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  1. Re:Could have been worst! on Google's Patent Lawyer On Why the Patent System Is Broken · · Score: 1

    if the Wright brothers decided to file a patent for a device that produces lift as it moves forward (Aeroplane wings)

    They did, that's a bad example. They were the patent trolls of the 1900s.

  2. Re:Or Ostrich on Scientists Advocate Replacing Cattle With Insects · · Score: 1

    Ostrich meat is delicious and also healthier for you then cow. Unfortunately its hard to find here in America.

  3. Re:Use a real alarm clock on iPhone Alarms Hit By New Year's Bug · · Score: 2

    I hope we've all made time and date mistakes before, that I'm not the only one. I wrote some accounting software that ran a script every hour that calculated a set of numbers for billing information. Each hour the script would run, then at midnight another script would run to calculate the average hourly total for the day. To calculate the average, I merely added each hour's numbers together then divided by 24. My fatal mistake was assuming each day contained 24 hours, which would normally be true, except for one day. This specific day, the script ran only 23 times instead of 24 due to daylight savings time skipping an hour. The mistake lead to an artificially deflated average and quite the yelling from my boss. You would think we programmers could assume something simple like there being 24 hours in a day, but apparently our time and date system wasn't invented by a programmer.

  4. Re:And it's great for sysadmins on Florida Town Builds Data Center In Water Tank · · Score: 5, Funny

    You just dive in and swim to the server racks.

    There's a new job opening in Altamonte, a sysadmin that is SCUBA certified.

  5. Re:Sony should have lost this already. on Sony Lawsuits Target PS3 Jailbreak Authors · · Score: 1

    The primary purpose of the device (the PSJailbreak) that started this is piracy, and this is what the vast majority of people using the device and its clones are doing.

    The act of jailbreaking your PS3 shouldn't be illegal, even if you do so with the intent on playing pirated games.
    Instead, copying or playing pirated games would be illegal. It shouldn't be illegal until you cross that line.

  6. Faulty Software on 'Leap Seconds' May Be Eliminated From UTC · · Score: 1

    The issue is the faulty time implementation in software, not time itself.

  7. Re:Not ready as a gaming platform on Steam Not Coming To Linux · · Score: 1, Interesting

    There are several things wrong with what you just said.
    I'll start by saying 'Wine Is Not an Emulator', it implements Windows calls in Linux.
    Everything in Linux doesn't have to be free an open source, theres no requirement of it. It would be a welcoming site to see proprietary applications being ported to Linux, even if it wasn't open sourced.

  8. Amazon's 1-Click patent on Why Software Patents Are a Joke — Literally · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "There was even an unofficial competition to see who could get the goofiest patent through the system."

    I believe this is how Amazon's 1-Click patent got started.

  9. Re:What? on Warp Engines In Development? · · Score: 1

    I dont know what school you went to, but there is a relationship between all four natural forces (strong nuclear, magnetic, gravitational, and weak). Its been proven that you can levitate objects with strong magnetic fields, heres some video for you to throw your old text books at:

    http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/solids/ maglev.html

  10. Re:Another dimension... pah! on Warp Engines In Development? · · Score: 1

    According to the string theory, there are 26 spacetime dimensions. I'm sorry that your 15 years old and ignorant.

    http://www.superstringtheory.com/basics/basic4a.ht ml