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  1. Re:"...need to be prepared..." on NASA Scientists Paint Stark Picture of Accelerating Sea Level Rise · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    If you live 1,000 ft above current sea level, you may need to be concerned in just 90000 years or so! The threat is real. (but yes, also other bad things can happen.)

  2. Re:certified materials on Elon Musk: Faulty Strut May Have Led To Falcon 9 Launch Failure · · Score: 1

    I get what you're saying. But to understand the comment you're replying to you should know that "failure" in materials is a term meaning something very destructive past yield. You're using the term to apply to a safety factor, which while valid will confuse materials people using the word to mean materials failure.

  3. Re:Capitalist logic on Restaurateur Loses Copyright Suit To BMI · · Score: 1

    As you'd expect, McDonalds is going to sue you for paying for 1 big mac while consuming 5 big macs.

    No, I would not expect that. I might be convinced of this, but it's by no means obvious. I can see how such a food cloning machine might change the food industry a lot.

  4. Re:It's all in the cow bell - only the beats are s on $7.4 Million Blurred Lines Verdict Likely To Alter Music Business · · Score: 2

    Yeah, I hadn't listened to the comparison before now. Just wow. They're completely different songs. They do use the same instruments (as you mentioned: cowbell, bass, and vocals), which does give them a similar feel.

    I bet musicians feel about this like us software guys (for the ./ers who are software guys) feel about so many of those patents.

  5. Re:Answer: no on US-EU Trade Agreement Gains Exaggerated, Say 41 Consumer Groups, Economist · · Score: 1

    What if I reframe the question, "We can standardize regulatory frameworks between allied friendly countries through modernizing uphevals. In the long run this is expected to be free of cost, or even slightly profitable!" I don't know if it'll change your mind, but it sounds nice to me.

  6. Re:Missing the obvious? on The Design Flaw That Almost Wiped Out an NYC Skyscraper · · Score: 1

    And it was obvious enough for an undergrad to discover. Even though it passed the (at the time) tried and true methods that proved the fitness of many designs. It even became a cautionary tale that improved our procedures without the building falling down and killing people (which I find to be the truly amazing part of this story).

    However, your lego example could point out why wind wasn't tested at the corners. In pushing over legos you assume a constant force from any direction (since you're pushing with your hand/foot/whatever). But wind produces considerably less force at angles. How would you blow over a lego tower? Your first obvious choice might be to try directly at the sides.

  7. Verification Time on Marc Andreessen On Why Bitcoin Matters (And A Critique) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm still concerned with the verification time required to show that double spending hasn't happened. It's simple to double spend bitcoins, though within 20 minutes or so the blockchain will show which transaction went through. This means bitcoins can be used for online orders (as long as the seller is trusted because no chargebacks), but waiting around at the Target checkout for 20 minutes can't happen, at least with only direct bitcoin transfers. You could have a processor guarantee with more information to save time, but that's more like an already existing debit account and less like the bitcoin transfers people are excited about.

  8. Re:Mediocrity in Academics on Science Magazine "Sting Operation" Catches Predatory Journals In the Act · · Score: 1

    And while the current reality isn't exactly new, we're creating new ways to understand and handle it. Can subpar research and publication be harnessed to advance us or is it just a drag? Is more education in our current model helpful to the new masses of PhDs? What does that do for science? Society? Not everyone uses their high school education in their jobs or really needs to even be literate, but it's made our society better in many ways to educate as many people as we do today. There's so many cool questions about what this is today that we're seeing and what it means and what we can do with it!

  9. Re:Which is why I always put my car in [P]ark on Georgia Cop Issues 800 Tickets To Drivers Texting At Red Lights · · Score: 1

    It is an exception, but now you're illegally parked in the middle of the road. But yeah, parking ticket < moving violation.

  10. Re:Officer dickhead is a dickhead. on Georgia Cop Issues 800 Tickets To Drivers Texting At Red Lights · · Score: 1

    They changed the law in 2012 to limit it to texting. So they've fixed the law. Now they need to fix the officer enforcing what's no longer a law.

    Current: http://web.lexisnexis.com/research/xlink?app=00075&view=full&interface=1&docinfo=off&searchtype=get&search=O.C.G.A.+%A7+40-6-241.2

  11. Re:woosh on "451" Error Will Tell Users When Governments Are Blocking Websites · · Score: 1

    I agree. Even as a nerd there are better technical ways to protest censorship, like TOR.

  12. Re:woosh on "451" Error Will Tell Users When Governments Are Blocking Websites · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Maybe you don't get it. It's not a solution, it's a protest.

  13. Re:They aren't really "internet cafe's" on Florida Law May Accidentally Ban Computers and Smartphones · · Score: 1

    I just saw one while driving through Ocala. I don't know when this started, I don't live in the state anymore. It said "Internet Cafe" but was shady looking like a strip club. I was wondering about it until I was told it was for gambling.

  14. Re:I didn't get this on Bypassing Google's Two-Factor Authentication · · Score: 1

    Problem is that "design improvement" is a security concern, and required for the system to function as desired. Adding wheels to a car might be a "design improvement", but you'd better have them.

  15. Re:Where's the surprise? on Bypassing Google's Two-Factor Authentication · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's a privilege escalation problem. The surprise was that changing your main password or password recovery email should be only done by the full account, not an ASP context.

  16. Re:Effectiveness of the petitions? on White House Petition To Make Unlocking Phones Legal Passes 100,000 Signatures · · Score: 1

    The attention is pretty effective for 100K people. What are you looking for? Immediate policy changes? 100K isn't exactly a majority (150M is!).

  17. Re:Sounds like a subscription... on Amazon Patents the Milkman · · Score: 1

    Strangely enough, I've managed my magazine subscriptions through Amazon for years. So their own stuff is prior art! And old enough they can't patent it anymore.

  18. Re:Starcraft on Games Workshop Bullies Author Over Use of the Words 'Space Marine' · · Score: 1

    It's why they're "Terran Marines" not "Space Marines". They copied the style, but the trademark isn't touched.

  19. Re:Different rates? isn't this also true of alcoho on Why It's So Hard To Predict How Caffeine Will Affect Your Body · · Score: 2

    Difference: Current US regulation: you must clearly state the amount of alcohol in any canned/bottled/whatever drink.

  20. Re:Do car games on How Videogames Help Fund the Arms Industry · · Score: 2
  21. Re:Makes good points on Parent Questions Mandatory High School Chemistry · · Score: 1

    Yeah... a year of high school chem is a survey class. If you liked it enough you can major in it in college. So we already do exactly that.

  22. Re:AGPL, legally weaker than a EULA. on Freeside Internet Services: Doing Well With Purely Free Software (Video) · · Score: 1

    Unless they wrote all the code from scratch, you may request and receive a copy for GPL'd code (and only GPL!). That was the way Freeside downloaded it and the restriction placed upon them in order to use code like Linux. You may not add further restrictions (like paying for source). Now, anything they wrote themselves, they can release under any license.

  23. Best Linux Donation? on Ubuntu Asks Users To Pay What They Want · · Score: 1

    Let's say I want to donate to the best organization for Linux today, which if I don't see the desktop as the priority surely wouldn't be Canonical. Who would that be then?

  24. Splines! on Data Breach Reveals 100k IEEE.org Members' Plaintext Passwords · · Score: 1

    Oh god the splines! They should not be used for discrete data.

  25. Re:No sympathy on Large Bitcoin Ponzi Scheme Collapses With a Loss of $5.6 Million · · Score: 2

    Haha! His bank logo is a pirate ship! Why? Why would anyone give this guy their money?

    I read somewhere that the Nigerian scam is designed to be obvious since they're mining the population for the most gullible of the gullible. Or find people investing in bitcoin and have them keep it on your PIRATE SHIP.