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  1. Re:Actually... only 157 million miles away on Upgrading Software From 350 Million Miles Away · · Score: 3, Funny

    Curiosity made the Mars run in 1.82543347 × 10-5 Parsecs

  2. Re:And NASA has made mistakes with this before... on Upgrading Software From 350 Million Miles Away · · Score: 2

    Yeah, but maybe the new JellyBean will be totally awesome!

  3. Re:Eh? on Higgs Signal Gains Strength · · Score: 2

    You know that the last nation to win gold at the Olympics for Rugby was the USA?

  4. Re:Eh? on Higgs Signal Gains Strength · · Score: 1

    Well played, sir.

    *golf clap*

  5. I for one welcome our Higgsy overlord... on LHC Homes In On Possible Higgs Boson Around 126GeV · · Score: 5, Informative

    I was lucky enough to have a lunch hour where I could see the ATLAS results presentation.

    The actual bump on the ATLAS graph was about 126 GeV, and the local sigma was 3.6 which is pretty good. The overall was only 2.4, which IIRC is about 95% certainty. I like the odds of finding it there.

  6. Re:World's simplest? on Kindle Touch Gets World's Simplest Jailbreak · · Score: 1

    amount of information is measured in inverse femptobarns, surely?

  7. Edward Castronova... on Is Online Property Real? Lawyer Says Sort-Of · · Score: 1

    ... said: "Being an elf doesn't make you turn off the rational economic calculator part of your brain."

    But I agree with the license part. Since any virtual property is a construct dependant on the underlying servers (eg Everquest, Second Life etc), then you are bound by the EULA, which usually dresses everything up as a license which can be withdrawn at the whim of the owner of the server.

  8. Copyright != Patent on Cloned Drug-Sniffing Dogs Prove Successful In South Korea · · Score: 1

    Copyright is a different protection to patent.

    A patent could protect a novel method of cloning. Ie, the specific way the geneticist uses his or her test tubes etc in the lab to get the clone. Wouldn't stop anyone breeding a sniffer dog.

    A copyright cannot protect the clone. Unless the scientist actually wrote out the genome from his or her mind in some inspired supergenius way: GTTACCAATGCA....... Which is impossible.

  9. Re:Space elevator on UK To Get £50m Graphene Research Hub · · Score: 1

    And I hope there isn't a horrible accident with a 526 B30.

  10. Re: time/frame on FPS Benchmarks No More? New Methods Reveal Deeper GPU Issues · · Score: 1

    what about the standard deviation of the duration between frames?

  11. Re:Piracy and indie games on Study Links Game Piracy To Critics' Review Scores · · Score: 1

    There is a very strong correlation indeed.

    The equation:
    y = 951809x^(-0.4086)

    The R^2 value:
    R2 = 0.9791

    As you can see the correlation is very good.

  12. Re:List of Lucas supporters on Lucas Loses Star Wars Stormtrooper Copyright Case · · Score: 1

    Copyright != Designs

    The Copyright Designs and Patents Act protects them differently. Section 216 gives 15 years for designs, section 12 gives 70 years for sculpture. Confusingly you also get copyright in a design, but it isn't an infringement of that design to make a 3D model from it (ss51, 52). Critically the court found that stormtrooper outfits are not art, they are utilitarian objects.

  13. Re:Was this guy... on Lucas Loses Star Wars Stormtrooper Copyright Case · · Score: 1

    Of course he was.

    I find your lack of faith... disturbing...

  14. Pastafarianism will solve this on Facial Recognition Gone Wrong · · Score: 5, Funny

    All you need to do is wear a welding mask as your Pastafarian religous headwear.

    It works in Austria. G'day mate.

  15. Re:What's next? on Apple Patents Portrait-Landscape Flipping · · Score: 1

    I read the Claim specifications. IAAL.

    It isn't right to say that apple have patented portrait-landscape rotation.

    It has patented a finger gesture, a view lock based on that and the info from various sensors.

    A subtle distinction, I appreciate. But probably novel, and thereby patentable.

  16. Re:Shocker? on Illegal Film Downloading Up 33% In the UK · · Score: 5, Informative

    Lets just say that a baker has 13 loaves of bread, and I steal one.

    The baker now has only a conventional dozen, and will be angry because of that, as he is now only able to sell 12, not the original 13. Loss in potential profits of about 8%.

    Imagine the bread is digital, and I copy one of those loaves.

    The baker still has 13 loaves, and can still sell them. Repeatedly. His anger is now because his marketplace has diminished by one. Loss in potential profits of 0.000000001%

    It is still wrong, from the baker's perspective, but it's less damaging.

  17. Piracy=Market on Illegal Film Downloading Up 33% In the UK · · Score: 1

    Given that 1% of any population are criminals, the sheer size of the population of pirates tells you that the current business models are broken.

    It must be true that there is a market between the current crazy prices for media, and nothing. I'd buy a "pirate bundle" off my ISP that lets me pirate my ass off, so that some royalties went the right way.

  18. Re:200 year old technology on Inventor Creates Flotation Device Bazooka · · Score: 1

    Came here to say this.

    It was used in Australia in a place called Robe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robe,_South_Australia

    I can imagine that drowning mariners would have been disheartened to find people on the shore firing rockets at them...

    What happens if you accidentally drop the bazooka in the water?

  19. Re:Disappointed on Parrot iPod-Controlled Quadricopter Launches This Week · · Score: 1

    no, no! its total lack of movement is due to it bein' tired and shagged out following a prolonged squawk

  20. Re:emerald on WikiLeaks' International Man of Mystery · · Score: 1

    I worked in the coal mine near there when cyclone Joy wrecked the place. That livened things up for a while.

  21. Re:so how big is it? on Quantum State Created In Largest Object Yet · · Score: 1

    Oh yes.

    Champagne comedy.

    Well done, sir.

  22. Re:Offer the Ebook for free. on What Can I Do About Book Pirates? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well... He ain't obscure no more.

    Given this book appears to be 10 years old, I'd write another book...

  23. Re:Wow! Who ever would have guessed that!? on You Are Not a Lawyer · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm a lawyer, and I'm getting a kick out of these replies, etc.

    A technique that defence lawyers use is to attack the legitimacy of the gathering of the evidence. Succeed there, and it all becomes inadmissible, and the prosecution fails.

    Never mind your fucking Venn diagrams.

    That, I believe, settles the matter.

  24. Re:one week on Australia To Block BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    Because those people using 'sploits are then open to criminal sanctions. Or, more likely open to the civil claim brought by ARIA. They become targets. Ripe for the harvest.

    I for one welcome the Minister for BroCaDE, and pledge to obey faithfully, and not hide my shit behind 7 proxies.

  25. Re:*sigh* on Australia To Block BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    ARIA