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

    Unless you're replacing the entire vascular system, it does matter a great deal. The vascular system is substantially more complex than the pipe systems to which those pumps are attached. The size of the various parts of the system will increase and decreased based upon things like the temperature and stretch. Try doing that with a pump.

  2. Re:Memory hog on Firefox Takes the Performance Crown From Chrome · · Score: 2

    Are you sure that it's Fx and not an extension you're running? The only times I see Fx using more than 512mb of RAM is when I'm playing one of those stupid flash games. And most of the time Fx is using less than 300mb or so of RAM.

    I suppose you might also have a much larger number of tabs open than I do, but still.

  3. Re:Add Memory Usage! on Firefox Takes the Performance Crown From Chrome · · Score: 1

    I think he's talking about Chrome, because Fx generally has one of the lowest RAM utilizations of GUI based browsers.

  4. Re:In Windows 8 64 Bit As Defined by Tom's Hardwar on Firefox Takes the Performance Crown From Chrome · · Score: 1

    The Fx on my system has serious issues with start up time. I'm not sure what the problem is exactly, but it's gotten quite bad lately. I suspect that it has something to do with the large number of bookmarks I have as I don't have very many extensions installed and I'm carrying over bookmarks from years ago because I haven't bothered to go in and clean house.

  5. Re:No on Firefox Takes the Performance Crown From Chrome · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Mozilla is taking the same direction that google is at this point. I used to love Fx, but now I tolerate it. With the asinine version number bumping, the UI tweaks for no particular purpose and them taking their eye off of the ball when it comes to real improvements.

    Seems like I should just use Chrome because the Mozilla devs seem to want to turn Fx into Chrome.

  6. Re:Depends on the energy source duh! on Electric Vehicles Might Not Benefit the Environment After All · · Score: 2

    I'm going to take issue with your assertion about every other form of electricity "producing more carbon or existing in imagination."

    Producing electricity does not magically create new carbon atoms that weren't there perviously, at worst it takes ones that were previously sequestered and releases them into the air. And there are definitely options for burning things that won't change the amount of carbon in the atmosphere, such as burning trees or harvesting methane from landfills.

  7. Re:Stop Feeding the Troll! on Firefox 23 Makes JavaScript Obligatory · · Score: 1

    Good thing nobody ever reads the article.

  8. Re:Really, they should make it easier to do on Firefox 23 Makes JavaScript Obligatory · · Score: 1

    I recommend Requestpolicy for the actual turning on and off of javascript. I run it alongside NoScript that I use for it's other security features like the anti-clickjacking feature.

  9. Re:Noscript is useless on Firefox 23 Makes JavaScript Obligatory · · Score: 1

    I use NoScript for the other features like it's anti-clickjacking features, I use requestpolicy for the purpose of actually controlling which sites are permitted to run javascripts on my computer.

    If they don't back down on this I will be moving to another browser, the only problem is that Fx has been the least bad browser, now I have to move to the second least bad browser, and I'm not really sure which one that is, I guess probably Opera.

  10. Re:How is this legal? on Employers Switching From Payroll Checks To Prepaid Cards With Fees · · Score: 1

    Not really, right to work states don't have collective bargaining in any reasonable fashion. Sure it probably technically exists, but if unions can't prevent non-union workers from working on the site, then it's pretty hard for them to really negotiate as the employer holds all the cards.

    You do realize that unions lobby for changes in legislation that benefit everybody, right? Not just on union job sites.

    As for the 4%, I'm skeptical of that, I was making far more than that working for a union employer versus the rate for a non-union employer. And I know that the union drivers at the site were making even more with respect to the other drivers as well.

    Ultimately, you do have to admit that it's a rather suspicious situation where pretty much all the welfare states are right to work states and pretty much all of that money is coming from states with decent unions.

  11. Re:How is this legal? on Employers Switching From Payroll Checks To Prepaid Cards With Fees · · Score: 1

    Cherry picking the worst union state and the best non-union state does not a valid argument make. As I said there are exceptions, but as a general rule it's better to live in a state where there are strong unions than one where there aren't any.

    Unions raise the wages paid for jobs covered by their union, even on non-union sites that have to convince their workers not to organize. Unions also fight to raise the standards for the jobs they represent.

    So, yes, Unions do have a positive impact beyond just those jobsites and by and large you'll find far more states where there's a positive impact than negative impact.

  12. Re:How is this legal? on Employers Switching From Payroll Checks To Prepaid Cards With Fees · · Score: 1

    That's not true, and you ought to know better. If you look at states which have collective bargaining versus right to work states, the income is markedly higher in the collective bargaining states. The main exceptions are states that have large amounts of oil.

    Unions only exist as long as the members permit them to exist. The workers vote on the leadership and the workers are typically on the committees that negotiate the labor contracts. The members also have the option of leaving the union.

    The reason why unions exist is because of the members. Yeah, there are issues at times, but not as often as with corrupt employers.

  13. Re:How is this legal? on Employers Switching From Payroll Checks To Prepaid Cards With Fees · · Score: 1

    Perhaps, but happen to notice how in the US, the states with good union representation are by and large the states that are worth living in? There are a few exceptions to the rule, but most of the South has poor union representation and the conditions down there as far as work goes are miserable compared with the unionized areas of the country.

    Just having unions in an area tends to require employers to pay better if they don't want the union coming in and organizing the workers.

  14. Re:Go get some proof. on More Details Emerge On How the US Is Bugging Its European Allies · · Score: 1

    The point is that everybody engages in it, and it would be negligent not to. Until there's world peace and everybody agrees on things, that's how it's going to be.

    And yes, there is plenty of evidence to back these accusations, but I've got better things to do with my time, the evidence is on Google. And really, calling them "accusations" is rather bizarre, given the long history of espionage, the bizarre accusation is yours that everybody isn't doing it.

    They were conducting business and they should have assumed that the wires were being tapped by somebody. This isn't 100 years ago when the taps were restricted to just government entities, anybody with the capability to do the crack can get into a lot of this stuff. It's just that the government was going it in this case.

  15. Re:No Shit on More Details Emerge On How the US Is Bugging Its European Allies · · Score: 1

    That's not at all the same. The term for that isn't hero, it's martyr. And martyrs are ultimately only able to impact things upon being martyred if there's a strong movement behind them. They're at that point a symbol more than a person.

    Hollywood is one place, and pop culture is another, but it's not a reasonable assumption that people would stay because they're heroes. They stay because there's a reason for staying, and in this case there's far more gain to be made by trying to escape than there is in voluntarily being arrested.

  16. Re:Mud in the water on More Details Emerge On How the US Is Bugging Its European Allies · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You seriously think that the US is the only one doing that? I mean, for fucks sake, the Israelis do more spying on the US than anybody else. Or at least last I checked, it might be the Chinese now.

    But, in either case, countries spy on each other, and I have a seriously hard time imagining that the EU delegates weren't expecting that to be happening.

  17. Re:No Shit on More Details Emerge On How the US Is Bugging Its European Allies · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not really, that's a construct that you probably picked up from Hollywood propaganda.

    The truth is that things are rarely if ever that clear cut. Heroes in things like this tend to try to avoid being sent to prison as being in prison makes it easy for the government to stop them from making a scene. Whereas a very visible fight to get Snowden extradited back to the US has brought a ton of extra attention to the problem that he highlighted with the leak.

  18. Re: No Shit on More Details Emerge On How the US Is Bugging Its European Allies · · Score: 2

    Masturbating in front of the homeless? I have never done that nor have I seen anybody do so. In fact, doing that would lead one to be registered as a sex offender.

  19. Re: No Shit on More Details Emerge On How the US Is Bugging Its European Allies · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But it's more fun to bash the US for everything that happens, because obviously, the US is always wrong and everybody else is always right.

  20. Re:if someone threw my phone... on The Average Movie Theater Has Hundreds of Screens · · Score: 1

    Indeed, I'm not sure why people would shell out $10 for a ticket, plus the cost of parking and any snacks they want, then spend most of the movie texting or talking on the phone.

    People who want to text while watching a movie have less expensive options.

  21. Re:WHAT?!?!?! on Immigration Bill Passes the Senate, Includes More H-1B Visas · · Score: 1

    Actually, they are required to pay the H-1B visa holders the prevailing wages, the real advantage is that they don't have to give them raises or as many perks to get them into the job. And can use those workers to then hold back the prevailing wage, since they're unlikely to demand a raise, even if they would normally have earned a raise for their work.

  22. Re:The always-present question for UDP on QUIC: Google's New Secure UDP-Based Protocol · · Score: 1

    I take it you've never heard of tarpits. Depending upon the type of DOS or DDOS, you can run through an incredible amount of processing power on the part of the attacker without straining your server, but it really depends upon the type of attack and the specifics of your set up.

  23. Re:Don't trust 'em on QUIC: Google's New Secure UDP-Based Protocol · · Score: 1

    And yet there always seems to be somebody out there that's capable of finding the flaws that exist.

    Yes, there are a relatively small number of people able to find those flaws, but it's still a large enough number of people that the flaws will be found at some point. And at any rate, the crypto has already been done, they're reusing TLS for the crypto.

  24. Re:There are three kinds of lies. on Immigration Bill Passes the Senate, Includes More H-1B Visas · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Precisely, I'm curious as to how they explain all the people that give up on the IT sector because they can't get a job due to the ridiculously narrow job requirements that even entry level positions have.

    I'd be fine with a lift on the H-1B visa limits if it required them to actually demonstrate that they had made real efforts to hire Americans first. And that the requirements they were posting were reasonable for the job they were hiring for.

    As it is, the job requirements seem more there to show that they're "trying" to hire Americans while ensuring that as few Americans as possible are actually qualified for the job.

  25. Re:anti-sex ad policy? on Google's Blogger To Delete All 'Adult' Blogs That Have Ads · · Score: 1

    Sigh, because clearly unless you can stop all crime of a type everywhere, you shouldn't take any steps at all.

    Also, WTF do flame stickers for cars have to do with speeding? And selling hemp related products is perfectly legal. I've even seen hemp products being sold by retailers.