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  1. Whats the worst that could happen? on Robot Swarm Control On Microsoft's Surface · · Score: 4, Funny

    Using a Microsoft product to control a swarm of (potentially killer?) robots?

  2. Scientific Accuracy in space movies on How Star Wars Trumped Star Trek For Scientific Accuracy · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Star Wars < Star Trek <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< 2001

  3. Re:The domain is only up since 2007 on Facebook Says It Owns 'Book' · · Score: 1

    So? Registering the domain with such generic word on it before allows facebook to sue them? Ok, then all domain owners that registered a domain before facebook with the "book" word in their names can sue facebook for 1% their income. Odds are pretty high that they will owe far more than what their earn... but they started the fire, is what they wanted.

  4. Didn't know on Teacher Asks Students To Plan a Terrorist Attack · · Score: 1

    ... in Australia there is a Murphy's Law Doctorate?

  5. Before changing all the passwords on Searching For Backdoors From Rogue IT Staff · · Score: 1

    Verify that no keylogger is installed in any computer used to login to other systems

  6. Re:Don't start planning that vacation just yet on Richest Planetary System Discovered With 7 Planets · · Score: 1

    It is almost unimaginable? So you can imagine it or think that it is harder to imagine than the distance to proxima centauri? I can't properly imagine the distance to the moon, more than as an abstract thing, like in around 400k times a kilometer, or a bit more than a light-second, or a millon of "are we there yet?" during the road trip. But if that qualify as imagining the distance, then worth the same as imagining the distance the border of the visible universe.

  7. Permission? on Halo Reach Leaked To Filesharing Sites · · Score: 1

    If you put the game in a machine without asking the owner, would he be in fault for putting it public or be your own? Even if he owns a lot of machines (i.e. thousands, after all, is his botnet, not yours), the faulty action was probably in Microsoft side.

  8. Error in translation on Microsoft Claims 'We Love Open Source' · · Score: 2, Funny

    "F*** you" is about sex, not love

  9. Re:it's the same thing on Look For AI, Not Aliens · · Score: 1

    Think in ST I V'ger. It can live in space!. No need for an earth-like planet.

    Well, at least that is the core of the article. One thing is where life can evolve, and another where most intelligent life is right now, at least if they are pure mechanical AI, so maybe being close to absolute zero could be an advantage (not sure about radiation, i.e. cosmic rays anyway). But unless those pure metal AIs killed or survived their biological creators, they could be with them in a way or another and won't be so much freedom where they could be. Also, they won't need just energy, shit and meteorites happen, so they should have a way to get replacement parts, new improvements and of course, new members, and all the infrastructure that it means (in that way asteroid belts could be better than planets).

    And if well life is something terrible to waste in a trip that last centuries between stars, maybe won't be so bad for an AI. The good news is that they probably won't pick our planet because its atmosphere.

  10. Re:Where's The Graph ... on Linux Distribution Popularity Trends Plotted · · Score: 1

    As with IOS going from iPhone to iPad, Android is not just for phones anymore. Tablets, netbooks, even tv sets are going to have it. And if android gives a good impression, the association should help in linux in the desktop, not in the other direction.

  11. Good devolution on Throwing Out Software That Works · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If it is the factor to move the web out of flash. Sometimes evolution brings a feature that is in the end bad, but as it don't hurt a lot, keeps being there, till some big change makes it an obstacle.

    To go to an example more radical than the ipad, almost don't need to use my netbook since i have my N900. Have far smaller screen and keyboard, not as fast, and have less software available. But still, is not something to worry about carrying, is always just there, is good enough, and a desktop computer or a proper notebook fill most of the remaining needs. Is something wrong with the netbook? No, just appeared another option that gave some advantages, and could adjust the pattern of use that i was giving to it.

  12. KDE 4 on Google Wave and the Difficulty of Radical Change · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Probably was being too radical more than the initial stability problems and bugs what hurt the grow that KDE was having by the time the version 4 was introduced. Still, as was basically "the" direction to follow with the entire platform (you could leave it going to gnome, stay with kde 3.x while all the apps move forward, or adapt to the new approach) it survived, and now is growing (not having hard numbers of gnome, kde and other linux desktops, but i think it went that way)

  13. Creating exploding lakes for fun and profit on 'Exploding Lake' Provides Electricity For Rwanda · · Score: 1

    What are the possibilities of turning a somewhat "normal" lake (probably near enough to a volcano) into an exploding one? Politicians could even use the "think on the children" wildcard to justify that, if is somewhat possible with not so high investment.

  14. Profitereen from war on Military Personnel Weigh In On Being Taliban In Medal of Honor · · Score: 1

    All war games, from chess (probably the game where the author wanted to have the biggest profit ever, according to the myth) to latest Medal of Honor profits from war What makes right a game about WWII? Or selling toy tanks for childs. Should Sun Tzu book be banned? Not defending that the games should profit from war, but the notion that just that game is wrong doing what everyone else is doing, probably including most of army.

  15. Re:Boycott Oracle? on Legal Analysis of Oracle v. Google · · Score: 1

    Ok, lets move all to MySQL... oh, wait...

  16. Rights fight on German Photog Wants to Shoot Buildings Excluded From Street View · · Score: 1

    Microsoft did a while ago a google street view like app, combining photos from end users from that location. The end result is the same for the ones concerned about privacy, but the source is different. This people want to do something similar, regarding what got censored in street view. Where you draw the line between the right of privacy and the right of using a (geotagging) camera to take out your own photos and publish them? Should geotagging cameras be banned or required to not give precise locations? And if you add to the mix foursquare and facebook places things gets worse.

  17. Re:Reason #0 on 7 Scientific Reasons a Zombie Outbreak Would Fail · · Score: 1

    Depend on your definition of zombies. Even yesterday was discussed here one of the possible definitions that happen to be real.

  18. Re:True geniuses? on What Happens To a Football Player's Neurons? · · Score: 1

    The game could require strategy, but the strategist could be out of the field. In fact, the smart ones there and others that have that kind of risk (i.e. boxing) probably play in a way or another from ouside (managers, coachers, trainers, lawyers, etc).

  19. Re:Nothing to see here.... on Root Privileges Through Linux Kernel Bug · · Score: 1

    Still is something to see there, at least for a few days till maintained distributions push that patch to their kernels and pushes them to the people that keep doing security updates. And for old, running unmaintained distributions servers, could be a bit more complicated. Still, this is a local vulnerability, and not exactly trivial to exploit.

  20. Only 40? on 40 Windows Apps Said To Contain Critical Bug · · Score: 1

    Or windows have several orders less apps than i think, or is the safest operating system on earth (ok, or something is missing in that formulation, like being 40: as in millons, or just counting in the included by default apps)

  21. Re:This just in from LHC.... on Inflaton, Mother of the Universe · · Score: 1

    I prefer that to the "Oops, we just discovered the needle particle"

  22. Re:Don't target cars on Is a US High-Speed Railway Economically Feasible? · · Score: 1

    Use Hanlon... odds are higher that it would be because stupidity. And probably every year drunks driving cars kill more people than terrorists, so, this time, you can think on the children.

  23. Re:Evolution finally refuted on Did Sea Life Arise Twice? · · Score: 1

    You know how they say evolution would be falsified by a bunny in the pre-cambrian. Well, it's not a bunny, but it's not in the stratum it's supposed to be. Time to stop teaching the discredited theory of evolution

    You won't find any. God didnt make mistakes hiding those sneaky fossils everywhere. Unless he did it on pourpose to test your faith, but in that case the allknowing one would had not know something. Life has become a bit more complicated since we stop letting the young Occam to play with scissors, knives and other sharp toys.

  24. No matter who index it, google is not the only player in that field, nor are all only public search engines. The problem is that information is there, for anyone that want to collect, index, or use it. And being in Google makes you more aware of what is really there, and how it can be abused.

    And you just can't filter out that information, IS the web, and something that at least the author in an implicit or explicit way wanted to be public, when posted it online.

  25. Internal vs external networks on Why You Shouldn't Worry About IPv6 Just Yet · · Score: 1

    You are free to decide to put ipv6 or not in your internal network.IPv6 tries to simplify internal networks too, but if you have that already solved, no big deal. But you should be ready to deal with ipv6 when talking with other networks and, specially, internet. Having already ipv6 addresses in your servers that can be accessed from internet, having in your DNS the definitions for the ipv6 ips, and being able to connect to external ipv6 sites is something that still can be done
      with time, and just because of that, should not be delayed to other moment when you will not have it.

    As all can move gradually to ipv6, maybe big companies and content providers should give special services/content that make migrating early extra attractive, making users, not network admins, the ones to push forward the support of it.