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  1. loyalty programs... on At CIA Starbucks, Even the Baristas Are Covert · · Score: 3, Insightful

    but they all use their loyalty program cards tied to their personal credit cards....

  2. Re:Warned about what? on TSA 'Warning' Media About Reporting On Body Scanner Failures? · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...but there is nothing to see, ergo you're not supposed to say anything! Being consequent helps.

  3. Re:publish shit! on Academics Not Productive Enough? Sack 'em · · Score: 4, Informative

    Already Exists: The Journal of Irreproducible Results (http://www.jir.com/)

  4. Re:Engineer in top spot? on Libya Elects Engineer To Acting Prime Minister Post · · Score: 2

    Yitzhak Rabin was a civil engineer.

  5. Re:Sure, send me an invite! on Google+ Already At 10 Million Users · · Score: 1

    me too, please: arie.kremen AT gmail

    Thanks.

  6. missing element for conviction on Man Robs Bank of $1 To Get Health Care In Jail · · Score: 1

    To be convicted, prosecution has to demonstrate intent to commit a felony. Robbing a bank of $1 and declaring that the intent was to obtain healthcare while imprisoned will not suffice for a conviction.

  7. Re:I abstain on Voting Machines Selecting Default Candidates · · Score: 1

    It is only a 'no confidence vote' if you show up and/or record a non-valid vote. Otherwise it's laziness and irresponsibility.

  8. Re:Proof??? on Stuxnet Analysis Backs Iran-Israel Connection · · Score: 1

    Don't you think that if a state-sponsored agency wrote and deployed the virus, the QA/QC would remove ego-driven references? A basement hacker has an ego, a state-sponsored team of programmers have a task.

  9. Proof??? on Stuxnet Analysis Backs Iran-Israel Connection · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They were smart enough to write and deploy a complex virus, but stupid enough to include a reference to an obscure execution date of a prominent Iranian Jew; the first .Google hit conveniently pointing to the relevant Wikipedia entry. That screams red herring (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_herring_(idiom)), not proof.

  10. Re:Seriously on Ryanair's CEO Suggests Eliminating Co-Pilots · · Score: 1

    I remember flying when there was a three-man crew in the cockpit: pilot, co-pilot, and engineer. On some smaller passenger airplanes there is already only one person on the flightdeck. Eventually technology and technophobes - as witnessed in some of the previous posts - will sufficiently advance to accept a one-person crew flying increasingly larger airplanes. Regulations will be adapted and none of the young'ons will remember a two-person flight crew. Nobody said it will happen tomorrow, but a gradual implementation is reasonable, just as A-380's still have three men crews and a back-up crew on long distance routes.

  11. Re:I'll say it, congrats! on Family Shoots 'I Will Survive' Video While Visiting Auschwitz · · Score: 1

    Good for them! I wish I could have taken my relatives to the various death-camps for a celebration like this one!!!

  12. Re:Hyper-security in Israel on Israeli Border Police Shoot US Student's Laptop · · Score: 1

    No, the Air France flight originated in Paris with a layover in Athens. Tel-Aviv was the destination.

  13. Re:How Much Damage? on Unknown 7m Asteroid Almost Impacted Earth · · Score: 1

    It would be a safer bet to assume that the object had a diameter of 10m. So to compare impacts you had to use the volumetric ratio, not the linear ratio. This would make the impact of a 7m diameter object 'only' 35% of the 10m object.

  14. Re:And then what? on Apple Pulls C64 Emulator From the App Store · · Score: 3, Informative

    The commands PEEK and POKE come to mind...

  15. Re:Generic sounds, words can not be trademarked on Tour Companies Battle Over Trademarked Duck Noises · · Score: 1

    The amphibious vehicles the company uses on their tours are called ducks. They only want to sound-mark the combination of tourists on duck tours.

  16. Re:A Waste? on China Admits Use of Death-Row Organs · · Score: 1

    You're using population data down to single individuals, yet report results only to the 10,000s. So the question begs, does your population data include or exclude the executed?

  17. Re:Lake champlain? on "Definitive Evidence" For Ancient Lake On Mars · · Score: 1

    But Martian gravity is lower. When you normalize by the accelecration due to gravity the numbers will work out.

  18. Re:echte grammar nazi on 14-Year-Old Boy Smote By Meteorite · · Score: 1

    Sentences start with capital letters. Proper nouns should be capitalized in English as well.

    Sechs, setzen!

  19. Re:One way to get more registered voters on Iowa Seeks To Remove Electoral College · · Score: 1

    The EU president's functions are mostly representative: open and chair parliament sessions, meets and visits with heads of states. While he does co-signs legislation with the President-in-Office of the Council he has no veto power. He also has no executive powers, or is commanding armies.

    And actually, one thing Europeans do complain about is the the EU government bodies are not elected and are not representing citizens.

    So, your mashing the US with the EU president is ignorant of facts.

  20. Re:research in motion on Solving Obama's BlackBerry Dilemma · · Score: 1

    The article states that an ad campaign around the president as spokeman for RIM would be worth between $25M and $50M.

  21. Re:Accident? on Karl Rove's IT Guru Dies In Small Plane Crash · · Score: 1

    Doesn't Finland have one of the highest suicide rates in the world (http://herkules.oulu.fi/isbn9514256042/html/x335.html)? And statistically, if more people commit suicide, more bankers are included in this group.

  22. go for the classics on Good Physics Books For a Math PhD Student? · · Score: 1

    Heat Transfer by Carslow and Jaeger, 1956.

  23. Re:There is hope on Recovering Moldy Electronics? · · Score: 1

    Just called it by its proper name: capillary rise!!!

  24. Re:Ignorance vs. the Unknown on LHC Success! · · Score: 0

    1 eV is approximately 10^(-20) K. For LHC to approach the caloric value of a soda (diet or regular, the difference is about one order of magnitude) it would need to generate particle beams with zetta-eV, i.e., 10^(21).

    I think the LHC generates particle beams with energies of about a tera-eV (10^12). According to the CERN website, the facility utilizes about 10% of the electricity generated in the canton it is located.

  25. Professionals use validate their data. on United Airline's Stock Falls On Old Bankruptcy Story · · Score: 1

    Either they skimped on the validation or used www.cuil.com