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  1. Re:Illegal images? Not really. on UK MPs Threaten New Laws If Google Won't Censor Search · · Score: 2

    No, the people who made the pictures available in the first place should be sued for breach of privacy. After it's out in the wild it should be fair game for everyone to repost. Defamation only applies when the statement in question is untrue.

  2. Re:Google and Others on UK MPs Threaten New Laws If Google Won't Censor Search · · Score: 2

    Still better than national governments making laws on the global Internet. I can influence Google by choosing not to use their services. I have no way of influencing the UK government.

  3. Re:The math is simple on Why Gay Men Are Worth So Much To Facebook · · Score: 1

    In the article it's only an example that more specific groups cost more per ad, it might be the case that limiting search to heterosexuals also rises the price according to their ratio.

  4. Re:evil on Microsoft Blocking Pirate Bay Links In Messenger · · Score: 2

    I think the blocks are client-side and can be bypassed with some hacking so Microsoft doesn't read your messages.

  5. Level editor? on 16-Year-Old Creates Scientific/Graphing Calculator In Minecraft · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Is there a level editor for Minecraft or did this guy just waste a few years of his life? Also, this is not really different from other CA circuits of which there are far more awesome.

  6. Anonymous suing? on Japanese Court Orders Google To Turn Off Auto-Complete Function · · Score: 1

    . According to the man, whose name has been withheld, when his name is typed into the Google search engine auto-complete suggests words associated with criminal behavior.

    So you can sue someone in Japan without revealing who you are? Especially since in this case to problem is with the name of the plaintiff, this makes very hard for Google to defend themselves.

  7. 50 years is very far on MIT Prof Predicts the End of Disabilities In Next 50 Years · · Score: 1

    50 years is far enough that you can predict confidently that anything will be available then, because by that time noone will remember it anyway.

  8. Stupid units on You're Driving All Wrong, Says NHTSA · · Score: 5, Funny

    For decades, the standard instruction was that drivers should hold the steering wheel at the 10 and 2 positions, as envisioned on a clock.

    What is with you Americans having to use these stupid units for everything? Is it that hard to say pi/6 and 5*pi/6 that everyone can understand?

  9. Re:why ? on China Plans To End Executed Prisoner Organ Donations Within 5 Years · · Score: 1

    Because it creates an incentive for killing people? When you can get a death sentence for almost anything in China, and when thousands get executed there every year some might start to wonder if the strict laws are there because it's cheaper to sell the organs of criminals than to keep them in prison. There are also rumors of barbaric practices where organs are harvested from still living bodies because they are of better quality.

  10. Re:I don't think so... on Animating From Markup Code To Rendered Result · · Score: 1

    I still prefer a method where I can view both the code and the formatted document simultaneously. As for finding the place I need I use Opera Dragonfly which highlights the place in the document that I have selected in the code or finds and selects the part of the code that I have picked in the document.

  11. Re:Hyperbole much? on NHTSA Suggestion Would Cripple In-Car GPS Displays · · Score: 1

    Paper maps are also more distracting than a GPS.

  12. It doesn't matter on US Puts Tariff On Chinese Solar Panels · · Score: 1

    China has cheap workforce and huge rare earth production, they will make the panels regardless of subsidies or tariffs.

  13. What terrorism? on U.S. Gov't To Keep Data On Non-Terrorist Citizens For 5 Years · · Score: 1

    Didn't terrorism end after they killed Bin Laden?

  14. Not freedom of speech on French President Proposes Jail For Terrorist Website Visitors · · Score: 1

    This is not even against freedom of speaking anymore, this is against the freedom of having an ear.

  15. Re:It's lucky that the study didn't find the oppos on Do Women Make Better Bosses? · · Score: 1

    Not censored, but they are sometimes attacked by groups outside of academia.

  16. Terrorist content detected on French President Proposes Jail For Terrorist Website Visitors · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now all of you who have read this post, give yourselves up at the nearest police, s'il vous plais.

  17. Re:A memory doesn't have to stay at the same place on Researchers May Have Discovered How Memories Are Encoded In the Brain · · Score: 1

    True, I'm pretty sure that those memories that "last for a lifetime" have deteriorated severely, and bear little resemblance to the original one.

  18. A memory doesn't have to stay at the same place on Researchers May Have Discovered How Memories Are Encoded In the Brain · · Score: 2

    A memory can theoretically remain longer than synaptic connections. If a memory is important enough you memorize it again when you remember it, and store it in a different location. Doing this from time to time can help bypass the duration limit.

  19. Activism is more visible on Verizon Says Hactivists Now Biggest Corporate Net Threat · · Score: 5, Insightful

    When you are hacked by an activist, they will make sure that you and the rest of the world know about it. Criminals, on the other hand, try to be as subtle as possible. Some victims might not even realize that they have been breached, and even if they do it's much easier to cover up. I don't think activism surpasses crime, it's just much more visible.

  20. Re:Article contradicts summary on When Social Media Meets TV, Are the Results Worth Watching? · · Score: 1

    But from the many authors it quotes the ponies are the only example, the othersare counterexamples, making ponies more of an isolated exception than a rule.

  21. Article contradicts summary on When Social Media Meets TV, Are the Results Worth Watching? · · Score: 1

    According to the article, while a fanbase can help extend the lifetime of a show, they have no influence on plot or characters.

  22. Digital currency is not a problem in itself on Surviving the Cashless Cataclysm · · Score: 1

    With correct legislation reasonable privacy can be preserved even with digital currency. Forbid banks from selling the data and require a warrant for the police to peep into it.

  23. It's all nice and fine on Nokia Applies For Vibrating Tattoo Patent · · Score: 4, Insightful

    until you have to take an MRI.

  24. Re:Quite the opposite on U.S. Missile Defense Against Iran Makes China/Russia Mad, Might Not Even Work · · Score: 1

    Unless you are suggesting that the US keeps its nuclear stockpile in Europe, these missiles have no bearing on MAD.

    That's exactly right, America keeps a large number of nukes in Turkey and Germany.

  25. Re:Redundancy on Clever Clues Clobber Crossword Computer · · Score: 1

    A computer can bruteforce much faster than a human.