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  1. Re:Illusion of privacy on Google To Encrypt All Keyword Searches · · Score: 1

    I guess the point is Google isn't giving them, or anyone else, an open-door to its users activities. It may not mean much, but its going to play well in the press. Which is the whole point, isn't it?

  2. Re:Competition on China Lifts Bans On Social Media, Foreign ISPs In Free Trade Zone · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'll stain my knickers when the Gov. mows down citizens and students for not being "Politcally correct."

  3. Re:XBOX? on Why Is Microsoft Setting More Money On Fire With Surface 2? · · Score: 1

    The XBOX 1 lost 4 billion dollars. It's now a solid market that Microsoft dominates. Why would they not use that same strategy here?

    You've got a point. I picture Ballmer as Darren McGavin in "A Christmas Story"; "...I'm going to open up their mouths and shove it in!"

  4. Re:Netflix on Apple Offers Refund To Stiffed Breaking Bad Season Pass Customers · · Score: 1

    Whoever pays $22.99 for half a season...

    They didn't, clearly Apple misled them, by accident or on purpose. Never the less, your point is cogent- 22.99 for even the entire 5th season is high when I can get it for considerably less than that otherwhere.

  5. Re:More importantly on Why Are Some Hell-Bent On Teaching Intelligent Design? · · Score: 1

    ...it's more likely a fig tree...

    Damn skippy. That's why i always get a chuckle out of those Morman portaits of Jesus as a blonde, light skinned adonis. More likely he was a short, stout, swarthy cat. Might have looked like this guy.

  6. Re:More importantly on Why Are Some Hell-Bent On Teaching Intelligent Design? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that's what John & Paul were saying about the whole matter as they made their way into the courtroom to sue Steve, Steve, & company.

  7. Re:They're all the same on Vimeo Held Covered By DMCA Safe Harbor · · Score: 1, Funny

    Atlantic Records, Capitol Records

    YOU SUCK

    Talking about grabbing at the low-hanging fruit...

  8. Re:Yet another story... on Work Halted On Neal Stephenson's Kickstarted Swordfighting Video Game · · Score: 2

    At best R* will see about 40% of that.

    Dude. Listen to yourself. As a developer, I'd lick my own ass to take 5% of that. Hardly a failure. Probably a much better indicator of sucess than anything you've come up with.

  9. Re:No point pussy-footing around on RSA Warns Developers Not To Use RSA Products · · Score: 1

    Yeah. Good luck with making that a standard. No one wants a standard that has to be re-standardized everytime its used. The obvious answer is using cryptographic methods that are not part of anything to do with RSA. And let the standard play ketchup. I don't give a fuck if its not compliant, I want it to be secure.

  10. Re:That would have sped up nuclear disarmament on USAF Almost Nuked North Carolina In 1961 – Declassified Document · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The doomsday clock is already triggered. Yes, "triggered", its been ticking back and forth since 1953. The doomsday clock is actually an indicator, not a countdown timer.

  11. Re:Yeah... on US Killer Robot Policy: Full Speed Ahead · · Score: 1

    No. I meant like ED-209. Autonomous, and armed.

  12. Re:Yeah... on US Killer Robot Policy: Full Speed Ahead · · Score: 1

    Yep. Intel FDIV bug, 1994; some prime number calculations are "innaccurate".

    Intel Logical Human Interaction Processor anomoly, 2023; a town of 500 is wiped out.

  13. Re:Yeah... on US Killer Robot Policy: Full Speed Ahead · · Score: 1

    Seruiously, cop robots are what, 20 years out? Less?

  14. Re:Yet another story... on Work Halted On Neal Stephenson's Kickstarted Swordfighting Video Game · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You'd think VC's would be mildly interested in new games considering Grand Theft Auto V made Rockstar Games a billion dollars yesterday. That was 1 day's sales. The first day it was available.

  15. Re:Serious question on Intel Rolls Out Raspberry Pi Competitor · · Score: 1

    I always wondered how they pranced out each week wearing the same clothes but neatly pressed. And the Howell's brought enough clothes for a month on a 3 hour boat lark. A bycicle powered razor was nothing. They must have built a complete clothing hut out of coconuts.

  16. Re:GMA 600? Last years Atom? $200?!? on Intel Rolls Out Raspberry Pi Competitor · · Score: 1

    Yeah, you can buy a chromebook for that knid of money. And the cb comes with a case. I'll keep using the raspberry or the beagleboard, thanks anyway Intel.

  17. Re:Who? What? Huh? on 'Alien Life' Story of Dubious Provenance Goes Viral · · Score: 1

    Didn't you blokes make Fine China there?

  18. My take-home on this is that perhaps people are starting to question the Russian institutionalized fascination paranormal psuedo-science.

  19. Re:nah; just BS on IBM VP Talks About Another $1 Billion for Linux Development (Video) · · Score: 1

    Yeah. This is a win for Linux. Big or little, its a win.

  20. Re:Simple Elegant on Physicists Discover Geometry Underlying Particle Physics · · Score: 1

    You're making an incorrect assumption. No one is claiming that the universe is simple. The laws that govern its interactions however, its essence, with some exceptions, have shown to be, over and over again.

  21. Re:Garrett Lisi's Magical Technicolor Balls on Physicists Discover Geometry Underlying Particle Physics · · Score: 1

    lol

  22. Re:the wall of fundamental laws on Physicists Discover Geometry Underlying Particle Physics · · Score: 1

    I have an impressions that the wall of fundamental laws is reached and further research of particles is useless.

    (To quote from the Mikado) ~Your impressions, though many, are not worth a penny.~ Physics has a long way left to go, just becuase you don't understand what researchers & theorists do doesn't mean they've exausted the field.

  23. Re:Nobody reads the classics on Physicists Discover Geometry Underlying Particle Physics · · Score: 2

    ...and none of these points you raise are very accurate or relevant to the article. Becuase Descartes questioned reality deosn't mean he disproved it.

  24. Re:Hold up. on Physicists Discover Geometry Underlying Particle Physics · · Score: 1

    Correction; 4D, and we have direct observational evidence that the universe is infact a larger reality known as "spacetime".

  25. Re:hmmm.... on Physicists Discover Geometry Underlying Particle Physics · · Score: 2

    This isn't a particle so much as methodology; physicists have discovered that certain particles fit together in a certain way. Apparently before this it was a huge clusterfuck. Its like the mandelbrot set; its not a physical "thing", but its damn useful. To physicists only, I think, but we'll see.