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  1. Re:China is more capitalistic than the USA on First Commercial Mission To the Moon Launched From China · · Score: 1

    I don't even know that it works voluntarily on an intimate village scale. I would expect that people who misbehave in small communities to be punished in one way or another.

  2. Re:Curious economics of private spaceflight on SpaceX Capsule Returns To Earth With Lab Results · · Score: 1

    I bet you can make an Oculus Rift space experience for less. For the really rich, wear the device in a jet plane taking off for added G force experience.

  3. Re:lots of organics on Rosetta Probe Reveals What a Comet Smells Like · · Score: 1

    Why would you want to colonize a cold dark vacuum ?

  4. Re:Curious economics of private spaceflight on SpaceX Capsule Returns To Earth With Lab Results · · Score: 1

    What private ventures to Mars would ever be profitable ?

  5. Re:One of President Paul's first priorities... on Law Lets IRS Seize Accounts On Suspicion, No Crime Required · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There will never be a legitimate independent candidate with a chance to make it to office. The big two will see to that.

  6. Re:and they use cash businesses as examples on Law Lets IRS Seize Accounts On Suspicion, No Crime Required · · Score: 2

    Running a small business without putting money in the bank is just as much reason to investigate. And if they do an audit on a restaurant, and there's a bunch of stuff, like food stocks, equipment, furniture, vehicles, that aren't in the books, it won't take a genius to figure out what's going on.

  7. Re:ummmm the constitution trumps laws on Law Lets IRS Seize Accounts On Suspicion, No Crime Required · · Score: 2

    Most people can't afford a damn good lawyer, and the IRS can quickly give back the money to the few who can.

  8. Re:and they use cash businesses as examples on Law Lets IRS Seize Accounts On Suspicion, No Crime Required · · Score: 2

    If they put their cash in a box, what's going to stop federal agents taking the box, using the argument that anybody that keeps their cash in a box is highly likely to be cheating on their taxes ?

  9. Re:replacing line feeds with terminators is not a on Tetris Is Hard To Test · · Score: 2

    The nice part about putting the entire Linux kernel on a single line is that you always know the exact line number of the bug.

  10. Re:Falsifiability on High Speed Evolution · · Score: 1

    But sometimes they don't

    Is that so ? Can you name one ?

  11. Re:Falsifiability on High Speed Evolution · · Score: 1

    What we can do is observe random mutations in normal reproduction. That has been done multiple times. We can try to understand the fundamental cause of these mutations. For instance, we subject a test subject to ionizing radiation, and see if that has an influence on certain types of mutations. We can also look at the frequency of mutations, and distribution of mutations in a population. Then we can look at differences between chips and humans, or any other kind of species pair, and see if the differences in their genome agrees with the observed mutation rate and the fossil history.

  12. Re:Falsifiability on High Speed Evolution · · Score: 1

    So, please describe a test that would falsify such a designer, if you would.

  13. Re:Infomercial for a code coverage tool? on Tetris Is Hard To Test · · Score: 1

    Also, it isn't sufficient to know that the execution has gone through the "4 lines cleared twice in a row" code, but somebody should then also watch the score to see if it was actually updated by the correct amount.

  14. Re:Falsifiability on High Speed Evolution · · Score: 4, Funny

    However, none of that is evidence that it is not designed.

    Indeed. All we can say is that the theory doesn't need a designer. It doesn't need a painter or hair stylist either. Would you prefer if we rewrote the theory of evolution so that there was a hair stylist fixing the hair of the woolly mammoths ?

  15. Re:Falsifiability on High Speed Evolution · · Score: 1

    If the model is good enough, why complicate it ?

  16. Re:Falsifiability on High Speed Evolution · · Score: 1

    Did something, at some point in those billions of unobservable years, modify genes by means much like we do today? You have no idea

    Please describe a test that would falsify such a designer.

  17. Re:Falsifiability on High Speed Evolution · · Score: 1

    Pseudo random is good enough.

  18. Re:Falsifiability on High Speed Evolution · · Score: 1

    What's so hard to fathom about the simple fact that many small changes add up to big changes, and thus different species ?

  19. Re:Falsifiability on High Speed Evolution · · Score: 1

    Toss a coin. Random side comes up. No booga-booga involved.

  20. Re:Falsifiability on High Speed Evolution · · Score: 1

    Some going extinct is adaptation

    No. Let me recommend this book: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...

  21. Re:Sorry They're Changing on FTDI Removes Driver From Windows Update That Bricked Cloned Chips · · Score: 1

    Even with destroying a few chips, there's no way for a customer to detect the chips are clones.

  22. Re:Sorry They're Changing on FTDI Removes Driver From Windows Update That Bricked Cloned Chips · · Score: 1

    Good luck trying to sue somebody in China. But, yes, the market is normalizing itself by avoiding FTDI chips.

  23. Re:Computer Missues Act 1990 on FTDI Removes Driver From Windows Update That Bricked Cloned Chips · · Score: 1

    Funny definition of "work" you have.

  24. Re:Computer Missues Act 1990 on FTDI Removes Driver From Windows Update That Bricked Cloned Chips · · Score: 1

    This is about FTDI reprogramming clone chips so they no longer work with any driver. Since FTDI made this choice on purpose, they are liable.

  25. Re:Sorry They're Changing on FTDI Removes Driver From Windows Update That Bricked Cloned Chips · · Score: 1

    So you buy your chips from FTDI, send them to China to have them assembled, and then some factory worker swaps them for fakes, while selling the originals.