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  1. Re:Duh? on California Cracks Down On Genetic Testing · · Score: 1

    No you dont. You just add to the cost.
    If your boss or somebody with cash wants your genome, they will have the company doctor send it off.
    They will pay the 1k plus some for the doctor.
    If the police want your DNA they will TAKE IT.
    You should be able to get the whole sequence, but you need to take the interpetation with a grain of salt.
    Maybe- if results of these tests where common enough - you could wiki up a fragment of your sequence and see
    what others think it means.
    Google some other results etc.
    Having a doctor look at it can be useful.
    Requiring a doctor is merely expensive.
    They used to require a physician for doing AIDS and STD tests.
    Let me get all the information I want and lower the barriers.

  2. Re:IP is the most important issue facing us in the on H.R. 4279 Would Establish Federal IP Cops · · Score: 1

    Great for you. The US should ship over a few million illegal mexicans and see how long it lasts.
    Maybe you could let in a few million moslems from Angola too.
    Then watch it all go down the tubes.
    Oh wait NOBODY WANTS TO MOVE THERE.
    If your countries are so great,
    what is the net emigration between your country and the US?

  3. Economics not morals on Graphics Advances Make Identifying Real Images Difficult · · Score: 1

    Where ever there is money, there will be someone trying to get it.
    I tell you that there is $$$ in CG pr0n. You make it CG and make $$$.
    Someone else decides that it is cheaper to take real images and touch them up.
    They want to be more profitable. How do you keep them from abusing kids and
    touching up the photos?
    I really dont care about the effects on adults psyche.
    There should not be economic incentive to abuse children.
    And dont even start on Kate Moss.

  4. Re:Gun ownership on What Examples of Security Theater Have You Encountered? · · Score: 1

    I live in Florida, we are allowed to stand our ground.
    We have the right to have guns on our property without registration.
    If you come onto my property, I can shoot you. ONLY survivors talk to police.
    We can't take them everywhere, but we can have them in our cars.
    That is why car jackers look for rental cars not local cars.
    I would prefer an airline that hands out knives.
    I trust 200 armed citizens against 5 nut jobs,
    more than 200 unarmed sheep against 5 nut jobs.
    I am proud to be a citizen and not a subject.

  5. Oracle Seat License on Keeping Customer From Accessing My Database? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Do they have a seat license to access the data?
    No discounts.
    You do not answer SQL questions.
    Provide 2yr old data dictionary (just like MS does)

  6. Chinese shoes on Chinese Blogs, Netizens React To the Tibet Issue · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How many of us are talking high and mighty about the EVIL Chinese while wearing chinese shoes, sitting at a chinese made desk, typing on a chinese made keyboard.
    If you want to protest, stop messing with the torch and stop buying their CRAP!
    Buy mexican or indian or german, just get off of chinese stuff.

  7. Real paranoid people on Would a National Biometric Authentication Scheme Work? · · Score: 1

    Real paranoid people who want security, do it by breaking up the information.
    Only let the people who must know something know the minimum amount.
    It is call compartmentalization. CIA and Terrorist cells do the same thing.
    It is why I have several credit cards, for different purchanse types.
    What has the government really improved, besides killing people and breaking things?
    Shrink the federal government.

  8. ExabitEthernet on Where's Our Terabit Ethernet? · · Score: 1

    Terabit Ethernet has a nice ring to it.
    Petabit would be better but Exabit Ethernet has a real rhyme to it.
    Maybe my great grand kids will see it.
    They will need those high def hologram movies downloaded in 2 seconds right.

  9. Where is prototype on 100-MPG Air-Powered Car Headed To US Next Year · · Score: 1

    Most other car makers have a prototype that goes around and shows what it can do.
    Where is even ONE compressed air car that goes more than a couple miles?
    This reminds me of Moeller's air car, made him rich and has not been produced yet.

  10. better to go on the offensive on Domains May Disappear After Search · · Score: 1

    Have an app that pings 1,000,000 combinations like the one you want.
    It can run all night, and the tasters get a big mouthfull of NOTHING.
    Run it for a couple weeks. See if they re-register some of them again and again.
    A nickle a piece is cheap. But times a million will add up.
    Maybe it could be set up like the SETI search so thousands of computers across
    the web would work together to make tasting a bad investment.

  11. Re:Things will change. on Swedish Athletes Back GPS Implants to Combat Drug Use · · Score: 1

    And what of the Chinese 12yr old girl? She is given HUGE amounts of drugs to enhance her abilities.
    Competes in the "Modified" division, comes in 4th (no medal).
    Then blows a gasket at 15 yrs and NEVER had a choice.
        Or the HS foot baller that does not have the talent, but is willing to loose his balls to play ball.
    Load up the system and to hell with the side effects. When he hits 21 and still is not a pro
    he realizes that his body is screwwed up. Too bad, so sad, no rules against it.
        GPS won't stop druggies from getting a delivery.

  12. Burt Rutan on How We Might Have Scramjets Sooner than Expected · · Score: 1

    Burt put out a revolutionary pusher plane and had hell to pay to be allowed to sell it.
    It was safer, cooloer looking and more efficient. Because he did not pay off govt or have a few for them to crash,
    they withheld approval for sale.
    Government interference with the market is why you are still flying in a tube with wings.
    A bigger, more efficient tube, but one your grandparents would recognize in a picture.

  13. Re:FYI on Online Sex Offender Database Leads To Murder? · · Score: 1

    The story is from CBS you cannot expect them to get it right.

  14. Re:Sad, but predictable on House Bill Won't Criminalize Free Wi-Fi Operators · · Score: 1

    You have an open connection as a service to clients (starbucks). How are you going to know?
    What is a reasonable effort to know? Is it only if your barrista goes by and sees it?
    Must you keep logs and review them? Must you review them before the client might leave?
    If someone gets some pron, and leaves, you dont call the FBI, you are on the hook for 300K!
    It was an FBI operative running a sting on you.
    That agent owns a lot of shares in "Blue Moon coffee" houses.
    Hilarity ensues.

  15. Re:192KBPS seems OK on Does Going Digital Mean Missing Music? · · Score: 1

    2 things, 1) Big recording companies were not around 100yrs ago.
    Before that, musicians and actors were poor low-lifes.
    (now some are rich low-lifes)
    2) Listen to a high end system with DVD-audio or Super-CD.
    It is sooo much better than CDs and Worlds better than MP3s.
    MP3 is ok for my headphones at work, but home audio should be a better experience.
    The record complanies are battling over format, rather than making better media available.
    I am 46 and went to the Linkin Park/My Chemical Romance concert.
      There is some good music being made.

  16. Name schools downgrading proficiency on CS Programs Changing to Attract Women Students · · Score: 1

    Removing the emphasis on programming proficiency as a means to attract women to the departments,
    may be effective in recruiting women. However I want to know these schools so I can avoid those graduates.
    Lets dumb down the Medical schools too, and see if they want to visit those doctors.
    This is more of the effort to flood the programming pool, to dilute the talent and lower the price of talent.
    After a company hires a dozen of these bimbos for $60/hr they won't want to pay that,
    even for a programmer worth $100/hr.
    Raise the standards, make degrees mean something. Remove quotas for gender, race whatever.
    Go Gators!

  17. Re:H-1Bs are not the solution- Nation of Lawyers on High Tech High 2.0 · · Score: 1

    To avoid offshoring, become a lawyer or doctor.
    Why aren't companies getting H1B plumbers and electricians?
    Get some H1B Accountants.
    Leave my industry alone. Pay them a competitive wage? Go 2 years, have 200,000 open jobs
    and I'll have an auction for my services. Then we will see what competitive wages are.

  18. Ruined Fund Raisers on South Korea Drafting Ethical Code for Robotic Age · · Score: 1

    My kid's school has done the Car Smash fund raiser.
    Does this mean we won't be able to do that to some other hunk of junk?

  19. Re:Causes, not symptoms on Human Nature Trumps Homeland Security · · Score: 0

    Killing EVERY moslem in the world would be far cheaper than killing every flu virus.
    What makes you more deserving of cradle to grave care than your great-grandparents?
    What makes you more deserving of cradle to grave care than your great-grandchildren?
    Because, if you get it, the country will be bankrupt before our descendants get here.
    Life is short, enjoy the show, and get out.

  20. Go rent LOOKER on Don't Believe What You See at the Movies · · Score: 2, Informative

    Looker is an old movie about digitizing actors and then killing them.
    It is finally becoming technically possible.

  21. Better way on Couple Who Catch Cop Speeding Could Face Charges · · Score: 1

    Ok you set up the radar and camera.
    Send the photos to the officer.
    wait - no change.
    Send the photos to the police chief.
    Wait - no change.
    Send the photos to the mayor.
    wait - no change.
    Send the photos to the local paper.

    Dont go emailing the officer.
    It won't help, and will only piss him off.
    If you get no relief, run for office.
    Get a pettition for a speed bump.
    Don't lose hope, don't make it personal.

  22. Re:Texas Judges/culture on MySpace Not Guilty in Child Assault Case · · Score: 1

    Multi culti is dead? So What is your criteria for judging what is a GOOD culture?
    Is it someone that is liked by more of the people of other cultures? (that makes most american fail)
    Is it whose kids are out breeding the others? (that puts most western culture out)
    The Islamics and Ganstas are out breeding the honkies. Rich white families are only having 1.5 children.
    Welfare moms and NBA stars are having lots more. Who cares how many gangstas shoot each other?
    It only takes a few fertile males to keep a who population of females pregnant. This is especially true when
    the women don't want or expect any financial or emotional commitment for the children.
    Giving money to teenage girls who are having reckless sex, does not seem to curb the behaviour.
    It does seem to be adding to the numbers in the prisions.

  23. NY Times = unreliable on Something in Your Food is Moving · · Score: 1

    Nice of you to pimp the NY Times. This is infotainment. It is Advertising for Dannon in the mask of a new article. Maybe someone would have comparisons of culture quality and variety in different products. Name products, give specifics, piss off advertisers.
    When NY Times gets is articles from a company website, it shows why they are going into the tank.

  24. Re:Let's see... on iPod Generation Indifferent to Space Exploration · · Score: 1

    So just sit here on this little rock, use it up and die.
    Remind me NOT to have YOU do long term planning for me.
    Space exploration is about hope. We hope to infect all the cosmos with the disease of humanity.

  25. Better Facial recognition on George Orwell Was Right — Security Cameras Get an Upgrade · · Score: 1

    The other advantage to a speaker next to the camera. When it talks, people look at where the noise is coming from.
    The camera then gets a good look at them. These cameras have a terrible track record for identifing people. This is because they don't get a good shot at them. Add in some harsh words and the camera gets a better shot.
    Now you could be recorded as being in a place for all time, even if it was a cousin that looks a lot like you.
    Merry Christmas!