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  1. Re:Great idea! Let's alienate Science even more! on Why Atheists Need Captain Kirk · · Score: 1

    its not hedging their bets, its the more scientific rationale to call yourself agnostic because its impossible to disprove something doesn;t exist

    No it isn't! I can prove that there is no maximum prime number, I can prove that there is no odd multiple of 2.

  2. Atheism is not science on Why Atheists Need Captain Kirk · · Score: 1

    Science is purely logical, purely rational and morality free!

    Atheism is a much more general and also a much more loaded philosophical concept, that has absolutely nothing to do with science. Many atheists are very passionate about the fact that humans are moral, and, in fact, God, is not!

    Stop trying to conflate the two.

  3. Re:Perhaps Atheism is misunderstood. on Why Atheists Need Captain Kirk · · Score: 1

    My country had 14 million atheists at the last census. Out of a population of 64 million that's hardly unpopular or unaccepted.

  4. Re:Should be obvious...but it's not on Windows Tax Shot Down In Italy · · Score: 1

    But not the battery. And not the PSU. Your choice in RAM is limited. It's very hard to get a PC with zero RAM, or no hard disk.

  5. The otehr 50% take 95% of the time. on Kickstarter's Problem: You Have To Make the Game Before You Ask For Money · · Score: 1

    Do these guys have any experience of game development? Producing a sample level is not so hard. Level design, tuning, bug fixing and all the little bits you need to do to get it ready to actually sell is a lot of work.

  6. Re:Should be obvious...but it's not on Windows Tax Shot Down In Italy · · Score: 1

    You are compelled to buy the RAM though, and the battery and the power brick. These will have different manufacturers, be available separately, and alternatives will be available. Why is the OS not considered simply another component?

  7. Re:Rife in the UK on Turning the Tables On "Phone Tech Support" Scammers · · Score: 2

    Like "Bright" with "on" at the end.

  8. Re:Rife in the UK on Turning the Tables On "Phone Tech Support" Scammers · · Score: 1

    The last one I spoke to was very unlikely to have been British-Indian. He didn't know enough about the UK, like, for example, how "Brighton" was pronounced.

  9. Re:Credit System on If Tesla Can Run Its Gigafactory On 100% Renewables, Why Can't Others? · · Score: 1

    Banks of batteries are expensive and take up a lot of space. You'd need to provide several megawatts for several hours. That would require hundreds of 85kWh car battery packs.

  10. Do not trust Torrentfreak! on BBC: ISPs Should Assume VPN Users Are Pirates · · Score: 1

    Serioiusly, I have never read anything on that site that didn't hideously distort the facts.

  11. I'm confused. Why is he demanding this? on DMCA Claim Over GPL Non-Compliance Shuts Off Minecraft Plug-Ins · · Score: 0

    The GPL makes no requirement to release source to the public. Only to release source to the recipient of the compiled program.

  12. Re:The C pre-processor on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Strangest Features of Various Programming Languages? · · Score: 1

    If you have two identical include lines you get two copies of the common file inserted. Wouldn't that be *great*!?

    The real beauty is that they can (and usually do) behave differently.

  13. Re:question colon on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Strangest Features of Various Programming Languages? · · Score: 1
    Unless I missed something, the article was talking about trigraphs rather than ternary.

    The following is valid C (probably)

    ??=define DOUBLE(x) ((x)+(x))

    int func(int i)
    ??<
    int array??(10??) - ??<1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10??>

    return array??(i??) ??' 0xFF;
    ??>

  14. Re:I predict on Combating Recent, Ugly Incidents of Misogyny In Gamer Culture · · Score: 2

    Zoe Quinn got backlash because she is a morally bankrupt scumbag that slept with other people in her industry and journalists that promoted her game

    Why does Zoe get called out here, but the people she slept with get ignored? If anyone did anything wrong, they're the ones who breached journalistic integrity.

  15. Re:Leave your Phone on Why Phone Stores Should Stockpile Replacements · · Score: 1

    Keeping a spare is not even hard to do. My battery developed a fault. Anyone who cares that much about their phone and is paying that much for insurance is pretty likely to replace them regularly enough that they have a reasonably capable older model. Not perfect, but seriously - I'm sure he can cope for a day!

  16. If having a phone is so important... on Why Phone Stores Should Stockpile Replacements · · Score: 1

    Have a spare!

    Personally I can bear the cost of not having a phone for a day. Forcing shops to keep dozens of phones in stock on the offchance that someone absolutely needs one the same day seems a highly inefficient way of doing things.

    Perhaps instead the submitter should have seen if there was a way to pay the difference in order to get a brand new phone

  17. Re:and yet Twilight still exists on In Maryland, a Soviet-Style Punishment For a Novelist · · Score: 1

    Unless you're a teenage girl, it's not aimed at you. So it's not really a surprise you didn't enjoy it. It is a surprise you decided to read it in the first place.

  18. Re:Quick flyby on The Passenger Pigeon: A Century of Extinction · · Score: 1

    They watched the suspects like hawks. Pulled in the crows suspecting murder. They were given the bird. Even the canary didn't sing.

  19. Re:Umm on Australian Consumer Watchdog Takes Valve To Court · · Score: 1

    I think it's that they are misleading customers as to whether they can get the refund rather than not giving the refund.

  20. Re:Watermarks? on GOG Introduces DRM-Free Movie Store · · Score: 0

    Some metadata perhaps. It's easy to remove if you know where it is but a lot of people really don't have a clue.

    I think expectation of piracy is built into GOG's business model, but, there's no reason not to have some ability to track leaked files if only for analysis purposes.

  21. Re:indep record store on GOG Introduces DRM-Free Movie Store · · Score: 1

    For practical purposes they are. When the DRM can be cracked in seconds, who really cares? Sure, there are valid socio-political to object in principle, but if you want media that you can copy and format shift, DVD is fine.

  22. Re:Unintended consequences ... on California Passes Law Mandating Smartphone Kill Switch · · Score: 1

    I predict it will be less than a year before law enforcement decides to shut down all cell phones of people they disagree with (like protesters).

    What prevents them from doing this now? They effectively control the exchanges.

  23. Re:Improved graphical quality? on Predictive Modeling To Increase Responsivity of Streamed Games · · Score: 1

    It is double blind so we can control for people being nice.

    Graphical quality is subjective, so people are going to be influenced by whether they enjoyed it more. Chances are they'd also report better sound effects, and even a more enjoyable journey home.

  24. Re:There is no way this could work for me when I p on Predictive Modeling To Increase Responsivity of Streamed Games · · Score: 1

    Of course they can - you do it all the damn time!

  25. Re:Anyone know what, exactly, was the issue? on BBC and FACT Shut Down Doctor Who Fansite · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No. It doesn't work like that.

    The BBC itself is publicly owned, so in that sense, it is public property, but we don't have the right to individual assets any more than a shareholder in Sony can start making copies of Spiderman DVDs.

    Also it's paid for by a licence fee rather than taxes. You can call them taxes if you like, but it doesn't go into or come out of central taxation.