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  1. Re:Lol on A Text Message Can Crash An iPhone and Force It To Reboot · · Score: 1

    Not necessarily. You could use AI to reject things if it gets scared.

  2. Re:So what was the patent? on Supreme Court Rules In Favor of Patent Troll · · Score: 1

    The patent itself is worthless to find any basic, quick facts, for that matter.

  3. "Unfair"? on Court Orders UberPop Use To Be Banned In All of Italy · · Score: 1

    "Unfair competition", against government laws whose purpose is, against the concept of freedom, to restrict competition? Against a government/big business coalition to carve up the rights to sell to people-qua-owned cattle?

    How ludicrous.

  4. Re:speciescide is well within google search parame on Machine That "Uncooks Eggs" Used To Improve Cancer Treatment · · Score: 1

    > there's'nt

    Your second apostrophe should be between the "n" and the "t".

  5. Re:anti-terorism experts or idiots on Secret Files Reveal UK Police Feared That Trekkies Could Turn On Society · · Score: 1

    Nah. The real threat wasn't anything overtly violent or traitorous.

    The nerds had agreed to stop reproducing by not having sex.

  6. Re:Government Intrusion on Oregon Testing Pay-Per-Mile Driving Fee To Replace Gas Tax · · Score: 1

    This is the follow-up experiment to one run in the Netherlands over 20 years ago with LPG cars. (Did you know you can convert your car to run on natural gas, and have a switch to flip between the that and gasoline, for about $3000? Who knew?)

    But rather than drive adoption of this by letting the much cheaper natural gas work its magic, they slapped a huge annual tax on said cars, so you would have to drive the equivalent of ~20,000 miles just to break even.

    From that observation, pointing out how government concern for the environment was just lip service compared to its voracious desire for money, I predicted similar things for other developments in the future.

    Well, here we are. Note in both cases they do this before, not after, achieving the ostensible goal of getting most, or even many, people on board such cars.

    "They just want your money" -- 89,768-0 in predictive analysis of government action.

  7. Re:Stupid reasoning. on Los Angeles Raises Minimum Wage To $15 an Hour · · Score: 1

    He also ignores that officials, happy to buy votes by spending taxes, will tax what the market can provide, so to speak, rather than what is needed.

    This is why they mentally tie spending, taxing, and borrowing to the GDP rather than population or necessity. They want to be as high a fraction of that as possible. There's always more votes to buy.

    It has nothing to do with necessity or population.

  8. Re:Compelling? on Why Apple Ditched Its Plan To Build a Television · · Score: 1

    The original vision of Apple (and Microsoft) of screen-oriented but Internet-derived entertainment was correct; they just found it better to make feeder devices for the big iron screens, which at least 3 other guys are doing, too.

  9. Re:Compelling? on Why Apple Ditched Its Plan To Build a Television · · Score: 1

    I would like to see Game of Thrones and Orphan Black thru Netflix rather than having to subscribe to those packages through cable. Cable only, like HBO Go is a step in the right direction.

    AMC for Walking Dead, online watch, the thru-cable-company unlock was designed by a chimpanzee.

  10. Re:Mixed reaction on Battle To Regulate Ridesharing Moves Through States · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As long as the medallion and similar limiting systems continue to exist, all gloves are off as far as I'm concerned.

    There's more to freedom than freedom of speech -- freedom to pursue your own business, and nobody has thr right to restrict entry for the purpose of limiting co.petition. "This here town ain't big enough to support two companies" should be left on the scrap heap of disreputable history.

  11. Re:Why? on North Carolina Still Wants To Block Municipal Broadband · · Score: 1

    the FCC unlawfully inserted itself between the State and the State's political subdivisions

    Regardless of the merits of municipal broadband, and bought-and-paid for legislators, the powers of local governments are given by state constitutions and laws. The feds simply have no constitutional say in it.

    They can stop states or local from outlawing various bands or having jammers, but they can't grant powers to localities against state wishes. The state authorizes the localities and gives them life.

  12. Re:I am not able to find that disproof on Book Review: The Terrorists of Iraq · · Score: 1

    Well...ok then. "Statistically impossible" might be a better choice.

    A (smallish) finite number of monkeys would be worse than a computer program to generate every possible text, since the monkeys rely on randomness and will repeat a lot of stuff, where an infinite number of monkeys will generate it in as long as it takes to pound out ~100,000 keys at random.

    Still, the bottleneck is the evaluation function to sort out not just intelligible plays, but high-quality ones, applicable in both scenarios. This means humans for now, and far more than particles in the universe.

    To be honest, the stench in a room filled with near-infinite numbers of computer and English geeks must be terrible.

  13. Re:"Cashless" is meaningless on The Solution To Argentina's Banking Problems Is To Go Cashless · · Score: 1, Informative

    You worthless, echo-chamber, meme-regurgitating sack of shit. India requires expats returning to pull all foreign accounts back into India at the theft-based government exchange rate. You get ripped off and the government gets your dollars.

    Why do brain-dead buffoonery like you always think the opposite of pituitary gland tumor gigantism in government is solved by an anarchy? What lovely straw men you set up in your economic disasterbation fantasies!

  14. Haute spot on Kepler's "Superflare" Stars Sport Huge, Angry Starspots · · Score: 1

    Man I haven't seen a monster flare that large since I ate that extra hot Thai food last Friday.

  15. Re:The right to be fascist on Academics Call For Greater Transparency About Google's Right To Be Forgotten · · Score: 0

    Fish, and plankton. And sea greens, and protein from the sea. It's all here, ready. Fresh as harvest day. Fish and sea greens, plankton and protein from the sea.

  16. Re:He's Had a Long Career... on Harry Shearer Walks Away From "The Simpsons," and $14 Million · · Score: 1

    Except total hours of work is on the order of a few days a year. This ties up nothing.

  17. Re:Car analogy? on New Device Could Greatly Improve Speech and Image Recognition · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's a cannon.

  18. Re:If all they have is a hammer on Dissolvable Electronic Stent Can Monitor Blocked Arteries · · Score: 1

    Objectively, literally, by measuring outcomes, "You should exercise and lose weight" and all its variations, is a miserable medical technique. It rarely works, and when it does, is reversed in 95% of those cases.

  19. Re:Curious about arteries healing on Dissolvable Electronic Stent Can Monitor Blocked Arteries · · Score: 1

    Try years. I had a medicated stent 6 months after a angioplasty, which was closing back up. Some months after that, the doctor decided to continue Plavix for six months, maybe a year.

    That was eight years ago. Still on it.

  20. Re: What does it say about you? on Does Using an AOL Email Address Suggest You're a Tech Dinosaur? · · Score: 2

    I use it (still), but as an email flophouse.

  21. Re:Your Government Inaction/In Action on Tor Is Building the Next Generation Dark Net With Funding From DARPA · · Score: 2

    torrents != tor != Tor (Sci-fi book company) != Tor, regular in Ed Wood movies, along with Vampirella and Bela Lugosi

  22. Re:Judicial rules? on Assange Talk Spurs UK Judges To Boycott Legal Conference · · Score: 1

    Perhaps. I don't see their bailing out as the big thing, like it's a protest.

    It's unseemly for jurists working for tue government to appear at a conference where a featured speaker is on the lam.

    It says nothing about the issues being debated -- some may even privately support him, or at least Wikileaks.

    It's like US supreme Court justices applauding at political statements by the president during the state of the union.

  23. Re:Walking advertisements on New Nudge Technology Prods You To Take Action · · Score: 1

    You don't need water reminders for daily life, nor do you need a water bottle. Nor, for the most part, water.

    You get more or less enough from your food alone. "You need to keep hydrated" is a fraud along the lines of valentine's day stuff -- a complete creation of companies.

    Hehe. You pay twice what you pay for pop...for water.

  24. Re:Here's a better idea on William Shatner Proposes $30 Billion Water Pipeline To California · · Score: 5, Informative

    Nestle's claims they use 700 million gallons a year bottling. This is the equivalent of what two golf courses use. CA has over 1100 golf courses.

  25. Re:Interstate Water Sharing system on William Shatner Proposes $30 Billion Water Pipeline To California · · Score: 1

    The Supreme Court has long ruled any federal plan to siphon from the Great Lakes requires the permission of the states on them, not to mention Canada by way of treaty.

    I doubt they could do it without their permission, for that matter, as California is seen as a folly of its own making -- go let them hang. The Great Lake states vote, too, and are larger. May we assemble a multi billion dollar debt package payment for you, too? /sarcasm-this-is-about-as-likely-to-pass