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  1. Re:Words on Google's House of Cards · · Score: 1

    What a piece of work is a man! How noble I
    reason, how infinite in faculty! In form and moving
    how express and admirable! In action how like an Angel!
    in apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the
    world! The paragon of animals! And yet to me, what is
    this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me; no,
    nor Woman neither; though by your smiling you seem
    to say so.

  2. Re:A simple summary... on Newegg Defeats Alcatel-Lucent in Third Patent Win This Year · · Score: 4, Informative

    I read it -- it took me 4 minutes to figure it out.

    Old way: Server sends, say, menu of 5 items with indicator to highlight first.

    User arrows down two, client sends two down arrows. Server notes this that it is on 3rd item, but only in theory.

    User hits enter. Server receives enter and decides 3rd item is selected.

    Patent: Send IDs for all that shit and client reports ID-based activities.

  3. Re:What is it with momentum wheels, anyway? on Equipment Failure May Cut Kepler Mission Short · · Score: 1

    You'd also think they's have these attached to the spafe station for many years, so they could study wear and tear on it.

  4. Re:Is this unusual? on Anti-Infringement Company Caught Infringing On Its Website · · Score: 1

    Or do most websites have at least some infringing content?

    The OP makes it sound like they deliberately did this to stir things up. I don't get it.

  5. Magical market on Justice Department Calls Apple the "Ringmaster" In e-book Price Fixing Case · · Score: 1

    As long as it's a dollar less than physical books, they are price cutting by their innovation, and are heroes.

    "Hey! You're trying to rip us off (in this market you created which didn't even exist a few years ago, and still offers a way better price than physical printing)! How dare you!"

  6. Re:pfftt... on A Computer-based Smart Rifle With Incredible Accuracy, Now On Sale · · Score: 1

    That technique, still used by bushmen in Africa, may be why humans lost their fur. After 4 hours of light jogging after an animal, it had heat stroke and they didn't.

  7. Re:this is why mathematicians are poor on Canada Courts, Patent Office Warns Against Trying To Patent Mathematics · · Score: 1

    It's why you typed that out on a fancy handheld and have shelves jammed with stuff.

    Humanity tried building worlds based on "money is evil", and the results are universally vastly substandard.

  8. Re:I can't wait to see this battle on Google Demands Microsoft Pull YouTube App For WP8 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Basically. They were notorious for letting their products use hidden internal APIs that gave them an advantage.

    Ironically, I have no problem with that. Why should one company help another to build similar stuff? But I like seeing them be petarded by their own hoist.

  9. Re:I can't wait to see this battle on Google Demands Microsoft Pull YouTube App For WP8 · · Score: 1

    > They don't have an inherent right to access youtube. It's not in the constitution.

    It's on the Internet, it's not the web site's business what kind of browser, or device, you access it from. I hate the device restrictions, too. It's none of YouTube.com's business.

    Chopping ads is a different story -- YouTube could claim ad strippers are altering copyrighted presentations, if they choose to go that route.

  10. Hmmmm on Google and NASA Snap Up D-Wave Quantum Computer · · Score: 1

    Two articles deep:

    Instead it does something called ‘annealing’, where an answer is arrived at by looking for the lowest energy state of the bits in the computer chip ...

      The D-Wave Two computer, which has 512 quantum bits, is designed to tackle classification-type problems that are useful in machine learning and image recognition. Essentially it is good at determining the best ways to sort things into different categories, such as X-ray scans that contain an image of a bomb and ones that don’t.

    This is partitioning using neural network-based pattern recognition techniques.

    The annealing is simulating raising the temperature of your variable encoding, which amounts to throwing your solutions around more violently on the gradient descent space in hopes of exiting your local minimum and finding a lower one.

  11. Re:modern day defense contractor on Exploit Sales: the New Disclosure Debate · · Score: 1

    Sales of weapons to nasty governments has at least, in theory, been nominally approved by accountable, elected officials, and is in accordance with some policies set by same.

  12. Charges good, man. on Possible Graphene Alternative Made From Hemp Waste · · Score: 1

    "Supercapacitors made with the hemp nanosheetsput out more power
    than commercial devices can."

    Wow! How high does the charge get?

  13. Mission accomplished! on Bing Translator Adds Klingon · · Score: 1

    Ha ha, you assholes clicked on a bing link.

  14. Tell it like it is. on In Germany, Offensive Autocomplete Is No Laughing Matter · · Score: 1

    Here's how Google should comply.

    Seargh: George Whoever

    1. George Whoever (censored by German government)
    2 . George Whoever (censored by German government)
    3 . George Whoever (censored by German government)
    4 . George Whoever (censored by German government)
    5 . George Whoever (censored by German government)
    etc.

  15. Re:why does your phone need software running on yo on iTunes: Still Slowing Down Windows PCs After All These Years · · Score: 1

    I have an iPod, not an iPhone. However, the AppleMobileDeviceService.exe process is running in the background. I have never seen it gobble up cycles. It normally sits at "00" CPU. When I plug in the iPod, it jumps to an incredible "01" for a very short interval and then returns to "00". So, does anyone else have this process gobbles up to 50% of the CPU?

    50% is 100%, just hogging one of a dual-core processor.
    Since you see 1%, I'm jelly of ur 100-core.

  16. Re:Gaps between numbers... on Major Advance Towards a Proof of the Twin Prime Conjecture · · Score: 1

    Given the bigger the number, the more smaller numbers that could divide into it, suggests primes should be getting further and further apart. So a proof they don't is important because it suggests the growing density of divisors (smaller primes) starts to lose out vs. the general increase in sheer quantity of all numbers.

    It approaches a limit that is neither infinity nor zero (since we know there are infinite primes.)

    I still feel this proof has to be wrong for that reason. Well let math at larege look at it for some years and we shall see.

  17. cool, kinda sorta on Microsoft Reads Your Skype Chat Messages · · Score: 1

    I think Chrome works by matching any links you want to go to against known bad links Google has already determined are bad by its crawler.

    It doesn't go to them as you type them in in messages.

    That, by the way, would be a nice feature, like some kind of CheckOutIfThisURLIsSpam.com. But voluntary, and not buried in TOS on page 97 of your clickthru.

  18. Re:blocking revolution facilitating tools on Saudi Arabian Telecom Pitches to Moxie Marlinspike · · Score: 1

    "There must be no doubt that the United States of America welcomes change that advances self-determination and opportunity,” President Obama said in May. In his typically weak manner, he also cautioned that, “we must proceed with a sense of humility."

    1. He is correct about the humility. Unless we are interested in creating a proper constitution that does not allow religion in lawmaking, with associated 15+ year pacification-level military involvement, i.e. 10x more, more like what we did after WWII, such that a whole new generation can grow up under it, expecting it, forget it. You see the issues in Afghanistan and Iraq.

    2. The idea of "ooooh! Look at them self-determine!", when that means either a different dictatorship, or a constitution that acknowledges primacy of one religion beyond trivialities, is no thing to view as a value, and we should be embarrassed to do so.

    There is no honor in that, and we disable ourselves by feigning so.

    It is no different from terrorists seizing a stadium of people and some idiot external politician praising the stadium for practicing self-determination.

  19. Re:English Libel on New Prenda Law Shell Corp Threatening to Tell Your Neighbors You Pirated Porn · · Score: 1

    Extortion is a Good Public Cause, at least according to all Good Public Politicians in all countries throughout all human history.

  20. Sath balts on Mayan Pyramid In Belize Leveled By Construction Crew · · Score: 1

    > in Belize

    Belize, is that, wait! HAS ANYONE SEEN MCAFFEE LATELY?

  21. Re:Today we are men! on Engineering the $325,000 Burger · · Score: 1

    Oh I forgot my point -- my point was science fiction has long had lab-grown meat for people. Except it won't have fat, which will have to be added, making the entire creation of meat pointless. You might as well create something better for you and add the fat to that.

  22. Re:Is Facebook a Toxic Brand? on Facebook Home Flagship Phone, HTC First, May Be Discontinued · · Score: 2

    I never got the appeal -- it was just MySpace with access control for your friends. Hence it took off as "safer" for students.

  23. Wires on Interviews: Freeman Dyson Answers Your Questions · · Score: 2

    My own opinion is that AI has failed to fulfill its promise because we are using the wrong kind of computers. We are using digital computers, and the human brain is probably analog rather than digital

    Thank you! Been saying this for 10 damned years.

  24. Re:This is disgusting!! on Supreme Court Rules For Monsanto In Patent Case · · Score: 1

    Yes, it is harsh -- you get to do that when inventing something. That's why these somethings exist.

    I invent something. That you have a heartbeat doesn't mean you are suddenly deprived of it.

  25. Today we are men! on Engineering the $325,000 Burger · · Score: 2

    1. Meat tastes terrible. It's the fat that tastes good. Go make a burger from steak tartar, no cheese, if you don't believe me.

    2. Red meat, because of carnetines and gut bacterial, may be causing the lion's share of heart disease problems.

    So we've been fooled by science fiction for 80 years. Meat is a useless substrate to convey delicious fats to the mouth, and give you something to chew on while savoring them. And it's a hideously unhealthy substrate.

    Some tofu burger, but with beef fat, is probably the way to go. Lack of fats is why tofu, like plain baked taters, taste...boring, to be kind to both.