineers Over Ignition-Switch Safety · · Score: 1

    And if the engineer was stopped from making the changes then he should have gone to the proper regulatory officials with evidence of the cover up.

  24. Re:Why? on The Next Keurig Will Make Your Coffee With a Dash of "DRM" · · Score: 1

    I've got a coffee machine that grinds the beans and does single servings. I hate the waste generate by the Keurigs.

  25. Good luck with that on US War Machine Downsizing? · · Score: 1

    The politicians will like the savings until they realize that a base will be closed in their state or riding then they will oppose them. No politician is going to volunteer to have a base shut down or reduced in capacity in their area. They are more concerned about getting re-elected.

    It's like the tanks that the army doesn't want. The jobs are spread out over such a wide area that there's so many politicians who are fighting to keep the program alive even though it's a waste of money.