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  1. Re:Absolutely on Female Passengers Say They Were Targeted For TSA Body Scanners · · Score: 1

    Shahidka are a vast minority of modern-day terrorists. That, plus there have been no reports or confirmed shahidka terrorist activities in the USA.

  2. Re:Also a win for those wanting stricter limits on Legislation For 18+ Games Hits Australian Parliament · · Score: 2

    No, it requires parents to understand every game they are buying. They don't need to know every game out there - just the ones that they're willing to buy and hand to their children....

  3. Re:Absolutely on Female Passengers Say They Were Targeted For TSA Body Scanners · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Agreed 100%. Statistically speaking, the best approach is to only scan men, as the vast majority of (current) terrorists are male, and the available pool of potential future women recruits is (currently) smaller.

    Is it too crazy to expect that sampling for security should match the actual observed distribution (with a uniform prior)?

  4. Re:Confused on White House Wants Devastating Cuts To NASA's Mars Exploration · · Score: 1

    Is this a bad thing? I mean, romanticize how you will, but is it really better to put human (or even robot) footprints on Mars than to push the telescope programs? 225,000,000 km or 2.25 x 10^20 km - we can't live there (yet).

  5. Re:Nah, Georgia Power Scam! on US Approves Two New Nuclear Reactors · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Paying twice as much now and the same later sounds better than normal now and 10x later.

    You are going to be one of the few not screwed when the dinosaurs start running out. And they'll be closing those dirty plants down the way when coal is more expensive than gold. Isn't this still a good outcome long-term, even if it costs now?

  6. Re:how long does it take YOU to walk a mile? on Programming Error Doomed Russian Mars Probe · · Score: 1

    Radiation bites Phobos Grunt.
    Radiation bites Phobos Grunt.
    Phobos Grunt dies.

  7. Re:Did I miss the memo? on DARPA Investing In Electric Brain Stimulation To Train Snipers Quickly · · Score: 1

    Better to get them with the knife, in CoD. Shotguns will paint you on enemy radar, besides being more effective at clue-ing in anyone nearby that there is trouble lurking around.

  8. Re:Full on on Full-Body Scans Rolled Out At All Australian International Airports · · Score: 1

    I told him random does not equal 100%.

    Can't resist.

    The distribution of a single sample is not statistically required to reflect the full distribution; the probability of that particular sample goes down, but never equals zero. This is why anecdotes get so much distrust.

    That said, I currently have an "additional screening" rate of greater than 90% in the US, while my wife is never selected. I have to wonder if things would be different, were there more prominent female terrorists.

  9. Re:Wait on Is the Earth Gaining Or Losing Mass? · · Score: 1

    (147,093,357 items [source]) * (2.5 kg / item [source]) / 50,000 tonnes = 7.35466785 Libraries of Congress per year.

  10. Re:State of the Times on In Xhengzhou, Thousands Vie For Foxconn Jobs · · Score: 4, Funny

    Lemmings don't actually jump off cliffs (on their own). Really.

    Anyways, you only need one Blocker and you're good to go. At least until you hit the nuke button - "Oh No!"

  11. Re:America, f*** yeah! on Foreign Data Unsafe From US Patriot Act, Says American Law Firm · · Score: 2

    I, for one, welcome our puppet-sexing vomit gag overlords.

  12. Re:Alright! on MPAA-Dodd Investigation Petition Reaches Goal · · Score: 1

    In an election year? Too dangerous to leave this entirely untouched. Hope for the best?

  13. Shinku... on Sunspot Tosses Plasma Cloud Toward Earth · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hadoken!

  14. Re:offshore on Former Dell Execs Involved In Massive Insider Trading Probe · · Score: 1

    To be pedantic: Raj Rajaratnam is a US Citizen, residing and (formerly) working in the US, born in Sri Lanka.

  15. Re:Does it matter? on Pentagon To Crowdsource Weapons Software Testing · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sure it can.

    Oh, you meant intact.

  16. Re:I can't remember my husband's passwords on Teens Share Passwords As a Form of Intimacy · · Score: 1

    All I see is *******....

  17. Compensation not commensurate on Kodak Files For Bankruptcy Protection · · Score: 1

    Don't forget that Antonio Perez has been overpaid in comparison to the performance of the company.

    Note that his pay went up in the rankings while Kodak slid further and further down.

  18. Re:You get the frost pits, we do the rest on Kodak Files For Bankruptcy Protection · · Score: 1

    Yes, got hung up on paragraphs 3 and 4 there. My bad.

  19. Re:You get the frost pits, we do the rest on Kodak Files For Bankruptcy Protection · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Their research arm is still doing quite well. If they want to sell, of course, local co-giants Xerox and Bausch + Lomb may be interested in snapping up those top optics and computer vision scientists....

  20. Re:You get the frost pits, we do the rest on Kodak Files For Bankruptcy Protection · · Score: 2, Informative

    Wrong, wrongity wrong wrong.

    They tried going digital.

    They were just too late.

  21. Printers were a bad idea on Kodak Files For Bankruptcy Protection · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I was a summer intern at KRL (Kodak Research Labs), working on digital image processing, when the whole printer thing took off, and it was painfully obvious to us that it was a terrible move. Putting Bill Lloyd (formerly head of inkjet work) in place as CTO seemed to cement things in place.

    Who prints anything at home these days, anyway? Especially photos....

  22. Re:Thump! on Carmakers Prepare For Augmented Reality Driving · · Score: 0

    But... it goes to 11!

  23. Re:But wait on 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons Announced · · Score: 4, Funny

    God forbid you ever try grappling....

  24. Re:Random CAPITALIZATION on The Encyclopedia of Sci-fi Goes Live Online · · Score: 2

    Maybe... it was WRITTEN... by William... SHATNER!

  25. Re:Need a new law on Juror's Tweets Overturn Trial Verdict · · Score: 1

    You clearly do not live in New York. New York State Consolidated Laws-Judiciary Law Article 16 521 states that all employers of 10+ employees must pay for full employee wages, at least for the first three days of service (with the state picking up the tab thereafter).

    IANAL, and this does not constitute legal advice.