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  1. Re:Maybe, Just Maybe... on 'There's No Good Way To Kill a Bad Idea' (qz.com) · · Score: 0

    There's a difference between "most people who get the measles have been vaccinated against it" and "people who get the vaccination are more (or even equally) likely to get measles".

    There are examples of the "people who get the vaccination are more likely to get [sick]" found with flu vaccines. So the people who are pushing them don't tell you all the facts. Plus, they like to lie to you about how effective they are. Telling you that the Mumps vaccines is 96% effective when in reality it has been around 45% effective. Then you add in the fact that "herd immunity" has never been proven and from examples in China where 99.99% of the people are vaccinated it seems that herd immunity is another made-up thing that does not exist.

  2. Re:The red pill on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Favorite Sci-Fi Movie? · · Score: 1

    Loved the fist Matrix movie.

    What do you mean, the "first" Matrix movie?

    Haven't you heard? They are going to reboot it.

  3. Re: 10 years on 'Breakthrough' LI-RAM Material Can Store Data With Light (ctvnews.ca) · · Score: 1

    How many other groups of Homo (like neanderthals) are left? Perhaps there can only be one intelligent species due to competition.

  4. Re:Not exactly direct evidence on Scientists Capture First Image of Dark Matter Web (inhabitat.com) · · Score: 1

    Or gravity doesn't act the same over longer distances, thus there appears to be "unexplained" attraction. So yeah, either gravity is different to what we think, or dark matter exists. This "evidence" seems to suggest either option.

    Or that there is something else that is bending the light that travels toward us. Something like a lens that can bend light due to the different index of refraction. If there was a bunch of dust and gas, and that got more dense as you moved in toward the center of the blob of dust and gas, would bend light in a similar way to what dark matter appears to do.

  5. Re:And I'm not laughing on Amazon's Drone-Delivery Dreams Are No Joke (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    And what is to stop them from putting the two pounds of semtex into a FedEx package and having it delivered to the veterans or politicians. Oh my god, this is not even a future problem!!!!111 We must stop all delivery of packages at once. Amazon must cease to exist because we cannot have packages being delivered to peoples homes, where is the security in that!!!!!11

  6. Re:No cronyist legal restrictions in retailing on Amazon and Walmart Are In An All-Out Price War That Is Terrifying Big Brands (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    You end up with the latest and greatest that costs you tons more, but the patient results did not improve. How can you call it improving technology if the outcome for the patient did not improve. I guess it had fancier screens and flashy lights, so it is better. The dead persons doesn't really care.

  7. I commend you sir on the way you owned up to your original misunderstanding. A lot of people would not take the time to understand the details and especially to admit that maybe they did not know everything at all times. The GP's comments were a bit harsh, but I bet they are used to people not acting as civilized as you do. Thank you, you are a benefit to discussions on this site.

  8. Re:Too soon. on The Galaxy S8 Will Be Samsung's Biggest Test Ever (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I never looked into who was declaring the reports as fake. It just seems that any company that wants to hurt their competitor could have added to the number of reports of burning phones. Some reports were to the news media or social media directly, it is even possible that Samsung was never able to look into some reports that were not reported to them.

    In the end they did recall the phones, so there must have been enough of a problem that any number of fake ones would have been inconsequential. That still does not mean there were no fake reports put out there.

  9. Re:Too soon. on The Galaxy S8 Will Be Samsung's Biggest Test Ever (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    So are you saying that teh S7's had no problem? Was that all staged? After all, you must have some verifiable basis for pre-declaring this.

    The S7 had some problems. I don't think anyone is saying they didn't. But there were a lot of the reports of fire where the people that seemed not to actually exist, or were found out to have faked their reports.

  10. You mean, like this skull? video link
    People could be finding bones and skulls each week without knowing it is from a supposedly extinct animal. Fishermen were eating the coelacanth while scientists thought it had been extinct for millions of years.

  11. Re:Yeah, real "terrifying" on Terrifying Anti-Riot Vehicle Created To Quash Any Urban Disturbance (boingboing.net) · · Score: 1

    Just keep in mind that the people who got together to destroy and smash and steal things, were probably put up to it be the very cops that are driving this thing around.

  12. Re:As unpopular as it will be to hear... on SAS Mocked For Recommending 60% Proprietary Software, 40% Open Source (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    We are currently having document compatibility problems with Excel 2016 and a computer with an older version of Excel. It complains about the 64 bit processor and certain calls. Yep, still a problem. And personally, I find LibreOffice to be a much better product where I never see compatibility problems.

  13. You apparently don't know how many people die from taking the medication the correct way. Which was the point in the GPs post, that you seem to not have understood.

  14. Re:Not all wrecks can be avoided on Uber Halts Self-Driving Car Tests in Arizona After Friday Night Collision (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Just like in the TCP/IP realm where packets share the road and nobody tries to use up the whole thing for themselves.

  15. Re:Wonder why on Americans' Shift To The Suburbs Sped Up Last Year (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 1

    People in Chicago can have chickens, goats, pigs, pretty much whatever. They don't really have restrictions on the types of animals, only their care and noise. Out here in the Chicago suburbs, we cannot.

  16. Or, as another possibility that has actually been seen in the real world, the city has shortened the yellow to catch more people in the red light ticket.

  17. And if you are in a crappy Civic where you don't thing the breaks are good enough to stop in time. That is well intentioned, you would have stopped if you thought the car could do it.

  18. But that is the light from one sun. The way I understood that "what-if" was the process has to work in reverse. The focused light at the point has to be traceable back to where the light came from. But when you shine two light bulbs at a sheet of paper, you are not using lens to focus one bulb, you have two of them on top of each other. If you stand in front of two infrared heaters you will get warmer than if in front of one of them. But they aren't trying to make their heat hotter than their source by magnifying it in the "what-if" way that does not work.

  19. Wouldn't that only be true if you were trying to focus the heat from a single lamp filament? When there are more than one you can aim the light at the target from all angles and you aren't focusing light down to a point, you are adding more and more light to all the points being lit up.

  20. I use KeePass on my Android phone. There are mobile versions of that tool if you want to use them.

  21. Re:3 articles referencing the same statement, misu on LastPass Bugs Allow Malicious Websites To Steal Passwords (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    It is spelled KeePass.

  22. Re:i wonder if this is that difficult to do on The US Army Finally Gets The World's Largest Laser Weapon System (bizjournals.com) · · Score: 1

    I think it is pretty difficult. Some of the previous laser projects talked about firing a laser to make a path for the high powered laser to travel through the air path in. Without preparing the path the laser gets absorbed too much. You also have to measure how the laser is going to bend through different air densities and stuff, so I think the pre-laser helps there also.

  23. Re:For me as a service tech, this would be brillia on Google Glass Enters The Manufacturing Sector (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    That would be very useful. That is the Hololens by Microsoft, not the Google Glass. Without head tracking you cannot overlay anything on top of the real world. The images and text will always be where they are in your vision and not overlayed on the real world. Think Heads Up Display rather than Augmented Reality.

  24. Re:just an AR headset on Google Glass Enters The Manufacturing Sector (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    I would compare Google Glass to a heads up display. No one that I have ever heard has called the HUD in an airplane or automobile an Augmented Reality device. To put computer graphics over the real world around you, you must track the location and orientation of the persons head. You also need to track the objects around the user so you can make the graphics overlay or interact with the real world realistically.

    So, no head tracking, then no AR!

  25. Re:Lawyers on Unproven Stem Cell Treatments Blind 3 Women (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Three people does not a large class action make. Perhaps if it continues for a few more years they will have enough victims to make a worth while class action suit.