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  1. Re:Riiiight on Ukraine May Have To Rearm With Nuclear Weapons Says Ukrainian MP · · Score: 1

    True, but there's a third ingredient Ukraine doesn't have: money.

  2. Re:Help, I'm being harrassed on an app on my phone on Yik Yak, After Complaints From Schools, Suspends Its Service In Chicago · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Maybe that's the problem. The schools don't like evidence that bullying is going on there.

  3. Re:We already make robots without legs on iRobot CEO: Humanoid Robots Too Expensive To Be the Norm · · Score: 1

    I think he is talking mostly about academic research, which doesn't care much about using robots to make our lives easier.

  4. Re:Yay! Serious effort to stop aging! on Genome Pioneer, X Prize Founder Tackle Aging · · Score: 1

    Society advances because each generation gives way to the next one. It's time to pass the torch, old man.

  5. Old news on Australian Company Claims Laser-Based Quantum Crypto is "Unbreakable" (Video) · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is not a new technology, and have been under lab testing for a while now. The problem is that what's theoretically unbreakable isn't that secure in practice. Turns out it's quite hard to distinguish between eavesdropping and noise.

  6. Re:Coprolites? on Belgian Barrels Reveal History of Human Gut Microbes · · Score: 1

    Old things get buried over time, it wasn't necessarily the original owner who buried it. As for the why, my guess is that they were used against attackers.

  7. Re:$10,000?!? on Study: Half of In-App Purchases Come From Only 0.15% of Players · · Score: 1

    That game already exists.

  8. Re:The worst kind of human beings on Study: Half of In-App Purchases Come From Only 0.15% of Players · · Score: 1

    I'd love to have the problems of that guy who can afford to spend 10000$ a month on a game.

  9. Re:isn't it used on violent prisoners? on The Science of Solitary Confinement · · Score: 1

    Solitary confinement reduces the harm done to others to pretty much zero, because the prisoner is physically isolated and thus incapable of causing trouble. What other method are speaking of that can guarantee that?

  10. Re:How DARE you propose NOT to allow this? on UK Government Proposes Rules To Allow 'Three-Parent Embryos' · · Score: 1

    These children wouldn't exactly be like their parents either, that's the point.

  11. Not necessarily on Mt. Gox Gone? Apparent Theft Shakes Bitcoin World · · Score: 1

    That's not the only alternative to money. He could be proposing communism.

  12. It's not that hard on Can a Computer Identify Your Urban Tribe? · · Score: 1

    The subculture weirdoes dress in a certain common way exactly to be easily identifiable. It's about as subtle as holding a blinking "I'm a goth." sign over their head. So while I think that the software is impressive, I wouldn't worry about the privacy implications much, it's only able to profile extroverts who want to be noticed.

  13. Re:why? on Embedded SIM Design Means No More Swapping Cards · · Score: 1

    That much water would block the signal anyway, what's the point of bringing a phone underwater?

  14. Exactly how it should be on Will You Even Notice the Impending Robot Uprising? · · Score: 1

    If robots were treated only as tools instead of weapons or pets, we wouldn't have to worry about an uprising.

  15. Re:The problem is... on A Review of the "Mental Illness" Definition Might Prevent Crime · · Score: 1

    According to RTFA, the courts would decide. The guy is talking about convicted criminals.

  16. Re:Not buying it. on Art Makes Students Smart · · Score: 1

    It's not hard to misinterpret a summary that's outright misleading. It's also not hard to misinterpret a study that makes a strategic omission about its main result: they only measured critical thinking about paintings, but that fact doesn't appear in the paper's title. An honest summary of the results would be that 'art makes you know more about art', which is hardly surprising.

  17. Re:Ah, the nuclear boogeyman rears its ugly head. on Fukushima Disaster Leads Japan To Backpedal On Emissions Pledge · · Score: 1

    Most of Australia is uninhabited desert, where even a nuclear accident couldn't cause much trouble.

  18. Re:Stealing a dog's job on Robots: a Working Breed At the Dairy · · Score: 1

    Not to mention that this robot has to be remote controlled by a human operator, making it far inferior to a dog.

  19. Re:How is this disturbing? on Meet the 'Assassination Market' Creator Who's Crowdfunding Murder With Bitcoins · · Score: 2

    But where would they hire the hitmen after the site has closed?

  20. Re:Guru at 37? on Skydiving Accident Leaves Security Guru Cedric 'Sid' Blancher Dead At 37 · · Score: 1

    And the notion that young people can't have routine isn't ageism?

  21. Re:Good geeks? on The NSA Is Looking For a Few Good Geeks · · Score: 1

    You forgot the psychopats who want the power and the best toys. There are already many geeks who spy on other people (usually young women), now they can get paid for it, and will have access to the most powerful machines and the biggest vulnerability database. As ordinary hackers they couldn't even dream of power of that size.

  22. Re:Shell gas stations, usa, ca. 2008 on Tesco To Use Face Detection Technology For In-Store Advertising · · Score: 1

    That was my first thought. It's weird that the posters here filled pages with countermeasures like masks, projectors and damaging the system while ignoring the obvious solution. The day my local Tesco starts this shit will be my last day shopping there.

  23. Just like all old code on Larry Page and Sergey Brin Are Lousy Coders · · Score: 2

    'I had to deal with their legacy code from the Stanford days and it had a lot of problems. They're research coders: more interested in writing code that works than code that's maintainable.

    I don't think it's fair to criticize old code by today's standards.

  24. Re:Are they really safe? on Twitter Marks Clean Sites As Harmful, Breaks Links · · Score: 1

    How about letting people take responsibility for their own actions? Marking third-party pages is stupid.

  25. Re:A bunch of spineless wimps... on Oracle Shareholders Vote Against Ellison's Compensation Package (Again) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't like Oracle and think their products are suck-ass bloatware, but Larry Ellison made that company.

    And then he sold that company to the shareholders. His profit is the money he got for the shares.