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  1. Re:Catch 22 on Buried By The Brigade At Digg · · Score: 1

    It's OK if your side is doing it.

    The evilness of an action is independant of the action itself, the doer of the action is the only determinant of evilness. If God or Republicans do it it is by definition good. If Satan or Democrats do it it is by definition evil.

    It's the American way.

  2. Re:Two questions on Claimed Proof That P != NP · · Score: 1

    Maybe pick citations that support your claims...

    "The relationship between BPP and NP is unknown: it is not known if BPP is a subset of NP, NP is a subset of BPP or if they are incomparable" from your first link contradicts your "BPP is a subset of NP" claim.

  3. Re:Wouldn't P=NP be a paradox anyway? on Claimed Proof That P != NP · · Score: 1

    No since that would assume P!=NP.

    yes a NDTM can be emulated by a DTM in exponential time (essentially doing a breadth first search of the state space), but there could be some cases with other ways (and if P=NP then there is in all cases) to implement it in a smaller time bound.

  4. Re:Well, duh on Claimed Proof That P != NP · · Score: 1

    Soon your sense of humour will improve to the point at which you can see that not only could the post be a joke, but the moderation could be as well.

    And one day mine will improve to the point at which your post will be obvious humour as well.

  5. Re:Protectionism by another name on Microsoft & Intel Get a Pass On Higher H-1B Fees · · Score: 1

    Just because an economy is "nationalist oriented" does not mean everything is does is "protectionism".

    Immigrants are not goods or services hence restricting them is not protectionism - unless slavery was reinstated recently anyway.

    You'd have something closer to a point if you were talking about restricting access by tourists. Still not as point though.

    I assume you also classify quarantine rules stopping me from bringing my rabid dog into Australia as protectionist?

  6. Re:why? on Microsoft & Intel Get a Pass On Higher H-1B Fees · · Score: 0, Troll

    Because legal immigrants benefit more than citizens from a reduction in illegal immigration.

    But of course that isn't the real reason, it's two birds with one stone - both legal and illegal immigration get punished a little since the person whose vote this is aimed at getting isn't anti-illegal immigration, they are anti-immigration (well maybe just anti-non-white-immigration in truth).

  7. Re:Queue the Arguing on DRM-Free Game Suffers 90% Piracy, Offers Amnesty · · Score: 1

    I don't know how people can doublethink away the idea that Pirates stealing 5x the number of copies being sold legitimately for a top selling game somehow DOESN'T hurt the industry.

    Why would it hurt the industry?

    Either they pirate it or they don't have it. There is no "they buy it" option.

    So who cares 5 people got free entertainment from your game for every person who bought it? There's no way you are convincing them to buy it - you could try to slap magic DRM on it and reduce the piracy to 0. But then you still have the same number of sales, sure those pirates don't get it for free now but that doesn't help you any anyway.

    I used to pirate every game that was released, I probably only ever played 2% of the games I burnt to a CD. If I didn't pirate them then, then I wouldn't have bought them either. I just would have not played them.

    Now I buy a game or two each month (steam sales bump the number up, without those it's probably 4 games a year) and don't pirate anything.

    Stopping pirates would not have gained any more sales to me in the past,, or in the present. And I suspect the bulk of pirates are just like that.

    I *loved* the Ruse open beta - almost pre-ordered it, but ubisoft's wonderous "must be online" drm ended that. I won't be buying (or pirating) that game after all. I'm prerry sure not a single person who would have pirated it without that DRM will now buy it - so they are likely down at least one sale purely due to trying to stop something which isn't hurting them anyway.

  8. Re:I wonder how this factors in... on Android Outsells iPhone In Last 6 Months · · Score: 3, Funny

    And I work for a large Fortune-500 company.

    Are there any small Fortune-500 companies? What definition of "small" covers, "we have annual revenues in excess of $4 billion"?

  9. Re:Government has bad lawyers? on FBI Instructs Wikipedia To Drop FBI Seal · · Score: 1

    I'm just curious if you read the law. Because it sure reads to me like Wikipedia is in violation of the letter of the law.

    http://www.legal-explanations.com/definitions/ejusdem-generis.htm

    See the response letter for a lawyers explanation...

  10. Re:Correlation doesn't imply causation. on Tracking the Harm Games Do · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Really. You needed to bother typing that?

    The summary states it is humor and it would be obvious even if it didn't.

    Yet, you seriously thought it was necessary to mention that.

    You really think other people are stupid, don't you.

    And some idiot moderator considers that insightful just to really put the bar low for the expected intelligence level of a slashdot reader.

  11. Re:No, they don't make a good point. on NAMCO Takes Down Student Pac-man Project · · Score: 1

    but if there's an actual paper trail proving that you _knew_ about the copyright infringement, you HAVE to take some legal action to enforce it - otherwise, your copyright can be overturned.

    Bullshit. So citation please.

  12. They knew the password you idiot. on Verizon Changing Users Router Passwords · · Score: 1

    seriously, how do manage to type a sentence?

  13. Re:what on TI Calculator DRM Defeated · · Score: 1

    Yeah right.

    Spend effort in writing better tests, as opposed to just only letting the students use locked down calculators.

    Real hard choice.

  14. Re:what on TI Calculator DRM Defeated · · Score: 1

    Writing a program during the exam is just ever so subtly different from entering the exam with a bunch of programs already loaded onto the calculator.

  15. Re:Yeah, and? on High-Frequency Programmers Revolt Over Pay · · Score: 1

    Or he's one of 1000 people writing said software and is way overpaid.

  16. Re:waaaaaaambulance on High-Frequency Programmers Revolt Over Pay · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Wow, you dumb much?

    Or can you point to a single example in the article of someone not going somewhere else and just complaining? There's a bunch of examples in the article you are too illiterate to read surely one of them backs up your implication of them just complaining...

  17. Re:Hmmm, that's funny. on 'Bizarre' Nanobubbles Found In Strained Graphene · · Score: 1

    Except in this case it would be "hey that's what those guys predicted would happen if we did this", which isn't really a "that's unexpected" moment.

  18. It doesn't cause large groups of people on Heat Ray Gun Fails Final Test; Nixed From War · · Score: 1

    to burst into flames at long range.

    Hence useless.

  19. Re:It is not that straightforward on How a Key Enzyme Repairs Sun-Damaged DNA · · Score: 1

    It's mammals not humans - which means it predates humans and hence human habitats and so on are completely irrelevant since there were no humans in existence when this was lost*.

    * assuming, without RTFA, the orders of magnitude more likely case that mammals (or some pre-mammal) lost it, rather than everything else evolved it independently.

  20. Re:It is not that straightforward on How a Key Enzyme Repairs Sun-Damaged DNA · · Score: 1

    That isn't how evolution works. Why would such an enzyme be "useful" in terms of survival and reproduction to fur covered animals that spend the daytime hidden in burrows, for example?

  21. Re:Avoiding stress causes social network stability on Study of MMOG Proves Human Interaction Theory · · Score: 1

    Why would that matter? Those that like sodomy or like the concept of freedom can move to another state without such a ban - assuming they don't have the numbers to elect politicians to overturn it.

  22. Re:Avoiding stress causes social network stability on Study of MMOG Proves Human Interaction Theory · · Score: 1

    That's what militias are for.

  23. Re:Lose lose situation on Facing 16 Years In Prison For Videotaping Police · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I realize this is hard, but let me try and explain.

    The traffic offense is completely irrelevant to the discussion. He isn't being charged and tried with doing wheelies and speeding. He is being tried and charged with violating wiretap laws.

    It doesn't matter if he speeds, it doesn't matter if he does wheelies, if doesn't matter if he steals candy from the super market, it doesn't matter if he gambles on the internet. What matters is what he has been charged with.

    This should be pretty fucking obvious.

    As should that what is being referred to in what you quote is the extra stuff not the actual traffic infringement. Which should also be fucking obvious.

  24. Re:Hardly on Too Much Multiplayer In Today's Games? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, because games about an underdog are BORING.

    And your buff fighter should have at least as much strength and power as the final dragon he fights.

    And WoW seems just ever so slightly multi-player - I've never played it but I really doubt there aren't any boss monsters that outclass every player character in power (otherwise why would their be groups after all).

  25. huh? on Why SSDs Won't Replace Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    A 3.5" drive has dimensions of 26.1mm x 101.6mm x 146.99mm, a microSD card has dimensions of 15mm x 11mm x 1mm. So you could fit 2362 microSD cards into a HDD. I can buy a 32GB microSDHC right now. So that's 75TB.

    I'm sure you'd have some serious heat issues, and of course need some electronics, so just fill 1/4 of it with them for 18TB and the rest with space for heat dissipation and the electronics.

    Of course the price isn't worth thinking about.