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  1. Re:Cats have an extraordinary recovery potential on Bionic Cat Gets World's First Implant Paws · · Score: 1

    I guess the fast recovery has something to do with the fact that they live shorter. (Faster metabolism compared to humans, higher pulse etc.)

  2. Re:For some, experience works against you on At Google, You're Old and Gray At 40 · · Score: 1

    The CEOs of these high-tech companies don't want people around that keep bringing up the fact that "the Emperor has no clothes". Young people can be easily entranced with shiny objects and not realize that there are wasting enormous amounts of their lives. Especially when they're getting paid to waste their time.

    "Especially when they're getting paid to waste their time."

    In other places people call that work. And no, they're not wasting their time. They're wasting other people's time. And in other places it's called entertainment.

  3. Re:And the US...? on Europe To Import Sahara Solar Power Within 5 Years · · Score: 5, Informative
  4. Re:Solve Problem by Legalizing Child Pornography on Italian MEP Wants To Eliminate Anonymity On the Internet · · Score: 1

    can I take pictures of children, keep them in a bank vault, and when they reach the age of majority they can either burn the images or sell them for college money?

    Then even the subject of the photo would be jailed for CP. (There were similar rulings with sexting.)

  5. Re:The sad thing is... on Thailand Shuts Down 43,000 More Websites · · Score: 1

    "The government puts these laws in place. You're opposed to the King overriding government. You're also opposed to the King not overriding government. Make your mind up!"

    However the king also should watch the constitutionality of laws.

  6. Re:Kings and Queens on Thailand Shuts Down 43,000 More Websites · · Score: 1

    I gladly admit that a democratic monarchy is old-fashioned, expensive and looks like a lot of theatre. But there is hardly anything better.

    In Hungary the President does have very little power, very similar to your king/queen.

    So I guess it doesn't have to be expensive.

  7. Re:The nuclear resistance myth on Thailand Shuts Down 43,000 More Websites · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Should have designed the internet to be more resistant to oppressive governments.

    It's a rather weird suggestion as the internet was designed by a government agency.

  8. Re:Let me get this straight... on In Ukraine, IT Freelancing Under Threat · · Score: 1

    It is but it's usually not called that way because of PR issues with the word confederation.

  9. Re:Grumble. on Berners-Lee Pushes Linked Data In MIT Course · · Score: 1

    Well, if that's an optional course, I don't see how is that wrong.

  10. Re:Let me get this straight... on In Ukraine, IT Freelancing Under Threat · · Score: 1

    Let me present a different way of thinking: ...
    Germany is a federation itself, which is part of a bigger confederation called EU. Your comparison is still apples and oranges.

  11. Re:Old adage(Slightly screwed up) on Israeli Startup Claims SSD Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    Because dedicated circuitry is more stable and requires less computing overhead?

    What about RISC?

  12. Re:Intelligent life on Mars May Have Been 1/3 Ocean · · Score: 1

    What if they're intelligent oil eating creatures, who just run out of "food"?

  13. Re:Next up: Programmers on The Real Science Gap · · Score: 1

    The next career to disappear in the U.S. is programming. There are no more entry level jobs, they've all been outsourced. Hence, there is no new generation of programmers in the U.S.

    That means any new innovation in computer software will be coming from India or another of the up-coming outsourcing countries.

    Actually what will happen is that India's wages will increase (they are now) making them too expensive, so the big multinationals are moving to cheaper parts of the World, like Eastern Europe, and then they will get too expensive. This will continue as software jobs move around the World to the point when one day, the US will be the cheapest country (we'll be spiraling down economically while this is happening) to develop software and it will all come back to us - India will be outsourcing to us.

    There's almost 7 billion people on Earth which means there are what, several hundred million - a billion, that are capable of programming? Supply and demand.

    Eastern Europe is no way cheaper than India. Eastern Europe is second world, India still third. (I live in Hungary.) However you might get slightly better work moral.

  14. The only problem left ... on $1 Trillion In Minerals Found In Afghanistan · · Score: 1

    Not enough Vespene gas!

  15. Re:Can You Spot the Difference? on Bill Gates's New Version of the Einstein Letter · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually you're totally wrong.

    Einstein acted alone and was not heavily invested in nuclear energy. Gates and his friends are heavily invested in alternative energy sources.

    "The Einstein–Szilárd letter was a letter sent to United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt on August 2, 1939, that was signed by Albert Einstein but largely written by Leó Szilárd in consultation with fellow Hungarian physicists Edward Teller and Eugene Wigner."

    Szilárd had a patent on nuclear chain reaction.
    Szilárd and Fermi had patent on nuclear-power plant design.

  16. Re:Serious difficulty in believing this on North Korean Flash Games For Export · · Score: 1

    Satellite photos show North Korea as the darkest place on Earth during the night hours.

    They program during the day. ;)

  17. Re:Bullshit on Quant AI Picks Stocks Better Than Humans · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but there's a lot of playing field between the extremes. So, that's a non-sequiter.

  18. Re:Thank God on New York Times Bans Use of Word "Tweet" · · Score: 1

    100 years later it might be a sociological goldmine.

  19. Re:It never catched on before with hearing people on Why Video Calling Is a Wasted Feature In the UK · · Score: 1

    those.

    But then again. Mobile video calls have been very popular among the Scandinavian deafs and mutes since the early 90's. So there may be a unexplored market in the US and GB, albeit small.

    Is it better for them than texting?

  20. Re:Stupid Question on Giant Guatemalan 'Sinkhole' Is Worse Than We Thought · · Score: 1

    ... just like a black hole ...

  21. Re:pros and cons of this approach on AI Astronomer Aids Effort To Analyze Galaxies · · Score: 1

    Your analogy is bogus. We're talking about learning. Reflexes are prewired, not learned.
    Decision trees and KBANN can provide explanation.

    (I don't say that those explanation are always that useful. Giving useful explanations isn't an easy task even for humans, and it's ambigous as well. )

  22. In Soviet Russia ... on Univ. of California Faculty May Boycott Nature Publisher · · Score: 1

    university studies you.

  23. Re:Parents? on Violent Video Games Only Affect Some People · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Video games are baby-sitter substitutes, just like the Cartoon Network.

  24. Re:Why is China blocking porn? on Porn Sites Pop Up In China · · Score: 1

    But why is China blocking porn? They aren't a traditionally Christian country - they're decidedly atheist, and actively prosecute Christians.

    For the same reason as muslim countries?

    You know, historically there were only two ways of contraception:
    1, abstinence until marriage
    2, infanticide (see the works of William Graham Sumner)
    (3, calender method, which is known to performs rather poorly)

  25. Re:Oh noes! on J. P. Barlow — Internet Has Broken the Political System · · Score: 1

    However in politics things are not as clear-cut as in science so the best thing we have is to rely on the common sense of the masses.