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  1. Is the expense of electrolysis the main inhibitor? on Liquid Sponges Extract Hydrogen From Water · · Score: 1

    Or is it the comparably low demand for hydrogen, due to its dangerous and/or inconvenient differing characteristics with hydrocarbons?

    I mean, either way, it's good news, but in one case it's opening a possible revolution, and in the other it's just nice to have.

  2. Re:Yeah, so? on Kickstarter's Problem: You Have To Make the Game Before You Ask For Money · · Score: 1

    Okay sure, but the summary addressed video games, so it's topical.

    And as to your second statement, I agree, that's exactly what I was trying to say.

  3. Re:Android is Crushing Apple Phone Sales - NOT! on iPhone 6 Sales Crush Means Late-Night Waits For Some Early Adopters · · Score: 0

    For someone condemning "both sides" you're awfully quick to assume that hypothetical actors fall on one "side" or another.

    If you believe your attitude is the objectively correct one, you should give everyone the benefit of the doubt as to believing it as well.

  4. Re:Yeah, so? on Kickstarter's Problem: You Have To Make the Game Before You Ask For Money · · Score: 2

    And honestly, complaints like this one show a poor knowledge of how long software actually takes to develop. A vertical slice of a game good enough to base a trailer on is much much closer to 10 or 20% than 50% or 60% of the total effort.

  5. Re:Android is Crushing Apple Phone Sales - NOT! on iPhone 6 Sales Crush Means Late-Night Waits For Some Early Adopters · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This post is an interesting case in wrongness density.

  6. Re:In other words nobody is born smart on Massive Study Searching For Genes Behind Intelligence Finds Little · · Score: 1

    There's good reason to believe that genes aren't sufficient cause for the full effects noted in twin studies. Certainly they play a part, and this study helps us isolate just how much can be directly attributed to genetics(and it's not the 100%, that you might have been imagining).

  7. Re:Why is this legal in the U.S.? on Direct Sales OK Baked Into Nevada's $1.3 Billion Incentive Deal With Tesla · · Score: 1

    Because we have a system of elections that are virtually designed to award offices to those most inter-tangled with corporate powers. Privately financed campaigns, winner take all elections that tend towards gerrymandered "safe" districts, unlimited corporate financial support for campaigns.

    That doesn't mean this particular action is a result of that corruption(though there's no reason to expect otherwise), just that those in office have a very strong interest in excusing the behavior being allowed to provide incentives to their sponsors.

  8. Re:Seconded! on L.A. TV Stations Free Up Some Spectrum For Wireless Broadband · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and I'm saying that those issues kick in under much more extreme conditions than analogue ones.

  9. Re:Of course they don't need the full spectrum on L.A. TV Stations Free Up Some Spectrum For Wireless Broadband · · Score: 1

    Yeah, going to echo the sentiments of the poster below, and suggest you don't remember analogue TV. Every bit of noise meant a visual artifact on the screen(or audio). Whereas digital can use an ECC to fix erroneous data.

    The big problem is there is a threshold of quality for which a signal simply doesn't work at all. Which means these are the stations that had a constant unwanted background buzz and flickering static for you before.

  10. Re:Brilliant! on Microsoft Killing Off Windows Phone Brand Name In Favor of Just Windows · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I can't think of a thing microsoft has done in the past few years that aren't one of these:
    A. Restructuring their corporation
    B. Rebranding an existing product(so many times)
    C. Ripping off another company's consumer tech while being years too late to the party.

  11. Re:Who would have thought on The Documents From Google's First DMV Test In Nevada · · Score: 1

    Oh, believe me, I'm not an anti-automated vehicle person yet.

    But at some point, we're going to have to acknowledge that people will want use them as completely automated.

    Self park? Driving drunk people home? Picking your kids(or more reasonably, teens) up? Dropping you off at the airport? Actually sleeping on long drives? Replacing expensive semi-truck drivers?
    There's so many applications that totally automated vehicles. And like it or not, some people are going to assume they work for these.

  12. Re:Who would have thought on The Documents From Google's First DMV Test In Nevada · · Score: 1

    I dunno.

    Train tracks seems like a normalish navigation hazard. "Look and listen for train" should be as doable as "look for pedestrians".

    Just less common.

  13. Re:Who would have thought on The Documents From Google's First DMV Test In Nevada · · Score: 1

    Oh, if it's so simple, why didn't you just write the code?

    (Because the systems involved in the car's core design are complex? oooooooooooh)

  14. Re:Who would have thought on The Documents From Google's First DMV Test In Nevada · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why does version 2.0 of your application still not have all its features?

    Because code takes time. And you can't just manpower your way through it.

  15. Re:Who would have thought on The Documents From Google's First DMV Test In Nevada · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yeah, and it went into manual controlled mode when it recognized obstacles it couldn't handle:

    A. A railroad crossing without signals
    B. A roundabout
    C. Construction work
    D. "Some specific turns"

    Obviously not ready for the real world yet.

  16. Re:Right. on Accused Ottawa Cyberbully Facing 181 Charges Apologizes · · Score: 2

    The DSM designation is "Antisocial personality disorder", and yes it is. It's just one with no known physiological cause.

  17. Re:Right. on Accused Ottawa Cyberbully Facing 181 Charges Apologizes · · Score: 1

    As far as I've heard, severe personality disorders like anti-social personality disorder(i.e. sociopathy) do not have effective treatements, yet.

  18. Re:Right. on Accused Ottawa Cyberbully Facing 181 Charges Apologizes · · Score: 1

    Just an FYI, our system of law doesn't typically consider "sociopathic" cause for a plea of insanity, because they are in conscious control of your faculties, those faculties do not work normally to generate sensible and healthy behavior. Lack of empathy plus risk taking are a perfect formula for committing crime.

    My theory: as socioeconomic factors have become increasingly limited as causes of crime, by our increased collective understanding and usage of sociology, the importance of sociopathic disorders, and their interactions with the legal system have become more important, and not properly addressed.

  19. Re:Right. on Accused Ottawa Cyberbully Facing 181 Charges Apologizes · · Score: 1

    I am taking the preposition offered by the grandparent as an absolute truth, and trying to use deductive logic on it for useful implications.

    I in no way am clinically analyzing this individual, and actually asserting the preposition.

  20. Re:Right. on Accused Ottawa Cyberbully Facing 181 Charges Apologizes · · Score: 2

    So... let's say he's a sociopath.

    That means the problem is one of mental health. An untreatable personality disorder, no less. How does that affect the correct course of action here?

  21. Re:In other words nobody is born smart on Massive Study Searching For Genes Behind Intelligence Finds Little · · Score: 1

    I think this is time to invoke Carl Sagan's dragon in the garage. If there's no detectable effects, why on earth would we conclude it exists?

  22. Re:"they will need to pay the publisher" on Top EU Court: Libraries Can Digitize Books Without Publishers' Permission · · Score: 1

    What they mean is that, without explicit consent(which it's clear the publisher was refusing in all cases), that's just a royalties generating event.

  23. Re:Obviously. on Link Between Salt and High Blood Pressure 'Overstated' · · Score: 1

    You're assigning a human judgement "bad" to the previous survivability of genetic traits. Do you understand what's wrong with that, or do I gotta type out a million paragraph digest?

  24. Re:Consensus on Link Between Salt and High Blood Pressure 'Overstated' · · Score: 1

    That "point" you make, though, is essentially an argument from ignorance. "I haven't looked at the evidence, thus it's not true" is a good way to be wrong a lot.

  25. Re:Obviously. on Link Between Salt and High Blood Pressure 'Overstated' · · Score: 1

    Exact quote of the Grand Parent in case you forgot:

    if we lived well on it 100, 150, 200 years ago it's prolly still damn fine today?

    100 years ago, we didn't live well. How you rationalize and dismiss that isn't the question.