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  1. Will it work on Bill Maher's face? on Chatroulette Working On Genital Recognition Algorithm · · Score: 1

    Please?

  2. Dorm room warfare on The Mystery of the Mega-Selling Floppy Disk · · Score: 1

    Nothing better has ever been invented for flinging at your roommate.

  3. Re:Fact of life... on Microsoft Mice Made in Chinese Youth Sweatshops? · · Score: 1

    There are all those sweatshop laborers. We could train them to design robots instead.

  4. Re:Eh? on Federal Appeals Court Says Sex Offender's Computer Ban Unfair · · Score: 1

    Justice is about punishment, not rehabilitation. It has never been about rehabilitation.

    No, actually, it has been.

  5. Re:Oceans too on Complex Life Found Under 600 Feet of Antarctic Ice · · Score: 1
  6. Re:But where's the fines? on Federal Judge Orders Schools To Stop Laptop Spying · · Score: 1

    The school did not give birth to the student. There is no reason to monitor the student like a parent should.

    in loco parentis, dude.

  7. Re:The Middle Ages didn't have the DMCA on Avoiding a Digital Dark Age · · Score: 1

    Yes, now, (by and large). But it wasn't always that way.

    For a long time (say roughly 5c to 13c), western Europe did rely on second- and third-hand translations.

    See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_of_Moerbeke regarding translations of Aristotle, for instance, or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galen for another significant author who was widely read in translations from Arabic, and some of whose works are indeed still only known from Arabic translation.

  8. Re:I wish I had stayed down the docks. on Moving Away From the IT Field? · · Score: 1

    "Corporations aren't part of the market because they require a lot of legal backing to support their effectively artificial existence."

    What? No they don't. Businesses arose long before a legal framework was in place to support them.

    What? Yes, they do. Business != Corporation.

  9. BibTeX 1.0? on Vaporware - the Tech That Never Was · · Score: 1

    It's been at 0.99 since 1988, and is clearly promised in the manual.