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  1. Re:Rare arguement for jury nullification on Florida Teen Charged With Felony Hacking For Changing Desktop Wallpaper · · Score: 1

    Sometimes, the judge denies the right to jury nullification: http://billmoyers.com/segment/...

  2. Re:Evolution on Did Natural Selection Make the Dutch the Tallest People On the Planet? · · Score: 1

    At yeast he had a point.

  3. this will get fixed... on Watching a "Swatting" Slowly Unfold · · Score: 4, Insightful

    when it affects someone in power.

  4. hidden cam found on post office grounds on DHS Wants Access To License-plate Tracking System, Again · · Score: 1

    It disappeared after a news crew did a story on it.

    http://kdvr.com/2015/03/11/mys...

  5. Re:Aren't these already compromised cards? on Fraud Rampant In Apple Pay · · Score: 2

    I've seen a 4-figure mail-order fraud fail to work because the crook couldn't give the CCV numbers over the phone.

  6. Enough! on Laser Takes Out Truck Engine From a Mile Away · · Score: 1

    That joke has jumped the shark.

  7. Re:"Conservatives" hating neutrality baffles me on House Republicans Roll Out Legislation To Overturn New Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 0, Troll

    The conservative bias is "don't regulate what you don't have to,"

    I don't know, they support regulation disenfranchising the poor quite often... adding red tape to voting, or to accessing federal assistance being a couple examples.

  8. Unconscious racism on Racial Discrimination Affects Virtual Reality Characters Too · · Score: 1

    Check out the book "The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and Save Our Lives."

    You will learn about studies of unconscious racism showing black against black biases, and unconscious racism even from the most left leaning progressives, and a team of psychologists managing racial imagery during a presidential election.

  9. Rural subsidies on FCC Approves Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 1

    Nice in theory, but has been used in the past to subsidize the running of cable to the remote mansions of the 1%.

  10. youtube video summary of trans pacific partnership on Trans-Pacific Partnership Enables Harsh Penalties For Filesharing · · Score: 4, Informative
  11. Re:booby-trapped on Syrian Social Hack Co-Opts Fighter's Computers · · Score: 2
  12. Re:Start with Stem cells and.... on Telomere-Lengthening Procedure Turns Clock Back Years In Human Cells · · Score: 1

    You jest, but this is why we have children instead of just living forever.

    An organism that fails to reproduce fails to evolve as fast as competitors. Earth is dominated by fast-evolving, gene-shuffling, sex-having life-forms - not Methuselahs.

  13. Re:We Really Don't on How Do We Know the Timeline of the Universe? · · Score: 1

    oops... fixing a mis-clicked moderation. move along...

  14. Re:Why the lame title? on Carnivorous Pitcher Plant "Out-Thinks" Insects · · Score: 1

    Exactly. "Submarine 'out-swims' whale" would be a perfectly clear headline, too. Only on slashdot would a complaint about the word "swim" get +5.

  15. Re:What's odd is that on Ebola Patient Zero Identified, Probably Infected By Bats · · Score: 1

    If you have an advantage that delays your death, but don't breed during the respite, then you are irrelevant to that aspect of evolution.

    Not if you helped your kids in that time.

  16. Re:Environmental radicalism? on Pope Francis To Issue Encyclical On Global Warming · · Score: 4, Informative

    scientists ... who get a large portion of their income from oil companies

    Any doubters should google about Clair Patterson, and failed attempts to bribe him to keep the public in the dark about environmental lead. He saved IQ points for all of us.

  17. Re:chess championship on The New (Computer) Chess World Champion · · Score: 1

    Arimaa might make an interesting turing test. Your sig made me think of captain Paul Watson of the Sea Shepard telling the story of the time he got a job testing the intelligence of a captive orca. The orca got all answers right immediately after training, then suddenly started getting them all wrong. Paul realized the Orca was testing him, too.

  18. Re:Was cool in 2010 when foss BigBlueButton did th on Skype Unveils Preview of Live English-To-Spanish Translator · · Score: 1

    nothing I saw that indicates how much training the speech recognition needs.

    Translators as a whole will never have enough training, since it's an art not perfected even by humans. When an idiom's literal translation is nonsense, the translator's job is about imperfect trade-offs.

  19. People deny the problem on Warmer Pacific Ocean Could Release Millions of Tons of Methane · · Score: 1

    Because they don't like the solution.
    http://science.slashdot.org/st...

  20. Woosh. It's from fallout. on Overly Familiar Sci-Fi · · Score: 1
  21. TFA: WHO on Cyber Ring Stole Secrets For Gaming US Stock Market · · Score: 1

    Weedon suspects the hackers were trained at Western investment banks, giving them the know-how to identify their targets and draft convincing phishing emails.

  22. Re:Academic Beclowining on Game Theory Analysis Shows How Evolution Favors Cooperation's Collapse · · Score: 1

    Nice strawman and ad-hominems. What I got out of the article was "So we see complicated dynamics when we allow the full range of payoffs to evolve,” Plotkin said. “One of the interesting results is that the Prisoner’s Dilemma game itself is unstable and is replaced by other games [stag-hunt & snowdrift]. It is as if evolution would like to avoid the [Prisoner's] dilemma altogether."

  23. Re:TIt-for-tat fallacy on Game Theory Analysis Shows How Evolution Favors Cooperation's Collapse · · Score: 3, Interesting

    what is it that makes H. sapiens such a successful species? .

    Start with the book Guns, Germs, and Steel.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  24. SNL skit: the all-drug olympics on Top Counter-Strike Players Embroiled In Hacking Scandal · · Score: 1
  25. Re:Why would I buy your product? on Interviews: Ask the Hampton Creek Team About the Science and Future of Food · · Score: 1

    So your mayo money isn't used to do this to chickens: https://www.google.com/search?...