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  1. Re:This BANS others from OFFERING anonymity on Google Bans Online Anonymity While Patenting It · · Score: 1

    Nevertheless, by bashing Google constantly sooner or later he was guaranteed to be right. It's easy to write him off as a shill, but much harder to say anything to his arguments. If Google was patenting defensively, why patent something no other big social networks will use?

  2. Re:Who cares on UK Government Owns 16.9 Million Unused IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 1

    Without the ISPs cooperation, the IPv4 prefix only tells which general area (like city) you are in. With IPv6, websites won't need to rely on cookies and other defeatable methods to track you.

  3. Re:Where's China and Russia? on A Glimpse At Piracy In the UK and Beyond · · Score: 0

    Most likely they just arranged these numbers to put pressure on the countries on the list. They know that China and Russia wouldn't do anything anyway.
    Still, Brazil has a population of 200 million and the Philippines of 100 million, I wouldn't categorize them as "smaller".

  4. Talking about scientific reasoning on Why America's School "Lag" Has Never Mattered · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I sense a little fallacy behind first comparing American education to the developed countries and then comparing them to China on scientific reasoning.

  5. Re:More smartphones than pc's ? on The Passing of the Personal Computer Era · · Score: 1

    Also, smartphones are a growing market while the number of PCs is mostly stagnant.

  6. Re:have you seen it? on The Implications of Google Restricting Access To Anti-Islam Film · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's certainly possible that it was a deliberate provocation altough people who want to be offended can always find a reason to do so.

  7. Re:So either the bots are very human on Two Teams Win the BotPrize · · Score: 1

    UT bots were always designed with the goal to feel human, altough playing a lot against them would teach you the way they work. But it's not nearly as easy as distinguishing between a chatbot and a person. For example, sometimes even grandmasters get fooled by amateurs cheating with the help of a chessbot, because it's very hard to differentiate between a computer and a human playing a game.

  8. Re:First Intel, now AMD? on AMD's Hondo Chip 'A Windows 8 Product' · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't be the first case.

  9. Re:Amazing invention on Detailed Images Show Intra-Molecular Bonds · · Score: 1

    Well tunnel microscopes can also be used for building stuff, perhaps the same method could translate to these as well. And a material only needs to be able to support its own strength and a bit more: after that, safety is just a matter of thickness.

  10. Amazing invention on Detailed Images Show Intra-Molecular Bonds · · Score: 1, Funny

    Using this technology we will be able to produce nanomaterials of unprecedented strength, bringing us one step closer to the space elevator.

  11. Re:The future on Google Glass: Future of Movies Or Monkey Cam 2.0? · · Score: 1

    VR headbands have been there for quite a while, the thing that prevented them from taking off was their prohibitive cost, which Google Glass didn't manage to fix.

  12. They didn't become smarter on Monkeys Made Smarter With Prosthetic Device · · Score: 1

    Reading the article this device sounds more like a memory extension than an intelligence booster. It just recorded the correct answers and played them back later. Still awesome, just not in a Planet of the apes kind of way.

  13. Re:Unfortunately... on YouTube Refuses To Remove Anti-Islamic Film Clip · · Score: 1

    I think the situation is quite the opposite. Like every rebellion, the ones in the Arabic countries have created unstability which offers some opportunities to the small group of radicals. And like in every rebellion, the radicals try to take this chance by mobilising the uneducated mobs. For that, they needed a rally call, and the film was a good way to play on the religious emotions of people. If they were really offended by it, they wouldn't have waited until the symbolic day of 9/11 to protest. This isn't about an offending movie, this is an attempt of radical islamists to seize power.

  14. Re:Good job France! on French Court Levies First Fine Under 3-Strikes Piracy Law · · Score: 1

    Neither does sentencing a murderer to jail. The point in both cases is deterrence.

  15. Re:Wrong place to ask. on Ask Slashdot: What Tech For a Sailing Ship? · · Score: 1

    While reaching your destination is certainly important on the ocean, securing access to the basic necessities of human life like food, water and internet is a must if you want to survive.

  16. Re:P2P = fence on 8th Circuit Upholds $220,000 Verdict In Jammie Thomas Case · · Score: 1

    In which case he should've been charged with that, and the plaintiff should've been required to provide some proof for that claim.

  17. Re:random thoughts... on Amateur Astronomers Spot Jovian Blast · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You sort of answered yourself. If he was talking about a regular cloud of objects hitting Earth then we are not overdue but already dodged it.

  18. Not surprising on Arma III Developers Arrested In Greece For 'Spying' · · Score: 1

    Documenting military installations is illegal in every country.

  19. Re:Good ol' Putin on Nature Lover Vladimir Putin Flies With the Cranes · · Score: 1

    It's not as much compensating as fitting the expectations of the average Russian. Russia never really had democracy, an so they haven't developed a democratic culture. They don't want a democratically elected leader, they want a strong powerful one. Many of them still think nostalgically about Stalin. So if Putin wants to keep his public support, he has to constantly show power and build his cult of personality.

  20. Re:We already have that on Fujitsu Building Robot To Pass Math Exams · · Score: 1

    Wolfram Alpha is powered by Mathematica behind the scenes, you can ask it to do symbolic computation like integrating a function for example. I used it as an example because it can already parse natural language input to an extent. Also, I don't remember many word problems on that level, that's the kind of thing they torture you at fourth grade. Even when problems aren't presented in an exact way, they usually use templates which can be obtainde by going through the exams of previous years.

  21. Not a bot on Creating a Better Chatbot Through Crowdsourcing · · Score: 1

    Of course chatting with real people will feel like chatting with real people. How is this different from, for example tech support where you get connected to lots of random people?

  22. We already have that on Fujitsu Building Robot To Pass Math Exams · · Score: 2

    Wolfram Alpha already knows that level of math.

  23. Re:This is big on GoDaddy Goes Down, Anonymous Claims Responsibility · · Score: 2

    There's not much hope, as now Slashdot have also joined the attack.

  24. Re:Mormon's are Terrorists on Following FEMA's Zombie Preparedness Plan Could Land You On Terrorist List · · Score: 1

    As long as you stock on pork yíou shouldn't be suspicious.

  25. Re:They've Been Doing This For Years on One Company's Week-Long Interview Process · · Score: 2

    How do you know that they wanted to hire him in the first place? They probably just wanted some free workforce.