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  1. Re:Self-restraint on Obama Praises NSA But Promises To Rein It In · · Score: 2

    And don't forget the reassuring warm fuzzy feeling one gets from the oversight of the courts and Congress... Evidently, we were shook up over nothing.

  2. Re:Microsoft is running out of milk cows on China Prefers Sticking With Dying Windows XP To Upgrading · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hmmmm... Much like the Foxconn laborers. It seems it is definitively in the interest of corporations to stop the spread of Western-style unions and their workers' sense of 'entitlement', eh?

  3. Re:Biased Media Coverage on SpaceX Launch Achieves Geostationary Transfer Orbit · · Score: 1

    wow. I had to read back a ways to discover how far off-topic we were...but yes indeed, I, too and also, think it's cool the rocket company is making headway. He is going to need some cred to fund the Hyperloop.

  4. Re:Biased Media Coverage on SpaceX Launch Achieves Geostationary Transfer Orbit · · Score: 1

    Agreed, but I see the news media's representation of political right, center, and left in a positive light. Perhaps the diversity of opinions available to subscribe to will keep the ditto-heads somewhat balanced, if never fair.

  5. Re:Oh noooos! on The Brains of Men and Women Are 'Wired Differently' · · Score: 1

    Right, and are we going to let him get away with mentioning folks who work routinely with fecal matter in the same breath as plumbers?

  6. No Offense on The Brains of Men and Women Are 'Wired Differently' · · Score: 1

    It is probable "consensual copulation" is a relatively modern requirement for the propagation of one's genetic line.

  7. Re:Biased Media Coverage on SpaceX Launch Achieves Geostationary Transfer Orbit · · Score: 1

    The media is totally biased in its coverage... the old-space industry launches satellites all the time. Yet, when SpaceX does it, there is an endless stream of news articles announcing the fact. When will the media stop ganging up and play fair?

    Media bias is spread thin and fair all across the political spectrum, from Fox to Msnbc to Al Jazeera... Any point of view can be propagandized these days. Say what you will about America, the press is still quite free.

  8. Re:How To Hijack UPS For $200 In Less Than 5 minut on How To Hijack a Drone For $400 In Less Than an Hour · · Score: 1

    Sure. But. The number of people willing to steal remotely is an order of magnitude greater than the number of people willing to do up close and personal armed robbery. Mira! A car analogy: It's like killing a person with your pickup instead of with a knife.

  9. Security Vulnerability on How To Hijack a Drone For $400 In Less Than an Hour · · Score: 1

    "You keep using that word. I don't think that means what you think it means."

  10. Crikey on Australian Defense Scientists Plagiarizing Trade Secrets · · Score: 1

    Yep, that's how it starts... a couple of bad eggs wind up compromising everyone's freedom to plagiarize.

  11. Re:10-1 is another Blackstone Ratio on A Review of the "Mental Illness" Definition Might Prevent Crime · · Score: 1
  12. 10-1 is another Blackstone Ratio on A Review of the "Mental Illness" Definition Might Prevent Crime · · Score: 1

    In a perfect world. not this one

  13. Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics on A Review of the "Mental Illness" Definition Might Prevent Crime · · Score: 1

    Sure. A great nation though, definitely in the argument for top five all time. Largely settled by the outcasts, prisoners, and the general detritus of other nations (fist-bump Ozlanders) with a population that has a predilection to shortcuts and a questionable moral compass, America has more than a few citizens from a lineage seemingly predisposed to risk-taking. You do realize the founding fathers would've been hung for treason if the Redcoats had won the war.

  14. Re:Why Bother? on AI Reality Check In Online Dating · · Score: 1

    Perhaps he would prefer at least the illusion of exclusivity. Although, exclusivity is about the only thing OFF the table with the Backpages girl.

  15. Re:Color me surprised. on Snowden Document Says Dutch Secret Service Hacks Internet Forums · · Score: 1

    I do not know to a five nines degree of causality that being smarter makes you more jaded. Old age will do it too, but I suspect the loss of naivete comes quicker to the better thinkers. And yes, as this is the Holiday Inn Express of websites, I will stipulate that posting on /. does indeed make you smarter.

  16. This Just In on Snowden Document Says Dutch Secret Service Hacks Internet Forums · · Score: 0

    "Snowden says all dogs go to heaven!"

  17. Color me surprised. on Snowden Document Says Dutch Secret Service Hacks Internet Forums · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Just because so many governments do it, it doesn't make it any more right. Quite the contrary. This revelation only removes "the Moral High Ground" from another nation's people.

  18. Re:Nosocomial Implications? on Black Silicon Slices and Dices Bacteria · · Score: 1

    Fortuitous happenstance... I see no more viable conclusion to draw than copper's early availability (literally right after sticks and stones) to my grandcesters for tool and weapon production.

  19. Re:I'll have a go on Black Silicon Slices and Dices Bacteria · · Score: 1

    Whew! If guys like you gravitated to automotive development I would have my Camaro Jorge Jetson by now.

  20. Nosocomial Implications? on Black Silicon Slices and Dices Bacteria · · Score: 1

    It would be interesting to see how this measures up with the bacteriostatic characteristics of copper and brass.

  21. Real men browse at (-1) on Google Wants To Write Your Social Media Responses For You · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I understand the revulsion you feel for this hateful speech. But you could have said, as did Oscar Wilde, "I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself."

  22. Clarification after rereading TFS on Black Silicon Slices and Dices Bacteria · · Score: 1

    This sounds like some cutting edge (bon mot premeditated) technology, but I swear my brain saw Blacon Slices on the first skim.

  23. Just Curious on U-CAT Robotic Sea Turtle Set To Explore Shipwrecks · · Score: 1

    Has the anthropomorphization/zoomorphization of robotics aided the technology's development by taking advantage of evolutionary designs or has it been saddled with this rather human propensity to do so? Both?

  24. Re:Should have a built-in camera on A 'Smart' Bathroom Mirror Powered by Android (Video) · · Score: 1

    Um, Also, read all the posts before yours. Many mention about the camera, in the bathroom, connected to the internet

    Yes of course... but the reason we continue positing variations on the theme is directly proportionate to the amount of confidence we have in our ability to outdo the previous wisdom.

  25. Re:Slashvertisement! on A 'Smart' Bathroom Mirror Powered by Android (Video) · · Score: 1

    I wonder what it costs to buy a Slashvertisement?

    A six pack of powdered sugar coated jelly donuts and a kind word.