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  1. What next, your brain in a clone of your body? on Doctor Ready to Perform First Human Head Transplant (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    But probably in China where ethics are not an issue.

  2. Re:Great leader is not short on North Korea Launches Two Midrange Missiles, Both Tests Fail (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Trump trumps lump.

  3. Re:Did have one question on this. on Dyson Launches New 'Supersonic' Hair Dryer To Revolutionize Hair Care (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 2

    Either way it is an strange metric as a single average long haired person has over 10 miles of hair on their head, so all they did is test it once on each of their 103 engineers, who are very hairy? Perhaps something along the lines of "X standard hair drying sessions" would be more meaningful and would require less research and maths to understand?

  4. Re:Translation needed on Chinese Security Robot Draws Dalek, Terminator Comparisons (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    I'd tell you but that would require Unicode. :-)

  5. They only have all that wealth because they systematically avoid paying taxes, so yeah perhaps they should fund their own "worker creation" schemes given they are the ones who will benefit and their tax avoidance has reduced the funds available from governments for education. What these execs pay in personal tax is irrelevant when so much of their wealth is in shares and those share values grow via the avoidance of corporate taxes.

  6. True and if you don't live near the sea it's rise is no big deal either, but what about the higher energy levels in weather events? No point growing extra bananas if a cyclone will destroy the crop more often than in the past. How does that balance out? I don't know, what I do know is that the planet is actually getting greener, but is that vegetation useful crops or just wilderness?

  7. Real profits, or tax avoidance? on 40% of Silicon Valley's Profits (But Not Sales) Came from Apple (siliconvalley.com) · · Score: 1

    How much of that money is not from selling technology competitively but from avoiding taxes by using unethical accounting methods?

  8. Re:Is it for children ? on Fired Reddit Exec Launches Competing Site (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    I think it is aimed at the lonely, isolated, urban, single child, female, teenager, market segment, which is actually rather large so they may make a lot out of it eventually.

  9. Re:I see the petro-boys are out in force... on Bill Nye Slams Donald Trump, Republicans On Climate Change (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Rubbish your comment is (Score:2, Insightful) whereas anybody who remotely questions your views is 1 at the most. If this was a Petrotrollfest you'd be an invisible -1.

  10. Bread and Circuses, a very old idea. on Greece's Former Finance Minister Explains Why A Universal Basic Income Could Save Us (fastcoexist.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Give them free money for VR headsets and caffeinated sugar drinks so that type two diabetes can solve the employment problem for you. Yeah that will work, but the unintended evil of it is undeniable.

  11. Could end in a human cancer virus epidemic. on First Successful Gene Therapy Against Human Aging? (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Well that is a worst case scenario but, we cannot say "Oh it does not matter what an individual does to themselves." if any of the technologies used involve the use of live virus particles or could interact with an existing infection in the patient. Imagine this technology getting accidentally blended with the influenza virus so that every time you got the flu you receive an overdose of the treatment until normal cancer preventing mechanisms in your cells can no longer function properly.

    I am not saying this is the case this time, but the risk I am describing is logical and real so there should be no room to move legally outside of a regulatory environment and anyone who does so should be condemned for being so selfish and reckless.

  12. Re:Stop feeding the troll on North Korea Launches Missile From Submarine (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is that their game plan is to have 3 key technologies that ensure they can always retaliate if invaded or even nuked completely. Submarines, sub launched missiles, and nuclear weapons on those missiles. With that combination you can always have subs in the deep ocean (on rotation) and waiting to hit the USA in retaliation. Once they have that nobody can touch them without a very large risk of getting at least one nuke onto a major city because they can get very close into the west coast of the USA making it much harder to intercept a warhead before it hits it's target. So if that gang is not shut down soon they never will be,

  13. If you don't own the car you can't stop tracking. on Chinese Conglomerate LeEco Wants To Give Away Its 'Tesla Killer' Electric Supercar For Free (ndtv.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The communist Chinese government will love such a system, the "system" owns the cars and the individual pays for each use of them, so that the people have zero chance of protecting their privacy while using the vehicles. It is a public transport system and therefore does not actually compare with or compete against with Telsa in many markets. That makes it less of a business model and more of a political model.

  14. Re:I see the petro-boys are out in force... on Bill Nye Slams Donald Trump, Republicans On Climate Change (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    If they were you would see your comment moderated down and their's up. The evidence indicates otherwise. I don't care what your cause is, if you make false claims you deserve no respect because the only thing worse than a proud bastard is a bastard who pretends he is a saint.

  15. Yeah you really need to upgrade from Telex to something a bit more modern.

  16. An old idea borrowed from Nick Bostrom on Neil deGrasse Tyson Says It's 'Very Likely' The Universe Is A Simulation (extremetech.com) · · Score: 1
  17. Out of shame probably. on Over 1 Million People Use Tor To Check Facebook Anonymously Each Month (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    If I had a Facebook account I'd hide the fact too.

    Then again it could just be creepy basement denizens stalking the people they had a crush on back in their school days.

  18. Would look nice on a quadcopter on World's Largest Commercial Aircraft Engine Fired Up For The First Time (gizmag.com) · · Score: 1

    A 747 sized drone. Sweet!

  19. We don't get to keep Ray around without the risk of putting up with any number of despots for eternity as well. Is the price/risk really worth it?

  20. Re:The end of manned aerial combat on Is the $400 Billion F-35's 'Brain' Broken? (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    "They will be smaller..." Yes, in fact small enough to be launched from the weapons bay of an F-35. Duh!

  21. Re:Vegetarians at risk. on Prescription Meds Get Trapped In Disturbing Pee-To-Food-To-Pee Loop (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Because your pee ingestion is a more deliberate act?

  22. Re:So distill wastewater then? on Prescription Meds Get Trapped In Disturbing Pee-To-Food-To-Pee Loop (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Sure why not, most of the areas that are short on water have a lot of solar thermal energy available to drive such a distillation system and as a side effect you get to generate lots of kinetic energy in steam turbines, to drive electricity generators.

  23. It is standard practice to do this, I know for a fact that they have they have done it for decades and not just in the USA. It also helps them to detect if other manufactures are infringing on their intellectual property rights. The cost is irrelevant as it is not "real money" like you and I need to live, it is a tax deductible operating cost.

  24. But are violent psychopaths really humans? on Anders Behring Breivik, Norway Murderer, Wins Human Rights Case · · Score: 1

    Because the law only applies to humans and not to creatures that just look like humans but behave in a fundamentally different way to humans.

  25. I think I wait for Zippy Zebra. on Canonical To Release Ubuntu Linux 16.04 LTS 'Xenial Xerus' Tomorrow (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Or whatever, and what are they going to do after that? It is almost as ominous as naming generations of humans after the last few letters of the alphabet....