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Comment Re:Cancer anyone? (Score 1) 118

And the way you know that the only mechanisms for cancer are ionizing radiation and heating is... what exactly?

Fail.

Cancer requires DNA damage. There's lots of ways to damage DNA but device only has (low power) heating and non-ionizing radiation.

(...also cellphones, routers, etc. None of those devices are injecting you with chemicals or producing particulate radiation!)

Comment Re: what don't we know? (Score 4, Insightful) 104

Plead guilty to destroying evidence and convicted of manslaughter ... and no one will go to jail.

Yep.

If the order was given to destroy data then there HAS to be a person who gave that order. It's time they were hunted down.

Presumably it's the same person who's now telling them to plead guilty (and save his ass from further investigation).

Comment Re:So... how do they call each other? (Score 3, Insightful) 96

Because imitating each others' howls would sound like a very confusing thing to do.

Um, they don't call each other, they just listen to know who else is in the area.

PS: This is a junk article that's just tagging along on the dolphin story (which is interesting/new). Pretty much all group animals can recognize others by sound (parents/babies need to find each other in crowds).

Comment Re:Down the line... (Score 1) 248

Back when I got cable I was upset because I couldn't a-la-carte the channels I really wanted so I was stuck paying for a bunch of shit I had no interest in watching.

That's the real problem with cable - 200 channels but only about one channel's worth of programs that are worth watching.

PPV might work but they normally want to charge you for the 200 channels then pay extra for the good stuff. This business model isn't going to change so long as there's enough stupid people out there.

Comment Re:If you can't trust the authenticity of the sign (Score 1) 218

If you're watching from the air you could just paint white lines one the road which are ten seconds apart at whatever the speed limit is. Take less than 10 seconds between them, you're speeding and they have it on video.

Before the slashdot pedants chime in: No, you wouldn't pull somebody over for 9.9 seconds. You'd only pull people over if they were clearly less than 10 seconds or braked sharply after crossing the first line. The first case for speeding, the second for driving without due care and attention (or whatever they call it over there).

Comment Re:No more SW Patents, but FW Patents.. yes (Score 1) 147

Even LZW compression is fairly obvious to a skilled programmer. I remember there were several similar compression algorithms around at the time it was patented. It's not an especially good algorithm, it's just more famous (mostly thanks to the patent wars that surrounded it).

If you want "non-obvious" you need to go to something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrows%E2%80%93Wheeler_transform

Radical thinking like that is worthy of a patent IMHO (although that algorithm wasn't patented...go figure)

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