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  1. Re:no testing I guess? on Kenya Police: Our Fake Bomb Detectors Are Real · · Score: 2

    I think you're right. Run three lines with conspicuous fake bomb detectors on two, and all the bombs will pass through the third line.

  2. Break up the company on Windows: Not Doomed Yet · · Score: 1

    Let the separate parts of the company innovate more freely from each other.

  3. Re:Okay, so, just to be clear... on IRS Can Read Your Email Without Warrant · · Score: 4, Informative

    If postal mail passes through an IRS person's hands for some legal reason, I believe they are legally entitled to read all the postcards in your mail, as there is no expectation of privacy on them, given that they're postcards. Email is the same way: the contents are naked, written on the side of the packets for anyone on a given network segment to view if the traffic comes their way. Just as we put mail in envelopes, we should encrypt our email if it's not for anyone and everyone to read if they happen to be standing "near" it when it goes by.

  4. Re:Yes. on Do Nations Have the Right To Kill Enemy Hackers? · · Score: 0

    And how do you tell if the hacker is "part of", or working for / at the behest of, an enemy state? The enemy state may find it beneficial to make it as difficult as possible to determine that someone is working for them, since it seems like it would benefit both the state and the hacker to do that.

  5. Need to be two of these on Solowheel is for People Who Think a Segway is Boring (Video) · · Score: 0

    Where's the video of someone with one of these on each foot?

  6. Re:Settle criminal charges? on BP and Three Executives Facing Criminal Charges Over Oil Spill · · Score: 0

    A *company* can settle criminal charges with a load of cash. People cannot. So it's still legit.

  7. Re:OMFG Reagan was right? on Israel's Iron Dome Missile Defense Shield Actually Works · · Score: 0

    If the target isn't moving at a significant fraction of the speed of light, laser weapons can fry most anything in their range.

  8. Re:Isn't the game long enough already? on 5000 fps Camera Reveals the Physics of Baseball · · Score: 0

    I'll raise a pint of lager in the pub to this.

  9. Re:you know what? on Making Driverless Cars Safer · · Score: -1

    7. replace airbags with spikes, to discourage accidents.

  10. Re:I wonder if it might help to record video... on Making Driverless Cars Safer · · Score: 0

    In these parts, existing in a public place removes any "expectation of privacy".

  11. Re:not really a bad thing on SpaceX Launch Not So Perfect After All · · Score: 0

    If they're ex-employees, it's not called poaching.

  12. What are you doing now to change the world? on Ask Steve Wozniak Anything · · Score: 0

    You helped change the world a lot, as understood by most people who know anything about how the Apple computer came to be. What are you working on to change the world now, and why?

  13. Re:Even better than that on Light Bulb Ban Produces Hoarding In EU, FUD In U.S. · · Score: 0

    That's fine if you don't mind being hot on one side and cold on the other.

  14. Re:Cows eat Grass on Sweet Times For Cows As Gummy Worms Replace Corn Feed · · Score: 0

    The sample size of your study is impressive. Were your conclusions peer-reviewed?

  15. Re:Dur on Asking Slashdot: Converting an SUV Into an Hybrid Diesel-Electric? · · Score: 0

    It was intended as a joke, not an insult, but you've just said that it's true, which either means it is an insult, regardless of how it was intended, or you're now creating an insult which coincidentally reads exactly the same as the original "joke". That's like people who say racist things but they only say them ironically, or they only intend them as a joke - not an insult.

  16. Re:Dumb reading on Assange Requests Asylum In Ecuador · · Score: 0

    I'm sure the USA won't snatch him for additional crimes they think he has committed against the USA once he has traveled to Sweden for prosecution of these "violent crimes."

  17. Re:What about genomic testing before marriage/mati on Sequencing the Unborn · · Score: 1

    How could they not resist such power and control?

    What you wrote here does not make sense.

  18. Secure? on Know What Time It Is? Your Medical Device Doesn't · · Score: 1

    NTP is secure, right? Nobody can jump on the hospital network and impersonate the NTP server(s) and set times incorrectly on devices, causing them to do bad things like produce false readings or overadminister drugs, yes?

  19. Re:Probably lost the sale, too! on Russian Superjet 100 Crashes During Demo Flight, Killing All Aboard · · Score: 1

    [[It's not up to us to judge you, though.]] I don't see that stopping anyone...

  20. Re:Probably lost the sale, too! on Russian Superjet 100 Crashes During Demo Flight, Killing All Aboard · · Score: 1

    Remember that someone who lives out the rest of their life starting to colonize Mars, even if highly successful in his or her work and providing great benefit to later colonizers, will be "killed" by the mission. Just like if they stay on Earth and retire, they will eventually be killed by old age on Earth. I have no problem "killing" Astronauts by sending them to Mars to start a successful colony there, and like other posters here I'm sure we can find willing participants willing to do it. You almost can't not sign them up: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/01/10/space-volunteer-way-mission-mars/

  21. Re:new slogan on TSA's mm-Wave Body Scanner Breaks Diabetic Teen's $10K Insulin Pump · · Score: 4, Funny

    [[Third, the scanners routinely emit a lot more radiation than the makers claim.]]
    This has never been proven, and it *cannot* ever be proven as long as TSA won't allow anyone else to test the machines.
    In the absence of evidence to the contrary, then, these machines must be deemed safe.~

  22. Re:Correlation is not causation on Growing Evidence of Football Causing Brain Damage · · Score: 1

    [[If I recall, the average NFL player dies over 10 years earlier than the average American.]] If I recall, the average NFL player lives 5 times harder than the average American, having started out fairly average (on average) in upbringing then being vaulted to the top 1% of income and fame nearly instantly. But, yes, also repeatedly bashed in the head. Also, the average NFL player inserts into his body more steroids than the average American and is built way different, which may indicate natural differences similar to steroid use. I wonder if these statistics have been applied to the special teams at all. Do kickers die earlier? They don't get hit in the head that much.

  23. Re:Why invent a new standard? on Open Compute Developing Wider Rack Standard · · Score: 1

    Did that 97% efficiency standard account for removing the waste heat, also? Or was it assumed the waste heat could be freely discharged into the ambient environment and there would be enough "natural air flow" to continue doing so indefinitely?

  24. Re:metric? on Open Compute Developing Wider Rack Standard · · Score: 1

    [[should not eat the fluffy white powder on the ground when it has yellow tint]] There is no situation under which it is advisable to eat the fluffy white powder on the ground when it has a yellow tint.