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  1. Re:http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Software_is_math on Patent 5,893,120 Reduced To Pure Math · · Score: 1

    is it a general purpose machine or a specific purpose machine? is it an objectifiable patent or a meta-patent?

  2. Re:Not sure I understand this argument at all on Patent 5,893,120 Reduced To Pure Math · · Score: 1

    Likewise, books are language. Can books be copyrighted? No one owns language.

    Copyright is not a patent and a breach of copyright may make you a parrot but it does not make you a thief. If it's a book of facts, then no you can't copyright those facts.

    A power drill is metal and plastic. Can a power drill be patented, then?

    I've made one from wood and gas, a plastic and metal one may be patented, but I can still make a wood and gas one.

    it's the implementation of the mechanism not the power and the drilling, which can be done in a number of ways.

  3. Re:That's not the solution, this is on The Fight Against Dark Silicon · · Score: 1

    ohhh.. often the problem is that they can define when logical conditions are met, they just can't then generalize and turn it into patterns etc... and well that's all too much like hard work when I can just hack and slash myself through the day...

    it's like they've written a function in C++ but the body of the function looks more like very bad prologue.

    void foobar(int &a)
    {
    int tmp = a;
    if (a = 1)
    {
    a*=a;
    a=(int)sqrt(float)a));
    a++;
          if (a + 1 = 2 )
    {
    printf ("goofie%d", a);
    }
    a--;
    } else if (a 0)
    {
    }
    if (a 0)
    {
    }
    a = tmp;
    }

    and of-course their XSLT looks like a bad day with asp and grep, so they clearly can't turn that prologue like C into prologue like XSLT.

    CDATA.... ahhh.........

    I usually write XSLT as with a few document() selects a few includes and XML 'control and data' in a number of separate files to work on the document I want to transform and it's all pretty nice, neat, easy,modular etc.... (tail recursion not withstanding).

  4. Re:That's not the solution, this is on The Fight Against Dark Silicon · · Score: 1

    it's in the self.

  5. Re:So the geek comes up to the bar and said on Using AI To Identify Innuendo · · Score: 0

    I'd see the Dr about that if I where you, that's what she said.

  6. Re:That's not the solution, this is on The Fight Against Dark Silicon · · Score: 2

    cats are illiterate, they walk all over the bloody keyboard causing all kinds of havoc.

    "I know someone who is a good intuitive mechanic, but somehow managed to get to adulthood with less than third grade reading and writing skills.",
    quite possible the way that he learns things (ergo... schools are crap)

    I have/had that problem, in that language is generally poorly designed and people like to fuck with other peoples heads. But I worked out how they do that now and it kind of, mostly, started to sort itself out.

  7. Re:That's not the solution, this is on The Fight Against Dark Silicon · · Score: 2

    programmer-safe language.

    That's just asking for trouble,that's like saying a keyboard is safe from illiterate people because it has letters printed on the keys.

  8. Re:Because on Mystery Air Crash Black Box Found Sans Memory Part · · Score: 1

    Oh come on man, everyone know that the Egyptians infiltrated the Jewish 'escape' from tyranny with one of their own who runs all the scams.

    I got there first and he approved.

  9. Re:Because on Mystery Air Crash Black Box Found Sans Memory Part · · Score: 2

    a large part is a bit like big portion, well that's what she said.

  10. Re:Isn't it obvious? on Figuring Out Why Android Wins On Phones, But Not Tablets · · Score: 0

    stiff hand job all the way baby.

  11. Re:Isn't it obvious? on Figuring Out Why Android Wins On Phones, But Not Tablets · · Score: 0

    I prefer fit blonds

  12. Re:So the geek comes up to the bar and said on Using AI To Identify Innuendo · · Score: 0

    what she just said.

    I prefer putting down straw men, whilst laughing.

  13. Re:PLEASE!!! on Department of Justice: FBI Too Focused On Child Porn · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeh, they need access to kiddie porn'o too. So they can think of the children of-course.

  14. Re:So the geek comes up to the bar and said on Using AI To Identify Innuendo · · Score: 0

    I was reading the news about censorship the other day, whilst busy swapping some stuff on the dark net, as you do.
    And my mate said to me, "Thank God the internet isn't a human, right?"

  15. Re:So the geek comes up to the bar and said on Using AI To Identify Innuendo · · Score: -1, Troll

    "I honestly don't have a single clue", what you just said.

  16. Re:So the geek comes up to the bar and said on Using AI To Identify Innuendo · · Score: -1, Troll

    "Goes right over some people's heads", that what she said.

  17. Re:So the geek comes up to the bar and said on Using AI To Identify Innuendo · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    you've obviously used real intelligence and never put your end in anything that goes o.
    does that help?

  18. Re:Problem Solving on What Does IQ Really Measure? · · Score: 1

    colon.

  19. Re:Dihydrogen Monoxide *is* a serious threat on The Chemical-Free Chemistry Kit · · Score: 1

    I hear sodium chloride makes it able to electrocute people too and give off dangerous noxious fumes.

  20. Re:Dihydrogen Monoxide *is* a serious threat on The Chemical-Free Chemistry Kit · · Score: 2

    all you need is a lead acid battery, some urine and some old vegetable oil.

    Half empty first, dehydrate second.
    mix,
    do something (carefully... ohh stings)
    collect red fuming
    buffer with other half
    render third
    skim
    mix with buffer
    warm
    titrare
    add cellulose base product to help with stability.
    set up Nobel prize fund.

  21. So the geek comes up to the bar and said on Using AI To Identify Innuendo · · Score: -1

    So the geek comes up to the bar and said, "I've pulled"
    What you, pulled, your joking right? I'll buy you a drink said the bar tender.

    But, "How's about using AI To identify in you end'o" that's what she said.

  22. Re:Lunchbreaks on The Importance of Lunch · · Score: 1

    Id gues tis pissez u off a bit, like I can be bothered, I'll skip the big long words.

  23. Re:Lunchbreaks on The Importance of Lunch · · Score: 1

    I get great pleasure knowing that.

    Try to feel it this way:
    If there where no headless chickens there would be no dinner.
    If there where no farmers and communities there would be no chickens.
    If there where no one to eat them, then there would be no demand.

  24. Re:Lunchbreaks on The Importance of Lunch · · Score: 1

    what's the pay split between the men and the women? (real or imaginary, net or gross)

    Do women with more caring and compassionate phenotypes work in different sectors?

  25. Re:Lunchbreaks on The Importance of Lunch · · Score: 1

    what inability to report issues to management and work together?

    I think there's and ICD10-V for that.