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  1. Re:Just proves the point on Anita Sarkeesian, Creator of "Tropes vs. Women," Driven From Home By Trolls · · Score: 1

    Hypothetically, turning them in to local law enforcement (with reference to the death threats) would be delivering punishment and, at the same time, not be vigilante violence.

  2. Re:I am ready! on Google Unveils Self-Driving Car With No Steering Wheel · · Score: 1

    Can't happen soon enough. Also, I like the form factor.

  3. Re:The former iPhone user is an idiot. on Apple To Face Lawsuit For iMessage Glitch · · Score: 1

    There is no opt in for iMessage subverting SMS, there may be an opt out, but that doesn't seem to work reliably.

  4. Like less radioactive materials spewed into the environment.

  5. Re:You mean, such a low cut... on Amazon Turns Off In-App Purchases In iOS Comixology · · Score: 5, Insightful

    30% wholesale is 23% of retail, apple is taking 30% of retail (42% of wholesale if they were the store), AND THEY AREN'T EVEN THE STORE.

  6. Re:Negligence on Heartbleed Disclosure Timeline Revealed · · Score: 1

    If it happens at all, it's using independent contractors.

  7. Re:If you make this a proof of God... on Mathematical Proof That the Cosmos Could Have Formed Spontaneously From Nothing · · Score: 1

    You may be interested in reading Permutation City, for an alternative... view on that hypothesis.

  8. Re:Did the accident rate increase? on More Than 1 In 4 Car Crashes Involve Cellphone Use · · Score: 1

    4 in 4 are breathing. Eliminate driver breathing to eliminate* 100% of driving accidents!

    * on account of driver fatality before they get going due to suffocation.

  9. Re:Take pictures, press charges. on Woman Attacked In San Francisco Bar For Wearing Google Glass · · Score: 1

    And you still have the illusion that it's not happening when there isn't glass?

  10. Re:I don't want to live in a world... on Woman Attacked In San Francisco Bar For Wearing Google Glass · · Score: 1

    That world arrived 10 years ago. Stop messing with my HUD just because it shatters the illusion that pervasive surveillance is somehow the future rather than the past.

  11. Re:Take pictures, press charges. on Woman Attacked In San Francisco Bar For Wearing Google Glass · · Score: 1

    Which is why you have it uploading (snapshots if bandwidth is tight) in real time, just like you would for a cell phone's panic video mode (and your home security cameras, etc).

  12. Re:Psh, jQuery. on HTML5 App For Panasonic TVs Rejected - JQuery Is a "Hack" · · Score: 2

    Several of the examples are either incomplete or not cross browser compatible. Pretty much all of them are rather more verbose than the equivalent jQuery, and NONE of them support proper chaining.

  13. Re:Better model needed on The Cost of the US Government Shutdown To Science · · Score: 2

    17 trillion in debt, borrowed at negative effective interest rates... I need problems like that.

  14. Re:Reach the "nearby" ISS? From Hubble? Uh, No. on NASA Astronaut Talks "Gravity," Spacewalking, ISS · · Score: 2

    An ideal intercept, while impossible on the 25m/s delta v of the old MMU, only actually needs 39m/s. Given a lighter weight, higher ISP advanced MMU and the initial disaster having lobbed them in generally the right direction. What isn't plausible, if they manage an intercept, is them doing anything more than destroying the ISS, continuing the Kessler Syndrome (it's another 39m/s to circularize and don't get me started on matching inclinations).

  15. Re:Tip in cash on Uber Tip-Skimming Allegations Could Spark National Class Action · · Score: 1

    Uber isn't the restaurant. The Uber drivers are the restaurants that contract with a centralized booking and payment processing system that is Uber. You better believe the CC processing service for a restaurant is taking it's %age out of the entire CC transaction, be it line itemed for tax, tip or food.

  16. Re:How is that an "upshot"? on Uber Tip-Skimming Allegations Could Spark National Class Action · · Score: 1

    Uber charges 10% of everything the same way paypal, amazon payments or nearly any other market maker plus payment services company does.

    When you pay with a credit card at a restaurant, you better believe the payment processing company is taking it's cut out of the total transaction placed on the card.

  17. Re:Amazon needs their head read. on Are Amazon Vine Reviews of Technical Books a Joke? · · Score: 5, Informative

    If I'm looking at a book, the reviews had better be about the book rather than one of the 100+ sellers of the book. If you want to review that particular seller, there is a separate spot for that, and low enough service ratings will tank their visibility across all of their products. "Cover damaged, terrible service" on a review of Excession is useless spam. The same review on the seller itself is helpful.

  18. Re:head transplant, or body transplant? on Neuroscientist: First-Ever Human Head Transplant Is Now Possible · · Score: 1

    You can do that if you have three pumps and you only need the capacity of two (though for our purposes, I'd want to go with 2 packs of 3). If one is failing, seal it off and replace it. The access port is a bit of a problem in the biological setting, but at least you don't get issues with the online maintenance negatively impacting the morphology of the device in a progressively degenerative manner.

  19. Re:not so simple... Re:I should hope so on Ex-Marine Detained Under Operation Vigilant Eagle For His Political Views Sues · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is where the "Do something" crowd falls down a pit of bias. We've seen similar rhetoric from politicians and tv 'personalities'. As rhetoric it's protected speech, as straight statements of non metaphorical intent, it's an imminent threat. The metaphoric rhetoric almost certainly far out masses the straight statements of non metaphorical intent, so just seeing the above is not a proper signal of a threat, though if sufficient resources exist, it may warrant some spot checks to see if there are other signals, on it's own, it shouldn't be sufficient to detain anyone. If, on it's own, that is sufficient to detain someone, then large swaths of society are arbitrarily detainable; not necessarily for those specific views, but for rhetoric of that style. At that point, certain Jefferson quotes may in fact, need to come into play. I hope that point is not imminent, that the trial turns up proper non rhetorical, non protected, signals that fully justify the detention and aren't nigh universally and arbitrarily applicable to most citizens.

  20. Re:What am I missing? on Does Antimatter Fall Up? · · Score: 1

    Well, you'll notice that they have gotten things down to within 3 orders of magnitude of providing meaningful results on +1 vs -1. I was more answering on why it's not as easy as a single particle test, not claiming it's not possible given sufficient tests.

  21. Re:What am I missing? on Does Antimatter Fall Up? · · Score: 2

    And you'll likely end up measuring the bias of your trap rather than the effect of gravity on the particle after the asymmetrically decaying field of your trap has given it a kick.

  22. Re:I think it's booty on One In Six Amazon S3 Storage Buckets Are Ripe For Data-Plundering · · Score: 1

    Private is the default setting?

  23. Re:It would be interesting to see ... on Ohio Judge Rules Speed Cameras Are a Scam · · Score: 1

    That can go trivially wrong as the camera's clocks get out of sync.

  24. Re:if it's all about women's protection... on EU To Vote On Proposal That Could Ban All Online Pornography · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure transgendered people have gotten over the hateful things that came out of the feminist movement (maybe it can be characterized as F1 specific). I was a bit depressed to recently find that those opinions aren't just a historical aberration of the early 90s as I'd thought/hoped (Gender Slumming and it's Reconsideration for instance for the 90s sort of discourse). But alas, the attacks are still ongoing.

  25. Re:Mix on Man Charged With HIPAA Violations For Video Taping Police · · Score: 1

    If I'm interacting with police, in public, please film it, no matter what state I'm in. My future welfare may depend on those recordings surviving.