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  1. Chimera? Unlikely... still just one zygote.

    While there is an infinitesimal possibility that some DNA could be transferred from the mother to the egg that she is carrying, this exchanged DNA will have no discernible effect. At most, it will be a few cells with DNA hiding out in the trillions of cells of the offspring. Too few cells of the surrogate mother are passed to the child for them to actually pass on any of her characteristics or affect the child in any significant way.

  2. Re:"Robot Tax"? on EU Moves To Bring In AI Laws, But Rejects Robot Tax Proposal (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    This guy has come out in favor of it, too.

  3. Re:"Robot Tax"? on EU Moves To Bring In AI Laws, But Rejects Robot Tax Proposal (newatlas.com) · · Score: 2
    Income tax.The argument is, if robotic replacement of human workers becomes widespread, the income tax formerly paid by the human should be levied against the robotic worker, or basic government services might disappear.

    I assume a similar levy is presently paid by farm machinery.

  4. Re:Get to the point... on Scientists Use Stem Cells To Grow Animal-Free Pork In a Lab (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    Like veal.

  5. Re:do I understand it right? on Scottish Court Awards Damages For CCTV Camera Pointed At Neighbor's House (boingboing.net) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    My fear is that this is the penalty for confusing the right of the individual to spy on the neighbor versus the obligation of the government to do so.

  6. Re:Overkill to going to fix this? on Dutch Town Pilots Lightlines To Help Distracted Smartphone Users Cross the Road (autoexpress.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    "Als je zo afgeleid oversteken van de weg niet schoppen in uw overlevingsinstinct, kan nog een visuele waarschuwing er niet toe."

  7. Why are less than half activated in the US? on FCC Chairman Wants It To Be Easier To Listen To Free FM Radio On Your Smartphone (recode.net) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Carriers have little financial incentive to do so because they profit from streaming data, says Barry Rooke of the National Campus and Community Radio Association.

  8. The movement towards expanding one's platform to provide more services can be a wise marketing decision, and the Facebook has been proactive with in-house expansion and acquisition.

    Sometimes, this dilutes concentration on the primary product... but since data mining is the Facebook's business, this endeavor is right in line.

  9. Re: I love Slashdot on Astronomers Discover 60 New Planets Including 'Super Earth' (nypost.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Indeed, and though an interesting story about space exploration or scientific innovation won't garner the comment count of an, er, insightful political discussion, there are still some nerds who actually prefer this genre.

  10. A bridge construction group announced... on Nearly 56,000 Bridges Called Structurally Deficient (usatoday.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    In other news, 90% of the time I take my automobile to a mechanic or my body to a physician, it turns out I need some work done.

  11. Re:Overkill to going to fix this? on Dutch Town Pilots Lightlines To Help Distracted Smartphone Users Cross the Road (autoexpress.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You are making a big assumption that the driver is paying attention.

    I make no such assumption. What I have noticed, however, is whether you're speaking of a two vehicle collision or a vehicle/pedestrian collision, is that if one of the parties is paying attention it greatly reduces the likelihood of an accident.

  12. Overkill to going to fix this? on Dutch Town Pilots Lightlines To Help Distracted Smartphone Users Cross the Road (autoexpress.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Smartphone users looking at their phone will see the colour of the strip beneath their feet before stepping out into the road.

    If the two separate eye-level light indicators and the survival instinct you've been genetically encoded with don't grab your attention, it seems unlikely a third, foot level light strip will do it.

    Let's be honest: You can be distracted merely thinking about something else when you should be paying attention. Hell, a driver who is paying attention might very well prevent a pedestrian impact... should we now then beam "Warning! Pedestrian!" into the vehicle's stereo speakers?

  13. Re:That's not why he resigned on Michael Flynn Resigns As Trump's National Security Adviser (go.com) · · Score: 1

    The reason he resigned was that he had talked to the Russians before Trump was in office, but had not fully briefed Pence/Trump.

    The reason he resigned is because he lied.

    Yes. We Americans are a highly moral set of voters. Whether or not you made a secret deal with a foreign power or sullied the honor of a young woman is irrelevant, really, unless you lie about it afterward.

  14. Re:That's not why he resigned on Michael Flynn Resigns As Trump's National Security Adviser (go.com) · · Score: 1
    When the news media from your side and theirs (fungible) began stretching the truth to emphasize a point, everyone lost the battle for high ground.

    Exactly the same thing happened in the climate change argument.

  15. No social media use here either... (/. shouldn't count since we're somewhat antisocial.)

    Yes, it's quite possible to view several news sources and form a fairly unbiased opinion of what has actually occurred... the difficulty seems to be the prior belief set trap. It is pretty easy to scroll through multiple sources until you locate one that agrees with a rigidly held worldview.

    Open-mindedness is the constant ability to believe you can be mistaken.

  16. Hmmm. Formerly, US cigarette and liquor companies could advertise using television commercials, and lawyers were forbidden from using the media. Now the reverse is true, but there was a time in America when commercials were prone to compare their products to Brand X.

    Some of these anomalies are in the public interest, but others involve the rather fascist activity of powerful corporations lobbying the government to do their will.

  17. Re:Theoretically on Shamed In Super Bowl Ads, Verizon Introduces Unlimited Data Plans (theverge.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful
    Customers on the veritable last mile should have essential services whether they are are profitable or not, but that would certainly fall far from being described as ridiculous regulation. Nonetheless, paying for additional towers in BFE and Shitfuck, NE so that people can download data to sketchy 3G service probably encourages companies like Verizon to attempt cap limits.

    The free market keeps Verizon competitive when upstarts that do not cover quite as unprofitable rural area begin to cut into their bottom line.

  18. Theoretically on Shamed In Super Bowl Ads, Verizon Introduces Unlimited Data Plans (theverge.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting
    Competition in the free market is supposed to lead to better products and deals for customers.

    Of course, this is only the case when absent government-created market distortions such as subsidies and ridiculous regulations.

  19. Re:both outcomes were hostile. on Russia Considers Sending Snowden Back To US As a 'Gift' To Trump (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Snowden wasn't "seduced" by anyone, he was put on the DIE SOON list by Obama, and faced with that, you go to the only place that the Americans can't - and that just happens to be Russia ... where would you go?

    I'll certainly go to hell if any of the major religious theories are on target, but if that's the case, I'm sure I'll know a fair number of the people there.

  20. Hard to imagine on College Network Attacked With Its Own Insecure IoT Devices (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    ...until IoT manufacturers bother to properly secure their devices...

    This is actually a planned event, set for the 5th of never.

  21. *Senators *Privacy Act on Senators Push Trump Administration For Clarity On Privacy Act Exclusions (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1
    _________ press Trump administration for clarity on _________ .

    There were multiple plausible solutions to the puzzle when it was merely the Trump campaign, and what they learned then is that clarity is the enemy. It wasn't necessary to win the election, and it's not going to be a high priority now.

    Bilaterally, the Democratic campaign was no better at it.

  22. Re:What's so unpleasant about this imagery? on Spammer Faces Decades In Prison For Sending More Than 1 Million Spam Emails (suntimes.com) · · Score: 1
    Pretty great post, but when you started lumping murderers in with prolific spammers you lost me...

    Come on now, bro, all the one guy did was kill someone.

  23. Re:both outcomes were hostile. on Russia Considers Sending Snowden Back To US As a 'Gift' To Trump (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Dude sealed his own fate when he let himself be seduced by Putin. You know - the guy that murders journalists and political opponents.

    Hmmmm.

    Seduced by Putin? or...

    Here's a place that'll have me with no extradition treaty with the US.

  24. Re:So an American hero might be jailed for life on Russia Considers Sending Snowden Back To US As a 'Gift' To Trump (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 2
    Well, to be fair Braveheart, not everyone is a foolhardily, extradition-waiving, idiot.

    Some of us are thinking, simpering, cowards who'd gamble with asylum in a third world dictatorship versus certain prosecution in a free democracy.

    Ultimately, the thinkers have more children and you're kind will be bred out.

  25. Re:Sounds Like He Doesn't Like His Job on Tesla Employee Calls For Unionization, Musk Says That's 'Morally Outrageous' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Informative
    California wages in many fields already require two incomes to make ends meet,

    and a Tesla factory job probably comes with more benefits than other employers who don't require a collegiate-level education.