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  1. Re:Start of something big. on Accessorize Your Phone With Another Phone · · Score: 1

    "So do you carry the tablet absolutely everywhere you go?"

    Do you carry a briefcase absolutely everywhere you go? Or maybe a purse?

    No, not when I am sailing, caving, rock clumbing, bike riding, etc. But I always need a phone for safety reasons.

  2. Re:Start of something big. on Accessorize Your Phone With Another Phone · · Score: 1

    So do you carry the tablet absolutely everywhere you go?

  3. Small really is good on Accessorize Your Phone With Another Phone · · Score: 1

    I have this dead 2G Sony Ericsson phone which was small and very easy to carry around. The other week I saw an ipod nano in a shop. It has a little screen with six icons on it. I thought that if apple made an iphone in that form factor I would actually buy one.

  4. Re:Why JJ Abrams when you could get Peter Jackson? on J.J. Abrams To Direct Star Wars VII · · Score: 1

    The Director is free to pace the story though. Blade Runner was great partly because of the amount of rework it went through.

  5. Re:Why JJ Abrams when you could get Peter Jackson? on J.J. Abrams To Direct Star Wars VII · · Score: 5, Funny

    Star wars 7: There is a knock at Luke's front door. A bunch of people invite themselves in and eat all his food.

  6. Re:So I lock my bike at the shop on CTO Says Al-Khabaz Expulsion Shows CS Departments Stuck In "Pre-Internet Era" · · Score: 1

    My point is that the statement I found a security problem with your system can be interpreted in different ways. Lets assume that the recipient of that message gets ten extortion attempts per week. An innocent message about a security hole would just go on the list to be reported to the police.

  7. Re:Efficiency on Researchers Use Lasers For Cooling · · Score: 2

    I think it only cools things which fluoresce.

  8. So I lock my bike at the shop on CTO Says Al-Khabaz Expulsion Shows CS Departments Stuck In "Pre-Internet Era" · · Score: 1

    and this guy is standing near the parked bikes. He comes up to me say and says you know, I could easily open that lock. I ignore him and walk away but I look back and he is standing there right beside my bike not breaking any laws. So I have a few alternatives. I can walk away and hope he doesn't damage it or rip it off. I can call the cops, but no laws have been broken, or I can unlock my bike and go elsewhere.

    Though frankly what I want to do is kick him shitless.

  9. Re:Hacking sites you don't own is unprofessional on CTO Says Al-Khabaz Expulsion Shows CS Departments Stuck In "Pre-Internet Era" · · Score: 1

    I have been working in Computer Security in Internet Banking for the last 15 years, and while I have had many co-workers who measure their worth by how good they are at breaking in to things,

    Any reason you post anonomously then?

  10. Who's user agent is it anyway? on Andrew Auernheimer Case Uncomfortably Similar To Aaron Swartz Case · · Score: 1

    kim.com has his megakey system which works as an ad blocker but replaces existing advertisments on web pages with ads served by mega. There has already been some rumbling from advertisers and web page publishers that changing a web page in this way violates their copyright. So is it always going to be legal for me to view source on a web page and view it in my preferred way?

    Likewise, I can put any address I like into the URL bar but these guys are being prosecuted for doing that. Isn't it their web browser?

  11. Re:2106 on You've Got 25 Years Until UNIX Time Overflows · · Score: 1

    I will be implemented in C long before then.

  12. Re:2106 on You've Got 25 Years Until UNIX Time Overflows · · Score: 1

    So change time_t to be unsigned and deal with the few cases where negative times were used.

  13. 2106 on You've Got 25 Years Until UNIX Time Overflows · · Score: 1
  14. When government hands out money on India Bars ZTE, Huawei, Others From Sensitive Government Projects · · Score: 0

    They want it to be spent locally, where the voters live.

  15. Re:So what if it does not mimic the human mind on Why Ray Kurzweil's Google Project May Be Doomed To Fail · · Score: 1

    Airplanes and birds both have wings and a tail. Aircraft wings have equivalent features (say variable geometry) to match features on the wings of birds. In what way are airplanes not based on birds?

  16. Re:Kurzweil's ultimate project is immortality. on Why Ray Kurzweil's Google Project May Be Doomed To Fail · · Score: 1

    depressing that someone could spend their whole lives deluding themselves in such a manner

    Why? I have spent my whole life trying to not die. I would like to continue doing that.

  17. Re:A Heinlein quote comes to mind on Why Ray Kurzweil's Google Project May Be Doomed To Fail · · Score: 1

    But when the expert tells you that something can be done, they are probably right.

    -A.C.C

  18. Re:You have to start somewhere. on Why Ray Kurzweil's Google Project May Be Doomed To Fail · · Score: 5, Interesting

    My wife is putting our son through these horrible cram school things. Kumon and others. I was so glad when he found ways to cheat, now his marks are better, he gets yelled at less and he actually learned something.

  19. Re:Experience on Why Ray Kurzweil's Google Project May Be Doomed To Fail · · Score: 1

    But with an AI you can integrate the experiences into its logic to a greater extent than I can just telling them to you. I have access to the AI's interfaces and source code. As far as I know I don't have access to yours.

  20. Experience on Why Ray Kurzweil's Google Project May Be Doomed To Fail · · Score: 1

    I believe most of us think in terms of the experiences we have had in our lives. How many posts here effectively start with I remember when.... But data like that could be loaded into an AI so that it has working knowledge to draw on.

  21. Effects on Humans and animals on Earth May Have Been Hit By a Gamma-Ray Burst In 775 AD · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Neither of the articles discuss what might have happened to living things at the time. Could some people have had radiation sickness for example? Could this have caused mutations?

  22. Re:Kim versus Google on Kim Dotcom's Mega Claims 1 Million Users Within 24 Hours · · Score: 0

    They're not hijacking any ad-revenue.

    What the hell are you talking about?

    megakey

  23. Re:Considering the reputation that megaupload had on Kim Dotcom's Mega Claims 1 Million Users Within 24 Hours · · Score: 1
  24. Re:Information bubble in the USA too? on Schmidt, Daughter Talk About North Korea Trip · · Score: 0

    North Korea is a prison camp, not a pervasive cultural way of thinking. Your analogy is invalid.

  25. Re:Information bubble in the USA too? on Schmidt, Daughter Talk About North Korea Trip · · Score: 2

    I personally know several US families who have travelled to my country and chosen to stay here. They have plenty of freedom to learn about other countries.