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  1. Re:Richard Young on Lucas Researching Concept For New Indiana Jones Film · · Score: 1

    He was in the sequel "Force 10 from Navarone" (1978).

  2. Re:Public Library, check DVDs out FREE, no asshole on WB Took Pains To "Delay" Pirating of Dark Knight · · Score: 1

    My local library at least checks out DVDs. As for blockbuster movies, it has 31 copies of Batman Begins.

  3. Re:Space Madness! on Apollo 14 Moonwalker Claims Aliens Exist · · Score: 1

    No; every set of axioms strong enough to prove all primitive recursive truths will either prove some false statement or fail to prove some true statement.

    There are complete systems; the integers with addition, and (IIRC) the real numbers under addition and multiplication.

  4. Re:This seems to be a recurring problem. on UK PM's Aide Loses BlackBerry In Chinese Honeytrap · · Score: 1

    It's not about holding up the "good guy" pretense; it's about delaying the victim from realizing he was a victim and acting to minimize the breach.

  5. Re:Slaughterhouse Cases on PC Repair In Texas Now Requires a PI License · · Score: 1

    And IIRC, a doctor is required to report certain types of injuries (usually gunshot wounds) to the police.

  6. Re:This is like "computer battle human in tennis" on Poker Program Battles Humans In Vegas · · Score: 1

    Limit poker is simpler in that it has a finite number of cases, and the computer can start at the end and work backwards.

  7. Re:Can't lose money? on Poker Program Battles Humans In Vegas · · Score: 1

    Read about game theory. Handling problems with randomness or incomplete information can have statistically perfect solutions in that they will, on average, win at least as much on the good hands as they lose on the bad hands.

  8. Re:only law abiding citizens will be effected on Pentagon Wants Kill Switch For Planes · · Score: 1

    How about just disabling steering, turning it into a large glider?

  9. Re:World's Greatest Detective on Hans Reiser To Reveal Location of Wife's Body · · Score: 4, Funny

    Darned Whippersnappers!

  10. Re:How did he do it? on Stealing From Banks One Cent at a Time · · Score: 4, Informative

    By closing the accounts before Paypal / Google Checkout could remove the money.

  11. Re:Pinball is too expensive... on The Last Pinball Machine Factory · · Score: 1

    There are far more things that can break on a pinball machine than a console.

  12. Re:Which 25 moves? on Rubik's Cube Proof Cut To 25 Moves · · Score: 1

    Of course there's an algorithm to find the optimal solution:
    Try every sequence of up to N moves until you find one that works.
    It's horribly inefficient, but it works.

  13. Re:Lying is not fraud. on The $54 Million Laptop · · Score: 1

    I think that "evading the penalties for losing a customer's property" is a gain.

  14. Re:here are your choices: on Live Blogs From the Hans Reiser Trial · · Score: 1

    There weren't any facts that pointed to the defendant's innocence; juror 10 kept pointing out weaknesses with the evidence.

  15. Re:Seems like noone won on Deal Reportedly Reached In Writers' Strike · · Score: 1

    I think that the existence of labor laws is closely related to the existence of unions.

  16. Re:Huh??? on Court Says You Can Copyright a Cease-And-Desist Letter · · Score: 1

    I've heard of a loophole: If something is being auctioned off, the seller can provide a description of the object. In the case of a letter, that would involve reproducing the text.

  17. Re:I don't really care. on Digital Watermarks to Replace DRM · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Poor neglectd letter "s".

  18. Re:Offtopic spelling nazi on Legalize File Sharing, Say Swedish MPs · · Score: 1

    I heard that as being from Andrew Jackson (Something like "It's a poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.")

  19. Re:Edelman method = Non starter on Tweaking The Math Behind Political Representation · · Score: 1

    The Hamilton method was dropped because it was possible to have a situation where increasing the total number of Representatives could reduce an individual state's representation. With the size of the House being fixed, that probably no longer matters.

  20. Re:Anyone else hate idiots like this? on Most Consumers Sitting Out The High-Def War · · Score: 1

    Just "a very small change"? IIRC, a definition would be "the smallest change that can possibly happen".

  21. Re:his tears tears no cancer cure on Chuck Norris Sues Publisher, Tears Don't Cure Cancer · · Score: 1

    If Hustler won against Falwell, I find it hard to see the court ruling this as slander/libel.

  22. Re:MSRP vs Wholesale on Retail Store Scalping Wii Consoles on eBay · · Score: 1

    :: Not only that, it's not feasable to do -- if Gamestop priced the Wii at $300, everyone would go over to Bestbuy where they're $250.

    Only if Bestbuy had them in stock.

  23. Re:Obligatory on Couple Busted For Shining Laser At Helicopter · · Score: 1

    IIRC, it's necessary to get a permit for using a laser outside at night (partially so that they can make sure that those don't conflict with any planned flights).

  24. Re:Skype unbreakable? on Skype Encryption Stumps German Police · · Score: 1

    Consider sample of 1,000,000,000 people.
    1/10,000 of them have the disease (100,000).
    The rest (999,900,000) are healthy.
    The test is wrong 1/1000 and right 999/1000.

    100 sick are diagnosed healthy.
    99,900 sick are diagnosed sick.
    999,900 healthy are diagnosed sick.
    998900100 healthy are diagnosed healthy.

    If the result is "sick", the chance is 99900/(99900+999900) = .09 that the person is sick, and 91% that the person is healthy.
    If the result is "healthy", the chance is 100/(100+998900100) = 10^-7 that the person is sick, and 99.999% that the person is healthy.

  25. Re:Skype unbreakable? on Skype Encryption Stumps German Police · · Score: 1

    There are two different questions:

    - If the person is sick, what is the chance that the test will give a sick result? (99.9 %)
    - If the test gives a sick result, what is the chance the person is sick? (1 %)

    And you can't invert the result; if it gives a healthy result, the person is almost certainly healthy.