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  1. Doggedly on Animal Drug Investigation Reveals Pet Medication Often Doesn't Work · · Score: 1

    "Glucosamine and chondroitin food supplements? Next to useless."

    Gee. Just like in humans. Imagine that.

    Don't forget to buy your dog and cat food with lots of grains and carrots in it, for their health! [nods furiously with shit-eating grin].

  2. Re:California on California Regulator Seeks To Shut Down 'Learn To Code' Bootcamps · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually, the federal government is working hard to prevent companies fleeing to these states like, for example, hassling Boeing for building a giant plant there claiming it's anti-union to poor souls inWashington state.

    I'm sure meme oh race to the bottom oh my meme savior of worldviews. Worldviews are schizophrenic, or at least neurotic: they hold logically incompatible philosophies as simultaneously true.

  3. Re:It's all the same chinese shit on Feds Grab 163 Web Sites, Snatch $21.6 Million In NFL Counterfeit Gear · · Score: 1

    Many are indeed run off on the same machines that make the official product. This is, of course, a much graber problem for car or aircraft parts (which may often use cheaper metals) than shirts (though have you seen the average football fan lately?)

  4. Re:Where is capitalism when you need it? on Kansas To Nix Expansion of Google Fiber and Municipal Broadband · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You are bitching about the rough edges of capitalism, and likening it to communism? Communism would not have personal computers, much less the Internet.

    Oooh but it is fun to tear down daddy as he returns from work with wonders marvelous!

  5. Wonkavision on EU Secretly Plans To Put a Back Door In Every Car By 2020 · · Score: 1

    It's OK. We modern folk have given up on the need for an archaic legislative body and want unelected regulators stating things that become law*.

    Up with wonks!

    * Wonks tell us this is good.

  6. Re:hero on Edward Snowden and the Death of Nuance · · Score: 1

    People are forming opinions then sticking to them like sports teams. Nuance is out

    I don't know if it was ever in. I remember learning the Dialectic Method in college, the thesis-antithesis-synthesis thing, where you make your case then pre-respond to objections

    It had nothing about the truth or trying to get there, and seemed to me at the time to be a grossly unethical activity.

  7. Re:Morality is for people who are not dying on 3D Printing of Human Tissue To Spark Ethics Debate · · Score: 1

    We need to keep pounding the ideas: Ethics + delayed printed organs = continued needless millions of deaths each year.

  8. I do declare on 3D Printing of Human Tissue To Spark Ethics Debate · · Score: 1

    More important than idiot ethicists standing in the way is the "more than a decade" for approval in the west. As opposed to what? Hundreds of thousands dying each year for lack of organs?

    I can conceive of no reasonable disaster from plowing ahead that doesn't net saved lives over a cautious approach (which, by the way, was born of horror cases in front of the camera.)

    We need horror cases like, "Here are 100,000 gravestones. They are the people who died this year because printed kidneys are delayed."

    Treat all things, including feel-good stuff like the FDA, as potential misery and disease and death vectors.

  9. Re:This is more of authentication than encryption. on Building Deception Into Encryption Software · · Score: 2

    The crooks would use their own decoder to get at the internal encryption algorithm, skipping the "oop, fail, generate plausible password" wrapper.

  10. Re:"Social engineering" on Developer Loses Single-Letter Twitter Handle Through Extortion · · Score: 1

    Er, Paypal.

  11. Re:"Social engineering" on Developer Loses Single-Letter Twitter Handle Through Extortion · · Score: 2

    Go Daddy should be on the hook. How stupid!

    "Hi, I need the last 4 of my spcial security number so I can prove I am who I am. I, uuuuh, lost it, so can you tell me it?"

  12. Re:Great news! on Edward Snowden Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Obama got it because tbey wanted to slap George Bush in the face. He should have declined because that is beneath the presidency to participate in such an exercise.

    Although this case may also be seen as a slap at the president, at least Snowden wpuld arguably deserve it, if you approve of him.

  13. Re:Total Obedience is Required ! on Anti-Polygraph Instructor Who Was Targeted By Feds Goes Public · · Score: 0

    I wish people noted well this point in history, learnng from China that there is a hell of a lot more feedoms that are crucial than just speech and First Amendment stuff. Economic freedom, even when speech is somewhat lacking, makes the lion's share of difference in improving the quality of life.

    Yet blabbity-type freedom has spent a hundred years relegating economic freedom as a second-tier freedom and right, completely subservient especially in principle.

    Economic theories based on tbis repeatedly predict it successfully, but yet more evidence is ignored because it doesn't meld with certain internal worldviews not amenable to repeated successful predictions.

  14. Re:Wow on Largest-Yet EVE Online Battle Destroys $200,000 Worth of Starships · · Score: 1

    Uhhhhh, there are people with real jobs who think nothing of buying Plex (1-month tradeable subscriptions) and selling them on the AH for in-game currency.

    While most destroyed stuff was probably earned in-game, I'm sure plenty was bought currency via this method.

  15. Must...post...anonymously... on Smart Racquets Could Transform Tennis · · Score: 1

    Ya wanna earn some serious cash from sensors in tennis, put a sniff sensor in Maria Sharapova's shoe.

    Hey, man, it's your thing. I just read about you pervs on the internet.

  16. Re:License? on How Role-Playing Games Arrived In Japan With Black Onyx · · Score: 1

    So what reason do you have to disparage Rogers?

    'cause he didn't hide away in his mom's basement!

  17. Re:Smurftastic! on NSA and GCHQ Target "Leaky" Phone Apps To Scoop User Data · · Score: 1

    The United States government was designed, by The People, cognizant of past abuses inevitably and always leading to the downfall of freedom, with the guiding principle that this "technical capability" will be abused, and thus should only be used with warrant from a judge.

    Even forgetting the sophistry that warrants are not needed, that the technical ability exists where a warrant is just a checkbox on a sheet which can be skipped at will, or at abuse, is the problem. There should be uncorruptible access logging at multiple offsite locations, with review process.

    These offsite spots should not even be remotely editable so an agent abusong the system at the behest of a politician cannot cover his tracks.

    A sheet with "Did you get a warrant? [x] Yes [ ] No" doesn't cut it anymore.

  18. Studies show family emphasis on scholastics outweighs all other factors, like teacher pay, classroom size, whatever the two parties pointlessly argue about.

    This is an attempt to drill down into that brute fact. Most people posting here are just regurgitating what their meme worldview tells them, which does not include this repeatedly-studied and demonstrated fact.

  19. Re:Unemployment rate 17,7% on Detroit Wants Its Own High-Tech Visa · · Score: 1

    These visas should be denied for the same reason renaissance zones (low tax areas) should be denied -- they prop up the old system rather than fix it.

    People vote with their feet, fleeing the corruption and growing inefficiencies and taxes. This uses tricks of law to entice people back in...temporarily...where they just keep the dying heartbeat pulsing a little longer.

    These are iatrogenic problems. The solution is not a pseudo-cure by attacking voting with your feet with "incentives".

  20. Re:The real point of what Detroit has to offer... on Detroit Wants Its Own High-Tech Visa · · Score: 2

    The city government has third world-style corruption, too, with pay to play for contracts and sham charities run by family members where you "donate", and some sister or child gets $100k/year to "manage", on top of "renting" a room in their house to it for work for a bargain of $4500/mo.

  21. Re:It's called perspective on VC Likens Google Bus Backlash To Nazi Rampage · · Score: 3, Informative

    "Income inequality" is a fraudulent, rhetorical device, a red herring. The correct measurement, from a scientific point of view, is outcomes analysis in the average person's changes in health, longevity, and wealth, the loaves of bread and tvs on their shelves.

    If you include China, India, and most of the former eastern bloc countries, the average quality of life is skyrocketting. Because of freedom-based capitalism. Your class warfare rhetoric has had its day and been found murduringly lacking in comparison. I doubt it even took a hit in western countries, drooling rhetoric aside. If you include bringing billions online into research, it's even worse for your rhetoric.

    Don't be mad at me. Be mad at outcomes-based research. You should be down on your knees praising the phenomenal success of this "race to the bottom", you so laughingly call this incalculable boon to humanity, whom your rhetoric did nothing to help for a hundred years for these people.

  22. loat-ware on South Korean Court Rules That Phone Bloatware Must Be Deletable · · Score: 1

    I am convinced the purpose of unkillable bloatware is more than just extra promotional money -- it's designed, in conjunction woth limited RAM, to cause browsers to be killed off when you switch to another app, like messages or phone, so that when you switch back the page must be re-downloaded (curious it isn't cached locally when the browser isn't running), thus aiding in using up your data cap that much faster.

  23. Re: Dont do anyone any favors on Court Says Craigslist Sperm Donor Must Pay Child Support · · Score: 2

    States create a legal process for donors, which was not followed here. Absent that, a single mom can't let the dad off the hook.

    In this case, she wasn't really single regardless of illegality of gay marriage there -- the other woman should be on the hook too.

  24. Re:automated transportation is "un-American" on Should Self-Driving Cars Chauffeur Shopping 'Whales' For Free? · · Score: 2

    Huh? The poor stand around waiting for busses already. Many drive junkers

    So they wait for busses in the future, or drive a junker with a robot brain.

  25. Re:Anyway on Midwestern Fault Zones Are Still Alive · · Score: 1

    In the continental US, that is.