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  1. Re:Let me guess on $1B TSA Behavioral Screening Program Slammed As "Junk Science" · · Score: 1

    Suicide bombers are typically well educated. Two-thirds of the hijackers responsible for 9/11 had attended college. Many had degrees.

    Don't underestimate the intelligence of these psychopaths.

  2. Re:Norton Coffee on Hack Air-Gapped Computers Using Heat · · Score: 1

    And far more if you want MILSPEC coffee which has been rigorously tested to withstand an atomic blast 3 miles away.

  3. Re:Poor first sentence on Researchers Find Same RSA Encryption Key Used 28,000 Times · · Score: 1

    The pin information is public. Residential Schlage locks have 5 pins. Each pin can be one of 9 heights. The height differences are quite small, so with some wiggling you don't even need an exact match.

  4. Re:Two words: Parallel Construction on How Police Fight To Keep Use of Stingrays Secret · · Score: 1

    That was acceptable because the government was spying on a foreign government. Spying on your own citizens is wrong because you're supposed to be protecting their right to privacy instead of violating it.

  5. Re:Flamefest thread on Was Linus Torvalds Right About C++ Being So Wrong? · · Score: 1

    For programming C++?

  6. Re:Fair and impartial? on Snowden Reportedly In Talks To Return To US To Face Trial · · Score: 1

    If killing isn't legal in some circumstances, why do we have the death penalty?

  7. Re:Politics aside for a moment. on Hillary Clinton Used Personal Email At State Dept., Possibly Breaking Rules · · Score: 1

    Maybe this is why the first 7 congressional investigations into Benghazi didn't turn up anything.

  8. Re:What exactly were the rules? on Hillary Clinton Used Personal Email At State Dept., Possibly Breaking Rules · · Score: 2

    I voted democrat in the past 2 elections, and I think this is pretty horrible. This is far worse than when Palin did it because it puts national security at risk.

  9. Re:If you're in the United States, get a lawyer on How Do You Handle the Discovery of a Web Site Disclosing Private Data? · · Score: 3, Informative

    The one time I ran into this, I informed the company from an anonymous email account. I claimed that I'd accidentally typed a number into the URL bar and someone else's complete order information came up. I stated that I had not shared the information with anyone and did not plan to (to cover my ass and make it clear I was not threatening them). I was still worried that they'd send the FBI after me, but I also felt that I had a moral obligation to inform them of the issue before someone else discovered it and stole a bunch of customer information.

  10. Re:Lawyers rejoice!! on Lenovo Hit With Lawsuit Over Superfish Adware · · Score: 1

    Agreed. The only way to hold them responsible is to hurt them financially.

  11. Re:You don't have to be a genius on Unearthing Fraud In Medical Trials · · Score: 1

    This is true of all SSRIs. There are withdrawal symptoms and you're supposed to taper off to minimize them. Her doctor should have explained this to her, the pharmacist should have explained this to her, the prescription most likely came with literature explaining this, and there should have been a sticker on the bottle warning to her consult her doctor before stopping it. I had the same issues with Celexa, but tolerate Lexapro without issue. The side effects SSRIs are far better than the older tri-cyclic anti-depressants, but it not all of them work well for all people.

  12. Re:Don't forget on Ask Slashdot: Affordable Large HD/UHD/4K "Stupid" Screens? · · Score: 1

    Maintaining inventory isn't cheap on such a large and expensive item.

  13. Re:Water water everywhere on White House Drone Incident Exposes Key Security Gap · · Score: 1

    Or a microwave energy weapon similar to what is used on crowds. Presumably this would disable anything without lots of shielding or any exposed antennas.

  14. Re:disagree on White House Drone Incident Exposes Key Security Gap · · Score: 2

    Solution: make it illegal for amazon to deliver mines to the whitehouse using drones.

  15. Re:Standard cop tactic in the USA on Blogger Who Revealed GOP Leader's KKK Ties Had Home Internet Lines Cut · · Score: 3, Informative

    In Chicago, the internal affairs division of the police is staffed mostly by ex-cops. The prosecutor may be a better bet if they're not obviously trying to do a bad job to protect their brothers.

  16. Re:Secret Ballot? on How Bitcoin Could Be Key To Online Voting · · Score: 1

    Yes, but that's still not proof that you submitted the paid vote. After snapping that picture you can go exchange your ballot for a blank one.

  17. Re:Insteon vs x10 on Ask Slashdot: Options For Cheap Home Automation? · · Score: 1

    The worst part about Insteon devices is that they have x10 support which can't be disabled. It results in devices switching on and off randomly.

  18. Re:low standards for kickstarter on An Open Source Flat Pack Robot Arm That's As Easy To Build As Ikea Furniture · · Score: 1

    If only it were that difficult...

  19. Re:The bigger question IMHO on MIT Unifies Web Development In Single, Speedy New Language · · Score: 2

    The newer protocols will reduce latency. See http://www.chromium.org/spdy/s...

  20. Re:Wow.. imagine if your gasoline car did this. on Tesla Roadster Update Extends Range · · Score: 1

    And with the range improvements, you're not limited to a single trip around the circumference of the Big Island.

  21. Re:Vintage name phones on Kodak-Branded Smartphones On the Way · · Score: 1

    The one near me still has a decent enough part selection in organizer drawers. I purchased an IRF510 there last weekend.

  22. Re: Let's Be Honest on NASA Makes 3-D Printed Wrench Model Available · · Score: 1

    You're supposed to be under the influence of benzedrine while reading.

  23. Re:Watson is a scientist on James Watson's Nobel Prize Medal Will Be Returned To Him · · Score: 2

    The evidence is still "on the fence," so it's hard to draw any conclusions from. Even some studies among identical twins have shown a correlation below 0.5.

    I will agree that western designed tests show that westerners do well at western institutions. Nearly any time someone creates a metric of something as difficult to define as intelligence, they create it in such a way that they're the top scorers. I'm sure if those living in sub-saharan africa were to design their own intelligence tests, it would favor them instead.

  24. Re:Watson is a scientist on James Watson's Nobel Prize Medal Will Be Returned To Him · · Score: 2

    Did you even see what he said? Watson's statements also went outside the bounds of science by making broad conclusions from his own anecdotal evidence. They were absolutely not scientific.

    Regarding intelligence, if you're talking about IQ tests, they're poor measurements of intelligence because they tend to be culturally biased. A lot of studies have shown that race as we know it is more of a social construct than a genetic one and what we define as races is only loosely correlated to genetic variance. Until there are better ways of testing intelligence, all we can know for sure is that genetics may be a factor or they may not.

  25. Re:Calibration on Trains May Soon Come Equipped With Debris-Zapping Lasers · · Score: 4, Informative

    Leaves burn well below the annealing temperature of most steels.