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  1. What about - ? on France Begins Opt-Out Organ Donation (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    How do the doctors know that the, uhm, donor, doesn't have a condition that will make the organ bad news for the recipient?

  2. It's merely a mounting socket, with the topmost elephant still in it.

    What's worrisome is that they didn't detect the whole stack of elephants going down. I fear the top one has slipped off the stack, leaving our planet's stability to the vagaries of gravity and orbits and stuff.

  3. Re:No. It didn't "predict" anything. on Tesla Autopilot 'Predicts' Accident Before It Happens (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Thanks. I'm really getting tired of the tech-billionaire-as-culture-hero mentality in the stories here.

  4. Re:No. It didn't "predict" anything. on Tesla Autopilot 'Predicts' Accident Before It Happens (engadget.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It predicted that *it* would crash if it didn't slow down. It didn't predict jack about the collision between the other cars.

  5. Re:No. It didn't "predict" anything. on Tesla Autopilot 'Predicts' Accident Before It Happens (engadget.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But - but - but - Elon Musk tweeted a news article about the incident, adding more credibility to the matter!

  6. Everything beyond that is just a hypotheses, as no hint of "dark matter" has been found.

    I agree that "matter" is just a hypothesis, but you can't say no hint has been found. The observed gravitational effect is a huge hint.

    The hypothesis may be wrong, but it's the best hypothesis going. And there is plenty of evidence that the phenomenon is real, whether the matter hypothesis is correct or not.

    The Wikipedia article is worth a read.

  7. Funnily enough, after Sony Music Entertainment Twitter account was hacked and started tweeting about the death of Spears, another hacker group called OurMine hacked Sony's account to note that Spears is not dead.

    Now she knows how Schroedinger's cat feels.

  8. On your next visit it might just put in an order for a knuckle sandwich.

    I hear the robotic maître d' has a wicked uppercut.

  9. Re: so is there a good theory? on China Claims Tests of 'Reactionless' EM Drive Were Successful (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    I invented sex, but didn't patent it because I thought everyone else lived in their mom's basement too.

  10. Re:so is there a good theory? on China Claims Tests of 'Reactionless' EM Drive Were Successful (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    I haven't googled it, but I've always wondered why physicists are so certain that dark matter is a thing and why I never read that maybe the gravitational constant isn't so constant and varies through out space. Seems like that would explain gravity abnormalities just as well without the pesky problem of "stuff we can't interact with that we just assume is there".

    Positing a parameter that varies everywhere and can have whatever value it needs to explain the observations isn't likely to result in an improved understanding of anything.

  11. Re:Anti-science bullshit is the new normal here on Prepare For Even More Volatile Weather in 2017 (engadget.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Dude, even industry is starting to come around on global warming. Unless the gummit introduces a universal basic income you're going to have to retrain to shill for something that's still a thing.

  12. Re:so is there a good theory? on China Claims Tests of 'Reactionless' EM Drive Were Successful (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    It's an obvious idea, and one that I thought of independently only to quickly find that I wasn't the first one to think of it.

    I hate it when I think of something "brilliant" and google tells me it's already out there.

    Can't think of many examples off the top of my head, but a couple of good ones are:
      o dark matter is just gravity leaking in from a parallel brane.
      o the name Donna Matrix

  13. Re:so is there a good theory? on China Claims Tests of 'Reactionless' EM Drive Were Successful (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    why is he not loved here anymore?

    He's too dorky even for Slashdotters.

    Back before I quit clicking him, he did sometimes post some good analyses.

  14. Re:so is there a good theory? on China Claims Tests of 'Reactionless' EM Drive Were Successful (popsci.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It seems that every test of EM drives by credible scientific organizations so far has been successful.

    I'm pretty sure that's not correct. Last time I read up on it there were reports that it worked, reports that it didn't, reports that it "worked" but didn't always thrust in the same direction, and one peer-reviewed paper reporting that it worked had to be retracted after the authors discovered errors in their analysis.

    I hope it does work, and that it turns the laws of physics on their collective head. But it really sounds like they're just measuring noise.

    Don't forget the report of FTL data transmission coming out of CERN a couple of years ago.

  15. declined "offers" ? on Nokia Sues Apple, Claims Patent Infringement in iPhone and Other Devices (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's the drill: when you're trying to shake someone down, you call it an 'offer'.

  16. Men's suffer a life-long 50% IQ drop when they reach puberty.

  17. Unfortunately, also probably a good way to get yourself thrown in jail or murdered.

  18. In related news... on The UN Will Consider Banning Killer Robots (hrw.org) · · Score: 2

    Killer Robots Will Consider Banning UN

  19. Re:Not my argument on YouTube Bans North Korea's State-Owned TV Channel (asiancorrespondent.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Before posting how Youtube is not Government, notice that I did not say they were. My point is about ideology, not about Government.

    Then what has the Constitution got to do with it?

  20. Re:But muh funny! on YouTube Bans North Korea's State-Owned TV Channel (asiancorrespondent.com) · · Score: 2

    No, they just get to starve to death and be executed at the whim of a fat midget with a Napoleon complex.

    Napoleon would never be caught in that hairdo.

  21. They'll have to rename the species now.

  22. Re:Huh? on Google Publishes Eight National Security Letters (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that's right.

    I like jokes that are a bit hard to get, but if no one gets it, it's just a dud.

  23. Re:This probably won't end well on India Just Flew Past Us In the Race To E-Cash (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, what could possibly go wrong?

  24. Why not publish all 26?

  25. Quod Erat Demonstrandum on Why Did Japan Just Ratify The TPP? (businesstimes.com.sg) · · Score: 4, Funny

    The only reason I think that Japan would have done it, is if they think that the current coup to put Hillary in power by flooding the news with propaganda about "Russian hacking" will definitely succeed, which will result in Hillary signing the TTP into law. I would rather not actually see this happen, considering how horrible the law actually is (Personally I don't like the idea of it killing the Dojinshi industry, not to mention the US jobs and jobs of whatever other modern country joins in). This was more likely a leak than a hack, considering the suspicious death of Seth Rich.

    Trump supporters don't drink the kool-aid - they snort the powder.