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  1. Re:Journal? on Silk Road Journal Found On Ulbricht's Laptop: "Everyone Knows Too Much" · · Score: 1

    Yea, but know all the folks actually majoring in Crime, just copy their answers off the Criminology major in the front of the room who is just taking class as an elective. The Crime students never do the reading...

    Which is why they're the ones who get caught! ;)

  2. Re:Journal? on Silk Road Journal Found On Ulbricht's Laptop: "Everyone Knows Too Much" · · Score: 2

    No, the very first lesson of Criminal 101 is always operate under the assumption that you will be caught.

  3. Re:SPARTA COMMUNISTS AND MOHAMMEDICS on Innocent Adults Are Easy To Convince They Committed a Serious Crime · · Score: 0

    At the core of the problem is the Spartian Belief that "there should be an overbearing power to eliminate all problems"

    from Urban Dictionary: Spartian (spar-shen) A cross breed of Martians a Spartans.

  4. Re:After the taser is used is too late.... on LAPD Orders Body Cams That Will Start Recording When Police Use Tasers · · Score: 1

    I would say put the activation for the camera on the grip. That way it's start running the second the officer pulls the weapon.

  5. Re:Is that engine even running? on Linux Controls a Gasoline Engine With Machine Learning · · Score: 1

    "I don't hear the engine running, so I highly doubt that this video is legit."

    Oh! ... well everyone stand back then!

  6. Re:Balloons on How Galaxies Are Disappearing From Our Universe · · Score: 1

    That all depends on a gravity relative to where you are in it. IANAS. Say you are decending into a black hole. As you approach the speed of light space time becomes compressed. If you are in this compression your world around you would still seem normal subjectively speaking, but the space relative to you outside the black hole would not only be expanding, but it would be accelerating. That's my best laymans stab at it anyway.

  7. Re:Entitlement on Apple Faces Class Action Lawsuit For Shrinking Storage Space In iOS 8 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "And Apple would do this so that they can reduce the number of people running their latest iOS?" No, Apple would do this to have a "legit" reason to tell people to upgrade to the newest "magical and amazing" device.

  8. Re:Just the beginning on Comet Dust Found In Antarctica · · Score: 4, Informative

    Antarctic SEA ice is growing.. Antarctic LAND ice is decreasing.

    If I had to venture a guess, land ice melting into the sea lowers the salt levels of the surrounding waters making a higher freezing temp and thus increased sea ice.

  9. That's just what we need... on How the Pentagon's Robots Would Automate War · · Score: 1

    ...another level of disconnect between us and our violence.

  10. Re:"Pretty serious stuff" like Jerry Lewis? on Blame America For Everything You Hate About "Internet Culture" · · Score: 1

    Have you ever thought that maybe they loved Jerry Lewis because all his characters were basically an "idiot American". Laughter is a response to something we identify with.

  11. Re:Perspective. on Satellites Spot Hidden Villages In Amazon · · Score: 1

    Your absolutely correct. Technological advancement is no indication of enlightenment. Our world is the sum of our values.

  12. Perspective. on Satellites Spot Hidden Villages In Amazon · · Score: 2

    Imagine how we must look from their perspective. Like gods peering down on them from the heavens with magical devices that grant us powers. Can you imagine if we as a people encountered beings who were just as advanced from us as we are from those tribes. Hell even a mere 100 years of progress would seem miraculous to us to say nothing of eons. Imagine how we would look to someone from 1914.

  13. Re:News for Nerds? on Tim Cook: "I'm Proud To Be Gay" · · Score: 1

    Maybe if you accepted homosexuals instead of persecuting them, they wouldn't feel the need to be in the closet and pretend to be straight and *have children*... If they are not going away from an evolutionary standpoint you have only yourselves to blame.

  14. Re:And so therefor it follows and I quote on Italian Supreme Court Bans the 'Microsoft Tax' · · Score: 1

    Sorry, didn't find the part where "cheese is pure profit, they get it almost free, subsidized by the government"... could you post some links with actual figures?

  15. Re:And so therefor it follows and I quote on Italian Supreme Court Bans the 'Microsoft Tax' · · Score: 1

    Chances are they will "forget" (you gotta remember, cheese is pure profit, they get it almost free, subsidized by the government), and you will get a cheeseburger anyway. Yeah, I would demand a refund.

    Um, who is "they" getting free (government subsidized) cheese that is pure profit because I'm sure the owner of the business at which I work would very likely take exception to that...

  16. Re:Navel gazing on Living On a Carbon Budget: The End of Recreation As We Know It? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ..and in a conservative world, you do what the resource "owners" tell you.. and they're telling you to work a 70 hour work week for them just to survive.

  17. Re:the camoflauge is bullshit too on Is an Octopus Too Smart For Us To Eat? · · Score: 1

    Not so "low level" if you ask me.

    No one did.

    I'm sorry.. does getting spanked sting your delicate little behind?

  18. Re:the camoflauge is bullshit too on Is an Octopus Too Smart For Us To Eat? · · Score: 2

    How about the kind of camouflage of the mimic octopus where they literally take on the shapes of other animals... Not so "low level" if you ask me.

  19. Re:Lost opportunity? I doubt it on Lost Opportunity? Windows 10 Has the Same Minimum PC Requirements As Vista · · Score: 1

    Since when is having a light-weight OS a bad thing? Haven't people been harping on MS enough for having bloated OSes?

    Sure, make allowances for multiple-core and multiple CPUs on the not-so-low end, but making the minimum requirement a single CPU was definitely smart on their end.

    Having a light weight OS isn't a bad thing, but just as bloat is bad, so is keeping it small for the sake of keeping it small. If we're sacrificing a feature rich OS for no other reason than to support hardware from 10+ years ago, then something needs to change. Computers are dirt cheap these days, so there's very little excuse to not upgrade if it's so much of an issue for you that you're demanding MS design it's OS around your 10 year old computer.

  20. "Simple" solution on Bangladesh Considers Building World's 5th-largest Data Center In Earthquake Zone · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Create an artificial lake and build the structure floating on it. Use the water for cooling and for shock protection from earthquakes.

  21. Re:Simple. He's Immortal on How Did the 'Berlin Patient' Rid Himself of HIV? · · Score: 1, Funny

    There can be only Juan!!!!

  22. Re:Oh good on Miss a Payment? Your Car Stops Running · · Score: 1

    If they employ these methods, their risk should reduce significantly, as well as repo costs, and therefore be reflected in nice big loan rate drops.

    If they employ these methods, their risk should reduce significantly, as well as repo costs, and therefore be reflected in nice big pay increases for execs.

    There fixed that for you.

  23. Re:I need definitions on Researcher Fired At NSF After Government Questions Her Role As 1980s Activist · · Score: 1

    That's a far cry from "belonging to"... Sounds like just another form of McCarthyism.

    "Are you a member of, or know anyone who is a member of (insert domestic terrorist group)?!?!?!"

    "Names please..."

  24. Re:Space Era: Its Over! on Battle of the Heavy Lift Rockets · · Score: 1

    of course I've heard of peak oil, but if you're going to post your tripe, at least do a decent job of informing people of what you're trying to say instead of a bunch of chicken little hornblowing.

  25. Re:Space Era: Its Over! on Battle of the Heavy Lift Rockets · · Score: 1

    Thank you for that very well documented argument. As soon as I'm done reading all the sources you posted, I'll get back to my morning coffee.