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  1. Re:Ethicist on Controversial Bioethicist Resigns From Celltex · · Score: 1

    And some do not. I state that right and wrong is a fiction create by the projection of ours desires, needs, pains and anxiety unto others. It has no basis in Nature and that is why you can find example of successful (enough that we know about them ) civilizations that had at least one core value completely opposite to one our own (the western judeochristian one) for every core values (do not kill, do not steal, do not rape...).

    The closer you can currently get to a non-Platonic definition of right and wrong are based on utilitarian calculus; calculus that has root in the consequentialist tradition. Even then there is too much subjectivity and political correctness involved for results from this form calculus to be as universalistic as it claims.

  2. Re:Damaging Legislation on Eric Schmidt: UN Treaty a 'Disaster' For the Internet · · Score: 1

    before the net there were BBSs and pirate BBSs; should the net succumbs to one of the old gold bearers assaults, some of us would just turn our back and deploys wireless pirate BBSs... Then a system comparable to fidonet would be put in place and anarchy should rule again.

  3. Re:I feel you man, on Torvalds Calls OpenSUSE Security 'Too Intrusive' · · Score: 1

    It's a different level of abstraction.

    In cognitive computing the low level neurological approach is called sub-symbolic while the brain science approach is more symbolic/functional (like a symbolic algebra, not like a symbolic dream).

    Currently good results are obtain by combining the two approaches, to learn more go read some papers from the ACT-R community...

  4. Re:It reminds of Yahoo and Portals on Microsoft Launches Windows 8 Consumer Preview · · Score: 1

    I guess that eventually there will be a release of something like Windows Workstation that will feature a Win 7 style desktop on a Windows Server kernel available to developer and enterprise customer...

  5. Re:Pretty cool, although limited on Schematics and Circuit Simulation In the Browser · · Score: 2

    Your post reminded me the difference between an hobbyist and a professional electronic designer : you play with HF*1; an hobbyist usually don't.

    1-Microwaves circuits design seems like a special kind of black magic to me ;)

  6. Re:vaporware on AMD's Piledriver To Hit 4GHz+ With Resonant Clock Mesh · · Score: 0

    I did not click on the parent button yet, so I do not know what triggered your response. But that being said, I must admit that it was one of the funniest ad hominem witticism I ever saw !

  7. Re:vaporware on AMD's Piledriver To Hit 4GHz+ With Resonant Clock Mesh · · Score: 1

    I got a bulldozer 8250 for 179$ and an motherboard AM3+ for 139$.
    It run everything I want well and I never have to kill anything before starting a demanding game.
    It compiles speedily enough that my vertex 2 is now the bottleneck when I run maven.

    So please, tell us what Intel could have offered me in term of performance with a set price of 318$ ?

  8. Re:If you need PR firms, you've failed. on Foxconn Hires Top Spinners To Defend Its Image · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Johnson & Johnson is one of the few remaining industrial capitalistic corporation.
    Industrial capitalism is great is it see further than a quarter.
    Financial capitalism is to be frown upon as it value short term gains and loss externalization.

    Thank you Regan for starting the move from the industrial capitalism that made all of us relatively prosper,
    to financial capitalism that have made the selected few ridiculously rich and put the many in a perpetual state of precariousness.

     

  9. Re:I want auto! on Stroustrup Reveals What's New In C++ 11 · · Score: 1

    Have a look at that :Netbeans, the platform that is the base for the renamed Sun Studio, now know as Oracle Solaris Studio, is a such a tool.

  10. Re:Hey Canada! on Why Canada Does Not Belong On the US Piracy Watchlist · · Score: 1

    Our dear leader wont permit it, I deeply apologize.

  11. Re:Canadian jurisprudence out of FBI reach... on Why Canada Does Not Belong On the US Piracy Watchlist · · Score: 1

    they relocate in the Kahnawake Mohawk Internet Technologies data-center. Mohawk are subject to theirs own laws as the RCMP, the SQ and the OPP are afraid of them; hell !, even the criminal gangs are threading lightly with them.

  12. Re:but we DO according to Zoe Addington on Why Canada Does Not Belong On the US Piracy Watchlist · · Score: 1

    art and copyright are not worth dying for,
    political dissent is, but only as the last resort option; I do not fell that we are there yet...

  13. Re:Ya well on Hunters Shoot Down Drone of Animal Rights Group · · Score: 1

    You are right, I forgotten about the article...
    if you do not eatI what you kill you are not a hunter, you are a killer....

  14. Re:Performance? RAM usage? on Apache 2.4 Takes Direct Aim At Nginx · · Score: 1

    For computing: I know one guy who wrote online game completely in PHP with MySQL backend for one company and 12 cores were hardly serving ca. 400 users: each client was sending and receiving 1 message per second - status updates, moves, server responses with statuses of other users and calculation of games. Surely, they've decided to rewrite it in C++, he did. Surprise: CPU usage is almost the same, I couldn't believe it, I've double-checked protocol and yes it is, without apache :D

    the bottleneck was mysql, have them try it with a real database like DB2, they will see that the rewrite paid off...

  15. Re:Ya well on Hunters Shoot Down Drone of Animal Rights Group · · Score: 1

    Hunting is the only truly ethical source of meat.
    Guns are more "humane" than crossbows.

    There was a research at McGill University that have shown*1 that meat eating is so hard-coded into us that even the simple action of looking at a picture of red meat reduce the stress hormone level. It works even on the vegetarian men however it has no correlated effect on women and it release cortisol when the subject is a vegan more so if he is militant.

    So I guess that the vegan are defective and the vegetarians are lying to themselves !

    There is nothing like eating, a raw but still warm, piece of meat from deer you just shot. And you do not want the animal to suffer as it affect the quality of the meat... For that you need a gun, but if they ban guns, we will use crossbows and if them ban them we will use slingshots or even darts...

    1- the poor researchers were trying to prove that red meat boost aggression, the have shown the opposite !

  16. Re:Trolling campaign by GreatBunzinni, aka Rui Mac on VLC 2.0 'Twoflower' Released For Windows & Mac · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Does he sells cocaine to little children ? If not I do not give a fuck !

  17. Re:Write or teach. on Ask Slashdot: Life After Software Development? · · Score: 1

    He probably meant ASP.... which became asp.NET in 2002

  18. Re:Hot dogs... and Ice cream on How Companies Learn Your Secrets · · Score: 1

    No need to store the CC number, apply SHA-2 and you have a UUID that is not the credit card. The name is on track 1 field 5, read it, use it combine to the store location to narrow down on a set of candidates, store the result of your search, not what you read on the card. After that have the system prompt the clerk for an address confirmation when your UUID buys something.

  19. Re:For the REAL Geek Award.... on Man Digs Out Basement Using Radio Controlled Toy Tractors · · Score: 1

    Gamify the problem and use the right solution with the highest score. That way, if you set a sensible sets of scoring rules, calculated server side, you will avoid the consequence arising form the grievers, and you will solve you probably NP-Hard problem of using RC robots to build a pool. But if you set the rules wrong, you get creative briefing that achieve to solve the problem described by your rules...

  20. Re:Relase? on WindowMaker Development Resumes, Has First Release Since 2006 · · Score: 1

    Cocaine !

  21. Re:Flash retention times on SSD Latency, Error Rates May Spell Bleak Future · · Score: 1

    Your flash card was surely based on a 60nm NAND SLC flash cell or even a good old low density NOR flash cell,
    and first generation CD-R was probably made of a gold based dye

    Your anecdote only confirm the article proposition that as memory gets smaller it gets less reliable... it tells nothing about bit rot in actual device, nor does it answers parent post concern.

    - I sometimes wonder if this kind of retention problem could have been responsible

    It is probably the cause or it was a stupid cosmic ray flipping a bit.

  22. Re:Audiophiles on Pink Floyd Engineer Alan Parsons Rips Audiophiles, YouTube and Jonas Brothers · · Score: 1

    I forgot, I disagree a little bit about the rca is a joke proposition.
    I my humble opinion, there are three valid use of a RCA cable.
    1- It is perfectly appropriate to use a shielded coaxial RCA cable to transmit components video.
    2- It is also perfectly valid to any kind of RCA cable that works, to transmit bits between lpcm/AC3/DTS sources and sinks.
    3-You have no other choice, take for example: if you want to plug a SuperNES to a sound system, you have no other choice but to use an RCA cable.

  23. Re:Seems reasonable.. on Doctors "Fire" Vaccine Refusers · · Score: 1

    A few even wear their hypocrisy like a badge of honor

    This is not hypocrisy then, This looks like antisocial personality disorder of the reputation-defending antisocial Milton's subtype

  24. Re:Despite the costs it'll still happen on FDA Unveils Biosimilars Guidance · · Score: 0

    amen !

  25. Re:Audiophiles on Pink Floyd Engineer Alan Parsons Rips Audiophiles, YouTube and Jonas Brothers · · Score: 1

    My [distortion|pre amp|lpcm encoding|stereo (XLR|1/4) outputting]+ pedal and my bass would like to have a pair of those but my neighbors would hate it ;)