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  1. Re:How is this legal? on Soda Ban May Hit the Big Apple · · Score: 2

    Lets completely ignore how that isn't true in any country that has single payer health care.
    There is decades of data around single payer government systems, but lets keep ignoring it and make decision based on logical fallacies shoved down your throat by the republican party.

  2. Re:know it all on Soda Ban May Hit the Big Apple · · Score: 1

    Not much, if at all.

  3. Re:Get a refill.. on Soda Ban May Hit the Big Apple · · Score: 3, Funny

    A) You completely misunderstand the medical system.

    B) Even if we had a good single payer ,medical system, it would STILL be wrong to limit soda size. I can sit next to you and you cna drink all the soda you want and it doesn't impact me.

    C) Fat fuckers would also be paying into the system that woudl pay for you thin fuckers medical bills when you fall off you bike.

  4. Re:Face Palm on Technicolor Takes Aim At Apple, Samsung, Others for Patent Infringement · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They invents a TON of technology, but everyone uses it without licensing. So they are dying.

    They actually invent things,
    People rip them off,
    and on /. THEY are the bad guys.

  5. Re:Kill Patent Trolls Now on Technicolor Takes Aim At Apple, Samsung, Others for Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    This has nothing to do with patent trolls. Nothing at all.

    The only thing worse then in ignorant post is the person saying it should be modded up.

  6. Re:Nothing wrong with patents per se. on Technicolor Takes Aim At Apple, Samsung, Others for Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    what 40 year old patent? huh ?
    This is about newer stuff.
    Technicolor SA was formerly Thomson SA and Thomson Multimedia.

    Where you listening to MP3s 40 years ago?

    Twit.

  7. Re:Woah! You can't have it both ways. on Technicolor Takes Aim At Apple, Samsung, Others for Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    They have been developing technology since the 50s. If it was a technology developed in 1950, there wouldn't be a story.

  8. Re:Technicolor illustration of a broken patent sys on Technicolor Takes Aim At Apple, Samsung, Others for Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    "The patent system is supposed to exist to allow inventors to have time to get their product to market"
    wrong wrong WRONG.

    The patent system is design so inventor have control of what they want to do with their patent.
    If that means sitting on it, then so be it. If that means selling it to a company then so be it.

    "The patent system was not intended to protect an idea for eternity, "
    And it doesn't.

    " How much did the actual talent make for coming up with the patent? $10?"
    irrelevant.

    " The guy that invented the laser used in Blueray got a $100 giftcard and a plaque"
    and his paycheck he got every month.
    He worked to invent something for a company that paid him. Irrelevant to the conversation.
    I wrote coed that saved a company a billion a year. I got a football and 1000 dollar bonus.

  9. Re:Technicolor illustration of a broken patent sys on Technicolor Takes Aim At Apple, Samsung, Others for Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    This shows exactly why the systems works.

    Technicolor invented a bunch of stuff. Other people used it without permission, Now they have recourse.

    It's not like Apple can't do a patent search.

  10. Re:That's seems awfully sensitive to me on Radiation Detecting Android Phone Coming To Japan · · Score: 1

    It will immediately make people aware that 'radiation' is like everything else. It's the dose that make the poison. That would go a long way to reducing unreasonable fear of radiation.

  11. Re:That's seems awfully sensitive to me on Radiation Detecting Android Phone Coming To Japan · · Score: 1

    Yes, those pesky plebes should be kept way from technology and science.

    All Radiation detectors detect something, if set to a sensitive setting. That's because three is always some radiation.

  12. Sweet on Radiation Detecting Android Phone Coming To Japan · · Score: 1

    Can I get this in the next Nexus?

  13. Re:Isn't everything GMO though? on Battle Brewing Over Labeling of Genetically Modified Food · · Score: 1

    "1. There are many things they are doing that is not even close to possible via selective breeding."
    Name one. You are aware the DNA parts from animal get inserted into flowers in nature, don't you? whats that? you didn't know that? STFU

    "and can be tracked, studied and mitigated."
    same with GMOs.

  14. Re:Isn't everything GMO though? on Battle Brewing Over Labeling of Genetically Modified Food · · Score: 1

    wrong
    It's more like Selectively picking the reddest roses with surgical precision.
    Bolting on frog legs.

  15. Re:Homeopathic labeling next? on Battle Brewing Over Labeling of Genetically Modified Food · · Score: 1

    True. But this statement:

    " when we have virtually no understanding of the underlying biology,"
    Is wrong.

  16. more like on Battle Brewing Over Labeling of Genetically Modified Food · · Score: 1

    unsupported suspicions

  17. Re:Google's mobile Ad revenue on Dark Days Ahead For Facebook and Google? · · Score: 2

    That he as a trollish ass that make money from stirring things up.
    As if Google and facebook aren't mobile.

  18. Re:No Need For Elaborate Explinations on Dark Days Ahead For Facebook and Google? · · Score: 1

    Income Capitalization would disagree with you.
    Keep in mind, that within 2 weeks GOOG was 20% lower the opening. And the seemed to survive that.

  19. Re:Facebook is just the new MySpace on Dark Days Ahead For Facebook and Google? · · Score: 1

    no it won't. It's integrated far more then AOL ever was. It also adapts, something AOL, my space, etc couldn't do.

  20. Re:Mobile will destroy Google? on Dark Days Ahead For Facebook and Google? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Locking" is a pretty strong term considering you can extract your data, and move it to another ecosystem if you choose.

  21. Re:Symbol Grounding Problem on Where's HAL 9000? · · Score: 1

    "In order to understand each other we humans draw on a huge amount of shared experience which is grounded in the physical world"
    if that was true, AI would be a hell of a lot easier.
    Humans create memories based on person contexts; which aren't always grounded in the physical world. This is why two people can watch the same event and have very different 'facts' about the same thing.

    Memories and ideas are rooted in common contexts.
    For example, there is a tribe, with perfectly fine eyes, that can't recognize blue. Not ion 'we have no name for this' as in' we don't see this'. Until they are told a name and a reference, then they can see it. Context.

    So, is AI something the behaves like a human brain? or is AI being able to understand and communicate within a common context or framework?

  22. Re:It's not just specialization, there is also fea on Where's HAL 9000? · · Score: 1

    " and it most certainly does not think"
    interesting. For clarity, please define thinking.

  23. Re:It's not just specialization, there is also fea on Where's HAL 9000? · · Score: 1

    Artificial intelligence ? Huh, you must have a sibling.

  24. Re:It's not just specialization, there is also fea on Where's HAL 9000? · · Score: 1

    Yes. In fact their is plenty. If you truly wanted an answer, you would have simply looked it up.

  25. Re:It's not just specialization, there is also fea on Where's HAL 9000? · · Score: 1

    You created a magic box and called it 'mind'.
    Stop it.