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  1. Re:The first thing I'd "speak" with my pupils on Paralyzed Patients "Speak" With Their Pupils · · Score: 2

    JERK ME OFF

    Should I post this anon? Naaaaah.

  2. Gov't on DEA Program "More Troubling" Than NSA · · Score: 1

    I guess they're getting a little fancier than "spy on them illegally then call in an 'anonymous' tip."

    Government: We're not fucking you. We just put the tip in.

  3. Confirm on Project Anonymizes Your Writing Style To Hide Your Identity · · Score: 1

    This is he next step in surveillance, if he government isn't doing it already. Binding together various accounts of yours based on statistics of phrases.

    And it's redundant since they have a database of all IP connections, web pages, and stuff you type in anyway. Sigh. I suppose it will make confirmation of these AI. techniques trivial. Yey.

  4. You'd tube, too on YouTube Adds Play Icon To Page Titles To Show Which Tabs Are Making Noise · · Score: 1

    YES...YouTube. I need it for...YouTube. Because I have dozenz of...YouTube windows open that, after 10 minutes, spontaneously start playing loud, embarrassing ads or other noises.

    Yes...YouTube problems. Thanks for helping my...YouTube...embarrassing issues.

  5. Old Read it in the stars on The Old Reader Will Stay Open To the Public Thanks To US Corporation · · Score: 1

    > Ben Wolf

    Ben 3
    Wolf 5
    Old Reader 9

    Wolf 359. ZOMGFFFF!!!!!1!1122!!

  6. Re:Told you so on Other Agencies Clamor For Data NSA Compiles · · Score: 1

    No, I told you so first! >:-(

    In the late 90s, they passed anti-terrorism permissive powers, swearing up and down they would only use it against terrorists. Then proceeded to immediately use it against drugs.

    They didn't even bother with the sophistry that drugs are akin to terrorism. They just bald facedly said the law didn't specify terrorists only, tough shit.

    Actually, I tell a lie. The Founding Fathers said, "I told you so!" over 200 years ago. They knew history and the value of an absolutist constitution to prevent the inevitable slide to dictatorship. Forbid building the tools of dictatorship to begin with.

  7. The key to it all on MIT Students Release Code To 3D-Print High Security Keys · · Score: 1

    > printable keys, presumably with lookup tables

    Stewie: (gets tired look on his face). Oh, here we go.

  8. Re:The problem with encryption on Snowden and the Fate of the Internet As a Global Network · · Score: 1

    This also provides a road map to other nations. Actually, it provides two: both a technological and legal justification roadmap that every other country will use. They will say, "The US says it's ok and this is how the US does it."

    People are on crack if they think their favorite pet government won't take advantage of this.

    As it stands, every government has the ability, or soon will, to listen in on every single email or conversation without warrant and without alarm bells being set off. One or two agents among thousands, when nobody is looking, ignore process step 4, Get a Warrant. Listen to opposition of the boss. Report back over dinner.

    As for "metadata", it would have been abused to round up the Founding Fathers, and hence it would have been forbidden in the Constitution explicitely.

  9. Re:Tasteless on First Ever Public Tasting of Lab-Grown Cultured Beef Burger · · Score: 1

    You need the fat -- go buy some steak tartar, which is basically hamburger without a fleck of fat in it, and make a burger without any cheese. It's completely disgusting.

    They're gonna need to have lab-grown beef fat to mix in with it.

  10. Re:I'll bitch... I wanted a bitch. on Peter Capaldi Unveiled As the New Star of Doctor Who · · Score: 1

    > Time lords, by their custom, may adopt a new title of their choosing...The Doctor,
    > the Master, the Rani, the Valeyard, the Corsair.

    Not all do though. R..

    wait. This isn't political. (checks) News for nerds. Stuff that matters.

    Ok, we're good. Anway, Rassilon and Romana didn't pick such titles. Also, "Sagacity" apparently doesn't use "The" with it.

  11. So on The Case of the Orca That Killed Its Trainer · · Score: 1

    Normally once a kept animal kills or even bites a human, it is destroyed, under the theory it will be far less likely to do so in the future. I assume this wasn't done for half a dozen reasons stacking up, from it's too big, too hard to let go, how dare you, etc.

    > with his genitals bitten off

    Ouch! I wonder if he whaled.

  12. Re:Australian federal election announced today on Rupert Murdoch Wants To Destroy Australia's National Broadband Network · · Score: 2

    Keep following the money. Government doesn't do this out of the kindness of its heart regardless of the pleasing meme wrapper around it.

    Other predictions: It will have greater overuse clogging issues (rationing creeping in) even as it costs more than private will. Don't mod me down. Just file it away and watch as history unfolds yet again. Maybe I'll be wrong. But history does not support that.

  13. Re:Link history plus screenshots of iframe content on New JavaScript-Based Timing Attack Steals All Browser Source Data · · Score: 1

    Is he saying he can do all this by serving up, from, say, his server and web page, Javascript code that will figure out all this other stuff you do visiting other sites on the same session?

    If so, I suppose they could encapsulate each web domain so it can't interrogate the Java engine as a whole, i.e. yet another layer of virtual machine.

  14. Except we've run the experiment already where ideas can be stolen and used without paying the author for these virtual property rights. Measured results are far suboptimal compared to the current way.

    The OP is just an anecdote, and anybody with an ounce of scientific sense will realize it.

    It would be nice if these things could be presented as scientific advancements without trumpeting it through the lens of someone's political philosophy.

  15. Re:The Boston Globe was insanely left-wing.... on New York Times Sells Boston Globe At 93% Loss · · Score: 2

    > Fox just gives the appearance of objectivity. The host picks the topics

    This is an excellent observation. Now listen to NPR.

    Bias creeps in when people determine the subjects to harp on all day long, even if, by some miracle, the harping is 100% objective.

  16. Re:Strangely... on Obama Administration Overrules iPhone Trade Ban · · Score: 1

    Well, this ruling is according to the Constitution in a bizarre way. This was a regulatory agency decision he overruled. The only way Congress can get away with devolving its lawmaking power is by making the rulemaking part of the enforcement of the law, i.e. under the control of the President. Every such regulation is the executive branch speaking as enforcer of the law, not Congress.

    Now a lot of people feel this is a specious argument, and that Congress should vote on every regulation itself, but as things stand with the Supreme Court, the President's voice is the law of regulations.

  17. Ummm, yey! on Woz & Jobs 2.0: Leap Motion's Holtz & Buckwald · · Score: 1

    So...I can't wrest my arms on the table anymore? Screw this* thing.

    * A more florid description was actually used.

  18. Re:Putting it online not always in our best intere on YouTube Co-founder Calls For Global Access To TV Online · · Score: 2

    I agree about normal entertainment, but not the "you can't watch this Olympics stream in your country" stuff.

    One of the reasons I stopped with Hulu was because they went from one 15s commercial every 10 minutes to 6 30 second commercial blocks all the time, just as if it were broadcast TV.

    Well, I can go watch it on my tivo thanks, and skip all that crap.

    If YouTube goes past one skippable 30s commercial, or one 15s non-skippable, I'm outta there, too.

  19. They're in for a hell of a shock... on $375,000 Lab-Grown Beef Burger To Debut On Monday · · Score: 1

    when they bite into it. It will taste incredbly gross without adding the beef fat. It's the fat that's delicious.

    Surprise!!!

    Don't believe me? Go make a burger out of steak tartar, no flecks of white at all. Use a Teflon pan and no cheating with Pam, butter, or a slice of cheese.

    Put it on a bun and bite into...the best burger ever?

    Meat is nutritious, and moreso than any other food. People debate whether you get everything you need, but it's damn close. But you don't need it for flavor. Better to come up with sawdust and dump beef fat on it.

    BTW, red meat raises cholesterol a ton independent of fat, because gut bacteria proliferate in red meat eaters that convert carnetine into stuff that is absorbed and turns into cholesterol.

    tl;dr Red meat tastes like shit without fat and is bad for you even without fat.

  20. Re:1700+ sent to prison and tortuere chambers on 1,700 Websites In Russia Go Dark In SOPA-Style Protest · · Score: 1

    Imagine a boot stepping on a human face...forever.

    Well, forever minus a few years now.

  21. It's shaped like a wagon wheel... on The History of The Oregon Trail · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm sure it's been updated for modern audiences, as game makers see it. Which is to say, the hundreds of options are now just 4 to fit on a console controller: 2 offensive, one block, and one break-free-from-hold.

    It's ok. Just use in your announcement that you have "re-imagined Oregon Trail and it is now an Action RPG MOBA!"

    You might wanna use three exclamation points, but that's up to you.

  22. Volunteer or else! on Paper: Evolution Favors Cooperation Over Selfishness · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Voluntary cooperation.

    Economists, in their cavalier way, often ignore or minimize this trumpeting their politics.

  23. Re:Grint would be a peculiar choice... on New Doctor Who Actor To Be Revealed This Sunday · · Score: 1

    The Master already busted the 12 regen limit. I wouldn't sweat it, though they could and should make it a big deal. Why is there a limit in the first place? As a safety check should a Time Lord take over? Do other Time Lords accept this and go gently into the night? What if they don't, do the other Time Lords come after them? If they break it, is every regen a Herculean effort or is it like passing the sound barrier? Etc.

  24. Re:I would love to wait on New Doctor Who Actor To Be Revealed This Sunday · · Score: 1

    Let's start a disinformation campaign.

    It's Vin Diesel.

  25. Re:Needs New Writer Instead on New Doctor Who Actor To Be Revealed This Sunday · · Score: 1

    I was expecting the resolution to the Impossible Girl to be a little better than a burst of technobabble and some flashing lights rushed in at the end of the final episode. A year long arc resolved in 10 minutes, wth, tacked on to the end of another story episode.