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  1. Re:Get 'em while they're young on Texas School District Drops Embattled RFID Student IDs; Opts For Cameras · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The younger you get them used to it, the better.

  2. Re:Diet and laziness on The Man Who Convinced Us We Needed Vitamin Supplements · · Score: 1

    So uhm, yeah. Which one is it? Rare cases or almost all cases?

    Came here to say this. "Paying attention" and "thought and effort" aren't part of the modern psyche.

  3. Re:Honesty? on How Climate Scientists Parallel Early Atomic Scientists · · Score: 1

    If they were honest, why are they calling it "Climate Change" now, rather than Global Warming?

    Huh? I thought this story was well known.

    The Bush Administration enacted a deliberate policy to change the name in all public discussions. Mr Frank Luntz was responsible for the new one.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Luntz#Global_warming

  4. Re:BSA Lifting Ban on Gay Scouts, but not Leaders on Alan Turing Likely To Be Given Posthumous Pardon · · Score: 1

    how can you tell if a 6 year old is gay?

    Ask his mother...?

    Moms know.

  5. Re:Similar Gay Boy Scout Ban on Alan Turing Likely To Be Given Posthumous Pardon · · Score: 1

    He was give the option to avoid prison by undergoing hormone therapy...

    ... hormone therapy which left him impotent and with breasts.

  6. Re:Same in Mexico. on Schneier Has Something Good To Say About Airport Security · · Score: 2

    But back then, there was a guy standing on a switch could just flex his knee to make additional selections if you looks particularly shady.

    Yep. You just know they'll game the system if it's ever implemented here.

    It could be done fairly with dice, picking balls out of a hat or something physical like that, but it won't be. The thought of not being in control freaks them out.

  7. Re:Not really... on Yahoo Censors Tumblr Porn · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Someone should make a search engine that *only* indexes the stuff that robots.txt suggests against.

    I imagine a lot more interesting content is on that part of the network.

    Yep. I want "Unsafe search" as an option for my search results - filter out all the mundane crap.

  8. Re:Judgement day is coming! on Apple-Liquidmetal Joint Patent Could Enable Futuristic-Looking Mobile Devices · · Score: 1

    Which is precisely what happens when you drop stuff.

  9. Re:Bury on Microsoft Is Sitting On Six Million Unsold Surface Tablets · · Score: 5, Funny

    Luckily for us they designed their latest desktop operating system around that huge pile of landfill.

  10. Re:Judgement day is coming! on Apple-Liquidmetal Joint Patent Could Enable Futuristic-Looking Mobile Devices · · Score: 1

    Despite the exciting name, all this stuff does is protect against bounces.

    Huh? Their website says it's brittle: http://liquidmetal.com/properties/properties/

    Now the entire iPhone can shatter when you drop it.

  11. Re:Not piracy, assholes on Piracy Rates Plummet As Legal Alternatives Come To Norway · · Score: 1

    Get the fuck over it. You got a problem with copyright circumvention, start by calling it what it is. Don't demonize it. 99% of what is called piracy in this context involves no personal gain by anybody.

    Hey, guess what? Your grandparents think your notion of "correct" English is completely wrong.

    (And their grandparents thought the same of them...)

  12. Re:Sweet Red Juice on Why Are Some People Mosquito Magnets? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Gee, if only there were some other factors apart from blood group mentioned in the article....

  13. Re:Sweet Red Juice on Why Are Some People Mosquito Magnets? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Then the FA is wrong.

    Did you bother reading it before posting that?

    TFA also mentions other things, like smelling of cheese or having stinky feet. If you really are group A+ then I guess it's one of those two. Maybe you could work on your personal hygiene...

  14. Re:Smart guns... on Hardly Anyone Is Buying 'Smart Guns' · · Score: 1

    They're probably making minimal R+D effort and a lot of political noise in the hope that a law will be passed

    (requiring a lot of expensive upgrades to the stuff they sold last year)

  15. Re:Boom on Hardly Anyone Is Buying 'Smart Guns' · · Score: 1

    ...and we'll probably be better off if a few of them shoot each other when young.

  16. Re:Stupid 2 on Hardly Anyone Is Buying 'Smart Guns' · · Score: 1

    ...and "lose", not "loose" ( http://theoatmeal.com/comics/misspelling ), which is a mistake a simple spelling checker won't catch. For that you need to actually know how to spell.

    And that kinda sums up the problem with this sort of technology. No technology will make a gun magically safe, for that you need to take personal responsibility for the education of gun owners (and parenting).

  17. Re:Three things... on Hardly Anyone Is Buying 'Smart Guns' · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't think anybody is proposing to include a remote killswitch.

    Yet.

  18. Re:Smart guns... on Hardly Anyone Is Buying 'Smart Guns' · · Score: 0

    The question is: How often is that a real situation compared to, say, bad people using guns to help them commit crimes?

    (not seriously expecting the USA to disarm itself - the cat is well and truly out of the bag).

  19. Smart guns... on Hardly Anyone Is Buying 'Smart Guns' · · Score: 4, Funny

    They can't figure out why? The guns are obviously smarter than their inventors.

  20. Re:The more they study it ... on Oldest Lunar Calendar Found In Scotland · · Score: 0

    The oldest known written texts are quite sophisticated and describe great cities and long ocean voyages, possibly based on events 14,000 years ago.

    This great new discovery is younger than that. Is it really so surprising that lunar calenders existed in 10000BC, even in 'barbaric' places? We know that even the barbarians traveled quite widely and were exposed to other cultures.

  21. Sotland on Oldest Lunar Calendar Found In Scotland · · Score: 1

    Something else Invented In Scotland, then?

  22. Re:Nice on Edward Snowden Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And the other world powers that have multicultural prime ministers and presidents are ... ? I feel like Obama's Peace Prize was more about transcending race and color finally among the world's super powers. France is super liberal but you'll never seen someone of Algerian descent as their prime minister.

    The major cause of war/unrest in the world isn't skin color, it's religion. I'd be more interested in seeing an openly Atheist president than a black one but I'm not holding my breath on that happening in the USA anytime soon.

  23. Re:Definitely... on Edward Snowden Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Mod parent up.

    How the leader of one of the most warmongering nations on Earth got awarded a Nobel Peace Prize is beyond me.

  24. Re:So it listens all the time... on Moto X Demo Video Reveals Google's Android Superphone · · Score: 1

    This works pretty simply - when the phone hears the keyword it wakes up and starts listening for a query.

    What if anybody says "NSA" or "Taliban" near it?

  25. Re:How does... on NHS Fined After Computer Holding Patient Records Found On eBay · · Score: 1

    But as pointed out this is unnecessary and those PCs/disks could benefit a lot of needy people. Securely re-imaging a hard disk isn't difficult.