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  1. Re:Dare to Hope on Cable Lobbyist Tom Wheeler Confirmed As New FCC Chief · · Score: 2

    Are you being cynical about the miserably positive result of "no world war"?

    That's the spirit!

    I see lots of pleasant surprises in your future!

    May you be able to see the cynical twist in all of them.

  2. Re:Also, MetaMELT 0.3 on MELT, a GCC Compiler Plugin Framework, Reaches 1.0 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I believe that defmacro already covers that.

    Defmacro defines that, but, who defines defmacro?

    Or, as MetaMELT lead designer and "guru" said himself: "Quis definiet ipsos definieentis?"

  3. Re:Movie plot on Hackers Break Currency Validator To Pass Any Paper As Valid Euro · · Score: 1

    I thought they had passed the twenties by now. You know, like "Ocean's horde.", "Ocean King", "The savage sword of Ocean"...

  4. Re:Dare to Hope on Cable Lobbyist Tom Wheeler Confirmed As New FCC Chief · · Score: 4, Funny

    No third world war.

    I think your problem is that you didn't dare to be cynical enough.

  5. Also, MetaMELT 0.3 on MELT, a GCC Compiler Plugin Framework, Reaches 1.0 · · Score: 4, Funny

    In other News, MetaMELT's v0.3 was released this last weekend.

    "MetaMELT a meta-level tool for the customization of MELT's dynamic pattern matching paradigm, allowing the refinement of the GCC's internal data management during the pre-hooking phase."

  6. Re:Dare to Hope on Cable Lobbyist Tom Wheeler Confirmed As New FCC Chief · · Score: 2

    Dare to be cynical; prepare for pleasant surprises.

  7. Re:First Step = ID the smarter people on Root of Maths Genius Sought · · Score: 2

    As long as we keep caring about the opinion of the fish who can't climb trees, we'll never find the best tree climber fish.

  8. Re:First Step = ID the smarter people on Root of Maths Genius Sought · · Score: 4, Insightful

    1 - Define "smarter".
    2 - ID the smarter people.
    3 - Treat them differently.

    I think currently the main point of failure is at the first step.

    For some reason, most people are afraid of any definition of "smarter" that also defines lots of children as "less smart". As long as we're not honest with ourselves, we'll never reach the second step properly.

    I think they actually used "Math genius" to avoid the useless debate of "My kid isn't less smart. He's a different kind of smart".

  9. Smarter babies or better AIs on Root of Maths Genius Sought · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You've got two human worlds:

    On one they learn how to genetically select smarter babies and when those babies they improve the technique, and so on.

    On the other world, they invent an AI that's able to build AIs better than itself, and it does so over and over.

    Speculative question 1: Which of those worlds reach the singularity first.
    Speculative question 2: Which of those worlds get to a point where the only way to keep advancing is to switch to the other world's path (i.e.: Will genetically engineered smarter humans reach the singularity by building better AIs or Will exponentially smarter AIs reach the singularity by finding a way to improve humans so they can solve a problem that the AI can't bypass.)

  10. Serious consequences on Taiwan Protests Apple Maps That Show Island As Province of China · · Score: 5, Funny

    The mistake is more important than one may think at first, because Taiwan is one of the places the navigator will take you through in the path from your home to the local grocery store.

  11. Re:Deflection on UN Mounts Asteroid Defense Plan Following Chelyabinsk Meteor · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It doesn't work. I know because I tried that in Kerbal.

  12. Re:Priorities? on UN Mounts Asteroid Defense Plan Following Chelyabinsk Meteor · · Score: 3, Informative

    UN should focus on basic / REAL people problems, not playing star wars.

    1 - Being well fed doesn't stop meteorites.

    2 - The UN's objective is to defend against basic/REAL threats against humanity (which essentially boils down to assuring world peace to avoid a third world war). Millions of people dying of hunger, sad as it may be, doesn't threaten the humanity unless those people also have an army with nuclear power.

    3 - (the most important one) The UN is perfectly capable of doing several things at the same time.

  13. Re:Put your hats on people on UN Mounts Asteroid Defense Plan Following Chelyabinsk Meteor · · Score: 1

    ... Because...the UN has it's HQ in NY?

    I don't see the link here. The tinfoil must be weak in me.

  14. Fool me on UN Mounts Asteroid Defense Plan Following Chelyabinsk Meteor · · Score: 1

    Hit Earth with a massive asteroid once; shame on me.

    Hit Earth with a massive asteroid twice; shame on the few surviving cockroaches.

  15. Deflection on UN Mounts Asteroid Defense Plan Following Chelyabinsk Meteor · · Score: 5, Funny

    Because nothing is as effective at deflecting tons of rock coming towards Earth at extremely high speeds as... a committee.

  16. An opportunity! on RIAA Targets 21 Sites For Shutdown · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is good news. The torrent server panorama was getting stale and complacent.

    Cheers to the new players! Live short and bright lives!

  17. Re:I am one affected on Battlefield 4 DRM Locking Out Part of North America Until EU Release · · Score: 2

    You paid money to EA. That invalidates you from pretty much any reasonable conversation about the videogame industry.

    Well, maybe as a case study.

    But the truth is that you've clearly proven that you either "Aren't interested in the fundamental debate about videogame industry." or "Don't give a shit about what others tell you and just keep acting the same way".

    Any of those make it quite futile to keep trying to explain.

  18. Re:Linked article says exact opposite on Chrome Will End XP Support in 2015; Firefox Has No Plans To Stop · · Score: 5, Funny

    The funniest thing is that, because of the headline being in the address, you can put your mouse over
    "Firefox plans to end support for XP"
    and read
    "mozilla-to-support-firefox-on-windows-xp-after-microsoft-ends-support-for-the-os".

    We should have that feature on presidential speeches!

  19. Re:Fantastic for corporate users on Motorola's "Project Ara" Will Allow Users To Customize Their Smartphones · · Score: 1

    So all you need to do to remove an obstacle on your route to the top is to drop some $9 spy cameras on the obstacle's pocket.

    It's quite cheaper than the classic "drop some coke on his pocket and on his drug test day coffee".

  20. Re:Fantastic for corporate users on Motorola's "Project Ara" Will Allow Users To Customize Their Smartphones · · Score: 1

    This is excellent. At my company we are not allowed to have phones with cameras

    Are you allowed to have any other kind of camera?

    How do they stop people from carrying one of those cameras that look like a car key, an usb key, a pen, or any other tiny item?

    Or is it just a security circus to tell the clients "We are ultra secure!".

  21. Re:Wellcome to corporate captialism on Anti-Poaching Lawsuit Against Apple, Google and Others Given the Green Light · · Score: 1

    Judging by the color and smell, I don't think that's an iceberg.

    (Unless all pictures of icebergs I've ever seen are "embellished", in which case I pity the survivors from the Titanic).

  22. iPEAR on Book Review: The App Generation · · Score: 1

    I stopped reading at iPEAR.

  23. Re:over-reaction? on UK Police Seize 3D-Printed 'Gun Parts,' Which Are Actually Spare Printer Parts · · Score: 2

    And, as they 'significantly' discovered later, the man wasn't actually a man.

  24. Re:Its only a sensible precaution on 87-Year-Old World War II Veteran Takes On the TSA · · Score: 3, Funny

    Muzzie heaven, were all the terrorists are disappointed and all the virgins are male.

  25. Re:Aaaah TSA on 87-Year-Old World War II Veteran Takes On the TSA · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's unfair and unconstitutional.

    I shouldn't have to lose my right to be seen naked just to get the groping.

    Both the groping and the nude pictures are paid by my taxes! If I want them both I should get both!