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  1. Re:So now we're all skeptics... on How To Better Verify Scientific Research · · Score: 1

    It's more like "you'll need to provide counter-evidence at least as strong as the concensus".

  2. Re:So now we're all skeptics... on How To Better Verify Scientific Research · · Score: 1

    Having lost the argument on GW and then AGW, denlialists have now invented catastrophic AGW as their new talking point? Good grief.

  3. Re:Replication on How To Better Verify Scientific Research · · Score: 1

    There's a lot of money in replicating results that big business has a vested interest in disagreeing with. Chew on that the next time somebody tells you that climate scientists only support global warming to get grant funding.

  4. Re:Scientists == Always Right on How To Better Verify Scientific Research · · Score: 1

    Every great scientist's career is built on the cold, dead corpses of his peers' and antecedents' own work.

  5. Re:But But... on Celebrating a Century of Fossil Finds In the La Brea Tar Pits · · Score: 1

    The clue is the sentence immediately following the one you quibble with, where he makes it clear that he's using an analogy to demonstrate the scale of the error. A pejorative analogy, mind you, but the pejorative is the seasoning, not the point of the exercise.

  6. Re:8 yards sounds plausible on Celebrating a Century of Fossil Finds In the La Brea Tar Pits · · Score: 1

    The UK metricated decades ago.

  7. Re:Misguided. on Nebraska Scientists Refuse To Carry Out Climate Change-Denying Study · · Score: 1

    There already is a great deal of research in natural climate variability. None of it is in the form of "please provide a report in the climate of region X, omitting all man-made impacts".

  8. Re:What a waste of taxpayer dollars... on Dream Chaser Damaged In Landing Accident At Edwards AFB · · Score: 1

    I'm curious as to what your normal reading matter is, that "Cruz" jumped to your fingertips before "cruise".

  9. Re:Steambox will murder it with steam sales on Ouya Developers Share Their Experiences · · Score: 2

    You can buy games that cheaply on a console right now, in the form of physical disks. If (as is expected) they start to go all-digital, similar pricing will come across.

  10. Re:Wrong question on "Squishy Joints" May Have Helped Dinosaurs Grow To Giant Sizes · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Given that "survival of the fittest" is an unguided process, isn't that also "how" rather than "why"?

  11. Re:Wrong question on "Squishy Joints" May Have Helped Dinosaurs Grow To Giant Sizes · · Score: 1

    Using "why" (implicitly "why can") rather than "how" is a very standard usage, both when asking these kinds of questions and answering them. I doubt anyone would actually read it in the anthropomorphising sense unless they were trying to win some sort of pedantry contest.

  12. Re:Steambox will murder it with steam sales on Ouya Developers Share Their Experiences · · Score: 2

    Valve already has PC gamers on board. The Steambox isn't for them, by and large.

  13. Re:Really? "indie" is better than "independent" ? on Ouya Developers Share Their Experiences · · Score: 1

    My face right now: ;_;

  14. Re:Explain something to me: on Ouya Developers Share Their Experiences · · Score: 1

    Probably in this case, but not necessarily in all cases. If your Kickstarter ends quickly then there's clearly a lot of pent up demand left to satisfy when you make it a retail product. However Ouya kept expanding its Kickstarter until, as you observe, it had completely mopped up all the available demand.

  15. Re:Really? "indie" is better than "independent" ? on Ouya Developers Share Their Experiences · · Score: 1

    That's what many (not all, but many) independent games developers call themselves, so I don't think you've got much of a right to object to the terminology.

  16. Re:Steambox will murder it with steam sales on Ouya Developers Share Their Experiences · · Score: 1

    Exactly, it's a play for the low end of the console market but Sony has the "last generation's model" incumbent advantage.

  17. Re:Can't wait on New Goggles Offer Minority Report-Style Interface With Heads-Up Display · · Score: 1

    I've done three of those, and none of them involved me waving my arms in front of my face. Moving my arms up there periodically, and back down, yes. The point with the tablet is to emphasise that nobody spends more than a few minutes at a time with their arms up and it'd be excruciating to operate a computer where the tactile interface was only in your eyeline.

  18. Re:millenials on The Cybersecurity Industry Is Hiring, But Young People Aren't Interested · · Score: 1

    Newspapers and magazines, mostly. There's also a thriving niche in the nonfiction book market.

  19. Re:$2 Million as a bait on DARPA Issues $2mil Cyber Grand Challenge · · Score: 1

    It's a tricky balance. A corporation speaks with the combined resources of the entire organisation, but often only in the direction that a handful of senior managers choose. This means that said managers have a disproportionately large voice in the political sphere. On the other hand, the same could be said of things like labour unions, although those (ostensibly) talk with the democratically-selected voice of their members.

  20. Re:I want my games to have all the pixels! on 4K Ultra HD Likely To Repeat the Failure of 3D Television · · Score: 1

    The Avengers is the only example that springs to mind of a 16:9 movie; apparently it had the benefit of keeping all the characters in frame with The Hulk.

  21. Re:RIP Google, 2014? on Google Testing Banner Ads On Select Search Results · · Score: 1

    Safari blocks thirdparty cookies by default; Google didn't like this because their ad tracking requires them, and engineered an exploit around it. That battle has already begun.

  22. Re:Steambox will murder it with steam sales on Ouya Developers Share Their Experiences · · Score: 4, Informative

    Steambox and Ouya address fairly different markets. Steambox approaches the console niche from above, Ouya from below. I think those little TV games boxes will be safe from competitors for a while unless Sony gets serious about its Vita TV. Of course that's ignoring the issue of whether there's enough of a market or development community for these devices in the first place.

  23. Re:Oh no! on MEPs Vote To Suspend Data Sharing With US · · Score: 1

    It costs more time and money to obtain the data covertly than overtly, time and money that would have to be redirected from other parts of the NSA's work.

  24. Re:Come on... on Torvalds: Free OS X Is No Threat To Linux · · Score: 1

    It's free if you own a sufficiently new preceding version of OSX. If your current version is too old, you have to buy an intermediate version, upgrade to that, then upgrade to that again. Odds are, however, that such a machine doesn't meet the system requirements anyway.

    The power management changes are genuinely a Big Deal this time around. They've learned a lot from mobile. Be interesting to see if MS tries something similar in 8.2.

  25. Wrong Mavericks on Torvalds: Free OS X Is No Threat To Linux · · Score: 5, Informative

    The S is in there for a reason.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mavericks_(location)