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  1. Re:who in their right mind would willingly submit? on Employees In Swedish Office Complex Volunteer For RFID Implants For Access · · Score: 1

    You missed the point, which is that it didn't start with tattoos.

  2. Re: who in their right mind would willingly submit on Employees In Swedish Office Complex Volunteer For RFID Implants For Access · · Score: 1

    Just walking around with a phone, or a face, is already enough to lose your AC status.

  3. Re:Is it really that bad for privacy? on Employees In Swedish Office Complex Volunteer For RFID Implants For Access · · Score: 1

    I'm no RFID expert, but it's just used for identification, right?

    Contactless payments are another useful application.

  4. A table will run out of entries. It's better to use something that can be dynamically generated. For instance, you can generate a random string, ask the RFID device to encrypt it with its private key, and then you can verify it with a public key. That way, all you need is a table that links public keys to employees/customers.

  5. Re:who in their right mind would willingly submit? on Employees In Swedish Office Complex Volunteer For RFID Implants For Access · · Score: 1

    Things in WW2 had already turned shitty. The tattoos came later.

  6. Short range RFID devices with encryption aren't nearly as useful for the NSA as mobile phones that can be tracked from a mile away.

  7. Re:Fuck Google on Google-Advised Disney Cartoon Aims To Convince Preschool Girls Coding's Cool · · Score: 1

    anybody who spends time coding and really thinking about why the code works the way it does and how to improve it is going to get good eventually

    I know quite a few people who are coding every day, and still suck at it.

  8. Re:Fuck Google on Google-Advised Disney Cartoon Aims To Convince Preschool Girls Coding's Cool · · Score: 1

    All the latest neuroscience shows that new neural pathways develop in response to activity

    To a point, yes.

    Nobody is innately a badass coder.

    No, but some people have the innate abilities that can turn them into a badass coder, while others don't. Nobody is born as a concert pianist, but some people are born with a feel for music that allows them to become one.

  9. Re:What about the No. 1 reason? on Google-Advised Disney Cartoon Aims To Convince Preschool Girls Coding's Cool · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If all boys were encouraged, why is it that only the nerdy/geeky boys really got into it ?

  10. Re:Fuck Google on Google-Advised Disney Cartoon Aims To Convince Preschool Girls Coding's Cool · · Score: 1

    The issue was not, and has never been one of innate capacity. It is one if interest. And interest breeds capacity.

    Interest and capacity go hand in hand. Very few people are interested in pursuing things they lack the capacity for.

  11. Re:Different market segments on What Happened To the Photography Industry In 2014? · · Score: 1

    It would be a relatively easy software change to make continuous pictures, pause when you hit the screen, and then allow you rewind 1-2 seconds to pick the best moment.

  12. Re: Not the Turing test! on The Poem That Passed the Turing Test · · Score: 1

    Q: Please write me a sonnet on the subject of the Forth Bridge.

    How many human subjects would be able to do that, I wonder.

  13. Re:Still going strong on What Happened To the Photography Industry In 2014? · · Score: 1

    One person still using rolls of film does not mean "going strong".

  14. Re:Idiots... on What Happened To the Photography Industry In 2014? · · Score: 2

    Most people don't really keep their photos anyway. They show them to their (online) friends, and get on with their life.

  15. Re:Designer babies on British MPs Approve 3-Parent Babies · · Score: 1

    There is no shortage of kids awaiting adoption. Until all of them are adopted, I don't think any of the in vitro techniques that we have in use today should have been allowed

    With that logic, why would you even allow people getting babies through regular intercourse, until all existing babies are adopted ?

  16. Re:how do they do it today? on New Fiber Optic Signal Processing Technique Doubles Communication Distance · · Score: 1

    A cable with resistive losses beats having no cable at all.

  17. Ocean cables are quite popular, even between places that can be connected over land.

    http://www.submarinecablemap.c...

  18. Re:Artists often get little on Major Record Labels Keep 73% of Spotify Payouts · · Score: 1

    The performer is just as important as the composer for a good music

    The guy who cleans the blocked sewer pipe is also just as important. Doesn't mean he's an artist.

  19. Re:LPG FTW on Lowering the Cost of Biofuel Production · · Score: 1

    The 'practical' bit was implied.

  20. Re:What ethical concern ? on British MPs Approve 3-Parent Babies · · Score: 4, Informative

    It doesn't even require an embryo, just an unfertilized egg cell from another woman.

  21. Re:Totally an overreaction on Art Project Causes Atlanta Police To Close Highway and Call Bomb Squad · · Score: 1

    And your damage calculations already misses the fact that if it was a bomb and it exploded, it would still have "a whole lot of people delayed by the shutdown",

    You still need to multiply these costs by the probably that it was actually a bomb, which is a very small number.

  22. Re:LPG FTW on Lowering the Cost of Biofuel Production · · Score: 1

    Can you make LPG from bio sources ?

  23. Re:Artists often get little on Major Record Labels Keep 73% of Spotify Payouts · · Score: 5, Funny

    Note that the word "artist" usually refers to the autotune operator, not the singer.

  24. Re:I don't know, you could... on Art Project Causes Atlanta Police To Close Highway and Call Bomb Squad · · Score: 1

    Sure buddy, and then you just write the permit number on a bomb instead. You didn't expect us to see through your silly plot, did you ?

  25. Re:Plenty of other creatures haven't "evolved" on Deep-Sea Microorganism Hasn't Evolved For Over 2 Billion Years · · Score: 1

    Most likely, in some area, fish got regularly stuck in mud pools, and the adaptations helped them survive longer until the next rain. Breathing air and the ability to get around a bit would be advantages.