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  1. Re:ok everyone on New Declassification Process To Open 400 Million Pages of Records · · Score: 1

    These are old documents. Assuming they are black and white scans or original sources in simple text based formats, you're probably looking at less than 100TB of data. Any medium sized business could build out the infrastructure to search that.

  2. Re:Those who can DO on The Star Wars Kid Is Back · · Score: 1

    Nah, evil always finds its way to the top. The bottom must be unwilling to comply. It's a case of do you blame Hitler, or blame millions of Germans who followed his direction. In reality, both are to blame, but the followers who carry out the actual acts of evil bear more responsibility (how many Jews did Hitler personally kill?)

  3. Re:Those who can DO on The Star Wars Kid Is Back · · Score: 1

    Right, they participate in maintaining the overly complex legal system which is a drain on business and productivity for all of our society. We all make our own choices about how we contribute to the world, and we're responsible for those choices.

  4. seems a waste on New Google Search Index 50% Fresher With Caffeine · · Score: 1

    http://tinyurl.com/268rtm6

    All the results are the same, except for a couple of news stories, but they could have cheated on those. Seems like a titanic waste to have put all this effort into one search word, for no improvement.

  5. Re:Those who can DO on The Star Wars Kid Is Back · · Score: 1

    They're all evil until proven good. The problem with the reputation of lawyers as a class is that the majority of them have proven themselves willing to take frivolous or evil cases and pursue them to the best of their ability. If you stand in the service of evil, expect to be rightly derided and hated.

  6. Re:Aaaand... on Studies Prove BPA Can Cross Placenta To Fetuses · · Score: 1

    There are literally tons of data to back that up. Think harder. :-)

  7. Re:Great for filtering, but - on Cloth Successfully Separates Oil From Gulf Water · · Score: 1

    Seadead, given the oil, so I don't think it is going to mind, much. The net dead animals will be reduced by getting the oil out ASAP, I'm sure.

  8. Re:Aaaand... on Studies Prove BPA Can Cross Placenta To Fetuses · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Right, no waste management issues with those at all.

  9. Re:Great description on Studies Prove BPA Can Cross Placenta To Fetuses · · Score: 1

    Odds are good that if you are looking at het porn, you didn't get exposed to much BPA.

  10. Re:Aaaand... on Studies Prove BPA Can Cross Placenta To Fetuses · · Score: 1

    Oh, they're all bad. Ones containing BPA are just worse.

  11. Re:Great for filtering, but - on Cloth Successfully Separates Oil From Gulf Water · · Score: 1

    The water flows through, so you dip it into the water like it was a big bucket, or imagine a fish net designed to catch oil. You come away with nothing but oil inside your 'net'.

  12. Re:What debate ? on Google-Backed Wind-Powered Car Goes Faster Than the Wind · · Score: 1

    What do you do when you run out of wind?

  13. Re:This is bad on OH Senate Passes Bill Banning Human-Animal Hybrids · · Score: 1

    IVF not involving sex was exactly my point.

    And the elite aren't just headed for having their own race, they are headed for speciation (and have in a few cases already demonstrated success, though people are quite reluctant to talk about that).

  14. Re:Let them Die on FTC Staff Discuss a Tax on Electronics To Support the News Business · · Score: 1

    I think there's a presumption that there is a certain value in having news reporting agencies around that goes beyond their ability to send their output to print and make money.

    That might or might not be correct, but that's really what you have to argue: is there value in having professional reporting organizations.

  15. Re:The steady slide to Police State continues on Police Officers Seek Right Not To Be Recorded · · Score: 1

    Typically consent is required by signs posted outside the premises for entry onto the private property.

  16. Re:This is bad on OH Senate Passes Bill Banning Human-Animal Hybrids · · Score: 1

    Well, I think the existing rules are clear enough. A human is conceived via sex between a man and a woman. Anything else isn't human, doesn't have human rights. That's why in-vitro children are, legally speaking, pets belonging to their parents.

  17. Re:After a hard days work on The Race To Beer With 50% Alcohol By Volume · · Score: 1

    After a hard day at work, the artists and geologists can't afford the high priced brews.

    And I think the original joke was that there's no such thing as a hard day's work for a HFT, which isn't true for the geologist.

  18. Re:Why they're called a troll on CSIRO Sues US Carriers Over Wi-Fi Patent · · Score: 1

    It's not the fishing term, but that's beside the point.
    The fact that they do actual research doesn't help their case, they need to stop patenting the obvious to be clear of the scorn heaped upon the trolls. I could spend my days filing for obvious patents, calling it research, and hoping a major company stumbles into my quagmire too. That wouldn't make me not a troll, that would make me the definition of a troll.

  19. Re:Why they're called a troll on CSIRO Sues US Carriers Over Wi-Fi Patent · · Score: 1

    The problem is that actual working methods are a dime a dozen. A patent is supposed to be non-obvious too, and that's whats missing. Oh, and the ripped off part too, since none of the companies with this tech is being accused of stealing it, they're being accused of reinventing.

  20. Re:load your headlines much? on Australian Schools To Teach Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    Random links? I posted a link to the definition of science, and the wikipedia definition for ID. I'd hardly call that 'random'.

    Definition 2 (the definition for 'a science' as opposed to 'science':
    2 a : a department of systematized knowledge as an object of study

    Note also that this precedes the definition 3, though one might conclude that definition 3 is what slashdotters would prefer to argue about:

    3 a : knowledge or a system of knowledge covering general truths or the operation of general laws especially as obtained and tested through scientific method

    I'd then encourage you to read the ID article and weigh honestly whether or not it meets the definition. I think the evidence that it is a failed scientific theory is ironclad.

  21. Re:Why they're called a troll on CSIRO Sues US Carriers Over Wi-Fi Patent · · Score: 1

    It is almost impossible in the US to get a patent overturned for obviousness. It has happened a handful of times (I believe less than 10, but I'm having difficulty finding an appropriate citation). Even if you can demonstrate prior art it is extremely expensive, to the tune of millions of dollars of litigation. I expect that the patent licensing fees were less than the expected cost of litigation.

  22. Re:Why they're called a troll on CSIRO Sues US Carriers Over Wi-Fi Patent · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The conventional definition of patent troll is definitely a body who 'develops' some obvious piece of technology, but never commercializes or publicizes it, instead waiting and hoping for some other group to do the obvious thing, and then to have to pay them big money for having done nothing.

    The key element of the trolling problem is that the invention is obvious, but got through the patenting process because the patent office is overwhelmed and incompetent. The supposed 'invention' is being invented over and over again because EVERY engineer comes to the same conclusion when faced with the problem. Nobody is stealing CSIROs ideas and commercializing them, they are coming up with the SAME ideas and commercializing them. Patents were not intended to reward the first to write down every obvious idea, but that is what they have become, and those who abuse the process are labeled trolls.

    CSIRO are trolls.

  23. Re:Duverger's law on CSIRO Sues US Carriers Over Wi-Fi Patent · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'd say it would happen something along the lines of the tea party movement. Get liked by one side of the MSM more than the existing party representing that media. In this case, FOX, tired of the Republicans hewing too close to the center, decided to throw in their lot with the tea party.

  24. Re:Impressive on Smokescreen, a JavaScript-Based Flash Player · · Score: 1

    I don't know about the particular nominated game (fantastic contraption), but there are all kinds of games on armor games that will eat 100% of one core of a cpu for trivial animations and logic that should eat perhaps 3-5%. Compare what you get out of flash vs what you get out of a 10 year old pc-game for example. The 10 year old pc game will have better graphics for almost no cpu cost. I don't know if the flash engineers are incompetent, or are forbidden to use double buffering, or the dx apis or something, but the performance of flash is atrocious.

  25. android is the alternative on Apple Blindsides More AppStore Developers · · Score: 1

    Get to work making android the preferred platform of, well, everybody.