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  1. Re:Interesting line from TFA: on Radioactive Wild Boars Still Roaming the Forests of Germany · · Score: 1

    Cesium radiated boars were found in northwestern Italy last year(Google translated article), and Chernobyl was blamed. However I still wonder what the cesium levels were before Chernobyl: perhaps it's just that boars are like bananas and tobacco.

  2. Re:Free market escapades! on China Gives Microsoft 20 Days To Respond To Competition Probe · · Score: 1

    From the TFA: "Microsoft's new obstacles in China come as the government reportedly begins ramping up efforts to build the nation's own operating system.".

  3. Re:Should of never got rid of other OS and outsorc on Hackers Claim PlayStation Network Take-Down · · Score: 3

    XBox owners don't have any reason to fear losing next weekend services, while PSN users will live the week worrying about.

    Oh rly?
    Xbox Live Experiencing Issues, PSN Attackers Taking Credit

  4. Re:Spread their terror on Hackers Claim PlayStation Network Take-Down · · Score: 2
  5. Re:Are You Kidding? on Geneticists Decry Book On Race and Evolution · · Score: 1

    Europe might still be languishing at a near medieval level of technology

    Which was the best in the world at the time and far ahead that of many peoples during the age of conquest.

  6. Some calculations on SpaceX Cargo Capsule Leaves Space Station For Home · · Score: 1

    So NASA spent $1.6 billion for the CRS program, that is for 12 missions [1]. That is $75 million for mission. The payload of the CRS-3 mission, the biggest so far by the way, was 4,605 pounds (the declared maximum is 7,300 lb)[2], in other words $16,200 for pound of payload, including packaging. I'd like to know how does that compare to other space transport services.

  7. Re:Bad syllogism on Mathematical Model Suggests That Human Consciousness Is Noncomputable · · Score: 2

    The contradiction is that the system is not computable while the model is, that's their reasoning. They know that the model, that is the thesis, is incorrect, otherwise the reductio ad absurdum wouldn't work.

  8. Re:A bit of common sense maybe? on Measles Outbreak In NYC · · Score: 1

    Or negligence.

  9. Re:A bit of common sense maybe? on Measles Outbreak In NYC · · Score: 1

    Wrong! You go to jail if you fail to assess a reasonable risk. (1) After a four months long earthquake swarm many buildings were weakened, (2) the earthquake swarm wasn't over, so (3) more earthquakes were probable (for the swarm was going on) and many buildings weren't ready for more (because they already suffered damage), conclusion: there was a reasonable risk, and the experts failed to assess it. That's how it works for technical evaluations.

  10. Re:A bit of common sense maybe? on Measles Outbreak In NYC · · Score: 1

    The GP post was clearly referring to the United States.

    I know, funny smartass, but since I also know that in the US there's this little thing: criminal transmission of HIV, I was questioning if the parent post was right or if it was just the usual 'murican screaming "Constitution!!!11!!", when there's something he doesn't agree with.

  11. Re:A bit of common sense maybe? on Measles Outbreak In NYC · · Score: 1

    - fines for not vaccinating your children

    Unconstitutional.

    Really? In Italy if you don't vaccinate your underage children you'll be fined for sure, because it's regarded a threat to public health. I think you can even lose the "patria potestà" (that is your children are no longer yours) if you refuse to conform.

  12. Re:"pro-Russian forces in Crimea" on WikiLeaks Cables Foreshadow Russian Instigation of Ukrainian Military Action · · Score: 1

    Yes and it has nothing to do with what I said. I wasn't talking about Crimea, I was talking about Ukraine at large. You are a fool if you think that Putin is doing all this just for Crimea: this is not a battle for Crimea, that was already lost to Ukraine the moment that they let ultra-nationalists take a big part in the revolution, this is a battle for the whole Ukraine.

    Let's get back to the point of my previous post. Things for the Russians would be much, much, much harder, I'd even say impossible, If there weren't these idiots: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... (BBC Newsnight). In the moment of maximum weakness of an already weak country, they brought division and idiotic nationalist mumble jumble, when they should have cared about political and ethnic cooperation (you know, "United we stand, divided we fall"). That's a big fault and it's not a Russian fault.

  13. Re:"pro-Russian forces in Crimea" on WikiLeaks Cables Foreshadow Russian Instigation of Ukrainian Military Action · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The 'Ukrainian people' means different things to different people - if you're an ethnic Russian in Crimea you live in Ukraine but probably have much more allegiance to mother Russia than the government in Kiev. If you're a kid in Kiev born post-Soviet era to ethnic Ukrainian parents, different deal. Ethnic Tatar, different again.

    I don't want to start a heated debate, so I'll answer only this point: saying that "the 'Ukrainian people' means different things to different people" is the exact mistake that brought them at this point. The Ukrainian people is all the people that dwells Ukraine: Ukrainians, Russians, Hebrews, Romanians, Poles and Tatars. The opposition parties should have been more levelheaded: if they really wanted to keep Ukraine united, they should have tried to keep the people (all of them) united. Instead they let the nationalists take a big part in the whole process, including rejecting a reasonable deal mediated by the EU with a president that was actually democratically elected and had a lot of support in vast areas of the country, taking three seats in the government including ministry of defence, and removing the Russian language from the list of the official languages of the country.

    I'm not saying that Russia is right, but that the revolutionaries acted quite stupidly: they should have tried to wheedle ethnic minorities, not stir them up.

  14. Re:"pro-Russian forces in Crimea" on WikiLeaks Cables Foreshadow Russian Instigation of Ukrainian Military Action · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, it usually works. Don't fix it, if it ain't broken.

    More seriously, Ukraine is a failed state at the mercy of the shenanigans of both western and Russian shills. And, more importantly, neither party, Russia and West, act for the better of the Ukrainian people.

  15. Re:Just dual boot already on Portal 2 Beta Released For Linux · · Score: 1

    Define serious, please.

  16. Lombroso Redeemed on Does Crime Leave a Genetic Trace? · · Score: 1

    And so Cesare Lombroso wasn't so wrong after all!

  17. Re:Most Software Is Shit on Open Source In the Datacenter: It Was Never About Innovation · · Score: 1

    I mean, Jesus Christ, America. We can see it happening right now in China. They were shit in the world economy (and their own economy, for that matter) until the government started letting businesses actually profit and compete with others (i.e., more capitalism).

    The Corporatism part is quite right, after all the corporatist state envisioned by Mussolini was a system of lobbies, regulated by formal mechanisms. However, when Deng Xiaoping turned China towards a market economy (but not really a capitalist one) in the 80s, China was already doing comparatively better than India or Brazil, two capitalist states that a few decades early were in a better position than post-revolutionary China. The actual Chinese economic system is a bit complex and not really capitalist, its big players are state owned and the banking system (that is the capitals) is mainly state-owned or under the firm grip of the state.

  18. Re:really? XBox? we sure about that? on Microsoft Makes an Astonishing $2 Billion Per Year From Android Patent Royalties · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Xbox is still there only because M$ has deep pockets. The original Xbox lost billions, the 360 lost a couple more billions in its first two years on the market and then never made a steady profit, they can also hide the development expenses for the Xbox in their R&D division, not to mention the expenses for the development of the Xbox OS. The Xbox would not be a viable platform for anyone else, but M$. That's a fact.

  19. Re:Nobody will notice. on Microsoft Makes an Astonishing $2 Billion Per Year From Android Patent Royalties · · Score: 1

    Skype lost 8 million dollars the year before the acquisition by M$. Those 2 billions are all for Xbox and WP.

  20. Re:Being a Saudi on Saudi Justice: 10 Years and 2,000 Lashes For Internet Video of Naked Dancing · · Score: 1

    So the problem in Saudi Arabia is not Islam, but the state ideology.

  21. Re:wait a minute on South African Education Department Bans Free and Open Source Software · · Score: 1

    I guess that there are more students in South Africa than workers in a $10 million company.

  22. Re:Today on New Unix Implementation Turns 30 · · Score: 1

    And the 1988 MIT license is among the OSI approved licences: http://opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical . The oldest OSI approved GPL license is the 1991 GPL 2.0, the oldest OSI approved BSD license is the 1998 3-clause BSD license. The older BSD licenses are not among the OSI approved ones, because they are clusterfucks, not because there was no OSI at the time.

  23. Re:Today on New Unix Implementation Turns 30 · · Score: 1

    For the lolz.

  24. Re:Today on New Unix Implementation Turns 30 · · Score: 1

    The 1988 BSD license is not OSI approved: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bsd_license .

  25. Re:Today on New Unix Implementation Turns 30 · · Score: 2

    Before the GPL there was the GNU Emacs General Public License: http://www.free-soft.org/gpl_history/emacs_gpl.html .
    A bit of history of the first open source license: http://oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ch09.html .