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  1. Re:Young listeners? on Young Listeners Opt For Streaming Over Owning · · Score: 1

    TenSecondsOfSilence

    Hmm, lift pickup, remove Lencoclean dispenser (or brush, YMMV), move pickup out of the way, grab LP, change orientation of it, return LP to turntable, reinstall Lencoclean dispenser, bring pickup to start position, lower pickup — all in 10 seconds? Add in the delay caused by that usual intoxication which especially made locating 'start' tricky.

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  2. Re:Hard to feel bad for them on A Day In the Life of a "Booth Babe" · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    The difference is that anyone who works in the legal profession is trained to understand why sexual harassment is wrong ...

    'According to Nielsen Media Research, Boston Legal drew the richest viewing audience on television, based on the concentration of high-income viewers in its young adult audience (Adult 18–49 index w/$100k+ annual income).' (Wikipedia)

    Assuming that a good share of the audience had a 'legal background', yout statement is disputable at least.

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  3. Blockwartmentaltät on EU "Clean IT" Project Considers Terrorist Content Database · · Score: 1

    Some Germans (me is one, however, I am not elegible I guess) should be especially qualified for this job.

    Reminds me of my youth when my mother tended only to whisper fearing that someone could hear what was being talked about (During the 'Drittes Reich' a person with the fuction of 'Blockwart' was installed for every apartment building, spying on the renters.)

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  4. Re:Key words... on Dept. of Homeland Security To Build Better Cyber Workforce · · Score: 4, Funny

    http://emptybottle.org/bullshit/index.php

    "Hey Kids! It's The Web 2.0 Bullshit Generator"

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  5. Just how far are you willing to take the paranoia?

    Lem gives you levels to choose from.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoirs_Found_in_a_Bathtub

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  6. AI Chip on 'Inexact' Chips Save Power By Fudging the Math · · Score: 2
    Will these chips also boost attempts at achieving AI again?

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  7. Re:The word "cyber" on America's Cybersecurity Czar, Howard Schmidt, Steps Down · · Score: 1

    It's hard to take anyone seriously who's still using that word with a straight face.

    Kevin Warwick? (Professor of Cybernetics)

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  8. Re:CGI wishes on Photographers, You're Being Replaced By Software · · Score: 2

    I came to the frank conclusion that likely 80% of the general population is fucked in the head and stupid.

    You may well come to a similar conclusion if you analyze how advertising is supposed to work (which I do).

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  9. Re:Never? on Government Asks When It Can Shut Down Wireless Communications · · Score: 1

    Imagine what a neat and tidy solution that would be if cell service was shut down on a grid where a bomb was placed, ...

    ... while at the same time shutting down a health and disaster aid network probably in place. Good deal!

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  10. Re:So what's the answer, then? Never? on Government Asks When It Can Shut Down Wireless Communications · · Score: 1

    Given you are essentially disarming the population and preparing for an attack of some sort ...

    So the wet dream of any BOFH (a data centre without users) would scale up to a government without a populace (a day after all those bloody nuisances have been wiped away)?

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  11. Re:So what's the answer, then? Never? on Government Asks When It Can Shut Down Wireless Communications · · Score: 1

    We are supposed to be a FREE and OPEN society.

    Actually, you maybe were "supposed ...", probably by those who designed your constitution.

    Albeit, it never really worked (e.g. discrimination by ethnic origin thwarting both 'FREE' and 'OPEN').

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  12. Re:And who were the attackers? on DHS Asked Gas Pipeline Firms To Let Attackers Lurk Inside Networks · · Score: 1
    Or: Cover up for Incapability regards advancing innovative non lawsuit driven economies?

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  13. Re:What a waste on money on Jury May Be Deadlocked In Oracle-Google Trial · · Score: 3, Informative

    Dvd Jon

    Debatable, quote: "As stated, the prosecution did not appeal to the Norwegian Supreme Court, so the last ruling is seen as a resounding legal victory for the defendant. Norwegian consumer groups like Electronic Frontier Norway were delighted. Having been ethically convinced throughout of the legitimacy of their cause, they now have legal backing—at least in Norway. DVD-Jon and like-minded spirits, encouraged by the rulings, see themselves, and are seen, as crusaders of the open source movement." (http://informationr.net/ir/10-3/paper230.html)

    send everyone but China in the stone age

    Probably a then 'better' (not that I think China is an alternative to be preferred) model will find followers? Who wants stone-age money (which is virtual anyway by way of fractional banking, automated trading etc.)?

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  14. A Free Country ... on Nanoparticles Heated By Radio Waves Switch On Genes In Mice · · Score: 1
    Somehow all this reminds me of a a line that I still remember from a a copy of MAD from some decades ago: "America is a free country, a Gee country, a rippedy-dippedy-dee country ..."

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  15. Re:What a waste on money on Jury May Be Deadlocked In Oracle-Google Trial · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If the whole api and language is copyrighted on sytnax the whole world will change as everyone from car part manufactures to people who the phillips head can have 170 year monopolies and prevent anything from working together.

    Not the whole world, the U.S. will drop back to somewhere around the stone age. The global rest will be somewhat relieved.

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  16. Re:Let's get Godwin out of the way on European e-ID Announced · · Score: 1

    we could integrate DigiD with....

    Is that really what you want? What this will boil down to is a (European) law that requires you and providers to only use the 'official' eId for authentification. No more privacy, no anonymity, big brother can log in everywhere you are.

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  17. Re:Let's get Godwin out of the way on European e-ID Announced · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Ihre papiere bitte?

    Yet, it is still capitalized 'Papiere', which is also indicated by the fact that one pays Euro 28,80 for a German identity card ('Bundespersonalausweis', obligatory). Add at least Euro 6,00 for a biometric photo. I had pay do this today and I am totally pissed.

    I wonder how much 'they' will charge for an eId.

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  18. Re:And this is why... on Oracle and the End of Programming As We Know It · · Score: 1

    new innovations

    Somehow depicts the state of affairs.

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  19. Re:Mr. Wall, please sit down... on Oracle and the End of Programming As We Know It · · Score: 2

    Italy ...

    Probably the Greek would be (also?) the lucky ones, talking about derivative work ...

    "The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most recognized alphabet used in the world today. It evolved from a western variety of the Greek alphabet called the Cumaean alphabet, which was adopted and modified by the Etruscans who ruled early Rome. The Etruscan alphabet was in turn adopted and further modified by the ancient Romans to write the Latin language." (Wikipedia)

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  20. Re:Way too confusing on Why Desktop Linux Hasn't Taken Off · · Score: 2

    ... Canonical. They give structure to a platform that has no uberdictator to decide where it goes ...

    Indeed, there is Unity once Shuttleworth misses the idea.

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  21. Re:Demystification on 'Mein Kampf' To Be Republished In Germany · · Score: 1

    the Nazis were once a very human reality

    In fact they still are; it is just applied Social Psychology.

    http://www.documentary24.com/watch-the-wave-online-a-real-life-student-experiment--113/

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1063669/

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  22. Cave Dwelling ... on Will IBM Watson Be Your Next Mayor? · · Score: 1

    TFS: "Other screens output the current weather ..."

    Sometimes I wonder if such progress also leads to a mental state one might suspect to be associated with troglodytes, in times when oh so many individuals and organisations have caved in regards the pressures of corporations and governments.

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  23. From The Top of my Head ... on Game Theory, Antivirus Improvements Explain Rise In Mac Malware · · Score: 1
    I would have guessed 5-15%. Well.

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  24. Re:Conundrum... on Magical Thinking Is Good For You · · Score: 1

    Where did gravity cone from?

    Oscillatory universes?

    Unable to handle the math, I still can imagine a model without a beginning or an end.

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  25. Re:Conundrum... on Magical Thinking Is Good For You · · Score: 1

    Who created the Creator?

    "God did not create the universe, gravity did, says Stephen Hawking"
    http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2010/09/02/god-did-not-create-the-universe-gravity-did-says-stephen-hawking/

    Worth a thought or two.

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