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  1. Re:BMI is a lie! on Gaining On the US: Most Europeans To Be Overweight By 2030 · · Score: 1

    If you cycle, then I suggest doing your BMI maths to find out how obse you are,

    If you are concerned with obesity BMI is good enough. It can falsely flag you as overweight, but if it marks you obese you have a serious problems. (Even if it mostly muscle your steroid abuse should have killed you by now.)

  2. Re:Okay, I'll admit... on The Struggle To Ban Killer Robots · · Score: 1

    Well, okay, true. I know the military wants those sorts of systems to replace minefields. They don't leave any explosives in the ground after the war is over, and they can be smart enough to choose a weapon system based on the threat (tank, launch an armor-piercing missile, squad of soldiers, launch a fragmentation bomb).

    Still, that's a lot different than say, some kind of mobile automated killing machine.

    How is a machine that automatically kills things not an automated killing machine?

    This is like real-world robots, they are not like retro-futuristic fiction predicted them, and these wouldn't look like terminators either (except for the Japanese models).

  3. Re:please, don't call them monkeys on China Using Troop of Trained Monkeys To Guard Air Base · · Score: 2

    I thought trained monkeys were the military term for post bootcamp recruits?

  4. Re:Because they can. on $200 For a Bound Textbook That You Can't Keep? · · Score: 1

    Sure they are not paying a photocopying tax? At least that how they solve it where I studied. Worst thing is that most of the photocopies were already legal since it is perfectly legal to copy small parts of books and schools mostly use photocopies when they need a small part of a book.

  5. Re:Bad example on Autonomous Car Ethics: If a Crash Is Unavoidable, What Does It Hit? · · Score: 1

    If you hold a lever on the train that can control where it goes, you are in the same position.

  6. Re:Bad example on Autonomous Car Ethics: If a Crash Is Unavoidable, What Does It Hit? · · Score: 1

    No. It really isn't. Generally not legally or in most people's view, morally.

    Yes, it really is! You can't excuse running someone over with your car that with you didn't do anything, if you could push the brake and stop the car, then you commited homicide by not hitting the brake, not doing anything does not absolve you from the consequences of your inaction. Otherwise you just legalized vehicular homicides.

  7. Re:Been a long time since I cared on AMD Designing All-New CPU Cores For ARMv8, X86 · · Score: 1

    That fastest P4 ALWAYS beat antthing amd offered.

    Certainly in power consumption and temperature :D Though it trailed far behind in performance.

  8. Re:Help! Help! on Did the Ignition Key Just Die? · · Score: 1

    Actually it is scary. The car moves UNLESS you hold the brake down. The closest I have ever been to an accident is driving an automatic out of a rental parking lot.

  9. Re:Right, because that worked so well on AMD Designing All-New CPU Cores For ARMv8, X86 · · Score: 1

    Transmeta was at the end of the era where decoding performance mattered. Keeping the translated code around was actually useful. These days decoding is approximately free on any CPU with half-decent performance -- the amount of extra die space for a complex decoder is not worth worrying about.

    Actually Intel has recently returned to that. They now keep a small microinstruction cache of decoded instructions around so that loops can be executed more efficiently.

  10. Re:At some point... on California City Considers Restarting Desalination Plant To Fight Drought · · Score: 1

    Because the state is the one who is going to pay for it. Desalination is very costly and inefficient. It can not be run as a profitable business.

  11. Re:Standard Library is both a strength and weaknes on C++ and the STL 12 Years Later: What Do You Think Now? · · Score: 1

    Boost picks up some of the slack, but C++ really needs more of the things commonly used today. Things like HTTP, XML, web services, SQL, configuration, and cryptography should be built in, but they're only just now looking at a simple sockets library.

    That is why you use Qt.

  12. Re:Long story short on New Zero-Day Flash Bug Affects Windows, OS X, and Linux Computers · · Score: 1

    Linux users are yet again destined to be disappointed and uninfested.

    Hah You should see my wine install. It only has IE6 and it's like a bug farm in there. Whenever something doesn't work in wine, I halfway suspect it has more to due with all the windows viruses it has collected than any actual problems with wine.

  13. Re:So few on Google May Be $1 Billion Behind In Tax Payments To France · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The US had a top marginal tax of 90% during it richest times of the last century. Why does it bother you so?

  14. Re:That word doesn't mean what you think it means on E.T. Found In New Mexico Landfill · · Score: 2

    The NY Times and other contemporary articles writing about it, and the fact that the games are documented being made and were never sold. They had to go somewhere.

  15. Re:Too good to be true? on OnePlus One Revealed: a CyanogenMod Smartphone · · Score: 2

    MicroSD exists in many different speeds. They use the same microcontroller as the embedded flash, and can be just as fast if using similar chips (can in fact be faster if your phone has cheap internal flash).

  16. Re:Too good to be true? on OnePlus One Revealed: a CyanogenMod Smartphone · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I never would have pegged the price difference between 16GB and 64GB as $50.
    That means every other phone out there is practicing enormous and arbitrary price discrimination by jacking up the cost of storage.

    Well Duh! Why do you think Apple for instance doesn't allow SD cards in their phones?

  17. Re:Applause for Google on AT&T's Gigabit Smokescreen · · Score: 1

    But latency doesn't really matter for video services, only bandwidth does.

  18. Re:All I need to know is one thing... on The Science Behind Powdered Alcohol · · Score: 1

    FWIW I think ethanol along with many other alcohols can be vaporized without combusting.

    Vaporized? Pure ethanol is a vapor

  19. Re:No, That's incorrect... on In the US, Rich Now Work Longer Hours Than the Poor · · Score: 1

    That's not a very reasonable distinction. The jobs I've had rarely involve any physical work as they generally involve not much more than me simply making decisions and executing them. In the end, what's the difference?

    The difference is that you need a job. If your personal wealth were 20x your current income, you could earn that income in interest alone and never need to work (plus the tax would be much lower).

  20. Re:The idea of making a profit... on AMD Not Trying To Get Its Chips Into Low-Cost Tablets · · Score: 1

    The idea of throwing money away to press AMD out of the market is foreign to AMD.

  21. Re:Myopic viewpoint on Mercedes Pooh-Poohs Tesla, Says It Has "Limited Potential" · · Score: 0

    I don't trust anything Musk says. His lies and temperement is actually the main reason I have anything against Tesla.

  22. Re:is this seriously on Is Crimea In Russia? Internet Companies Have Different Answers · · Score: 2

    Better examples might be Kashmir (India/Pakistan), or South Ossetia and Abkazhia (Georgia/Russia). Disputed territory is not that uncommon.

  23. Re:Why so much resistance to climate science? on Study Rules Out Global Warming Being a Natural Fluctuation With 99% Certainty · · Score: 1

    Because embracing anthropic climate change involves drastic controls on emissions, manufacturing, and energy generation

    No because the oil industry has succesfully spread the lie that the necessary changes are drastic. Cutting emisions by 20% is not drastic, and does not change our way of life.

  24. Re:Simple.... Odds are even on A Rock Paper Scissors Brainteaser · · Score: 1

    Bullshit..

    Any answer that eliminates one of the three options for any of the players, have not been thought through.

    If you eliminate one option, the opponent will have optimal strategy guaranteeing no loses.

    Any optimal playing strategy will need a percentage of all threes.

    Btw, the question is a teaser. There is not optimal solution as there is no equlibrium, any chosen strategy will have an answer by the opponent that makes it sub optimal.

  25. Re:Why Ubuntu?! on Tesla Model S Has Hidden Ethernet Port, User Runs Firefox On the 17" Screen · · Score: 1

    I'm sure you haven't seen a red boot on a cable in many years!

    Check you backend equipment. It is an error catching mechanism. You need to connect the upsteam ports to downstream ports, etc. If they autonegotiate you could connect them wrong and expose your intranet to the internet. If you for some reason want to connect it in a non-standard way you need a crossed cable.