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  1. Re:Obligatory xkcd on Cellphones Do Not Cause Brain Cancer, Says 29-Year Study (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I was expecting this one: https://xkcd.com/552/

  2. Re:just to be pedantic ... on Cellphones Do Not Cause Brain Cancer, Says 29-Year Study (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    absence of correlation does not rule out causation

    So if I measured the number of times people fell over (or some other indicator of inebriation, like posting utter tosh on teh intarwebs) and plotted it against the amount of tea consumed, I'd see a random scatter - and yet you'd conclude that tea makes you drunk?

  3. Re:just to be pedantic ... on Cellphones Do Not Cause Brain Cancer, Says 29-Year Study (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    So does inability to use the shift key make you look like a retard, or is it just a coincidence?

  4. Isn't it a bit like searching for ovarian cancer in men?

  5. Re:They can't on Cellphones Do Not Cause Brain Cancer, Says 29-Year Study (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    In which navy do the operators sit on the antenna?

  6. Re: They can't on Cellphones Do Not Cause Brain Cancer, Says 29-Year Study (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 0

    There is evidence that microwaves affect protein folding and conformation

    If that was true you could use them for cooking. You, sir, are a charlatan!

  7. Re:Strange hatred of intellectual property on /. on Google-Backed Yieldify Has Acquired IP From 'World's Biggest Patent Troll' (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You're spouting a broken analogy. Neither the architect nor the person who pours the concrete necessarily claim ownership of the building.

    Where did I say they did? You appear to have missed the point by a country mile. What's wrong is mandating vertical integration and denying specialisation, and the stupid idea that thinking isn't real work. Do you expect an admiral to build his own ship?

    Inventors should invent. Researchers should research. Saying that they should build the product themselves or run a factory is absurd. They're different skills.

  8. Re:Federal Law, Local Court ?!? on Judge Rodney Gilstrap Sees A Quarter Of The Nation's Patent Cases (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm confused. If these are federal courts, why don't they operate to the same, federal, standards? And what's the higher court that you're referring to? Is there like two levels of federalousnessity?

  9. Re:Strange hatred of intellectual property on /. on Google-Backed Yieldify Has Acquired IP From 'World's Biggest Patent Troll' (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    No it isn't, because he has only asserted - not proved - that they don't in fact do so.

    He's spouting the dirty hands fallacy - e.g. that architects should pour concrete.

  10. Re:No. on Finger-Tracking Tech Turns Your Arm Into A Touchpad (gizmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Doesn't it depend on whether they're digital or analog?

  11. Re:No Ring on Finger-Tracking Tech Turns Your Arm Into A Touchpad (gizmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Taken aback. Unless you mean that they had time travel or re-imprisoned him.

  12. Re:Hmm on Finger-Tracking Tech Turns Your Arm Into A Touchpad (gizmag.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm a flid, you insensitive clod!!!!

  13. Re:Or they could be lying on Weasel Apparently Shuts Down World's Most Powerful Particle Collider (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    A friend of mine used to work on power distribution - stuff in the KV range. He told me he went out to investigate a short near a substation and found a hole in the ground, some blobs of metal and some black sticky gel.

    The latter turned out to be fried gipsy. They'd thought the line was off ...

  14. Re:Apologies for the typo in the headline on The World Video Game Hall of Fame 2016 Inductess · · Score: 1

    Having one doubt about the needful and reverting the same.

  15. Re:Surely you're not serious on Cupertino's Mayor: Apple 'Abuses Us' By Not Paying Taxes (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Amazon would have to raise their prices

    Which would increase their revenue, thus increasing their taxes ...

  16. Re: The Scam Is Complete. on John Kasich To Drop Out, Leaving Trump as GOP Nominee (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    And yet it's been modded "informative".

  17. Re:Strange hatred of intellectual property on /. on Google-Backed Yieldify Has Acquired IP From 'World's Biggest Patent Troll' (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    The belief that "independent inventors" are creating useful innovations, and then licensing them to grateful companies, is nonsense. That almost never happens.

    [citation needed]

    If you want to be a inventor, you should work for (or start) a company that actually produces products.

    Why? If I want to be a film director do I have to be an employee of Disney? If I want to be a software developer do I have to work for Microsoft?

    Who the fuck are you to deny people the right to operate as independent entrepreneurs?

  18. The entire sentence is garbage. Samsung is not a sueball.

  19. Testudo on Finger-Tracking Tech Turns Your Arm Into A Touchpad (gizmag.com) · · Score: 2

    Strap a Wacom tablet to your arm. As a bonus, you can use it as a shield.

  20. Coming up later - short hair is the in thing, claims barber.

  21. Re:really? bean counter software? on SAP Partners With Apple To Expand iOS In The Enterprise (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    You're a bit behind the times. https://www.sapfioritrial.com/

  22. Re:Who are these people they are talking with? on After ISIS, Americans Fear Cyberattacks Most (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Come on. Take the F-22. This is 13 (thirTEEN) more Fs than that.

  23. Only if they can detect which ones are brown and female. The others are proto-opressors!

  24. Re: The feds have zero authority to do this... on FDA To Regulate E-Cigarettes Like Tobacco (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    You can't get more American than that.

    Unless you add "We're fat and shit at geography".

  25. Re:No more than 13 or 14 years on Scientists Grow Two-Week-Old Human Embryos In Lab For The First Time (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Mine had the "terrible twos" at 15 months. The eldest has just grown out of it (age 7) by apparently jumping straight into teenager mode.

    In a way it's an improvement. As long as I ask him questions (like "how was school?") he's completely silent.