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  1. Re:this is brave on Danish DRM Breaker Turns Himself In To Test Backup Law · · Score: 1

    This assumes that the effective limit is when the police feel you are traveling at unsafe speeds. It is entirely possible that the reason they let you go so fast is because they want to write tickets for larger amounts of money.

  2. Re:This won't work on Virgin Media To Trial Filesharing Monitoring In UK · · Score: 1

    It wouldn't be that difficult to only throttle encrypted traffic for residential customers, having a side effect of giving further incentive for businesses to get a business account.

  3. Re:Bare foot... on Scientists Say a Dirty Child Is a Healthy Child · · Score: 1

    Science is based on observation and experiment, the evolution of mankind has not been observed or reproduced, accepting it as fact is not a scientific conclusion.

  4. Re:Aw man! on Mininova Removes All Copyright-Infringing Torrents · · Score: 1

    Why do so many people have the impression that everything is available for sale.

  5. Re:i wonder... on Mininova Removes All Copyright-Infringing Torrents · · Score: 1

    Or ignore it.

  6. Re:79% accuracy ... on Programmable Quantum Computer Created · · Score: 1

    These aren't new problems like the human genome sequencing was, we've been looking at these problems for quite a while now. While we occasionally do get a slightly better algorithm it's still the same order of complexity.

  7. Re:Does anyone really believe the scores ? on Review Scores the "Least Important Factor" When Buying Games · · Score: 1

    Duke Nukem Forever?

  8. Re:Bare foot... on Scientists Say a Dirty Child Is a Healthy Child · · Score: 1

    One of the main ideas in science is that something isn't fact until it is proven. Proving evolution would require a time machine or FTL travel and an obscenely powerful telescope.

    Evolution may not have been disproven, but that doesn't make it true. Assuming that it is requires its own kind of faith.

  9. Re:Knew This For Years on Scientists Say a Dirty Child Is a Healthy Child · · Score: 1

    Even after you conduct some studies to prove it most folks will still not listen to you.

  10. Re:Bare foot... on Scientists Say a Dirty Child Is a Healthy Child · · Score: 1

    The same argument is easily reworked for whatever belief system (including evolution) you have.

  11. Re:Sci-fi not predicting far enough? on Has Sci-Fi Run Out of Steam? · · Score: 1

    Also, in heroes in particular, overuse of powers does exhaust the person, so they aren't drawing from some zero point energy vortex etc.

    Not necessarily, it could also be that drawing energy requires some energy from their body, just not as much as is actually released.

  12. Re:Sci-fi not predicting far enough? on Has Sci-Fi Run Out of Steam? · · Score: 1

    The essence of fiction is that it is not real. The essence of fantasy is that it is implausible. (which is generally true of things that violate the laws)

  13. Re:Sci-fi not predicting far enough? on Has Sci-Fi Run Out of Steam? · · Score: 1

    So because you understand the conditions for one event doesn't violate the laws, but since you don't understand the other it does?

    Heroes doesn't try to explain how it works, and it shouldn't, for them to do so would require that someone in the series know how it works.

  14. Re:Wait a second? on First Malicious iPhone Worm In the Wild · · Score: 0, Troll

    I see a future where Apple, the RIAA, and others might wish to write worms to help prevent people from hacking their devices or brick devices that have been "hacked".

    Are you entirely certain that future hasn't already arrived?

  15. Re:The NYT reporter misses the forest for the tree on Bing Censoring All Simplified Chinese Language Queries · · Score: 1

    The searchers will still be unable to visit most of the links returned by the English search, the only real difference would be that you could read the summaries.

  16. Re:Stealing is Stealing on iPhone Game Piracy "the Rule Rather Than the Exception" · · Score: 1

    By the same token, lack of piracy means lost revenue to someone. Computers cost money, peripherals wear out, components become outdated.

  17. Re:clue for the non-iphone-user on iPhone Game Piracy "the Rule Rather Than the Exception" · · Score: 1

    Music is easy, good music is not, same with software.

  18. Re:Alternative materials? on CERN Physicist Warns About Uranium Shortage · · Score: 1

    Would you settle for less dangerous than the waste produced by coal plants?

  19. Re:Use Tax on Calling B.S. On Amazon's Taxation Arguments · · Score: 1

    What they need is a disclaimer telling customers that they may need to report the use-tax, and give a hyperlink to more info on that.

    Yeah, we'll click right on over to that. Or LOLCats.

    True, but if they did notify people and provide the link it would be a lot easier for them to deny responsibility.

  20. Re:Use Tax on Calling B.S. On Amazon's Taxation Arguments · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately for your argument, you are not being taxed, the New York citizen is being taxed, you're just the tax collector.

  21. Re:If it's not enforcable, it's not viable. on Mark Cuban's Plan To Kill Google · · Score: 1

    It is entirely possible to ignore the robots.txt file, but Google obeys it and will likely continue to obey it as doing otherwise would be un-Google-like conduct.

  22. Re:wow, a whole million? on Mark Cuban's Plan To Kill Google · · Score: 1

    Assuming the bots respect robots.txt, you can pick and choose which bots are allowed and which aren't.

  23. Re:Bribery on Mark Cuban's Plan To Kill Google · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The difference in my opinion is that people often use kleenex and xerox to refer to using items of another brand, I have yet to hear anyone use google to mean searching for something without using Google.

  24. Re:Stigma on Are You a Blue-Collar Or White-Collar Developer? · · Score: 1

    Same here, but that doesn't stop them from teaching it in college, or from needing to for that matter.

  25. Re:Algorithms on Are You a Blue-Collar Or White-Collar Developer? · · Score: 1

    I learned more about the data structures and algorithms you listed in three quarters of running start at a two year community college than I did in the CS program at my four year university.