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  1. Re:What about recieve? on New 'pCell' Technology Could Bring Next Generation Speeds To 4G Networks · · Score: 1

    Most phone use is download. Unless you're trying to stream live video up from your phone (or run a freaking server, please) you don't really need it. Also it's just one broadcast point -- this seems to need multiple to craft some kind of partial waves that stack up only in a very limited region of your actual phone location, with all that partial crap just cresting through each other for everyone else. Think a whisper gallery where the walls are computer-driven antennae controlling pseudo-reflections.

  2. Re:Ther eis no market failre in thw water sector on California Fights Drought With Data and Psychology, Yielding 5% Usage Reduction · · Score: 3, Informative

    The real use is farming for out-of-state sales. Industry is second. Home use is a grotesquely distant and minor third.

    Getting the home user panicked and guilty and whipped up was a knowing, admitted strategy to try to get legislation passed. Mathematically pointless limit discs are part of this.

    Save a few percent -- put off the need for growth a year or two.

    Ya wanna do something useful? Make it legal for people who develop alternate sources to preen and waste water luxuriously, sans limit discs and with 200 gallon toilet tanks.

  3. Ya gotta be kidding... on High Court Rules Detention of David Miranda Was Lawful · · Score: 1

    > "In his ruling, Lord Justice Laws (name completely, absolutely 100% unrelated)said: 'The claimant..."

  4. Re:Lamarck Vindicated? on Does Crime Leave a Genetic Trace? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Ehhhhh...I wouldn't go that far. Lamarkianism relies on a feedback mechanism to pump info back into genes, which is far more complicated that natural selection, where variation introduces info into genes, then the less-well-adapted genes survive less well and are replaced in subsequent generations by omission.

    This is probably more related to epigenetics, where certain chunks of DNA are coated to stop their effect, and this can be responsive to the environment as well as passed down to children.

    Also the exact causal relationships, if any, between stress, abdominal belly fat deposition (in the gut), and things like heart disease and insulin resistance, and even bacterial fauna population differences is also a hot area of research, and much of thatccan be passed on via non-DNA methods.

  5. "Yes, I have a credit card right here, Miss Bunny" on Are You a Competent Cyborg? · · Score: 1

    "I am a cyborg. You are pretty. Will you go out with me?"

    "Uhhhh...no."

    "Yeah get lost nerd."

    "By the three laws of robotics, I must obey commands from humans. Goodbye."

  6. Re:They're atheists... on N. Korea Could Face Prosecution For 'Crimes Against Humanity' · · Score: 1

    Most of this "but they're atheists!" stuff in politics, usually re: communism, fail to recognize that religion and politics aren't just similar phenomena, in their ability to induce raging, but they are the exact same phenomenon.

    Both are meme groupings designed to gather people ofor the purpose of seizing power.

    In both, freedom takes a back seat.

    Oh, by the way, this also means you, dear reader, as you cluster together for this or that righteous cause. All of it, anti-freedom.

  7. Very fi on A Mathematical Proof Too Long To Check · · Score: 1

    One trick is to use a completely different algorithm to generate it, if that is possible. I've done that many times in the past and they end up debugging each other. When they can churn for days always spitting ot identical results, you gain confidence.

  8. Third in an investigative series on French, German Leaders: Keep European Email Off US Servers · · Score: 0

    "Chancellor Merkel thought of this plan immediately after she learned the Internet was a series of tubes."

  9. Re:If they make good on this. on Silk Road 2.0 Pledges To Compensate Users For Stolen Bitcoins · · Score: 2

    He didn't say they weren't accruing money. And if it's Bitcoins, well, their appreciation is driving many legitimate businesses to accept them out of pure speculation. Want $500 now or a Bitcoin next month?

  10. Re:Would be more useful . . . on New Encryption Scheme Could Protect Your Genome · · Score: 2

    Don't give the NSA and FBI ideas.

    A few years back, the Supreme Court ruled they couldn't use IR scanners without a warrant on buildings. Although it was "broadcast" out to common areas, you historically had the expectation of privacy. Yey originalism and intent of Founding Fathers.

    That atitude is dead as a doornail now (not that it wasn't always DOA in government reaching -- hence that case) but now it's even more of a struggle with Congress and the President acquiesing to all kinds of metadata stuff.

    I still maintain historians will call this the "1984 " Era, because we stupidly built the tools of tyrrany for the same reason historical democracies all failed -- authorizing emergency powers to fight something.

  11. Or skating short tracks? on Up-Front Seats For Tonight's Near-Earth Asteroid · · Score: 1

    Oh my god.

    3 US football fields, or 3 soccer fields?

  12. They provide a way to look up artist and album for .mp3s, etc., which are missing that data. People include Gracenote in their product becaise this is a desirable feature.

    IIRC, not only do they catalog known binaries for recognition, but have a hashing function to take unknown binaries, including analog re-recordings and redigitization, and look it up that way.

    This is useful precisely because it does not require an Internet connection.

  13. Re:No... their stats suck on US Plunges To 46th In World Press Freedom Index · · Score: 2

    Their point with the US was that journalists are not directly targetted, unlike most other countries, including nominal democracies like Russia and Brazil, where they are flat-out murdered, but their sources are targetted, including things like spying on the AP's phone call list and ultra-long jail sentences for whistleblowers.

  14. No, the cat doesn't "got my tongue." on Astronomers Make the Science Case For a Mission To Neptune and Uranus · · Score: 1

    > Another question still unanswered is who's going to pay for all this.

    You may divert my taxes to this instead of (everything else).

    NO!!! Don't jack up tax rates!

    NO!!! Don't borrow more money!

    Ya know what, nevermind.

  15. Re:Take medicine away from the wizards on Apple Rumored To Be Exploring Medical Devices, Electric Cars To Reignite Growth · · Score: 1

    It's not a free market, but not for the reasons you describe. Under the guise of safety, regulations in practice stomp competition. This is why medical tourism to (western-trained) surgeons in other countries can offer much cheaper rates, including travel, and comparable outcomes.

    The difference is massive over-regulation that makes true competition difficult.

    I'm all against snake oil because that is fraud. That's about 2% of what we're talking about. The rest just uses that and safety to jack up rates.

  16. Re:Get over it on Edward Snowden's Lawyer Claims Harassment From Heathrow Border Agent · · Score: 1

    They're trained to be assholes -- it's an attempt to fluster you so you make a mistake.

    Their error is in applying it to normal citzens or as a tool of harassment for other reasons.

  17. Enquiring minds wanna noe on Ask "The Fat Man" George Sanger About Music and Computer Games · · Score: 0

    > fat

    My 10th grade English teacher was hot in the extreme, but married a fat jazz musician because she (in her words) absolutely had to marry a jazz musician. I mean like 400 lbs. fat.

    Have you experienced pulling lots of hot tail because your musician status vastly outweighs, so to speak, both your weight and nerd-game status?

  18. What we have here is... on South Carolina Woman Jailed After Failing To Return Movie Rented Nine Years Ago · · Score: 1

    > jailed
    > 27-year-old Kayla Finley rented Monster-in-Law

    Oh come on, wasn't that self-punishment enough?

  19. Re:Not a Weapon on US Secretary of State Calls Climate Change 'Weapon of Mass Destruction' · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I'd rather have slowly rising seas and powerful economies that a slowed economy, if mass destruction of life is your concern.

    See, people die for many reasons, and only advancing science and increased economic power (as China and India are proving yet again) really save lives...vs. disease and starvation. Nobody dies moving back from the sea, leaving old buildings anyway.

    But massive economic interference is little different from. kickbacks in corrupt or failed states, in net effect.

    I don't want to authorize government additional powers..because I love humanity "and the common man" .

  20. Re:Shit... on US Secretary of State Calls Climate Change 'Weapon of Mass Destruction' · · Score: 1

    We had a good carbon sequestration system in place already with the burial of yard waste.

    Then the 1970s happened, and innumerate schills bleated we were running out of space, which was false. But they got it banned, and, worse, got biodegrading landfills underway.

    My mother-in-law, as democrat as you can get, dutifully composts everything.

  21. Re:Creationalist on Internet Censorship Back On Australian Agenda · · Score: 1

    Scare the hell out of them by dumping half onto the street the next election.

    That's easier said than done, though. Here in the US, the kinder, gentler Democrat is in lockstep with supposedly authoritarian Republicans over Internet iss...well, you read it every day here.

  22. Re:En Venezuela hay mucho PETROLEO... on Venezuelan Regime Censoring Twitter · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yeah, yeah, my people did the seizing so it's all good.

  23. Re:Untested? on Under Armour/Lockheed Suit Blamed For US Skating Performance · · Score: 5, Funny

    When they get the bugs worked out, yes. From their design brochure:

    "It's basically a micro-sandwich — a high-efficiency filter and heat-exchange system. The skin-contact layer's porous with vortex-damping dimples. Perspiration passes through it, having cooled the body ... near-normal evaporation process. The next two layers . . . include heat exchange filaments and salt precipitators. Salt's reclaimed. Motions of the body, especially breathing and some osmotic action provide the pumping force. Reclaimed water circulates to catchpockets from which you draw it through this tube in the clip at your neck... Urine and feces are processed in the thigh pads. In the open desert, you wear this filter across your face, this tube in the nostrils with these plugs to ensure a tight fit. Breathe in through the mouth filter, out through the nose tube."

  24. Re:Untested? on Under Armour/Lockheed Suit Blamed For US Skating Performance · · Score: 2

    "It should work." -- The engineer's famous last words.

    These suits will work some day once the kinks are gone -- they're fucking amazing:

  25. Re:Trademark powers? on 'The Color Run' Violates Agreement With College Photographer, Then Sues Him · · Score: 1

    Any radio or tv ad during this period talking about "the big game" is in exactly this boat. But the NFL gets paid a lot by Doritos to be the official chip or snack or some damned thing, so some other chip company using "Superbowl" is intruding on, and, let's be honest, trying to make additional sales via ad hoc association.