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  1. Re:Awwww, so sorry for all the webmasters on AVG Fakes User Agent, Floods the Internet · · Score: 1

    Would it kill AVG to scan on-the-fly rather than pre-emptively? That way it wouldn't generate any extra traffic.

  2. Re:Slaughterhouse Cases on PC Repair In Texas Now Requires a PI License · · Score: 1

    I quite agree, but the point I was arguing related to the pronoun for a person of unknown gender.

    I'm not quite sure what you're asking with respect to adverbs of certainty and the subjunctive. I presume the question was triggered by your sentence in the first paragraph which used "definitely" to modify a conditional. I can't think of a situation in which an adverb of certainty could be used to modify directly a verb in the subjunctive mood: the closest I can get is "If it were definitely established that ...", in which "definitely" modifies a participle which is functioning as an adjective.

  3. Re:Slaughterhouse Cases on PC Repair In Texas Now Requires a PI License · · Score: 1

    It depends on the age, education and pedantry of the speaker and the register employed. I know a number of native English speakers who generally use "he". The same people also use "whom" and the subjunctive mood, both of which I suspect you would consider no longer part of idiomatic English.

  4. Re:I want my Vitamin C! on Scientists Create Synthesized DNA Bases · · Score: 1

    There are sweet Rieslings and dry Rieslings. Dry Riesling, preferably from the Moselle region, is my white wine of choice. Well, unless Champagne is on offer.

  5. Re:Good. on Intentional GPS Jamming On the Increase · · Score: 1

    From my observations (as a pedestrian and cyclist) of the way they drive in Valencia, I could certainly believe that.

  6. Re:secret signals on Intentional GPS Jamming On the Increase · · Score: 1

    Did the US Army finally manage to source enough military GPS receivers to equip all of its units?

  7. Re:Time to look into other means of security on Crooks Nab Citibank ATM Codes, Steal Millions · · Score: 1

    It's also a lot easier to change your PIN than it is to change your retina when someone cracks into the database. Cuts both ways.

  8. Re:It's about damn time on Supreme Court Holds Right to Bear Arms Applies to Individuals · · Score: 1

    They did exist but weren't common. According to some sources a British rifleman had George Washington in his sights in 1777 but decided it would be unsporting in the circumstances to shoot.

  9. Re:Gun Rights on Supreme Court Holds Right to Bear Arms Applies to Individuals · · Score: 1

    The "rag-tag resisters" fighting in Iraq are a proxy army with the backing of another government. In fact, the revolution which provides the backdrop of the US Constitution was won with the aid of a foreign government. Would there be a nation willing to support your putative insurgency?

  10. Re:It's about damn time on Supreme Court Holds Right to Bear Arms Applies to Individuals · · Score: 1

    Actually rifles were pretty new-fangled, and most guns would probably have been muskets. And "an arm" would in many cases have been a pike or a pitchfork.

  11. Re:Easy to subvert. on AI Could Power Next-gen CCTV Cameras · · Score: 1

    How is the camera going to notice what's happening off-camera, though?

  12. Re:What about Judah and Tamar? on Surprisingly Few People Collect On GTA Hot Coffee · · Score: 1

    Most English translations don't make the subtleties clear enough. Judah thinks she's a normal prostitute (zonah), but when he sends his friend with the payment he enquires for a cult prostitute (kedeshah). Does that mean that sex with a cult prostitute was more socially acceptable than sex with an ordinary prostitute? It's hard to tell, because Genesis reports the facts without commenting on the ethics.

  13. Re:This just in... on Lack of Sunlight Could Lead To Early Death · · Score: 2, Funny

    But if living an unhealthy life makes you die young, and only the good die young, isn't it good to live an unhealthy life?

  14. Re:Sunlight on Lack of Sunlight Could Lead To Early Death · · Score: 4, Funny

    sever sunburns I didn't realise it was possible to get such severe sunburn that your limbs fell off. Ouch.
  15. Re:Fuck em on A Cautionary Tale of Open Source Social Technologies · · Score: 2, Informative

    They bully people into submission by crying 'anti-semite!' Neatly glossing over the fact that the Palestinians are also Semites. Isn't it ironic?
  16. Re:Has to be said on Clarinet Wins Robotic Orchestra Competition · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Played by a robot" doesn't mean "robotic" in the sense of "the same every time". It would be perfectly possible to add e.g. normally distributed variation in hold time of a note. There could well be a psychology research grant waiting to be filed to investigate whether it's possible to generate imperfect music in such a way that even "experts" (broadsheet critics, for example) can't distinguish between the computer and a human playing the same piece.

  17. Re:Think ZX Spectrum... on UK Games Industry Over the Hill? · · Score: 1

    If you're going to count an Edinburgh-based company towards big names in Dundee, can I count London-based companies towards Cambridge? The distances (by road, at least) are within a few percent.

  18. Re:You're an adult now, you don't need a kit. on Best Electronics Kits For Adults? · · Score: 1

    Diodes.

    Zener diodes, if you want to play with smoothing AC to DC converters.

    Switches - a mixed bag, if possible, because different types are appropriate for different things.

    You may find a soldering iron useful for attaching wires to switches so that you can use them with the breadboard.

  19. Re:??? WTF? on Electronic Transaction Reporting Slipped Into Senate Bill · · Score: 1

    Unless the official summary is wrong, the government won't know how much you spend each year on Amazon. However, it will know how much Amazon makes each year.

  20. Re:??? WTF? on Electronic Transaction Reporting Slipped Into Senate Bill · · Score: 5, Informative

    As usual, the summary is pretty wrong. The "detailed transaction data" of the summary consists of "the annual gross amount of reportable transactions" according to the Senate Bill Summary as quoted in the article - the only information which is less detailed is no information whatsoever. So on the face of it this isn't the intrusion that it's being made out to be.

  21. Re:Think ZX Spectrum... on UK Games Industry Over the Hill? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Look at where the UK's computer game industry is mostly based now...

    Cambridge? Frontier, Sony, Jagex, plus I'm not sure how many smaller players. Who are the big names in Dundee?

    Of course, Cambridge is also the base of ARM and Acorn, so may have similar hardware factors at play, and has the university and science/technology parks.

  22. Re:Shameless karma whore on Trees' Leaves Grow At a Cool 70° All Over the World · · Score: 4, Informative

    Major scientific journals are not written for "an American audience" but for an international audience. But this is a total red herring anyway, because if you RTFA you'll find that it uses centigrade.

  23. Re:Don't people learn on All Your Coffee Are Belong To Us · · Score: 1

    What AV do you use on your Linux coffee-maker? Or did the second sentence apply only to Windows coffee-maker users?

  24. Re:Bah! on All Your Coffee Are Belong To Us · · Score: 1

    You've got the heat on too high. I have once destroyed an Italian cafetière by forgetting about it and letting it boil dry, but I was left with sludge in the top rather than burnt coffee on the stove top.

  25. Re:Bah! on All Your Coffee Are Belong To Us · · Score: 1

    Having a couple of 3-cup ones won't be enough, but you can get 18-cup ones. I doubt your automatic coffee maker makes more than 36 cups, especially if it's making café americano.