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  1. Re:Tinfoil hats! on MIT Scientists Use Radio Waves To Sense Human Emotions (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    it would be as a replacement for the polygraph

    A piece of fucking string is a replacement for the polygraph. If J. Edgar Hoover didn't take kickbacks we'd never have heard of that scam.

    This thing on the other hand seems to be able to detect if people are reacting to something.

  2. Re:Weight numbers are not the only indicators on Activity Trackers May Undermine Weight Loss Efforts, Says Study (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 1

    The people getting significant muscle that way don't give a shit about weight because they know it isn't the only metric. BMI charts are not for those people.

    However for those with a lot less exercise weight is not a bad metric since their amounts of muscle are low and staying fairly constant.

  3. Re:Smeg on 28 Years A Smeghead: Red Dwarf Is Coming Back (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes I blamed that on Coronation Street by mistake, and indeed it was unwatchable as a lot of those crossovers have been.
    The Red Dwarf one did at least have a couple of new jokes even though they recycled a plot.

  4. A bit more than that see photo in article on China Confirms Its Space Station Is Falling Back to Earth (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    I remember that, the debris wasn't much, looked like charcoal briquits

    There was one portion weighing over a ton that was brought on the back of a truck to display at the Miss Universe pagent in Perth:
    http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/08/that-time-a-space-station-became-part-of-the-miss-universe-pageant/278953/

  5. Re:China has anti-satellite weapons on China Confirms Its Space Station Is Falling Back to Earth (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    You forgot a 4th point - send fragments all over the place to potentially damage things in all nearby orbits, or if small bits break off at high speed, even very distant orbits.
    Make something go boom and some stuff goes up instead of just down. Since the effects of the earths gravity are a lot less that far out a lot of it is going to go up and take a long time to go down. A big enough boom and some bits may even end up in a fairly stable orbit higher up.
    I suggest you look up space junk for some ideas about how it's not just going to fall down quickly in a few harmless bits.

  6. Re:Bring it down carefully on China Confirms Its Space Station Is Falling Back to Earth (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    Hundreds of times easier than that would be to push it up into a higher orbit and do something useful with it.

  7. Re:This is my shocked face on China Confirms Its Space Station Is Falling Back to Earth (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    So they're exporting this space station to the US, then?

    Yes - every hour and a half :)

  8. Re:This is my shocked face on China Confirms Its Space Station Is Falling Back to Earth (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    I've seen no evidence that China is incapable of producing high-quality stuff

    You actually wrote this in comments about a SPACE STATION!

    Let's see whatever you do make it into orbit :)

  9. Re:"Smart" means "treacherous" on Woman Sues Sex Toy App For Secretly Capturing Sensitive Information (ctvnews.ca) · · Score: 1

    Didn't justify what data is enough

    Obviously that is going to depend on both the application and the data available.

    I really do not get why I have to dumb things down to the max and then explain the utterly obvious to you each time. You keep on popping up near me with the appearance of being less intelligent every day. Are you trolling? You cannot possibly be as stupid as you appear to be.

  10. Re:After the cloth didn't wipe it... on Computer Specialist Who Deleted Clinton Emails May Have Asked Reddit For Tips (usnews.com) · · Score: 1

    It's ten times funnier in English instead of 'merkin so it doesn't matter if you know about mail server conventions or not.

  11. Re:Stick a fork in.... on Computer Specialist Who Deleted Clinton Emails May Have Asked Reddit For Tips (usnews.com) · · Score: 1

    This is finished. There's no way she wins the election, and I say that as one of her supporters. Here is clear evidence of trying to hide something. This leaves no room for doubt.

    Whether this is real or not it's lazy birther shit part two instead of going after one of the many real issues that Hillary could be tackled on.

    Seriously guys - it's office fucking procedures and virtual storage of paperwork instead of something actually serious like probably taking bribes from Pfizer and generally abusing her position of Secretary of State (eg. when she asked spooks to get the credit card details of diplomats from allied countries for possible framing and leverage). That would take actual work but going on about email is the lazy way out.

  12. Re:How does someone fuck up this badly? on Woman Sues Sex Toy App For Secretly Capturing Sensitive Information (ctvnews.ca) · · Score: 1

    Location info you loser.

  13. Re:"Smart" means "treacherous" on Woman Sues Sex Toy App For Secretly Capturing Sensitive Information (ctvnews.ca) · · Score: 1

    What negative consequences stem from someone knowing what vibrator settings can get you off

    Collecting location information is the major fuckup here. It's kind of why it was posted to Slashdot in the first place. I've got no idea why you are writing comments here when you are not even aware of that.

  14. Re:"Smart" means "treacherous" on Woman Sues Sex Toy App For Secretly Capturing Sensitive Information (ctvnews.ca) · · Score: 1

    I'm interested in your rationale

    It's the simple right tool for the job methodology instead of the everything open, get whatever you can and never filter your inputs shit that happens in a lot of cases.
    Programming as a job and not as a failing mark in a high school assignment.

    It's the latter approach that generated bad PR for the recent Pokemon game as an additional example. Get what you need instead of facing unintended consequences for grabbing everything.

    You mentioning this in the same context just shows your grip on reality

    No it's a very real example of another failure of the same type - an extreme example so that it may inspire you to take it seriously and actually think. It appears that it did not work. Please at least try to understand a post before you reply to it.

  15. Re:Have they run out of curry yet? on 28 Years A Smeghead: Red Dwarf Is Coming Back (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    After 28 years, you think they would be out of curry by now.

    Holly: Hope they've got some odds and sods on board, we're short of a few supplies.
    Lister: [drinking tea] Like what?
    Holly: Cow's milk, ran out of that yonks ago. Fresh and dehydrated.
    Lister: What kind of milk are we using now?
    Holly: Emergency backup supply. We're on the dog's milk.
    Lister: Dog's milk!
    Holly: Nothing wrong with dog's milk. Full of goodness, full of vitamins, full of marrowbone jelly. Lasts longer than any other milk, dog's milk.
    Lister: Why?
    Holly: No bugger'll drink it. Plus of course the advantage of dog's milk is that when it goes off, it tastes exactly the same as when it's fresh.

  16. Re:Smeg on 28 Years A Smeghead: Red Dwarf Is Coming Back (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Back to Earth in 2009 was awful

    Yes but still pretty good for a low budget Coronation Street crossover.
    That's like comparing a Star Wars Christmas special to Empire Strikes Back.

  17. Re:Smeg on 28 Years A Smeghead: Red Dwarf Is Coming Back (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    They were trying to have their cake and eat it, too with the "no, all this showing Craig Charles as an actor in Coronation Street (etc) crap isn't really breaking the fourth wall

    It's one of dozens of cheap Coronation Street crossover shows and they've all done that. The Doctor Who one from way back was unwatchable despite the cast. The Red Dwarf one had some good jokes to make it worth it (eg. the "enhance" sequence that was very topical at the time due to it being an overused plot device in CSI type shows).

  18. Re:Smeg on 28 Years A Smeghead: Red Dwarf Is Coming Back (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The thing that changes everything is the Red Dwarf is not original and never intended to be, it was satire of the SF theme of the week.
    There are still places for it to go so it doesn't have to be stale.

  19. Re:How does someone fuck up this badly? on Woman Sues Sex Toy App For Secretly Capturing Sensitive Information (ctvnews.ca) · · Score: 1

    In the latter case add a lot of people at GM, who got away with it some years earlier, making the people at VW think they could as well.
    Having an application that sends info home neither has the same financial incentive nor the expectation that it would not matter if they got caught.

  20. Re:The problem.... on Assange Agrees to US Prison If Obama Pardons Chelsea Manning (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    So what do you want done to the spooks that Manning exposed who were selling little boys to warlords to use as sex slaves?

    In comparison to what was revealed Manning is a saint.

  21. Re:It's Bradley, not Chelsea, you fucktards! on Assange Agrees to US Prison If Obama Pardons Chelsea Manning (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Gitmo wasn't on US soil expressly because neither US law nor the Constitution apply there. Ditto Abu Ghraib, etc.

    That's what they pretended anyway, and since they got away with it that may as well be true.
    Try breaking a US law in such a place and people will find the law does apply to individuals despite being waived when inconvenient to the government.

  22. Re:Today vs Yesterday on Assange Agrees to US Prison If Obama Pardons Chelsea Manning (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Snowden cannot be pardoned because he has not been convicted of a crime

    Nixon, Libby, North and so on - the list is long of people who were pardoned before conviction.

  23. Re:Not indicted on Assange Agrees to US Prison If Obama Pardons Chelsea Manning (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    You actually don't know that... there are "secret warrants" and sealed indictments...

    It wasn't very secret.

    He may well be wanted but the government just won't admit it...

    Some years ago it was. Even Hillary said a few things to the press on the matter.

  24. Re:Does the US even want him? on Assange Agrees to US Prison If Obama Pardons Chelsea Manning (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    There has been a bit of movement in US legal circles on that but most of it was years ago (when Hillary was in the chair) so that may be why you are not aware of it.

  25. Re:My favorite Emacs joke on Emacs 25.1 Released With Tons Of New Features (fossbytes.com) · · Score: 1

    That's why I used elvis, a vi variant, back then since I didn't have 8MB or swap on my upgraded Atari ST.