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  1. Re:Brain Fingerprinting is an alternative on US Gov't Circulates Watch List of Buyers of Polygraph Training Materials · · Score: 1

    As this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_fingerprinting [wikipedia.org] article shows there is an alternative that works.

    You may need to ask your acquaintance to explain it better:

    Also, unlike polygraph testing, it does not attempt to determine whether or not the subject is lying or telling the truth.

  2. Re:Archive.org should not respect robots.txt on Britain's Conservatives Scrub Speeches from the Internet · · Score: 1

    Robots.txt is essentially a 'you may trawl, link to, and archive/copy this digital information' or 'please don't trawl, link to, and/or archive/copy this digital information'

    FTFY.

  3. Readability on Red Hat Releases Ceylon Language 1.0.0 · · Score: 1

    The language features, an emphasis upon readability

    Not inserting superfluous commas, would be a good place to start.

  4. Re:Isn't going to help I expect, but.. on US Intelligence Wants To Radically Advance Facial Recognition Software · · Score: 2

    So every time I call someone, my ass is on the line?

  5. You forgot to clean up after you copy-pasted on Physicists Plan to Build a Bigger LHC · · Score: 1

    The giant machine would dwarf all of its predecessors (see 'Lord of the rings').

    See what? The movie with the little people?

    Oh no, I see what happened. Someone copied and pasted the summary without due care and attention.

    Have you read what it says on the Submit page?

    Please try to use your own words; if you're quoting another source, make that clear.

    Either, editors, police that rule, or just remove it. Might as well do the latter since very few people actually submit their own words, as far as I can tell.

  6. Re:Old silent SIM firmware on The Second Operating System Hiding In Every Mobile Phone · · Score: 1

    The phone could probably use the power of the radiowaves in the air to do very low power things like perhaps change an e-ink display slightly.

    Wouldn't it be better to power it from ambient light (which was enough to power my calculator 20 years ago, and if there is no light there's no need to change the e-ink display ;) ) or motion?

    Shake it to wake it!

  7. Re:Excessive Peer Review is Anti-Capitalist on The Second Operating System Hiding In Every Mobile Phone · · Score: 1

    TL;DR -- Peer-review everything means trusting nothing, disclosure of everything, and loss of privacy...

    Your TL;DR needs a TL;DR.

  8. Re:"Available for public download" - AT&T and on Judge: No Privacy Expectations For Data On P2P Networks · · Score: 1

    Not many I suspect. All the porn does is stoke the fires of the perversion.

    Would you admit, though, that it's possible that for some individuals porn may in fact reduce the risk of offending?

    Use of the porn leads will lead to an actual victim at some point if the porn user lives long enough and gets the opportunity.

    Are you talking about a particular kind of porn, or just porn in general?

  9. Re:"Available for public download" - AT&T and on Judge: No Privacy Expectations For Data On P2P Networks · · Score: 1

    Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

  10. Re:"Available for public download" - AT&T and on Judge: No Privacy Expectations For Data On P2P Networks · · Score: 1

    You also appear to be refusing to admit that you could - however unlikely that may be - be wrong. That's not a good attitude to adopt.

    You'll also being a bit of a douche, again.

  11. Re:Open... on Judge: No Privacy Expectations For Data On P2P Networks · · Score: 1

    Do the police have the right to go to every public corn maze ... without a warrant?

    Yes, so:

    Do the police have the right to go to every public corn maze looking for potential marijuana operations without a warrant?

    Yes.

  12. Re:Well, duh. on Weak Statistical Standards Implicated In Scientific Irreproducibility · · Score: 1

    Found? Was he unaware that using a threshold of 0.05 means a 20% probability that a finding is a chance result - by definition ?

    1 in 20 != 20%.

    If p=0.2, then you'd be right.

  13. Re:So much for supporting open source.... on CyanogenMod Windows-Based Installer Released, With Supporting Android App · · Score: 2

    Mom? Why won't granny boot up? I thought she was just low on RAM.

  14. Re:Logic anomaly. on Puzzled Scientists Say Strange Things Are Happening On the Sun · · Score: 2

    they are positive this won't slow down global warming.

    the decline in magnetic activity could ease global warming, the scientists said.

  15. Mutually exclusive on Scientist Seeks Investment For "Alcohol Substitute" · · Score: 1

    without having to suffer the negative effects of alcohol

    subjectively indistinguishable from alcohol intoxication.

    Make your mind up.

  16. Re:Piracy makes more sense if stuff is worth money on MPAA Backs Anti-Piracy Curriculum For Elementary School Students · · Score: 1

    The argument all the kneejerkers all say is that people would stop making media for cash.

    Sounds good to me.

    Nobody was part of the Renaissance to make cash.

  17. Re:Gotta say it. on Thor: The Dark World — What Did You Think? · · Score: 1

    But not fantastic?

  18. Re:Why must we celebrate violence? on World War II's Last Surviving Doolittle Raiders Make Their Final Toast · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Perhaps you should learn the difference between celebration and commemoration.

  19. Re:IMO, it is not going to work on Why Project Flare Might Just End the Console War · · Score: 1

    Also, I've got some fucking Jaffa Cakes in my coat pocket.

  20. Re:IMO, it is not going to work on Why Project Flare Might Just End the Console War · · Score: 1

    Woah... dude... what if, like, that's why we have relativity. The computers running the universe are on Comcast.

  21. Re:Two tides on Study Explains Why Lunar Craters Are Bigger On the Near Side · · Score: 1

    This is why we have two tides [roughly] each day - the side near the moon gets attracted to the moon, while the other side gets swung around on the outside and experiences centrifugal force, pulling it away from the center.

    I heard it explained as the tidal bulge near the moon experiencing the strongest pull, the Earth in the middle a lower pull, and the bulge on the other side an even lower pull than the Earth. Does that do away with centrifugal force being needed to explain it, or is just another way of putting it?

  22. Re:Curved Display? on Apple Developing Curve Screen iPhones and Improved Sensors · · Score: 1

    How do you know which way the screen curves? All I see in the article is this:

    curves downward at the edges

    Which is ambiguous at best.

  23. Have they actually built it yet? on First Arab Supercar Costs $3.4 Million, Has Diamond-Encrusted Headlights · · Score: 1

    I see a lot of CGI, and this:

    If W Motors manages to pull it off, the Lykan Hypersport could potentially be the first car to feature an interactive holographic display system

  24. Re:i swear officer on Scientists Invent Urine-Powered Robots · · Score: 2

    Yeah, right buddy. Now are you gonna come quietly or do I have to fill up my tazer?

  25. It's not April Fools' Day... on Scientists Invent Urine-Powered Robots · · Score: 2

    ...but it definitely sounds like someone is taking the piss.