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  1. Why should government funds be used to enrich a company that will not comply with a legal order

    It may be a legal order, but is it constitutional?

  2. Re:As much as I hate the Ifone and what it stands on New Legislation Would Ban US Government From Purchasing Apple Products (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Why are we paying people to ponder such things??

    Article I of the US Constitution.

  3. Re:Not this old info again on Paris Attacks Would Not Have Happened Without Crypto (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If France has such strict gun control, why is it 11th in guns per 100 residents?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  4. Re:And this is why Republicans... on Paris Attacks Would Not Have Happened Without Crypto (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Security through word salad!

  5. Pedant point: brain sides on Drag-and-Drop "CS" Tutorials: the Emperor's New Code? · · Score: 1

    In most people, the left hemisphere is analytical and the right hemisphere is creative.

  6. Re:Why not "Cooking for All"? on Obama Calls For $4B 'Computer Science For All' Program For K-12 Schools (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    No, the stents were implanted in the students. BASIC can be quite stressful.

  7. Re:What do they mean by Computer Science? on Obama Calls For $4B 'Computer Science For All' Program For K-12 Schools (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    But will the sponsors of the legislation admit such things publicly?

  8. Re:What do they mean by Computer Science? on Obama Calls For $4B 'Computer Science For All' Program For K-12 Schools (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Programming or "using programs" has as much relationship to Computer Science as Welding does to Metallurgy. CS is about algorithms, data structures, efficiency, numerical analysis, etc.

    You know that, but do the people voting on this legislation know it?

  9. What do they mean by Computer Science? on Obama Calls For $4B 'Computer Science For All' Program For K-12 Schools (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Do they mean coding (AP computer science)? The higher-level design stuff? System administration? Information security? The article mentioned AP Computer Science, so we'll be the world's leader in Java programming.

    Also, the benefit might not be employment as a programmer per se, but simply using programs as part of one's day job..

  10. Re:What a retarded concept on Obama Calls For $4B 'Computer Science For All' Program For K-12 Schools (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    Works for Ben Carson!

  11. Area of a trapezoid on Ancient Babylonians Figured Out Forerunner of Calculus (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 2

    The article mentions trapezoids. Did the Babylonians approximate curved regions with trapezoids, or did they just use trapezoids? Finding the area of a trapezoid doesn't require calculus.

  12. Re:Well, so did the Greeks, around 500 BCE. on Ancient Babylonians Figured Out Forerunner of Calculus (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Proof by contradiction from constructing a triangle with one side that of the and the other of the circumference.

    What contradiction occurs?

  13. Re:Not surprising on Ancient Babylonians Figured Out Forerunner of Calculus (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Try to multiply XCIV * LXXII and see how you'd do in comparison.

    Try using an abacus.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  14. Re:better yet, require congress critters to report on Utah Bill Would Require IT Workers To Report Child Porn (ksl.com) · · Score: 1

    The Green Party people also allowed him to, and they did NOTHING about it.

    How many Greens are in Congress?

  15. Plants on Growing Flowers In Space (nasa.gov) · · Score: 1

    This is important if we're to ever have long space flights.

  16. Re:We know there are questions we can't answer. on Are Some Things About the Universe Fundamentally Unknowable? (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, there is something "weird" about integers that are 2^n + 1 (for some integer n) that make them "easy" to factor (at least partially). This one still looks tough. Warning: I am not a number theorist.

  17. Re:As cynical as I am or not on Iran Complies With Nuclear Deal; Sanctions Lifted (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    What did you mean by the word "secular" in your original post?

  18. Re:As cynical as I am or not on Iran Complies With Nuclear Deal; Sanctions Lifted (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    But at the same time that my cynicism reads the potential subtext, I'm hopeful that while Irans' secular leadership is (excuse the turn of phrase here) hell-bent on destroying Israel and the U.S. and (likely) our other allies and anything that doesn't fit into their limited, rigid world-view, it's non-secular leadership is more open-minded and far-thinking, realizing that the World of today has become too small and all Irans' neighbors too close, in the literal as well as figurative sense, to allow the leadership decisions of an entire country to be guided by misguided tradition, narrow-mindedness, and hate.

    So Iran's non-secular leadership is more rational than its secular leadership?

  19. Re:Iran a democracy? on Iran Complies With Nuclear Deal; Sanctions Lifted (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Yeah right, and the Governor of South Carolina is a Sikh.

    Oh wait, bad example.

  20. Re:I want everyone to play Counter Strike... on The President Wants Every Student To Learn CS. How Would That Work? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Given US militarism, you might not be the only one.

  21. Re:50,000 comments per day? on India Telecom Regulator Pooh-Poohs Facebook's Orchestrated Lobbying Campaign · · Score: 1

    At the rate of one comment per second, that's almost 14 hours straight.

    14 hours is 50,400 seconds, so 50,500 seconds is actually more than 14 hours. But your point is correct.

  22. That would be helpful.

  23. Re:I know their direction... on The FSF Is 30 Years Old; Where Should They Go From Here? (fsf.org) · · Score: 1

    But the courts have ruled that encryption is weaponry.

  24. Re:This just in: on UK Cuts Men's Recommended Weekly Alcohol To 14 Units (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Either you drink or you don't. If you do, then you are incapable of living without being intoxicated. Ask yourself why you get drunk.

    It is possible to drink without getting drunk

  25. Re:Is this a problem? on Is Wikipedia's Popularity Causing Its Decline? · · Score: 1

    It's not as if the Pokemon pages are going to bleed over into the pages on the history of WW2.

    Except for that time when Pikachu took out a German panzer with a Molotov cocktail!