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  1. Re:Survey methodology? on Surprising Support Among Americans For Purchasing Smart Guns (jhsph.edu) · · Score: 1

    "It's a scientific published in a major peer-reviewed journal."

    That's no longer a guarantee of competence, honesty or accuracy. Precision, sure, since statistics love precision.

    The intent of your quoted sentence above is clear, but it's wrong if you read carefully. Sort of like forced smart gun technology will be if it's ever implemented.

  2. Re:It's all in the execution on Surprising Support Among Americans For Purchasing Smart Guns (jhsph.edu) · · Score: 1

    But those under ~30 have been conditioned to tolerate shitty software, so it could be argued that they'll go for shiny new SmartGuns too. Especially if they want to feel virtuous and avoid being attacked by peers.

  3. GIGO on Estimating Damages From the VW Emissions Scandal (acs.org) · · Score: 1

    "the societal impact of this extra NOx: 46 excess expected deaths and $430 million in excess damages."

    Let me guess - these numbers were output by a computer model and can't be verified (and, no, you cannot see the source code).

  4. "The license plate's identifiers are ignored most of the time by law enforcement."

    Are automated plate scanners implemented/common yet? When they are, ALL visible plates will be queried.

  5. Re:return to reality, please on Fraud Detected In Science Research That Suggested GMO Crops Were Harmful (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    Wait - are you saying that people primed with talking point "facts" from anti-GMO websites who claim they're being scientific are full of shit? How can this be?

  6. Re:GMO itself isn't the problem. Its how its used on Fraud Detected In Science Research That Suggested GMO Crops Were Harmful (nature.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "I have no idea why people use Schmeiser as a poster boy for Monsanto abuse."

    Because people remember the headline and the soundbyte, and the plural of these is "fact".

  7. Design Criteria on What's In a Tool? a Case For Made In the USA (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    I think the term the author of the article is looking for is 'design criteria'.

  8. Re:Ah Belgium Politcs on Belgium's Aging Nuclear Plants Worry Neighbors (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    "Unfortunately Belgium is the most dysfunctional state in Europe's west."

    And yet the center of EU government exists in its biggest city. Go figure.

  9. Re:and how long before the next Hitler comes to st on More People In Europe Are Dying Than Are Being Born (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    "Of course there can always be someone worse than Hitler "

    Hey, I thought that was Bush!

  10. Re:Sky not falling on Obama Proposes $4 Billion Investment In Self-Driving Cars (transportation.gov) · · Score: 1

    You figure the government's just going to give money to everyone? I'm not sure how that's going to work.

  11. Re:Sky not falling on Obama Proposes $4 Billion Investment In Self-Driving Cars (transportation.gov) · · Score: 1

    Talk about a job killer.

    That's the real issue that constantly gets ignored in favor of the media's fabricated crises-of-the-day - the gradual loss of middle class jobs due to automation and outsourcing. It's going to be very, very bad as tens of millions lose their incomes and then turn to government for support.

  12. Thanks. I think most stories do have the link(s) in the text though, don't they? I figured the new title bar domain mention was just to let us know which site the link was from.

  13. Nobody reads the articles so this story doesn't even provide a link.

  14. Re:Not really the case on Before Google There Was the Chemical Rubber Company (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    "Hand typesetting is an expensive process and when small errors came up, the publishers had to consider the cost of correction before implementing fixes."

    Same thing for manual drafting vs. CAD.

  15. Re:Reporters are dim on Why Is So Much Reported Science Wrong (berkeley.edu) · · Score: 1

    Reporters are too busy with Critical Theory skills to bother with critical thinking skills.

  16. Re:It's wrong because... on Why Is So Much Reported Science Wrong (berkeley.edu) · · Score: 1

    "Others can verify your claims."

    In all but one kind of "science", oddly enough. You know, the one where the matter is settled and everyone agrees (or else).

  17. Re:It's wrong because... on Why Is So Much Reported Science Wrong (berkeley.edu) · · Score: 1

    No one modded you up because nobody knows what you're talking about. They're too content agreeing with all the propaganda and too cowardly to ask some actual questions about the scam.

  18. Truth and reality don't matter anymore; soundbytes and headlines and ever-decreasing "news cycles" do.

  19. As with K-cups 2.0, is the solution in a pair of wire cutters?

  20. Re:Agreement, or wishlist? on A Typo Almost Derailed Paris Climate Deal (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It's all just about continuing their funding, exotic travel and meetings, virtue-signalling (while demonizing anyone who dares to disagree), continued positive attention from the complicit main stream media and making grandiose plans for everyone else. Nothing to do with "the environment".

  21. Re: Sad to see Kerry... on A Typo Almost Derailed Paris Climate Deal (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't bother talking sense to the True Believers, they're emotionally committed, mostly deranged and using the wildly-exaggerated "issue" as a political tool against their opponents, who, of course, are evil and worse than Hitler.

  22. Re:I support this. on Ted Cruz Wants Minimum H-1B Wage of $110,000 (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    We doan need no steeenking middle class anyway.

  23. Dumbing Down on Seymour Cray and the Development of Supercomputers (linuxvoice.com) · · Score: 1

    "it could begin the next instruction while still computing the current one, as long as the current one wasn't required by the next "

    Doesn't this go without saying?

  24. Re:15 years old? on Young Climate Activists Sue Obama Over Climate Change Inaction (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    "...he wants someone else to fix the problem while he pats himself on the back for making no real sacrifice whatsoever."

    You forgot "while complaining about everything and everyone". This is obviously virtue-signalling and making enough noise so that his own flaws don't get pointed out.

  25. Re:15 years old? on Young Climate Activists Sue Obama Over Climate Change Inaction (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    "We'd be far better off to just prepare for that, rather than make a vain attempt to stop it."

    Yeah, but "Never waste a good fabricated crisis".