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  1. Re:Seems pretty straight forward on Ask Slashdot: Legal Advice Or Loopholes Needed For Manned Space Program · · Score: 1

    Sure government will be responsible before other governments that signed the treaty, but if they did not adjust their national laws, it is not obvious the individual that fires a rocket is liable of anything. A court will tell us...

  2. No case law on Ask Slashdot: Legal Advice Or Loopholes Needed For Manned Space Program · · Score: 1

    There is no case law, which means they will have to go in court (sued by or suing the government), do learn what they can and cannot do. Save money for that time!

  3. Re:They didn't think this through on Scientists Say Climate Change Is Damaging Iowa Agriculture · · Score: 1

    US CO2 production has been dropping.

    ... but is still number one.

  4. /usr/bin/vi on Ask Slashdot: Do You Use Markdown and Pandoc? · · Score: 1

    /usr/bin/vi, what else? Not vim, not elvis. No color, no auto-format, no hype.

  5. Murderer, not terrorist on Dick Cheney Had Implanted Defibrillator Altered To Prevent Terrorist Attack · · Score: 1

    Killing Dick Cheney would be a murder, not terrorism. Terrorism is supposed to scare people, and I see nothing scaring with the idea Dick Cheney could be killed with a "weapon" that would not affect me.

  6. Abusing the system on Samsung Offers Patent Cease-Fire in EU · · Score: 2

    It the first time for a while I consider something done by European Commission as good. But I wonder what law is used to define the abuse and to allow a fine. Perhaps it could be reused somewhere else.

  7. Re:4^4 on Reprogrammed Bacterium Speaks New Language of Life · · Score: 1

    Not related too the present article, but since you seem to master the subject: how is selenomethionine encoded? There seems to exist no codon for it.

  8. Re:Meaningless... on New EU Rules To Curb Transfer of European Data To the U.S. · · Score: 1

    Which means law can constrain them, it just has to make compliance less painful than resistance.

  9. Re:Meaningless... on New EU Rules To Curb Transfer of European Data To the U.S. · · Score: 1

    I am not sure even a rich person wants to live with many territories, waters and airspace forbidden because of the risk of being arrested. Look at Edward Snowden, trapped in Russia even while he has support from three Latin America nations, and is backed by the powerful fund-gathering Wikileaks (they even proposed him a private jet!)

  10. Useful information on Give Your Child the Gift of an Alzheimer's Diagnosis · · Score: 1

    Now the kid will be highly motivated to start a career as a researcher on Alzheimer disease.

  11. Re:Meaningless... on New EU Rules To Curb Transfer of European Data To the U.S. · · Score: 1

    A US company is a company whose leaders are reachable by US courts, and will therefore comply to anything requested by the US, otherwise they go to jail.

  12. Re:Actually... on Are Cable Subscribers Subsidizing Internet-Only TV Viewers? · · Score: 1

    Imagine if the sports teams had to pay for their own stadiums?

    That never happens, as since the antiquity, political leaders had known that in order to keep the people quiet, they need to give Panem et circences.

  13. Re:Political will on British NHS May Soon No Longer Offer Free Care · · Score: 1

    The debts are just there because there has been the need of more money to support more trade, and money is created by debt since the day US stopped to back it on gold.

    But you have to distinguish EU debt, which is kind of perverse. EU central bank does not lend money to member states (forbidden by article 123 of Treaty on the functioning of the European Union) . It lends to banks at 0.75% rate, and banks lend to member state, at rates up to 18% for Greece. A big chunk of EU debt is created by insane rules and should be revoked as illegitimate

  14. Political will on British NHS May Soon No Longer Offer Free Care · · Score: 5, Insightful

    European countries created socialized healthcare after they had been devastated bu WWII. They had no money for it but they had the political will. Now that they produce more wealth than ever (France GDP gown 700% since 1945, while population only doubled, for instance), European countries have the money but no political will to move it to socialized healthcare instead of shareholders profits.

  15. Austerity on Shutdown Cost the US Economy $24 Billion · · Score: 1

    This is a nice short austerity experiment. One more time we see it kills the economy, like it did in Latin America, Africa and Asia. Perhaps we could stop this nonsense in Europe, now?

  16. Re:All scientific conclusions should be questioned on How Science Goes Wrong · · Score: 2

    . Now, do the same experiment right under the smoke stack of a coal fired power plant. What you will notice is that there is a significant temperature change related to the amount of cloud covert and NO temperature change related to the CO2 emission.

    Your experiment test a model that may not be representative of how the whole atmosphere works. Are you sure the CO2 distribution is the same as the visible smoke? If it is, since smoke does not surround the whole system, are you sure there is not a way for heat to escape the smoke? And are you sure the way it works near the ground is the same as in higher atmosphere, where temperature and pressure are different?

  17. How does it work? on Swartz-Designed Whistleblower Tool "SecureDrop" Launched · · Score: 1

    How does it works against Man in the Middle attacks? If it must be defended against NSA, then we cannot take for granted that a browser SSL connection is safe from observers.

  18. Re:The problem - yellow dog journalists on Swartz-Designed Whistleblower Tool "SecureDrop" Launched · · Score: 1

    You see, most journalists we have today do not even comprehend the ethic behind journalism.

    The reason is perhaps that ethic had gone economically irrelevant in many medias. How do you want them to focus on ethic when their main motive is just to survive?

  19. Business decision on Oracle Attacks Open Source; Says Community-Developed Code Is Inferior · · Score: 1

    If community-developed software is weak, then why Oracle made the strange business decision of purchasing MySQL, a company in charge of a community-developed software?

  20. There is a problem with USA's bipartisan political system. Since both democrats and republicans politicians seem fine with NSA behavior, There Is No Alternative offered through elections.

    When democracy fails, the only choice remaining is getting tired or start a revolution to refound democracy. But since you always know what you loose and never know what you gain, revolution will not occur until people have much more serious problem than being monitored.

  21. How? on Brazil Announces Secure Email To Counter US Spying · · Score: 1

    How will it be secured? Client-to-client encryption using GPG or similar product? Or just TLS-protected communications for cleartext messages?

    And how do they address NSA ability to compromise clients?

  22. Food on Fighting the Number-One Killer In the US With Data · · Score: 1

    There are a lot fo good advices here "eat healthy food", but few hint of what healthy food is.

    Cardiovascular failure is caused by thrombosis. This is a trend of the blood to clog too easily, caused by an imbalance of omega 3 vs omega 6 fatty acids in the food. Fixing this means eating less industrial meat (which concentrate omega 6 since we do not feed animals with grass, but with omega 6 rich corn and soja), and eating a bit more fish.

  23. Re:Who would you trust to program a computer? on People Trust Tech Companies Over Automakers For Self-Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    Mapping: buy-out of two initiatives, one with substantial CIA funding; not the first online mapping tool.

    Can you elaborate on CIA funding?

  24. Re:No serial on Fight Bicycle Theft With the Open Source Bike Registry · · Score: 1

    Heh. My bike is older than I am :-)

  25. Re:Who would you trust to program a computer? on People Trust Tech Companies Over Automakers For Self-Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    Sure, all of that stuff is nice, but the only service I use from Google is the web search engine, and I used web search engines before. Internet changed my digital life, Google is just a minor tweak.

    In other words, it would not change my life a lot in Google products did not exist.