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  1. Re:DOOMED I say... DOOMED! on Verizon Blocking 4chan · · Score: 4, Funny

    Canada.

  2. Why is an extra kill switch needed? on DARPA Aims for Synthetic Life With a Kill Switch · · Score: 1

    Most living things (if not all) already have a genetically built in kill switch (if not more), which due to it's implementation, has proven to be non-removable (at least for the last couple eons).

    Still waiting for someone to remove the "Aging" kill switch.

  3. Body transfer? on Physicists Discover How To Teleport Energy · · Score: 1

    If talking about state changes only, this seems like a potential candidate for a scientific variant of the D&D clone spell..

    http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/SRD:Clone

  4. And inversely.. on Police Want Fast Track To Get At Your Private Data · · Score: 1

    I would also like a fast track to get at the data used to determine that my data is significant, and to sue those who abuse said system. The only way for people to accept loss of privacy, is to reduce abuse of power. (since the whole concept of privacy stems from protecting the people from abuse of power)

  5. Demolitions work notice fail on "Tube Map" Created For the Milky Way · · Score: 1

    Last I heard, they needed to build a tunnel through here as well..

  6. Solve the problem, not run from it on Cool NASA Tech That Will Never See Space · · Score: 1

    Maybe instead of trying to escape Earth, we should first focus on solving the issues we already have on Earth? It's not like we won't end up dragging said issues with us if/when we expand further..

  7. If A = B, then B = A on UK Gov't Says "No Evidence" IE Is Less Secure · · Score: 1

    What I take from this is that IE7 and IE8 is just as insecure (or even less secure) as IE6.

  8. Keep personal, private arguments to PMs on Mum's the Word On Google Attack At Davos · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's just a personal, private argument, and does not need to be brought up here? Granted a major argument, but still, no one likes their thread to be derailed.

  9. Re:Finally on Uranus and Neptune May Have "Oceans of Diamonds" · · Score: 1

    Thanks, my mistake. Next time, I'll get wrong and right confused.

  10. Re:NASA announces a new backer on Uranus and Neptune May Have "Oceans of Diamonds" · · Score: 0, Redundant

    And Then De Beers sabotages the whole program because the real source of profit is in careful, controlled supply.

  11. Re:Finally on Uranus and Neptune May Have "Oceans of Diamonds" · · Score: 2, Informative

    No it won't. Diamonds are cheap because of enforced supply. With any likelihood, this would be lobbied to never take off so the diamond supply stays small and controlled.

  12. Re:Please remember on Colliding Particles Can Make Black Holes After All · · Score: 1

    Which they admit to. Why else do they say that the energy required may be lower if there may exist multiple dimensions? Because they do not know, and hence require testing to know that.

    What simulation provides is a visualization of what a theory would produce assuming all the factors they assumed are correct. This does not mean that the factors they assumed are correct are indeed correct, but it means that assuming those factors are correct, what the simulation predicted will happen.

  13. Re:So much for public domain... on Sherlock Holmes and the Copyright Tangle · · Score: 3, Informative

    Funny, cause the Berne Convention came first (in the sense of copyrights lasting longer than the author).

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

  14. Re:But unfortunately... on Looking Back At Dungeons & Dragons · · Score: 1

    Indirectly however, the advent of computing and the internet makes it much simpler to play D&D, not to mention also providing better options for certain facets not possible under normal face-to-face circumstances.

    Take for example a chaotic evil character which is partied with other chaotic evil characters. communicating a backstabbing is much more subtle when no one can see you hand that slip of paper to the dungeon master.

  15. Re:Who has to use Google? on Hiding From Google · · Score: 1

    Even so, what Google (usually) offers is a superior experience, and that experience comes at a cost. And by maintaining your privacy, you are indirectly limiting your own experience in the process. The more people try to influence Google, the less effective it would be.

  16. Re:vote with your money on Modern Warfare 2 Surpasses $1 Billion Mark; Dedicated Servers What? · · Score: 1

    How did you know it's fun and well made before you bought the game?

  17. Implications of imitation... on James Cameron On How Avatar Technology Could Keep Actors Young · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't want to be immortal if it isn't me.

  18. Re:What? Nobody mentioning, that xkcd already did on Man Uses Drake Equation To Explain Girlfriend Woes · · Score: 1
  19. Re:Missing factors. on Man Uses Drake Equation To Explain Girlfriend Woes · · Score: 1

    He mentions himself being attracted to others. He never mentioned others being attracted to him.

  20. Re:Google may lose China... on Google.cn Attack Part of a Broad Spying Effort · · Score: 1

    The good news then is that being evil is more risky than being good.

    As it should be.

  21. Re:In Soviet Russia, and I'm not making this up, on Moscow Police Watch Pre-Recorded Scenes On Surveillance Cams · · Score: 1

    Maybe you are indeed making this up.

  22. Re:Resale on Game Endings Going Out of Style? · · Score: 1

    Then the problem is that games are built as a product, not as art. Any DVD medium-ed movie is also liable for resale, yet they certainly don't reduce sales of movies substantially.

    If the game is good, EVEN IF IT IS A STRAIGHT-FORWARD LINEAR GAME, people will still replay it, just as people will still re-watch the original Matrix.

  23. Missing factors. on Man Uses Drake Equation To Explain Girlfriend Woes · · Score: 1

    Apparently he has no attraction value, since that is also one of the keys of finding a potential girlfriend. Anyone with sufficient attraction (for instance, fame, money) would be hard-pressed to escape from potential suitors/stalkers/paparazzi.

  24. Re:Freakonomics on Comcast Launches Broadband Meter · · Score: 1

    Or stop advertising falsely and only advertise what they are capable of offering. Split it into different categories if you have to. And NEVER, EVER ADVERTISE UNLIMITED.

  25. Re:The end of the Patent System on Half of US Patents Issued Out of US For Second Year · · Score: 1

    You do realize that is symptomatic of a totalitarian government, right?