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  1. Or: He wants subsidies to underpay engineers on James Dyson: We Should Pay Students To Study Engineering · · Score: 1

    You never hear them talk about all the older engineers, just those fresh out of college.

    Just saying.

  2. Re:None of this impacts NSA metadata on The App That Tracks Who's Tracking You · · Score: 1

    Well, there's actually some additional mil band GPS info that gets you closer, but you need special sensors and circuits for that.

    Basically, we always give you our old stuff.

  3. Already do this in America on EU Secretly Plans To Put a Back Door In Every Car By 2020 · · Score: 1

    Because we're East Germany. Or Russia.

    Or both?

  4. Why we Americans would object on Federal Agency Data-Mining Hundreds of Millions of Credit Card Accounts · · Score: 1

    1. Because it's unreasonable search.

    2. Because it's unreasonable seizure.

    3. Because it's none of your damned business.

    4. Because we have an inherent right to privacy.

    5. See 1. Lather. Rinse. Repeat. Do not shred the Constitution.

  5. UK Top Gear showed the solution on Atlanta Gambled With Winter Storm and Lost · · Score: 1

    Just buy a few snowplow blades for farm equipment and use those.

    Only plow the freeways or routes with NO CARS since the force is too strong, or use a wire mesh exhaust diverter to cut the snow blown away so as not to puncture car windows.

    They tested it in Norway.

    Here endeth the lesson.

    Oh, and stop burning coal. It makes extreme weather events like this MORE likely. If you live along the Atlantic Coast it could shut down the Gulf Stream in a few years (e.g. 2020 to 2050) and you'll get even colder winters.

  6. None of this impacts NSA metadata on The App That Tracks Who's Tracking You · · Score: 2

    The actual metadata is collected at, or near, the source, they only download app "fixes" when you're actively being pursued.

    So, this will give a false sense of security to the 99.9 percent of American citizens who are being tracked by the NSA in an Unconstitutional and Illegal manner.

    Oh, and we know exactly where you are even when you turn off location services, btw.

  7. Re:I wish people would just stop... on Historical Carbon Emissions From Dragons In Middle Earth · · Score: 3, Interesting

    For most of the time, Earth was a very hot humid place with an atmosphere you wouldn't want to breathe.

    Dragons might like that.

  8. Depends on the dragon on Historical Carbon Emissions From Dragons In Middle Earth · · Score: 1

    Some dragons are herbivores, so they eat lower parts of the food chain.

    It's really the dragon burps from those that we should be worried about.

  9. Obviously it was the Vikings and China on What Killed the Great Beasts of North America? · · Score: 1

    They found a wormhole in the Pacific at this strange black temple on an island and went back in time to hunt.

    Duh.

  10. Re:The size of a small car on World's First Multi-Color, Multi-Polymer 3D Printer Unveiled · · Score: 1

    It will trickle down...

    After it melts.

    In practice, it will probably be hard to get hold of in places that aren't already wealthy.

  11. Not just public libraries, also university ones on Public Libraries Tinker With Offering Makerspaces · · Score: 2

    In general, 3D printers are kind of like film editing equipment. Some places have those, the main thing is that you cover the cost of the inputs.

    Now, if you could do a 3D pop up graphics novel that you "printed" that would be super cool.

  12. This is a correct statement by Mr Snowden on Edward Snowden Says NSA Engages In Industrial Espionage · · Score: 1

    But, quite frankly, we've always done that.

    Always.

    The problem is: so does everyone else.

    Especially China.

  13. There are other types of cheap 3D printers on $499 3-D Printer Drew Plenty of Attention at CES (Video) · · Score: 1

    Here at the UW, a major science university, we have 3D printers that use compostable material that can be used for food production inputs, and print using a "plastic" that isn't a plastic at oil, breaking the oil chain and allowing clean fuel sources like hydro, solar, and wind to replace inputs from oil and coal in other systems.

    There's even a new startup building next to the HUB.

    Change is here. And, while 3D TVs aren't doing well, 3D printers are doing quite well.

  14. Re:Inability to digest milk on How Farming Reshaped Our Genomes · · Score: 2

    You're confusing the milk from other animals with human breast milk.

    Humans can - and have, historically - use that as their sole food source up to 5 years old.

    The problem arises from using milk from other creatures.

  15. Re:Pathetic on VC Likens Google Bus Backlash To Nazi Rampage · · Score: 1

    In the case of the Google buses, Google has the money and the right to provide that privileged service to their employees. However, to the common folks, the Google folks seem to be flaunting and taunting their wealth. So don't expect the commoners to kneel and bow down when the Google buses go by.

    The problem is that the private bus system uses public infrastructure - bus stops, roads, bus lanes - foisting off the costs on everyone else.

    The sooner we install guillotines in the public square - the better.

  16. Re:Pathetic or Guillotines-R-Us? on VC Likens Google Bus Backlash To Nazi Rampage · · Score: 1

    Guillotines would be too good for Google.

  17. Btw it's Stanford University not Standford on Will Electric Cars and Solar Power Make Gasoline and Utilities Obsolete? · · Score: 1

    Seriously, might want to check little things like that when posting.

    A bunch of my friends are profs there.

  18. Re:So long as they stay off the roads on Should Self-Driving Cars Chauffeur Shopping 'Whales' For Free? · · Score: 1

    I see you have failed to install the Human Reaction Chip.

    Would you like assistance with that?

    (people react even more harshly to robots killing kids than to humans killing kids while driving)

  19. Re:So long as they stay off the roads on Should Self-Driving Cars Chauffeur Shopping 'Whales' For Free? · · Score: 1

    I think you meant to say "I don't want to live in a world where a robot car murdering a kid would not result in a massive lawsuit".

    Fixed it for you.

  20. So long as they stay off the roads on Should Self-Driving Cars Chauffeur Shopping 'Whales' For Free? · · Score: 1

    The second one of these hits and kills a kid, it's lawsuit city, baby.

  21. Re:Obsolete: No but only in empty places on Will Electric Cars and Solar Power Make Gasoline and Utilities Obsolete? · · Score: 1

    The information was recently published by MarketTrends by CNBC.

    They call it the West.

    Adapt. Because the future is today.

  22. Re:Obsolete: No but only in empty places on Will Electric Cars and Solar Power Make Gasoline and Utilities Obsolete? · · Score: 1

    How about an industrial electric engine dragster?

    You're thinking 20th Century.

    We live in the 21st.

  23. Re:Obsolete: No but only in empty places on Will Electric Cars and Solar Power Make Gasoline and Utilities Obsolete? · · Score: 1

    Whatever. Meanwhile, most of my friends use cheap solar, wind, and hydro to power our vehicles at 1/20th what you pay in gasoline.

    Deal with it.

  24. Obsolete: No but only in empty places on Will Electric Cars and Solar Power Make Gasoline and Utilities Obsolete? · · Score: 1

    Obsolete?

    No.

    But they will become rare in the dense urban centers (aka cities) that 90 percent of America lives in.

    The top selling car in the West is a Tesla. The second best selling car is a Prius.

    Adapt. Because we're no longer going to subsidize your roads and your parking.

    Deal with it.

  25. Will any who gathered data illegally go to jail? on Surveillance Watchdog Concludes Metadata Program Is Illegal, "Should End" · · Score: 1

    That is the $6 trillion question.

    (yes, that's the cost)