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  1. Re:That is close! on Another Star Passed Through Our Oort Cloud 70,000 Years Ago · · Score: 1

    If the start had its own ort cloud then intersteller comet/asteroids/dwarf planets could of passed near Earth.

  2. Re:What about UFOs in US Airspace? on CIA on UFO Sightings: 'It Was Us' · · Score: 1

    Flying planes is not the same thing as performing a search on a US citizen. These were not drones looking in peoples windows. I suspect thier primary mission was looking for Russian planes in American airspace.

  3. Re:Did these fly from Area 51? on CIA on UFO Sightings: 'It Was Us' · · Score: 1

    Area 51 is US Air Force Base. So yes. Secret planes were flying too and from that base. Since the planes were sercret. They were literally UFO's to people not in on the sercret.

  4. Spanish vrs English on Argentine Court Rules Orangutan Is a "Non-Human Person" · · Score: 1

    I would suspect that the ruling was in spanish and did not use the English word person. Perhaps it was persona? These ruling are somewhat about what words mean. Or what they meant to lawmakers when they wrote laws using those words. Argentine law is based on Spanish legal tradition and things like the Napoleonic code. (as opposed to English common law in the USA)

  5. Re:Freedom of assembly on New Effort To Grant Legal Rights To Chimpanzees Fails · · Score: 1

    Their unlawfull speach? What unlawfull speach are they being shielded from? Also only shairholders are protected from criminal liability. Leadership of companies can still go to prison.

  6. Freedom of assembly on New Effort To Grant Legal Rights To Chimpanzees Fails · · Score: 0

    Freedom of assembly is in the first amendment. It allows groups of people to be involved in politics and speach. If a group of weathy people want to promote canidates they are allowed to do so under freedom of assembly. You can't argue that the CEO and board members of corporations are not people. They are people, They have the same freedom of assembly as everyone else.

  7. Re: 5th Admendment? on 18th Century Law Dredged Up To Force Decryption of Devices · · Score: 1

    issue all writs necessary or appropriate in aid of their respective jurisdictions and agreeable to the usages and principles of law

    The words necessary, appropriate, agreeable are supposed to limit the law to reasonable search and seizure.

  8. Re:I believe forking it is still possible on A Mismatch Between Wikimedia's Pledge Drive and Its Cash On Hand? · · Score: 2

    Forks of wikipedia already exist. There are also other wikis that carry stuff wikipedia doesn't. The forks don't have the same pagerank as wikipedia. Your not going to find results on the first 10 pages of Google. The other wikis show up in results because they don't compete with wikipedia. (because their content is considered non notable by wikipedia editors)

  9. Your experiencing 33% right now. We all are. We are moving at 33% the speed of light away or towards these stars.

  10. Re:Just stars or whole solar systems? on Stars Traveling Close To Light Speed Could Spread Life Through the Universe · · Score: 1

    Its may be possible for a system to form after the star is ejected. (from captured debri and caputured exoplanets)

  11. Re:A Reasonable Person on Supreme Court To Decide Whether Rap Lyric Threats Are Free Speech · · Score: 2

    Neither Snoop Dog or Katie Couric. The guy choose a specific audience. He was posting these for his wife to see. He wasn't posting these in a rap forum. He wasn't on the today show. He was posting these to his ex-wife. (I think, it was also possible he was posting to his public facebook. If so then that is different.) The jury just had to decide what that meant.

  12. Re:In the news today on Supreme Court To Decide Whether Rap Lyric Threats Are Free Speech · · Score: 2

    He isn't selling music. After his divorce the defendant started posting quotes of violent rap lyrics on Facebook. Lyrics that were about harming women. His ex-wife reported him the FBI. The FBI only stepped in when things were a little to on the nose as a threat. Basically this guy was trying to be clever and protect his threats by being vague. He was dancing on the line and the FBI stepped in when they perceived he crossed it.

  13. Re:had not been not on Was Microsoft Forced To Pay $136M In Back Taxes In China? · · Score: 1

    No wonder they forgot to pay taxes. Double negatives confused their accountants.

  14. No? on Was Microsoft Forced To Pay $136M In Back Taxes In China? · · Score: 1

    No?

  15. First 5 billion on Complex Life May Be Possible In Only 10% of All Galaxies · · Score: 1

    Things are even bleaker in other galaxies, the researchers report. Compared with the Milky Way, most galaxies are small and low in metallicity. As a result, 90% of them should have too many long gamma ray bursts to sustain life, they argue. What’s more, for about 5 billion years after the big bang, all galaxies were like that, so long gamma ray bursts would have made life impossible anywhere.

    Wouldn't that also imply that for the first 5 billion years planets in general would be low in metal? So you would have very few planets without iron cores and similer density as Earth. There would be a different chemical mix in most of the universe.

  16. Remove the word Store on Apple Swaps "Get" Button For "Free" To Avoid Confusion Over In-App Purchases · · Score: 0

    Now they just need to remove the words Buy, Store, and Sale.

  17. Shock Collars for everyone on Congress Suggests Moat, Electronic Fence To Protect White House · · Score: 1

    It is going to be like virtual fence for your dog. Everyone gets shock collars. Anyone who crosses the line is shocked. Also no barking.

  18. that a general algorithm to solve the halting problem for all possible program-input pairs cannot exist

    The article misunderstands the halting problem. You could replace robots with humans and murder with any descision involing other people and come to the same conclusion. AI does not try to create perfect solutions. Instead you try to create solutions that work most of the time. Approaches that can evolve with trail and error. Ethically you weigh the positive benifits of success against the negative consequences of your failures.

  19. Re:They WILL FIght Back on Rooftop Solar Could Reach Price Parity In the US By 2016 · · Score: 1

    And the coal mine? Coal doesn't just grow on trees. It has to be dug up.

  20. Patents last 20 years on Group Tries To Open Source Seeds · · Score: 1

    Patents last 20 years. All of todays seeds will eventually be public domain. Problem will solve itself by doing nothing.

  21. Re:Interesting on No, You Can't Seize Country TLDs, US Court Rules · · Score: 1

    ICANN was not involved in those cases. ICANN delegates the buying and selling of second level domains to domain name registars. This is where the contract comes in. ICANN controls the top level domain and points these at the domain name registars. In this case North Korea.

  22. Re:Interesting on No, You Can't Seize Country TLDs, US Court Rules · · Score: 1

    The courts can award Faye $1million even if Edward has $5 in his wallet. They can force Edward to hand over the cash once the contract completes. Faye becomes a lienholder agaists Edward.

  23. Interesting on No, You Can't Seize Country TLDs, US Court Rules · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Basically it works like this.
    1) Amy has a contract to wash Bob's car for $100 month.
    2) Carl sues Bob for murdering his dog.
    3) The courts can not give Carl a contract with Amy. The courts can only award Carl with property and money taken from Bob.
    Basically the courts can't force Amy to work with Carl. They can't force ICANN to work with the plantiffs.

  24. Re:It's simple if you understand the law... on Computer Scientists Ask Supreme Court To Rule APIs Can't Be Copyrighted · · Score: 1

    Sure utility patent for the functional part and design patents for the ornamental part. The structure, sequence, and organization of the API is ornamental. The implementation of an API method is functional. You can get copyright on the implementation of the API because the implementation is an expression of the API. The API being a method of operation for the software it is excluded from copyright. (in order to allow multiple expressions of the API)

  25. Re:It's simple if you understand the law... on Computer Scientists Ask Supreme Court To Rule APIs Can't Be Copyrighted · · Score: 1
    http://www.unc.edu/~unclng/bak...

    Any author may explain the truths of a science or the methods of an art that are the property of the entire world and get a copyright in the work. That copyright, however, does not extend to the method or use of the system described. A system is simply not subject to copyright protection. To protect a system, the author would have to apply for a patent and meet the patent requirements.

    This is where the method of operation language comes from in the EFF document. They are arguing that that API is a method of using the system.(java) They are arguing that you can't protect java by copyrighting the API. That it should be protected with patents instead.