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  1. Re:Exhaustive search... on Goldbach Conjecture: Closer To Solved? · · Score: 1

    Sounds like it might be the perfect thing for quantum computers to handle.

  2. Re:Should be every even integer on Goldbach Conjecture: Closer To Solved? · · Score: 1

    All primes except 2 are odd.

    Otherwise 2 itself would be a factor which would make it not so prime anymore.

  3. Re:Good on Facebook Is Killing Text Messaging · · Score: 1

    You miss the point that the proximate cause of killing is a desire to slay, not merely the availability of the tool to do so.

  4. Re:Good on Facebook Is Killing Text Messaging · · Score: 1

    Quite right.

    Facebook isn't killing text messaging, it's just giving carriers an excuse to.

    See also who kills people, guns or other people.

    Answer: people, the gun is just something they use to shoot with and without a gun they'd just use a knife instead.

  5. security on Bitcoinica Breach Nets Hackers $87,000 In Bitcoins · · Score: 1

    All I hear about in the news these days is about how bitcoins are stolen.

  6. Re:Good for him on Facebook Co-Founder Saverin Gives Up U.S. Citizenship Before IPO · · Score: 1

    The agreement is implied when you order off a menu that has prices listed.

  7. Re:Unfair taxes ! on Facebook Co-Founder Saverin Gives Up U.S. Citizenship Before IPO · · Score: 1

    I'd leave if I could do so without being raped by the TSA on the way out.

  8. Re:Sorry, but no on DVDs, Blu-Rays To Show 20-Second Unskippable Govt. Warnings · · Score: 1

    Legally you'd probably be in the clear too.

    Nintendo v. Galoob established the right to make private derived works.

  9. Re:Consider this... on DVDs, Blu-Rays To Show 20-Second Unskippable Govt. Warnings · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Nobody, because the DVD and Blu-ray panels would sue the vendors into oblivion for patent infringement.

    That is how the DRM is enforced at a legal level. Patent the algorithm and require you to implement DRM to get a license. No DRM, no patent license.

  10. Re:Technically already a felony? on Password Protection Act: Bans Bosses Asking For Facebook Passwords · · Score: 1

    It's only illegal if you do it, but not if big business or the government does it.

  11. Re:Doesn't matter. on Password Protection Act: Bans Bosses Asking For Facebook Passwords · · Score: 1

    Actually they are NOT required to be consistent at all.

    As long as they're not violating civil rights of a protected class, they can hire AND fire whoever they damn please.

  12. Re:One More Thing: on Overheated Voting Machine Cast Its Own Votes · · Score: 1

    Make it voting week so that everyone has a chance to get through.

    No stupid "poor districts get a few crappy machines but the rich folks get shiny piles of them" problems, or people not having a chance to vote, and so on.

    Also, absentee ballots.

  13. Re: on Overheated Voting Machine Cast Its Own Votes · · Score: 1

    Which is why the machines should be randomly audited on a steady but irregular basis.

  14. Re:Scrap them all on Overheated Voting Machine Cast Its Own Votes · · Score: 1

    Which is often why we have impeachment and/or recall.

  15. Re:If corporations are people on Password Protection Act: Bans Bosses Asking For Facebook Passwords · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And then someone rats them out and they get fired for lying about it.

    Expecting employees to lie is not a viable workaround, and neither is any other ethically questionable action.

  16. Re:Murder in the interest of public safety... on TSA's mm-Wave Body Scanner Breaks Diabetic Teen's $10K Insulin Pump · · Score: 1

    That's because negligence is usually a CIVIL matter.

  17. Re:Here's another proposal: on W3C Member Proposes "Fix" For CSS Prefix Problem · · Score: 1

    Maybe companies should stop touting proprietary features in an attempt to infect the market and strong-arm the standards committees.

  18. Re:Murder in the interest of public safety... on TSA's mm-Wave Body Scanner Breaks Diabetic Teen's $10K Insulin Pump · · Score: 2

    Federal Tort Claims act allows lawsuits for tortious actions of federal employees.

  19. Re:Oh, America on TSA's mm-Wave Body Scanner Breaks Diabetic Teen's $10K Insulin Pump · · Score: 1

    If I could cast negative votes, I would have.

    How the fuck are you SUPPOSED to vote when the only people running are Kodos and Kang?

  20. Re:Is it possible to just leave? on TSA's mm-Wave Body Scanner Breaks Diabetic Teen's $10K Insulin Pump · · Score: 1

    Leave, not get on your flight, and *forfeit your non refundable fare*

  21. Re:They didn't force her. on TSA's mm-Wave Body Scanner Breaks Diabetic Teen's $10K Insulin Pump · · Score: 1

    Even if they didn't use force she still didn't comply of her own free will.

    Considering that refusing to be searched implies forfeiting her non refundable plane fare, I'd call it duress.

  22. Re:selective quoting is fun on TSA's mm-Wave Body Scanner Breaks Diabetic Teen's $10K Insulin Pump · · Score: 1

    If refusing to be groped or searched means you aren't allowed to board the plane, you are not complying of your own free will. You are being placed under duress by having your non refundable plane fare held hostage.

  23. Re:forced? on TSA's mm-Wave Body Scanner Breaks Diabetic Teen's $10K Insulin Pump · · Score: 1

    I'd prefer "deceived"

    They pretty much told her that paper she had from the doctor was written by a moron.

  24. Re:Murder in the interest of public safety... on TSA's mm-Wave Body Scanner Breaks Diabetic Teen's $10K Insulin Pump · · Score: 5, Insightful

    She should sue the fuck out of them for starters.

    Passing her machine through the scanner EVEN AFTER a doctor's note said otherwise is grossly negligent or reckless or worse.

  25. Re:Time for the Judges ruling? on Jury Rules Google Violated Java Copyright, Google Moves For Mistrial · · Score: 1

    Google has NEVER invaded my privacy, except by accident.

    They make their privacy policies crystal clear and make it very easy to opt out.

    Facebook on the other hand has tricked people into giving them their personal information, and then sneaking opt-out-now-or-forever-hold-your-peace clauses into their terms and making everything shared by default.

    And not to mention refusing to delete data on request. I cancelled my face book and they're still whoring my data out.