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  1. What stops cheating by officials on Casting Doubt On the Hawkeye Ball-Calling System · · Score: 0

    Who verifies that the replay by Hawkeye is really the shot just played. What's to stop the hawkeye operator just selecting the secret "give me the most similar replay(to the actual replay) that was out". Or in depending on which player is your paying customer. With the amount of computing power they have got, that would be easy. A whole match can turn on a couple of points. 5 all in the 5th set tie breaker. Wrong call(ie don't actually show what happened). All over

  2. When is hardware going to be used to bypass DRM? on AMD's New DRM · · Score: 0

    Surely someone knows how to create hardware copies of video cards (plus the hooks to capture the content),sound cards.

    Wouldn't this be unstoppable??

    What am I missing?

  3. God maybe(but probably not), heaven, what a joke! on Humans Hardwired to Believe in Supernatural Deity? · · Score: 0

    Heaven is such a ridiculously flawed concept.

    It is the great incentive to believe in God. If you can disprove heaven, you can disprove God.

    Heaven actually creates a paradox for God.

    1. It must be fair to get into heaven ie everyone should get the same opportunity.
    2. God can't be interventionist (this is related to fairness) If God intervenes and reveals himself to an individual, that is inherently unfair that someone has been given first-hand proof. Also, people born into inherently evil situations devoid of morality would surely have the odds stacked against them.
    3. God Shouldn't be able to lie to you. ie he can't put a fake being in heaven and say it is one of your loved ones just to make you happy.
    4. God can't be irrational. God ca't make a circle square and you can't in heaven and not in heaven at the same time.
    5. You should be happy in heaven. But what happens if one of your nearest and dearest is not eligible and you get to live out eternity without the one you love the most.

    And in heaven,
    What form do you take? (are you just an aura or do you have physical presence)
    Do you have memory of your life on earth? (surely you must or that is the same as death anyway and there is no incentive anyway).
    Do you have free will in heaven? (and therefore be able to sin and what happens to you if you sin in heaven?)
    If you have no free will, what is the point?

  4. My Choices on Usability in the Movies -- Top 10 Bloopers · · Score: 1

    Swordfish (yeah, cracking is that easy while getting a blowjob) Sneekers (break any encryption and have any UI, to me this seemed the most implausible)