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  1. Alarmists don't change on How Climate Scientists Parallel Early Atomic Scientists · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The biggest similarity between the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and climate alarmists is that they both have predicted the end of the world like a dozen times by now.

  2. So what? on MIT Uses Machine Learning Algorithm To Make TCP Twice As Fast · · Score: 1

    We don't use TCP because it's particularly efficient, but because it has been the standard for decades. With our current knowledge, humans could also design faster protocols, we just don't want to waste our time, seeing that not even IPv6 has managed to become adopted.

  3. Re:Nope on Colorado Town Considers Drone-Hunting Licenses · · Score: 1

    That's when those legally owned AA turrets will actually be useful.

  4. Re:iDevice again? on Smart Knife Sniffs Out Cancer Cells · · Score: 1

    That would only work if Knife was an object, not an int.

  5. Re:Ec*freeze*lip*freeze*se works on Visual Studio vs. Eclipse: a Programmer's Comparison · · Score: 1

    While I love Eclipse, that's actually one of its problems. They are releasing new versions too fast, which causes lots of stability and compatibility problems. One stable release doesn't make up for the unstable buggy ones before it. Ganymede was already rock solid, they should've taken their time and focus on not screwing that up.

  6. Re:How about alt roots instead? on Citing Snowden Leaks, Russia Again Demands UN Takeover of Internet · · Score: 1

    Unlike a representative, a robot can be trusted to fulfill its program.

  7. Re:good use of grant money on Secrets of Beatboxing Revealed By MRI · · Score: 1

    No, he said that we should stop forms of research that cost a lot and produces no gains in economy, well-being or knowledge. While collecting random data can sometimes prove to be useful, concentrated research is far more efficient.

  8. Re:This is relatively good news. on Global Anoxia Ruled Out As Main Culprit In the P-T Extinction · · Score: 2

    Anoxia was never a possibility. The majority of fossil reserves is unexploitable. Even if we cut down all forests and burned everything we found, there's way too much oxygen in the air for it to make a difference.

  9. That's what you get on The Middle East Beats the West In Female Tech Founders · · Score: 1

    when you lock your women in the basement.

  10. A more practical use on Tiny Ion Engine Runs On Water · · Score: 1

    Instead of interplanetary travel, how about using these thrusters to deorbit the cubesats at their end of life so they don't become spacejunk?

  11. Because there is no legal way on Business Is Booming In the 'Zero-Day' Game · · Score: 1

    When legal hackers get prosecuted it's no wonder they flock to the black markets.

  12. Re:Was the Internet a mistake? on Business Is Booming In the 'Zero-Day' Game · · Score: 1

    No, it wasn't. Whether you get hacked or not is entirely up to you. Why would I care if other people using unsecure systems get hacked?

  13. Yes, it should be updated on Reconciling Human Rights With Ubiquitous Online Surveillance · · Score: 1

    The UDHR is overly generic, contradictory and tries to regulate way too many things. The reason it doesn't get respected because it's impossible to live up to it, or even interpret it. It should be rewritten from scratch, containing only the basic natural rights, specified in a concrete, objective and consistent way.

  14. Re:Electrical Engineer / Computer Engineer on Electrical Engineering Labor Pool Shrinking · · Score: 1

    Theoretically, CS should be math, CE should be programming and EE should be hardware, but there's plenty of overlap. Most companies around here will hire either for either position.

  15. Re:But ... But ... But ... on Energy Production Causes Big US Earthquakes · · Score: 1

    They are safer than if nothing had happened. An earthquake is far too powerful to be caused by geothermal or fracking. What happens is that the tension that was already there gets released. And it's better if it gets released before it can build up to a big quake.

  16. But he lacks one skill on Discovering NSA Code Names Via LinkedIn · · Score: 5, Funny

    All these skills and he still didn't figure out how to turn off capslock.

  17. Re:This is the slope before the cliff on PC Sales See 'Longest Decline' In History · · Score: 2

    Now, this signals that PCs have been universally adopted. Now that everybody has one, the sales will obviously decline. But this only means that the growth period of PCs is over, and that personal computing has reached maturity.

  18. Phobos? on NASA Wants To Bring Back Hunks of Mars In Future Unmanned Mission · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Bringing back material from Mars's moons may be an easier first step.

  19. Beautiful on 3-D Structures Built Out of Liquid Metal At Room Temperature · · Score: 2

    I don't care how practical it is, I could watch this thing all day long.

  20. Re:A military solution? on Fighting Street Gangs With Military Counter-Insurgency Software · · Score: 1

    More than you think. It already managed to get dangerous military technology into almost every household.

  21. Re:Probably a prank gone wrong. on Lead Developer of Yum Killed In Hit-and-run · · Score: 2

    Sadly, this behaviour is not limited to America. Some people just get crazy once inside a car.

  22. They should disclose the vulnerabilities on Confessions of a Cyber Warrior · · Score: 1

    Disclosing these vulnerabilities would do much more against the Chinese hackers than hacking back does. Sometimes the best defence is defence.

  23. Harsh for humans on NASA's Polar Robotic Ranger Passes Test In One of Earth's Harshest Places · · Score: 2

    Greenland is only harsh for humans. Curiously, it's easier to build a rover for a Martian or an arctic weather than to build one that can withstand rain, mud, vegetation etc.

  24. No need for an academy on Deus Ex Creator On How a Video-Game Academy Could Fix the Industry · · Score: 2

    The indie scene is already fixing the industry. The big guys can adapt or die.

  25. Re:Another possible lesson on The Dangers of Beating Your Kickstarter Goal · · Score: 2

    How do you know that?