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Comment Re:the solution: (Score 1) 651

Except that the people who had guns then could just as easily kill with guns then as now -- there is no change in that. Their reasoning is that at any point a Democracy can devolve into a dictatorship as soon as the new popularly elected leader decides to use secret police to defend his power -- as has been proven in many countries over the last few hundred years. At that point neither passive reason nor a foolable ballot box will succeed in defeating the armed secret police -- only an armed responsible citizenry can do that. Read Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag Archipelago" and get wise.

I'll make sure to hop into my time machine and tell Gandhi that his whole unarmed rebellion and civil disobedience has no chance in getting rid of the British. The people who seem to fear the government and it's armies overlook one very important fact. Where in hell do those armies come from? They come from the citizenry of this country. If the government were to order it's soldiers to conduct wholesale infringement of it's populace, against those soldier's own families and relatives, and friends, how far do you think it would get when the soldiers themselves rebel? It's not like it hasn't happened before.

Comment Re:the solution: (Score 0) 651

But in the mind of libertarian nutball Cody Wilson

Instead of calling people names, why don't you and yours simply campaign to abolish the Second Amendment altogether? If we read the First the same way we are told to read the Second, our freedom of speech too would be limited to "petitioning the government" — and only for "redress of grievances". Oh, and only after a "cool-down" period.

"Assault firearms" my foot — you can't even carry a freaking sword or brass-knuckles in many parts of the country nowadays. If only the British kept those blades away from Patrick Henry and his "nutball" cohorts!

Get it through your thick paranoid skulls... Regulation IS NOT CONFISCATION.

Comment Re:Does Swift work on older iOS versions? (Score 1) 316

can only deploy to ios7 or newer with swift

You're not dealing with the Android market which has a crap ton of people still clinging to Android 2.3 or earlier. New version adoption rate on IOS is the highest for any platform. And every phone that apple sells now runs on 7.0 or better.

Comment Re:Neither (Score 3, Insightful) 316

Adobe flex. Cross platform, works on everything.

Your choice then... to be good on the platforms you write for, or evenly craptastic for everyone. Cross platform equals lowest common denominator. If you want to put out apps that people will call good... do the extra mile and code for that platform.

Comment Re:If true thats great (Score 1) 191

Apple has no way of automatically installing music on your devices with your permission.

That is a 100% correct statement. If you haven't turned on automatically download music purchases (i.e. permission), nothing installed on anyone device.

Apparently there were a vocal group of folks having a hissy fit at suddenly finding a U2 album on their iPods after the last keynote.

Comment Re:Knee-jerk reaction (Score 1) 33

On the other hand I also wonder why in almost 40 years nobody has yet tried repeating the labeled-release experiment on Viking which tested positive per the pre-mission criteria for signs of life.

That's not exactly the way it turned out. The test got some major initial results when it was applied than nothing. The results from Viking fit the parameters of a very reactive and toxic surface, not for the presence of life, either archival or extent.

Comment Re:First 64bit (Score 1) 208

"Certainly that was true of the A7 SoC, the world's first 64-bit smartphone processor."

What's the point of a 64bit processor with 1 GB of RAM?

If nothing else, it lays the groundwork for future phones with more memory as well as ensuring that the I6 phones will be running the same OS as the iphone 7 and possibly 8.

Comment Re:What about the camera? (Score 2) 208

I'd never buy an iPhone, sorry, I don't like the idea of being locked into the Apple way... but I've seen little mention of how the camera compares to current flagship Android phones

I'll take the Apple way over the Malware Range that passes for an app ecosystem in Droid land. It's either that or apps that don't free memory when they're not working. At idle, my Samsung Galaxy is still using 75 percent of it's built in RAM. And that's AFTER running the garbage collection application.

Comment Re:Pseudoscience (Score 2) 770

If there is no way to set up a test to and verify the results it falls more into the field of pseudoscience rather than science. If there is a way to test and verify but the data to do so isn't provided then it is more likely that it falls into the category of scam rather than science. (e-cat anyone?)

Climate science is given as an example. I don't see any reason to why results based on a model can't be backed up by providing said model or even the source code for verification.

Peer review is an important part of the global scientific progress. "Piltdown Man" is an excellent example of the need for peer review, which keeps true psuedo science such as perpetual motion and quackery like so-called "Cold Fusion" at bay. I find it rather astonishing at s-called open source advocates who praise the peer review mechanism to spot out bad code yet downplay it's importance in any other field.

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