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  1. Re:Sentient? on The Human Brain Project Kicks Off · · Score: 1

    I don't think that counts as being "created by the hand of man". It's the same DNA that evolved over millions of years. Humans just took it and made another copy in a lab.

  2. Re:Sentient? on The Human Brain Project Kicks Off · · Score: 1

    Why not? Whether something has rights or not should be contingent on its own characteristics, not its origins.

  3. Sentient? on The Human Brain Project Kicks Off · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If it works just like a human brain, at what point should it be considered to have the same rights as a human?

  4. Re:What could possibly go wrong? on MIT Researchers Unveil Self-Assembling Robot Swarm · · Score: 1

    Beige Goo?

  5. Re:What could possibly go wrong? on MIT Researchers Unveil Self-Assembling Robot Swarm · · Score: 2

    Yeah. That'll be a few versions down the road.

  6. Re:The Internet will route around it... on Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Approve Work On DRM For HTML 5.1 · · Score: 1

    It's not self-importance. It's the exact opposite. We might know more and understand the issue better, but I seriously doubt that there are enough of us, or that we are close enough to the public eye, to make a difference.

  7. Re:The Internet will route around it... on Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Approve Work On DRM For HTML 5.1 · · Score: 2

    Tech-savvy people will use those browsers and sites. The vast majority of people on the internet have no idea that this issue even exists or why it's important.

  8. Re:I sure hope this means... on Half-Life 3 Trademark Filed In Europe · · Score: 1

    needs to actually be used sometime in the near future

    How near?

  9. Re:Remember all those times Bush blocked... on German NSA Critic Denied Entry To the US · · Score: 1

    True, but the government is demonstrating how much of an asshat it is by denying people entry solely on account of peaceful criticism.

  10. Re:Child abuse is machine recognizable; piracy is on UK MPs: Google Blocks Child Abuse Images, It Should Block Piracy Too · · Score: 1

    The systems that recognize child abuse are usually comparing it with known photos.

  11. Important question... on Can GM Challenge Tesla With a Long-Range Electric Car? · · Score: 1

    How long does it take to charge the battery?

  12. Dude! on Michael Dell To Buy Dell Inc. · · Score: 5, Funny

    He's getting Dell.

  13. Re:I'm fine with Obama on Snowden Nominated For Freedom of Thought Prize · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The fault is in the American public in electing the previous administration in the first place

    It's debatable whether Bush actually was elected in the first place.

  14. As I said, rich men are politically dominant. It's the rest of the men who do most of the work and definitely don't hold most of the wealth. Don't think for a second that rich men have any inclination to help them out just because they share the same kind of reproductive plumbing.

  15. Anyone who calls someone else a neckbeard automatically renders their own opinions irrelevant. Why don't you call them shitlords while you're at it?

    You don't want a discussion. You want to silence dissent.

  16. Re:eh? on Sexist Presentations At Startup Competition Prompt TechCrunch Apology · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Let's get something straight. Men are not politically dominant. Rich men are politically dominant.

    If men in general were politically dominant, then it wouldn't be the case that 75% of all homeless people are male while there are numerous homeless shelters that cater strictly to women.

    If men in general were politically dominant, then we wouldn't have men being forced to pay child support for children that the courts acknowledge aren't even theirs.

    If men in general were politically dominant, then Title IX wouldn't instruct colleges to kick out men on the mere allegation of sexual misconduct (the "preponderance of evidence" clause) rather than requiring actual evidence.

  17. In Soviet Queens... on Man Killed By His Own Radio-Controlled Helicopter In Brooklyn · · Score: 1

    trick executes you.

  18. Re:Guess my comment isn't wanted on USPTO Publishes Suggestions For Intellectual Property Enforcement · · Score: 1

    True, but the point is that they were accepting and publishing them. You could have put one if if you wanted to.

  19. Re:I suspect he's wrong. on Neil deGrasse Tyson Says Private Business Will Not Open the Space Frontier · · Score: 1

    Yes, because no regular person could possibly know more about the capabilities of business and government than one of the best astrophysicists in the world.

    I have nothing but respect for the guy, but this is not his area of expertise.

  20. Yes, of course it will on Technologies Like Google's Self-Driving Car: Destroying Jobs? · · Score: 1

    Any new technology will destroy jobs. It will also create new jobs, and pave the way for entire new industries.

  21. Re:Out of jobs? on Technologies Like Google's Self-Driving Car: Destroying Jobs? · · Score: 2

    Don't forget truckers.

  22. Re:Guess my comment isn't wanted on USPTO Publishes Suggestions For Intellectual Property Enforcement · · Score: 1

    There's a list of individuals there that submitted comments.

  23. Re:Kind of a warning sign actually on How Deadbeat Facebook Friends and Using ALL-CAPS Can Lower Your Credit Score · · Score: 1

    I use /. because if I don't block my office computer's access to reddit, I don't get any work done.

  24. Non-facebook users? on How Deadbeat Facebook Friends and Using ALL-CAPS Can Lower Your Credit Score · · Score: 1

    What if you're not on facebook at all?

  25. Re:Kind of a warning sign actually on How Deadbeat Facebook Friends and Using ALL-CAPS Can Lower Your Credit Score · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The problem is, how do you know whether the bank even uses that as a metric?