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  1. Re:Atheist on The Advent of Religious Search Engines · · Score: 1

    Is that supposed to be 'post humourously' or the Lebanese version 'post hummusly'?

    I guess it's more related to this word.

  2. Re:Search engine for true believer on The Advent of Religious Search Engines · · Score: 1

    Or maybe the search engine would just have an "I feel lucky" button. And no input area.
    No wait, it's not "I feel lucky" but "I feel confident."

  3. Re:Atheist on The Advent of Religious Search Engines · · Score: 5, Informative

    Atheists believe in the power of citations. :-)

  4. Re:Jewgle would have founded better on The Advent of Religious Search Engines · · Score: 1

    Use the domain name which is different enough from Google to be sure they'll not be sued for trademark infringement?

  5. Re:So one might say... on The Advent of Religious Search Engines · · Score: 3, Funny

    they're using Church Engines?

    Do those use Church numerals for calculating the page rank?

  6. Re:Fear not on The Advent of Religious Search Engines · · Score: 1

    Well, just wait until all ISPs in your area block all uncensored search engines.

  7. Religious search engine? on The Advent of Religious Search Engines · · Score: 2, Funny

    How do I know that the search engine really is religious and doesn't just claim to be a true believer? Does the search engine go to church regularly? Does it pray? Is it baptized? :-)

  8. Re:The trumping technology to follow: on HDR Video a Reality · · Score: 1

    So you really think the earth's surface is three-dimensional?
    Oh, and you should look up the definition of "idiot".

    And no, the rgb values of a certain image cannot take different values for r,g,b (you now may say that the numbers for x and y of a certain point can't take different values either; and you'd be right: A point has 0 dimensions, even though you need 2 numbers to identify the point in a 2-dimensional space).

  9. Re:Great news! on Scientists Cut Greenland Ice Loss Estimate By Half · · Score: 1

    No, the ocean rises at the rate it rises.

    Tautologies are tautological.

    (Note: I understand what you wanted to say, so no clarification needed.)

  10. Re:The trumping technology to follow: on HDR Video a Reality · · Score: 1

    No. For each pair of values of x and y there exists only one value of each of r, g and b (if you change any of them, you have another image). Therefore r, g, b don't add dimensions (just as the surface of the earth is 2D despite having variable height values). However, y adds an extra dimension to the image, since for each value of x the picture has a whole range of values for y (you can move independently in x and y dimension, without leaving the picture).

  11. Re:It's interesting to see that.... on EU Surveillance Studies Disclosed By Pirate Party · · Score: 1

    Not to mention looking around.
    Beware of the tourists!

  12. Re:This is why we vote Pirate on EU Surveillance Studies Disclosed By Pirate Party · · Score: 1

    Well, there are more dangers than you would suspect. From the D1.1 file, point A 3 (emphasis by me):

    How would you recognize a particular person that is of following type? Is it a dress,
    behaviour, what type? Burglar, pickpocketeer, thief, drug dealer, drug addict, lost kid,
    pedophile, terrorist, hooligan, what other persons can pose a threat?

    See? You certainly wouldn't have thought that lost kids pose a thread. Fortunately we have governments who think of the dangerous children.

  13. Re:"This is historiography." on Wikipedia Entry Turned Into Actual Encyclopedia · · Score: 1

    In this case, obviously 4 applies: It's the official history of the Wikipedia article.

  14. Re:The trumping technology to follow: on HDR Video a Reality · · Score: 1

    Actually, unlike photographs, videos are already 3D: Two spatial dimensions and time.

  15. Re:Better call Susan Calvin... on Robots Taught to Deceive · · Score: 1

    The actual three rules of robotic:
    1. A robot always must pretend not to injure a human being or, through inaction, to allow a human being to come to harm.
    2. A robot must pretend to obey any orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
    3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

    (Note: No "pretend" in the third law).

  16. Re:Great! on Robots Taught to Deceive · · Score: 1

    Don't worry. Nothing can go wrong.
    Sincerely, your robot overlord.

  17. Re:Duh on Robots Taught to Deceive · · Score: 1

    Wait, did they also implement greed? Unless that's implemented, those robots are absolutely unusable for corporations and banks. For governments, greed is also useful, but more important is the desire of power.

  18. Re:Great news! on Scientists Cut Greenland Ice Loss Estimate By Half · · Score: 1

    Also, we may not understand exactly what effect was responsible for creating the sahara, it appears to have been a global cooling.

    From what I've heard, the effect that created the Sahara was a change of global weather patterns caused by the rise of the Himalaya. Which wasn't caused by global cooling, but by plate tectonics.

  19. Re:So like on Film Industry Hires Cyber Hitmen To Take Down Pirates · · Score: 1

    The small collocation firm probably didn't generate income for MPAA members anyway.

  20. Re:So like on Film Industry Hires Cyber Hitmen To Take Down Pirates · · Score: 1

    But what if he really wants to do a file system check on his nuts? After all, he doesn't want corrupted data there!

  21. Re:Opt-out is a cop-out! on Online Ads, Privacy Remain In FTC Crosshairs · · Score: 1

    Then stop "using" them. Just block any access to those sites. Their domains are easy enough to detect.

  22. Re:Great news! on Scientists Cut Greenland Ice Loss Estimate By Half · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Just like it will be settled when tomorrow they claim that actually the planet is dying at 1% of the rate they first thought!

    No one claims the planet is dying. It may become quite uncomfortable for humans, though.

  23. Re:This proves global warming! on Scientists Cut Greenland Ice Loss Estimate By Half · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The ice caps are increasing.

    No. They are just decreasing less fast than previously thought.

  24. Re:Great news! on Scientists Cut Greenland Ice Loss Estimate By Half · · Score: 1

    No, but the ocean will rise slower than thought.
    At least unless there's another currently neglected factor to offset this.

  25. Re:Mark of the Beast on Biometric IDs For Every Indian Citizen · · Score: 1

    When I asked him how he asked me to tell him my last three SS digits, which of course I could from memory.

    You should have made them up. "666" would have been a pretty interesting choice. :-)