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  1. Re:Why not just streamline the whole process? on eJuror Will Lead To New List of Jury Duty Excuses · · Score: 1

    Another Bright idea from the think-tank!

    Why not have a relational database with pre-existing cases and their judgements - so that when presented with the facts of a case - and the jury's decision - it automatically knows which sentence to pick! No more of this "Celebrities get off easy/Joe Blow bankrupt for life" stuff!

  2. Why not just streamline the whole process? on eJuror Will Lead To New List of Jury Duty Excuses · · Score: 2, Funny

    The Prosecutor and Defense both write out long documents outlining their cases, available on an audio file, which gets submitted to Jurors online and they get to view the case without any kind of prejudice (You don't know the sex/race/age of the alleged criminal or victim unless it is important to the crime at hand).

    The bickering between the two will be just like any other internet forum, the judge is like a Moderator, and rather than a jury of a dozen peers or so, it can be done by any amount of volunteers from 4chan or by some Amazon Cloud support team or something.

    I know I know, there's a lot of things wrong with doing it this way - but is it really any worse than the way its done already?

  3. Re:Life elsewhere... on Life Found In Deepest Layer of Earth's Crust · · Score: 1

    The fact of the matter is that -ANY- part of Earth, even one we don't usually imagine having life - like the core of the Earth, is still actually more habitable than half the celestial bodies in our solar system.

    We have had our suspicions about life on Mars though!

  4. Re:Living under surface on Life Found In Deepest Layer of Earth's Crust · · Score: 1

    Yes - I knew that too - I just couldn't think of the word for conditioning air...

  5. Re:New Benchmark on The Problem With the Top500 Supercomputer List · · Score: 1

    It's not an infinite loop. It must end when they reach infinite. (Which is possible, because Buzz light year makes it there and further)

  6. Re:Living under surface on Life Found In Deepest Layer of Earth's Crust · · Score: 1

    I don't know how to describe it - I can give you a list of problems, like Ventillation, Heating, Vitamin D - which all have obvious solutions available,

    but they just aren't as efficient as living on the surface.

  7. Re:New Benchmark on The Problem With the Top500 Supercomputer List · · Score: 2, Informative

    Right. (Less than symbol didn't show up because I didn't choose plain text! Derr)

  8. New Benchmark on The Problem With the Top500 Supercomputer List · · Score: 2, Funny

    int i = 0;
    while(i infinite)
    {
    i++;
    }

    ---

    Whatever computer finishes first is clearly the fastest supercomputer.

  9. Re:Define 'observe' on Uncertainty Sets Limits On Quantum Nonlocality · · Score: 1

    An electron doesn't have a position or a momentum until something occurs which require the electrons position and momentum to be known in order to determine the outcome.

    Which kind of leads back to the idea that the Electron itself isn't there until it's been observed. And thats where Einstein was all like "Umm. no. Just because I can't see the moon doesn't mean it isn't there".

    Thats where a lot of the curfluffle is about.

  10. Re:for the lulz on Uncertainty Sets Limits On Quantum Nonlocality · · Score: 1

    And I STILL don't get it. How sad is that?

  11. Re:Not to mention TCP connections would break on Claims About China's April Internet Hijack Are Overblown · · Score: 1

    You'd think if they wanted to capture some sensitive data they could employ some of the normal methods like trying to gain access to a specific system - or at least planting some form of promiscuous reciever/interceptor so they wouldn't get caught within a few minutes.

  12. Re:a coding problem? on Uncertainty Sets Limits On Quantum Nonlocality · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's because when God was whipping things up he had just switched to Dvorak - and he couldn't find the semicolon because it was under his left hand. To remedy this - he ported the universe to VB.

  13. Re:for the lulz on Uncertainty Sets Limits On Quantum Nonlocality · · Score: 1

    Which part?

    I mean, like any theory, it has its holes
    (Like Gravity, Black Holes, Dark matter, still unexplained).

    Quantum Mechanics has enough empirical evidence behind it (We've preformed and verified quantum entanglement at least) - you should be as willing to accept it as any other scientific theory you've come to accept.

  14. Re:hmmm on Uncertainty Sets Limits On Quantum Nonlocality · · Score: 1

    It does when you never leave your basement and you view it through a computer.

  15. Re:Old on Extra-Galactic Planet Discovered In Milky Way · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I was following you right up until 16 thousand years old - where does this number actually come from?

  16. Re:What's the catch? on Alternative To the 200-Line Linux Kernel Patch · · Score: 3, Funny

    So the 22nd catch is the exception?

  17. Re:Call me skeptical on Horizontal Scaling of SQL Databases? · · Score: 1

    This made my day, thank you.

  18. Re:What's the catch? on Alternative To the 200-Line Linux Kernel Patch · · Score: 5, Funny

    I didn't see any Try's, so I don't think so.

  19. Re:Selling? on Senate Panel Approves Website Shut-Down Bill · · Score: 1

    No, but technically neither does Youtube - yet they are told to take down Copyrighted material.

  20. Re:Selling? on Senate Panel Approves Website Shut-Down Bill · · Score: 1

    Can /b/tards get google, whitehouse.gov, or some other random website taken down with this?

    I'd be more concerned if /b/tards and anonymous got 4Chan taken down with this - after all, wouldn't it only take 1 shot from a copyrighted movie? (And if you've ever been to /gif/ you should know how many of those there are. You probably didn't notice it because its hidden amongst the porn though)

  21. Re:Whats the point on New Device Puts SSD In a DIMM Slot · · Score: 1

    They may be using all of their slots - but is every slot full of the Biggest size stick of Ram?

  22. Re:What? on Senate Panel Approves Website Shut-Down Bill · · Score: 1

    Appears I missed the part about a "Court Order" - ha! Overreaction at its finest.

  23. What? on Senate Panel Approves Website Shut-Down Bill · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We cannot excuse the behavior because it happens online and the owners operate overseas.

    Why not? You can excuse the behavior if it happens offline and the owners operate overseas.

    Or are there American law enforcement officials going and raiding shops in China that are selling pirated copies of Windows?

    And I don't think letting the DoJ decide who gets shut down or not is entirely fair. You know that Google/Youtube ends up hosting copyrighted material every now and then - and then they get notified and they end up taking it down (or taking out the audio track). So if I host a little site for me and a few role players - and one of them posts a bit of a DnD Manual - am I at risk of my website being cut off from Americans without notice? Or worse - taken down entirely somehow?

  24. Re:Wow, let's do this in the USA! on A Single Re-Tweet Lands Chinese Woman in Labor Camp · · Score: 1

    As long as you put all your new prisons along the beaches - I don't think Canada would mind holding down the fort till you all get out of jail.

  25. Re:I dunno man on Swedish Court Orders Detention of Wikileaks Founder Assange · · Score: 1

    Which is obviously against the /. Code of laws anyways, so its still unlawful in some cases.