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  1. Re:Someone start a defense fund on USA Calling For the Extradition of Snowden · · Score: 1

    I think you'll find that the oath he swore on the one hands prohibits him from disclosing top-secret information and on the other hand compells him to disclose it.

  2. Re:Crooks definition on Hackers Spawn Web Supercomputer On Way To Chess World Record · · Score: 1

    That is pretty bad, because you're going to have a hard time 'proving' all your money and belongings are yours rightfully. However, I'd say this Australian one is a little bit worse because it is a proactive law. This Swedish law you refer to sounds like it 'could' be used against you should the government decide to. However, the new Australian law is proactive, they are actually taking your 'unused' money right now, no questions asked.

  3. Re:Crooks definition on Hackers Spawn Web Supercomputer On Way To Chess World Record · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The Australian Government just passed a law allowing them to claim your money in your bank account as their own if you haven't used it in a while.

    I pick government.

  4. Why stop there... on Hackers Spawn Web Supercomputer On Way To Chess World Record · · Score: 3, Funny

    Lets just load a monolithic OS kernel written in javascript into visitor's RAM with the full OSI stack. Distribute your website to these small OSs and have them serve everyone else in the local network....

  5. Vanity, vanity, all is vanity. The question really is, as we wade through our world of relativity, what are the things worth fighting for?

    Your generic, flowery dismissal is nothing more than a failure to face the issue squarely.

  6. Re:Just another way to destroy ourselves on India's ICBM Will Carry Multiple Nuclear Warheads · · Score: 1

    It doesn't change the effect of the argument, but your slight change has a huge difference when followed through to conclusion. Cheese and chalk really.

  7. Re:Well now on Google Glass: What's With All the Hate? · · Score: 1

    ...I sense that APK is lurking nearby....

  8. Can you have something that is both subtle and edgy at the same time? A superposition of the both states?

  9. Re:Wait for the retraction on Physicists Create Quantum Link Between Photons That Don't Exist At the Same Time · · Score: 2

    The problem with quantum mechanics is that we suck at measurement. This really does put a spanner in the general workings of testing scientific theory.

  10. Subtle. Very subtle...

  11. Re:Oh come on. on Debian GNU/Hurd 2013 Released · · Score: 1

    > Everyone knows GNU/Hurd...

    Haven't GNU/Hurd...

    There, FTFY.

  12. Re:Utopian playland on Wired Writer Imagines Google Island · · Score: 1

    Your right to life and right to control over your own property has served you reasonably well so far I hope.

    I have a mortgage. I have no right to my property - in reality. I'm permitted to live here by the bank so long as I continue to serve. My right to life is completely subjective to anyone elses whim and my ability to defend myself. That's kind of my point, no rights or laws stop human nature. Any discouragement of an action by law and rights is worked around by those entities who wish to do so.

    Also, rights and laws are subjective. One man's fish is another man's poisson.

  13. Re:Utopian playland on Wired Writer Imagines Google Island · · Score: 1

    Rights are a useless passive tool attempting fight a proactive enemy: human nature.

  14. Re:And who's brain will it model? on Why We Should Build a Supercomputer Replica of the Human Brain · · Score: 1

    I must be missing the reference......

  15. Re:And who's brain will it model? on Why We Should Build a Supercomputer Replica of the Human Brain · · Score: 1

    Event sourcing. snapshots are not the whole story.

    Better believe it.

  16. Re:Cancel? on A Computer-based Smart Rifle With Incredible Accuracy, Now On Sale · · Score: 2

    The rifle doesn't need the laser to be continuously marking the target. Once you've got the laser on your target you confirm it (button) and then you can stop using the laser.

  17. Re:Debian Stable? on Microsoft Developer Explains Why Windows Kernel Development Falls Behind · · Score: 1

    I've replied with my own example. So, you're wrong?

  18. I've denied it (practically - with an example). I guess that makes you wrong? Is that how it works on the Internet?

  19. Dell Inspiron 1520. Had it for 6 years. Had Ubuntu on it for all that time. Never fresh installed, always in-place upgrade. No breakage in 6 years. Still in use too, the wife uses it for everything and I use it for older PC games (BF1942, DOTA, etc). Is that a pass?

  20. Re:Considering you're Jeremiah Cornelius' sockpupp on Bill Gates: iPad Users Are Frustrated They Can't Type Or Create Documents · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Have you ever considered that no one cares? I mean, do you really care that much?

  21. Ubuntu 14.04. Can't wait. Hope I'm not too disappointed.

  22. Re:Yeah on Bill Gates: iPad Users Are Frustrated They Can't Type Or Create Documents · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah, I agree. Jeremiah is being annoying. Almost as annoying as that APK guy. Now he is annoying.

  23. Re:BS Summary on Recovering Data From Broken Hard Drives and SSDs (Video) · · Score: 1

    Yes, well - excuse my ignorance. I love physics, but haven't been taught it. Also, I've never heard of a magnetic domain. Thanks for the reply - might have a look into it.

  24. Re:BS Summary on Recovering Data From Broken Hard Drives and SSDs (Video) · · Score: 1

    sources please?

  25. Re:Yay! on Ubuntu Releases 13.04, Sticks To 6-Month Release Rhythm · · Score: 2

    Well, Kylin is official now. So yes, Ubuntu is now facilitating getting Linux to the People's Desktop.