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  1. Re:I never got this part of Bitcoin.. on Bitcoin Inventor Satoshi Nakamoto Could Actually Be Group From Europe · · Score: 1

    Patent Trolls.

    If I ever release software it'll be as part of a large corporation, or anonymously, it's not worth the headache otherwise.

  2. Re:Laws alone don't prevent arrest on UK Men Arrested For Anti-Semitic Tweets After Football Game · · Score: 1

    or "I hate the Redskins"? would that be racist?

  3. Re:There's a solution you know on Some Londoners Cut Off As Failed Copper Thieves Take Fiber · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Destruction of public infrastructure should be it's own, separate charge, on top of the theft.

  4. Jang Song Strisand? on North Korea Erases Executed Official From the Internet · · Score: 4, Funny

    I never heard of him before this article; now he's indelible.

  5. I don't have the language to explain it... on Simulations Back Up Theory That Universe Is a Hologram · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The way I think of the universe, is like a 11 dimensional sphere of putty, that got hit with a hammer. (aka the big bang).

    So, the sphere got deformed spraying outward in 3 dimensions (space) while flying off into a 4th (time) and the other 7 dimensions got compressed.

    A Particle is a bit of energy caught in a loop around some number of those 7 dimensions, each combination of possible wrapping gives a different fundamental particle, with antiparticles having the same wrap, but opposing spin.

    Light/radio 'waves' are caused by the photons looping around one of the higher dimensions, not one of our 3 spatial dimensions, which is how it is travelling in a straight line space, yet still taking a wavering path; like a piece of string wrapped around an infinitesimally small cylinder.

    But that's just my mental model, it work well enough to keep me from going mad (I think)

  6. Royal Royalties on British Police Censor the Global Internet · · Score: 1

    That's not a pun, it's the origin of the word.

  7. Re:This is excellent water on Scientists Discover Huge Freshwater Reserves Beneath the Ocean · · Score: 1

    people voluntarily install such systems to cut their water bills down.

    Which is illegal in most of the US (building codes)

  8. Re:underground cave... on Oldest Human DNA Contains Clues To Mysterious Species · · Score: 1

    I'll give you that, you're also likely to find unknown species there as well.

  9. underground cave... on Oldest Human DNA Contains Clues To Mysterious Species · · Score: 2

    "underground cave" is there another kind?

  10. Re:Atari would be proud on Death to the Trapezoid... Next USB Connector Will Be Reversible · · Score: 1

    USB is like XML that way.

    Not great, but good enough to work, and everywhere.

    Also like McDonalds, Starbucks, Walmart...

  11. Who's hurting who? on A Review of the "Mental Illness" Definition Might Prevent Crime · · Score: 2

    I've read that statistically, schizophrenics are more likely to be victims of violence, from people who misunderstand their behavior (stand your ground *cough*) than to commit violence...

    So, who should be locked up?

    (too early in the damn morning to try and look up a cite.)

  12. Re:Blame the kids on NY Police Get Tall SUVs To Combat Texting While Driving · · Score: 4, Informative

    A 63 year old friend of mine got a smartphone to take payments with for his business...

    less than a week later he rear-ended someone on the freeway while texting.

    any age can be a fucking dumbass.

  13. Re:Piffle on Intelligence Officials Fear Snowden's 'Doomsday' Cache · · Score: 1

    My grandfather (aircraft mechanic for the Germans) was forced to work in a coal mine for several years after the war, but later moved to America, and worked for Boeing.

  14. Re:Safe = Slow = Low? on Why Letting Your Insurance Company Monitor How You Drive Can Be a Good Thing · · Score: 1

    Cat eye are the reflective ones, what's it's referring to are non-reflective circular bumps a few inches in diameter.

  15. Cruel and 'unusual' punishment... on Prison Is For Dangerous Criminals, Not Hacktivists · · Score: 1

    'Making an example' of someone with an excessive, unusually long punishment, to me, sounds inherently unconstitutional.

    It /should/ be easy ground for an appeal of the sentence if the judge allowed external factors like 'sending a message to others' to unduly influence his decisions.

  16. Re:Safe = Slow = Low? on Why Letting Your Insurance Company Monitor How You Drive Can Be a Good Thing · · Score: 1

    I've always heard them called 'road turtles'

  17. Re:Wait, what? on Sears To Convert Old Auto Centers Into National Chain of Data Centers · · Score: 1

    Just build the Wal*Mart, then close everything else.

  18. Re:surcharges aren't a profit center for auto ins. on Nearly 1 In 4 Adults Surf the Web While Driving · · Score: 1

    I can see the automatic driver developers (Google, etc.) creating their own insurance pools, if the traditional insurance companies don't provide appropriate rates.

    I also see the old insurance companies doing everything they can, lobbying-wise, to block it, just like auto-dealers vs. Tesla.

  19. This won't last long... on A Makerbot In Every Classroom · · Score: 2

    Just wait until a kid prints a gun at school...

  20. Let the theories begin. on Fukushima Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Starts Generating Power · · Score: 5, Funny

    So... Japan set up a giant radioactive fan offshore and the Philippines gets hit by an incredibly powerful hurricane...

  21. Re:Meaningless on Sochi Olympic Torch Taken On Historic Spacewalk · · Score: 0

    If warm air rises, why is it colder at higher altitudes?

    Christians 1, Atheists 0.

  22. Re:How is this news for nerds? on Sochi Olympic Torch Taken On Historic Spacewalk · · Score: 1

    Next stop, Mars.

  23. Re:Not enough energy, missing the point! on Duke Univ. Device Converts Stray Wireless Energy Into Electricity For Charging · · Score: 2

    Great idea but the issue then is how exactly would you charge for this power when anyone with some know how could build a receiver to grab the "free" power?

    Just encrypt the signal.

  24. About on par with Fallout 3 faces, still in the uncanny valley.

  25. Re:Watermarks on Microsoft Admits Windows 8.1 Update May Bork Your Mouse, Promises a Fix · · Score: 1

    ... but if you aren't using Windows, that notice won't appear anyway, right?

    it's not added by the video BIOS or something, is it?