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  1. Re:Knowledge on US Teen Pleads Guilty To Teaching ISIS About Bitcoin Via Twitter · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Telling people how to do something, knowing they will use it in a crime, makes you a participant. It's legal to say that house over there sells cocaine, but not if I'm a roving salesman for them drumming up sales.

  2. Re:Please explain a passage from the article on Past a Certain Critical Temperature, the Universe Will Be Destroyed · · Score: 1
  3. Re:Please explain a passage from the article on Past a Certain Critical Temperature, the Universe Will Be Destroyed · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Well, I think he's saying that after the big bang, the energy density of that microdot of universe was so high it triggered inflation.

    Ergo, if you jam enough energy into a tiny enough space, you could recreate the whatever-it-was that triggered inflation, and trigger a new inflation from that spot, probably destroying everything else in the universe the same way Daffy Duck's modern home appliance salesman did: "In the modern home, we don't go upstairs. We bring the upstairs...down."

  4. When good men do nothing on France Claims Right To Censor Search Results Globally · · Score: 1

    Government has no right to censor, nor do you, through them, or through a democratic vote. Numbers do not make right.

    Politicians pandering to you, to lead you on crusades of outraged censorship, is just another form of those in power using censorship to maintain their power.

  5. Re:Just because you can... on Dark Net's Top Selling Drug Dealer Is Making $1.5 Million This Year · · Score: 1

    How do they get around the government ordering some and seeing who mails it?

  6. A true multiprocess-capable thermostat at that on Commodore PC Still Controls Heat and A/C At 19 Michigan Public Schools · · Score: 1

    "Amiga -- It's what the Apple iThermostat should have been."

  7. Re:Terrible example of the use of 3D printing on 3D Printed Steel Pedestrian Bridge Will Soon Span an Amsterdam Canal · · Score: 1, Informative

    Less cost-effective?

    Honey, in 10 years places like Netherlands will have politicians screaming for a special tax on it to compensate for all the workers thrown out.

    The savings isn't in the manufacturing, where rolling beams out will always be cheaper. It's in the assembly and transport.

    Here, there was a phrase coined in the 1970s when assembly line robots picked up speed: "This is progress?!?!?"

  8. I, Robot, C U on Face Recognition Tech Pushes Legal Boundaries · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Everyone's gonna have it in their vr goggles used to augment and overlay reality in 10 years anyway. You're all living in a fantasy world. Government will limit it to itself, or try to, and they're the ones with serious abuse potential as their panopticon keeps a live track database of all citizens out in public.

    Again, I am less concerned if Facebook wants to know if I'm more interested in Pampers or Depends than of government tracking...which history shows will be abused by those in power to maintain their power.

  9. Re:Good and Bad on Appeals Court Rejects ISP Stay of Neutrality Rules · · Score: 1

    Well, the Internet is a thing you join into. It isn't a land grab so you can start extorting premiums.

  10. Re:My Usenet has always been throttled on Appeals Court Rejects ISP Stay of Neutrality Rules · · Score: 1

    These are old university professors emeritus. They'll be dead soon.

  11. Re:Visible controllers on Oculus Announces Partnership With Microsoft · · Score: 1

    I actually felt offended they kept showing the VR headset next to a fucking X-Box controller.

  12. Re:Visible controllers on Oculus Announces Partnership With Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Well it sure isn't "see my penis so I can VR masturbate" button because your belly would still be in the way.

  13. 20 years old on Missing Files Blamed For Deadly A400M Crash · · Score: 1
  14. Aren't we grand! on Why Our Brains Can't Process the Gravest Threats To Humanity · · Score: 1

    Similarly we cannot fathom similar threats like periodic ice ages, which gw counteracts.

    I trace it to the religious-like nature of giant political memeplexes people believe in.

    Observe: agw is good because it counteracts this, and moving back from the ocean over 100-300 years is no problem. We can less envision technological life 100 years from now than horse and buggy people could today.

    Observe as I am modded down by the "I feel attacked" meme lodged in massive religious-like memeplexes.

  15. Re:Old news.. on MIT Team Creates Ultracold Molecules · · Score: 1, Funny

    Maybe if your penis wasn't 10^-27 inches long.

  16. What can Ice Guy do now? on MIT Team Creates Ultracold Molecules · · Score: 1

    Oh great. More science for comic book writers to misunderstand.

  17. Re:Not much the US can do. on US Tech Giants Ask Obama Not To Compromise Encryption · · Score: 1

    Export ban perhaps, using the sophistry of defining encryption as munitions. But internal to the US I believe the Supreme Court has already ruled freedom of speech includes the right to speak encrypted.

  18. I never use algebra!!! on San Francisco Public Schools To Require Computer Science For Preschoolers · · Score: 2

    > the racial demographics of the school district's 209 AP Computer Science
    > participants (181 Asian, 0 African American, 6 Latino, 1 Native American, 14 White, 7 Other).

    There is an opinion piece on CNN right now of a Asian guy screaming at Asian parents how rotten they are for doing this.

    Well, somebody has to invent the new stuff and medicines you are indignantly voting for politicians to give you for free.

  19. Re:good. on Google and Facebook Cancel Satellite Plans · · Score: 1

    I am less concerned if Google or Facebook know if I'd prefer to buy Pampers or Depends than if government can eavesdrop on all that without a warrant (and, apparently, no real technological barriers to spying without a warrant.)

  20. Re:Hiding behind anonymity on Feds Want To Unmask Internet Commenters Writing About the Silk Road Trial Judge · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You can bet those retarded assholes would be much more polite if they weren't cowering behind a veil of anonymity.

    You do have a First Amendment right to speak anonymously, retarded or not.

  21. Longerer on Debunking the Batteriser's Claims · · Score: 3, Funny

    > It will last 8x as long!"

    That'll learn ya to cut-and-paste boilerplate from an ExtenZ ad.

  22. Re:People are claiming a victory where there is no on Edward Snowden: the World Says No To Surveillance · · Score: 1

    With no real technical hurdles up to and including listening in on cell phone conversations, and little more than a check box on a form [ ] You did get a warrant, right?, there's nothing to stop G. Gordon Liddy types from spying on behalf of this or that politician, of the actions of their opponents.

    And no-warrant stuff (sophistry to have access to who you called and when, but not the call audio itself) is a goldmine for political planners to attack and subvert opponents and their donors.

    The whole thing is sickening from a Founding Fathers point of view.

  23. And... on US Bombs ISIS Command Center After Terrorist Posts Selfie Online · · Score: 1

    Terrorist: "Ohh, my great mission accomplished moment!" (Snap) (Post)

    (booom)

    Well, the US military is often accused of being excellent at fighting the previous war. This one dragged out so long they've caught up in real time.

  24. Toomb on Microsoft To Release Low-Cost Windows 10 With Bing Branding · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well, they've me too'd the phone/tablet OS.

    They've me too'd the search engine.

    They've me too'd an app store.

    They forgot to me too any cool cachet.

  25. Re: For US benefit ... on Leaked TISA Documents Reveal Privacy Threat · · Score: 1

    I would consider a treaty superior to federal and state laws, but inferior to the Constitution -- any conflict between any two levels and the higher one wins.

    There is a great deal of argument a treaty could, say, abridge certain rights, like speech, but I think that goes too far. The relationship I described seems about right.