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  1. Re:Autonomous vehicles on Speeding Ticket Robots — Laws As Algorithms · · Score: 1

    You're right! If only everyone was forced to obey the law at all times, the world could be paradise!

  2. Re:Hydrogen is valuable NOT as a fuel source on Big Advance In Hydrogen Production Could Change Alternative Energy Landscape · · Score: 1

    Curious as to the feasibility of ammonia fuels (not that you were suggesting that), I found that the #1 Google result for "ammonia engine" is actually really good.

  3. Perspective on Intel's Pentium Chip Turns 20 Today · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If you performed a calculation that took a week to complete on a modern Core i7 2600k, you'd still be waiting for your Pentium 1 to finish the same calculation even with a 20 year head start!

    Source

  4. Re:Astronaut helmet cams on Astronauts Begin Final Spacewalk To Repair Hubble · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's the only thing holding you back?

  5. Re:First Post! on Microsoft Family Safety Filter Blocks Google · · Score: 1

    I vote for the GREATER evil. Go AOL!

  6. Re:Thats it... on Bell Proposing Usage-Based Billing · · Score: 1

    1000 Mbit internet? The mind boggles.

  7. Re:From "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance on Is Your Mood a Result of Where You Live? · · Score: 1

    Sounds like the cause of mindset behind the American revolution of independence.

  8. Re:Jesus tapdancing christ on Energy Secretary Chu Endorses "Clean Coal" · · Score: 1

    If only there was a country where a company could set up major nuclear power generation facilities without excessive red tape, and export it to the rest of the continent...

  9. Re:15 years or so ago on Worst Working Conditions You Had To Write Code In? · · Score: 1

    Why not have some sort of clean-room urination hose attachment to the suit?

  10. Re:Bad, but not as bad as Visa on iPhone App Refund Policies Could Cost Devs · · Score: 1

    Do you get still chargebacks with Paypal? Does it depend on your company size?

  11. Re:I didn't know Obama was supporting this on Senate Passes Telecom Immunity Bill · · Score: 1

    The new money - which will be an order of magnitude greater than the current money - will be made in freer economies. In the long run, American innovation will suffer for this shit so much that American businesses' political bribe finances won't be in place any more.

  12. Re:Whew, your telcos are safe. on Senate Passes Telecom Immunity Bill · · Score: 1

    Sure glad i'm european

    Yes, because regimes that violate civil liberties have never come to power in Europe.....

    Never again! The Europeans had to learn that the hard way. Just like the Americans will.

  13. Re:A better address to use ... on What Happens When You Reply To ALL of Your Spam · · Score: 1

    Eventually they'll be dropping off junk mail by the truckload! The junk mailers pay for it in their postage! The junk mail deliveries will grow exponentially! EXPONENTIALLY! One could make so much money doing this! :) Plus it would make a killer blog!

  14. Re:Back in the day... on Terminal Chaos · · Score: 1

    I think that today's unions work for the company's interests rather than the employees'.
    I worked for a major supermarket chain in Canada as a price checker. I made minimum wage, but after union dues I made less than minimum wage. On top of that, they wanted to pay price checkers more because they couldn't hire enough, but they couldn't do that either because of the union contract.

  15. Re:Back in the day... on Terminal Chaos · · Score: 1

    Trains? Boats? Horse-drawn carts? Fuck that. Whatever happened to hopes for a better future? If we got our shit together we could have environmentally-friendly $100 flights lasting less than 6 hours between any two points on Earth.

  16. Re:Surgery on my ass on Best Chair For Desktop Coding? · · Score: 1

    "pilonidal cyst"
    Must... resist... urge... to Google

  17. Re:First! on Paper Stronger Than Cast Iron · · Score: 1

    Duh... steel weighs more than wood?

  18. I may be too overly hopeful, but... on Philip K. Dick's 'Ubik' To Be Filmed · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I hope a gifted director comes along and makes a GOOD science fiction adaptation of Asimov's Foundation series.

  19. Re:Regarding TFB(A) on Breaking the Fermilab Code · · Score: 1

    And here I thought the extra Ss were just noise.

  20. Re:I have said it before on Post-Suicide Account Cracking? · · Score: 1

    Yes! But, of course alive people who have hidden sensitive data that they don't want people accessing after they're dead DO care.

  21. Re:Now it is the time to charge for email too on ICANN Takes a Step Toward Ending Domain Tasting · · Score: 1

    And credit the money to the person receiving the email?

  22. Try this quick-fix on Gartner Analysts Warn That Windows Is Collapsing · · Score: 4, Funny

    I went and installed Windowblinds and a Vista skin on our XP machines. Now users think we have Vista for all intents and purposes, and I get to support XP. It's win-win!

  23. BIG Problem.. why don't you guys notice this? on Japan IDs All Its Citizens · · Score: 1

    This is a 10-digit code with 1 check digit. In the all-to-near future (after the singularity) since nobody will live on Earth within patches of land called countries, your nationality is arbitrary. BUT obviously, since everyone will choose Japanese by default, they'll run out of unique ID space at only ten billion people! This will result in a universal catastrophic genocide as everyone gets bumped off the bottom of the ID space to make room for the millions and millions of newcomers spawned in the singular cyberspace!

  24. Re:In other words... on Supercomputer Adds Credence to Standard Model · · Score: 1

    Hmm, that's funny...

  25. Re:Hmmm..... on More Spacecraft Velocity Anomalies · · Score: 1

    Just slap it on the Standard Model and we're done!