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  1. Re:Freshmen in high school, come on. on 9th Grade Science Experiment: Garden Cress Won't Germinate Near Routers · · Score: 1

    What if it was fairies or elves or unicorns?

    All of those are about as likely as the culprit being radio waves. Go outside, look up at noon time. Notice that that big burning thing in the sky releasing lots of radio waves does not seem to be harming the plants.

  2. Re:They should ask about health on Congress Demands Answers From Google Over Google Glass Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    Bullshit. Cell phones have been around now quite a while. We would have seen increases by now in something.

    We can never know something is safe, we can only know that as far as we can tell it does not harm.

  3. Re:not a fan on Review: Star Trek: Into Darkness · · Score: 1

    I am waiting for netflix or amazon prime to have that. Worst case DVD.

  4. Re:meh on Review: Star Trek: Into Darkness · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That is called nostalgia. Watch this, enjoy it and you will complain when it gets rebooted again just the same.

  5. Re:They should ask about health on Congress Demands Answers From Google Over Google Glass Privacy Concerns · · Score: 2

    I find your belief that people will be doing that pretty telling. You seem very focused on the male genitalia photography opportunities. I think psychologists call that projecting.

    I personally am not worried about it. I doubt anyone really wants pictures of flaccid wieners, and I think most people can tell if the recording light is on or off.

  6. Re:meh on Review: Star Trek: Into Darkness · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Watch TOS again. Most of the episodes were truly terrible. TNG was not too bad after season two, and DS9 was fine until the last season. The TOS movies however were much better.

  7. Re:not a fan on Review: Star Trek: Into Darkness · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Now all they need to do is bring Tennant back. Matt Smith is decent, but not that great.

  8. Re:They should ask about health on Congress Demands Answers From Google Over Google Glass Privacy Concerns · · Score: 2

    People are assaulted all the time. Hopefully those assailants will be found guilty and a civil suit can be used to recover damages.

    That is about all we can expect from anything in life. There are folks who will assault you for wearing the wrong color shirt, or hat.

  9. Re:They should ask about health on Congress Demands Answers From Google Over Google Glass Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    Why do you think that?

    We have studied both of these extensively both in laboratory settings and in the real world. Not one reputable and repeatable study has ever shown any danger.

  10. Re:They should ask about health on Congress Demands Answers From Google Over Google Glass Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    What possible health effects could there be?

    We know cell phones don't cause any problems and we know glasses don't seem to cause any health problems, so I think this is pretty well already covered.

  11. Privacy in public? on Congress Demands Answers From Google Over Google Glass Privacy Concerns · · Score: 2

    I think being in public means you are free to be recorded at all times. You can't enforce this without also enforcing every company take down their outside facing security cameras.

  12. Re:Well, he's not afraid his company might fire hi on Larry Page: You Worry Too Much About Medical Privacy · · Score: 2

    Why would recreational drugs that don't wreck organs or that organ be included?

    Do they also exclude people who partake in high risk exercise?

  13. Re:Already a few services out there on How BlackBerry Is Riding iOS and Android To Power Its Comeback · · Score: 1

    This. BES is a total POS. I am not sure how something that simply connects email to phones can be so crappy, but it is.

  14. Re:I want one on How BlackBerry Is Riding iOS and Android To Power Its Comeback · · Score: 1

    There are roms that will fix that problem. They will just say "yup I wiped!" while not doing a damn thing.

  15. Which will do what exactly against a screenshot on How BlackBerry Is Riding iOS and Android To Power Its Comeback · · Score: 1

    So no copy paste, but screen shot is fine.

    Also good luck dealing with rooted or jailbroken devices. Sure you can try to test for that, but since others have already tried there are now toolkits to break such testing.

  16. Re:How to reform patent law? on Patenting Open Source Software · · Score: 1

    Sounds good to me.
    Abolishing patents would be great for the economy. Even just limiting them to 5 years would be a good move.

    Not only is there the math argument you speak of but software is a plan for something. Just like you can't patent an architects drawings you should not be able to patent software.

    We could of course just get rid of process patents and hardware ones would be unaffected. Software patents are really business process patents.

  17. Re: The Haystack on Florida Activates System For Citizens To Call Each Other Terrorists · · Score: 3, Informative

    You can only watch so many hours of video.

    Sorry, if that is a revelation to you.

  18. Re: The Haystack on Florida Activates System For Citizens To Call Each Other Terrorists · · Score: 1

    It only helps if the new material increases the needle to hay ratio. If not you simply have more work to do for the same end result.

  19. So gardeners are screwed? on Florida Activates System For Citizens To Call Each Other Terrorists · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So when I pull the plans for my home and the neighbors, then purchase stump remover and fertilizer I can expect a visit from the cops? If I have a pool I am double screwed?

    Bomb materials are quite often things that have very many innocent uses. Last time I was at homedepot I saw no bomb aisle. I did see a pool section and a garden section that would give you just about everything you needed.

  20. How to reform patent law? on Patenting Open Source Software · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Reforming patent law would be simple, software should simply not be patentable. You can copyright it sure, but no patents.

  21. Re:And the winner is still a machine. on Opportunity Breaks NASA's 40-Year Roving Record · · Score: 1

    Right now after the asteroid all that will happen is it will be a race to see if lack of food, water or air kills your off Earth humans.

    Robots will allow us to prepare a site for humans. You are trying to put the cart before the robot horse.

  22. Re:oops on Google I/O 2013 Underway: Watch For Updates · · Score: 1

    Secure wireless does not get around a noisy environment. You can't deal with noise by adding encryption.

  23. Re:always amusing on Possible Graphene Alternative Made From Hemp Waste · · Score: 1

    You can go argue that in front of the Supremes, but for now the executive, judicial and legislative branches disagree with you.

  24. Re:This is completely irrelevant... on Tanzania Fossils May Pinpoint Critical Split Between Apes and Monkeys · · Score: 1

    I hope you avoid mirrors.

  25. Re:About time on Federal Judge Dismisses Movie Piracy Complaint · · Score: 1

    That was a joke. The judge will however want it rewritten for him in a special format, that you probably don't know.

    Never speak to the police. All you know is your name address and that you really need a lawyer. You tell them you are simply too dumb to do anything else.

    It is a matter of effort, point is most people don't have time for that effort. They have jobs and other things they have to do.