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  1. Re:Bipedal? on Meet the Carolina Butcher, a 9-Foot Crocodile That Walked On Two Legs · · Score: 1

    Actually, it's a guess from a very incomplete skeleton - skull fragments, a few vertebra and a femur. If, and it's an if, the hind legs were longer, other explanations can be found. However, "walked on hind legs" is sexier. no more.

  2. Re:Like Bing and Yahoo? on FTC: Google Altered Search Results For Profit · · Score: 2

    My wife was given a ticket. She was traveling the highway with a cluster of other cars. When she asked why she was singled out the officer said "You ever go fishing? You ever catch every fish in the pond?" No, moving with the traffic won't do you any good. Trying to debate your way out will do you ill. You were speeding, that's it.

  3. Re:He got what he deserved. on Fake Suicide Attempt Tests Facebook Prevention Tool, Lands Man In Asylum · · Score: 1
    i don't care if we let 1000 murderers out of jail ... before I'll condone putting an innocent man in detention!

    I love your sense of balance. /snark Fuck the 1000 murder victims, right?

  4. Re:Oh, *BRILLIANT* on Fake Suicide Attempt Tests Facebook Prevention Tool, Lands Man In Asylum · · Score: 1

    Not really. Couple of reasons.
    Many times psychotic episodes (or looking episodes) are caused by drugs. Three days doesn't seem too long to see if the drug's effects wear off or the episode is "natural".
    Also, the holding could be used to see of the patient isn't faking *not* being psychotic after the first day to get out.

  5. Re:Put it in a secure cage then. on Ask Slashdot: Building a Home Media Center/Small Server In a Crawlspace? · · Score: 1

    Actually, I think mud dauber wasps will be the biggest issue. I've had them completely block a car's air cleaner intake in one summer.

  6. Re:My experience with bilingual people on Speaking a Second Language May Change How You See the World · · Score: 1

    Indeed. I would also add that studying etymology in and of itself gives one a deeper understanding.

  7. Re:Yup, DLC is why i didnt buy it on SimCity's Empire Has Fallen and Skylines Is Picking Up the Pieces · · Score: 1

    DLC = unfinished game

    Oh bullshit. Some games have ongoing stories that would mean the game is never "finished", which in turn means it would never be released.

  8. Re:critical to appeasing the consumer. on Windows 10 Enables Switching Between Desktop and Tablet Modes · · Score: 1

    All of them at some point. This was a big one though.

  9. Re:Of course! on Prison Program Aims To Turn Criminals Into Coders · · Score: 1

    many of them for completely stupid and banal offenses

    As opposed to murder, theft, arson, bribery, etc. Hell, you can be rejected now for just having been arrested for possession of pot. I certainly wouldn't want a convicted felon, guilty of robbing a bank, *working* for a bank. They can get another job. It doesn't have to be working with people's money. Good damn reason not to want them doing that. You seem to be purposefully conflating "stupid and banal" with vicious and dangerous.

  10. Re:The opposite of current movie adaptations on Some of the Greatest Science Fiction Novels Are Fix-Ups · · Score: 1

    Same for some Icelandic sagas. Some are immense.

  11. Re:Maybe in a different country on Mental Health Experts Seek To Block the Paths To Suicide · · Score: 1

    Which he then illustrates by linking to news (reports). It's not true, it's complete bullshit. Actually, that's too soft, it's an outright lie. It would mean that those kids weren't even taken to a hospital or coroner, where gunshot wounds require mandatory reporting.

  12. Re:Not at all surprising on China's Arthur C. Clarke · · Score: 1

    "... because capitalism alone has no morality and perversely incentivizes lying and other sociopathic behavior." ALL systems provide some form of incentive but only the individual takes the course.

  13. Re: Interesting on New Concept Tire Could Recharge Car Battery · · Score: 1

    Kinda like how the cost of replacing the lithium battery is never mentioned.

  14. Re:Meet on The Origin of Life and the Hidden Role of Quantum Criticality · · Score: 1

    "However, if you happen to make it to heaven before I do, I'm going to insist on a room far away from yours." Which, since you will be exhibiting bigotry towards one of God's chosen, will get you dropped right down to hell. Nice journey.

  15. Re:Quantum commuicantion on The Origin of Life and the Hidden Role of Quantum Criticality · · Score: 1

    "... it is just biological and chemical processes that get your body into fight or flight mode." Since that "biological" component seems vague to you, allow me - it's chemo/electrical. Fast stuff. Three hundred feet (100 meters) per second fast. Or, for a six foot tall individual, 1/50th second from the toes (not the eyes where it's more like 1/200th).

    Of course, there's some processing and then sending the results back down. Fortunately, there's a lot of simple testing that is going on so we know it's pretty quick. From that site, 264 milliseconds (1/4 second) is average for simply clicking at a screen. No high level impetus there.

    That's what triggers the fight or flight. The second or more it takes to either start fighting or fleeing is where the hormones come in, generating the feelings of rage or fear and upping performance. And yes, the system can be flooded in little over a second. The whole thing is not "split second". Only the nervous system part.

  16. Re:"Complexity" is very subjective. on The Origin of Life and the Hidden Role of Quantum Criticality · · Score: 1

    What is the step count cutoff on complexity? Please quantify that for me. If you can't give me a formula that works across the board (you, after all, are using CS in a discussion about biology), it's subjective.

  17. Re:Zero Research on Mozilla: Following In Sun's Faltering Footsteps? · · Score: 1

    So, he was ousted because of economic decline? There was no 'voting with their wallets'.

  18. Re:Zero Research on Mozilla: Following In Sun's Faltering Footsteps? · · Score: 2

    In current context, yes, SJW is a bad thing. Their focus is not on justice at all but persecution.

  19. Re:Just make it less bloated on Mozilla: Following In Sun's Faltering Footsteps? · · Score: 1

    What makes you think that was auto-corrected at all? Spelling, grammar and just general knowledge of what the fuck a word means is abysmal nowadays.

  20. Re:Medical data isn't the only sanitized stuff. on White House Threatens Veto Over EPA "Secret Science" Bills · · Score: 1

    Glad you used polar bears. One of twenty-one colonies is under stress. The rest are fine. I'll also point out that you seem to favor a result based on human activities that "could" happen.Good science, that.

  21. Re:Same old lefty games... on White House Threatens Veto Over EPA "Secret Science" Bills · · Score: 1

    Nothing you've said makes him a non-scientist. A non-view stated in that video - "Funding for science, under Republican administrations has been historically higher than under Democrats."

  22. Re:The Republicans are right on White House Threatens Veto Over EPA "Secret Science" Bills · · Score: 1

    "I say this [claiming to be] a cop who has been in many courts before many judges." Fixed that for you, AC. An appeal to your presumed personal authority. Otherwise, I agree.

  23. Re:Science vs Belief. on White House Threatens Veto Over EPA "Secret Science" Bills · · Score: 1

    Care to link to that assertion of yours?

  24. Re:Science vs Belief. on White House Threatens Veto Over EPA "Secret Science" Bills · · Score: 1

    "Go look at the hubbub about global warming data. ... as if that changes the location or temperature recorded" See "fudge factor"

    It can certainly change the result, can't it?

  25. Re:Lots of weird crap coming out of Congress latel on White House Threatens Veto Over EPA "Secret Science" Bills · · Score: 1

    Except, of course, those conclusions are used in the next step as "data".