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  1. Isn't it a relection of desired outcome? on We Are All Confident Idiots · · Score: 1

    The projected confidence is a learned behaviour I suspect. One learns to effect change through convincing others to do their bidding.

    So, its a misunderstanding that most idiots are even looking to give a "correct" answer but rather are caring more about personal status and influence.

  2. Time to do some real hacking ... on Anonabox Accused of Lying About Its Product Being Open-Source On Kickstarter · · Score: 1

    get out the soldering iron! :P

  3. Re:Acceptable battery life on Ask Slashdot: What Would It Take For You To Buy a Smartwatch? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, for a rechargeable I think I'd be okay with as little as six months per recharge.

  4. Electric windows don't work right on Autonomous Car Ethics: If a Crash Is Unavoidable, What Does It Hit? · · Score: 1

    I never understood why they stop working without the ignition turned on, or shortly after being turned off.

    Why isn't there an option to have electric windows operate at all times?

  5. That's how it has always been ... on SEC Chair On HFT: 'The Markets Are Not Rigged' · · Score: 1

    for Joe plebb investor. There's just another level nowadays.

  6. The whole setup should be opt-in on Verizon's Plan To Snoop On Its Customers · · Score: 1

    If the marketers are so sure that people really want this drag-netting then let those that are so keen to have it actually choose it.

  7. Fusion hasn't warranted the spend on Are Habitable Exoplanets Bad News For Humanity? · · Score: 1

    Because it's such a big undertaking, nobody, until recently, has ever even tried to get fusion to work at the scale required to prove it.

    The cost meant it was easier just to put off till later.

    Fission's got a number of issues but the biggest by far is stupidity of designing and building inherently unstably reactors. And then continuing to use them without fixing the problem!

    Again, it comes back to the bean counters. When the spend is warranted, then they'll act. If the cost of disposing of the old fission reactors/fuel and rebuilding with new inherently stable designs can be shown to be cheaper than leaving the existing ones in place then it'll happen. This situation is a good example of why to get it right first time around.

    For the time being, sadly, fossil fuels are cheaper. Hence the drive to start accounting for the cost of pumping so much carbon into the atmosphere.

  8. Walking yes, standing no. on Switching From Sitting To Standing At Your Desk · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Doing some full stride walking every day is the bees-nees!

    Standing isn't going to give you anything more than sore feet.

  9. Re:Ghostery *is* a natural response on Snowden's NSA Leaks Gave IETF a Needed Security Wake-up Call · · Score: 1

    By "their methods" I mean drag-netting to achieve targeted advertising.

  10. Ghostery *is* a natural response on Snowden's NSA Leaks Gave IETF a Needed Security Wake-up Call · · Score: 1

    Ghostery turns the tables just like Mega turns the tables. It's tells advertisers what we really think of their methods by adding a usable opt-in layer to their supposed opt-out. The difference here is the advertising industry is happy to pay for that knowledge.

    Also, no speed problems with NoScript doing it's thing. Most web pages get bogged down on useless scripts and flash videos.

  11. Damn! Ghostery blocked 13 tracking scripts on Snowden's NSA Leaks Gave IETF a Needed Security Wake-up Call · · Score: 2

    And that's with scripting disabled even. NetworkWorld is a whore.

  12. Do the test using Ladder Logic on The Neuroscience of Computer Programming · · Score: 1

    That will be a good test of language vs math.

  13. What's really a Troll? I've been named one before on Psychologists: Internet Trolls Are Narcissistic, Psychopathic, and Sadistic · · Score: 1

    It's a case of finding what you want to find. Not much objective research me thinks.

  14. Sudoku teaches all on Why P-values Cannot Tell You If a Hypothesis Is Correct · · Score: 2

    I learnt the uselessness of statistics for guidance of correctness when trying to reduce my effort required at Sudoku. I've since discover the best way to win is not to play. Doesn't stop me trying though!

  15. Re:increasingly inaccurate acronyms on Wine On Android Starts Allowing Windows Binaries On Android/ARM · · Score: 1

    Wine has no other target than x86, it's purpose is for Windoze ABI compatibility.

    Windoze Server did have a tiny market on other architectures but I don't think anyone is seriously trying to get Wine to run such programs. Certainly not on an ARM.

  16. Re:increasingly inaccurate acronyms on Wine On Android Starts Allowing Windows Binaries On Android/ARM · · Score: 2

    The point is Wine can't perform the emulation that is needed for x86 code to run on an ARM CPU. For that you actually need and emulator.

  17. Yeah, third-party scripts send it all anyway on With HTTPS Everywhere, Is Firefox Now the Most Secure Mobile Browser? · · Score: 2

    Yes, secure connections are pretty useless if you are being tracked all the time anyway.

  18. Lol, 1996? on Microsoft's IE Is the Most Targeted Application By Security Researchers · · Score: 1

    Has anything changed?

  19. Piff! It has to phone home for that! on Through a Face Scanner Darkly · · Score: 1

    Let me know when it has a local DB and stops leaking everything about me and my friends.

  20. That's 1 digit on China's PandaX Project Looks For Dark Matter In the Heart of a Marble Mountain · · Score: 2

    Ah, so less than one decimal place then. Even closer than I thought.

  21. Dark Matter is only a filler on China's PandaX Project Looks For Dark Matter In the Heart of a Marble Mountain · · Score: 1

    I predict (On nothing more than an opinion) it won't be found because the current models have simply not accounted for enough normal matter. We're only talking one decimal place, right?

  22. Internet never was ment for this on Online Streaming As Profitable As TV, Disc Sales By Charging Just a $15 Flat Fee · · Score: 1

    I'll just stick with broadcast then.

  23. Streaming is such a waste on Online Streaming As Profitable As TV, Disc Sales By Charging Just a $15 Flat Fee · · Score: 1

    Forever retransmitting the same data over and over. And you have to have the ideal connection at the right times.

    They really need to embrace file sharing if they want an advantage over broadcast.

  24. Re:high intelligence on What Makes a Genius? · · Score: 2

    While intelligence is a vague term in itself there is something to be said for the written word, collaboration, education, proofs, and the extrapolated reasoning that comes from combining them all.

  25. Now explain this to those on the pokies machines on What Makes a Genius? · · Score: 1

    They might get a better understanding of themselves instead of thinking they're total scum.

    I have a lot of trouble pointing out that obsessiveness is often mistaken for addiction these days. I think it's due to an attempt to assign a medical condition to those being irresponsible with their families and thereby able to bring the law to bare.

    Aside from the fact that one can't be addicted to an activity it also is disrespectful to those that do suffer under addiction and, of course, misleading to the rest of us.