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  1. Re:Out of curiosity ... on Bionic-Eyed Man Wants To Stream Eye Video Online · · Score: 1

    No. Even at near light speed, the future is still, well, in the future.

  2. Re:Just wait until he turns on the TV... on Bionic-Eyed Man Wants To Stream Eye Video Online · · Score: 5, Funny

    He needs an eye patch when going to the cinema. In other words, he would have to look like a pirate in order to not be accused to be one. :-)

  3. Re:Out of curiosity ... on Bionic-Eyed Man Wants To Stream Eye Video Online · · Score: 3, Informative

    He can't see the feed in real time unless he watches his own video stream (in which case it would be a video stream of him staring at a monitor).

    It would be a video stream of a monitor. He would not be seen, except maybe as mirror image on the monitor. Otherwise the only reason we would know that he's watching his own video stream would be that the monitor would itself show that monitor showing that monitor showing that monitor showing that monitor ...

  4. Re:Anti-nuclear environmentalist organizations on ITER Fusion Reactor Enters Existential Crisis · · Score: 1

    I think it'd be awesome if we got our energy from something that will never run out,

    Then you should invest in perpetual motion machine research. :-)

  5. Re:That's a crappy article. on German Researchers Show Off a Gesture-Based Interface · · Score: 1

    Well, that would be enough: Love heart for yes, middle finger for no. Gives you one bit. Everything can be made up from bits.

  6. Re:Interpret it correctly on Publishing Company Puts Warning Label on Constitution · · Score: 1

    A few more points:

    You have the right to keep arms. But where does it say you have the right to buy arms? It could just mean that if you inherited an arm, no one may take it away from you.

    It says you have the right to keep and bear arms, but not how many arms you are allowed to keep and bear. So you could be restricted to keep at most two arms (one arm isn't possible because of the plural).

    Also: "The right of the people" could be interpreted not as the right of the individuals, but as the right of the people as a whole (sorry, I don't know how to word it better; if you know German, it's the difference between the two translations "die Leute" and "das Volk"). So maybe it doesn't say that you individually have the right to keep arms, but that should it be allowed to keep arms at publicly accessible places, so in case it's necessary the people can get them.

  7. Re:Copyright on Publishing Company Puts Warning Label on Constitution · · Score: 1

    Like this:

    Article I - The Legislative Branch

    Section 1 - The Legislature

    All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives. Those legislative powers shall only be wielded to the advantage of the country. The most relevant factor oft the country's well-being is identified as the economy. The advantage of the economy is equivalent to the well-being of the relevant companies, where relevance is measured by market share. Members of the Congress, of the Senate and of the House of representatives shall give due consideration to the advice given by the experts working for the corporations.

    I guess a real lawyer could make this two pages long, and an order of magnitude less obvious ...

  8. Re:It is just an update to an existing toolbar on Microsoft Hides Firefox Extension In Toolbar Update · · Score: 1

    There's a difference between being default and being the only option.
    If Google payed Mozilla to have Google as the only search engine for the search bar, it would reflect poorly on Google.

  9. Re:Again? on Microsoft Hides Firefox Extension In Toolbar Update · · Score: 1

    Are you sure there's no clause in the Windows EULA that effectively says Microsoft may mess around with any program running under Windows?

  10. Re:Bonus side effects on Smart Underwear Designed For Military · · Score: 1

    A firewall is a wall against fire. A firewall in your pants is known as asbestos underwear.

  11. Re:Is there such a thing as a Philosopher-thief? on Mark Zuckerberg, In It To Change the World? · · Score: 1

    If his philosophy includes the claim that property is bad, and that everyone should be entitled to take anything he wants, then being a thief doesn't contradict being a philosopher. However, that philosopher might find out about the problems of his philosophy very soon if people start to apply it to his property. :-)

  12. Re:not motivated by money? on Mark Zuckerberg, In It To Change the World? · · Score: 1

    Well, "Zuckerberg" is German for "mountain of sugar" - very sweet, but not really good for you. Just like facebook.

  13. Re:Surprise? on Mark Zuckerberg, In It To Change the World? · · Score: 1

    So he's a narcissist

    You mean, he likes narcissus?

  14. Re:Well Obviously. on Mark Zuckerberg, In It To Change the World? · · Score: 1

    am i the only person that hasn't signed up for facebook?

    No.

  15. Re:Flow of Information on Turkey Has Reportedly Banned Google · · Score: 1

    I've talked to some Christians and they claim the Bible was handed to Adam by God himself.

    Did you ask them where the bible says so?

    It's a bit like saying Gene Roddenberry got the scripts for Star Trek from Kirk himself.

    That's of course nonsense. He got them from Benjamin Sisko. :-)

  16. Re:It happens again today on Turkey Has Reportedly Banned Google · · Score: 1

    Don't worry. They'll stop when they reached "70 years after the end of the universe."

  17. Re:This happened before on Turkey Has Reportedly Banned Google · · Score: 1

    But while Europe experienced the movable type printing revolution in 15th - 16th centuries, in Muslim countries the movable type print was banned for 200 years for "moral" reason.

    Well, probably because they had seen what it did to the catholic church.

  18. Re:Flow of Information on Turkey Has Reportedly Banned Google · · Score: 1

    It's indeed correct in German to put a comma there, but not because of what the verb indicates, but because in German there's always a comma between main clause and subordinate clause (the main clause in this case only consists of the word "check").

    It must still be a valid sentence if you remove the bit between the commas, how hard is that?

    It's rather hard to remove anything between the commas when there's only one. :-)

  19. Re:Flow of Information on Turkey Has Reportedly Banned Google · · Score: 1

    Interesting. I'm not in the habit of quoting nonexistent people, so would it be:

    "The Earth is six thousand years old." -- God, The Bible by God.

    or

    "The Earth is six thousand years old." -- God, Deity.

    Let's ignore the fact that nowhere in the bible you'll find the sentence "The Earth is six thousand years old." Assuming that sentence would be found there, and further assuming that the bible claimed that God said that, the correct quote would be:

    "The earth is six thousand years old" -- God, The Bible, unknown author.

    And given that the bible wasn't originally written in English, you also should write which translation of the bible you're quoting.

  20. Re:Can't... on Anti-Speed Camera Activist Buys Police Department's Web Domain · · Score: 1

    So I'd have to say that public intoxication is the odd man out -- merely walking down the street while drunk isn't a threat to anyone's safety, rights, or property. Right?

    Wrong. You may cross a street without noticing a car, because you are too drunk to notice it, and this way cause an accident.

  21. Re:what has the university to do with it? on University Networks Block Student Project · · Score: 1

    Never said media.

    You didn't. The Anonymous Coward I answered to did.

  22. Re:what has the university to do with it? on University Networks Block Student Project · · Score: 1

    From the media? I don't know which media you are watching, but the only medium I get this stereotype from is Slashdot.
    And no, I'm not in America. So that's no explanation.

  23. Re:Stop having control on University Networks Block Student Project · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Universities and colleges exist to educate people and hand them a piece of paper letting them get a job.

    No, they exist to educate people and hand them a piece of paper certifying that they successfully studied there. It happens that this paper helps them to find a job, and surely many want it only for that purpose, but it's not what the paper is for. It's up to the employers to decide whether they care about the paper or not.

  24. Re:Here's a silly question on Why Some Supermassive Black Holes Have Big Jets · · Score: 1

    Yes, but this is all determined by what happens outside the horizon. Anything which happens inside the horizon cannot affect anything observable, including the observed black hole mass, outside of the horizon of the black hole (neglecting Hawking radiation; if a black hole radiates away, I'm not sure if anything inside could be revealed).

  25. Re:I'm not qualified to read this article. on Why Some Supermassive Black Holes Have Big Jets · · Score: 2, Interesting

    For a rotating black hole, the singularity is not a point, but a ring.