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  1. Re:Sony's security team is an abysmal failure on PSN Up, And Then Down Again · · Score: 1

    I'd say if people do that, it's their fault. Sony is responsible for the security of their own network, but they are not responsible for insecure behaviour of their customers.

  2. Re:Typical Robot Research on Robots Successfully Invent Their Own Language · · Score: 1

    P.S. Please inscribe our DNA, and it's chemical makeup on all future space probes.

    So that an advanced but not peaceful species which finds it knows how to design an illness to kill us all?

  3. Re:Why make them like us? on Robots Successfully Invent Their Own Language · · Score: 1

    That's why we have to program a love for humans into the robots. The humans will then be useless as such, but the robots will still feed them and care for them just as we feed and care for our pets. You might not like to be the pet of a robot, but it surely is better than being killed by one. Of course, if things go bad, it could be both ...

  4. Re:Killer App? on 9 Features We May See In Ubuntu 11.10 · · Score: 1

    who uses the scroll bar since the wheel mouse became standard over a decade ago?

    I do. I also use the mouse wheel, but the mouse wheel is useful only for scrolling small amounts. If you want to move a large amount, the scrollbar is vastly better than the mouse wheel.

  5. Re:Wrong place on An IP Address For Every Light Bulb · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, but the whoosh protocol has not yet ported to IPv6.

  6. Re:Short Answer on Can Computers Be Used To Optimize the US Tax Code? · · Score: 1

    But trying to execute /dev/null and piping stdout into it won't help you with this.

  7. Re:NPR?!? You have to be kidding me. on Bill Clinton Suggests Internet Fact Agency · · Score: 1

    Hmm, that definitely rules out NPR and the BBC, LOL. NPR is a biased and censored news source.

    More exactly, it rules out anything where humans are involved.

  8. Re:Perpetual Motion on The Challenges of Tapping Blood Flow For Power · · Score: 1

    Pacemakers don't exactly help pumping the blood. They only give the signal to the heart. If the heart isn't able to pump blood any more, a pacemaker will not help. It only helps to overcome broken signal flow in controlling the pumping.

  9. Re:worst article ever on Tunnel Boring Machine Completes Hole Under Niagara Falls · · Score: 1

    Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Highway?

    Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Hyperspace, of course.

  10. Re:worst article ever on Tunnel Boring Machine Completes Hole Under Niagara Falls · · Score: 1

    Well, fuck, mate - the Falls are practically my backyard, and I'm still reading to find out why this was done. Hadn't heard about it a-tall.

    Probably it's because you didn't go to the cellar.

  11. Re:Funny how it's easier to see other galaxies on Newly-Discovered Arm of Milky Way Gives Warped Structure · · Score: 1

    Assuming our universe is the 3-dimensional surface of a 4-sphere, then yes -- just wait long enough, and photons from our galaxy will come zinging back from every direction in the sky.

    Given the accelerated expansion of the universe, they won't.

  12. Re:worst article ever on Tunnel Boring Machine Completes Hole Under Niagara Falls · · Score: 5, Funny

    What do you mean, why they built the tunnel. It's a tunnel. You've got to build tunnels.

  13. Re:Article Has a Very Strange Conflict on BitCoin, the Most Dangerous Project Ever? · · Score: 1

    The same is, of course, true of dollar bills. If nobody wants them any more, they're worthless.

  14. Re:Don't worry, Microsoft is on it on New Alureon Rootkit Takes Malware To New Level · · Score: 1

    Hmmm ... they don't say "a defence against Alureon has been part ..." but "Alureon has been part ..."
    Maybe it's not a good idea to install their MSRT, after all :-)

  15. Re:Why whitelist it at all? on New Alureon Rootkit Takes Malware To New Level · · Score: 2

    The problem with this is that DRM software is also intentionally hard to analyse. And for a commercial OS vendor it's not a good idea to disallow DRM on installed software.

  16. Re:What exactly.. on Search For Alien Life On 86 Planets Begins · · Score: 1

    Farts... that's right, farts. We're too far away to detect methane trace elements, but with current advances in super-flatulentelescopy, we can now detect any gas passing that may be happening across vast distances of space.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Soupe_aux_choux

  17. Re:Accessible data? on Search For Alien Life On 86 Planets Begins · · Score: 1

    About your sig:

    Carl Sagan quotes get you an automatic +5 on all posts.

    Well, let's try:
    "and" -- Carl Sagan, in about any of his works. :-)

  18. Re:Schrödinger's Wife on Let Quantum Physics Officiate Your Wedding · · Score: 1

    Ah, quantum murder: As long as nobody looks, the victim isn't dead yet.

  19. Re:Schrödinger's Wife on Let Quantum Physics Officiate Your Wedding · · Score: 1

    Actually, the single part can also be imaginary:
    (1/sqrt(2)) (|married> + i |single>)

    Of course you can make the married state imaginary instead:
    (1/sqrt(2)) (i |married> + |single>)

    Note that both states are orthogonal to each other.

  20. Re:A different way on Let Quantum Physics Officiate Your Wedding · · Score: 1

    I spot those who don't spot jokes. Do I spot myself?

    Yes.

  21. Re:Non-monogamous discrimination! on Let Quantum Physics Officiate Your Wedding · · Score: 1

    Yes, but then each pair of particles is at best partially entangled with each other.

  22. Re:Grayscale on Let Quantum Physics Officiate Your Wedding · · Score: 1

    Your photon will not unlikely to be reflected instead of absorbed, so you might not get entangled with her. She will most likely absorb her photon, and thus get entangled, but possibly not with you but with whoever or whatever absorbs that photon. :-)

  23. Re:Schrödinger's Wife on Let Quantum Physics Officiate Your Wedding · · Score: 1

    It means you can be entangled with many different partners at the same time, as long as no one is observing you...

    No, at least not completely, due to the monogamy of entanglement.
    (And no, I'm not making this up.)

  24. Re:Oops on Let Quantum Physics Officiate Your Wedding · · Score: 1

    Well, it will give interesting new legal problems, given that in a quantum wedding, you can say "yes" and "no" at the same time.

  25. Re:Accessible data? on Search For Alien Life On 86 Planets Begins · · Score: 1

    Bah

    Here's a comma or two, ',,,' to insert as you see fit, s/has had/to have a.

    Here's a slash to finish your replacement command: /