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  1. Re:Go for it on US May Disable All Car Phones, Says Trans. Secretary · · Score: 1

    Statistics are not the plural of anecdotes. If cell phones on the road are a net killer, they're a net killer, your friend notwithstanding.

  2. Re:Go for it on US May Disable All Car Phones, Says Trans. Secretary · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Well, sadly the truck driver lost his job due to the DUI, and his two children starved to death, yielding a net -1.

  3. Re:you're doing something wrong on Horizontal Scaling of SQL Databases? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I meant heights of performance and size, but admittedly, that was a poorly chosen phrase. But yes, you scan scale sql very wide.

  4. Re:you're doing something wrong on Horizontal Scaling of SQL Databases? · · Score: 1

    Admittedly, a poor choice of words, but yes.

  5. you're doing something wrong on Horizontal Scaling of SQL Databases? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "I'm currently responsible for operations at a software-as-a-service startup, and we're increasingly hitting limitations in what we can do with relational databases. "

    Relational databases scale to pretty amazing heights. The notion that you are hitting some limit of relational databases at a startup stretches the imagination. I mean, really, you've already hit exabyte data sizes? That's typically where relational starts to struggle.

    You really need to define your problem with much greater specificity to get a valuable answer.

  6. Re:Terrorism is EXTREMELY RARE on TSA Pats Down 3-Year-Old · · Score: 1

    I'm not actually clear that it is effective in terrorizing people. The Israelis seem to feel it is just routine, and it seems like hardly anyone was terrified by 9/11 (angered, yes, but terrified?)

  7. Re:Bluetooth... on USB Is the Devil's Connection · · Score: 1

    Probably only to the most perfect extent that would make him as perfect as possible without making it impossible for him to die for our sins. After all, there was no reason for God to get him less than just right.

  8. Re:Bluetooth... on USB Is the Devil's Connection · · Score: 2, Funny

    To see that it was good?

  9. translation of original article according to goog on USB Is the Devil's Connection · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The evangelical cult "Peace Beloved of the Lord" in the interior of Brazil forbids its followers to use any USB technology by contending that it uses a symbol that makes apology to the devil.

    According to its founder, the Apostle "Welder Saldanha says that this is just a symbol of Satan, is always present in all Christian homes.

    "The symbol of that name (he even likes to pronounce) is a trident, which is used to torture souls go to hell. Use only a symbol of those shows that all users of this technology pífia are actually worshipers of Satan "- explains the " Apostle. "

    Measures were taken so that all the USB connections of his followers were exchanged for common connections and even the Bluetooth (sic), which according to Saldanha Welder is permitted, for "Blue was the color of the eyes of our savior Jesus Christ" .

  10. Re:Bluetooth... on USB Is the Devil's Connection · · Score: 1

    Of course, he was the product of god and a human woman. God's genes won out. Even the recessive ones, he's God after all.

  11. Re:it always looked to me like... on USB Is the Devil's Connection · · Score: 1

    SeCSI (sexy)

  12. Re:Good. Hope this keeps up on US Marshals Saved 35,000 Full Body Scans · · Score: 1

    Precisely my point, though I do feel it can be somewhat reasonably argued the other way as well (e.g., the number of people you must stop is much smaller near the top of the pyramid).

  13. Re:Good. Hope this keeps up on US Marshals Saved 35,000 Full Body Scans · · Score: 1

    I think most liberals would agree that Obama has been a disappointment in terms of turning this stuff around. However, that said, I think you'd have to agree that every other major candidate would have been likely to have been worse on this dimension. Every other one of them (including the dem candidates like Hillary who lost to Obama) would have wanted to push things even further in this direction. McCain seems likely to have been the WORST in this regard, given his ability to flip flop on torture after having experienced it himself!

    Very depressing.

  14. Re:Good. Hope this keeps up on US Marshals Saved 35,000 Full Body Scans · · Score: 1

    Actually, car travel for people and truck travel for parcels is the bulk of all interstate travel. It's close to 90%. Air is a tiny fraction afforded by the wealthy to shorten trips.

  15. Re:Good. Hope this keeps up on US Marshals Saved 35,000 Full Body Scans · · Score: 1

    Where did you get that idea? Google had people screaming like crazy over that. Likewise, if you read the downmodded comments here, you'll find plenty leaping to the TSAs defense.

  16. Re:Good. Hope this keeps up on US Marshals Saved 35,000 Full Body Scans · · Score: 1

    The problem is at both ends. If no one would have followed the nazi's orders to put jews into ovens, then jews wouldn't get put into ovens. If the nazis at the top of the pyramid weren't giving those orders, it also wouldn't happen.

    Which side of the pyramid you try to change depends on philosophy:
    Do you believe it will be easier to prevent evil from seeking and reaching the top of the pyramid, or to convince common people not to follow evil orders?

  17. Re:Good. Hope this keeps up on US Marshals Saved 35,000 Full Body Scans · · Score: 1

    You can also require them to use force and to jail you to enforce their will. If enough people do, the economy will collapse, and so will the state.

  18. Re:Good. Hope this keeps up on US Marshals Saved 35,000 Full Body Scans · · Score: 1

    Technically, you can be searched by authorities all you want, so long as they are willing.

  19. Re:Because everyone else will say it too... on NASA Announces Discovery of 30-Year-Old Black Hole · · Score: 1

    This is a common misunderstanding of inflation.

    The big bang created a non-infinite amount of matter and momentum. As a result, there is a centrum of both mass and momentum.

  20. Re:Because everyone else will say it too... on NASA Announces Discovery of 30-Year-Old Black Hole · · Score: 1

    The big bang created a non-infinite amount of mass and momentum. Average either one, and select the center as the universal center of reference.

  21. Re:Because everyone else will say it too... on NASA Announces Discovery of 30-Year-Old Black Hole · · Score: 1

    I'd say we could measure the motion of the mass of the universe, and pick the centrum.

  22. Re:Relativity of Simultaneity on NASA Announces Discovery of 30-Year-Old Black Hole · · Score: 1

    No, this is pedantic:
    http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pedantic

    My post to which you responded was not.

  23. Re:Because everyone else will say it too... on NASA Announces Discovery of 30-Year-Old Black Hole · · Score: 1

    Troll? Go get 'em metamods. I'd love to know how a logical argument relevant to the conversation qualifies as a troll.

  24. Re:Because everyone else will say it too... on NASA Announces Discovery of 30-Year-Old Black Hole · · Score: 1

    Sorry, completely irrelevant to my suggestion, try reading and understanding it yourself.

    Hint, just because the frame can render in-frame measurement irrelevant doesn't mean we can't agree on a universal frame of reference. For example, we could decide that alpha centauri is the universally agreed upon fixed frame, and measure all velocities relative to that. In fact Galilean invariance GUARANTEES that we can do just that.

  25. Re:Relativity of Simultaneity on NASA Announces Discovery of 30-Year-Old Black Hole · · Score: 1

    You forgot the air-quotes around 'impossible'.