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  1. Re:Scaremongering??? on EPA Makes Most Wood Stoves Illegal · · Score: 1

    Burn it more efficiently.

  2. Re:Can you do this in reverse? on Physicists Smash Record For Wave-Particle Duality · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure the interference pattern is determined by the mass and velocity of the particle. Because of this the pattern would not be unique to any one particle.

  3. Re:What could possibly go wrong? on Police Use James-Bond-Style GPS Bullet · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that and every other fact about the article which he got entirely wrong.

  4. Re:What ? on Why Can't Big Government Launch a Website? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The partisanship is the cause of the ACA's problems, not the other way around. Obama could have entirely ignored his base who wanted a single payer system and taken a Republican plan as the basis of his health care reform and the Republicans still would have opposed it because of who he was. We know this is true because that's in fact what happened.

  5. Re:I wish they'd do it here. on NYC's 250,000 Street Lights To Be Replaced With LEDs By 2017 · · Score: 1

    Icicles can and do form on all kinds of overhead surfaces in the city. They do present a small risk, but that has nothing to do with the streetlights.

  6. Re:Bragging about torture on Citizen Eavesdrops On Former NSA Director Michael Hayden's Phone Call · · Score: 2

    Just as having evidence something is being done is not the same as having no evidence something is being done.

  7. Re:Halifax too! on Connecting To Unsecured Bluetooth Car Systems To Monitor Traffic Flow · · Score: 1

    They said "they are stripping out part of the MAC". They can strip off enough that it is not a globally unique ID, but it could still be useful to identify the same vehicle twice on the same road segment.

  8. Re:Halifax too! on Connecting To Unsecured Bluetooth Car Systems To Monitor Traffic Flow · · Score: 2

    Why would they need to know statistics about bluetooth devices in cards? They see a bluetooth device at point A, then a little later see the same device at point B. d=rt, the distance and time are known so the rate of traffic can be easily determined.

  9. Re:Oh, I totally agree... on Nokia Design Guru Urges Apple To End Cable Chaos · · Score: 1

    Which side is up and which side is down depends on the device. I have a Samsung made phone and a Samsung made tablet, and annoyingly their USB ports are not oriented the same.

  10. Re:So you found the god particle on CERN Launches Line Mode Browser Emulator · · Score: 1

    You know what the E in CERN stands for, right? Hint: It's not America.

  11. Re:Contest on 'Eraser' Law Will Let California Kids Scrub Online Past · · Score: 2

    What's wrong with just letting every user delete their data on request? Then you don't have to worry about anyone's age.

  12. Re:the social graph colours all nodes on Schneier: Metadata Equals Surveillance · · Score: 1

    Your "whats" aren't metadata, those are data. The metadata would be just the URL of the site you visited. Of course with the the web your metadata often contains data so it's hard to separate the two, but this whole metadata thing was about phone records anyway, so the point is moot.

  13. Re:Cars are meant to be driven on Tesla Working On Autonomous Cars: Musk Wants Teslas With Auto-Pilot · · Score: 1

    So call it something else, say "automated human conveyor", if you prefer. Who really cares what they're called if they're better than what we have now.

  14. Re:No Surprise on Secret Court Upholds Phone Data Collection · · Score: 1

    No, his explanation of the reality of the situation is not naive. Naive is thinking you can just wish that reality away.

  15. Re:Remove the fuel you idiots on Japanese Ice Wall To Stop Reactor Leaks · · Score: 1

    Actually I do know how to read and write a fair bit of Chinese hanzi.

  16. Re:Remove the fuel you idiots on Japanese Ice Wall To Stop Reactor Leaks · · Score: 1

    I haven't seen that movie yet, did they really build a huge wall to keep out Japan's writing system based on Chinese characters?

  17. FYI, here's the full post where the graph came from.

  18. Re:Happy President on Obama's Privacy Reform Panel Will Report To ... the NSA · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately it's not about habits and beliefs, it's about game theory. Voting against who you don't want is the optimal use of a vote in our system as it exists today. We need to change our system so that voters actually benefit from voting for who they like.

  19. Re:Happy President on Obama's Privacy Reform Panel Will Report To ... the NSA · · Score: 2

    You're oversimplifying things...

    Says the man completely ignoring the realities of our voting system to convince himself that 3rd party candidates can be viable in practice.

  20. Re:Happy President on Obama's Privacy Reform Panel Will Report To ... the NSA · · Score: 2

    It's not that brilliant, it's been well known for ages. How to make a good, fair voting system is a solved problem. Getting governments to implement it is the difficult bit.

  21. Re:Reality is not FUD on Why PBS Won't Do Android · · Score: 1

    No, it won't. It won't do anything for you because such a feature doesn't exist in Chrome for Android.

  22. Re:yes but.... on Hands On With Motorola's Moto X · · Score: 1

    The apps are disabled and can not be run when you hide them. I wish they could be removed entirely, but the ability to hide the apps works very well still.

  23. Re:Wireless charging? on Google Announces Android 4.3, Netflix, New Nexus 7, and Q Successor Chromecast · · Score: 1

    Well it was confirmed today. Compatible with any Qi charger.

  24. Re:And no fixes for problems. on Google Announces Android 4.3, Netflix, New Nexus 7, and Q Successor Chromecast · · Score: 2

    Who says there are no bug fixes in this update?

  25. Re:Wireless charging? on Google Announces Android 4.3, Netflix, New Nexus 7, and Q Successor Chromecast · · Score: 1

    Who said it was dropped? It wasn't.