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  1. Depends. on Why VCs Really Reject Startups · · Score: 1

    It could be that your startup is about graphology, phrenology, astrology, or even homeopathy. In which case the "cold hard truth" would be the wrong line ;).

    Just kidding.

  2. Childish on Raunchy Dance Routine a PR Nightmare For Microsoft · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "'The words MICRO and SOFT don't apply to my penis.'"

    And the word "maturity" and "adulthood" don't seem to apply to your brain either.

  3. Could not they move it ? on Publicly Funded GMO Research Facing Destruction In Italy · · Score: 1

    Would it be possible maybe to "save" some of the research by de-planting the tree and replanting them in a more friendly country ? Maybe crowd source it ? I would not mind to pass a few day in italy doing hard work for science, with a shovel.

  4. You are at best only killing "militant" on Drones, Computer Viruses and Blowback · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You are at best only killing "militant" and at worst terrorist, what traditionally has been done using either proper police, or cloak and dagger (and gun),a nd to do that you use *bomb* and *missiles* remotely controleld from a military plateform. This is a hammer to kill a fly , sorry. This is by definition overwhelming force for the problem at hand. That the US military can use much more force than that, is a testament to your incredibly high military budget, and the fact that some (not you) use the argument to indicate you are going "soft" in the middle east is a sad sad conclusion that some peopel lost utterly the sense of perspective.

  5. Wrong on Earth Approaching Tipping Point Say Scientists · · Score: 1

    "new ways to reach natural resources. The beauty of the future is that it does not have to be restricted based on our current technological inabilities."

    When planning on population sustainability, you may only look at what we can extract *right now* since future tech is uncertain and may never ever come actually. Imagine this : people in the 50th saying, "well in 4 to 5 decade we will have fusion, so let us binge on oil" well they would have been wrong we are not within month of having a stable fusion reactor.

    Secondely, sure we can sustain 14 billiuon people.... If all live in crass misery with next to no amenities. Or if all eat gruel and we forgoe all other type of food. And if we all decide to distribute generously the food equaly among us. Firstly that is utopic, secondely that is not what I would call living. Goal among us is rather to strive to have the maximum number of people live HIGH standard, not subsistance standard, and that is impossible with 7 billion people, not even 14 billion or so, which is IIRC the prediction of population in a few decade if we continue on our growth (population prediction HIGH). No. The only way for a high standard is to have the whole earth population go the same way as first world nation : go down in a few decades (population prediction LOW).

  6. Amazon supress sometimes negative review on Is Microsoft's Kinect a Gaming Failure? · · Score: 1

    Try metacritic (rounded to the next 5%) :
    Kinect Sports 75% metacritic (90% amazon)
    Kinect sport 2 65% (amazon 80%) Kinect star wars 35% user score (55% professional) amazon 70%.
    Kinect disneyland 75% (amazon 70%).

    I did not bother looking up the rest, but from the user score in my experience is that those are average or good game, but not *special* or incredible. I think the GP exagerated with his abysmal precentage, but they cetrainly are not excellent percentage.

  7. Counterfeit money don't need to beat all those on Fighting Counterfeiters With Quantum Money · · Score: 1

    it only need to beat casual examination by untrained human eye, and *maybe* beat a few of the measure used by shop to check big bills (only if you counterfeit big bills). The rest of the measure are more for banks to catch the fake money so that it does not circulate forever, and to forbid small scale outfit (aka your photocopier or laser printer) to easily produce counterfeit money. But big outfit , aka organized criminal, will make bills good enough to fool your average folks.

  8. Sure why not. on Artist's Catcopter Causes a Stir · · Score: 1

    But I would prefer blue led. Red glowing evil eye is overdone. Blue glowing evil is better.

  9. Disrespectful to death you mean surely ? on Artist's Catcopter Causes a Stir · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I dunno. I respect life and so forth, but once my pet are dead, or i am dead, who cares ? A corpse is a dead heap of rotting protein and has no intrinsic empathic value. People when they visit tomb in a cemetery are rarely visiting the corpse, but rather re-visiting the memory of the person, working on their grief. At least he found a value to his dead pet : big fat advertising.

  10. USA centric view on Rights Holders See Little Point Creating Legal Content Sources · · Score: 2

    Now try to get , say, big bang theory latest season in germany. Good luck with that. Try again , in say, 2 or 3 years. Some serie are even NEVER available there, not even as direct to DVD sale.

  11. "gee, I wish they would have censored that" on What Should We Do About Wikipedia's Porn Problem? · · Score: 1

    two girl 1 cup, goatsee.


    I really really really wish they could have censored that shortly before me seeing it. Actually I wish I could actively censor the rest of memory of that from my brain.


    Just kidding ;). Censorship is bad, but we recognize in most country that children & teenager should not have access to porn, so you can't go with an age lower than 18 and buy "big tits-spanking magazine" or whatever. Naturally that means, *cough*wedidstealitfromourfamilyadultsin2ndor3rdgrade*cough*.

    The things is why not use the solution of porn site ? If one stmble onto a page with porn , put an itnermediate java/html page with a warning message and OK/Cancel. Cancel just make you go to wiki homepage and OK forward you to the correct page. No need of censorship.

  12. Politic. on Little Health Risk Seen From Fukushima's Radioactivity · · Score: 1

    if he had really a data point showing that the report is wrong, he would show it and falsify the report instead of spouting politic call to authority "we are local so we know better". No you don't, you have data and can refute or you have not.

  13. True but they don't really enforce it. on SAP VP Arrested In False Barcode Scheme · · Score: 1

    By the way by 2040 the perpetual copyright of the crown on the KJV will expire. So not so perpetual.

  14. It is not the itnernet which sucks outside the US on Who's Pirating Game of Thrones, and Why? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What sucks is the partitioning of the world in small zone, and that some of the vendor you mentioned refuse (or are not allowed to) to sell or show stuff from the US. The Internet has long been balkanized by copyright and region release staggering.

  15. One week ? pffft. on Who's Pirating Game of Thrones, and Why? · · Score: 1

    Some of us are only seeing the first season *now*. In some country we see the newest TV show *YEARS* after the first showing in the US. Heck some show *never* come here in Germany. "One week to wait is too much" come off as very weak willed on some people side.

  16. Not that hard to figure out on 'First Base' In Greek Courts For ISP-Level Blocking · · Score: 1

    But I have to wonder what kissing/making out has to do with ISP blocking web site.

  17. That is what firewall/host file/rules are for on Facebook Privacy Suit Seeks $15 Billion · · Score: 1

    All facebook domain I know of are redirected to 127.0.0.1. Sometimes that means I domn't understand immediately why some stuff don't work, but it is an easy price to pay to not be tracked.

  18. And that is if you limit yourself to 1 language on Your Passwords Don't Suck — It's Your Policies · · Score: 1

    Pferde papillon neko-inu-mushi gato dog.

    Sure in that speicific case I only used animals name, but that' incidental, that is 5 languages in that password and it is frigging easy to remember, and you rose your space to work with from 20000 headword to many many many more.

  19. What ? on General Motors: "Facebook Ads Aren't Worth It" · · Score: 1

    Are you telling me they don't subdivise their advertising by region or even country ? What the heck ?

  20. Is decades long term ? on MIT Study: Prolonged Low-level Radiation Exposure Poses Little Risk · · Score: 2

    If yes you might want to read this : http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2477708/

  21. Not hard to believe. on Iranian Physics Student From UT Gets 10 Years In Jail For Spying · · Score: 0

    "It's almost hard to believe that my government can do this sort of thing to innocent people" not that hard to believe actually.

    See decades ago when the US was seen as the mega super bastion of freedom, truth, shining knight of armor and whatnot, I told my friend, the US is simply a country like others, composed of average people and beside the cultural few difference, they are driven by the same emotion, instinct, bias, greeed as any others. Average people which thru complacency, or willful greeed and thirst after power and money, can simply turn from good to bad in a few decades.


    Now a few decades later, the US is on its way there with hurried steps. It is one of those rare cases, where I am deeply bitter and sad to have been demonstrated at least partially correct. In the mean time I realized that despite my protest to my friends, I truly *wished* the US would that shining beacon in the darkness. Strangely enough seeing the US turn darker made me much more sad than seeing my own country going down the drain. Go figure.

  22. Put the 1.1 trillion in constant 2012 dollar on Facebook Co-Founder Saverin Gives Up U.S. Citizenship Before IPO · · Score: 1

    Comparing raw data is useless you need to compare in constant dollar using inflation figures. I think it is about 3% per year except in crisis year so 1.03^22=~1.9 (doubling every 70/3=~23.3 years) so you would need a budget of 2 trillion dollar not 1.1 *only* to maintain the 1990 budget. Now as to why somebody like Ron paul seemingly ignore that factoid, whether intentional or not, I can't see it a good point in his favor in either case.

  23. You are a male on Israel Passes Photoshop Law To Combat Anorexia · · Score: 1

    The model in those magazine are not made to be attractive to male, but rather to female. let me summarize this : men like more women with "forms" showing fecundity : large hip, 8 figure, large breast. Women are more attracted to form showing youth, in other women, that is thin, small breast, young face. That is why the model are a-starving : they want to appeal to the people they are marketed at, NOT male, but female.

  24. An anonymous coward posted it on Jars of Irradiated Russian Animals Find a New Purpose · · Score: 1

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2477708/ It might not be *enough* evidence to draw a conclusion, but that certainly put a damper on "no" evidence.

  25. I can confirm on TSA's mm-Wave Body Scanner Breaks Diabetic Teen's $10K Insulin Pump · · Score: 1

    Man boob from all ages, woman boob, from all ages (and all kind of body type), knock yourself out. In many beach also full frontal nakedness is tolerated or at least shrugged about (normandy and bretagne come to mind) so you can see all sort of snatch and wiener. After a while you stop to care.