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  1. Re:They Should Lose Public Protection on Public Domain Day 2014 · · Score: 1

    Artistic works are created regardless if there is an economic incentive or not. No one payed you any money when you doodled stuff in high school. No one is paying 4 year olds to play with crayons. No on is paying the thousands of amatuer muscians involved in bands and choirs. There is no copyright on jokes and people still make them. There is already enough artistic works in the world that no new works need to be created. People want new art because new art is part of new culture. People want to watch Game of Thrones because everyone is talking about it. If people were all talking about the Grapes of Wrath people would be reading that book instead.

  2. Your Ego on New Study Shows One-Third of Americans Don't Believe In Evolution · · Score: 1

    Your confusing ignorance with disagreement. Most people who don't believe in evolution have been explained what it is and what the evidence is for it. They know about dinosours, carbon dating and DNA. There is no evidence that the people who disagree with you are less intelligent than yourself. That is just your ego making your feel good. Your fear of people who think differently is predictable but also kind of lame.

  3. Re:I believe it on New Study Shows One-Third of Americans Don't Believe In Evolution · · Score: 1

    I think your not including Sunday School as part of the education system. If you did then I would say the education system is working just fine.

  4. Re:Same as Antarctica on How To Avoid a Scramble For the Moon and Its Resources · · Score: 1

    Antarctic Treaty is a terrible treaty. It basically keeps the whole continent from being developed. Before we colonize the moon we should probably colonize Antartica first. Once we have a couple billion people on Antartica then we can go to the moon.

  5. Federal Communication Commision on Proposed California Law Would Mandate Smartphone Kill Switch · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Federal Communication Commision regulates cell phones. Federal law preempts state law. Any California law could be nulified by the FCC.

  6. USA voted for this on UN Votes To Protect Privacy In Digital Age · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The UN General Assembly unanimously adopted a privacy resolution

    That means USA voted for it. It also means countries that you would not normally associate with a right to privacy voted for it. Basically it was watered down enough that no one opposed it.

  7. BitCoin not first on JPMorgan Files Patent Application On 'Bitcoin Killer' · · Score: 2

    BitCoin is not the first electronic payment system. No reason for patent to metion BitCoin unless it JPMorgan is going to have people mining for Morgon bucks.

  8. Re:Obviousness on Supreme Court To Review Software Patents · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Software developer's don't read patents. Software patents are only read by lawyers. These patents are legal self gratification.

  9. Re:News to me on FCC Chair: It's Ok For ISPs To Discriminate Traffic · · Score: 4, Informative

    Cable companies are goverment enforced monopolies in most of the country and consumers don't have a market to choose from. They can choose the cable monopoly or the phone monopoly for thier internet.

  10. Re:Safe-Stop? Great name! on RF Safe-Stop Shuts Down Car Engines With Radio Pulse · · Score: 1

    The PIT maneuver, or precision immobilization technique, is a pursuit tactic by which a pursuing car can force a fleeing car to abruptly turn sideways, causing the driver to lose control and stop

    They are likely marketing it as a safer replacement for the PIT maneuver. Maybe not as safe as spike strips.

  11. Old Idea on RF Safe-Stop Shuts Down Car Engines With Radio Pulse · · Score: 1

    You can find articles going back to 2004 with a similer idea. http://www.theguardian.com/science/2004/jul/12/sciencenews.crime

  12. Re:would you experiment on children? on Lawsuits Seek To Turn Chimpanzees Into Legal Persons · · Score: 1

    Yes I would experiment on children. All medicine used on children was first experimented on children.

  13. Sample Bias on 62% of 16 To 24-Year-Olds Prefer Printed Books Over eBooks · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Half of the respondents were sourced through student moneysaving website Studentbeans.com, and half through a broader youth research panel.

    You ask people at a money saving web site and they will choose the cheeper thing. Used books are way cheaper than ebooks. If you asked Amazon shoppers you would get a different answer.

  14. Re:I still don't understand on Healthcare.gov and the Gulf Between Planning and Reality · · Score: 1

    The president didn't replace the bureaucrats who headed agencys like Medicare with the the tech-savvy people who ran his campaign. After his campaign those people did not join the goverment. They went back into the start up scene to make money. The site failed for the same reasons other projects fail. Requirements were finalized too late, leaving not enough time for testing. Requirments in Spring + Deadline in Fall + Huge Budget = Fail

  15. Themoclineof Truth on Healthcare.gov and the Gulf Between Planning and Reality · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Seems to be a clasic case of the Themocline of Truth. http://brucefwebster.com/2008/04/15/the-wetware-crisis-the-themocline-of-truth/

  16. Re:$699?!! on Xbox One Released · · Score: 1

    Buying laptops is your employer's job.

  17. Table 5 on Chicxulub Impact Might Have Spread Life-Bearing Rocks Through the Solar System · · Score: 3, Informative

    The 20,000kg number is from Table 5 in the journal. I think the summary is a little deceptive.
    Probablilty of life bearing rock ejected from earth reaches Europa is: 2.8E-6 ± 5.0E-7 %
    Yeah thats .0000028% plus or minus .0000005%
    Including all rocks that were ejected they believe 6 plus or minus .9 rocks would reach Europa.
    The 20,000 Kg number comes from those 5 to 7 rocks.

  18. Re:seems extremely unlikely on Chicxulub Impact Might Have Spread Life-Bearing Rocks Through the Solar System · · Score: 1

    Rocks burn up falling through atmosphere. Were talking about accelerating a rock upwards from the ground through the same air into space.

  19. Tragedy of the Commons on Hotel Tycoon Seeks Property Rights On the Moon · · Score: 1

    My parents purchased a house. My dad got a job somewhere else and they rented the house out. When my dad eventually moved back that house was trashed. Roaches, weeds in the yard, damage inside and out. The people renting the house had no incintive to keep the place clean let alone build improvents to it. Your also putting a huge block in front of anyone who wants to build on the moon. The only people who can build on the moon with your law are the Googles and Apples of the world. Common people can't afford to pay every earthling a share.

  20. Scarcity USA on ATF Tests Show 3D Printed Guns Can Explode · · Score: 1

    3d printed guns would matter in the USA if guns were expensive or scarce. But at the moment. Metal mass produced guns are cheap and plentafull. Even crazy people and children can afford guns.

  21. Re:Really? on Bitcoin Hits $400 Ahead of Senate Hearing On Virtual Currency · · Score: 4, Insightful

    lol, ideas may be bulletproof but people are not.

  22. Re:Really? on Bitcoin Hits $400 Ahead of Senate Hearing On Virtual Currency · · Score: 2

    Goverenments are made up of people. They have been requlating worth for most of written history. They have set prices, imposed quotas, imposed caps, redistributed land and assets. In lawsuits Judges set the value of things. They have made some assets illegal. Look up the "Gold Reserve Act" and you see the US goverment taking everyones gold in exchange for paper currency. If they can make Gold illegal they can mess with Bitcoins as well.

  23. Re:malware and porn on Porn-Surfing Execs Infecting Corporate Networks With Malware · · Score: 5, Funny

    executives must be in to weirder stuff than most mouth breathers

  24. Re:Encountered this kind of thing ... on Microsoft Kills Stack Ranking · · Score: 1

    I had a physics class graded on a curve. Labs were supposed to be 10 to 20% of the grade. If you got above a 40 on the final exam and attended labs you got an B. If you did not attend labs you failed no matter what your exam score was.

  25. Re:America is a dictatorship alright... on Where Does America's Fear Come From? · · Score: 1

    So countries that don't share your ideology are dictatorships??? That is convenient for your. We have 'left' European style parties. They are not popular. People in those parties can barely get elected to dog catcher. People in those parties have rallies, websites, newspapers. America is a Republic with popular politicians at all levels of government.