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  1. Re:Not revenge, just their old pattern on More People In Europe Are Dying Than Are Being Born (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Absolutely but neither is a voluntary action. If I don't have the money to pay the tax and I don't convert am I still killed?

  2. Re:Missed one on The Best of The Worst Hollow Copyright Claims (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Why don't they try to determine her original contribution and simply publish that instead?

  3. Wouldn't the concept of federal supremacy and the fact that the FAA is already chartered with this responsibility by congress prohibit California from enforcing such regulations?

  4. I'll tell you why I don't pay on Explaining the Lack of Quality Journalism In the Internet Age (gawker.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'll tell you why I don't pay for quality journalism: I don't see any of it. Even when I read a NY Times or WaPo article, it's always something like this: some court has come to a decision and here is what a ton of people I don't care about think about it. There is never a link to the actual decision, there is never a summary of the legal basis for the decision, let alone an analysis of why the decision may or may not be sound. There are never any links to primary sources if want to follow up. The only links are to other stories by the same organization that I can click on and drive more revenue to the site. Exactly what value are you giving me?Pass.

  5. Re:Not revenge, just their old pattern on More People In Europe Are Dying Than Are Being Born (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, my choice is pay a tax or convert to islam and not pay a tax, and you call that voluntary?

  6. This sounds like animal farm double speak. He has been charged but in Sweden they don't charge you until after they interview you, which they've not done. For me the question is, was he legally allowed to leave the country at the time he did. I don't honestly know the answer to that question.

  7. Re:There is only one goal on The US Gov't Could Become the Biggest Customer for Smart Guns (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2

    My iPhone almost never reads my finger print after a shower or a swim or sometimes even hockey and often not on the first try. It works pretty well but I sure woudln't by a gun that was this reliable.

  8. Re: Well deserved. on Kid Racks Up $5,900 Bill Playing Jurassic World On Dad's iPad (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps Apple could improve the system by letting you set your own predefined daily spending limit.

  9. Re:Do we want this private? on 18 Million Targeted Voter Records Exposed By Database Error (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    While I'm generally a supporter of open records and transparent government. I'm don't understand what the rationale is for releasing this data. Why do I have to release my information to the public in order to avail myself of my basic right to vote? I could see that there would be some uses, research into voter demographics for redistricting and for study of fairness of voting but I'm not sure all this information is required to allow that, and even more I'm not sure the value outweighs the down side.

  10. Re:Well done... on Giant Methane Leak in California Won't Be Capped For Months · · Score: 1

    Not really pounds per hours seems reasonable. You want to measure a quantity of gas escaping per unit of time not a volume (which would depend on temp an pressure). Stating it in moles or some other unit not familiar to lay people to whom you're trying to communicate would be foolish.

  11. I don't want windows 10 or whatever is next on Microsoft CMO Confirms Development of 'Spiritual Equivalent' of Surface Phone (hothardware.com) · · Score: 2

    I'm tired of coming back to my desktop PC and finding Microsoft has decided to reboot it without asking me, thus losing work. I'm tired of constantly being nagged to upgrade to windows 10. I don't want all information shared with Microsoft. I really wish I could but windows 7 and down grade. I only run Windows because some dev tools for electronic design and some games only run there and I can't get PCIe slots without buying an insanely expensive MAC. I think I'm pretty much end of the line with Microsoft. Disclaimer: I run MacOS X and FreeBSD. I'm not unaware of my options but there are some things for which I want a windows PC or I want Windows to die so I don't need a windows machine but just a PC.

  12. Re:He caused his own inconvenience on Forrest Mimms On Modern Air Travel With a Bag Full of Electronics · · Score: 1

    Actually they do have a 'tricorder to point at someone and get a reading that says "bomb"' only they don't call it a tricorder they call it an explosive residue detector. I don't care how much electronics you're carrying if it doesn't set off the explosive residue detector then it should go.

  13. Re:Reliability on Estimating SpaceX's Reusable Rocket Cost Savings (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, but at $1million are you still going to build $100 million satellites? Perhaps you'd build a 10x$1million satellites with an estimated life time of 2 years, and spend $1million every 2 years to replace it (presumably with a lighter better performing version?). I don't know what a launch costs for $100 million satellite but assuming the dedicated rocket costs $60million your total cost is $160 million. If you change this so the total cost is now $101 million, it seems to be that you launches don't have to be much more successful than about 2 out of 3 before the economics make sense.

  14. Great! on US Predicts Zero Job Growth For Electrical Engineers (bls.gov) · · Score: 1

    Can we assume there is no need for H1B visa for EEs then?

  15. Re:Electrolysis on Firefox Support For NPAPI Plugins Ends Next Year (mozilla.org) · · Score: 1

    Because it can take a while for a page to open whereas I can zip through and open twenty and during the day as I have time to read I go to a tab and start reading. Sometime I have had enough of a subject for now, but may want to come back and continue at the same place I was reading, I can flip to another of my open tabs and start a new subject. Close all tabs and I've read all the slashdot stories for today. Rarely do I want to come back once I've finished reading so book marking isn't really the right model. I get it, it's not the way you want to work but it's efficient for me.

  16. Re:Electrolysis on Firefox Support For NPAPI Plugins Ends Next Year (mozilla.org) · · Score: 1

    I do this exact thing all the time. Or open the top answers in a google search because you don't know which one will have a really good answer.

  17. An honest question on US Restarts Hunt For Gravitational Waves With Advanced LIGO · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm not trolling here. These are honest questions: I assume, since we're spending more money on a more advanced instrument, that we didn't find anything the first time around? Was that because the instrument likely wasn't sensitive enough or because they likely don't exist? If we didn't find them first time around, does that call into question some aspect of GR? I know GR is a theory that has been well proven, but if we don't find them this time around does that have significant implications?

  18. Re: Good excuse... on FTC: Machinima Took Secret Cash To Shill Xbox One · · Score: 1

    It is well established law that commercial speech has a lower bar to regulation than non commercial speech. We regulate what advertisers, food producers, credit and financial sellers (and many more) can and must print all the time. This is no different. More pointedly, they aren't saying you can't do exactly what they did, you just have to tell people you're doing it. How am I should I determine if I don't like a particular bad corporation and "turn it off" without some basic information about what it's doing? Freedom of speech and transparency aren't orthogonal.

  19. Re:Good excuse... on FTC: Machinima Took Secret Cash To Shill Xbox One · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't want to get hung for my predecessors misdeeds but the corporation certainly should. The corporation was the same before and after. Why should shareholders benefit simply because they fire the last CEO before anyone outside the organization figured out what was going on?

  20. Re:Lying scum on Judge Orders State Dept, FBI To Expand Clinton Email Server Probe · · Score: 1

    More importantly the question should be: is someone who has so little understanding of the digital technology as she has stated, qualified to be president of a country whose economy and citizens privacy depends so heavily on that technology?

  21. Re:To Fight Car Theft on San Jose May Put License Plate Scanners On Garbage Trucks · · Score: 1

    If you're only going to use it for those 3 purpose I'm ok with it. Provided you *FIRST* pass a law stipulating that only those purposes are allowed, and providing strong *CRIMINAL* sanctions for violations *AND* if the council should change the law then all data must *FIRST* be wiped. Anything else and you're not really serious about your promise.

  22. Re:Ya, right on Police Training Lacks Scientific Input · · Score: 2

    Not every state requires you to present an ID any time an officer asks you to. Providing it when not necessary is absolutely submissive and I'm not being an asshat for pointing that out and not doing it when asked. Police ask you all the time to do things you don't have to that put you in a worse position legally then if you hadn't. I don't blame them for that, but when I say no, I'm not being an asshat either.

  23. Re:Inevitable escalation of a broken philosophy on Privately Owned Armored Trucks Raise Eyebrows After Dallas Attack · · Score: 1

    Private ships often carried cannon didn't they? This would place them in the ball park of at least a tank or small destroyer today.

  24. Re:Hmmm ... on Metamaterial Forms Near-Perfect Mirror · · Score: 1

    Yes, but at any given instant they are emitting only one particular frequency (or perhaps more precisely an extremely narrow range of frequencies).

  25. Re:Parents should be liable on Diphtheria Returns To Spain For Lack of Vaccination · · Score: 1

    If your argument is that it won't fix the problem (Disneyland) but it might persuade then you're not trying to be fair you're trying to be punitive towards people that don't do what you want. When their are so many other better arguments you'll have to forgive me if I completely ignore your suggestion if that's the argument you want to make for vaccines.