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  1. Re:And this is why I'll never live in a walled gar on Apple Orders Memory Game Developers To Stop Using 'Memory' In Names · · Score: 1

    Also this trademark is at least 30 years old.

    Trademarks don't expire so long as you use the mark. Being old actaully works in the favor of the trademark owner legally. In the US it looks like Hasbro either owns or once owned the Memory mark in relation to card games.
    http://www.oddtodd.com/hasbro2.html
    Not sure if Concentration is trademarked.

  2. Re:so Plato was right, then on Why Dissonant Music Sounds 'Wrong' · · Score: 1

    Actually Gorillas have a very tiny penis for their body size (~1.5 inches long) so as far as being forcibly fucked in the ass by an animal goes they certainly wouldn't be the worst possible option there.

    I may be wrong. I am too afraid to search for it at work. But I believe humans have the largest for body size among apes.

  3. Re:Not everyone is mixed on With NCLB Waiver, Virginia Sorts Kids' Scores By Race · · Score: 1

    I don't live in Europe. What does a genetic map of North America look like.

  4. Re:Coincides with organized religion on Study Claims Human Intelligence Peaked Two To Six Millennia Ago · · Score: 1

    Organized religion existed before the Classical Greeks. There is no evidence that humans have ever existed without religion. There is evidense of Burial Rites reaching back 300,000 years.

  5. 2 Words on Secession Petitions Flood White House Website · · Score: 1

    Self Deportation

  6. 803,849 votes on Secession Petitions Flood White House Website · · Score: 2

    803,849 people in Puerto Rico voted to have Puerto Rico become a state compared to 10,000 petitions each in Texas and Louisaiana for secession. I think America will be fine.

  7. Rape Drugs on John McAfee Accused of Murder, Wanted By Belize Police · · Score: 2

    The specific properties of the drugs he was attempting to isolate also fit in well with what those closest to him have reported: that he is an enthusiastic amateur pharmacologist with a longstanding interest in drugs that induce sexual behavior in women. Indeed, former friends of McAfee have said he could be extremely persistent and devious in trying to coerce women who rebuff his advances to have sex with him.

    I wonder how much of this article is true. Sounds like a total douche.

  8. Metaphor on All of Nate Silver's State-Level Polling Predictions Proved True · · Score: 1

    Voting was a metaphor for warfare. The military with the largest army usually wins. Only men fought in wars back then. Landowners raised militias, food, and money for wars. Simply counting who had the most support was a good proxy for who would win in a civil war. With industrialization landowners became less important to war efforts. The side with the most solders and rifles would win.

  9. Re:Maybe they'll remove some of the bloatware... on Verizon To Shut Down App Store By January · · Score: 1

    It would be better if they just changed the ROM so you could unistall them. Then people would complain about losing something they paid for.

  10. Not True on Actual Final Third Party Debate Tonight · · Score: 1

    The debate between fictional write in candidates is tomorrow morning.

  11. Re:Just how would this work? on Richard Stallman: Limit the Effect of Software Patents · · Score: 1

    t what point in this development do we draw the line and say, "Below this, it's not patentable (or patent infringement)?" Where is "software"?

    At this point:

    Demodulator designs were next ported into programmable hardware dedicated to signal-processing applications (digital signal processors); this required the ADC, plus the algorithm converted to the DSP's assembly language. This saved cost and size.

    At the point programmabel hardware was used. From this point on the actual improvements were performed by the people working on improving programable hardware not the people implimenting FM demodulators.

  12. cliche on Physicist Explains Cthulhu's "Non-Euclidean Geometry" · · Score: 1

    Everyone who views the birth certificate goes mad, so it is really hard to verify.

    You can't prove a negative without non-Euclidean geometry.

  13. Not a Paradox on Empathy Represses Analytic Thought, and Vice Versa · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think your proof falls apart with your first statement "Rational analysis will lead to better outcomes than emotionally driven behavior." This might be evidence of the opposite. That empathic behavior is more likely to get you laid and produce children than rational behavior.

  14. Re:Must be prior art on Surfcast Sues Microsoft Over Tile Patent · · Score: 1

    1996, the iframe tag was introduced by Internet Explorer to load content asynchronously. In 1998, Microsoft Outlook Web Access team implemented the first component XMLHTTP by client script. In 1999, Microsoft utilized its iframe technology to dynamically update the news stories and stock quotes on the default page for Internet Explorer

    Taken from AJAX wikipedia article.

  15. AJAX with tiles on Surfcast Sues Microsoft Over Tile Patent · · Score: 1

    Seems to me they are trying to patent AJAX used with a grid based interface.

  16. Re:Share what ad revenue? on France Applies Tax Pressure To Google For Republishing News Snippets · · Score: 1

    People using the normal search results are not looking for news. Google only gets paid when the user clicks on an advertisement. People who click on a Toyota adverstisement after searching Toyota were not searching for news about Toyota. (This post is not paid for by Toyota)

  17. Looney Toons vrs Disney on Disney to Acquire Lucasfilm, Star Wars Episode 7 Due In 2015 · · Score: 1

    Looney Toons vrs Disney would be a cool game. Tag team fights between Bugs Bunny/Road Runner vrs Mickey/Pluto

  18. Re:Why was boat out to sea on Sandy Sinks HMS Bounty, Knocks Off Gawker Websites · · Score: 1

    Wow you sure know how to lie with statistics. That is 2 /14 compared with 24 / several million. Lets end this conversation it is getting kinda of not classy.

  19. Newspapers not source of news on France Applies Tax Pressure To Google For Republishing News Snippets · · Score: 1

    But why should a newspaper get paid for that headline. The headline is nothing more than rewording of a press release put out by the researches. Shouldn't the researches get paid instead?

  20. Re:Why was boat out to sea on Sandy Sinks HMS Bounty, Knocks Off Gawker Websites · · Score: 1
    Nevermind, It looks like they were trying to save the ship by sailing it east St. Petersburg.

    Bounty's current voyage is a calculated decision... NOT AT ALL... irresponsible or with a lack of foresight as some have suggested. The fact of the matter is... A SHIP IS SAFER AT SEA THAN IN PORT!

    Safer for the ship. The dead crew would have been safer in their beds on land.

  21. Why was boat out to sea on Sandy Sinks HMS Bounty, Knocks Off Gawker Websites · · Score: 1

    Does anywone know why the boat was out? Seems like a bad time to sail in replica boat.

  22. Re:Code Style is not about then indents on Does Coding Style Matter? · · Score: 1

    ok, will look into it.

  23. Re:Code Style is not about then indents on Does Coding Style Matter? · · Score: 1

    How do you specify an "else" if you cannot use the else keyword nor the ?: operator?

    By keeping methods small and using the return statement. We don't actually have a rule for ?: but no one uses it. I just personally hate ?: because it is terrible syntax. There are exceptions for the length rules but in general 40 lines long is a very very long method.

  24. Re:It doesn't matter on Does Coding Style Matter? · · Score: 1

    If you replace spaces with tabs then the number of spaces that existed prior to the replace is gone. If the commit style does not have strict rules about spacing then your going to have changes on every line.

  25. Re:It does matter on Does Coding Style Matter? · · Score: 1

    Style guides are good for novice programmers who have no experience. It can be used to find many of the common mistakes novices make style wise.