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  1. Re:Drake on Kepler's Alien World Count Skyrockets · · Score: 1

    It love your extreme specificity. "Up", "plentiful", "an amazing rate", "almost certain".

    My trip home from work will take "a few" minutes.
     

  2. How Many? on Kepler's Alien World Count Skyrockets · · Score: 2

    How many skyrockets did the world count?

  3. Re:Linux.. on Portal 2 Beta Released For Linux · · Score: 1

    I was referring to the writing on the wall, not the cake in the basement.

    Do keep up.

  4. Linux.. on Portal 2 Beta Released For Linux · · Score: 3, Funny

    >The_Cake
    False

  5. Re:robotic slave worshippers on Apocalypse NAO: College Studies the Theological Ramifications of Robotics · · Score: 1

    But they're all unsupported by evidence. So it doesn't matter.

  6. Re:robotic slave worshippers on Apocalypse NAO: College Studies the Theological Ramifications of Robotics · · Score: 1

    I went with the standard Western Monotheistic model, since he said God, not gods or the godhead.

  7. Re:Film at 11! on Consumer Reports Says Tesla Model S Is Best Overall Vehicle · · Score: 2, Insightful

    To be fair, you could spend $100k on a Merc or a BMW and get something that looks like a $40k Merc or BMW but is less reliable.

  8. Re:Fucking THIS on How Mobile Apps Are Reinventing the Worst of the Software Industry · · Score: 1

    >What the hell is wrong with having a well-coded, responsive design website?
    It doesn't work offline.

  9. Re:Bad news for Wolfram alpha on Copyright Ruling On Publishing Calculated Results: Common Sense Breaks Out · · Score: 1

    Dr Spock parents Mr Spock

  10. Re:Still ugly on Electric Bikes Get More Elegant Every Year (Video) · · Score: 1

    Because drop bars suck big donkey balls if you're not trying go as fast as possible.

  11. Re:I'm just scared shitless on Ford Dumping Windows For QNX In New Vehicles · · Score: 2

    A very real time control system I designed for an F1 car rebooted about every 60ms, by design.
    If there was some combination of conditions that screwed the pooch, it's ok. The conditions would change and the thing would reboot within 60ms.

    Reliable systems have to cope with the idea that software is unreliable.

  12. Re:I'm just scared shitless on Ford Dumping Windows For QNX In New Vehicles · · Score: 1

    I used to work in an F1 team. Trust me, some of the parts are fragile. The trick is to find them before you get to a race and to make good tradeoffs between fragility, weight and weight distribution.

  13. Re:The slides... on NSA and GHCQ Employing Shills To Poison Web Forum Discourse · · Score: 1

    >Reminds me of amateur materials

    It's hard to find a good pony-tailed adobe jockey with clearance.

  14. Re:robotic slave worshippers on Apocalypse NAO: College Studies the Theological Ramifications of Robotics · · Score: 1

    There is no good theology. We already established that.

  15. Re:robotic slave worshippers on Apocalypse NAO: College Studies the Theological Ramifications of Robotics · · Score: 1

    I think he needs to explain that. I'm not in his head.

  16. Re:If you can't win. on Ghostwriter Reveals the Secret Life of WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange · · Score: 1

    >Which facts are being attacked here?
    They're not being attacked. They're being neutralized. Read the parent.

  17. Re:If you can't win. on Ghostwriter Reveals the Secret Life of WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange · · Score: 1

    Assange is a dick. Therefore murdering journalists is ok.

    There is no logical connection between the two.

  18. Re:robotic slave worshippers on Apocalypse NAO: College Studies the Theological Ramifications of Robotics · · Score: 1

    Been there. Done that. The book is on my shelf.

  19. Re:robotic slave worshippers on Apocalypse NAO: College Studies the Theological Ramifications of Robotics · · Score: 2

    Science is pretty darned useful actually. Guarantees are few, but the overwhelming evidence of serial correlation in the world about us suggests that there's an objective reality outside our heads and it's worth looking at to see how it works.
     

  20. Re:robotic slave worshippers on Apocalypse NAO: College Studies the Theological Ramifications of Robotics · · Score: 1

    >"as we see it" may just be a local maximum reversal of entropy that is entirely overwhelmed by the chaos elsewhere in the universe.

    But that's exactly what we see.

  21. Re:If you can't win. on Ghostwriter Reveals the Secret Life of WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange · · Score: 1

    I don't see why not.

  22. Re:robotic slave worshippers on Apocalypse NAO: College Studies the Theological Ramifications of Robotics · · Score: 0

    It's not a 'either way' thing. Your construction of God is extremely unlikely. That the universe is as we see it is far more likely. Hanging onto wrong and worse, promoting it as the truth is evil.

  23. Re:"theological" - irrational, stupid, arbitrary on Apocalypse NAO: College Studies the Theological Ramifications of Robotics · · Score: 1

    Indeed.

  24. EBNF? on Book Review: Sudo Mastery: User Access Control For Real People · · Score: 1

    What's so hard about EBNF?

    It seems pretty simple to me.

  25. Re:Subcreation on Apocalypse NAO: College Studies the Theological Ramifications of Robotics · · Score: 1

    He should have spent some time trimming the fat out of Lord of the Rings. It was too long.