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Comment Re:the length of a 10-passenger limousine (Score 2) 55

That's not really just an idea from xkcd. Modern taxonomists group birds within the clade Dinosauria. Also, birds have tails, even if they're short. The tomia of a number of birds are also very toothlike. A number of dinosaurs, such as T. Rex had all kinds of adaptations to make their skulls lighter relative to their bodies.

Submission + - Qualcomm retracts GitHub takedowns (phoronix.com)

ndogg writes: Qualcomm has reversed course on its DMCA takedown of 100+ GitHub repositories. Many of the repositories are back online, although the original takedown notice can still be found on GitHub's website.

Comment Re:"Yeah... right"... Re:John Smith? (Score 1) 148

The very first level shouldn't even involve the proposed defendant. A judge should have to first look over the suit and see if it is even winnable. A surprising number of lawsuits allege the impossible or allege something that isn't actually a tort. For example, the guy who claimed that he was God and David Copperfield was usurping his divine powers in his show.

Submission + - No shortage in tech workers, advocacy groups say

sabri writes: To have a labor shortage or not to have, that's the question. According to the San Jose Mercury News:

Last month, three tech advocacy groups launched a labor boycott against Infosys, IBM and the global staffing and consulting company ManpowerGroup, citing a "pattern of excluding U.S. workers from job openings on U.S soil."

They say Manpower, for example, last year posted U.S. job openings in India but not in the United States.

Submission + - Kids Say the Darnedest Things: Achievement Trumps Empathy 1

theodp writes: A new Harvard study found that kids care more about achievement than helping others. "We were especially surprised and troubled to find how many youth value aspects of achievement over caring and fairness," said Richard Weissbourd of the Making Caring Common project. "We need to take a hard look at the messages we're sending to children about success versus concern for others and think about how we can send different messages." Almost 80% of students ranked achievement or happiness over caring for others; only 20% identified caring for others as their top priority. Could be the kids are reading Steve Jobs' bio (tolerate only 'A' players), Bill Gates' Congressional testimony ('B' and 'C' players exist to serve 'A' engineers), and Netflix's talent management philosophy (non-'A' players are unworthy of jobs)!

Submission + - Consciousness on-off switch discovered deep in brain (newscientist.com)

An anonymous reader writes: ONE moment you're conscious, the next you're not. For the first time, researchers have switched off consciousness by electrically stimulating a single brain area.

Although only tested in one person, the discovery suggests that a single area – the claustrum – might be integral to combining disparate brain activity into a seamless package of thoughts, sensations and emotions. It takes us a step closer to answering a problem that has confounded scientists and philosophers for millennia – namely how our conscious awareness arises.

When the team zapped the area with high frequency electrical impulses, the woman lost consciousness. She stopped reading and stared blankly into space, she didn't respond to auditory or visual commands and her breathing slowed. As soon as the stimulation stopped, she immediately regained consciousness with no memory of the event. The same thing happened every time the area was stimulated during two days of experiments.

What happens when a government can do this to a person remotely or enmass? Tin foil hat time.

Comment Re:What with all the other debris? (Score 3, Interesting) 200

They are unpowered shells shot from a mortar, not rockets. If they hit the copter (unlikely), they will explode lower than planned, but still well up there and over the water. Considering that the copter was flying around their planned burst altitude anyway, it is likely that only the pilot would notice the collision.

Comment Re:Illegal and Dangerous? (Score 1) 200

Even granting the unlikely event of a collision, The shell weighs more than the copter, it isn't going to stop dead and it's not going to go near people. This is especially true since you might have noticed that the higher flying shells were bursting at the copter's height.

Since you believe the people not worried by this are fucking, I guess that means you're not fucking? Perhaps that's why you're so uptight? :-)

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