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  1. Re: A new kind of drug? on Thync, a Wearable That Zaps Your Brain To Calm You Down or Amp You Up · · Score: 1

    Yeah but that doesn't work, there are gaps in the urine steam.

    Don't cross the streams, the results will be even more shocking!

  2. Wireheads and Soma? on Thync, a Wearable That Zaps Your Brain To Calm You Down or Amp You Up · · Score: 0

    Sigh.

  3. Am sure Charlie Hebdo would approve on Gun Rights Hacktivists To Fab 3D-Printed Guns At State Capitol · · Score: 1

    Not.

    #JeSuisCharlie

  4. Mathematica and MATLAB do have broad adoption on Little-Known Programming Languages That Actually Pay · · Score: 1

    Used in a heck of a lot of high schools, colleges and universities in the US and Canada.

    Don't know why you'd say they're "not in much use".

    But, hey, keep telling yourselves you'll make a mint coding Java at Amazon ...

  5. Pretty sure they have at least 6000 customers on Sony Thinks You'll Pay $1200 For a Digital Walkman · · Score: 1

    Last I heard, North Korea said it had a well trained 6000 member cyber army, so maybe they will buy the $1200 digital walkmen?

  6. Violation US/EU and US/Canada Data Privacy Treaty on FBI Says Search Warrants Not Needed To Use "Stingrays" In Public Places · · Score: 2

    The use of unwarranted electronic intercepts of data belonging to Canadian and EU citizens is a clear violation of both the US/EU Data Privacy Treaty and the US/Canada Data Privacy Treaty.

    By our US Constitution, international treaties signed by the US Senate, as both of these were due to majority affirmation, have higher legal standing.

    The FBI is lying.

  7. What could possibly go .. on Nest Will Now Work With Your Door Locks, Light Bulbs and More · · Score: 1

    Ooh, look, this set of commands overloads the device and opens the doors!

    And, on reboot, you can hang it if you fire off this series of commands.

    Time for shopping!

  8. Can be fixed not same as current gen on Professor: Young People Are "Lost Generation" Who Can No Longer Fix Gadgets · · Score: 1

    Look, I could fix my HDTV that burnt out. It's probably only the HDMI interface module.

    Or I could spend a tiny bit more and get the same size HDTV now.

    Capiche?

  9. Re:Glad you admit you are Serfs on When FISA Court Rejects a Surveillance Request, the FBI Issues a NSL Instead · · Score: 1

    Please elaborate and stuff.

    Serf says what?

  10. About time on Pope Francis To Issue Encyclical On Global Warming · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Someone has to look out for the Christians of the world.

    Hint: Jesus was against Pharisees and Money Lenders. If you think he said for you to get rich and destroy the world, you're reading the wrong bible.

  11. Glad you admit you are Serfs on When FISA Court Rejects a Surveillance Request, the FBI Issues a NSL Instead · · Score: 1

    Citizens would never let an NSL stand in their way of their Constitutional Rights.

    Not privileges, Rights.

  12. Re:Payment for DVDs... on South Korean Activist To Drop "The Interview" In North Korea Using Balloons · · Score: 1

    They probably bought the bulk DVDs from a Sony store.

  13. Re:S. Korean Idiot tries to piss off N. Korean idi on South Korean Activist To Drop "The Interview" In North Korea Using Balloons · · Score: 3, Informative

    Dumping food on countries kills off the local farms, causing even greater food insecurity.

    Think before you drop bags of food on people's heads, crushing their farm animals and houses.

  14. DVDs and CDs are so last decade on South Korean Activist To Drop "The Interview" In North Korea Using Balloons · · Score: 1

    It's as if North Korea is such a backwater that they don't have 40 GB/s Net2 service like ... oh, wait, neither does the US ... my bad.

  15. Re:Um - No on Trees vs. Atmospheric Carbon: A Fight That Makes Sense? · · Score: 1

    citation - Wall Street Journal online, 12/29/2014.

    Buy a print edition.

    Suck on that fossil fuel crony.

  16. Strange, my punch cards work fine on 10 Years In, Mars Rover Opportunity Suffers From Flash Memory Degradation · · Score: 2

    Now I'll just fire up my Steampunk Mars Exploratron and off we go!

  17. Sigh, you marketroids don't get it on Is the Tablet Market In Outright Collapse? Data Suggests Yes · · Score: 1

    Look, we don't need a new tablet or cell phone every year.

    People are realizing that.

    Now fix your business model, instead.

  18. Um - No on Trees vs. Atmospheric Carbon: A Fight That Makes Sense? · · Score: 1

    Is it simple to solve it?

    Yes.

    Can you solve it by planting a tree personally. Mostly true.

    Will that solve it for the entire world and the pollution causing the glaciers to melt, your state to become a desert, and the oceans to rise in both temperature and sea level? No.

    Let's be crystal. We're lazy. We're spending 3.5 percent of US GDP to subsidize fossil fuel exploration, drilling, processing, shipping, and use. With our tax dollars, our public lands, our infrastructure priorities. Just getting rid of all the tax subsidies, the artificial low land and sea lease rates for drilling, the tax incentives for business, would mostly fix it.

    Flying less, on a personal level, would help a lot. Using a 787 Boeing or a turboprop when you do fly would fix half of that. Using a high speed train would also fix half of that (if you had one).

    But, all the changes aren't that hard to do. Buying the $10 LED 3 pack of dimmable lights (got 3 packs) at Costco both saved me money (kaching) and reduced my emissions for the next 20-40 years. Less power plants making that energy.

    Next time you were buying a car (don't buy them more often, the manufacture of each car generates a lot of emissions, even if it's an electric or hybrid) getting one that gets 40 mpg instead of 20 mpg, or a truck that gets 20 mpg instead of 10 mpg - that helps.

    Lots of stuff helps. Trees help. But just doing the one thing won't fix it. At all. Sending our tax-subsidized coal and oil and tar sands distillates to China and Korea and Malaysia makes it worse.

  19. Re:cis and mi regulation is not "bad" code on Machine Learning Reveals Genetic Controls · · Score: 1

    There's a good paper on how a lot more DNA is used than we think, in the next issue of Cell.

  20. Re:So only 10 percent on Geoengineered Climate Cooling With Microbubbles · · Score: 1

    But stop using fossil fuels
    Do you know what most fertilizer is made of? Its not shit. Its oil.

    I worked at Tek Cominco, idiot.

    I know way more about it than you do.

  21. So only 10 percent on Geoengineered Climate Cooling With Microbubbles · · Score: 1

    So, at most, this would help ameliorate 10 percent total of the increase in temps just this decade, which would still result in 25 to 50 percent crop failures?

    Great. But stop using fossil fuels. We have cheaper technology already.

  22. I for one welcome our (gulp) on The Dominant Life Form In the Cosmos Is Probably Superintelligent Robots · · Score: 1

    Exterminate!

  23. cis and mi regulation is not "bad" code on Machine Learning Reveals Genetic Controls · · Score: 3, Interesting

    See, the problem is many of you don't get that what you think of as "noise" in the DNA is actually code. Shifted code. The internal mechanisms use cis regulation and miRNA, mRNA, cRNA to adapt to things going on in the environment.

    It's not noise code, or broken code.

    It's designed to do that.

    If anyone had taken assembler and machine coding back in the old days of computing, they'd get it. You only have so much to code with, so you make it do multiple things.

  24. Re:Not a spy blimp on Army To Launch Spy Blimp Over Maryland · · Score: 1

    Sap.

    Technically it's an aerostat.

  25. Not a spy blimp on Army To Launch Spy Blimp Over Maryland · · Score: 1

    It carries gas.

    Ever read Boneshaker?