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  1. Re: First Post on Homeopathy Turns Out To Be Useless For Treating Medical Conditions · · Score: 0

    Yes, because it's a widely known fact that ALL conditions, including cancer, diabetes, broken bones, arthritis, osteoporosis, dental caries, baldness, ulcers, dog bites, rotator cuff injuries, high blood pressure, anemia, depression, Parkinsons, Alzheimers, bromodrosis, etc., respond to antibiotics.

  2. It's all about justifying H1B visas. on Do Tech Companies Ask For Way Too Much From Job Candidates? · · Score: 1

    If they create a BS requirement that no one can meet unless they lie, they won't find a local to fill the job and can then go shopping for an H1B candidate. If a local candidate lies, they'll call him on it and use it as a reason not to hire. If an H1B candidate lies, they'll let it go and hire him/her anyway because they then have a slave that can be worked for 80 hours per week and is unable to do anything about it.

    It's all about driving the pay downward. The guys at the top won't be happy until they have it all.

  3. I have an idea! When I pull off my sweater I get on New Concept Tire Could Recharge Car Battery · · Score: 1

    a LOT of static electricity. Why not use that to charge the car's battery? When the car is running low on juice, I can just pull off my sweater and harvest the power to recharge the battery!

    I'd explain more, but I have to go to a meeting with a patent attorney...

  4. Let's see... on New Concept Tire Could Recharge Car Battery · · Score: 1

    tires heat up a little, so this tire converts the increased temperature to electricity to recharge batteries. How much does a tire heat up? How much energy can be extracted from that heat? How complex is the mechanical coupling that moves that recovered energy to the battery?

    Sure you can get some electricity from a temperature difference. It might be enough to run your wristwatch. Recharge an electric car's battery? Yeah, sure, youbetcha!

  5. Great! on Google Wants To Rank Websites Based On Facts Not Links · · Score: 1

    Does this mean that fewer people will be sent to medical/dental misinformation sites, or is the fact checking software unable to verify information by searching through peer reviewed journals?

    This ought to get the young earth/evolution deniers panties all twisted up!

  6. Re:Another carefuly planted article on Drones Cost $28,000 Per Arrest, On Average · · Score: 1

    If you hope to one day collect a social security check from the Ponzi scheme that it is, you'd better start welcoming immigrants with open arms.

  7. Re:Wrong kind of drone? on Drones Cost $28,000 Per Arrest, On Average · · Score: 1

    Better yet, produce a game for Xbox or PS4 in which the players are operating drones and think that they're playing a game when they're really fragging people on the ground. You won't have to pay them- they'd pay for the privilege to play.

  8. Re:Wrong kind of drone? on Drones Cost $28,000 Per Arrest, On Average · · Score: 2

    Don't be silly!

    Have you ever seen the view from a tall building? How about from an airplane? From 18k feet you can see a lot of ground. Predator drones can stay up for many hours (maybe even days at a time).

    Parrot drones fly at rock-throwing altitudes for about 10 minutes at a time. How many thousands of them (and people to operate them) do you think it would take to view the same area as one predator flying at 18k feet?

  9. a rat by any other name on Giant Asian Gerbils May Have Caused the Black Death · · Score: 1

    is still a rat!

  10. What kind of counterfeits are they worried about? on Wired On 3-D Printers As Fraud Enablers · · Score: 2

    The part being copied would have to be something that is unavailable otherwise and/or very costly to be worth the time/effort to counterfeit it with a 3D printer. It would have to be something for which the market is very small but very willing to pay, because if the market were large, 3D printing wouldn't make sense- you'd fabricate the counterfeit in a way that's more cost effective for producing large quantities (and would probably give a higher quality result).

    Maybe parts for exotic sports cars? But who isn't going to inspect and quickly know they're looking at a fake? What exotic sports car mechanic is going to risk his reputation by buying and installing counterfeit parts?

    Jewelry? Too much scrutiny applied there, too.

    Nope. Anything that costs a lot is going to be scrutinized. Anything that doesn't cost a lot isn't worth counterfeiting, especially not with a 3D printer.

  11. I drink your milkshake on NoFlyZone.org Aims To Keep the Airspace Above Your Home Drone-Free · · Score: 1

    If there's a drone directly over my property it probably isn't looking into my home, but my neighbor's.

    If someone wants to look into my windows with a drone they are probably going to do it from some distance away from my property, thus affording a better view. Unless you can get your neighbors signed up for this you're screwed.

  12. Re:The new power supplies may be sensitve to EMP on Xenon Flashes Can Make New Raspberry Pi 2 Freeze and Reboot · · Score: 2

    I think it is more likely that your flash unit was disturbing the sensor than the eels.

  13. Does that mean we'll finally get to see on YouTube Launches Multi-Angle Video Experiment · · Score: 1

    Nicki Minaj from an angle other than the one with the camera pointing at her butt?

  14. Re:conscientious beliefs... let's break that down. on Mississippi - the Nation's Leader In Vaccination Rates · · Score: 1

    The science clearly demonstrates that vaccination works, period. To deny it is idiocy. Anyone can be an idiot, including some physicians. They are in the minority (and wrong) among physicians.

  15. Re:conscientious beliefs... let's break that down. on Mississippi - the Nation's Leader In Vaccination Rates · · Score: 1

    pro means with, con means against.

  16. conscientious beliefs... let's break that down... on Mississippi - the Nation's Leader In Vaccination Rates · · Score: -1, Troll

    con- against, anti
    scientious- science

    So they want to make exceptions for stupid science deniers... THAT is the Mississippi (and the politicians) we expect!

  17. Re:A simple experiment, duplicating the prevailing on NFL Asks Columbia University For Help With Deflate-Gate · · Score: 1

    If we can fix the NFL, maybe there's hope that we can get the drawing of congressional district boundaries out of the hands of politicians...

    Nah...

  18. Re:Double Irish on Obama Proposes One-Time Tax On $2 Trillion US Companies Hold Overseas · · Score: 1

    Don't you know- corporations are people! People have citizenship, therefore, corporations have citizenship.

  19. A simple experiment, duplicating the prevailing on NFL Asks Columbia University For Help With Deflate-Gate · · Score: 1

    conditions at the time of the incident would prove or disprove it in about 5 minutes.

    Dumb question from someone who knows little about football: wouldn't both teams be playing with the same balls, and thus both have equal benefit from the alleged deflation?

  20. Re:They just need to present it right. on NASA Looking At Nuclear Thermal Rockets To Explore the Solar System · · Score: 1

    No, I said Ted Cruz and I meant it.

    http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad...

    We are stupid and will die on this rock before we figure out how to get off it.

  21. They just need to present it right. on NASA Looking At Nuclear Thermal Rockets To Explore the Solar System · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Tell Ted Cruz they need "nuculur" engines to make a rocket to find Jesus. It will get funded immediately...

  22. Re:Laptop hard drives on Ask Slashdot: Best Medium For Personal Archive? · · Score: 1

    If you store the data encrypted and something happens to you, the files are worthless to someone else, maybe a family member, who might enjoy/benefit from their availability. Have you put the encryption key in your will / living will, or already given it to people close to you so they will be able to access your stuff when you're gone or incapacitated? Or are the files only for your own eyes?

  23. Compatibility with what? on Windows 10 IE With Spartan Engine Performance Vs. Chrome and Firefox · · Score: 1

    hijackers, malware, viruses, NSA eavesdropping...

  24. Yes, but only the intelligent ones on Should Disney Require Its Employees To Be Vaccinated? · · Score: 1

    who don't deny science.

    The rest can consult a homeopath when they get sick.

  25. Re:comment in the subject line? it seems disruptiv on New Collaborative Project Wants to Systematize Complex Problem Solving Online · · Score: 1

    you don't have to read it if it annoys you.