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  1. Re:Alternate Title on What the Future Fiction of 2015 Revealed About Humans Today (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, pretty much yes. So I guessed correctly, didn't I?

  2. Re:Alternate Title on What the Future Fiction of 2015 Revealed About Humans Today (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    So do you prefer regressive SF? Perhaps post-apocalyptic survivalist crap?

  3. Re:Good time to be an Android developer! on Google Confirms Next Android Version Won't Use Oracle's Proprietary Java APIs · · Score: 2

    License.

    OpenJDK is GPLv3 with Classpath extension (it basically says "GPL does not infect your code"). Android was using libraries by Apache Harmony, which are under Apache v2 license.

  4. Re:The worst censorship is not from governments. on Vice: Internet Freedom Is Actively Dissolving In America (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it was so much better when we could just call these uppity blacks "n....". It was the real freedom! Oh, sorry my local KKK branch meeting is starting, have to run.

  5. Re:Didn't they hit a pipe specified in the contrac on Seattle's Behemoth Boring Machine, Idle Since 2013, Makes Some Progress · · Score: 1

    No, the tunnel goes BELOW the landfill. The pipe was left from a prior geological survey.

  6. Re:75% of intelligence is inherited on Poverty Stunts IQ In the US But Not In Other Developed Countries (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Is it? I wonder, why TFA — which you made me read — does not even have the word "excercise" in it...

    It is. It's not in TFA, though.

    Or, maybe, they are smart — and leave the safe-but-low-paying academia jobs for the much more rewarding private sector?

    Most academics eventually make it into private industry.

  7. Re:75% of intelligence is inherited on Poverty Stunts IQ In the US But Not In Other Developed Countries (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    No. The _potential_ for intelligence is inherited. If you don't exercise it then you won't get it - that's also pretty clear.

    As for reality not conforming to your prejudices... There's a _reason_ most academics are left-leaning. Right-wingers are simply not smart enough. Duh.

  8. Re:75% of intelligence is inherited on Poverty Stunts IQ In the US But Not In Other Developed Countries (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Please, read the article. Each individual's IQ is mostly determined by genes, true. But there is little genetic difference between IQ of various populations. So each population will have individuals with high IQ and low IQ.

    The problem is that the US system reinforces poverty - schools are funded from local sources and poor districts provide poor education. Add to this a high rate of de-facto segregation.

  9. Re:Can somebody explain to me on FAA Drone Rules May Already Be Outlawed By Congress (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    You have missed the words "well regulated militia". This part is also in the Constitution, you know. And it's not just a couple of random words.

    The modern interpretation would restrict guns only to the US Army. But if you _insist_ on interpreting Constitution in its contemporary context, then you should know that the authors of the Second Amendment all agreed that individual states should have the right to regulate the militia.

    Moreover, the Second Amendment protects the use of guns only for armed resistance against external or internal threats. The use of weapons for personal defense or hunting is NOT in any way protected. Indeed, a Supreme Court decision upholds bans of weapons that are not useful in military combat ( https://www.oyez.org/cases/190... ).

  10. Re:VM Replication on ZFS Replication To the Cloud Is Finally Here and It's Fast (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Only difference I can see really is that LXC doesn't support nested containers...

    It most certainly does. Linux can nest user namespaces to almost any depth.

  11. Re:Glad for the Drone Regs on FAA Drone Rules May Already Be Outlawed By Congress (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, remember the time when you could get a tank and drive over all those silly pedestrians. Ahh... good days...

  12. Re:Can somebody explain to me on FAA Drone Rules May Already Be Outlawed By Congress (hackaday.com) · · Score: 0

    Yet according to the Constitution, it's PERFECTLY OK for individual states to ban weapons. That's the part about the "well organized militia". Moreover, states are entirely within their rights to impose a death penalty for even transporting a gun across their territory. And any reinterpretation of the Second Amendment that makes it an absolute right is nothing but a historical revisionism.

  13. Re:Different demographics on GunTV Aims To Premier 24-Hour Shopping Channel For Firearms · · Score: 3, Informative

    Really? Let's search the web for "hunting incident". We get: http://abc30.com/news/16-year-...

    Perhaps it's an aberration? Let's dig further: http://animalrights.about.com/... - 1000 people per year are shot in hunting incidents. Hmm...

    Let's dig further. Do we have reliable statistics? Nope. NRA blocked them, so we must assume that the real number of gun victims is greater.

  14. Re: The world is crying out for better pain killer on Researchers Are Developing Cure for Human Pain (neurosciencenews.com) · · Score: 1

    I had tried alcohol and decided that I don't like it so I don't drink it at all. I used prescription opiates and I haven't got addicted to them. A half-finished bottle of oxycodone still stands on my shelf, I'll throw it away once it expires.

  15. Re: Any real tangible merits to using Windows Serv on Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Moving To Per-Core Licensing (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Not really. That was 2000-2001 when Netware was a creaking old mess (remember BTrieve?) and could barely do anything _but_ being a fileserver.

  16. Re:The world is crying out for better pain killers on Researchers Are Developing Cure for Human Pain (neurosciencenews.com) · · Score: 1

    This is a common situation. People who are prescribed opiates for acute pain rarely get addicted.

    Personal anecdote - I was prescribed 16mg oxycodone after an oral surgery. I really disliked the side effects (nausea and woozy head) so I stopped taking it after several days.

    I kept the pills, though, since they are quite useful - a month or so ago I got a big shallow steam burn (from opening an oven door) and I know from experience that such burns are not threatening but a huge PITA as they cause a lot of discomfort. So I self-prescribed a 5mg a day of oxycodone for two days and was able to function without significant problems.

  17. Spring-loaded lancets? on Google Proposes 'Needle-less' System For Drawing Blood (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    What about spring-loaded lancets? They use a similar principle - a thin metallic spike is launched by a spring, pierces the skin and then it's retracted by the spring back into its sheaf. It's nearly painless and much less scary than a regular lancet. See here for a demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  18. Re:Any real tangible merits to using Windows Serve on Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Moving To Per-Core Licensing (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Right now? Not much.

    About 15 years ago, Windows was the only way to run a decent file and printserver. It was also much better documented and had better performance tools than contemporary Linux servers.

    Right now all these advantages faded - printing is easily done by standalone networked printers, fileservers are not nearly as ubiquitous as before and Linux is way faster. However, Windows is still useful in a number of cases: as an ActiveDirectory host, as a platform to run SQL Server and for Exchange installations. But that's a narrow niche, really.

  19. Re:License Frame: "I wanna be a Tesla when I grow on Porsche Is Building a Tesla Competitor (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Tesla is mass-market. They have a full-scale car factory that is producing close to 100000 cars per year. They are investing like crazy in expansion that will allow them to produce 500000 cars a year, starting 2 years from now.

    All while the supercharger network is growing: http://supercharge.info/ It's already dense enough to travel to most of the interesting places in the US and it's only going to get better.

    And yes, I own a Tesla.

  20. Re:Another reason to ban rifles on Mass Shooting In San Bernardino Kills At Least 14 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Should the ability to release a gene-engineered plague be covered by the Second Amendment?

    If you want to dig deeper into the actual writings of the Founding Fathers, they believed that individual _States_ must have the right to establish and regulate the militia. The Second Amendment is the enabling act for it.

    Moreover, the Second Amendment is limited to weapons that have legitimate value for a well-regulated militia (see: United States v. Miller Supreme Court decision, 1939) so a sawed-off shotgun or a 3D-printed plastic assassination guns are not covered by it. Even better, the Second Amendment does NOT by itself grant a right to a concealed or open carry during the peace time.

    So perhaps gun-fondlers should go and actually READ the fucking Constitution? For the record, I have military training and I'm definitely against the current gun chaos.

  21. Re:Another reason to ban rifles on Mass Shooting In San Bernardino Kills At Least 14 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    And people on your side act like petulant spoiled brats. The founding fathers lived in a completely different world. The Second Amendment was written in 1789, when the most practical weapon was a smoothbore flintlock. There were no practical multi-shot weapons and mass shooting sprees were pretty much impossible. Are you SURE that the founding fathers would have written the Second Amendment using the same wording had they known the future?

    And you STILL skip the words "well regulated". It means in the very least "well trained", yet most states have no training requirements for gun purchases.

  22. Re:Another reason to ban rifles on Mass Shooting In San Bernardino Kills At Least 14 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Where exactly do you see disrespect for the law? The original 2nd Amendment has been greatly expanded recently by removing all the traces of "well regulated" from it.

  23. Re:Another reason to ban rifles on Mass Shooting In San Bernardino Kills At Least 14 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    The 2nd Amendment has words "well regulated militia". The current situation is about as far from them as possible. So a simple court decision to reinterpret these words would be enough.

  24. Re:Cue the flamewar... on Mass Shooting In San Bernardino Kills At Least 14 (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Except during that timeframe Australia grew from 18 millions to 24 millions. So that's 35% reduction. Meanwhile US grew only slightly from 274 millions to 319 millions.

    Also, Australia is a poor example - it has never had significant gun-related violence.

  25. Re:Sorry guys, Israel doesn't care what you think. on Israel Meets With Google and YouTube To Discuss Censoring Videos (middleeastmonitor.com) · · Score: 1

    That's literally exactly what ALREADY HAPPENS

    Bullshit. Israel is not isolated by a wall from other countries (including from the sea) and nobody is slowly strangling it by annexing cutting off parts of it.

    not enough israelis die when Israel is attacked to satisfy your bloodlust.

    You are insisting that keeping Palestinians inside a fucking ghetto is the only alternative to Israeli genocide. That's bullshit and you're just as bad as fucking Nazis who kept Jews inside ghettos during the WWII.

    You throw around words like "apartheid" and "nazi" when there are probably more arabs and muslims living in Israel with full rights of citizenship

    Bullshit. Palestinian citizens of Israel have no rights at all. Neither can a Palestinian citizen of another country move to Israel and get an automatic citizenship.

    As for your UN report it's bullshit [nytimes.com] to put it mildly.

    No, it's not. It documents dozens of Israel war crimes, and people who ordered them should be hanged, just like Nazis after Nuremberg trials. Ditto for other constant human rights violations by Israeli police and IDF.

    The world should impose sanctions on Israel, like we did with Iran. They should be lifted only when Israel conducts at least a couple of free democratic elections involving ALL of its citizens (including Palestinian ones) and surrenders its nuclear weapons.