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  1. Re:If he is so confident in his innocence on John McAfee Launches Blog, Offers $25K Reward For "Real Killers" · · Score: 1

    Corruption shouldn't be a problem for a man who has just offered up $25K.

  2. Re:A bit late on GIF Becomes Word of the Year 2012 · · Score: 1

    Instead, they wait until a word is already forgotten, and then include it.

  3. Re:A bit late on GIF Becomes Word of the Year 2012 · · Score: 1

    Thank God!

  4. Legalising corruption? on Legalizing Online Futures Betting · · Score: 1

    "You see, Your Honor, I only bet this politician that he won't reduce the taxes on my company. I lost."

  5. A bit late on GIF Becomes Word of the Year 2012 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's been obsoleted by PNG for more thanlike 15 years now. They could just as well choose floppy.

  6. If he is so confident in his innocence on John McAfee Launches Blog, Offers $25K Reward For "Real Killers" · · Score: 1

    He should defend himself in court.

  7. One digit arithmetic on Reading and Calculating With Your Unconscious · · Score: 2

    is just a test of memory, not reasoning.

  8. At that level, it's about experience on Computer Science vs. Software Engineering · · Score: 1

    What you learned in school is irrelevant at that level.

  9. Anonymous have stopped standing for anything on Anonymous Attacks Israeli Websites In Response To IDF Operation In Gaza · · Score: 1

    If anyone still believed that Anonymous stands for anything other than DDoSing websites for the lulz, entering a war on the side of a randomly chosen party will be an eye opener for them.

  10. Re:Compatibilty itch on German City Says OpenOffice Shortcomings Are Forcing It Back To Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Exactly, the problems in this case were not with OpenOffice but using it in tandem with MSOffice2000 and then putting all the blame on OpenOffice for lack of interoperability.

  11. Re:Nobody cares for piracy on Parents Not Liable For Their Son's Illegal Music Sharing, Says German Court · · Score: 1

    Child insurance? You Germans think of everything.

  12. Re:Nobody cares for piracy on Parents Not Liable For Their Son's Illegal Music Sharing, Says German Court · · Score: 1

    I know that it happens with a lot of kids because I happened to live in a ghetto area for a few years. When the police got tough on them, parents started training their kids to steal, mug and break in because they couldn't be held liable. If you allow a crime to go unpunished that will be abused.

  13. Nobody cares for piracy on Parents Not Liable For Their Son's Illegal Music Sharing, Says German Court · · Score: 1

    But what if a kid steals, gets into a fight or robs people? Who will be liable?

  14. Re:mechwarrior on Artificial Muscles Pack a Mean Punch · · Score: 2

    It's not just waste heat, ambient heat (like on a sunny day) could also pose problems.

  15. Re:From TFWS on Invisibility Tech Demo Tomorrow In NYC · · Score: 1

    As far as I understand it these metamaterials are built out of circuits that have to be about 1/10 of the target wavelength. We already have 32nm semiconductors so it shouldn't be that hard. Getting it to work in 3D, on the other hand, isn't going to be easy.

  16. Re:Poor Summary on Climate Treaty Negotiators Are Taking the Wrong Approach, Say Game Theorists · · Score: 1

    The difference between this model and reality is basically the difference between the prisoner's dilemma and its iterated version. IRL it's possible to react to parties not keeping their promises.

  17. It shouldn't matter on The First Amendment and Software Speech · · Score: 1

    It shouldn't matter whether something was written by you, another person, software or a monkey with a typewriter. It's the parties that take part in the communication that are responsible for it. If we make a distinction, we will see lots of people evade responsibilities putting the blame on computers ("I didn't hack that company, a script that I've written did.").
    Free speech shouldn't depend on how the speech in question was created. I can't help but feel that this is just another attempt to criminalize Google search results.

  18. Re:Game Theory? LOL... on Climate Treaty Negotiators Are Taking the Wrong Approach, Say Game Theorists · · Score: 1

    Math is not a model of anything. You should learn game theory before bashing it.

  19. Re:Game Theory? LOL... on Climate Treaty Negotiators Are Taking the Wrong Approach, Say Game Theorists · · Score: 1

    Don't blame math for the people misusing it.

  20. Re:All well and good... on Climate Treaty Negotiators Are Taking the Wrong Approach, Say Game Theorists · · Score: 2

    The Chinese argument is that their CO2 emission per capita is still less than of most developed countries.

  21. A solution already exists on Artificial Wombs In the Near Future? · · Score: 1

    Condoms.

  22. Re:Medical research is a good thing. on Artificial Wombs In the Near Future? · · Score: 1

    Assuming artificial wombs will be safer.

  23. Re:I don't understand on Artificial Wombs In the Near Future? · · Score: 1

    But not because of infertility.

  24. They don't need to on Vegetative State Man 'Talks' By Brain Scan · · Score: 1

    Most of the time they just kill them without asking.

  25. Re:But if GOOGLE does it on Motorola Wants 2.25% of Microsoft's Surface Revenue · · Score: 1

    Microsoft milked their business partners for quite a big load of cash and is now at the point where they have a bigger income from Android phones than from their own ones. They are extorting money from Android without contributing anything to it, and now Google is standing up for his allies and hitting them back. I agree that this is not how patents are supposed to work, but Google didn't lobby for the current system. And frankly I don't see how a bogus licencing is more ethical than a bogus suit.