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  1. Re:The problem is on Wikipedia's Lamest Edit Wars · · Score: 1

    Just try editing a Wikipedia article introduce a deliberate mistake and see what happens :)

      Technically, before attempting this, one should be at the post-graduate level in trolling.

  2. Re: Writing 32 lines is not "Learning CS" on More Students Learn CS In 3 Days Than Past 100 Years · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not only that, but:

    > "and written 406,022,512 lines of code"

    Sounds like a bad 5 weeks I had once 15 years ago.

  3. Easy, now... on You Are What Your Dad Ate · · Score: 1

    You Are What Your Dad Ate

    Well, that explaons why you're a dick!

    Waitress, another Lon-guh Island ice tea please.

  4. Re:Highway Robbery on NZ Traveler's Electronics Taken At Airport; Interest in Snowden to Blame? · · Score: 1

    This is a serious situation about loss of freedom, as was apartheid which Nelson Mandela so bravely fought against, both just like our Obamacare thing at home. Here's my sign language guy to interpret me:

    "Gerba gerba gerb borgle blorg Taylor Swift is hotttttttt blarg gerble..."

  5. Re:Legal Fiction on Chimpanzee "Personhood" Lawsuits Fail In New York Courts · · Score: 1

    This is exactly the kind of thing a democratic process should handle rather than courts (who can't "discover" new things out of centuries of contrary precedence without decades of free speech persuasion shifting the populace anyway.)

    You simply cannot have courts adding to potential political power without the consent of the governed. Otherwise it is a power grab. Even if no chimp ever votes.

    A similar thing must be done for artificial intelligence lest somebody spawn off a hundred trillion voters they control.

  6. Re:intelligence on Chimpanzee "Personhood" Lawsuits Fail In New York Courts · · Score: 1

    Pretty much any animal with consciousness should not be tortured. I'm highly skeptical of the necessity for experiments without sedation or pain killers.

  7. Re:Delivering urban homes is hard work. on Canada Post Announces the End of Urban Home Delivery · · Score: 1

    How wonderfully un-green! Replacing one vehicle on an optimized route with thousands overlapping a small chunk of that route both ways as people swing by on the way home. And this doesn't address moving most of it from walk to drive, or people taking a longer route throuh their subdivisons so they can get the box on the correct side.

  8. Re:A US perspective on UK Retailer Mistakenly Sends PS Vitas, Threatens Legal Action To Get Them Back · · Score: 1

    Yes...but is an incorrectly filled order a gift or a goof? You could claim it was an unasked gift, combined with a completely separate unfulfilled order. Good luck with that.

  9. Imagine a boot... on Sci-fi Author Charles Stross Cancels Trilogy: the NSA Is Already Doing It · · Score: 0

    The parts are all there to build the machine that tracks you amd ypur vehicle and phone, continuously, so someone could see a 3D Google map with you and a little right-click menu to call up your phone calls live, history (not just metafata) and a little ff/rw button to go back in time tracking you.

    There are a number of sci-fi stories, and a TV show now, with exactly this.

    Remember, NSA agents are supposed to fill out a form before listening in on the phone calls of presidents and senators and you.

  10. Re:So is actually a Rimmerverse? on Simulations Back Up Theory That Universe Is a Hologram · · Score: 2

    That would explain why nobody around here gets the girl.

  11. Re:Horseshit on Simulations Back Up Theory That Universe Is a Hologram · · Score: 1

    My 5 minute search, I am unable to see evidence whole and hole are related, which is possible, ironically, since they are kind of opposites. In any case, even if so, hologram derives from the concept of whole, not hollow/hole.

  12. Re:Horseshit on Simulations Back Up Theory That Universe Is a Hologram · · Score: 1

    The "hol" in hologram comes from whole, not hole, which is where the "hol" in hollow comes from.

    The "hol" in holy also comes from whole, too.

  13. Re:so does this mean.... on Simulations Back Up Theory That Universe Is a Hologram · · Score: 1

    I like that argument and generally support it, but there is no reason to believe this (simulated) universe's physics resemble in any way that in the "real super-universe".

    Our apparent inability to understand the physical basis for the subjective conscious experience, which logically must have a physical basis, being a real phenomenon, and the curiously bizarre speed limit (perhaps to prevent universal dominance of any one government or dictator?) both suggest "its the way it's been done for billions of years".

    If the physical substrate for our consciousness is the proverbial brain in a vat, that physics could be completely separate in kind from that which is shoved in our faces.

  14. Re:Kinda, sorta extortion. Maybe... on California Man Arrested for Running 'Revenge Porn' Website · · Score: 1

    "You stole something and got successfully prosecuted when you were young. Pay me or I'll march around with this sign describing it, in front of your work or any restaurants you go to for business."

  15. Re:And why ... on Program to Use Russian Nukes for US Electricity Comes to an End · · Score: 1

    The US and Russia "beat swords into plowshares", and the first thing out of anyone's mouth was how evul da US is?

    Incredible.

  16. Re:Banning 3D guns like banning anal sex on 3-D Printed Gun Ban Fails In Senate · · Score: 1

    A criminal or terrorist will just not include it anyway during printing. There are no companies manufacuring these to hold to account.

  17. Kingmaker, self on EU Warns Nokia Not To Become a Patent Troll · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "but warned that 'if Nokia were to take illegal advantage of its patents in the future, we will open an antitrust case.' 'I sincerely hope we will not have to,' said Almunia."

    This behavior by government officials is, or should be, illegal. Patent trolls are bad, but officials threatening to withhold licensing or "review" it for legal behaviors that have nothing to do with the issue in question is a gross, kingly abuse of power.

    If patent troll behavior of the remnant is illegal, you deal with that directly as a criminal issue.

  18. Re:thank goodness on NSA Collect Gamers' Chats and Deploy Real-Life Agents Into WoW and Second Life · · Score: 1

    If you're not doing anything wrong, ya got nuthin' to fear, do ya, little orky?"

  19. Re:Clever bastards on NSA Collect Gamers' Chats and Deploy Real-Life Agents Into WoW and Second Life · · Score: 1

    "I knew it! I know who the spy was! I knew there was something funny about that guy on the last raid. He kept saying, 'Leroy Abdullah! Who's with me, bros? Let's go, Leroy Abdullah!"

  20. Re:"What say you?" on Why Reactive Programming For Databases Is Awesome · · Score: 1

    Boy, they really hate grammar Nazis around here, don't they?

  21. Re:And that's why so many voted for BO on Study: People Are Biased Against Creative Thinking · · Score: 0

    At least it was creative. And you? Tearing down the creative because it violates your established worldview that informs, via memes, the words that flow from your mouth. This guiding field of ideas others have thought up, evolving them until it is an evolutionarily successful package that spreads, and defends itself by getting its constituent hardware units to regurgitate teardown phrases to competing memes.

  22. Re:Yo Dawg I Heard You Like Water on Scientists Discover Huge Freshwater Reserves Beneath the Ocean · · Score: 1

    It's not blind faith. It provides reliable predictions that, in a free society, people will invent solutions, and do so faster than problems become big problems, defined as impacting actual measurements of human longevity and average wealth.

    This precautionary principle, insofar as it interferes, apes the control of dictatorships, from central planning to kickbacks dragging things to a halt. Don't believe it? Wanna bet?

    Didn't think so.

  23. Re:Why are you spying on your ex-girlfriend? on Employee Morale Is Suffering At the NSA · · Score: 5, Interesting

    And how many incidents go undetected?

    Worse, LOVEINT is a bit disturbing, but not the kind of abuse that's serious on a governmental level.

    Suppose the next election is Hillary vs. Christie. Would you be happy with people listening in on Christie's phone calls and those of his circle and supporters? Or Hillary's?

    Imagine how that could be abused to swing elections. Counter strategies. Embarrass or blackmail donors.

    All because the technology is in place with weak protections that a determined agent (or cabal) could easily bypass.

    Just the "metadata", knowing who these people talk to, can be seriously abused.

  24. Re:"What say you?" on Why Reactive Programming For Databases Is Awesome · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Sigh. The asshole would be fetid, and the cock would be rancid.

  25. Re:wait on Elsevier Going After Authors Sharing Their Own Papers · · Score: 1

    As with fiction, publishers take a financial risk on your work, and hence demanding exclusivity in contracts is reasonable.