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  1. Re: Sounds like reasonable changes to me on Amazon Overhauling Customer Reviews · · Score: 1

    I have gotten different versions of books. Japanese A manual of reading and writing was rearranged between editions and Amazon's page depicts the second edition, but I got the first.

  2. Re: CJK is Unicode's big failing on Unicode Consortium Releases Unicode 8.0.0 · · Score: 1

    Says an armchair expert.

  3. Re: I'm going back to ASCII on Unicode Consortium Releases Unicode 8.0.0 · · Score: 1

    Not like a programming language? Then what's with all the different numbers after C++ standards and all the different variants of BASIC?

  4. Re: Money on Self-Driving Cars To Transform Insurance and Other Industries · · Score: 1

    Money has no value unless it is spent in a sense that is in public. All transactions are public. Furthermore all property is a social convention. You only own stuff because the majority of society agree that owning stuff is a good.

  5. Re:Money on Self-Driving Cars To Transform Insurance and Other Industries · · Score: 1

    Just what purpose do you think money serves? Would you rather they just printed more money and didn't create this weird situation where you are said to own temporarily something you never actually see, then it gets handed to the government?

  6. Re:Deserve? on Self-Driving Cars To Transform Insurance and Other Industries · · Score: 1

    Since when did what someone "deserves" matter? There are probably more models for what people deserve than there are people.

  7. Re: Why is this on Slashdot? on Why Is It a Crime For Dennis Hastert To Evade Government Scrutiny? · · Score: 2

    Because privacy.

  8. Re: Compared to eCat on Mystery Company Blazes a Trail In Fusion Energy · · Score: 1

    Poe's Law

  9. Re: Third party kernel monitoring on 100kb of Unusual Code Protecting Nuclear, ATC and United Nations Systems · · Score: 2

    So, it's like Tron and can even monitor the MCP as well?

  10. Created an accout, tried to play, most are buggy on DARPA Wants You To Verify Software Flaws By Playing Games · · Score: 1

    They need to fix their games so that you can actually play them. I tried some of them and one wouldn't run at all under IE, so I ran it under Chrome and got a little bit farther. That ones Monster Proof. I forget which one threw a dialog box error after getting through the first level and clicking Go to Next Level. Then there was one with text too small. Another had a light grey on dark grey thing for text and a glow around the text.

  11. Re: Java API: Copyrighted, but hope for fair use! on US Justice Department Urges Supreme Court Not To Take Up Google v. Oracle · · Score: 1

    Scribus showed me three blank pages that apparently were supposed to have text on them then demanded I download their app if I wanted to see more.

  12. Re: Clean room implementation? on US Justice Department Urges Supreme Court Not To Take Up Google v. Oracle · · Score: 1

    It also means that if we got a Congress that actually wanted to retroactively shorten copyright terms they can.

  13. Viruses on Jason Scott of Textfiles.com Wants Your AOL & Shovelware CDs · · Score: 1

    I downloaded much of the files at http://cd.textfiles.com/ and antivirus went berzerk.

  14. Memory addresses round robin on AMD Details High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) DRAM, Pushes Over 100GB/s Per Stack · · Score: 1

    And if you stagger the memory addresses round robin and maybe offset the clock of each stack appropriately, might there be a performance gain as well?

  15. Re: America's War On Drugs is a Failure on Silk Road's Leader Paid a Doctor To Help Keep Customers Safe · · Score: 1

    Most of what I've heard is keeping them away from people who don't teach their kids gun safety and then the kid gets to the gun and accidentally shoots someone, and keeping guns out of suicidal people's hands. Also a criminal is more likely to shoot someone who is attempting to draw on them.

  16. Re:Try adding some truth to your posts on House Science Committee Approves Changes To Space Law · · Score: 1

    It doesn't sound like he hates the free market at all. What it sounds like he is saying is that the Republicans talk about free markets but engage in practices that provide nothing of the sort.

  17. Re: Yep, they were... on Keurig Stock Drops, Says It Was Wrong About DRM Coffee Pods · · Score: 1

    Nothing in the article demonstrates that they have learned the no DRM lesson. What was said is still compatible with them licensing the DRM to other ground coffee sellers.

  18. Re: Most tabs shouldn't be closed on Technology and Ever-Falling Attention Spans · · Score: 1

    What should that 80MB be spent on? It's not like it's going to spend itself. How do you want to organize the bookmarks you aren't going to keep around? Right now in Chrome, the only browser that keeps my bookmarks from device to device, I have nearly every top level folder a single letter of the alphabet.

  19. Re: FTYF, Submitter on The Medical Bill Mystery · · Score: 1

    I believe the original charge was "sugar loaded", but as for healthy, there are always trade-offs involved WRT health. Something that improves your mental health can be health neutral or bad for your body

  20. Re: What the fuck is this shit? on Sorority Files Lawsuit After Sacred Secrets Posted On Penny Arcade Forums · · Score: 1

    While the scope of publishing is to a small audience, distribution to their members may be considered publishing.

  21. Re: nonsense on The Medical Bill Mystery · · Score: 1

    I have Medicaid in Indiana and it's not that bad. I had a $3 co-pay per medicine and now they are telling me they are doing away with it. At one point they paid for eye exams every two years and glasses every two years then they changed the glasses to every five years, but they may change it again. They don't pay for regular teeth cleaning, but they pay for other dental work. I don't know the full scope of the changes.

  22. Re: FTYF, Submitter on The Medical Bill Mystery · · Score: 1

    Hey I get 44oz and even 52oz when I get a free drink at Speedway gas station and I fill it with a mix of Diet Dr Pepper and Coke zero

  23. Re:well then it's a bad contract on ESPN Sues Verizon To Stop New Sports-Free TV Bundles · · Score: 1

    Suffer, you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
    URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffering> The opposite of suffering is pleasure. So if he would experience pleasure if he could have those experiences on his terms, then perhaps since he can't, he is suffering?

  24. Re: Let's stop this right here on Ancient Hangover Cure Discovered In Greek Texts · · Score: 1

    How is apocrypha any more scientific?

  25. Re: Raise Them To Infinity! on The Great Canadian Copyright Giveaway: Copyright Extension For Sound Recordings · · Score: 1

    I think the theory is that a company will be willing to pay the artist more up front if they know that they have more time to monetize it.