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  1. Re:They just don't want to get sued on US No-Fly List Uses 'Predictive Judgement' Instead of Hard Evidence · · Score: 1

    Do you have any evidence at all that the TSA has NOT discouraged the giant space goat from attacking the United States? Didn't think so. Stupid idiots like you don't realize the key role the TSA is playing in saving us from space ovines.

  2. Re:Why not start now..and take if further? on Airline Begins Weighing Passengers For 'Safety' · · Score: 1

    Learn to read.

  3. Re: Just starting now? on Airline Begins Weighing Passengers For 'Safety' · · Score: 1

    Wait, they make you miss the flight because of weight, but leave your bags on the flight? Are your bags massless?

  4. Re:Why not start now..and take if further? on Airline Begins Weighing Passengers For 'Safety' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    As a doctor I can say that the "glandular" excuse for being overweight is pure BS. You treat hypothyroid patients with levothyroxine, and they maintain normal weight if they adhere to treatment. Excess weight is 100% due to overeating, eating poor quality food and/or sedentarism.

  5. Re:Is this still a Remote Exploit? on Thunderstrike2 Details Revealed · · Score: 1

    I heard the Titanic was "unsinkable". Be careful with words like "invulnerable".

  6. Wonderful Cisco on Cisco Developing Royalty Free Video Codec: Thor · · Score: 0

    The only company that could come up with something with more security holes and potential exploits than Adobe. Figures.

  7. Re:It's the base assumption that its invalid on Prosecutors Op-Ed: Phone Encryption Blocks Justice · · Score: 1, Insightful

    when there is evidence that could solve multiple murders

    Or maybe they're just saying that they think there is evidence but all they really want to do is go fishing. There have been unsolved crimes in the past, before cell phones existed. There have also been solved crimes in the past. Therefore a cell phone should not make the only difference when solving a case.

  8. Re:Already propagating on Coca-Cola To Fund Research That Shifts Blame For Obesity Away From Bad Diets · · Score: 1

    water is the ultimate diet drink.

  9. Re:Already propagating on Coca-Cola To Fund Research That Shifts Blame For Obesity Away From Bad Diets · · Score: 1

    But the sweet taste of the diet drink makes you have a larger appetite and eat more.

  10. More things? on Windows 10's Privacy Policy: the New Normal? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Which "more things" can Windows 10 do that say Windows 8 or Windows 7 can't? Apart from spy on you I mean.

  11. Re:Sounds too 1980s... on One Night In the Hotel Room of the Future · · Score: 1

    Well the traditional way of saying you invented something new while actually just re-launching something old in a different package is by calling it an iPod, iPad or iPhone.

  12. Because hotels are the most ethical places on One Night In the Hotel Room of the Future · · Score: 2

    Yes I'm sure the same people who will gladly charge you $15 for a bottle of water from the minibar, $25 per NIGHT for Wifi, and god knows how much for a telephone call will refrain from designing a "custom app" that doesn't spam you or track you or gather all your data for sale to the highest bidder. NO THANKS.

  13. Re:Nope... on New Telemetry Suggests Shot-Down Drone Was Higher Than Alleged · · Score: 1, Informative

    This is a lot closer to a clay pigeon than an aircraft...

  14. Re:They're going to be charging money for the OS s on In Windows 10, Ad-Free Solitaire Will Cost You $10 -- Every Year · · Score: 1

    The choice is not to use that steaming pile of crap, which would deny Microsoft their data mining revenue.

  15. Re:for battlefield comms with autonomous tank swar on Facebook's Slender 'Aquila' Drone To Provide Internet In Remote Areas · · Score: 1

    so the USA will be more inclined to go to war with nations like Iran in the near future.

    And everyone in America forgets how pigeons have a tendency to come home to roost. Remember - they hate you for your "freedoms"!

  16. Re:Bad move facebook on Facebook's Slender 'Aquila' Drone To Provide Internet In Remote Areas · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Of course said drone was snooping in his backyard filming his daughters and looking under his porch, not flying a circuit at 90,000 feet.

  17. Re:Pigs might fly first on "Happy Birthday" Public Domain After All? · · Score: 1

    You're right. Thanks for the correction.

  18. Re:Pigs might fly first on "Happy Birthday" Public Domain After All? · · Score: 1

    I might suggest sticking a rocket up their "tailpipe"...

  19. Pigs might fly first on "Happy Birthday" Public Domain After All? · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm guessing Time Warner is going to be giving all those royalties back?

  20. Re:My ancient i7-2700 on 10 Years of Intel Processors Compared · · Score: 2

    Not only that, but most people talk about "speed" when they use their computer mainly as a terminal for the WWW. They would probably receive more benefit and apparent "speed" from upgrading their internet speed package instead of buying a faster machine.

  21. Does not follow on Will Autonomous Cars Be the Insurance Industry's Napster Moment? · · Score: 1

    Premiums will necessarily drop? What planet do you live on where prices go DOWN? With the great exception of the computer industry, prices are almost always sticky to the upside. Seriously insurance companies would not be so foolish as to price themselves out of the market.

  22. Re: Looking more and more likely all the time... on German Scientists Confirm NASA's Controversial EM Drive · · Score: 1

    How are we to know which of our theories are accurate?

    Because they predict things accurately. That's all there is to it.

  23. Re: Looking more and more likely all the time... on German Scientists Confirm NASA's Controversial EM Drive · · Score: 2

    Ok name me one of the basic physical laws - like say Ohm's law, the gravity law, the charge law, the gas laws, etc that has been proven incorrect. Like I said - we may not understand things completely. We might have to add on to these laws or fine tune them for special cases. But nothing in physics is getting "re-written", although sometimes it gets written in a completely different language depending on the context. However every new addition must necessarily fit within the context of the old. Otherwise how could it exist in our universe? Yes there are places on the map marked "Here Be Dragonnes", but now we know exactly how those dragons must behave. Multiplication does not invalidate addition.

  24. Re:Blimey on German Scientists Confirm NASA's Controversial EM Drive · · Score: 1

    if you reread my post: "near total vacuum". It's empty enough.

  25. Re:Blimey on German Scientists Confirm NASA's Controversial EM Drive · · Score: 1

    Except solar panels lose power over time. You know, entropy and all that. Plus if you're moving away from the very star powering your craft, well then "forever" is not as long as you'd like.