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  1. Studies without control group that use a placebo will prove nothing about a treatment, but are they unethical? Will it be ethical to give a placebo to someone suffering a deadly sickness?

  2. Viablity on Z Machine Makes Progress Toward Nuclear Fusion · · Score: 1

    I don't see how they prove the viability of the method as power production...

  3. Also at krebsonsecuritycom on Kmart Says Its Payment System Was Hacked · · Score: 4, Informative
  4. 50 years of wars on Former Department of Defense Chief Expects "30 Year War" · · Score: 1

    Come on, Us has been at war in middle east for 50 ears: help a coup in Iran, help jihadists against russians in Afghanistan, help Iraq against Iran (more forward 30 years), help jihadists against Syria, help Iraq against jihadists...

  5. 14 years on US Navy Develops Robot Boat Swarm To Overwhelm Enemies · · Score: 1

    If we had this capability there on that day [14 years ago]. We could have saved that ship. I never want to see the USS Cole happen again.

    Obviously if US navy managed to do without this solution for 14 years, that means it is not such a breakthrough

  6. intravenous feeding on NASA Eyes Crew Deep Sleep Option For Mars Mission · · Score: 2

    I wonder what happens to guts microbes with 180 days of intravenous feeding. If we fail to slow down their metabolism too, they will start to eat the host's bowels.

  7. Re:Looks more like SR accidentally published their on User Error Is the Primary Weak Point In Tor · · Score: 1

    Please read Brian Krebs' paper. The SR machine was behind a firewall and could not communicate directly with the outer world, it had to go through TOR.

  8. User not always weak link on User Error Is the Primary Weak Point In Tor · · Score: 5, Informative

    In a related story from Brian Krebs, Silk Road was not outed by a badly configured CAPTCHA, as the FBI said. They seem to have another way to peek in TOR: http://krebsonsecurity.com/201...

  9. Re:Hu? on Will Windows 10 Finally Address OS Decay? · · Score: 1

    TFA does not tell us about the fixes to the problem either. Useless link, don't waste your time and skip it.

  10. Layers on DARPA Technology Could Uncover Counterfeit Microchips · · Score: 1

    It is great to have a tool for visual inspection, but IC has many layers. If I was to introduce some nasty feature in an IC, I could bury it in lower layers so that it cannot be seen.

  11. They needed a ruling? on Court Rules Nokia Must Pay Damages To Buyers of Faulty Phones In Mexico · · Score: 1

    They needed a ruling for a company to reimburse customers when they are sold a faulty device? That sounds really obvious practice.

  12. What can go wrong? on NASA Expands Commercial Space Program · · Score: 1

    If everything goes as usual, in a few years the space companies will agree in price fixing and managers will flow back and forth between them and NASA to make sure nobody complain.

  13. Re:Tariffs on Microsoft On US Immigration: It's Our Way Or the Canadian Highway · · Score: 1

    You just made every economist cry with that statement.

    Only the economists you see on TV, the ones that promote the one-size-fits-all solution which is always the only choice whatever state the economy really is. And of course There Is No Alternative.

  14. Does it scales? on Irish Girls Win Google Science Fair With Astonishing Crop Yield Breakthrough · · Score: 2

    Does the method scales in time (multi-year usage) and space (large fields)?

  15. Windows malware on jQuery.com Compromised To Serve Malware · · Score: 1

    The attack should be a concern because jquery.com visitors are devs and sysadmins. But I understand RIG is a Windows malware. Who trust Windows enough to use the same machine surf the web and to store precious keys?

  16. Reinventing BSD on Outlining Thin Linux · · Score: 1

    Basically he wants Linux distro to morph into NetBSD (or whatever other BSD fits you better, NetBSD is probably the most obscure but has a few very interesting points: excellent backward compatibility, cross-compilable out of the box)

  17. Study subject not depressive on New MRI Studies Show SSRIs Bring Rapid Changes to Brain Function · · Score: 2

    Tthe summary says:

    Study subjects did not have diagnoses of depression

    If they do not have the problem, how could we hope to see something about the problem improvement?

  18. Democratic regression. on Is Google's Non-Tax Based Public School Funding Cause For Celebration? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    First they fight like hell to dodge taxes, then they spend money in public goods in place of taxpayer money.

    The difference is that taxpayer money is spent under democratic control (or at least it should be, your mileage may vary depending on how much your political system is kinked). And Google will probably spend depending on its own interest instead of on the general interest.

  19. never happens on the London underground on Washington DC To Return To Automatic Metro Trains · · Score: 1

    That never happens on the London underground

    Neither it does on Paris' underground lines, whether automatic or not

  20. Odd investment on Amazon Purchases .buy TLD For $4.6 Million · · Score: 1

    I seriously doubt there are millions to make from a TLD. This is an odd investment.

    The smart guys are the one that managed to sell a TLD at that price. Who wins the money paid for new TLD auctions, BTW?

  21. Re:CNN retracted on ISIS Bans Math and Social Studies For Children · · Score: 1

    But note the news was fake anyway, hence they probably have nothing against maths and infinity. It was fake just like the fatwa promoting excision was. I wonder who is trying to spread that anti-ISIS propaganda: they could do a batter job by not spreading fake news, we have enough with real ones.

  22. Poor summary on Mystery Signal Could Be Dark Matter Hint In ISS Detector · · Score: 1

    The summary makes little sense, but I suspect this is because nothing was really found. Awake me when you will have some real news.

  23. Small setup on Slashdot Asks: What's In Your Home Datacenter? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Small setup here: 12U rack with 2 servers and one switch (Yes, I have ethernet sockets in every room except toilets, though I regret a bit I did not install one there)

  24. Re:CNN retracted on ISIS Bans Math and Social Studies For Children · · Score: 1

    Does it really matters? Humans cannot reach infinity anyway.

  25. CNN retracted on ISIS Bans Math and Social Studies For Children · · Score: 4, Informative

    From TFA:

    Editor's note: An earlier version of this story contained reporting about ISIS and education. CNN has concerns about the interpretation of the information provided and we will update the story when we can verify what is happening.

    The original story smelled odd: why would they have anything against maths? Banning history courses make sense when you perform propaganda, but maths?