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  1. Re:Police and Judges. on Bennett Haselton's Response To That "Don't Talk to Cops" Video · · Score: 4, Insightful

    See, the difference between "don't talk to the police" and "don't talk to the police without an attorney" is huge, and the latter is a much more reasonable position to take. An innocent witness could reasonably want to tell the police what they know, but run it by their attorney first, but it's hard to take unnecessary silence as anything other than a denial of something. You can't legally make yourself guilty through silence, but you can certainly make yourself a suspect.

  2. Re:Environmentalists... on US Now Produces More Oil and Gas Than Russia and Saudi Arabia · · Score: 1

    That's assuming the contamination is from the fracking fluids, and not methane, which is by far the more common problem.

  3. Re:Aspirational terms. on Slashdot Asks: How Does the US Gov't Budget Crunch Affect You? · · Score: 1

    No, no it's not. It's not a law that lays out how money is spent. Just that money is spent at all? Please tell me your not responsible for your own household budgeting. That'd be scary.

  4. Re:Environmentalists... on US Now Produces More Oil and Gas Than Russia and Saudi Arabia · · Score: 2, Informative

    Ok, I hope the NIH is good enough for you, because it's what determined my own concern.
    here

  5. Re:Environmentalists... on US Now Produces More Oil and Gas Than Russia and Saudi Arabia · · Score: 1

    Yes, but if market forces(sans true-cost of fossil fuel burning) are pushing for more production in the U.S., if the U.S. didn't, someone else would.

  6. Re:excellent! on Chemical Experts Begin Destroying Syria's Chemical Arsenal · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Anyone who supports the death penalty supports governments killing their own citizens. I'm not saying that's you, I'm just saying there are some mighty fragile glass houses around in the U.S.

  7. Re:I'd rather all the drinking water was contamina on US Now Produces More Oil and Gas Than Russia and Saudi Arabia · · Score: 1

    It's disingenuous to pretend this represents only a penny difference over decades, but groundwater contamination is apparently a problem.

  8. Re:Environmentalists... on US Now Produces More Oil and Gas Than Russia and Saudi Arabia · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No. While the long-term implications of increased production are troubling, and there should be local concern regarding fracking(I've changed my mind, real scientific evidence suggests groundwater contamination isn't uncommon), as far as the big environmental concerns go: it doesn't matter where fossil fuels come from, it matters how much are being burned.

  9. Re:Speaking as a non-American... on Slashdot Asks: How Does the US Gov't Budget Crunch Affect You? · · Score: 1

    That is incorrect. The president presented the budget it the beginning of the fiscal year, it passed both houses. This is a continuing resolution instruction the treasury to fund the programs the described in the budget(why that's separate? who knows?).

    The republicans of the house demanded the defunding of a self-funding program(that also passed both houses) in return for passing this continuing resolution, and the senate refused. As of yet, the president is only involved in the process as a spokesperson for passing the bill, the senate has rejected the ultimatum versions of the bill.

  10. Re:Aspirational terms. on Slashdot Asks: How Does the US Gov't Budget Crunch Affect You? · · Score: 1

    Ugh, stop mixing facts and factual mistakes. Drives me nuts. This isn't a budget, this is a continuing resolution to fund the discretionary programs. The budget was already passed at the beginning of the fiscal year.

  11. Re:Cool in 1985 on World Solar Challenge About To Start · · Score: 2

    Yes, we know, you're completely bored with work to advance human understanding and engineering, and have become as bored with those who do interesting things, as you have in your own petty life.

  12. Re:Buy yourself future money(even more!) on How Data Analytics In Education Could Create a New Class of Haves and Have-nots · · Score: 1, Troll

    "Overpriced crap on tv" == "Food, shelter, and healthcare" once translated from entitled dick language.

    Here's a hint: I'm not poor. I didn't have poor parents. That's why I have time to debate this with idiots like you. A person working minimum wage literally every single second(with overtime even), would make substantially less per year than me, mostly due to investment in my education that others wouldn't have been able to afford.

    Keep defending the ultra-rich non-working class, I'm sure they'll totally let you join them.

  13. Re:Tailor? Meh. on How Data Analytics In Education Could Create a New Class of Haves and Have-nots · · Score: 1

    Or be born wealthy, that seems to inure you to most of this kind of thing, even if you're a terrible person.

  14. Buy yourself future money(even more!) on How Data Analytics In Education Could Create a New Class of Haves and Have-nots · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    It's increasingly becoming the case, especially in the US, that the only real way to make money is to have money. Investment returns compared to work returns have skyrocketed, top marginal tax rates(and particular capital gains) have dropped absurdly, and mobility supporting institutions have been increasingly privatized, disestablished, or defunded.

    Due to broken and even anti-democratic electoral processes, I can't actually see that trend reversing normally. It's not revolution-worthy yet, but it couldn't hurt to start planning a guillotine.

  15. Re:What could possibly go wrong? on MIT Researchers Unveil Self-Assembling Robot Swarm · · Score: 2

    Among the people who like to talk about it, the term for that is "green goo"

  16. Re:What could possibly go wrong? on MIT Researchers Unveil Self-Assembling Robot Swarm · · Score: 1

    Let's get any machine that can build a functional copy of itself, given the right materials before worrying about some specific machine doing it AND finding the materials itself.

  17. Re:What could possibly go wrong? on MIT Researchers Unveil Self-Assembling Robot Swarm · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Of course, grey goo is the natural place to go with highly programmed, organization dependent, physically large devices that depend on highly specific materials for their construction. It's not like any one of those attributes would render grey goo essentially harmless.

  18. Re:Eugenics, but on a computer! on Personal Genomics Firm 23andMe Patents Designer Baby System · · Score: 2

    Ok, I see, so you made the same point I did, but I was too dense to see that.

  19. Re:Eugenics, but on a computer! on Personal Genomics Firm 23andMe Patents Designer Baby System · · Score: 1

    Existent and functional is the same as ethical, huh? So shooting you in the head shouldn't be a problem because physics tells us the momentum transfer from the bullet to your gray matter is a completely natural physical reaction.

  20. Re:Genomics? on Personal Genomics Firm 23andMe Patents Designer Baby System · · Score: 1

    People Monsanto sues often don't have contracts with them.

  21. Re:Dating service to come? on Personal Genomics Firm 23andMe Patents Designer Baby System · · Score: 1

    Well, there's some selection bias in the sample, where you've got only the people who would brag about things in the first place, but I'd bet it's not too biased.

  22. Re:vs gasoline cars on Tesla Model S Catches Fire: Is This Tesla's 'Toyota' Moment? · · Score: 1

    Yep, definitely shouldn't put most of it down to being filled with several gallons of combustible liquid.

  23. Re:Big Oil is Dancing on Tesla Model S Catches Fire: Is This Tesla's 'Toyota' Moment? · · Score: 1

    Well, safe to use with enough shielding. Still very likely to create a super-fund site if one were involved in a 10 car pileup.

  24. Re:Open source browsers? on Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Approve Work On DRM For HTML 5.1 · · Score: 1

    Nope, that's not in the DMCA, using the software would be illegal.

  25. Re:Open source browsers? on Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Approve Work On DRM For HTML 5.1 · · Score: 1

    Except no one on the firefox team is going to block an extension called "copy-my-damn-movie" that does reflect the source code.