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  1. Re:Isn't the current mouse protection rule ... on Lawsuit Claims Buck Rogers Is In the Public Domain · · Score: 2

    It has been says in Dastar Corp. v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp that you cannot use trademark to restrict the usage of the public domain. Of course this won't prevent "clever" people to try to game the system by using trademark and creating lawsuit (like for Zorro, Tarzan, etc.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....

  2. Re:Typical electric car consumes 35 kWh per 100km on Elon Musk Predicts 1,000km EV Range In Two Years, Autonomous Cars In Three · · Score: 1

    So I'm must be an alien, yesterday I drove more than 130km in a BMW i3 with a remaining autonomy of at least 30km and all this with a 22kWh battery.

  3. Re: The world needs the U.S. more... on France Tells Google To Remove "Right To Be Forgotten" Search Results Worldwide · · Score: 1

    I think that you should learn a little bit about the foreign policy of your country. Try to do business with a country under US embargo, the US will go after you wherever you are (and will try to deny you to trade with US dollar, even if you have no ties to the USA). In my country, I have to sign a fucking paper stating that I'm not a US citizen to open a bank account because your country tries to enforce its laws all over the world. Your country is the only one in the world who tries to tax its citizen wherever they are, disregarding the local tax system, and I'm not talking about any subject related to IP as the number of example will just skyrocket (Megaupload for instance) Seeing a US citizen complaining that another country is trying to enforce its laws all over the world is just a sick joke. That's how you behave every single day!

  4. Re:And all they wanted was a faster horse on F-35 Might Be Outperformed By Fourth-Generation Fighters · · Score: 1

    And what do you think AWACS are used for? You only need one radar to see the targets and pass the information to all the airplanes. And it doesn't have to be a stealth aircraft.

  5. Re:Still in sad condition on Colosseum Lift That Carried Wild Animals Into Arena Rebuilt · · Score: 1

    No they do real corrida in their. Just check the program and the next one in Arles is the 18th of July and they are going to kill 7 bulls.

  6. Re:Still in sad condition on Colosseum Lift That Carried Wild Animals Into Arena Rebuilt · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And if you want to move to France, you still get roman arena (quite well preserved) in use and where animal still get killed: * Arles Amphitheatre (built 10 year after Collessum) where Bullfight still take place http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A... * Arena of Nîmes (90-120AD), also used for bullfight http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...

  7. Re:Simplistic on Future of Employment: How Susceptible Are Jobs To Computerization? · · Score: 1

    Yes most aircraft crashes involve pilot error (around 67%), however this number doesn't represent how many crashes were prevented because there was a human in the cockpit. Given the number of incident reported, I think that with our current level of technology it would be much worse. But as you said, one day fully automated flight will be safer than letting a human in command.

  8. Re:Achieving immortalty may be the death of us. on Scientists Reverse Aging In Human Cell Lines · · Score: 2

    This in no way immortality. Does it save you from dying of accident? Cure cancer? etc. However this kind of research may help you to live a better life at the old age, stay active and enjoy life.

  9. Re:It was an app on a WORK-Issued Phone! on Worker Fired For Disabling GPS App That Tracked Her 24 Hours a Day · · Score: 1

    There is a very easy way to avoid the tracking. Leave the phone at work (of course plugged) and set a call forward to your private phone number.

  10. Re:Carbon emissions? on California Looks To the Sea For a Drink of Water · · Score: 1

    Natural Gas can be clean, if the gas was made from renewable resource (like your kitchen waste, or cow poop) it doesn't generate any CO2.

  11. Re:A nice piece of... on 'Babar' Malware Attributed To France · · Score: 4, Informative

    Low productivity? Per hour French productivity is 25$, US one is 24.6$. It's clear that French productivity is bad.... US debt is 102% of GDP compare to France 93% (reference FT: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/28c0...).

  12. This is so hypocrite on An Argument For Not Taking Down Horrific Videos · · Score: 1

    All those American social media have policy preventing to show even a small part of a tits, but it is fine to show someone burnt alive??? WTF? Have you lost any basic common sense? "Violence should be worshiped and sex is bad" is the new America social standard that is pushed to the rest of the world.

  13. Re:Quebec Language Police on What Language Will the World Speak In 2115? · · Score: 1

    What's with all of this revisionist history? Seems like everyone is trying to take the opportunity to misattribute the coining of words to French. No, the French did not coin the word geography. The word geography was coined by the ancient greek philosopher Eratosthenes.

    So I don't see your point, you just demonstrated that it is a basic feature of romance/latin language to import word from Greek and that latin root are just the base of all romance language. (that all share a very close vocabulary)

    Tsunami is Japanese. French? "Tsunami"

    Yes you can use Tsunami in French (like you can do in English) but the phenomena is know in French as "raz-de-marée" and "sarrigue" can be used for opposum, automate is also a synonyme for robot etc. I think that a basic knowledge of the French language will help you to pick better exemples...

  14. Re:Quebec Language Police on What Language Will the World Speak In 2115? · · Score: 1

    It seems that you have no clue about the subject. French is a romance language (use wikipedia to understand what it means) and it is a basic feature of this language to use latin to coin its own words (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulgar_Latin). During the XVI century, French took the habit to also use greek roots to coin new words. It is just the english (a germanic language that has nothing to do with latin) that imported french words and then the french way to create word from latin and greek roots. (The motto of the queen of England is even in french). Take a simple exemple: Geography this word was made in french from the greek words ge and graphy (earth and to write) this word was then imported in the english language during the XVI century. Most of the word you refer are the same in all romance language (French, Italian, Spanish, etc.) for the same reason. Of course modern French is not the same as latin but it is the same as for Italian and Spanish. Even modern Greek is very different from the classical version. By the way in french a computer is "ordinateur".

  15. Re:Run them in the day then on Lessons Learned From Google's Green Energy Bust · · Score: 1

    Do you mean that American stand in front of their dishwasher until the job is done? You must have wonderful evening!

  16. Re:Taxes on US Remains Top Country For Global Workers · · Score: 1

    And that's why more and more US citizen abroad are renouncing to their US citizenship. In Switzerland the number are growing every year, as thanks to FACTA even getting a simple bank account is almost impossible. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

  17. Re:Well yeah on US Remains Top Country For Global Workers · · Score: 1

    Not true there is one place where US is number one regarding health system: total cost per inhabitant. Far ahead of Switzerland which is one of the most expensive country in the world... page 155: http://www.oecd.org/els/health...

  18. Re:MySQL In-Memory Option is Free! on Oracle Offers Custom Intel Chips and Unanticipated Costs · · Score: 1

    Who cares multiple fork exist today and will continue the job even if Oracle pull the plug.

  19. And deduplication will not work anymore on Dropbox Head Responds To Snowden Claims About Privacy · · Score: 1

    There is also a strong argument for company like Dropbox to avoid or at least not encourage too much client side encryption: deduplication. If deduplication is no more working, it will considerably increase their storage cost, which the core of their business.

  20. Re:How is the DATA licensed? Where can I download on Mozilla Is Mapping Cell Towers and WiFi Access Points · · Score: 1

    The data is not available, this is only for Mozilla own usage and they don't even know if they want to publish the data at one point (not even a sample data set). This project is as close as Google or Apple, the only difference is that this time its Mozilla who is in charge, and they just say "hey we also provide a free API" (so this why they call it open

  21. Re:Does it compute? on HP Launches Moonshot · · Score: 3, Interesting

    No this type of node is not appropriate for Hadoop. First of all Hadoop is all about data locality when you run it on physical hardware (if you really need performance), and this is not the case here. Moreover 8G of RAM can be quite a limitation for many Hadoop related task (Hbase node will require more). Today you can have blade system with 2000 core per rack with AMD, why if cores matters would you limit yourseld to Intel CPU?

  22. Re:Lesson: Licensing costs suck on PayPal To Replace VMware With OpenStack · · Score: 1

    Because sometime you work on virtualized networks where you need virtual appliance to keep the benefit of easy deplyoment...

  23. UK a US state? on EU Data Protection Proposal Taken Word For Word From US Lobbyists · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Funny to see that the commitee members having the highest percentage of amemdement made by US companies are comming from UK....

  24. Price!! on Kindle E-Book Sales Surpass Print Sales In UK · · Score: 1

    Was about to buy a kindle book on Amazon when I realised that the kindle version was more expensive than the paper version! And it was not only for this particular book, but almost all the book are more expensive in Kindle version. This is insane! At least with a real book, I can give it to one of my friend and share it indefinitively. When they will come to more reasonable term I may resume to buy eBook but for the time being I'm not going to be their milk cow :)

  25. Re:Willing to bet.. on 12 Dead, 50 Injured at The Dark Knight Rises Showing In Colorado · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Still there is a chance that you would be able to do that under lucky circumstances. And that chance justifies permission to carry weapons.

    And what is the probability to hit a perfect innocent in these circumstances?

    If gunman knew that many people would be carrying concealed weapons, he probably would not even consider such an attack.

    You mean like no one is attacking NATO force in Afganisthan because they are openly carrying weapons? If some nuts decide to go mass murderer it is not some concealed weapon that are going to make him change hist mind, he will just use clever tactics.