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  1. Remember the last time Japan and Germany teamed up on Banknotes Go Electronic To Outwit Counterfeiters · · Score: 0

    They were working to put the world under the control of police states then too.

  2. Of course on Hackers Dual-Boot Chrome OS With Ubuntu Linux on CR-48 · · Score: 1

    Of course Google wants you to figure out how to get the dual boot working as well as you can. Then you can post it on the Internet, then they can read how you do it, then they'll figure out how to better lock the system.

    From the instructions, it looks like they think that you can only put Ubuntu over their kernel because they don't support initrd. They want to find out if that is the case before releasing the commerical models. I'm going to guess if you need to use their kernel, from there they can make you use their OS.

  3. Re:No Black Holes - No more 2012 LOLZ! on String Theory Tested, Fails Black Hole Predictions · · Score: 1

    Very true. Not to mention that cosmic rays hitting Earth create more energetic collisions than LHC.

  4. Re:Reminder from my High School Days on String Theory Tested, Fails Black Hole Predictions · · Score: 1

    If you are a logical positivist what we can access through science is the highest form of truth. And "really-ness" doesn't really exist or is completely unknowable. The fun game is interesting. But how would the two theories be contradictory if they both explain everything? Wouldn't that indicate that the two theories are different mathematical expressions of the same idea, a la wave/particle duality?

  5. Re:Reminder from my High School Days on String Theory Tested, Fails Black Hole Predictions · · Score: 1

    I think you make a great point. With complex enough mathematical instruments you can make a model that accounts for all the data. But that opens up a philosophical question. If it does actually account for everything so well that it can't be falsified, doesn't that make it true anyway? And if we come up with any series of equations that models the universe correctly, won't brilliant mathematicians eventually come up with simplifications to it if possible?

  6. No Black Holes - No more 2012 LOLZ! on String Theory Tested, Fails Black Hole Predictions · · Score: 1

    Okay, I'm as interested in tests of String Theory as the next guy. But more importantly, if CERN can not create mini-black holes, can we stop with all the LOLZ THE WORLD ENDZ IN 2012 LOLZ!!!!

    Is that to much to ask?

    And preemptively, If you want to reply, IT DID CREATE THE BLACK HOLES, THEY DIDN'T EVAPORATE, THE WORLD ENDS IN 2012, LOLZ!!! I should point out that if i made the black holes that don't evaporate they'll end the world before 2012. Second of all, shoot yourself. Just shoot yourself, alright?

  7. If you don't pay the tax... on Judge Declares Federal Healthcare Plan (Partly) Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    Right, tax evasion is illegal. Not having health insurance causes your tax bill to go up. And if you pay it you never go before a judge, get a criminal record, etc.

  8. Re:The justification is that it is simply a tax on Judge Declares Federal Healthcare Plan (Partly) Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    Well, you can get credits for all sorts of things. Buying a hybrid vehicle, donating money, being blind (in some states). So why not a credit for buying insurance.

  9. The justification is that it is simply a tax on Judge Declares Federal Healthcare Plan (Partly) Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    The justification in the law is that it is simply a $750 tax on people who don't purchase health insurance. Or if you like, everyone's taxes went up $750 and you get a $750 rebate for purchasing insurance.

    The $750 tax is enforced by the IRS. You can't face any criminal charges for not purchasing insurance.

  10. WHO CARES? on Chrome Does Have a Caps-Lock Key After All · · Score: 1

    I mean this is the second story on this amazing saga of whether the Chrome OS will have caps lock. Are any of the techies who visit this site going to buy a laptop that can only run one program (Chrome) and can't be modified?

  11. Re:This won't go anywhere on Torrent Users Fight Back · · Score: 5, Insightful
    It is incredibly ironic that I stated that court cases are largely judged by who the parties are, and you argued it by saying I don't have a right to make my point based on who I am and what you imagine my accomplishments are. You are illustrating the kind of thinking that I am referring to and I thank you for that.

    Furthermore, I wasn't complaining about being on the receiving end of anything; I am an uninvolved third party in this dispute. You are complaining about "young people" and making a sweeping generalization that they buy expensive coffee.

    You are simply not talking about the laws that this legal case involves. You are instead saying that young people in disputes with businesses deserve to be "spanked." And shouldn't "complain" (which in this case means exercise their legal rights based on the laws as they are written).

  12. This won't go anywhere on Torrent Users Fight Back · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sure the law might be on their side, but we aren't ruled by laws, we are ruled by men. While the "law" might say one thing, the judges adhere to a sort of spirit of the law. And the spirit of the law is that big corporations and corporate are implicitly responsible, good and therefore in the right. When they don't like what a young person does that young person is in the wrong. It's just that simple.

  13. Commenting on it even more so on Bible.com Investor Sues Company For Lack Of Profit · · Score: 1

    So you don't like idle, so then you read idle articles, and then comment, and perform a screen captcha test? Just to say you don't like something you could ignore?

  14. Yes and no on Does A Company Deserve the Same Privacy Rights As You? · · Score: 1

    No, as in I don't think this was the intention of the authors of the Bill of Rights or the 14th amendment. But yes, as in this is consistent with the way the courts have always ruled; that the 14th amendment gives corporations all Bill of Rights protections. They decided this in Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad in 1886. They have held this precedent for 114 years now. They have recently upheld this in the controversial recent Citizens United case. I think it's B.S. that corporations have "human" rights in the U.S. but the courts will continue to maintain that position and you can expect AT&T to win.

  15. That's the point on High-Frequency Programmers Revolt Over Pay · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Everyone is paid less than their worth. That's why people would form unions before they were stupefied by tv and the false hope that they would rise to the exploitative class. The fact that people are now paid less than 1/100th their worth isn't surprising but it is pathetic.

  16. Alternative Summary on Google Engineer Decries Complexity of Java, C++ · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Google Engineer promotes Google language Go and claims it addresses weaknesses of existing languages, including Java and C++.

  17. I think I've experienced this on Sound As the New Illegal Narcotic? · · Score: 2, Funny

    I played the above youtube video and found myself laughing hysterically. Is that the same effect?

  18. Easy problem on Nerds Still More Likely To Get Bullied · · Score: 1

    If people are nice to you, they can borrow your homework. If not, they don't get to. And don't present it as a deal or quid pro quo, either. There are enough nice jocks to protect you from the bullies. More importantly your social status will escalate above being an acceptable bully target.

  19. Re:This just proves on Women Dropping Out of IT · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So yes. Women are in fact generally too smart for careers in computers. He nailed it.

    Why do you assume the AC who wrote that comment is a man? Are you sexist?

  20. Okay, I was using hyperbole on The Real Science Gap · · Score: 1

    But living on stipend or worse, student loans, sucks. And it is all comparative. Like the article says, just get the MBA, and you can have a 60-inch TV, a boat, and go to Europe every year.

  21. The US doesn't support people becoming educated on The Real Science Gap · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The US doesn't support people becoming educated, and this is just one more aspect of the problem. When I was in school I thought of going all the way to PhD. But come on! Spend all that money and live in poverty for so many years. Combined with the fact that doing this stuff is difficult and time consuming, it seemed like an incredibly masocistic exercise. I love science and math and would love to bury myself in it, but I am a slave to economic realities.

    Furthermore when we say we want more people in profession X, we are making an implict admission that we want a somewhat planned economy. So we want more research and researchers? Guess what? Most of the important expensive research in the past has been conducted by the government anyway. So the government should just start doing more research.

    One more thing, if a company hires H1-Bs, for each one they hire should have to pay a very heavy fee that is used to give one student a full ride scholarship in that field.

  22. I know a 14 year old who is obsessed with vaginas on How To Get a Game-Obsessed Teenager Into Coding? · · Score: 1

    His parents are wondering how to get him into biology and medicine so he can be an ob gyn. Any ideas?

  23. Zeta is one with 21 zeros on "Digital Universe" Enters the Zettabyte Era · · Score: 1

    In plainer language it is one with 21 zeros. I personally didn't know petabyte off the top of my head.

  24. The people want a solution, the powerful don't on James Lovelock Suggests Suspending Democracy To Save the World · · Score: 1

    He has this completely backwards. The problem is not enough democracy. If all the people of the were given a referendum to cut greenhouse gas production to protect the environment, it would easily win.

    The powerful interests are the ones preventing anything from being done about climate change. Suspending democracy won't work because there is no one to hand control of the world to who would work to overt climate catastrophe.

    However, the people of the world, particularly of the third world, do want to do every thing possible to save the environment. So the answer is more democracy in both government and economic affairs.

  25. They do print many of them on College To Save Money By Switching Email Font · · Score: 1

    I'm sure only a small fraction of the emails get printed. But a small fraction of all the emails at The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay is still A LOT of emails. So it's a great idea.