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  1. No problem ! on Prepare To Be Watched While You Watch a Movie · · Score: 1

    I will then just stop going in movie theater. DVD comes anyway sooner and sooner after the theatrical show, and it is now much better with friends to be together at a home with a big screen for a movie evenning.

  2. Partially true on Fighting Ad Blockers With Captcha Ads · · Score: 1

    It only works if you like the product, or are not consciously ANNOYED by the product, aka, if you don't really care, then you can get positively influenced. But if you *DO* care up to the point to actively try to block the ad, then you will find out that the mentioned effect in your post don't kick in. On the contrary.

  3. That work only if you don't count money on Fighting Ad Blockers With Captcha Ads · · Score: 1

    There is gizmo brand X for 3$99 and there is noname mark Y, same spec, same usage, (and frankly for most normal usage and items like washing powder, or even routers or mouses or cable : same quality) but for 1$59. Which one do you buy ? Answer , if you buy the brand and ignore the less costly money, you are burning your "Benjamins" uselessly. And most advertising I can see on Tv or the street is for small items like that, and cars. When I used to see ads for PC stuff on the internet it was the same, but for printer, routers, and the like.

  4. Critical thinking would be enough on How Much Math Do We Really Need? · · Score: 1

    Heck, I would just be happy if people learned who has the burden of proof for a claim. If I got 2 cent every time I was asked to prove something do not exists, where as the one *pretending* something exists don't feel they have the bruden of proof.... Or if ONLY people would understand the difference between anecdte/personal experience and evidence...

  5. Oh. Please. on 'Officer Bubbles' Sues YouTube Commenters Over Mockery · · Score: 1

    Youa re trying to make him blow a bubble , right ? Or maybe a gasket.

  6. That'S easy on Searching For Alternatives To China's Rare Earth Monopoly · · Score: 2, Informative

    You have two way of breaking the chinese monopoly :

    1)Impose a polution tax on dirty industry. That allow the local rare earth metal mining company to start again with the incured cost of respecting polution law, while still staying competitive
    2) repel polution law and allow local company to polute as much as the chinese. Human resource might still make them more expensive than the chinese though.
    3) make up a miracle new technology. Good luck on that one.

  7. Re:Sick of lawsuits on Baumgartner's Daredevil Parachute Jump From Space Put On Hold · · Score: 1

    Baum=tree gartner=gardner, I guess you could call that an horticulturist, or similar (forester?).

  8. and here is an (illegal) link on Safety Commission To Rule On Safety of Rulers In Science Kits · · Score: 1

    golden book of chesmitry experiment

    Make sure to follow safety rules.

  9. That is even DUMBER on Unions Urging Actors Not To Work On Hobbit Movie · · Score: 1

    The rule was there to protect director, but when a director *ASK* to have another guy put as co-director the guild refuse ? Instead of, you know, accepting exceptionally due to the circumstance ? You know how we call that back in germany ? Having a stick so far up their ass that they can't think straight. A rule to protect director should be negotiable when the director want to break it and has GOOD REASON to do it.

  10. I don't want to sound harsh but... on You Are Not Mark Zuckerberg, So Stay In School · · Score: 1

    "multimedia design course" multimedia is about as saturated as you can go, and you can't really compare that to say, a master in physic or chemistry or biology. If we go for anecdotal evidence, *ALL* my colleague from the master course and from the PhD course , without any exception, have a well paid job (lowest get 80K$ per year, not getting rich, but very comfortable, highest has currently 160k$ per year). To wit I got my job about 10 days BEFORE finishing my PhD in physic, in the software development. The things is, the skillset we had (cobol, fortran , C programming of physic simulation) made us much more attractive apparently than a true IT guy of the same level. All colleague I have which did come from real IT course with Master and PhD in various high level stuff , earn *LESS* than what I got at entry level. Naturally except 2 of us, none went into physic research (not enough place).

    The bottom line is, some cursus are LESS asked for, and are quickly saturated. But you cannot generalize to a decision enry "into college/drop out" as you seem to do. And in average as far as I can tell, unless you are going for hard skill like elctricity/plumbing which are always in demand, you are better off with a university degree (you demonstrated the will and knowledge and endurance to go through it, and hopefully elarned to adapt to learn other sutff) than without.

  11. it *IS* aggression on Some Countries Want To Ban 'Information Weapons' · · Score: 1

    It is a deliberate attempt for a governement to try to subvert the message of another governement toward its own citizen, and bring them to revolt against that governement. Whether you don't like it, it is an ideological aggression, or better named ideological propaganda. Because the message is one *we* like , does not make it less propaganda/aggression. The same way that hacking into a system to remove a virus is hacking, jsut as much is hacking a system to put a virus in it. Now that said, for all those for which free discourse even from other governement is a threat : go fuck yourself three side. It is the sort of aggression I support. Naturally the russian guy is free to try its own propaganda and win a few useful idiot in he west.

  12. You are confused on US Couple Arrested For Transmitting Nuclear Secrets In Sting Operation · · Score: 1

    The critical mass is the MINIMUM amount of material needed for sustained nuclear reaction. A sub critical mass could not have aa sustaained reacation. So no, the USAA is *not* doing mini bomb with sub critical mass. On the other hand the critical mass for Pu is around 10 Kg (10 cm diameter sphere), and uranium 50 Kg (around 20 cm diameter sphere). Even counting that you have to hollow the sphere to not start reacting early and spending your material uselessly, a 30 cm sphere goes well into some of the biggest amazon package. Use well timed explosive lens, a neutron source, coat in Berillyum or some type of neutron reflecting coating and you are set for a first stage bomb low yield. Naturally this would be small yield, but enough to raze most of the governement building around the world in one split second.

    A low yield bomb is an engineering problem not a complex one. Where it come to be complex and where the various governement keep their secret, is when you want a much bigger yield, say multi hundred kiloton, or multi hundred megaton. That is where a multi stage bomb is to be used, eventually with nuclear fission. How to make the second stage work and ignite in time to feed the third stage is much more complicated. And needs a lot of research.


    So basically I think that a very low yield nuke is already feasible with available material for an engineer or physicist. And those one could be put in a car , package, coffer. But what interrest foreign governement are the multi stage high yield/efficient one whicvh can be delivered remotely at precise location.

  13. That is *NOT* real world on IE9, FF4 Beta In Real-World Use Face-Off · · Score: 1

    Real world people use flashstop, noscript, adblock plus. I use firefox only because of those. If the other browser had the same functionality as easily accessible built in, I would maybe use them. As it stands, only firefox interrest me. As for performance... Talk to me when the majority of the people bandwidth and access time stops being *the* limiting factor.

  14. Combination ? on Boeing Gets $89M To Build Drone That Can Fly For 5 Years Straight · · Score: 1

    Would not a combination of battery recharged by solar cells and nuclear beta generator or similar be a better case ? I am a bit stumped for the lubricant tough.

  15. Chinese Player on HDCP Master Key Is Legitimate; Blu-ray Is Cracked · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Chinese player will care, and will be able to CHURN out *CHEAP* Blue ray player and undercu5t the big boy which paid their license. Some country might restrict the import, but you know as well as me that they will fight a losing battle as people will find way to buy those in neighbor lands and import them illegally.

    So. Yeah. Putting the code in a chip is what is the immediate danger for the big player, not the oft cited "copyer" which bit torrent stuff.

  16. That ignore a simple fact on The Real 'Stuff White People Like' · · Score: 1

    Lying.
    "I like cycling a lot."
    "me too!".

    So if the woman is not really cycling but used it as a filter , she is back to point zero.

  17. Not really on Biometric IDs For Every Indian Citizen · · Score: 1

    Insofar that you cannot go back to the iris scan, finger print or facial photograph from the number, it is about as relevant as social sec number. Roughly said, a MD5 of a photograph of you to uniquely identify you, is not a privacy scarifying act , more than having *ANY* personally unique identifier. It would be scary only if the amount of info in that number is enough to reverse engineer any of the associated biometrics. It does not seem to be the case.

  18. AOC on Australia Adopts EU's Geographical Indicator System For Wine · · Score: 1

    Appelation Origin Controlled. It is a standard which emans that not only a specific recept was used, but the product come from a specific region. One can protest against such a label and standard but it is as they exists. When some people buy champagne they *expect* it to come from the region of champagne, and if it comes from california they feel themselves cheated. Personally I agree with you, I care only for the taste not the country it was made in, but some people do, expect AOC label to be respected. IMHO if the label simply said "champagne made in Australia" rather than "champagne" and in extremly small character "made in australia" the problem would not be there. But most of those "made in" are in character pica 5 or 4, that you have to hunt on the bottle. Think "fine print".

  19. That is not the real difference IMHO on Tech's Dark Secret, It's All About Age · · Score: 1

    The real difference in my opinion is that those other field (engineering, medicine etc...) have legal repercussion and live repercussion if you hire somebody cheap wiothout experience and they fail you. Therepercussion for software engineering are certainly much lower (bad sales) and for most of the industry neither legal nor on the live of the user. Therefore tehre is no interrest on the management side to keep experienced "older" folk versus hire younger people which will ask for less money. At least where I work it seems to be such simple calculation.

  20. Go a bit further on Kepler Spacecraft Finds System With Multiple Planets Transiting the Star · · Score: 2, Informative

    Change millenia for million of year. With current tech nearest solar system is 120.000 years away (250 K round trip). That is 4 something light year away. Since such system are likely much further away than 4.7 LY , then count a million years or more round trip. And before somebody serves me on "propulsion system will be better" you have no basis for this. The way the energy generation, and human space transportation are in forseeable future, it ain't even sure we will visit the NEAREST star system, maybe a robotic probe would.

  21. Because we are thinking machine on Look For AI, Not Aliens · · Score: 1

    What do you think we are ? We haven't something magical like a soul or whatnot. As far as evidences go, we are thinking machine and anything beyond that. Whether such complexity can easily be duplicated or not in silicon or similar is another can of worm, but we aren't special. We are complex. but not irreproducible.

  22. You misread on Germany To Grant Privacy At the Workplace · · Score: 2, Informative

    Firstly usually automated "logging" for the express purpose of administration and automated work of server is always allowed. The specific purpose of reading email log in attempting to read the content one is not the destination is not allowed, depending on the firm type & Betriebsvereinbarung (Firm agreement ?). That is way different than how you read it. And yes I read the german article and know a bit on the local laws. Whoever modded you insightful did neither.

  23. Well yeah on Researchers Zero In On Protein That Destroys HIV · · Score: 1

    And it could kill the human at dose lower than what kill the HIV virus. Wake me up when they are at phase 3 or later.

  24. Legal, yes. Worrying yes too. on German Photog Wants to Shoot Buildings Excluded From Street View · · Score: 1

    Yes you are all welcome to take photo of homes. It isn't forbidden by the law in germany. But the main problem people sees, is 1) privat sphere, partially alleviated by the fact google remove face and auto number 2) the fact the raw data are saved in the USA where data protection law don't apply anymore and 3) the fact that as a database that means you can quickly scan for house in the comfort of your home(to steal for example) rather than have to be physically present and scan visually.

    In the USA you might not even recall what that "privacy" and "data protection" means, but in germany it is certainly very actual.


    On the issue , I am pretty clear personally. If the photo are to be used in a publication, we had pre-internet law which are OK. If the photo is OTOH to be used in a database in which they have no control contrary to german law, then I agree with the people. And that photograph is a ASSHOLE for intentionally going and taking photo of such homes.

  25. Secondary diagnostic test on Autism Diagnosed With a Fifteen Minute Brain Scan · · Score: 1

    Which is probably why you use such a test as secondary diagnostic or even only as confirmation test. You don't run such test on the population of children, you only run it on children which are already suspected to have autism. In other word, this is not a scanning test.