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  1. Re:Shameful that it took so long on 1 World Trade Center Becomes the Tallest Building In NYC · · Score: 1

    The original one took almost 7 years to complete, and that was in a booming economy, not a post-crisis market with no demand for estates. Also, planning takes some time too, you can't just start right away.

  2. Re:It only causes measurement problems on New Study Suggests Wind Farms Can Cause Climate Change · · Score: 1

    But local temperatures aren't independent of the global climate. Assuming that global warming is caused by CO2 emissions, by the function of energy production fossil fuels cause a logarithmic surface temperature increase, while windfarms only cause a constant one. The temperature increase is constrained to a small area, while the electricity generated can be transported much further. Windfarms aren't built in preservations where a change in the microclimate would have consequences.

  3. It only causes measurement problems on New Study Suggests Wind Farms Can Cause Climate Change · · Score: 3, Informative

    Windfarms only cause apparent climate change when meteorologists have their thermometers on the ground. Mixing air of different temperatures doesn't heat it, not while the conservation of energy is valid.

  4. Re:Burden of proof on Facebook 'Likes' Aren't Protected Speech · · Score: 1

    First of all, presumption of innocence is a human right. That is, it's given to all humans, but not necessarily given to other legal entities like corporations. Second, the reason for this is that in an employment case the employer has access to almost all the relevant data. And when the employee does have some proof of their own, it tends to be illegally aquired. The problem is that all the data that could be used as a proof is property of the company. To resolve this asymmetry, employees have the burden of proof.

  5. Re:Burden of proof on Facebook 'Likes' Aren't Protected Speech · · Score: 1

    The easiest way is not hiring lazy bastards in the first place. There are usually a few months of initiation period during which an employee can be fired anytime without reason. If you think that they aren't good enough, you simply don't hire them afterwards (or even fire them before it ends).

  6. Re:Google should grow some balls on Google Releases FCC Report On Street View Probe · · Score: 1

    While GSM security isn't perfect, it's far from being unencrypted either, if you want to eavesdrop on a phonecall you have to do some hacking for it. This is more like putting up a billboard in your garden with your data written on it, or phoning in into a program telling them your mother's name and then suing everyone with a radio.

  7. Evil laughter on Navy To Auction Stealth Ship · · Score: 1

    The ex-sea shadow shall be disposed of by completely dismantling and scrapping within the U.S.A

    Yeah, like you can find me if I don't !
    (filter doesn't let me post the original legal text apparently)

  8. Communication failure on Fly-By-Wire Contributed To Air France 447 Disaster · · Score: 1

    It wasn't mechanical feedback that was lacking. The crew should have communicated better.

  9. Burden of proof on Facebook 'Likes' Aren't Protected Speech · · Score: 4, Informative

    I don't know about America but here in Europe this is one of the rare cases when the burden of proof is on the accused. The employer has to prove that the justification he gave when firing those people was valid. In a case like this, he would have to prove that there wasn't enough money. If he fails to do that, for example because he hired new people to fill the empty positions, then he loses.

    The problem here is that even if 'likes' were considered free speech, it would be almost impossible to prove that they were fired because of that.

  10. Google should grow some balls on Google Releases FCC Report On Street View Probe · · Score: 1

    Instead of sacrificing a scapegoat Google should man up and tell the FCC to fuck off. Those who broadcast their personal data in every direction have no claim of privacy.

  11. Re:This is the future... on Graphene Helps a Robot Creep Like an Inchworm · · Score: 3, Informative

    This kind of shapeshifting only works on a small scale where you don't need much force. For big, strong robots you can use pneumatics/hydraulics for smooth movement.

  12. GPS? on Pigeons May 'Hear' Magnetic Fields · · Score: 1

    Individual neurons in birds' brains can relay crucial information about Earth's magnetic field, possibly providing the animals with an 'internal GPS'.

    You mean compass.

  13. No need on Why Apple's Next Revolution Should Be In Your Car · · Score: 1

    When you have an mp3 player and a GPS in your phone there is no need to have one in your car too.

  14. Games on Hobbit Film Underwhelms At 48 Frames Per Second · · Score: 1

    We already have video games running at much higher framerates, it's about time the movie industry caught up with the times. Most nature documentaries are already filmed at a few hundred fps and then have to be sampled back, which is a shame.

  15. Re:Just six static probes? Good grief. on BOLD Plan To Find Mars Life On the Cheap · · Score: 2

    Even if life exists or once existed on Mars, there's no guarantees its presence would leave a mark everywhere.

    If it's anything like terrestrial life, it would.

    But you are right in that this project will not give a definitive answer. There are many points of failure, the instruments can go wrong, the craft can introduce contamination to the sample etc. The only solid proof would be returning some soil sample to earth and finding the actual bacteria in it, but currently that's out of our reach both financially and technically.

  16. Re:So where is the positive side? on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Most Dangerous Lines of Scientific Inquiry? · · Score: 1

    So the positive side of it is finding a cure to the epidemic it caused? This is circular logic.

  17. So where is the positive side? on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Most Dangerous Lines of Scientific Inquiry? · · Score: 1

    They came up with a non-definitive list of four technologies with the potential to do great good or great harm

    Ok, now tell me what great good can a virus epidemic cause.

  18. Re:observable data set - 1 planet with life on Is Extraterrestrial Life More Whimsical Than Plausible? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This. We can't even confirm or deny the existence of life on Venus or Mars.

  19. Re:How much free frequencies are left? on White Space Wireless Broadband Trial In UK Is a Success · · Score: 2

    Bah, they will just use pneumatic mail like folks always did!

  20. The point of number line is not to teach numbers on Study Suggests the Number-Line Concept Is Not Intuitive · · Score: 1

    The point of number line is not to teach numbers but to show the analogy between numbers and distances/segments, connecting geometry and arithmetics. And for that purpose, it's perfect.

  21. A MAC adress is only 6 bytes which is easy to bruteforce.

  22. Re:When will people learn... on C/C++ Back On Top of the Programming Heap? · · Score: 1

    I was answering to the claim that OOP is dying because of paralellisation, making the argument that Java does concurrency fine while being a strictly OOP language. Of course, most of the usual problems of multithreading also exist in it, and garbage collection adds another set of things you need to be aware of, but it's still an improvement. But yeah, no language will write the program instead of you if you lack the skills.

  23. Polishing a turd on Hacking the Law · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The only way to make the legal system logical would be to throw it out and build another system from scratch.

  24. We already have chep chicken tasting like fish on Scientists Clone Sheep With 'Good' Fat · · Score: 1

    Now we'll have lamb tasting like it, too.

  25. Re:Unpublished work on Harvard: Journals Too Expensive, Switch To Open Access · · Score: 1

    But in that case they could just switch the order and publish in the well-known journal first, and the open one second.