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  1. Re:What do you believe but cannot prove? on Interviews: Ask Freeman Dyson What You Will · · Score: 1

    if there is no evidence it is not theory but merely an unsupported hypothesis.

  2. Re:Tell me, what do you consider more useful on Interviews: Ask Freeman Dyson What You Will · · Score: 1

    trick question its the portal gun of course

  3. Re:Could be useful... on In Iceland, Tap Cellphones To Avoid Incest · · Score: 4, Interesting

    from a genetic standpoint you were safe
    sibling share on average what 23 chromosomes :. offspring have and average of 12 dupes
    1st cousins share 12 :. 6 dupes
    2nd cosines share 6 :. 3 dupes
    add in mutation rate in humans of 175 nucleotides per generation per chromosome, and you safe as long as you don't have a family doing it for multiple generations.
    socially however you would be frowned upon.

  4. Re:Don't you know who your cousins are? on In Iceland, Tap Cellphones To Avoid Incest · · Score: 3, Insightful

    also promiscuity of you parents could result in not know whose kid you are, or sperm doners, or maritel infidelity could mean the girl next door is your half sibling.
    just because you have someones name and were raised by them does not mean you are related to them and by extension there family making this database fallible.

  5. so what? on Twitter Launches the World's Umpteenth Online Music Site · · Score: 0

    why look another twitter feature I will never use

  6. Re:Let me solve the Fermi Paradox for you on Moore's Law and the Origin of Life · · Score: 1

    There isn't one. Physics, chemistry and engineering show that we'll never go there, and they'll never get here. Just getting a signal across the gulf of space is hard enough.

    and man will never land on the moon

  7. Re:I hate shills on Samsung Accused of Paying For Negative HTC Reviews · · Score: 1

    I hope there's a special level of hell set aside for them.

    they're going to burn in a very special level of Hell. Along with those people who talk at the theater.

  8. Re:Whovians on Passthoughts, Not Passwords: Authentication Via Brainwaves · · Score: 1

    i was thinking that exact same thing.

  9. Re:Think happy thoughts on Passthoughts, Not Passwords: Authentication Via Brainwaves · · Score: 1

    Yes, but they can't figure out what you were thinking, only the pattern it creates for the brain scan. It's like a salted and hashed passphrase from the perspective of the brain scanner You could even tell someone else what to think, but the hashing algorithm (your physical brain) is an extra secret they can't replicate. ..for the time being.

    I would not be so sure about that, they are getting closer to being able to reconstruct an image from thought with fmri,
    http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-09/mind-reading-tech-reconstructs-videos-brain-images

  10. Re:Escalator to hell on Passthoughts, Not Passwords: Authentication Via Brainwaves · · Score: 1

    well they could encrypt the data being transmitted by the wireless headset and have the key change over time to prevent record and playback attacks, or just hardwire it.

  11. Re:May be it's time to run own pirate's dns ? on New Pirate Bay Greenland Domains Suspended · · Score: 1

    or just encourage people to install there own dns servers.

  12. Re:Not surprising. on New Pirate Bay Greenland Domains Suspended · · Score: 2

    People will just move to tor or other undernets(i2p, freenet, etc,) and what they will do then

  13. Re:Har`first on Hackers Swipe Unreleased Game From Ubisoft · · Score: 1

    Ubisoft is the most worthless company ever. They hate their customers and every game they have ever made is complete shit.

    That unfair, myst 3 exile was good.

  14. Re:It's easy! on Set Your Watches For the End of Windows XP · · Score: 1

    gentoo?

  15. Re:It's easy! on Set Your Watches For the End of Windows XP · · Score: 1

    not a problem for linux where they just dropped support for the i386 released back in '85.

  16. Re:Not Supported ... on Set Your Watches For the End of Windows XP · · Score: 1

    people will use cracked installs just like they do now or they will use program that fakes a vaildation. just look to the game drm systems and how people get around it there.

  17. Re:"Anonymous" is CIA/Mossad on Anonymous' "OpIsrael" Has Little Impact · · Score: 1

    you forget that it was Isreal that was the one being attacked during the seven days war everyone around them were the aggressors they won land after they were attacked this was hardly they bigger stick situation you describe.

  18. Re:Translation ... on Massive Data Leak Reveals How the Ultra Rich Hide Their Wealth · · Score: 1

    many of those schemes would cost as much if not more than you pay in takes to implement.

  19. Re:mission creepy on Microsoft, NYC Marketing Vast Surveillance System To Other Cities · · Score: 0

    I'm sure it doesn't track every movement of every person in New York and store it in a database indefinitely. That will be version 2.0.

    No, version 2.0 will include a facial-recognition system which has the ability to automatically exclude individuals who happen to wear a badge, or make the right amount of "contribution" to the local police fund.

    or own enough Microsoft stock

  20. Re:This was a pointless fork... Gnome 3 has mature on GNOME2 Fork MATE Desktop 1.6 Released · · Score: 1

    thanks auto correct evidently tried to help me and i did not notice

  21. Re:This was a pointless fork... Gnome 3 has mature on GNOME2 Fork MATE Desktop 1.6 Released · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If Mate had started now you may have point, but it was created while Gnome 3 was still in the absolutely clusterf*ck state right after its release. At that point it was unusable and had no extensions. Even after they added support for extensions they would break all of them with each update. While it is slightly better now those improvement wouldn't of happened if they had no felt the pressure created by people leaving for forks like Cinnamon and Mate.

    Saying gnome 3 is better than windows 8 not so much a compliant as it is damning with light praise.

  22. As a mate desktop user on GNOME2 Fork MATE Desktop 1.6 Released · · Score: 1, Interesting

    as a mate desktop user i an glade to see progress, I do think though that they made a mistake early on forking most every gnome project when simply forking the desktop, panel, file browser and maybe window manager would of be enough. I mean why did they feel the need to fork the solitaire game when the problem was the desktop? but hopefully we will see the whole environment move on to gtk3 soon and then much of the redundancies between the Mate Gnome and Cinnamon projects could be merged and leave use with several desktop options but one set of utilities and application

  23. Re:The Answer To This Nonsense... on Build a Secret Compartment, Go To Jail · · Score: 1

    You don't combat drug (ab)use by prohibition, you use education.

    And actually trying to fix some of the social problems associated with drugs like poverty and lack of jobs.

    But nobody has any interest in doing that. They'd rather have a large, for profit prison industry and sweep it all under the rug.

    fixing poverty wont get rid of drug use just look at the celebrity gossip rag every week another rich celebrity is busted by the cops and found to have huge drug problem.

  24. Re:minority report on Google Glass and Surveillance Culture · · Score: 2

    I don't get this kind of reaction. So what if the one out of the box does this? We'll just learn to jailbreak it (if needed) and install an adblocker

    Because the one out of the box does this, and most people won't have the knowledge or time to change it. Google will probably not make it easy either and will add some cheap baubles for users of unmodified glasses, who won't know or care about their privacy. And this will impact you because Google can now argue that many or even most people use their services unmodified and therefore whatever way they destroy your privacy is acceptable under "community values" and should not be legally restricted.

    most people don't need to know how to jailbreak it. I look a bulletin boards on campus and I can find people advertising that they will flash your phone for you with the latest cyagonmod or jailbreak idevices for a flat rate. Those that don't know how will be able to find someone who do know if they care that much.

  25. Re:Just what we need... on Wayland/Weston Gets Forked As Northfield/Norwood · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'd rather take one solid piece of software than 10 which are broken in different ways.

    I believe this distribution is what you're looking for.

    he said solid not unstable or unusable