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  1. Re:Public Transportation on Why Mobile Wallets Are Doomed · · Score: 1

    You do know you can pay for all those things with credit cards and use that 'float' as well right?

  2. Re:Mobile wallets not supported on Why Mobile Wallets Are Doomed · · Score: 1
    US the greatest place on earth!

    Offering you the latest and greatest in mobility, internet bandwidth and speed, financial payments,... wait, why is the US so technologically backwards???

  3. Re:Doomed? They Were Never Viable. on Why Mobile Wallets Are Doomed · · Score: 1

    um, so you think NFC with pin is somehow less secure than... NFC with pin?

  4. Re:Inherently Insecure on Why Mobile Wallets Are Doomed · · Score: 1

    because that's so much different than the excellent security we have with current NFC cards?

  5. Re:WTF does it do for me? on Why Mobile Wallets Are Doomed · · Score: 0

    I guess when you're a nation of drug addicts then every second till the next fix becomes important.

  6. Re:About time on Russia Bans US Use of Its Rocket Engines For Military Launches · · Score: 1

    The sad thing is watching it trying to relive it's glory days by picking on wimps.

  7. Re:The best way to stop bullying on Russia Bans US Use of Its Rocket Engines For Military Launches · · Score: 1

    Yes, but what will happen to the US economy if everybody starts doing that?

  8. Re:Space programs as a crowbar? on Russia Bans US Use of Its Rocket Engines For Military Launches · · Score: 1
    It's a little funny hearing USians speak.

    Do you never watch media from outside your country? If you think the US had credibility and confidence of opinion before and Snowden well, um, shit, there's just nothing to say to something so incredulous.

  9. Re:Space programs as a crowbar? on Russia Bans US Use of Its Rocket Engines For Military Launches · · Score: 0
    Ah, a Kool-aid drinker.

    There may be less wars and deaths but you do know that is only because the powers that be have found easier ways to rape neighbouring countries and enslaving their citizens?

  10. Re:Duck and cover on Russia Bans US Use of Its Rocket Engines For Military Launches · · Score: 1

    Congratulations! You aren't a child anymore.

  11. Re:Put this in perspective on What Caused a 1300-Year Deep Freeze? · · Score: 2
    Then there's the low-information posters that seem unaware of just how much time, effort, and money, it would require to move the infrastructure for more than half of the worlds population.

    But why let facts get in the way of us feeling important eh?

  12. Re:Global Warming, of course. on What Caused a 1300-Year Deep Freeze? · · Score: 1

    science fail.

  13. Re:umm no. on What Caused a 1300-Year Deep Freeze? · · Score: 1
    Of course they do!

    Experts have estimated that as much as 2-3%, by weight, of the hambuger patty may be composed of 100% Real Beef!

  14. Re:Space? on Thorium: The Wonder Fuel That Wasn't · · Score: 1
    That's not a problem.

    That's the stuff that makes math geeks salivate!

    When the hell did everybody lose the enthusiasm for doing something properly?

  15. Re:Not a way to learn on Lectures Aren't Just Boring, They're Ineffective, Too, Study Finds · · Score: 1
    Your child has made my point, in part.

    Teachers, at the very least, show guideposts in unmapped territory. The best understand map is one which you fill in yourself.

    n.b.It seems that regardless of what unmapped territory you have yet to discover, you are constantly bombarded daily with the next most logical piece of the puzzle (a simple consequence of reality). 'Teachers', in the academic sense, are less than necessary.

    This makes me laugh most when hearing racists speak.

  16. Re:Space? on Thorium: The Wonder Fuel That Wasn't · · Score: 0
    umm, slingshot maneuvers ARE the easy stuff!

    Computation costs are easier to deal with than fuel/logistic/design costs.

    Results may vary for those who are accustomed to working harder rather than smarter.

  17. Re:Nothing unconstitutional about this on Glenn Greenwald: How the NSA Tampers With US Made Internet Routers · · Score: 1
    People protecting their own asses at the expense of everybody elses?

    No, they don't deserve any credit at all, they are by definition part of the problem.

  18. Re:Not a way to learn on Lectures Aren't Just Boring, They're Ineffective, Too, Study Finds · · Score: 1

    If you're depending on others for your learning, well, you're doing it wrong.

  19. Re:Chicken Little on Scientists Warn of Rising Oceans As Antarctic Ice Melts · · Score: 1
    No. It happens in every unsustainable 'fad' civilization. When those collapse, there are plenty of sustainable ones left to throw out of balance by the bad seeds of dominion which can take root to pervert it into the next fad.

    A good rule of thumb is to assume that the dominant 'society/civilization' on earth at any given movement is an unsustainable one driven by greed and control, or else it wouldn't be in control... unless proven to be 'true' and we are quite a far ways from that.

  20. Re:Space? on Thorium: The Wonder Fuel That Wasn't · · Score: 0

    Though it doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand it's easier to hit a larger gravity well than a smaller one, especially with less traffic, and we use small ones all the time!

  21. Re:Standard Deviation on Single Gene Can Boost IQ By Six Points · · Score: 1
    I strongly believe that learning doesn't take place when people are told the answer, but when they are told where the answer lies.

    The validity of each statistical test depends on certain assumptions about the population(s) you are sampling from. When examing condition X for it's effects on Y, is it wise to assume that the population without X have the same variance in Y as those with X?

  22. Re:Nothing unconstitutional about this on Glenn Greenwald: How the NSA Tampers With US Made Internet Routers · · Score: 1
    Because it is soooooo VERY important to make the distinction between domestic and international breach of freedom of rights.

    Go whine yourself to sleep you rapist.

  23. Re:China on Glenn Greenwald: How the NSA Tampers With US Made Internet Routers · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Why would they? They have a culture of working smart not hard.

    Simply raise tech propaganda, wait for the US to build backdoors into everything, and then steal the knowledge because apparently the US is very bad with cybersecurity.

    I'm suprised most people haven't realized that it's part of the pattern USians show, do-evil-blame-someone-else. NSA backdoors everything, thinks everybody is just as evil and paranoid as they are so they start creating negative propaganda against 'enemy' targets accusing them of doing exactly what they are doing.

    I'm not a USian, so haven't been exposed to all the mind numbing media they have, but has there ever been ONE piece of intelligence about other countries that was true and wasn't simply the US looking in a mirror and trying to cover their tail???

  24. Re:Space? on Thorium: The Wonder Fuel That Wasn't · · Score: 0

    Yes, please explain to us how hitting the largest gravity well in our solar system is a difficult task while using smaller gravity wells for slingshots is no problem at all.

  25. Re:other uses were considered... on Thorium: The Wonder Fuel That Wasn't · · Score: 1
    Don't forget.

    Sold for novelty use only.