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  1. Blood Minerals? on Conflict Minerals and Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    How about Blood Labor?

  2. Questionable Motives on Why Are Some Hell-Bent On Teaching Intelligent Design? · · Score: 1

    I find myself questioning the motives of those who would throw a symbolic bible, koran, or what ever, in my face. The "holyer than thou's" are by far the most sinister.

  3. Re:Bradley Manning on Arrested Chinese Blogger "Confesses" On State TV, Praises Censorship · · Score: 2

    Charles Xue did not steal, Bradley Manning did. Would anybody have cared if Bradley Manning had blogged what he felt instead of what he discovered? As for China, "human rights" are just 2 words in an engrish test.

  4. Re:Tent camp! on Arrested Chinese Blogger "Confesses" On State TV, Praises Censorship · · Score: 2

    I was reminded of the book, "1984." It's suppose to be fiction, right?

  5. Wow! on IBM Promises $1B Investment In Linux Development · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well, if you're in IBM-India, that's great!

  6. Re: I have mixed feelings about this. on Doubleclick Cofounder Responds to Patent Troll by Filing Extortion Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    In this case, I would suggest that Patent Troll Rapers use protection? You really don't know where these Trolls, have been.

  7. Re: I have mixed feelings about this. on Doubleclick Cofounder Responds to Patent Troll by Filing Extortion Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    Maybe you could refine your generalization?

  8. Re:Country spies on other country on Belgium Investigates Suspected Cyber Spying By Foreign State · · Score: 1

    Any American that has even superficially read U.S. history, knows that it is filled with spies. The quote, "Trust, but verify." is an un-ignoreable hint.

    Also, please read "The Art of War," the author tries to explain in very simple terms to the reader why Spies are essential to successful governing.

  9. Re:Let's re-evaluate trade policy on 45% of U.S. Jobs Vulnerable To Automation · · Score: 1

    I won't be me that tells ya. For me, a 3D Printer is like a wrench. I don't make wrenches, I use'em. I figure when someone figures out how to make a multi-headed 3D Printer that can create an object in a 3 meter cubed area, marketing will step in. Why 3 meters? It's the size of my shed.

  10. Re:Let's re-evaluate trade policy on 45% of U.S. Jobs Vulnerable To Automation · · Score: 1

    With a 3D Printer, all manufacturing is done in my shed; who needs a Robot?

  11. Re:It's not one to one though on 45% of U.S. Jobs Vulnerable To Automation · · Score: 1

    Your statement, "Now computers supply the intelligence." Computers do not supply intelligence, they can remember rules, and can do math. But the realm of asking, "what if" based on only remembered facts, and weak templates will be problematic; for them.

  12. Re:Well......... on 45% of U.S. Jobs Vulnerable To Automation · · Score: 1

    It's about food an shelter. In Rural areas it's pretty straight forward; in a population of 20 million, logistics are un-ignorable. It might be a good time to start considering marginalizing of the Gravity Well? I don't think that job will get automated

  13. Re:My father once said... on 45% of U.S. Jobs Vulnerable To Automation · · Score: 1

    It's very obvious that automation will take jobs away. Ho-che-minh had a similiar problem, he was many things, but he never suffered from originality; and even he, figured it out.

  14. Re:My father once said... on 45% of U.S. Jobs Vulnerable To Automation · · Score: 1

    Interesting comment; when Edison invented a type of Phonograph,(google it), he said virtually the same thing.

  15. 3 Laws Safe? on 45% of U.S. Jobs Vulnerable To Automation · · Score: 1

    What would the 3 Laws of Robotics look like in actual practice?

    The 45% that will lose their jobs? Will be the ones that need a job.

  16. Re: Trending political procedures... on NYC Is Tracking RFID Toll Collection Tags All Over the City · · Score: 1

    Maybe you could site a public accessable reference?

  17. Re:Sounds like the lesser of two evils on Former DHS Official Blames Privacy Advocates For TSA's Aggressive Procedures · · Score: 1

    I don't believe the political system is out of control. There are very overt signs of control occurring all the time. And example is the NRA, and the people of Colorado. What may be confusing is that there is more than one force pushing things around the machine of politics. I believe that as more people become more aware about how a community of 360 million people interact, their understanding will shift from the point of view of, "Spontainious Generation", to the point of view of, "That Billionare spent so much money on a political campain for a desired result."

    As for a catatlyst; this country was founded by businesses, and criminals. Impressing folks in America takes effort.

  18. Re:Treason.. or... on Yahoo CEO Says It Would Be Treason To Decline To Cooperate With the NSA · · Score: 1

    I can't help but wonder how Marissa Meyer could be a Traitor, a Liar and Thief, but not a Traitor.

  19. Re:Sounds like the lesser of two evils on Former DHS Official Blames Privacy Advocates For TSA's Aggressive Procedures · · Score: 0

    Isn't the same argument that was presented to an Indian Judge last week?

    Defense Attorney: "Your Honour, my clients are not guilty of raping and murdering that woman, she was a woman; and she seduced them by the act of getting on the bus."

    It's a shame this legal defencse went un-noticed at Nuremberg.

  20. Developers Question on Here Come the Chromebooks, As Google and Intel Cozy-Up On Haswell · · Score: 2

    Is there an IDE that a ChromeBook can work with that would allow me to develope in PHP/Python? With Debug and Breakpoints? That would be useful.

  21. Re:Yup on Apple Has a Lot In Common With The Rolling Stones (Video) · · Score: 1

    Rolling Stones? I was thinking more like the Michael Jackson Estate. And who would have ever thought that Mick Jagger would have outlived Michael Jackson?

  22. Re:Obligatory XKCD on It's Official: Voyager 1 Is an Interstellar Probe · · Score: 0

    What is very curious is the quote, "...10-meter (33-foot) antennas were able to deduce that Voyager was traveling through a less dense medium..." That instellar space may not have much in the way of matter, but is filled with energies; that are measuareable.

  23. When Can Snowden Come Home? on Snowden Nominated For Freedom of Thought Prize · · Score: 1

    When his victims are not waiting for him anymore? I believe his victims are apex preditors.

  24. When is Smoke Tangable? on Flash Mobs of Trading Robots Coalescing To Rule Markets · · Score: 1

    When a liar speaks.

  25. Re:Can we have someone go to jail now, please? on Exxon Charged With Illegally Dumping Waste In Pennsylvania · · Score: 1

    Is it Regicide if a person cannot respond?