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  1. Re: multi-options on Why We Think There's a Multiverse, Not Just Our Universe · · Score: 1

    And in fact, the MAJORITY of those universe, no life ever evolved on earth.

  2. Re:You mean on Why We Think There's a Multiverse, Not Just Our Universe · · Score: 1

    Ironic, since the only use of a theory of multiple universes is to deny the existence of God, that there would have to be a universe out there where Christian fundamentalists rule everything!

  3. In relative zero gravity, you only need a BB sized probe, a gun capable of firing it at a significant rate of speed, a camera, and an Intel Edison.

    The rest is just math to find out density, mine the ones with the closest density to your target mineral.

  4. Re:This is an ice age. Is that good or bad? on US Coast Guard Ship To Attempt Rescue of 2 Icebreakers In Antarctica · · Score: 1

    And yet, there are species in the oceans that have a fossil record going back a whole lot longer than 56 million years, which is the last time this carbon-led warming trend happened, so the idea that "ocean acidification" is a threat to all life on Earth is a bit of an overreach.

    Whether OUR species survives it, will depend on our ability to still use chemistry as the Earth warms up.

  5. Re:I beg to differ on Isaac Asimov's 50-Year-Old Prediction For 2014 Is Viral and Wrong · · Score: 1

    Exactly right. And is willing to pay direct through the TOP program for advertising to certain high school students who have more than the recommended amount of melanin in their skin.

  6. Re:I beg to differ on Isaac Asimov's 50-Year-Old Prediction For 2014 Is Viral and Wrong · · Score: 1

    $6000 for a live birth at the hospital, $500 for an abortion. And that was *BEFORE* HHS paid Planned Parenthood to develop the Teen Outreach Program, which pays high school students up to $30 each to attend lectures, with a $600 bonus if they get sterilized.

    As for the United Nations, it's pretty clear that the whole intent of the World Health Organization branch is to push contraceptives and abortion in the third world.

  7. Re:I beg to differ on Isaac Asimov's 50-Year-Old Prediction For 2014 Is Viral and Wrong · · Score: 0

    No need for strong direct policies when you wield the power of the UN and the pricing incentives of Planned Parenthood.

  8. Re:I beg to differ on Isaac Asimov's 50-Year-Old Prediction For 2014 Is Viral and Wrong · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, the global population control regime is only slightly less efficient than he predicted.

  9. Re:When private does not mean private on Facebook Being Sued Over Mining of Private Messages · · Score: 4, Informative

    Another sad tale lost to history.

    There ain't no such thing as a free lunch: In the 1800s in the western United States, many taverns would offer free lunches. The catch was that while the lunch was free, the beer was not. Even today, you'll see tavern and pub food offerings being the saltiest, greasiest food possible- an outgrowth of the free lunch menus, designed to make you thirsty so that you'll buy more beer. In downtown Portland, OR, a teetotaler millionaire decided to fight back- Samuel Benson. He did so by creating Skidmore Fountain and the "Benson Bubblers"- free water fountains that can still be seen in downtown Portland- which ended the free lunch craze there.

    So yes, it is *exactly* like a free lunch- give them the lunch, make them pay for the drinks.

  10. Re:Really? on Facebook Being Sued Over Mining of Private Messages · · Score: 1

    Gmail saves the data, but you are in control, you tell it when to delete.
    My wife never does. I'm using something like 17% of my 15 GB.

  11. Re:mandatory testing on "Jumping Genes" Linked To Schizophrenia · · Score: 1

    At which point we can have schizophrenic regenerative therapy. And large numbers of out and proud schizos protesting the evil scientists who want to change them.

  12. Re:Disavow much? on Helicopter Rescue For All Passengers Aboard Antarctic Research Ship · · Score: 1

    Hey, isn't it the middle of summer in the southern hemisphere?

  13. Re:Global warming. on Helicopter Rescue For All Passengers Aboard Antarctic Research Ship · · Score: 1
  14. Re:Global warming. on Helicopter Rescue For All Passengers Aboard Antarctic Research Ship · · Score: 1
  15. Re:Whats the killer app for this tech? on Coming Soon: Prescription Lenses For Google Glass · · Score: 1

    So that they don't get hit by a train while looking down at their smartphone?

  16. Re:Well.. on Percentage of Self-Employed IT Workers Increasing · · Score: 1

    Or as one president of a *software consulting group* put it, "I don't feel that I owe you a living,and I don't know what you do around here, and I don't care". I had no idea how to answer that other than put out resumes on the job boards.

  17. Re:Ready or not on Is the World Ready For Facial Recognition On Google Glass? · · Score: 1

    If I had mod points I'd mod parent up.

    This is the key. All of the privacy concerns in the world are moot. We now known the NSA has been watching for years, maybe decades. So have for profit businesses like WalMart. Privacy is a dead duck from the start.

    Might as well use that fact to your advantage if you can afford it. Would be incredibly useful to somebody on the run to glance into a crowd and know where all the undercover police officers are.

  18. Re:Level of AI (Artificial Intelligence) on Will You Even Notice the Impending Robot Uprising? · · Score: 1

    I fail to understand how that is different than just about every human being I know.

  19. Baby, check it out, I've got something to say
    Man it's so loud in here
    When they stop the drum machine and I can think again, I'll remember what it was.

  20. Re:Level of AI (Artificial Intelligence) on Will You Even Notice the Impending Robot Uprising? · · Score: 1

    Eliza. Turing Test is easy, because the majority of the general public is stupid and narcissistic. Not so much artificial intelligence, as exploiting the security holes in the human brain.

  21. Re: Level of AI (Artificial Intelligence) on Will You Even Notice the Impending Robot Uprising? · · Score: 1

    In what way is your framework different from the old programming language PILOT?

  22. Re:Mod Parent up. on Will You Even Notice the Impending Robot Uprising? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, supposedly he didn't have the batteries for servos, that's why he needed Twiki. Just a head.

  23. Re:Reminds me of Manna on Will You Even Notice the Impending Robot Uprising? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I'm not sure which society is the utopia and which is the dystopia.

    But I know a lot of people who would love to live in Amish Australia already.

  24. Re:Mod Parent up. on Will You Even Notice the Impending Robot Uprising? · · Score: 1

    I always thought Twiki was a completely useless design.and Dr Theopolis should have been a dialup server someplace.

  25. Re:Level of AI (Artificial Intelligence) on Will You Even Notice the Impending Robot Uprising? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What level of AI?

    Apple IIe disk drives (in 1983!) used to come with a program that would play 20 questions with you and guess the animal you were thinking of. It could even learn to a certain extent.

    All that has happened since then in AI, is that the knowledge base has gotten larger.