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by glenra 13y ago
> However, this man set off a bomb detector. He set of the machine that detects bombs, repeatedly. After that event, nothing Mr. Mukerjee reported is particularly surprising, and I would expect to have a similar experience if I set off
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by glenra 13y ago
> Yes, MUCH of what the TSA does is theater, and doesn't do much to keep us safe. Yes, much of it is theater. ALL of what the TSA does is theater, and it actively makes us LESS safe. Their actions cause over a thousand unnecessary
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by glenra 13y ago
> We will have to remove all items in another room, Searching the bag in another room has too much abuse potential. If travelers let bags out of their sight even for a few minutes the TSA could easily steal or break anything of value i
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by glenra 13y ago
> it is unusual a person and their items could fail so many times using different testing equipment. So maybe it's finding something true. BFD. You look in the bag, verify there's no explosive there, and let him through. Maybe
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by glenra 13y ago
A "highly agitated demeanor" is EXTREMELY APPROPRIATE when TSA goons have denied you food and water and you're late to board a flight and these nitwits are preventing you from traveling to meet your family for no reason other
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by glenra 13y ago
Once again: If you read the actual patent ( http://www.google.com/patents/US8254902 ), the quote about some police activity requiring complete blackout conditions is actually in reference to the screen brightness ,
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by glenra 13y ago
There is no common objective definition of terrorism. The definition changes all the time . It is arbitrary. And you wouldn't have to tweak, say, the League of Nations definition very much to include Snowden's actions. He is a
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by glenra 13y ago
The point of confusion here is that people think the terms "terrorism" and "terrorist" only apply to bad guys . But so far as the government is concerned, "terrorism" is really defined as "doing anything
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by glenra 13y ago
Trains don't need security checkpoints because trains follow a fixed route - you can't hijack them to cuba, you can't crash them into a building. All you can conceivably damage is the train line itself and the few people in i
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by glenra 13y ago
I've had the same thought she had - that we shouldn't necessarily need to plug stuff in to charge it. My preferred solution - not an original idea - is to find a way to free-ride off existing broadcast signals. Right now, the
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by glenra 13y ago
Same error here. You're reading a meaning into the undefined phrase "sensitive area" from the abstract that doesn't seem consistent with that term's use elsewhere in the patent. But if you grep "sensitive"
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by glenra 13y ago
Sorry, but that is in the "description of related technology" section. Meaning it helps establish the CONTEXT of the present patent but is not itself part OF the present patent.
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by glenra 13y ago
Bogus article. If you read the actual patent ( http://www.google.com/patents/US8254902 ), the quote about some police activity requiring complete blackout conditions is actually in reference to the screen brightness ,
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by glenra 13y ago
Unlike the others, Englebart didn't directly accomplish very much. Most of his work was a long way removed from anything that was commercially viable. Seeming prophetic is nice, but actually getting stuff done is better. The relevant J
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by glenra 13y ago
The Isaacson bio got quite a lot of stuff wrong - both personal and technical stuff. If you haven't yet, I highly recommend John Siracusa's podcast book review "The Wrong Guy": http://5by5.tv/hypercritica
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by glenra 13y ago
If you start out weighing ~450 pounds, the math on living without eating is pretty straightforward. The person in question did a medically supervised fast. He consumed water, a multivitamin and a small amount of yeast. (Also potassium table
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by glenra 13y ago
The actual truth is that we should err towards fewer secrets rather than more, because secrets make you stupid . When the President and the people around him are acting on secret information, they have to lie about why they do things and t
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by glenra 13y ago
More mass doesn't just help when you hit other cars. It also helps when you, say, run into a wall. Or a moose. The more mass you've got, the slower anything that hits you can reduce your speed, the less harm that the sudden decele
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by glenra 13y ago
The fact that some plaintiff allegedly won a lawsuit involving junk-science claims does NOT constitute the court "quietly confirming" the underlying claim. It doesn't establish the scientific truth of the claim. It might just
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by glenra 13y ago
> Single vulcano explosion releases more CO2 than entire mankind in a decade. I don't believe this is true. Dixie Lee Ray made a claim similar to this in her book Trashing the Planet (regarding the 1991 Mt. Pinatubo eruption) an
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by glenra 13y ago
I would have made almost the reverse claim: humanity has a well-defined threat-response instinct and we are constantly on the lookout for threats to ourselves, our family, our society. Like a social immune system. If there aren't any
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by glenra 13y ago
The problem with the "boiling frog" analogy is that it's false. No actual frogs work like that. If you think humans work like that, it's fine to claim this, but referring to the behavior of imaginary frogs doesn't a
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by glenra 13y ago
You'd think this sort of article might mention that overall bee populations and honey production in the US are stable. 2006 and 2009 were low points but the numbers have since recovered - beekeepers have been making more hives faster t
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by glenra 13y ago
> a government full of people you vote for every four years You mean a government full of people I vote against every four years, right? I actually don't vote any more, but back when I did, the people I voted for were never the on
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by glenra 13y ago
The "right of corporations to speak" is just the right of people to speak when organized into a group. The ACLU is a corporation. A union is a corporation. The essence of that decision was that when a bunch of individuals (who a
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by glenra 13y ago
> a deregulated telecom industry will focus on the high-end consumers, just like every company does. It is not actually true that "every company" focuses on high-end, nor is it true that "that's where the money happen
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by glenra 13y ago
> Without finite resources there is no longer any point to capitalism, a system which allocates finite resources. That's just a nutty idea. There will always be scarcity of something . For instance, there's scarcity of specifi
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by glenra 13y ago
> Not to mention the fact that, if you're paying $1,000/mo for rent, at the end of the year, you have almost nothing to show for your $12,000. In a house/home, you have equity in said house. Suppose you buy a $300k house
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by glenra 13y ago
> A multitude of accepted methodologies using scores of independent datasets from various fields overwhelmingly produce results consistent with anthropogenic global warming. Of course they do. That doesn't mean there's no err
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by glenra 13y ago
An article with that title should have mentioned the possibility of an error cascade . Occasionally - not often, but sometimes - the "consensus scientific view" on a subject happens to be wrong . Wrong views can persist for quit

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