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  1. Re:And when the new orange dies? on GMO Oranges? Altering a Fruit's DNA To Save It · · Score: 1

    Agreed. I would just add that GMO may temporarily fix the problem, but it worsen it in the long run as that push from monoculture to monoclonal culture.

  2. Re:Who gives a fuck? on Dentist Who Used Copyright To Silence Her Patients Drops Out of Sight · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You Slashbitches just can't accept that some guys like females.

    Have you considered that your legitimate sexual desire may be off topic?

  3. Re:japan is a fascist nation that was spared on Japan's Military 'Needs Marines and Drones' · · Score: 1

    Being US ally sometimes has a high price tag. Having a single power protecting everyone is a recipe for abuse.

  4. Robot will probably be better than doctors on Would You Let a Robot Stick You With a Needle? · · Score: 1

    In some countries, blood sampling is usually done by nurses, which means most doctors never practice with a needle. The robot may be a better pick than the doctor, here.

  5. Re:There are three remarkable points about this on US Promises Not To Kill Or Torture Snowden · · Score: 1

    Another example of the US's lawlessness is that they convinced France to force Bolivian president Evo Morales to land so they could search his plane for Snowden, violating all sorts of diplomatic rules to do so.

    Please make a distinction: they forced France's government. If you talk to french citizen, they tend to be ashamed of the way the government acted here. I found nobody supporting that government's decision. I guess it is similar for other European countries involved in this incident.

  6. Rationale? on Post Office Proposes Special Rate For Mailing DVDs · · Score: 1

    What is the rationale for subsiding DVD rental?

    I understand the special rate means the price difference comes from tax payers' pockets. That could be fine if it was something for the sake of general interest, but here?

  7. Re:Nothing to see here on Retail Stores Plan Elaborate Ways To Track You · · Score: 2

    And moreover, I assume you must install an app that use that signal. Except if there is a collusion between retail sotres and mobile vendors/operators.

  8. No torture, right on US Promises Not To Kill Or Torture Snowden · · Score: 2

    No torture, neither death penalty, right. They will just send him to jail for the rest of his life, because he dared defend the US constitution against the corrupted (I mean corrupted as ill-behaving) government.

    That seems quite enough to grant him asylum.

  9. Who is Vivendi? on Blizzard Breaks For Independence As Kotick Plans $8.2 Billion Dollar Buyout · · Score: 1

    For whoever is interested in what kind of company Vivendi is: they started with water distribution monopoly in many France cities. That is a good cash cow, as if you cut expenses on water distribution infrastructure maintenance, it is not obvious before many years. And of course your customers have no choice and will accept your price.

    All that money had to be invested somewhere, this is why Vivendi started purchasing many media companies, in France and abroad. Universal was one major Vinvendi acquisition.

    Now time are changing, and a lot of french cities go back to water handled as a public service by public servants. Most of the time it is quite effective at cutting costs.

  10. Re:Same as every day on How Are You Celebrating National Sysadmin Day? · · Score: 1

    If you give them root access, even in a chroot, they can still crash the machine by overusing resources.

  11. Bad choice on Nokia: Microsoft Must Evolve To Make Windows Phone a Success · · Score: 1

    It is getting obvious that Nokia made a bad choice: "If you sup with the devil you need a long spoon".

  12. Selectivity on Wi-Fi-Enabled Tooth Sensor Rats You Out When You Smoke Or Overeat · · Score: 1

    That device does not seem very selective. It will catch someone chewing gum, but miss someone drinking sodas.

    IMO the more you chew, the better for your health. It means you consume real food

  13. Re:WTO on US Lawmakers Want Sanctions On Any Country Taking In Snowden · · Score: 1

    Sure, security trumps free trade, but so does asylum. If Russia decides to grant asylum to Snowden, this is a very different story compared to the situation where Russia refuse to extradite a terrorist.

  14. Re:Fees and "news" on After LinkedIn Clues, FOIA Nets New Details On NSA's ANCHORY Program · · Score: 1

    Complying with FOIA requests can be expensive

    Keeping your political system healthy has a price.

  15. WTO on US Lawmakers Want Sanctions On Any Country Taking In Snowden · · Score: 1

    I wonder about the outcome if Russia attacks such trade sanctions at the WTO.

  16. Re:The old adage comes back and back on Love and Hate For Java 8 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sure: reimplement it in Java. Even better, use it within J2EE so that it takes 45 seconds to start up.

  17. More dangerous actually on NTSB Calls For Wireless Tech To Enable Vehicles To Talk To Each Other · · Score: 2

    With a M2M network, you get a notice that a car is coming or not at an intersection; Therefore no need to slow down when you do not have a good visibility. This is bad news for bikes.

  18. Financial losses on Door-To-Door Mail Delivery To End Under New Plan · · Score: 1

    From the summary:

    But the Post Service, which is buckling under massive financial losses

    Services may be funded both by user contribution or by taxes, or both. Saying USPS has losses is just ignoring the second part.

    With such a way to present things, US army is also under massive financial losses.

  19. defund? on Congress Voting On Amendment to Defund NSA Domestic Spying Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    How congress can make sure the defund is really implemented? The problem with NSA spying is that it is opaque. How can it be checked that some money is used to spy on an innocent or a suspect person?

  20. Re:Studies showing vitamin toxicity on The Man Who Convinced Us We Needed Vitamin Supplements · · Score: 1

    That is interesting, since I am not aware of any study reporting that specific issue with vitamin C. Perhaps it is other compound in the tablet or pill?

  21. Re:Not pilots , assassins. on US Air Force Reporting Pilot Shortage · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There is a difference

    .

    When you kill with physical presence, your enemies can try to kill you.

    When you kill remotely, your enemies only possible retaliation is exploding bombs on your territory, because you are not the battle field anymore

    Drone killing and terrorist bombing are two sides of the mirror

  22. Re:No, it doesn't have to have that... on Apple: Developer Site Targeted In Security Attack, Still Down · · Score: 1

    You know it it works: the web site has a connexion to the database where it can extract anything. If you manage to onject SQL statement, you own all the database. Indeed the database could have your specific data encrypted with your password as the key to decipher it. Or even better the database could do fine grained access control based on your credentials, but I never saw that done at big scale.

  23. Studies showing vitamin toxicity on The Man Who Convinced Us We Needed Vitamin Supplements · · Score: 1

    As said in summary, there have been many studies showing vitamin toxicity. As far as I have been following the thing, we have some ideas of what vitamin can do harm. Anyone that has deeper knowledge of the field is welcome to correct me:

    • We know that vitamin B9 as folic acid is harmful. As naturally occuring folates, it is safe
    • We know that vitamin E is in fact a fix of many tocopherols. Consuming only one of them is harmful, consuming the naturally occuring mix is safe
    • We know excess of vitamin A is very harmful. Beta-caroten, a percursor to vitamin A, is safe
    • Not vitamins, but we know that iron and copper are very toxic when taken in excess. Nobody should use an iron or copper complement unless a lack of those nutriments have been observed in blood sample

    As far as I know, vitamin C still has no known toxicity. Taken in excess it just causes diarrhea. Am I missing something?

  24. Update a SIM? on Rooting SIM Cards · · Score: 1

    The whole idea of having an update feature in a SIM seems foolish to me. Do they have the same thing in credit cards that have a chip?

  25. Data was encrypted on Apple: Developer Site Targeted In Security Attack, Still Down · · Score: 1

    Data was encrypted? What a joke. This is web site, it has to have unencrypted data in memory to server any purpose. If Apple can access the data, so did the intruder.