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  1. Re:His running mate will be Koch Industries on Mitt Romney To Announce VP Decision Via Smartphone App · · Score: 1

    My bad, 72 years old

  2. Re:His running mate will be Koch Industries on Mitt Romney To Announce VP Decision Via Smartphone App · · Score: 1

    Koch Industries is 62 years old.

  3. Re:Np such thing as free s[eech on Teenager Arrested In England For Criticizing Olympic Athlete On Twitter · · Score: 1

    We are free to speak with our guns too

  4. Re:In days of yore, this was solved differently on Teenager Arrested In England For Criticizing Olympic Athlete On Twitter · · Score: 1

    Maybe every device connected to the Internet should have a punching device attached. Anyone on the Internet would then be able to administer, at most, 1 punch per day of anyone's computer.

  5. Re:Infrastructure needs restructuring... on Half of India Without Electricity As Power Grid Crisis Deepens · · Score: 1

    The shooting weren't anywhere close to New Orleans.

    The New Orleans area was the only place affected by the under-engineered barriers.

    A better example might be the blackout of 2003, when most of northeastern US were out of electricity for multiple days because of a cascading failure that started in Cleveland.

  6. Re:Papers Please on Al Franken Calls for Tight Rules on Facial Recognition Software · · Score: 1

    WTF?

    I am talking about Nazis. Or maybe a group of religious zealots will try to wipe out agnostics or atheists. I am talking about the wrongness of extermination and you are saying I'm a bigot and you weep for the future of the human race??

  7. Re:Now see, it's hyperbole like this on Is There Still a Ray of Hope On Climate Change? · · Score: 1

    We have actual measurements of temperature going back thousands and even millions of years. The accuracy of the methods of those measurements are a question. However, they are good at predicting the relative temperature changes over time. We are VERY certain that the Medieval warm period was warmer than today. Not only because of "the record" with "actual measurements", but because of the factual history of Greenland and the Vikings.

    Where am I undermining science? Only the ones say that the last 10 years are the "warmest on record" are undermining science. If they said the last 10 years are the "warmest on the record of recording temperature using thermometer readings at multiple locations around the globe for the last 150 years", then it isn't undermining science.

  8. Re:Now see, it's hyperbole like this on Is There Still a Ray of Hope On Climate Change? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Is it really the warmest on record? On what record? The mercury thermometer record? Tree ring record? Ice core record? It was certainly warmer a little over 1000 years ago and one could consider them "on record".

  9. Re:I'd do it, if on New Reality Series: Be the Next Microsoft Employee · · Score: 1

    That brings up a good points. Is this just a "job"? Or is it a position where you actually get to be inventive?

  10. Re:Catch? on Can Anyone Catch Khan Academy? · · Score: 1

    Back when education got better.

  11. Re:Papers Please on Al Franken Calls for Tight Rules on Facial Recognition Software · · Score: 1

    I guess the concern is that they can instantly identify your religion. And people fear ethnic/religious/racial cleansing by the government.

  12. Slippery Slope on Al Franken Calls for Tight Rules on Facial Recognition Software · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Technology is too good! We need to outlaw it!

    This is another case if outlawing technology. Someone can look at a person, compare them to a lineup of photos, and then look them up in a phonebook and call them. But because a computer can do it so much better and so much quicker, we are scared and feel the need to censor progress. What about the freedom to take photos? The freedom to process photos?

    I can only imagine that when someone invents teleportation, it will be outlawed and the designs burned and the inventor executed, because of the fear that 75% of the population will lose their jobs.

    When are we going to accept change and take steps to live within that world? If you are so afraid of it, then stop putting your photo online? If you are a celebrity, then too bad.

    I do agree that the government shouldn't be monitoring without a warrant though. Just like they aren't supposed to before technology.

  13. All Drug Olympics on An Olympic Games For Enhanced Athletes? · · Score: 1

    I can't watch this at work, but is this the "All Drugs Olympics"? Where the weightlifter's arms fall off while going for a world record?

  14. Re:Hmmmm, yeah on Facebook Loses Users, Satisfaction Higher at Google+ · · Score: 1

    Google+ functions as a Facebook and a Twitter. The whole idea of Circles allow this. Someone can add you to their Circle to see your public posts (Twitter) or you can add someone to your Circle to see your public/private posts (Facebook).

  15. DVD Ad on Anti-piracy Group Fined For Using Song Without Permission · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So there was a DVD advertisement that pirated music about not pirating music?

  16. Re:Not a surprise on How NY Gov. Cuomo Sidesteps Freedom of Information Requests With His Blackberry · · Score: 2

    When Google glasses get good enough, all public sector employees should have to wear them at all times and carry around a battery pack so that they work all day. Anyone can then tap into what they are saying, seeing, or hearing at any moment of any day. I don't even care about the bathroom, allowing them to disable it for periods of time will defeat the purpose. You will still have enough people to fill the positions.

  17. Re:IAU? Haste? No way. on Is Pluto a Binary Planet? · · Score: 0

    You arrived at the correct and logical conclusion. We, as Catholics, know that the Catholic church IS picking and choosing the right verses as intended by God. You are supposed to have faith that the leaders pick and choose the right tenets to follow.

    I received this information through numerous discussions with Priests. It is also obvious.

  18. Re:NoSQL of course on SQL Vs. NoSQL: Which Is Better? · · Score: 1

    Because data doesn't need structure...

  19. Re:IAU? Haste? No way. on Is Pluto a Binary Planet? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The biggest branch of Christianity (Catholicism) does not believe that the Bible is the literal word of God. It is a collection of books written by humans inspired by God. I know there are branches of Christianity where it is literal, but where do you get your information? I worked with an Atheist that thought the same way you describe and specifically about Catholicism.

  20. Re:would i rather on Why Amazon Wants To Pay Sales Tax · · Score: 1

    Those 20 hrs a week were to feed themselves. The 100 hrs a week you are talking about is to feed themselves plus a segment of society that is spending their time doing something else. Even if that something else is oppressing the farmers...

  21. Re:Here's an idea... on Feds: We Need Priority Access To Cloud Resources · · Score: 1

    Not if you price it right. Associate a really high cost for each death.

  22. Re:There must be a winner on What's Wrong With American Ninja Warrior? · · Score: 1

    Too many people think that when they dream big and work hard that they WILL be an astronaut or president. Like hard work should result in their goal, regardless of how many other people demand that same limited position.

  23. Re:Dead project mining. on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Track Bugs For Personal Software Projects? · · Score: 1

    Just call Orkin

  24. Re:Simple on Why Ultra-Efficient 4,000 mph Vacuum-Tube Trains Aren't Being Built · · Score: 1

    My original post called out the capital costs and insurance as sunken costs. That was about where I am in the US though.

    As far as Germany, we factored those in. If you are travelling alone and don't already have a car, a train is better. If you are with another person, a train is only good if you are driving one-way with no intent to return. Once you go for more than 2 people or want to visit more than the downtown area of major cities, then the costs just get completely out of control.

  25. Re:Simple on Why Ultra-Efficient 4,000 mph Vacuum-Tube Trains Aren't Being Built · · Score: 1

    Wrong? For an individual, you have to plan ahead to come anywhere close to competing with the price of a car. For 2+ people, the rail gets crushed by a car.

    And I made the trip myself. The drive is 5.5 hrs from Munich to Berlin. The train takes longer. It was 5 hrs from Munich Airport to downtown Berlin. We had a car from Munich, to Berlin, to Prague, to Salzburg, to Munich, and to areas around Munich for a total cost in gas of 2 tanks...which was no more than $200 US. If you took a train between those cities, you couldn't do it for that price. If you somehow could, you couldn't come close to matching the convenience or time. A train between Prague and Salzburg would probably be quicker, but that is it.