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  1. Re:OK, 35 years, then... on MIT Warned of a JSTOR Death Sentence Due To Swartz · · Score: 1

    The reason the prosecutor can make those charges is because that's the law. I agree that the law is too strict, but you can't blame the prosecutor for that.

    Oh yes, you can, as was established in the Nuremberg trials after World War 2:

    Following orders, such as the law, even when threatened with death for disobedience, is not an excuse.

    So the prosecutor is guilty in the same way that many german soldiers were.

    Or in other words: Damned if you do, damned if you do not.

  2. Not smart on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Explain To a Coworker That He Writes Bad Code? · · Score: 1

    The coworker is NOT smart.
    Only smart programmers can write simple code.

    Kim0+

  3. Re:Only 8%? on Strong Climate Change Opinions Are Self-Reinforcing · · Score: 1

    Fortunately the validity of the scientific theory of Global Climate Change doesn't rest on whether, or not, Black Parrot provides a citation for every comment he/she makes on Slashdot.

    Actually, it does.
    This absence of evidence is evidence of absence of validity.
    And your answer is evidence of your incompetence.

    But why stop at evidence? I can prove that I am right:
    http://kim.oyhus.no/AbsenceOfEvidence.html

  4. Re:Only 8%? on Strong Climate Change Opinions Are Self-Reinforcing · · Score: 0

    That was a lot of empty claims about evidence.
    This absence of evidence is evidence of absence.

  5. Re:Whose Data Is It? on One Musician's Demand From Pandora: Mandatory Analytics · · Score: 1

    Data is not owned.
    Data is known.

    In practice, but not in legal theory.

  6. Error correction on Increasing Wireless Network Speed By 1000% By Replacing Packets With Algebra · · Score: 1

    But this sounds precisely like standard error correction.
    Since turbo codes were discovered in the 90ies, transmissions can now be sent at near their theoretical maximal speed.
    So, what is different here? Some kind of RAID5 similar scheme? A data fountain? All well known not new technology.

  7. Re:Wrong idea. on How Do You Spot a Genius? · · Score: 1

    Work harder, not smarter!

    This is the real message I got from employment.

  8. Re:Exactly what I was going to say on How Do You Spot a Genius? · · Score: 1

    Magnets are not minds.

  9. Bright ovens on Light Bulb Ban Produces Hoarding In EU, FUD In U.S. · · Score: 1

    I use light bulbs in the winter, because winter is dark, which summer is not.
    I also use electric ovens in the winter, because winter is cold, and electric heating is the only allowed in my apartment.
    So: I only use light bulbs when I also need electric heat, which the light bulbs also make.
    The result: I only need one oven, because I can heat the other rooms with light bulbs, and get a lot of nice light in the process.
    In other words: Light bulbs are ovens that I must use, but which give off nice light as a byproduct.

    And light bulbs have a nice reddish spectrum, which do not mess up peoples sleep cycle so much.

  10. Re:'Fair Use' is not sufficiently well defined on The Algorithmic Copyright Cops: Streaming Video's Robotic Overlords · · Score: 2

    Lawyers and lawmakers earn more on unspecific, complicated or vague rules.

  11. Practice will help on Ask Slashdot: Resources For Identifying Telecom Right-of-Way Locations? · · Score: 1

    When you have succeeded in finding a few used public lands, you will become better at guessing where others might be.

  12. Re:The fundamental idea on Move Over, Quantum Cryptography: Classical Physics Can Be Unbreakable Too · · Score: 1

    You seem to understand it.
    A defect of this method is electromagnetic radiation, which means that undetectable eavesdropping can be done, and the speed of light and relativity, which means there is no simultaneity of changing of resistors.
    In other words, Eve can eavesdrop by passively listen at two different locations on the wire, thus seeing differences in Alice and Bobs signaling.

  13. Offsite backup on Employees Admit They'd Walk Out With Stolen Data If Fired · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Stealing data" is another way of saying "offsite backup".

  14. Even better on Can Machine Learning Replace Focus Groups? · · Score: 1

    I do it even better with my Accelerated Market Research, which is based on Bayesian reasoning.

    http://oyhus.no/AcceleratedMarketResearch.html

  15. Sundiver on LED's Efficiency Exceeds 100% · · Score: 2

    In the book Sundiver by Robert L. Forward, a research ship traveling inside the Sun gets its drive sabotaged, and they escape by using the cooling laser as a drive, freezing everyone aboard.

    Lasers are today used to cool to a few milli Kelvins, and below, very close to absolute zero temperature. The reflected colour of the laser is a little bit less pure, as the thermal vibrations are removed by increasing the entropy of the laser light.

    The same principle is going on in this light diode.

  16. Re:Do a test to find the psychopaths/sociopaths... on Evaluating the 'Doofus Factor' In Corporate Governance · · Score: 1

    So, you claim he probably is guilty of being guilty of being guilty of being of being guilty of .... etc.

  17. Re:AGW on Michael Mann Vindicated (Again) Over Climategate · · Score: 1

    I got cooling with CO2 when I did a better experiment.
    Using the Sun instead of lamps is more realistic.

    http://kim.oyhus.no/CO2.html

  18. Re:Propaganda Bullshit Disinfo on Pakistan Lets China View US Stealth Technology · · Score: 1

    There is nothing here but lies. The only thing you can KNOW FOR SURE is that NONE of this is true.

    Plenty of absence of evidence in that story, which is evidence of absence of truth, as proved here:
    http://kim.oyhus.no/AbsenceOfEvidence.html

  19. Re:Only a moron on IBM Plays SimCity With Portland, Oregon · · Score: 1

    Only a moron believes human behavior can be modeled with 3,000 equations. Or 30,000 equations. Or 300,000 equations. Or, well, you get the picture.

    Yes. 30 equations would be better, due to Ockhams razor.

  20. Absence of Ockhams razor is insanity on IBM Plays SimCity With Portland, Oregon · · Score: 1

    3000 equations is a LOT, so this is surely unnecessarily complicated, and thus very unlikely to work.
    If just one expert gives a wrong part, then the whole model can become faulty.
    And there appear to be no testing of this model.

    This is surely going to give even more wrong results than the climate models and nutrition models.

  21. Re:Errm... what? on What Do I Do About My Ex-Employer Stealing My Free Code? · · Score: 1

    Evil is good because of some random rule?
    Just because something is a right does not mean that it is the right thing to do.
    The more rights, rules, and law there are, the more resources are wasted, especially on lawyers.

    The slashdotters adamantly stating that something is right because of rules,
    probably have Aspergers syndrome. They do not analyze consequences.

  22. Big and expensive on New Scottish Wave Energy Generator Unveiled · · Score: 1

    The pictures show a big expensive jointed float.
    Wind turbines are also big and expensive stiff machines.
    When I as a physicist and engineer ponder on this, I get cheap light efficient constructions of film, like paragliders and balloons.
    Why is this so?
    Perhaps generators are expensive to subsidize industry.
    Perhaps I am a genius.
    Which is more likely?

  23. Cheap spies on Calling BS On Unpaid Internships · · Score: 1

    Sounds like interns are perfect for spying on companies.
    Just pay them something. How can they refuse when they are so poor and desperate?

  24. Cheap spy on Evolution Machine Accelerates Genetic Engineering · · Score: 0

    Sounds like interns are perfect material for spying on companies.
    Just pay them something. How can they refuse when they are so poor and desperate?

  25. Again on Sound-Based System Promises Chipless Phone Payment · · Score: 1

    There have been myriads of systems like this.
    I was contacted by a french company doing the same, with their own sound encoding system,
    which was quite similar to DTFM of the keys on old keypad tones.
    Then there were a similar system made by an european crypto-key calculator producer,
    which actually used DTFM.

    The principle is so simple that any good crypto programmer could have made it with an
    ordinary modem. I take this as a strong sign that this kind of technology, including
    near field communications, are hindered by some other factor, such as disinterest from banks.