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  1. Re:Cancer isn't one disease on Why a Cure For Cancer Is So Elusive · · Score: 1

    We aren't debating whether some fundamental theorem of mathematics will be overturned...

    A correctly proven theorem can't be overturned in its system.

  2. Re:Science isn't critical thinking... on Getting Evolution In Science Textbooks For Texas Schools · · Score: 1

    Apparently what you don't realize is that "evolution theory" is theory about the mechanism(s) of evolution and not for evolution itself.

  3. How did he dare to disturb the bed bugs? on Canadian Hotel Sues Guest For $95K Over Bad Review, Bed Bugs · · Score: 1

    How did he dare to disturb the bed bugs? Fine him!

  4. Re: What kind of access? on ElcomSoft Tool Cracks BitLocker, PGP, TrueCrypt In Real-Time · · Score: 1

    Ok, now the page is accessible. I won't however believe it if i don't test it myself.

  5. What kind of access? on ElcomSoft Tool Cracks BitLocker, PGP, TrueCrypt In Real-Time · · Score: 1

    Access to some information or access to encrypted data?

  6. Re:Hogwash! Bring back the bible! on Violation of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    WTF mods? The parent is actually funny!

  7. Re:Disable it! on Microsoft Denies Windows 8 App Spying Via SmartScreen · · Score: 3, Informative

    There is a check box where you can disable this 'feature' before installation. Nothing to see here....

    Why is the parent moded -1?

  8. Oh great... on Simulating Societies At the Global Scale · · Score: 1

    Anybody guess the sponsors ?

  9. Re:first on Ubuntu Unity: The Great Divider · · Score: 1

    FAIL!

  10. Danger Will Robinson, precipice ahaid on Ubuntu Unity: The Great Divider · · Score: 1

    I kinda like... the option of using the classic theme. If I had a touchscreen I think I would like the new interface. But I don't, neither at my desctop nor at my laptop. And for the love of God what did they have in mind with the new obscure scrollbars? I think that Ubuntu took the wrong turn and there is a precipice ahaid

  11. O tempora o mores on Teacher Suspended Over Blog About Students · · Score: 2

    as subject says

  12. Oh, snap! on Heroic Engineer Crashes Own Vehicle To Save a Life · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm sure that the insurance guys will love this explanation!

  13. Re:Well, duh on Claimed Proof That P != NP · · Score: 1

    And do not forget that N!=NP stands iff P=(N-1)! Of course if we add a space between "N" and "!" the argument goes bananas but for 1.000.000 it worths the shot!

  14. Re:His Master's Voice on Don't Talk To Aliens, Warns Stephen Hawking · · Score: 1

    While I can't contradict that I find it doubtful. From what we know -since so far earth is the only paradigm we have- intelligence appeared because of evolutionary pressure that favored it. On the other hand insects with hive societies are so successful that they didn't need intelligence. While I could be way wrong, I think hive-like society and intelligence are mutually exclusive, there is just no point to have intelligence -for which biologically speaking it's very expensive- if you have "hive mind".

    Of course there could be an evolutionary pressure that favored intelligent hive mind and in that case this mind would be so alien that there would be simply no point to try to understand its motives and its thoughts.

  15. Who cheats who on How Easy Is It To Cheat In CS? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    He/she who cheats discovers later why this is a bad idea.

  16. Re:Fear of Science... on Zombies As American Zeitgeist Proxies · · Score: 1

    maxume is not entirely wrong. Romero drew his inspiration from Matheson's "I am a legend", but instead of vampires he literally created the "zombies" as we know them. Till "Night of the living dead" zombies were - to the middle western- a bizarre Caribbean folklore.

  17. Re:That's why Adblock plus exists ! on Why Your Pop-Up Blocker Doesn't Work Anymore · · Score: 1

    I just tried it. No popup!

  18. That's why Adblock plus exists ! on Why Your Pop-Up Blocker Doesn't Work Anymore · · Score: 4, Informative

    Adblock plus, problem solved!

  19. Re:Flying cars are nice but.. on Eight Year Old Physics Student Admitted to College · · Score: 1

    All the guys mentioned above made significant scientific contributions.

    Gauss with Archimedes and Newton consist the trinity of mathematics, Euler is one of the greatest mathematicians and the productive ever born with Erdos as second, Maclorin was the first who developed a method for expanding functions in term of series (later generalized from Taylor), Pascal along with Fermat "invented" probability theory, Neumann invented Game Theory.

  20. Damn it, it's freaking ugly on Office 12 Exposed · · Score: 1

    OK, I might get flamebait for that, but I trully believe it. THIS IS UGLY.

    On the other hand that was the first thing I said when I first saw Office 2003 as a beta tester. And I keep using it.

    I will try it of course but I think that at least for me OpenOffice time has come.

  21. Re:All I gotta say is... on DirectNIC Crisis Manager Braves the Chaos of New Orleans · · Score: 1

    Rapes, beatings etc. What a colorful display of the human nature. I won't hurry to condemn them because I really don't know if I would be any better. Don't hurry either to say "I won't do such things". Truth is, until you find yourself in a situation like this, you won't know.

    I don't say that humans are de facto bad. Humans are not de fact good either. Humans are a mixture of good and bad and the display of there kindness or bandness depends on the situation. While others will risk their lifes to save some people, others will find the chance to rape/beat/kill etc.

    Humans that loose there control and act like animals when law cannot be enforced is the price we pay for humans that retain control and help other people and even risk their life for helping other people.

    That doesn't mean that we should live "bad" people unpanished when the order get restored. By all means, panish them and panish them hard, as hard as can gets. Because their punishment will make a good example for the people standing in the middle between Human and human animal.

  22. Re:ext3 to reiser4 ? on Reiser4 Filesystem Released · · Score: 1

    There is a big difference. All 1024 bytes long files have a 16 bytes MD5 hash value. Not every file has the same size after compression.

  23. Re:And punish legitimate users? on Controversial StarForce Copy Protection Creators Quizzed · · Score: 1

    > Lets see, I enter a store, pick up some product or merchendice, pay for it and leave the shop. Do I own what I just bought? Yup!
    > Typically regulated through sale or consumer sale laws in most countries. Why you would think sale laws doesn't apply to computer games is beyoned me.

    When you have to deal with books, or cds or dvds or anything like that, you own the medium that contains the contents and not the contents themselves.

    To an extent this is logical but you can have serious abuse by the copyright owner. The right question is "Why law protects copyright owner more than the customer" ?

    The obvious answer is that most times the owener has much more money than the customer, thus more power. Sad but true