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  1. Re:Comment removed due to license infringment. on European Parliament Votes in Favor of Controversial Copyright Laws (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Only works can be copyrighted. It's not like someone spent hours of creative effort coming up with the original "Next time say something original" phrase, therefore it does not qualify.

  2. That just means they will reach the target even sooner!

  3. Re:Homeopathy About to Be Debunked. Pictures at 11 on Legend of Loch Ness Monster Will Be Tested With DNA Samples (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah and also aliens don't have DNA so it won't even register!

  4. That sounds believable. But it needs to be shortened. Into several short sentences. Then it will be good. So good.

  5. Re:Is everyone else getting sued, too? on Intel Hit With More Than 30 Lawsuits Over Security Flaws (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    The summary is how Intel wants this communicated so that they can spread the blame more.

  6. Hey, the banks did it! Good luck trying to get into a bank office these days without a time reservation or a crowbar, all the customer service is online.

  7. Buy an AMD this time?

  8. Things have progressed since the article on UK PM Seeks 'Safe and Ethical' Artificial Intelligence (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    After some intense requirements engineering, they have now distilled it down to "In each situation, the AI must do whatever Brian Boitano would do". Also I guess artificial intelligence in the government is preferable to no intelligence in the government. The UK government needs all the help they can get these days.

  9. Hey if you get paid by or evaluated based on the number of lines of code you write, this probably seems like a great idea! If every other line of code you write is "Do Nothing;" the amount of bugs per line in your code is halved. Great success!

  10. Shooting for the Darwin awards? on Flat Earther's Homemade Rocket Launcher Breaks Down in His Driveway (desertsun.com) · · Score: 1

    I bet this guy has us all tricked and he is really just trying to win the Darwin Award.

  11. Re:Rose tinted glasses on The Only Thing, Historically, That's Curbed Inequality: Catastrophe (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm a bit late replying, but I think he is referring to the net immigration from Syria..

  12. There is a recently published new theory of gravity that doesn't need dark matter to explain the movement of stars. It does on the other hand need Einstein to be wrong: http://earthsky.org/space/erik... The article has a link to the actual paper.

  13. The 1050 and 1060 don't support SLI, so the only option is multi-gpu support through DirectX 12. For DirectX 11, there is no support. http://www.gamersnexus.net/gui...

  14. Re:A perfect Christmas gift... on Vinyl Records Outsold Digital Downloads In the UK Last Week (adweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Those CDs can indeed be very good, but not all of them used the best sources available (=the earliest available generation master tapes). Sometimes modern CDs are the best option - e.g. the Beatles In Mono box is great and completely uncompressed. The mono releases are for most Beatles records the mixes the band themselves participated in making. Someone else then remixed them to stereo. Modern vinyl releases, even when not compressed, usually come with some amount of bass boost. I don't understand why there is this need to modernise the sound of vintage recordings. It's not like blu-ray releases of black and white movies are artificially coloured either.

  15. Re:A gift for the stupid and uneducated on Vinyl Records Outsold Digital Downloads In the UK Last Week (adweek.com) · · Score: 1

    24-bit is pointless for playback.

    I guess the jury is still out on this one: http://www.aes.org/blog/2016/7... The paper itself is a free download: http://www.aes.org/e-lib/brows...

  16. Re:Why conceal it? on Tiny Vermont Brings Food Industry To Its Knees On GMO Labels (ap.org) · · Score: 0

    Is this the model for Trump's upcoming wall on the mexican border?

  17. Wouldn't the free market just take care of this? You can't really do price gouging if you can get the product at a fraction of the price somewhere else - or are the alternatives not available as widely? "As of September 2015, Daraprim imported directly from GSK UK is available for less than US$7 per tablet" and "On October 22, 2015, Imprimis Pharmaceuticals announced it has made available a formulation of Pyrimethamine and Leucovorin in oral capsules starting as low as $99.00 for a 100 count bottle." (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...)

  18. Re:Cultural? on Volkswagen Boss Blames Software Engineers For Scandal (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Then he calls you back with the answer..

  19. Re:Hardware requirements for Marshmallow? on Motorola Marketed the Moto E 2015 On Promise of Updates, Stops After 219 Days · · Score: 1

    The Moto G2 will get the update and it also has 1Gb of RAM.

  20. Re:Or, you know, just pay for the fucking movie. on More Popcorn Time Users Sued · · Score: 1

    Or download the movie from the Internet which is easier, not to mention no more illegal in some countries. No rocket surgery should be needed to lawfully view the DVD you bought in your own home according to the terms of the EULA. If it's needed, the product's quality is inferior and the main argument for buying the thing in the first place is weakened.

  21. Re: How many people to thank? on Linux Kernel 4.2 Released · · Score: 1

    1994? pfft! Back in the late 50's when I was in my early 70's this place used to be tolerable. It wen't downhill when all those hippies showed up in the 60's.

  22. Windows 10 on Firefox 40 Arrives With Windows 10 Support, Expanded Malware Protection · · Score: 1

    Expanded Malware Protection? Windows 10 Support? Does not compute - unless it means it doesn't run on Windows 10 now?

  23. Re:In A Free Republic on Georgia Lawmakers Sue Carl Malamud For Publishing Georgia Law · · Score: 1

    In Finland the law code is public domain, I can't possibly think of any reason why it would be in the public interest to copyright the law.

  24. Re:They're bums, why keep them around on Greece Is Running Out of Money, Cannot Make June IMF Repayment · · Score: 1
  25. Re:Evolution in play? on Harvard Hit With Racial Bias Complaint · · Score: 1

    I'm positive there hasn't been enough of these better jobs to make a difference and usually better off people have fewer children, not more. Any effect on the genetical probably varies between none to microscopic. What it probably has done however, is to make the culture value scholarly pursuits which probably accounts for 99.9+% of the advantages.