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  1. Re:Sauce for the goose on GPS Tracking Without a Warrant Declared Legal · · Score: 1

    I assume you were kidding, but obviously just because a device is ferromagnetic, and it is convenient to attach to cars because of that, that that is the only way to attach it to something.

    So with the cats you could probably just staple it on instead.

  2. Re:Sauce for the goose on GPS Tracking Without a Warrant Declared Legal · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Lots of people care, but we long ago passed the point on the slippery slope where it will cost you your and your family's life to protest, but have not yet reached the point on the slope where it becomes likely to cost their lives NOT to protest.

  3. Re:Bout time... on EA Says Game Development Budgets Have Peaked · · Score: 1

    I know the developers of fingerzilla (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fingerzilla/id351733272?mt=8). They made money off of being the #1 game on the app store for a single day. At that rate, you can have 365 indie firms profitable each year.

  4. Re:terminated under duress on Searching For Backdoors From Rogue IT Staff · · Score: 1

    So the solution, clearly, is never to hire anyone who in the future might cause you to have to resort to disciplinary action.

  5. Re:News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters. on Los Angeles Unveils $578 Million Public School · · Score: 1

    You have to remember that it's distinguished ... from a decent school.

  6. Re:News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters. on Los Angeles Unveils $578 Million Public School · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Parents who care about their children help them overcome any nerdish tendencies.

  7. Re:State-of-the-Art Swimming Pool? on Los Angeles Unveils $578 Million Public School · · Score: 1

    Robotic lifeguards, hyper oxygenation to prevent drowning, etc.

  8. Re:Have some respect! on The Doctor's Every Journey · · Score: 1

    I don't know, the internet goes to actual places.

  9. Re:how thick are the TV's? on Canon Abandons SED TV Hopes · · Score: 1

    2160 will offer huge advantages to PCs, where the source material is generated, and to marketing, where it's 'twice as good!'. And since it is relatively cheap to do, you'll likely see it before a lot of those other things.

  10. can't be done on Building a Traffic Radar System To Catch Reckless Drivers? · · Score: 1

    No automated system can beat the 'drivers claim it is cheating'. If your laws don't explicitly allow mechanical surveillance of this kind, you are out of luck. Even very expensive red light camera systems in the US lose in court basically every time they are challenged.

  11. Re:how thick are the TV's? on Canon Abandons SED TV Hopes · · Score: 2, Informative

    Good news: the 3d tidal wave is forcing all of the LCD makers to switch to 120 or 240 hz.
    And after that, the next differentiator is going to be resolution again, e.g., you'll get sets with 2160P advertised as 'twice as smooth as HD' etc.

  12. Re:A fool and his money... on Calling Shenanigans On Super SATA's Claimed Audio Qualities · · Score: 1

    I meant digital thermometer readings, but the point is that so long as humans are fallible, such a test would be subject to the experimenter retrying a failure until he got the 'right' binary result, and then reporting it.

  13. Re:A fool and his money... on Calling Shenanigans On Super SATA's Claimed Audio Qualities · · Score: 1

    Right, only in the reporting is the problem, just like they do for purely concrete reporting in medical trials, because doctors will fudge the numbers, even if the thermometer wont.

  14. Re:A fool and his money... on Calling Shenanigans On Super SATA's Claimed Audio Qualities · · Score: 1

    Go read the other follow-ups. Lots of other people made the same wrong claim, and none of them have successfully challenged my counter claim.

  15. Re:A fool and his money... on Calling Shenanigans On Super SATA's Claimed Audio Qualities · · Score: 1

    The blind prevents the executors of the test from fudging the results. Ultimately nothing can prevent the publisher from doing so, except that the executors of the test can note that the published results depart from what they reported, the data is identifiably fudged, etc.

  16. Re:A fool and his money... on Calling Shenanigans On Super SATA's Claimed Audio Qualities · · Score: 1

    That doesn't help with the relevant problem.

  17. Re:A fool and his money... on Calling Shenanigans On Super SATA's Claimed Audio Qualities · · Score: 1

    Neither is a thermometer reading a temperature. You still have to blind the doctor reporting the result. Why is that?

  18. Re:A fool and his money... on Calling Shenanigans On Super SATA's Claimed Audio Qualities · · Score: 1

    Yeah, you aren't getting it. The thermometer has no bias either, why do you have to blind the doctor who reports the results?

  19. Re:A fool and his money... on Calling Shenanigans On Super SATA's Claimed Audio Qualities · · Score: 1

    I'd recommend reading more than two paragraphs before deciding you know enough about religions to judge their similarities and differences.

  20. Re:A fool and his money... on Calling Shenanigans On Super SATA's Claimed Audio Qualities · · Score: 1

    So when doctors are asked to report vital stats on patients, they don't need to be double blinded because they can't bias simple measurements, right?

    (Hint: wrong).

  21. Re:A fool and his money... on Calling Shenanigans On Super SATA's Claimed Audio Qualities · · Score: 1

    Exactly why they start up an audiophile magazine.

  22. Re:A fool and his money... on Calling Shenanigans On Super SATA's Claimed Audio Qualities · · Score: 1

    Who reports the results of the md5 checks? Biased reviewer? Oh ....

    Hence, double blind.

  23. Re:A fool and his money... on Calling Shenanigans On Super SATA's Claimed Audio Qualities · · Score: 1

    You can check that the results are the same with the double blind. Otherwise maybe your bias will cause you to see what you want to see.

  24. Re:A fool and his money... on Calling Shenanigans On Super SATA's Claimed Audio Qualities · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but last time I checked, reviews go for $200-300K, and for that you start to have to find a decent number of suckers.

  25. Re:A fool and his money... on Calling Shenanigans On Super SATA's Claimed Audio Qualities · · Score: 1

    Hmmm ... well, I don't have a recorder, so maybe you could clarify?