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Comment Re:People that live in glass houses... (Score 1) 448

The difference is this clown's papers regularly get destroyed by other scientists for being bad science, and this clown keeps hiding the conflict of interests when he's specifically required not to. That's the difference. It's not about moral high-ground, but integrity. This joker has very little, and those calling him out on it are being attacked for running a smear campaign, when it's nothing of the sort.

Comment Re:Cmon... (Score 1) 448

You do realise that the increased sea ice is because ice on the land is melting, right? Of course you don't. You've thought about this for 20 seconds and decided you know more than all those scientists out there who have been studying this for generations. Yes, climate change has happened before, but never at this rate (without a comet/asteroid impact). It saddens me that a society can let loose people like you upon the world with such a flawed understanding of science.

Comment Re:it started with smartphones (Score 1) 130

It can be pretty useful, actually. I was cooking dinner the other night and needed to set a timer. My hands were caked in all sorts of gunk from the food I was making. I turned to my phone and said "OK, Google - set a timer for 10 minutes", and it did it. And last night I was watching a movie with my fiancée, and we thought the actor in it might have played some other character in a TV show we watch, so I simply asked my phone. It took a couple of seconds, and gave us the precise answer.

It's got nothing to do with a "cool factor" - instead of converting your intention to a series of physical gestures on your device (finding the right application, typing in a search query, looking through the results for the answer), you simply voice your intention, and the device does the rest. That seems an efficient use of a device, not something "cool".

And you don't have to shout - to claim that smacks of trying to make the whole interaction seem absurd, comical, or impractical - which doesn't exactly reflect well on you ;) I'm sure you didn't mean it, though. Unless you've actually found a use for some of these technologies, it can be hard to picture a need or use for them. The fact you've failed to do so doesn't automatically make that the case for everyone, though.

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