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  1. Re:Execute the fastest way possible on Oklahoma Says It Will Now Use Nitrogen Gas As Its Backup Method of Execution · · Score: 1

    I am an opponent of the death penalty, but one minute of holding breath is not the same. When you are holding breath, you have stored oxygen in your blood. After decapitation there is no more blood flowing.

  2. Re:The wider social context - people distrust scie on FBI Overstated Forensic Hair Matches In Nearly All Trials Before 2000 · · Score: 1

    AGW and antivaxxers fly in the face of established science. With hair forensics there was no established science, just an echo chamber of 'experts' under pressures to prove guilt. This is just FBI cases. What about state and other cases based on the same science? What of other "scientific" forensic processes then and now that a jury can't possibly understand. All a jury knows is that a congenial, nicely dressed, "expert" with superior "credentials, certifications, education, and achievements" states that the scumbag in the defense chair must have done it. I do not care if the defendant is a dick of the first order and that they have the right guy a larger percentage of the time. It is unacceptable to let any innocent person rot in prison or be killed falsely.

  3. Re:Brian Fox is a Black Man on LG Split Screen Software Compromises System Security · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's in response to the trolling,racist, parent comment. That is why his race is mentioned. It to s not obvious the comment has a parent since the author removed the re and changed the title. Click parent on that post and see for yourself the anus of society.

  4. Re:The web crawler would only index it if... on Has Google Indexed Your Backup Drive? · · Score: 2

    Robots.txt is about as secure as leaving a cash drawer with the key in it and a post-it that states "please leave cash inside".

  5. Already there for music videos on Google To Offer Ad-Free YouTube - At a Price · · Score: 2

    If you subscribe to google play music, you tube music vids are ad free, and you can download for offline viewing on a mobile device. In addition you can finally listen to any youtube video with the screen off.

  6. Re:Water Schmater on The Solar System Is Awash In Water · · Score: 1

    Not exactly ethanol, but: http://phys.org/news63346824.h...

  7. Re:But But But It's the Handouts That Are Bankrupt on How the Pentagon Wasted $10 Billion On Military Projects · · Score: 1
    Well let's see. Pork and graft in government (primarily military) spending... wastes billions, a few get rich, stuf is built to kill people. We all pay, and it is the status quo.

    Fraud and abuse in social programs.. a fairly low percentage of the total spent, millions of people get a little help or hand up, and we arent using the money to kill people.

    Your Kompressor example is an anecdote. Waste in spending is the norm. I am not saying that either end of the spectrum could not be administered better - they certainly could - however, a few fraudsters (or a few thousand) getting an extra 200 a month is much less than one pork barrel project that costs .5B when it is known to be unlikely at best. And it is less still than the corporations who socialize losses by not offering fulltime or decent wage jobs, placing the profits in their pockets and the burden on the taxpayer.

  8. Re:testing method? on Verizon Subscribers Can Now Opt Out of "Supercookies" · · Score: 0

    Lease or build a stingray and connect to it. It should have deep packet inspection capabilities and catch things before being stripped on Verizon's network.

  9. Lies, damn lies and half-truths. on We're In a Golden Age of Star Trek Webseries Right Now · · Score: 2, Funny

    We are not in a golden age, but a dilithuim age. It is not sluggish and gilded, but moving a warp speed! Where is it moving.. well, sensors are down right now.

  10. Re: Not everyone on NSA: We Mulled Ending Phone Program Before Edward Snowden Leaks · · Score: 1

    On occasion. Typically what it accomplishes as a switch in position of the upper and middle classes, on the backs of the lowest classes, many of whom may get a slight nudge upward in power/money/class to blind them to the truth.

  11. Re:Stars collision rarity on Dark Matter Is Even More of a Mystery Than Expected · · Score: 2

    It is because space is BIG. Look at our galaxy, our closest neighbor is what 4.6 lightyears away. Even if you double the amount of stars in the same space, they will interact gravitationally sure, but colliding is like dumping 1000 toothpicks in random places in the oceans and having them collide.

  12. Re:flawed approach on Amazon Robot Contest May Accelerate Warehouse Automation · · Score: 1

    I am simply stating that AZ already makes requirements of sellers. It is cheaper for them to require standard prep and packaging than to create a robot that can handle all situations. Given the amount of product they move, it is not a far stretch to imagine them starting to require it and sellers capitulating.

  13. flawed approach on Amazon Robot Contest May Accelerate Warehouse Automation · · Score: 1
    I have a side business as an Amazon FBA seller. One thing that is often required is item preparation before sending it to an AZ warehouse. This can be bagging, bubble wrapping, etc depending on the item. Amazon also already has frustration free packaging for many items. instead of the impossible clam shell its a simple cardboard sleeve for many items.

    Looking at this, I see it as possible in the future for amazon to require manufacturers and sellers to package items in standard size and shape boxes to make it easy for the bots.

  14. So, its a Gorn? on Meet the Carolina Butcher, a 9-Foot Crocodile That Walked On Two Legs · · Score: 1
    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...

    Just need some lasers to mount on its head...

  15. Re:good, Google Play needs cleaned up on Google 'Experts' To Screen Android Apps For Banned Content · · Score: 1
    What utter nonsense. Yes there is tons of shit in the play store. But I know that Word from microsoft is likely to be malware free if not usable. JoBobs Office clone, not so much. This is the same as if I searched on my PC or walked into brick and mortar.

    I will use my experience to tell me what is good or bad. JoBob's office may be malware. However, it may be the best thing since sliced bread, but by increasing barriers to entry, I may never know. Give me the choice please.

    If you want someone to spoonfeed you what they think is good for you, that is certainly something you can do. But it is not for me.

  16. Re:Yet another Ted Cruz bashing article ! on Politics Is Poisoning NASA's Ability To Do Science · · Score: 1

    NASA has done great things on a limited budget. When you speak of cancelling pie in the sky projects, that is not NASAs doing, that is some administration, or congresscriters pushing for a project, funding it to pass pork around to their corporate constituents or bring 'jobs' to their state, then them or another group cancelling it later because OMG costs so much! When it is a fraction of the defense budget,

  17. Re:Yet another Ted Cruz bashing article ! on Politics Is Poisoning NASA's Ability To Do Science · · Score: 1

    Red or blue or green, there is no monopoly on stupidity. Just that the various stupidities differ.

  18. Really? on Education Company Monitors Social Media For Test References · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I am as anti-spying as the next guy,but monitoring public postings to prevent cheating is not spying. If you re going to lie, cheat or steal, pass your notes in a private location.

  19. Re:What they really proved... on NASA Ames Reproduces the Building Blocks of Life In Laboratory · · Score: 1
    http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki...

    Where was it discredited? There has been much revision of our knowledge of the early atmosphere, but his principles were sound. If you hate science that trys to find the origin of life, go back to church and pray to your diety of choice to prove otherwise. But pleas quit spewing outright lies. Most likely that is a sin in your belief system anyway.

  20. TL-DR on Would You Need a License To Drive a Self-Driving Car? · · Score: 1, Insightful
    As with any new technology, society and by proxy the government will struggle with its place and rules in said society. There will be oversteps, misses, and oversights.

    There will be detractors, luddites, and evangelists, sociopaths and attention whores all vying for a moment in the sun.

    Welcome to the human race. I'll go get my popcorn.

  21. Re:MVNOs.. on Google Prepares To Enter Wireless Market As an MVNO · · Score: 1

    $54 per month.

  22. Re:Nope..... on New Seagate Shingled Hard Drive Teardown · · Score: 1

    I never said it was Seagares fault or burden. A users actions are thier own. That said Seagate does have a much higher failure rate, and this tech could greatly complicate data recovery in a failure scenario. Given this I can not in good conscience recommend it to my customers.

  23. Re:MVNOs.. on Google Prepares To Enter Wireless Market As an MVNO · · Score: 1

    Ting now works on CDMA (sprint) and GSM (tmobile). If you have a phne with all the bands,it is as simple as buying another sim ($9) and popping it in.

  24. Re:MVNOs.. on Google Prepares To Enter Wireless Market As an MVNO · · Score: 1

    I don't know how an MVNO can be cheaper than a carrier except for cheapskates who want those weird, super low-end plans because they're always on wifi and only use their phone for emergency calls away from wifi. I can't see an MVNO ever able to buy airtime and sell it cheaper than carriers can directly without strange limits or associating with a sucky carrier with shitty coverage and slow data.

    I'd like an MVNO that could associate with multiple carriers, let me rank those carriers by preference but override my preference if another carrier has a better signal by some threshold as well as provide VoIP service to my PC or any of the cheap SIP devices.

    I use ting. My main contacts use hangouts or kik for messaging, so texting is low. I use my phone as a media player but store most of the music on the phone. 32 GB is plenty if managed correctly. Calling is low, as my main contacts use messaging more. I am at work or home mostly and wifi is automatic. When I travel on 2-3 weekends a month, hotel wifi is mostly free, and enough for phone data. Consequently, even though I browse quite a bit my data usage is typically under 1.5GB per month.
    This is for me and my (gasp yes as a slashdotter, girlfriend). Our average ting bill is So with proper management and expectations (neither of which are difficult), MVNOs can be useful. Plus ting is branching out to gig fiber! And launching in my town 1st. I cannot wait!

    Am I biased? Yes, but I have been extremely satisfied with my experience with ting so far, both in price and customer service.

  25. Nope..... on New Seagate Shingled Hard Drive Teardown · · Score: 4, Insightful
    From TFA

    The real question is whether or not Seagate can maintain similar full drive performance compared to a non-SMR drive.

    No.The real question is longevity. Per backblaze and my own anecdotal experience, Seagate drives already have a higher failure rate. Looking at this, any firmware bug or flaw could result in massive data loss of an entire 'band' if written incorrectly.

    I understand that in any environment backups are crucial, but I live in the real world. A world where small and medium size business (for good or ill) neglect IT until it bites them. At least with regular drives recovery is often possible with block for block copies, and baring that a clean room has a good chance of recovering crucial data.

    If a user has a performance need, I can suggest an SSD or SSD+HDD config with appropriate redundancy and backups. For pure space, large HDDs in an appropriate RAID or ZFS work fine. Per TFS, this is not ready for heavily drive loaded server configs yet, and i do not see a need in residential, or small biz or workstation use where other solutions are far better. To me this is currently a product looking for a solution, and one that is risky to data to boot.