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  1. Re:Yep, keep searching on Criminal Inquiry Sought Over Hillary Clinton's Personal Email Server · · Score: 1

    So, please do show us what law she's disregarding.

    Did she break the law? Probably. Did she disregard the law? Almost certainly. But the fact that she apparently destroyed any incriminating evidence (if there was any) makes that difficult to prove. To main point is that she was not the one to decide what should be archived and what should be destroyed.

  2. Re:Miles on Pluto's Haze · · Score: 1

    Not me. Mile is a perfectly good unit of measure.

  3. Re:wait a minute... on The French Scrabble Champ Does Not Speak French · · Score: 1

    They ignore it in French. Germans have umlauted letters. I Have no idea what a Chinese Scrabble set would look like though.

  4. Re:Likely misdemeanor mishandling of classified in on Criminal Inquiry Sought Over Hillary Clinton's Personal Email Server · · Score: 2

    They were all just repeating rumors that were flying all over the Beltway.

  5. Re:Key problem on Malaria Vaccine Passes Key Regulatory Hurdle · · Score: 1

    So what do you suggest they do instead? Quite trying and continue to let a half-million children die each year? Sometimes progress happens one step at a time.

  6. Re:Earth Size, and 60% Larger? on NASA Spies Earth-Sized Exoplanet Orbiting Sun-Like Star · · Score: 1

    I think they mean it's small enough that it wouldn't become a gas giant, but it has enough gravity to hold an atmosphere

  7. Re:Not the first rodeo with this on Melinda Gates: Facebook Engineers Have Solved One of Education's Biggest Problem · · Score: 1

    One of the biggest problems in American education is that teachers have to teach 30 students with different learning styles at the same time.

    At some point that is pretty much an irreducible problem.

    The problem is easily solved, but the solution is not politically correct: Don't jumble 30 students of all different capabilities and intelligence levels together.

    Instead they system tends toward mainstreaming so the little snowflakes get exposed to people who are special, instead of getting an education.

  8. Re:Too Far Away on NASA Spies Earth-Sized Exoplanet Orbiting Sun-Like Star · · Score: 2

    1400 years from now they will pick up the faint television broadcast signals of the Milton Berle Show and I Love Lucy. Then they will conclude that there is no intelligent life on Earth and point their antenna elsewhere.

  9. Re:The 19 year old is a lunatic on 19-Year-Old's Supercomputer Chip Startup Gets DARPA Contract, Funding · · Score: 1

    His comments indicate vision. Decades ago it was necessary to have caching and virtual memory, but with modern chip design he sees that it's no longer needed; instead of trying to fix yesterday's problem with yesterdays solution let's move on to solving the problem as if there was never a need for caching and virtual memory in the first place.

  10. Re:Its a neat bit of tech on Skype Translate Reportedly Has a Swearing Problem In Chinese · · Score: 1

    Language is hard. Even if you aren't translating between two of them.

  11. Re:COMAPRISON REQUIRED on Tallying the Mistakes and Malfunctions of Robot Surgeons · · Score: 1

    The "robot" is operated by a human surgeon. Think arthroscopic surgery versus open incision.

  12. Re:COMAPRISON REQUIRED on Tallying the Mistakes and Malfunctions of Robot Surgeons · · Score: 1

    That's apples to oranges - you can't compare the malfunction rate of the robotic device when a robotic device isn't used

    What you can compare is outcomes, how often the patient recovers without complications. Robotic surgery is a clear winner there

  13. Re:But how does it compare on Tallying the Mistakes and Malfunctions of Robot Surgeons · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There is plenty of evidence that the "minimally invasive" nature of robotic surgery means fewer infections and faster healing. Overall it's significantly better, but there's obviously still room for improvement.

  14. Re:Might have nothing to do with age. on Woman Recruited By Google Four Times and Rejected Now Joins Age Discrimination Suit · · Score: 1

    I've interviewed people who looked good on paper but were completely devoid of people skills in the interview.

    Another red flag is someone with a PhD in some technical field (say geophysics) looking for a job in some unrelated field (i.e. Linux and Unix systems, whatever that means). The education would get the person past an HR screening, but in person I wouldn't be surprised if that person turned out to be a whacko.

  15. Re:Wrong problem on California Legislation May Allow First Responders To Take Out Drones · · Score: 1

    No, the bigger problem is someone being burned alive because a drone interfered with the firefighting.

  16. Re:Jamming on California Legislation May Allow First Responders To Take Out Drones · · Score: 1

    Its wrong, illegal AND immoral.

    That's your opinion, Which is worth what you charged for it.

  17. Re:Perceived incompetence and lack of rationale. on Ask Slashdot: Do You Use a Smartphone At Work, Contrary to Policy? · · Score: 1

    Why bother taking pictures? Most phones can store files the same as a thumb drive

  18. Re:Not a factor in actually secure environments on Ask Slashdot: Do You Use a Smartphone At Work, Contrary to Policy? · · Score: 1

    Yup. I worked in a place where they searched briefcases and women's purses. Phones, mp3 players, etc. were left at the door. Coming out they searched again to make sure you weren't carrying any classified papers.

    The searches were mostly to stop someone from inadvertently bringing a device in and getting caught with it (it would be destroyed); you have a clearance so they trust you will try to obey the law. Of course if someone really wanted to they could smuggle something in the way Snowden did.

  19. Re:they made the planes the bombed pearl harbor on Toshiba CEO, 8 Others, Resign Over $1.2 Billion Accounting Cover-Up · · Score: 1, Insightful

    What happened on Okinawa between April and June of 1945 was a foreshadowing of what would have happened if the main island of Japan was invaded. Hirohito thought the allies wouldn't dare invade the main island because of the losses they would suffer; he didn't care about Japanese losses. When the atomic bombs were dropped he realized that the Allies could crush him without significant losses. That ended WWII.

  20. Re:Potholes on Ford's New Smart Headlights For Tracking Objects At Night · · Score: 2

    In Philadelphia, the traffic reports would often mention backups caused by "Roving Pothole Crews". It's bad enough when you know where a pothole is, but when they take evasive action it gets really tough.

  21. Re:Odd summary on Bringing Back the Magic In Metamaterials · · Score: 1

    Not really. Meta-materials can be made with a variety of properties. Some science fiction buff made a long stretch to compare them with a mythical material in an old movie. But what the movie predicted (quite obvious really just a super hard, transparent shield) and what meta-materials really can be made to do are entirely different.

  22. Re:Taxi company on Europe's Top Court To Decide If Uber Is Tech Firm Or Taxi Company · · Score: 2

    Sounds like it is not a taxi company if you can take away their taxis (cars) away and they can do something else.

    How it that different from any other taxi company?

  23. What's this thread about on Elon Musk: Faulty Strut May Have Led To Falcon 9 Launch Failure · · Score: 1

    I never read monospaced posts. Can someone summarize what the parent said?

  24. Re:Holy Jebus on Elon Musk: Faulty Strut May Have Led To Falcon 9 Launch Failure · · Score: 1

    Besides which, once they start reusing stages, they'll know they're good because they've already flown once.

    Know they're good? After all the heat and stress every part on that booster has endured you don't think there's a chance that it's degraded?

  25. Re:My family learned the hard way about licenses on Europe's Top Court To Decide If Uber Is Tech Firm Or Taxi Company · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sorry to hear of your relative's problem. But really, the next time she needs surgery she should go to what? A butcher shop? A hairdresser? You really think someone without a license is a better choice?