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  1. Do we know it can work? on US Restarts Hunt For Gravitational Waves With Advanced LIGO · · Score: 1

    I don't really see how this method can even detect the gravity waves. As the gravity waves come along, they change the length of the beams. But the change in gravity will also change time. So the light beam traveling down the beam will appear to have taken longer to travel the shorter distance. I bet they cancel each other out and you have no difference in the time taken to travel down the beams even when there is a gravity wave traveling by.

  2. Re:How about if we OWN our personal information? on The Difficulty In Getting a Machine To Forget Anything · · Score: 1

    And the blackmailer just has to request that their deeds are forgotten. This way nobody knows about all the blackmailing that is going on! I think the next step is profit, right?

  3. Re:What the hell happened to us as a nation? on 9th-Grader May Face Charges After Homemade Clock Mistaken For Bomb · · Score: 1

    It isn't fear of terrorism that causes this sort of reaction. At least, not directly. I don't think the police or teachers were necessarily worrying themselves that they might get blown up. Rather, it was a fear that - if the clock was a bomb used in a terror attack - THEY WOULD GET BLAMED for not doing something about it earlier. It's the same reason our politicians are so willing to pass the most obscenely unjust laws to chase down criminals: the penalty for not passing the law is disproportionately greater than passing it. If even one crime could have been prevented by the non-existent law (or had the clock been a bomb), far more blame is assigned to the people-of-authority who MIGHT have done something about the crime than to the actual criminal performing the act itself. It's no wonder people over-react in these situations. They aren't worried about being attacked by terrorists; they are worried about being attacked by us.

    That's why we need to balance the penalties. If a politician passes an unjust or unconstitutional law, instant death by firing squad for everyone who signed the law. Even if they have been retired for the last 30 years. Now they would think twice about passing all that crap they do.

  4. Hoax Terrorism Charge?! on 9th-Grader May Face Charges After Homemade Clock Mistaken For Bomb · · Score: 1

    If the police want to charge him with making a hoax bomb when he never threatened anyone with saying it was a bomb, then the real charge should be making a hoax terrorism threat against the police who arrested him. Of course the police don't get charged with breaking the law, that would be ridiculous. This is why I rejoice when I hear another one of those blue fuckers gets shot and killed. They don't answer to the law, but they sure do answer to being dead!

  5. Dvorak Foils This! on Researchers Use Smartwatch To Spy What Users Are Typing On a Keyboard · · Score: 1

    Ha! Let's see them get my keystrokes! I use Dvorak!

  6. Wouldn't it be simpler. . . on New Tech Puts the Brakes On Bullets Fired From Police Sidearms · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it be simpler to just take the guns away from the police. They have demonstrated that they do not have the restraint necessary to use deadly weapons. They should be limited to the pepper spray and batons.

  7. They aren't very good at their job, are they? on Spy Industry Leaders Befuddled Over 'Deep Cynicism' of American Public · · Score: 1

    How can people who say their job is to vacuum up all information they can get their hands on so they can figure out what is going on not know what is going on. People hate you because you are evil lying fucktards! It's pretty simple! If you spent one afternoon reading through sites like this one on a topic relating to the latest scandal you guys are up to you would see what the hatred is all about!

  8. Re:Don't discount ancient tech on Genes and Ancient Remedies May Help Fight Antibiotic Resistance · · Score: 1

    We have the old treatment with leaches that was found to work very well for reattaching body parts or other blood flow problems. It is now a modern medical procedure that can save you from gang green. Only a couple of decades ago it would have been considered a quack treatment that people did in the ancient times.

  9. Re:A good example on Genes and Ancient Remedies May Help Fight Antibiotic Resistance · · Score: 1

    I am pretty sure we have figured out how to make Damascus steel. I watched a documentary on a guy doing the analysis and recreating the steel using the old techniques. In addition, I have a paring knife made of Damascus steel from Lehmans.com. When they compared it to the original steel under a high powered microscope the make up of the newly made steel matched that of the ancient steel.

  10. Re: Why not stop making new shows on Is There Too Much New Programming On TV? · · Score: 1

    I think they are just used to the model where people ravenously jump on a new show and stay glued to it until it dies. It doesn't work like that anymore. I consume when I want to and when I have time. The show will be there forever...what is the rush? There is nothing wrong with all of this content...it will sit around and people will steadily consume it. I know people who will not watch a popular show (Walking Dead) util it is over! People like to binge watch without commercials on their favorite streaming service. How is this not completely obvious?

    I can see this. I usually wait for a couple of seasons to be up before watching. My wife and I like to watch an episode or two each night until we get caught up then switch to another show. Once we are out of that show we don't jump back into it as soon as a new season comes up. We are out of the habit or have forgotten why we thought it was so awesome or are busy with another show at the time. So it ends up being a while before we get around to that show again.

  11. Re:That's cool. on Huge Ritual Arena Discovered Near Stonehenge · · Score: 1

    The pyramids were tombs, not walls. The difficulty of moving such large stones was part of the point.

    I don't know what Sudamerica examples you're thinking of.

    No bodies have ever been found in a pyramid. What they were for is still up for question, but they certainly weren't tombs. The "egyptologist" who claimed that just made it up and everybody has interpreted things in that fashion ever since.

  12. Re:That's cool. on Huge Ritual Arena Discovered Near Stonehenge · · Score: 1

    They didn't have the means to move these stones other than with human power (dragging them on the ground). The time and effort expended to move stones that large would not be comprehensible for anything other than ritual and religion. This would have taken hundreds of years to build, long beyond the range of any ruler or military defense. Much like the cathedrals of europe that took multiple lifetimes to build the only way to supply labor for these types of things is to make that labor free through religious worship.

    Did the Egyptian's build the pyramids for defensive purposes or religious purposes?

    It's funny you mention the Egyptian pyramids because I was going to use them as a counter point. All the experts say they were build to be burial chambers for the pharaohs. The problem with that theory is that no body has ever been found in any Egyptian pyramid. Even ones that appear to have been undisturbed. Once a theory takes strong root in the academic community, it can be very hard to change. Plenty of people interpret everything they see in light of the theory they have been told is correct, but turns out was made up out of whole cloth by some guy who didn't know what is was talking about. It is possible these henges were not religious in nature.

    It also probably didn't take as long as you say it would to build them. There are plenty of structures around the world build using stone blocks soo large that our modern earth moving equipment and heavy cranes can't even pick them up. They must have had a way to build these things and we just don't know the trick. There is the coral castle near Miami Florida build around 1923 by one man working alone. He claimed some sort of magnetic effect that apparently removed gravity. Even if that is not true, he still build a structure out of blocks weighing many tons each, some up to 30 tons, completely by himself.

  13. Re:What other choice is there? on Snowden: Clinton's Private Email Server Is a 'Problem' · · Score: 1

    I'd love to have condorcet voting if we could make it happen, but I don't believe its absence is the cause of our problems.

    When I hear people talking about wasting your vote because you vote for a third party I don't agree with you. It seems we have two teams that argue for the sake of arguing. Even when team 1 tried to get something passed during the previous administration, now that team 2 is trying to pass the SAME DAMN THING, they argue against it. If we had 5 parties, each with a very small portion of the majority, it would require more cooperation. Condorcet voting will allow people to take a change at alternative parties without being afraid of "wasting" their vote. Because we don't want the wrong lizard to get voted in, do we!

  14. Re:We often learn more from our failures. on Steve Wozniak "Steve Jobs Played No Role In My Designs For the Apple I & II" · · Score: 1
    My Mother-In-Law has been using Linux as her only system for many years now. She ever got a t-shirt somewhere that I find to be really funny.

    The box said to use Windows XP or better. So I installed Linux!

    So she must be happy with her Linux system if she is seen wearing a shirt like that. And the number of support questions I get are close to zero per year!

  15. Re:After reading TFA, what I don't get is... on Why the Black Hole Information Paradox Is Such a Problem · · Score: 1

    because the paradox is OUTSIDE the black hole. From our point of view, everything slows going into a black hole until the event horizon is reached. Information would be stuck there except the hole evaporates by hawking radiation (virtual pairs formed having one particle free to leave)

    Since when does a new particle going into a black hole mean it is losing mass? It seems to be gaining mass to me as it now has one more particle. Perhaps they don't actually evaporate, or they don't do it because of extra things falling into them.

  16. Re:The information is just dispersed on Why the Black Hole Information Paradox Is Such a Problem · · Score: 1

    You could remake it, if you looked a the temperatures of all the surrounding particles and 'rewound' it all backwards. I think that was the point op was trying to make.

    So I can look at a homeopathic preparation and wind it back to tell what it was prepared with. So your are indeed telling us that homeopathy works and that water has memory!

  17. Re:Before someone says it's a "youtuber" on FTC: Machinima Took Secret Cash To Shill Xbox One · · Score: 1

    Gamergate was about not enough women making sandwiches for male gamers.

    You need to say "Sudo make me a sandwich." It works much better that way!

  18. Re:Marketplace Justice on Despite Reports of Hacking, Baby Monitors Remain Woefully Insecure · · Score: 1

    Bingo. So someone can hack the monitor and listen to my baby sleep or not sleep. Or even watch him sleeping. What exactly is the threat? What information can they really gain that is of use? That the sheets are green instead of blue?

    You can't see color when the video camera is operating by IR light. So you would not even be able to tell if the sheets are green or blue. You could tell the pattern or print on them but not the colors.

  19. Re:Programmed behaviour is programmed behaviour. on How Autonomous Cars' Safety Features Clash With Normal Driving · · Score: 1

    You can't program the self-driving car to break the rules as it opens up all kinds of moral and (more importantly, or at least more expensively) legal liability issues. You have a human driver for that situation until the proportion of self-driving cars increases enough to change traffic characteristics.

    They are already programming the car to break the rules about speed. If it drives at the speed limit it causes problems with the other drivers on the road and is less safe. So they found that they had to tell it to drive slightly faster than the speed limit. Something like 5-7 miles per hour faster that what is posted for that road.

  20. Re:First experimental study? on Lack of Sleep Puts You At Higher Risk For Colds, First Experimental Study Finds · · Score: 1

    For 14 consecutive days, they reported their sleep dura- tion and sleep efficiency (percentage of time in bed ac- tually asleep) for the previous night and whether they felt rested.

    It isn't said to be the first study. Only the first one that didn't rely on self reporting of amount of sleep. They used monitors to measure their sleep before the administration of the cold virus, then they were kept in the lab and their sleep was again measured. Self reporting is pretty notorious for being incorrect.

  21. Re:Yes? And? on Assange Says Harrods Assisting Metro Police in 'Round-the-Clock Vigil' · · Score: 1

    Former officials, candidates for office, and even current members of the legislature aren't "government officials." They can blow as much smoke and wind as they want, it doesn't constitute policy.

    There is essentially no chance any of that will happen.

    Sure! Because the US hasn't done other illegal things to other wanted people. I remember the New Zealand police being pretty upset after the Kim Dotcom take-down because of the way the US acted in such illegal ways that the evidence would be inadmissible. If they are willing to do illegal actions to get what they want in one case they sure will do it in another.

  22. Re: another vaccine on Is a Universal Flu Vaccine On the Horizon? · · Score: 1

    A couple of days of flu-like symptoms is somewhat unfortunate, but
    1) It's not transmissible
    2) There's a 0% chance of mortality.

    That's great! But
    1) It's not effective
    2) It has side effects, including death

  23. The entanglement works with the right electrons on 'Ingenious' Experiment Closes Loopholes In Quantum Theory · · Score: 2

    If they could only get some of the photons to entangle, then how do we know that the ones that would not entangle were not due to the state of the original electrons. If the electrons are in opposing states, then when you entangle a photon with it and try to entangle it with another photon that has been entangled with the other electron, it will refuse to entangle unless the two electrons are in a compatible state. I don't think you can leave out the failed to entangle photons like that. It seems that they tell you something important about the system.

  24. Re: another vaccine on Is a Universal Flu Vaccine On the Horizon? · · Score: 1

    Right! Because calling it "flu-like symptoms" makes it soo much better!?

  25. Re:another vaccine on Is a Universal Flu Vaccine On the Horizon? · · Score: 1

    The reason for everyone to get vaccinated is because high vaccination rates go a long way to preventing transmission, and thus preventing deaths.

    Sure, buy into the sales pitch and lies why don't you. When the flu show is made for the wrong version that year, the number of flu cases does not go up. That tells me the effectiveness of the vaccine is very low, possible even non-effective. Then you also have the chance of getting the flu from the shot. And it makes you much more susceptible to getting the deadly flu when it comes around. But we need the corporate masters to make their quarterly earning, so keep getting your shot every year like a good little consumer, until you die.