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  1. Re:I'm puzzled... on Brooklyn Yogurt Shop Sting Snares Fake Reviewers For NY Attorney General · · Score: 1
  2. Re:cost of doing business on Brooklyn Yogurt Shop Sting Snares Fake Reviewers For NY Attorney General · · Score: 5, Informative

    >And what rules were broken

    http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/nycode/GBS/22-A/350-a

    Don't be a dumbass, there has been false advertising laws for years to deal with issues like this in meatspace. Lying out of your ass about products your are selling has nothing to do with free speech.

  3. Re:Give consumers more privacy? on Google May Replace Cookies With Unique AdIDs · · Score: 2

    People are traced back to their real life identities from their online postings all the time. Unless you avoid social media and give out very, very little information on your location you can be identified pretty easy.

  4. Re:So... no separation between system and userspac on New Operating System Seeks To Replace Linux In the Cloud · · Score: 4, Informative
  5. Re:Old Codger Reveals All on How Amateurs Destroyed the Professional Music Business · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Pretty much this. What's the difference between bad music music and bad food?, you can die from bad food. You don't hear the restaurant industry complain that people can cook at home, do we?

  6. Re:It's not one to one though on 45% of U.S. Jobs Vulnerable To Automation · · Score: 1

    >Computers do not supply intelligence, they can remember rules, and can do math.

    Most employees in retail these days do not supply intelligence, and they can't remember rules or do math.

  7. Re: AI and robotics and jobs on 45% of U.S. Jobs Vulnerable To Automation · · Score: 1

    >The majority however would do nothing but become restless, and that would lead slowly to fighting each other.

    Computers have proved that otherwise.

    iPhone apps, Xboxes, Minecraft, GTA, etc, has shown us that already a decent part of the population will keep itself busy with entertainment.

  8. Re:You trust Torvalds after this? on SSD Failure Temporarily Halts Linux 3.12 Kernel Work · · Score: 1

    I agree with everything you said, other then "RAID's only purpose'. RAID also allows you to create volumes of much larger sizes then the original disks and allows greater read/write and IOPS by treating many disks as a single device.

  9. Re:You trust Torvalds after this? on SSD Failure Temporarily Halts Linux 3.12 Kernel Work · · Score: 1

    RAID is NOT a backup.

    Raid does only a few things...

    Depending on level, allows you to survive $X number of disks failing.

    Allows you to 'stripe' a file system across multiple drives for increased performance or size.

    It does not protect any other problem, such as raid card failure, filesystem corruption, rm -rf, or any other number of problems that can occur.

  10. Re:Really? on SSD Failure Temporarily Halts Linux 3.12 Kernel Work · · Score: 1

    That is a common method of failure in flash, but not the only one. There is also the failure mode where the drive goes read only and you can recover data from it to a new drive.

    Always been able to recover platter drives?, maybe you've been very lucky then. Many drives fail in methods that are expensive (taking guts out and putting them in new case, or replacing drive controller) or impossible (hard drive patter shatters, happens in notebook drives). .

  11. Where were the professionals. on More Bad News From Fukushima · · Score: 5, Insightful

    -Tepco reported that the radiation level was 100-millisieverts. It now transpires that 100-millisieverts was the highest reading that the measuring equipment in use was capable of displaying.

    What the actual fuck. How could such a stupid mistake be made?

  12. Re:Scary AND stupid... on Feds Seek Prison For Man Who Taught How To Beat a Polygraph · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I appears he gave a few specific people methods on how to avoid the feds on specific (federal) crimes they had committed, that in itself could be (and was) considered aiding.

    The prosecution is using it as a religious platform for their pseudoscience saying that any negative speak of their golden cow (polygraph tests) is an affront to god and country.

    Essentially the government is trying to frame the issue that anyone that does anti-poly is a child molesting terrorist so they can control the discussion and then control debate on they laws surrounding it.

  13. Re:Legal slippery slope on Feds Seek Prison For Man Who Taught How To Beat a Polygraph · · Score: 5, Informative

    Reading the article, I 'think' he was aiding specific people that had committed crimes (gave methodology how to get around what they did), and that is how he was charged. The issue is fed.gov is using this as a platform to give the appearance he was charged just for teaching anti-poly alone to cast a net of FUD around other who do so.

  14. Re:employers use polygraph tests? on Feds Seek Prison For Man Who Taught How To Beat a Polygraph · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What is the point?

    Number 1 is fear. Stopping people form putting anti-polygraph information out on the street because of the risk of being detained or harassed by the government.

    Number 2 is also fear. Polygraphs aren't a lie detector, they are a psychological operation against the person taking the test, if you know the test is bullshit it's magic fails to work as good.

    Study the history on the FBI with polygraphs, they worship them.

  15. Re:Pseudoscience debunked? on Feds Seek Prison For Man Who Taught How To Beat a Polygraph · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It is as if our government has thrown all logic by the wayside and has become a religion unto itself.

  16. Re:What fud on All-in-Ones Finally Grow Up, With Fast Graphics, SSDs, and CPUs · · Score: 1

    The Dell AIOs I use are pretty easy to work on. A stand and plastic cover come off the back and the main components like the hard drive are easy to reach.

  17. Re:Sugar on What's Causing the Rise In Obesity? Everything. · · Score: 1

    My guess. Corn. The amount of corn in said products is apt to have gone up greatly. Also the processing techniques that apply grain processing have changed greatly over that time, enzymes that we use to convert starch to sugar have become much more efficient since then.

  18. Re:Sugar on What's Causing the Rise In Obesity? Everything. · · Score: 1

    -cat chow

    Read the first ingredient of most animal foods and you will see that it is corn these days. Unfortunately I don't have any information on '70s animal food.

  19. Re:Sugar on What's Causing the Rise In Obesity? Everything. · · Score: 1

    -When you slice a tomato it you just processed it.

    No, you have a cut up tomato, the chemical properties of the tomato are the same.

    -When you cook a potato you just processed it.

    Yes, when you cook an item you change its chemical make up. Most of the time this has beneficial effects.

    Now, saying that cooking is anything like dipping your food in benzene or a vat of enzymes designed for a specific purpose is totally wrong.

  20. Re:Sugar on What's Causing the Rise In Obesity? Everything. · · Score: 1

    Wrong, the processed food I eat have most of the natural sugar and starch artificially removed. (Do you see the problem with blaming processed food without pointing out the specifics?)

    You Everybody else.

    The specifics are that, statistically, more people are eating foods that have had there sugar, starch, sodium, and fibre levels greatly modified. He did point out the specifics that effect most of the population. Modern shelved food has a lot of added sugar.

  21. Re:Sugar on What's Causing the Rise In Obesity? Everything. · · Score: 1

    We have a winner. There also may be a factor that we eat constantly these days, in the past we had times of low and high calorie intake and that our bodies are not handling a constant influx of high octane fuel.

  22. Re:Sugar on What's Causing the Rise In Obesity? Everything. · · Score: 1

    Personally, I'm going to go with the massive increase in the usage of corn based products. It may not be the corn itself, but some chemical or other actor in it that is causing the effect. The feedstock of almost every animal these days is corn or has many corn based byproducts.

  23. Re:Seems like an opportunity for someone on Bad Connections Dog Google's Mountain View Wi-Fi Network · · Score: 1

    >Can the problems be ameliorated with faster, higher capacity nodes?

    Probably not.

    >More nodes?

    Probably, but set all the nodes at a much lower power to reduce their range and reduce conflicts.

    > Is data being throttled at the link to the internet?
    People would have to test from many non-busy nodes to find that out. It also depends if radio-backhaul is used that gets transported thru busy nodes that end up losing traffic.

    >Do they need more links to the internet?

    This is Googles home, probably not.

    The network theory is well known. In this case it is a tragedy of the commons. Outdoor wireless networks suck in any place with lots of nodes.

  24. Re:Not Surprising on Bad Connections Dog Google's Mountain View Wi-Fi Network · · Score: 1

    > If you have a single network in your area (as Google has)

    Google does not have a single network in that area. They share with every other 2.4 GHz device in their range. Portable phones, baby monitors, Users AP's, etc. Also, every device that connected to Googles network would have to support TDMA wi-fi.

  25. Re:Abuse of tool? on Bad Connections Dog Google's Mountain View Wi-Fi Network · · Score: 1

    >It doesn't work that way with binary installs,

    Um, yes it does. They call it a file delta, and many games have done this for 15+ years, rather then download a huge file, they just do a binary patch on it.