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  1. Re:Skynet on High-Speed Robot Hand Shows Dexterity and Speed · · Score: 1

    Seconded.

    Argument strengthened by the fact that my AI lecturer allowed "James Cameron" as a half-marks answer to the midsem question, "Name someone important in the field of AI, and explain why?"

  2. Re:Thwarted by properly designed online banking on Real-Time Keyloggers · · Score: 1

    Which is why the article suggests closing business accounts without secondary coding; and using personal accounts with secondary code authorisation for money transfers.

  3. Re:There's got to be a better way on First European Provider To Break Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Limit the number of packets by IP address?? Since the IP address of the computer shouldn't be changing in the middle of a session that could be tracked. The implementing of it may slow the network as a whole.

    Of course spoofing gets around this..

  4. Re:That's what unregulated capitalism does on IBM, Other Multinationals "Detaching" From the US · · Score: 1

    I checked my bank account apparently I'm not one of the "us". Even Adam Smith admitted that you needed 20 poor people for every rich person. When and how are we going to get past this as a species if we adopt your philosophy? Is everyone taking maximum advantage of his neighbour the best case scenario for humanity? If I truly believed this was the case I would kill myself. Fortunately I have more faith in humanity than that no matter how cruel, narcissistic, irrational, greedy, desperate, histrionic, sadistic, masochistic and twisted it is.

    Please don't. One day we'll get there, just not in our lifetime (unless robots invade...).

    Also Adam Smith claimed that the inherent good of a Christian man would prevent them from exploiting their fellow man for cheap labour...

  5. Re:That's what unregulated capitalism does on IBM, Other Multinationals "Detaching" From the US · · Score: 1

    I just checked the average Chinaman's bank balance, and he's not one of 'us' either...

  6. Re:The political left not about whining for handou on IBM, Other Multinationals "Detaching" From the US · · Score: 1

    Sophisticated flamebait? I live in a "socialist" country with a left-wing government. Our poor don't whinge for handouts, they expect them and whinge if you ask them to look for work.

    In Communist China, starvation looks for you.

  7. Re:Business feasibility on China Jails Four For Microsoft XP Piracy · · Score: 1

    Become a cop?

  8. Re:Because they're about to start writing software on China Jails Four For Microsoft XP Piracy · · Score: 1

    And in all that time they managed to invent Paper, Fireworks and a Wall?

  9. Re:Because they're about to start writing software on China Jails Four For Microsoft XP Piracy · · Score: 1

    Because most people do not create, only consume.

    IP is not a scam, patents are; they disallow someone from independently researching, experimenting and creating something from scratch if it is close enough to an existing product that a more expensive lawyer can defend the existing product.

  10. Re:Because they're about to start writing software on China Jails Four For Microsoft XP Piracy · · Score: 1

    They have a pretext prepared: "Taiwan was ours and we want it back"; the same excuse they used for Tibet in 1949.

    The US has promised to defend Taiwan if the Taiwanese want

    Is the world ready for a war between the US and China? And can India come to the power table? Personally I hope the British join the EU in full...

  11. Re:interesting on China Jails Four For Microsoft XP Piracy · · Score: 1

    ...it's a win for everyone but the Chinese people.

    And Microsoft shareholders. Have they found all distribution points for the window overlooking the tomato patch?

  12. Re:Big nothing. on China Jails Four For Microsoft XP Piracy · · Score: 1

    On top of that, China in my opinion has a terrible reputation for allowing these things to happen and turning a blind eye.

    Hey, when per capita yearly income is in the US$100s, how much demand do think there is for Microsoft Windows (or anything else) at a substantial percentage of that?

    So by that logic all "poor" countries should be allowed to pirate? China is the third-largest and the fastest growing economy in the world; if their people are so poor, where is all their money?

    Perhaps their workers need to sort their sh*t out and organise decent wages?? Or the government could let them get away with piracy, stealing money from the west while maintaining low wages and maintaining its status as the manufacturing centre of the world (resulting in more western goods being sent there to be pirated)..

  13. Re:Big nothing. on China Jails Four For Microsoft XP Piracy · · Score: 1

    And the main "offender" got 3 and a half years...

  14. People like to talk on Why AT&T Killed iPhone Google Voice · · Score: 1

    ..without listening??

    Assuming jazzmans post (which is uncited) is correct (and by the tone of the post i assume you are related to apple??) then 90% of people who posted afterwards need to read all posts

    But then who wants to pay for a conversation where they don't get to speak?

  15. Re:Down under on Robots Make the Coins Go 'Round, Down Under · · Score: 1

    Really? The first thing I tried when I moved to England was the direction the sink water drained, and surely enough it drained the opposite direction.

    Always thought my landlord was dodgy.

    Seriously though, I'd like to propose the following; since the Earth/Solar System is in the Milky Way, and the Milky Way can be seen from the Southern Hemisphere and not the northern, then by inference the Southern Hemisphere is closer to the core of the Milky Way (while you lot stare out into space). Therefore, we are facing 'up' and the globe is the wrong way around.

  16. Re:Multi-Page = Horrible on Why Size Matters For Your SSD Purchase · · Score: 1

    Vigile wins this argument by default. If you wish to be taken seriously, log in AC.

    +1 for internet advertising?? wierd..

  17. So noone is.. on Speculating On the Far Future of Cellphones · · Score: 1

    Seriously considering plugging electronics into our brains? coz that'd remove the need for screens/keyboards...

  18. Re:Just to add a bit of dystopia to the thread... on Speculating On the Far Future of Cellphones · · Score: 1

    Thats not dystopia, dystopia is the worst possible human society.

    thats moronopia.

  19. Re:Speculation schmeculation on Speculating On the Far Future of Cellphones · · Score: 1

    Well said

  20. Re:Do we want the government watching us? on Australian ISPs Soon To Become Copyright Cops · · Score: 1

    I'd like to point out that our compulsory voting helps to counteract this. As someone said (Federation 2.0) we've tossed the worst bits; optional voting being one.

    Compulsory voting means that words like "Work Choices" will evoke not just angry words and letters, but actual votes from the lower and lower-middle classes; who elsewhere do not necessarily vote (since they may have to work on that Saturday...)

    Just before I left Oz for a holiday though, I'm sure I heard Capt. Kevin mention the idea of a referendum to scrap compulsory voting. If this happens, I'm moving to NZ...

  21. Re:Appropriate on Australian ISPs Soon To Become Copyright Cops · · Score: 1

    One would think that me sharing my movies that I bought with my own money would be considered appropriate use of my internet connection that I am paying for with my own money.

    Um. Seriously? And so the people who you share with, who bought....um...with your money... um.. hang on, would be an appropriate use of... um... no hang on

    You've never created anything you wish to profit from have you?

  22. Re:I thought Down Under is no more a colony? on Australian ISPs Soon To Become Copyright Cops · · Score: 1

    Murdoch was born Australian (Adelaide) then colonised the US...

  23. Re:WoW works! on The Dilemma of Level vs. Skill In MMOs · · Score: 1

    Hey, i think we can all agree that WoW seems to have the best of all the worlds. 12 million can't be wrong....

    Really? 12 million ya say? What about the 12 million people who used to believe the world was flat? They can't be wrong either, right?

  24. Re:Was this ethical? on Researcher Trolls MMO, Surprised When Players Hate Him · · Score: 1

    He conducted research on humans, without their consent, and it may have involved children and deception. I sure hope this was institutional review board approved, as he has basically checked off all the high risk criteria that require a full board review and probably requires oversight to be considered ethical. If it was not, his paper should be withdrawn by the publisher, his university should sanction him and he should be ineligible for future government grants.

    Only decent post on this thread...

  25. Re:Being an asshole makes people angry, film at 11 on Researcher Trolls MMO, Surprised When Players Hate Him · · Score: 0

    So, a researcher enters a foreign land.

    Wrong. Learn to differentiate reality from fantasy.

    Go study philosophy, and then I challenge you to prove to me that I'm not plugged into a computer (a la Matrix) and the Heroes and Villians is not the 'real world'...