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  1. Re:Wait, so then what? on US Educational Scores Not So Abysmal · · Score: 2

    The socioeconomic divide is largely due to immigration, and solving that would destroy what made America into what it is. That said, poor children can still learn just like everybody else, so focusing on how to educate them efficiently might help improve the scores.

  2. Re:If Scientists Ran Global Security... on Why Scientists Should Have a Greater Voice On Global Security · · Score: 1

    there would be a lot more 14-year-olds leading new scientific advances

    But their professors would take all the credit.

  3. Re:Mandatory Hearing in Congress on We The People Petition Signature Requirement Bumped To 100,000 · · Score: 1

    We have that here, but it only requires one million signatures.

  4. Re:Well, not these scientists on Why Scientists Should Have a Greater Voice On Global Security · · Score: 2

    But nuclear warfare isn't random, it's not like Putin and the President throws a dice every day to decide whether or not to launch. The chance in this case came from lack of knowledge, which over time has disappeared. By your analogy, after rolling 20s for decades, it's safe to say that the dice is loaded.

  5. Well, not these scientists on Why Scientists Should Have a Greater Voice On Global Security · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I am co-chairman of the board of sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which has supported the call for a world free of nuclear weapons — a vision backed by major foreign policy figures in both parties. But ideological biases have become so ingrained in Washington that scientific realities are subordinated to political intransigence.

    The BAS is the perfect example that scientific knowledge doesn't translate to political insight. They've been crying wolf for 60 years, and are now surprised why nobody is listening to them anymore? If science really has lost influence, it's because of people like these guys who hide behind science and call everyone 'anti-science' who disagrees with them.

  6. Re:Slashvertisement on The Atlantic's Scientology Advertorial · · Score: 3, Funny

    When does slashdot run ads for crack cocaine?

    There's a weed story every other week.

  7. Re:Why do we need flexible phones? on Researchers Develop Solid But Flexible Electrolyte For Bendable Batteries · · Score: 1

    Right now we have three kinds of portable devices: phones, tablets and laptops. A foldable, self-powered touchscreen could serve as all three, while communicating with the computing unit in your bag/pocket wirelessly.

  8. Re:Don't DEAL with problems, SOLVE them... on Malware Infects US Power Facilities Through USB Drives · · Score: 1

    I wonder whether the power lines could be used for communication, as a separate intranet.

  9. Re:Scan the security cameras... on Malware Infects US Power Facilities Through USB Drives · · Score: 1

    But that argument goes both ways, you can disable autorun in Windows as well.

  10. Re:I Love the Thought Process Here on Instagram Loses Almost Half Its Daily Users In a Month · · Score: 1

    In capitalism customers will go to the service with better conditions, what's so surprising in that? After a while, big businesses will either learn or continue being replaced by a steady supply of startups. The users don't lose on this.

  11. Re:Huh? on US DOJ Claims It Did Not Entrap Megaupload · · Score: 4, Informative

    Hosting infringing files is allowed under the DMCA, not deleting them upon request from somebody claiming to own a copyright on it is what's illegal, which they say they weren't allowed to do.

  12. Bad science warning on The Science of Game Strategy · · Score: 1

    The research didn't study humans and has nothing to do with humans. It studied learning computer algorithms, which are now sometimes used in economics. The researchers claim that their work suggests something about human behaviour without having studied a single human. They should have their science licence revoked.

  13. Re:How strong? on New Threadlike Carbon Nanotube Fiber Unveiled · · Score: 1

    Carbon is biodegradable

    And metals rust, yet this has nothing to do with recycling. If anything, being vulnerable to corrosion is a disadvantage.

    How do you think we recycle cotton (which is carbon)

    No, it's cellulose.

  14. Re:How strong? on New Threadlike Carbon Nanotube Fiber Unveiled · · Score: 1

    We already recycle metals, which would be much harder with carbon.

  15. Re:Awesome! on New Threadlike Carbon Nanotube Fiber Unveiled · · Score: 2

    TFA says it's as strong as carbon fiber, which suggests that they couldn't translate the strenght of nanotubes into macroscale perfectly. Still, being able to massproduce CNTs is a huge leap forward.

  16. Re:What is enough? on Smart Ice Cubes Tell When You've Had Enough Alcohol · · Score: 1

    There are quite a few factors in play, my point was that knowing amount isn't enough to tell how drunk you are.

  17. What is enough? on Smart Ice Cubes Tell When You've Had Enough Alcohol · · Score: 2

    I find that the same amount of alcohol has very different effect in different times. Sometimes two beers are enough, other times I simply can't get drunk.

  18. Re:Yawn on US Attorney Chided Swartz On Day of Suicide · · Score: 1

    Why is this modded as troll? People are responsible for their own actions. A person's death is a tragedy, but searching for people to blame after every death is stupid.

  19. Why on Earth would you want these? on Telepresence Robot Rundown · · Score: 1

    When I can't attend a social event I'm happy to have an excuse not to, I definitely wouldn't want to waste my time driving around a webcam on a moving coathanger.

  20. Re:One question. on All New Homes In China Must Have Fiber Optic Internet Connections · · Score: 1

    Quite hard, just learning the alphabet takes years.

  21. Re:Only this on Star Wars Live-Action Show Could Still Happen · · Score: 1

    The new BSG had little in common with the old one to be honest. Come to think of it, the old one was very much like a Star Wars series, especially the intro.

  22. Anonymous isn't protesting anymore on Anonymous Files Petition To Make DDoS Legal Form of Protest · · Score: 0

    They broke their own rules and started using all kinds of blackhat tactics instead of just DoS. With all the illegal activities they participate in, they are not in a position to negotiate this.
    Not that I agree with it. If you choose civil disobedience as your weapon, don't cry when the cops take you away.

  23. Re:Another idiot buying into the bitcoin scam. on Online Gambling Site Bets On Bitcoin To Avoid U.S. Laws · · Score: 1

    People who go to gambling site don't mind risks. At least you don't necessarily lose on btc, unlike other gambling services.

  24. Re:In Fine Slashdot Traditon on NIH Neuroscientists: Junior Seau Had Brain Disease Caused By Hits To the Head · · Score: 1, Funny

    Well it does take an idiot to play it.
    Still better than the Slashdot tradition where instead of arguing against an opinion you simply restate it like it would somehow invalidate it.

  25. This is not book burning on Connecticut Groups Cancels Plan to Destroy Violent Games · · Score: 1

    There's a huge difference between destroying a medium with its owner's consent, and destroying books against their owner's will. Using a newspaper to light a fire doesn't make you a nazi.