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  1. Re:Wave equation? on If We Have Free Will, Then So Do Electrons · · Score: 1

    Or if the universe is finite, but there are ways particles can be non-interacting, it also may not be exactly deterministic. One example might be a universe consisting of two neutrons extremely far apart and at rest with respect to each other, and of course a whole lot of space/time. Let's consider only gravity to keep the thought experiment easy. If the two neutrons are so far apart that the acceleration due to gravity is so small that within the smallest quantum time unit, it is insufficient to move them the smallest quantum distance unit, are they in contact at all? Do they affect each other at all (and as such, are interacting)?

  2. Re:Can we drop the trend-speak here on The Realities of Selling Independently Developed PC Games · · Score: 1

    Both bullshytt, fraas!

  3. Re:poor latin on Dell's Adamo Goes After MacBook Air · · Score: 1

    Drat, you beat me to it. Though my Latin's so rusty I would have embarrassed myself by spelling it adamere. Though I might have had fun with it and gone total Latin geek and typed ADAMERE. Nah, probably not, there's no Vs in it.

  4. Re:Not Illegal. In fact business as usual on Office Depot Employee — "We Changed Prices Too" · · Score: 3, Informative

    Hmmm. Thanks to reading TFA, I can quote you someone whose opinion on the matter seems far more credible than yours. You might want to rethink when faced with the actual law and not your "way to look at it".

    "When you're selling a product, it's illegal to lie," said Lois C. Greisman, associate director of the FTC's Division of Marketing Practices. "It's illegal to make false claims about a product, such as "It's out of stock' when it's not or that a clearance product has a certain markup. You can't lie when you're selling a product." Greisman pointed us to section 2A on this page from the FTC's Office of the General Counsel that outlines the FTC's authority, under the FTC Act, to protect consumers from deceptive practices. "The federal law says you cannot make deceptive statements," Greisman said. "If somebody says a product is out of stock when it's in stock, and they lied because they want to induce you to purchase a bunch of add-ons that you don't want, there may be cause of action under federal law." Greisman pointed us to section 2A on this page from the FTC's Office of the General Counsel that outlines the FTC's authority, under the FTC Act, to protect consumers from deceptive practices. "The federal law says you cannot make deceptive statements," Greisman said. "If somebody says a product is out of stock when it's in stock, and they lied because they want to induce you to purchase a bunch of add-ons that you don't want, there may be cause of action under federal law."

  5. Re:No chemicals? on Powering Restaurants WIth Deep Fried Fuel · · Score: 1

    It's a little known fact that used cooking oil is so evil that it dissolves all molecular bonds, leaving only individual atoms. That's why fast food is so bad for your heart.

  6. Re:Failed Prosecution? on A Short Summary Following the Pirate Bay Trial · · Score: 1

    You are woefully mistaken. Like a hyperlink, a torrent file is only a digital address card.

    There are no algorithms in it whatsoever for combining into audio or any other kind of data, no more than you can process the 24 alphanumeric characters

    http://fake.er/outer.mp3

    and get anything. The copyrighted information is not in the torrent file in any of the same sense that it is within an MP3.

    It is no different in essence than if people put music on their answering machines and then went to a cork bulletin board and pinned up their phone numbers. Pinning a phone number on a corkboard is not copyright violation, and to be illegal, there has to be law that prohibits pinning up phone numbers. The same is true of torrent files.

    Lastly, remember to be sure to make a distinction between a torrent file, which contains instructions on how to communicate with other computers, and what you might call the torrented file, which can be anything at all.

  7. Re:My heart leaped on Judge Orders Record Company Execs To Duluth · · Score: 1

    The topic of discussion is Hell, not Duluth.

  8. Re:When are slash readers going to own up to pirac on Wife of Harried Pirate Bay Witness Gets Buried in Internet Love · · Score: 1

    Um, dude, Americans stopped doing Karaoke a long time ago. Now they just do "karoke". *rim shot*

  9. Re:Of course not! on Without Jobs, Will Open Source Suffer? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In the United States, unemployment is mandatory insurance, not welfare. Premiums are paid by workers and taken out of their paychecks. When they later become unemployed, they are certainly entitled to the benefit they were paying premiums for.

  10. Re:Cats ? on How To Keep Rats From Eating My Cables? · · Score: 1

    The hunting instincts in cats are dissociated with eating. There is a short developmental window in cats when they learn what is food and what is not... it can be extremely difficult to introduce new foods to a grown cat. Your cats are basically following their urges to hunt, but then not knowing that the prey is also food.

  11. Re:The opposite of what the EULA was invented for. on Will the FTC Target EULAs Next? · · Score: 1

    Joystiq is not saying that EULAs are or will become consumer protection. Rather, that the act of regulating them will be consumer protection.

  12. Re:there are two enemies of science and progress on Lie Detector Company Threatens Critical Scientists With Suit · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not so absolute, unfortunately. In the United States and (most of) Canada, you're covered. Plenty of other countries, it's not.

  13. Re:Wrong bulbs on LED Lighting As Cheap As CFLs Invented · · Score: 1

    Method I can't give ya, but anecdote sure. I have crappy globe shaped ones in my bathroom that start out, how shall I say... dungeoneque, and take a couple minutes before you'd say the room is lit.

    In the rest of my house where the bulbs aren't directly visible, I have very excellent bulbs that behave just like incandescents. It may not be true that they are instantly at their maximum brightness, but they are instantly on at very close to it, incandescent levels. I happened to save one package labeling of each size I bought, they are GE Energy Smart general purpose bulbs, model numbers 16460 (60 watt (13 actual), 825 lumens) and 15517 (100 watt (26 actual), 1750 lumens).

  14. Re:"Good" Music is subjective on Bill Gates' Plan To Destroy Music, Note By Note · · Score: 1

    Goodness of music is a subjective issue.

    Apparently, so is grammar.

  15. If You Can Reflash It, It's Not Bricked on Seagate Firmware Update Bricks 500GB Barracudas · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Ay Caramba already.

  16. Re:I enjoy at least 1 Belkin product on Belkin's President Apologizes For Faked Reviews · · Score: 2, Informative

    You know, if like me you'd got the original G15 and not the updated/downgraded one, you'd have both the huge number of keys and the LCD. When I got mine, I thought the LCD would be useless, but it turns out to be the best part in practice.

  17. Re:Click "Text-only version" on Scientists Solve Century-Old Optics Mystery · · Score: 1

    You know, that sounds about right... the more a material "drags" light to a lower speed, the more momentum the light imparts to the material. Can anyone comment if that is a fair nontechnical summation of the phenomenon?

  18. Implications? on Milky Way Heavier Than Thought, and Spinning Faster · · Score: 0

    Does this mean we should also re-evaluate the Snickers galaxy? And will there be a price increase, or just a "Now With 50% More!" sticker?

  19. Re: Long Live Animations! on The Secret Origins of Microsoft Office's Clippy · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that would be so awesome if I could hear him say "It looks like you're trying to attach two pieces of paper together. Maybe I can help?".

  20. Re:Well duh! on Followup To "When Teachers Are Obstacles To Linux" · · Score: 1

    You were one of the only ones that read the original story and thought.

  21. Re:C&C FTW! on Examining the Beginnings of the RTS Genre · · Score: 1

    Dune was an awesome adventure/strategy game. Combat was strategic rather than tactical however, and turn based. It also had the best MIDI game music ever produced... sounding by far the best on a Soundblaster.

  22. Re:Papers, please. on Indiana Bans Driver's License Smiles, For Security · · Score: 1

    No it's not. The Montana legislature changed the law after a speeding conviction was reversed by the Montana Supreme Court. The Court decided that the law violated the state Constitution's Due Process clause due to being too vague.

  23. Re:what about us loosers? on 'Greasemonkey' Malware Targets Firefox · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ahem, I do indubitably believe that in that case it is referred to as the "more loose" in point of fact, quite, yes, what what.

  24. Re:So... on Battlestar Galactica Gets Spinoff Prequel Series · · Score: 1

    Backward notion there. Star Wars (1977) predates Battlestar Galactica (1978). Kindly surrender your geek card.

  25. Re:Tax Dollars on FCC Considering Free Internet For USA · · Score: 1

    You're not, at least not through Social Security. Social Security is insurance, and you've received the product you paid for... which is insurance coverage.