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  1. Re:Ding Dong on Largest Genome Ever · · Score: 1

    Taller than Big Ben? I assume they mean the "Clock Tower" as Big Ben is actually just the bell inside the tower.

    Of course anything which is taller than the clock tower is also taller than the bell, or the bell would not fit into the tower.

  2. Re:Can atheists refute one simple fact? on Largest Genome Ever · · Score: 1

    And who caused the creator then ?

    Fools. Can't even follow simple logic.

    Fools caused the creator?
    Well, that explains a lot, I guess.

  3. Re:Largest Gnome Ever on Largest Genome Ever · · Score: 1

    I would have interpreted "Largest Gnome Ever" as code bloat in a new version of the desktop environment.

  4. Re:Godzilla on Largest Genome Ever · · Score: 1

    You mean, most of that genome is actually a Godzilla genome, which is waiting to get activated?

    BTW, for those who understand German, it somehow reminded me of this story.

  5. Re:Can atheists refute one simple fact? on Largest Genome Ever · · Score: 1

    The name "black hole" is now considered non-PC. Please use "African-American hole" instead.

  6. Re:Can atheists refute one simple fact? on Largest Genome Ever · · Score: 1

    Not only that. Adam and Eve had two sons, Kain and Abel. But where did their wives come from? The bible doesn't tell us, but since there were just one woman which could have born them, it's quite obvious.

    Moreover, after there were quite a few people on earth, and therefore marrying close siblings was no longer necessary, God decided to kill all of them but one family by a great flood. So again, inbreeding was enforced.

    Maybe the whole world is just an experiment about the results of inbreeding? :-)

  7. Re:Can atheists refute one simple fact? on Largest Genome Ever · · Score: 1

    He didn't give birth to him. He is a mud man duh. Made out of dirt then God gave him CPR. check your bible before you start talking nonsense.

    God gave them Car Plate Recognition? Or the Canadian Pacific Railway? Or a Common-Pool Resource? Or the Critique of Pure Reason?

  8. Re:TU Braunschweig on Google Secretly Tests Autonomous Cars In Traffic · · Score: 1

    Given that I'm about 400km away from Braunschweig, I don't think that argument counts in my case. :-)

    Yes, I'm in (and from) Germany, and still hear more about Apple and Google than about Nokia (except when they closed their mobile phone factory in Bochum, there of course everyone spoke about Nokia, although not very much about their products :-)).

  9. Re:My fear is that this will be mandatory on Google Secretly Tests Autonomous Cars In Traffic · · Score: 1

    So have the car monitor the driving, and if it detects a bad driver, it forcibly takes over?

  10. Re:TU Braunschweig on Google Secretly Tests Autonomous Cars In Traffic · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, apart from the fact that you're missing the "Google factor" (it's from Google!), I'd say you also have to learn how to make an interesting video. That video bored me enough that I didn't completely watch it. It didn't even have any explanations!

  11. Re:Autonomous slow cars on Google Secretly Tests Autonomous Cars In Traffic · · Score: 1

    At big cities, you'd generally not be able to drive fast anyway, especially in the rush hour. Also those are the times you would most enjoy not being forced to drive your car yourself (waiting for the car in front of you moving the next few centimeters isn't exactly fun).

  12. Re:Think of the jobs on Google Secretly Tests Autonomous Cars In Traffic · · Score: 1

    So you end up with a streamlined economy with the same production as before, and on average everyone has more money. The problem is the "on average" part: you'd probably have a large number of unemployed people. However, all that added money has to go somewhere,

    and that will be the managers, bankers and hedge fonds managers, who'll use it for speculation, creating the next big bubble, whose burst will create the next crisis.

  13. Re:Wow, just add cameras to roof... on Google Secretly Tests Autonomous Cars In Traffic · · Score: 1

    A centralized data base? Now imagine a vulnerability in that ...

  14. Re:Wow, just add cameras to roof... on Google Secretly Tests Autonomous Cars In Traffic · · Score: 1

    I'd hate to meet the beta version of Google Cop. And you know how long things stay in beta at Google ...

  15. Re:For Those Curious on Apple Pays Couple $1.7m For 1 Acre Plot · · Score: 1

    In other words, about 4.6 hectares.

  16. Re:Fair market price on Apple Pays Couple $1.7m For 1 Acre Plot · · Score: 2, Funny

    To have a place for the links we use to melt down the servers. :-)

  17. Re:Fire code on Electromechanical Switches Could Reduce Future Computers' Cooling Needs · · Score: 1

    At 500 degrees Celsius, the water will evaporate instantly.

  18. Re:This is stupid. on 10/10/10 — a Nice Day To Celebrate the Meaning of Life · · Score: 1

    Because it's fun.

  19. Re:Wrong date on 10/10/10 — a Nice Day To Celebrate the Meaning of Life · · Score: 1

    I just noticed that if you used an unsigned 64 bit counter (after all, there are no negative times if you start at big bang), then the counter suffices for approximately 42 times the age of the universe.

  20. Re:Wrong date on 10/10/10 — a Nice Day To Celebrate the Meaning of Life · · Score: 1

    Indeed, with 64 bits, you could set your epoch to the big bang, and still wouldn't have to fear a rollover soon.

  21. Re:Just thought I would point out... on 10/10/10 — a Nice Day To Celebrate the Meaning of Life · · Score: 1

    The 2 just gives you the base. The leading 0 doesn't change the value.

  22. Re:Just thought I would point out... on 10/10/10 — a Nice Day To Celebrate the Meaning of Life · · Score: 1

    He said repepitive. Your date is decidedly anti-repetitive.

  23. Re:Just thought I would point out... on 10/10/10 — a Nice Day To Celebrate the Meaning of Life · · Score: 1

    What about 1/1/11111? Or 11/11/111111?

  24. Re:Just thought I would point out... on 10/10/10 — a Nice Day To Celebrate the Meaning of Life · · Score: 1

    But then, abbreviating numbers in dates to the last two digits is quite common (you may claim that this is only true for the year, but have you ever seen the day or month seen given with more than two digits?), so you get, in binary, again 10/10/10. Of course you'll also get that for e.g. 2010-10-14, 2010-10-18, 2014-02-02, 2020-06-22, ...

  25. Re:Just thought I would point out... on 10/10/10 — a Nice Day To Celebrate the Meaning of Life · · Score: 1

    Maybe if you made jokes that one could understand, people would understand them.