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  1. Re:Segways? on Is Google Glass Too Nerdy For the Mainstream? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The Segway was a solution looking for a problem.

  2. I see now on Living In a Virtual World Requires Less Brain Power · · Score: 2

    That explains how some folks here on the Internet are capable to exist.

  3. Re:Guilty til proven innocent on Dutch Bill Seeks To Give Law Enforcement Hacking Powers · · Score: 1

    It would be pointless to collect evidence after conviction. This is really no different from phone tapping, it requires a warranty that's only issued when there's reasonable suspicion.

  4. Re:Why? on Repeal of Louisiana Science Education Act Rejected · · Score: 1

    Isn't this law basically about giving that decision to the teachers instead of politicians?

  5. Re:History on Repeal of Louisiana Science Education Act Rejected · · Score: 2

    Yeah, all DVD players are based on a mass spectrometer.

  6. Re:What about lesbian couples? on So What If Yahoo's New Dads Get Less Leave Than Moms? · · Score: 1

    No, because they can't procreate.

  7. Re:Equal rights on So What If Yahoo's New Dads Get Less Leave Than Moms? · · Score: 1

    Newborn children need to spend time with their mother. You're just giving munition to the feminists by making a problem out of it.

  8. Re:Playing the race card again on Florida Teen Expelled and Arrested For Science Experiment · · Score: 1

    Panic of school bombings is a much more likely explanation.

  9. Re:Dirty on Energy Production Is As 'Dirty' As Ever · · Score: 2

    Indeed, I hate when radical greens confuse pollution with greenhouse emission.

  10. Re:Come back on The Balkanization of Chatting · · Score: 1

    Yeah, shame it grew so old. IRC is outdated.

  11. Re:What am I missing? on Does Antimatter Fall Up? · · Score: 1

    If I understand it right, they also wanted to check whether the gravity of antimatter is a fraction of the gravity of normal matter. So they needed some other force to measure gravity against.

  12. Re:The answer is... on Does Antimatter Fall Up? · · Score: 2

    And now we have proof of that. Most science isn't groundbreaking, but that doesn't make this experiment less important.

  13. Re:Do Canadian credit cards for sub $10? on In Canada, a Government-Backed Electronic Currency · · Score: 0

    How exactly can a P2P digital currency be anonymous?

  14. Re:You can't estimate this linearly on German Ministry of Education Throws Away PCs For 190,000 € Due To Infection · · Score: 1

    I don't know where exactly these machines were used in the German education system, but my high school did an automatic reimaging of most machines every midnight. So yes, it cost exactly zero. It's not magic, not outside the reach of a school, nor does it need lots of time and work when properly configured. But if remote reimaging isn't an option, you still don't have to do it one desktop at a time. Do it parallel, and it can be done in two weeks.
    Warning people about their data should occur at the time of the virus detection, not at cleanup. It's the cost of the infection, replacing the machines would also make the old data unavailable.

  15. You can't estimate this linearly on German Ministry of Education Throws Away PCs For 190,000 € Due To Infection · · Score: 2

    I guess they simply multiplied the cost of virus removal with the number of machines. But it only takes once to find the source of the problem, the remaining 169 machines could've been fixed at minimal cost after that. And of course, it doesn't cost a cent to just wipe them all clean.

  16. Re:Oh, good on EU To Ban Neonicotinoid Insecticides · · Score: 2

    Science hasn't been able to find the cause of CCD, and we don't have time to wait until it does. So we moved on to the next method, trial and error.

  17. Re:I won't be buying one... on New Smart Gun Company Hopes To Begin Production This Summer · · Score: 1

    Why does it have to be so reliable? The firing range isn't running anywhere. This is a civilian technology, I don't think it will be used in the military.

  18. Re:Sustainable? on Genetically Modified Plants To Produce Natural Lighting · · Score: 4, Informative

    These stuff are just decoration, they glow nicely but don't produce enough light to illuminate anything.

  19. So it analyzes former projects on Hiring Developers By Algorithm · · Score: 1

    Hiring based on previous references isn't really a new thing.

  20. Re:Forcing strong passwords in the first place. on Mitigating Password Re-Use From the Other End · · Score: 1

    Keeping the site secure is the company's responsibility. Choosing passwords is the users' responsibility. Yes, they should work on their side of the problem, and let the users decide whether they want to take the risk of a weak password.

  21. Re:Nonsense on What's Holding Back 3-D Printing · · Score: 2

    However, if I had a quality 3D printer, capable of turning out durable pieces

    The lack of durability, strength and reliability is exactly why current 3D printing has only very limited use. Pretty much the only thing you can print with it are cheap plastic toys.

  22. Re:Not enough publicity on What's Holding Back 3-D Printing · · Score: 1

    First of all, 3D modeling software only lets you design 2D shapes in 3D space. For a 3D printer, you need actual 3D shapes. For 3D printing it's much more straightforward to use a voxel editor, which do behave like Paint.

  23. Re:True Democracy on Wolfram Alpha Drills Deep Into Facebook Data · · Score: 1

    Math can be trusted

    But a closed source math program can't.

  24. Re:So nothing will be done about it? on Space Junk 'Cleaning' Missions Urgently Needed · · Score: 1

    The way it goes it's more likely that we will have armored satellites capable of withstanding an impact than that we will clean LEO.

  25. Re:Kessler syndrome is the real worry on Space Junk 'Cleaning' Missions Urgently Needed · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, China is now America's biggest ally, so they can do whatever they want.