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Comment Measurements & Modeling (Score 1, Interesting) 264

But then Correlation vs Causation doesn't often exist. Since mankind was not causing mega-droughts in the 1100-1300 era, what leads us to think it is now carbon emissions causing droughts? Could it be other long term Solar variation & then seawater circulation issues that reappear regularly on long cycles.

Then when data appears to be tweaked in some field measurements or too sparse, it seems that unjustified claims are being made that can't be backed by solid science.

Comment If you are competent in drug development ... (Score 3, Interesting) 80

Do you work for the FDA for a government civil servant wage reviewing other company's work or do you go to work for industry and earn the wage you trained for?

Same thing at the US Patent & Trademark office. Patent examiners come in, learn the ropes and go out to become patent attorneys in the private sector.

Same thing happens at the IRS.

Government doesn't keep the brightest bulbs because of pay and bureaucracy.

Comment Stupid: Planning beats 'Drone Free' (Score 1) 168

Put a drone at 300 feet up or more and first of all, you won't likely see it and second it will be able to be over the neighboring property and still "surveil" you place even though it is not within the 'geo-fence.'

What is worse, a PI with a remote blimp and good cameras could do it for a long time at 500-1000 feet and you wouldn't have a clue if he was right over your house.

Comment Biometrics Looking Better (Score 1) 271

Both the software and hardware available for small devices from phones to access panels to laptops now allow east use of biometrics.

I predict banks and other online merchants will quickly move to biometrics, or face financial ruin. Biometrics can now be based on not just a single factor because we have video. Thus a video of a person who moves closer to his camera can identify first the facial features, then voice & ultimately iris, so you can't fake a person with a simple high res. photo.

Fingerprint readers have been criticized as being able to be circumvented, but they will likely soon have temperature/electrical signal sensing to detect a live finger. We're ramping up sensing.

Between eyes, voice, nose, ears, face and fingerprints, we can identify people 100%. Even if we only get to 99.9% identification we can likely destroy the viability of hacking for account access.

Comment Times Change (Score 0) 331

Can't keep people if there is not enough work for them to do. My experience tells me that when people have time to doodle and hang out in large numbers it is time to refresh the resume and start calling friends in high places.

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