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  1. Re:Interpolated missing data is still just a ficti on Adobe Demos Photo Unblurring At MAX 2011 · · Score: 1

    Is that the same as when putting a fence up the post holes are already there and you just have to take the dirt out?

  2. Re:Two questions: on $5M In Torrented Files Presented As Art · · Score: 1

    Art is anything that makes you form an opinion just by seeing it

    Is that really the definition? So for something to not be art you have to look at it and form no opinion whatsoever. Even if the opinion is "that isn't art" - BAM - all of a sudden it's art.

    Has a kind of Ghostbusters / Marshmallow-man feel to it.

  3. Re:Why do people give a fuck about these sites? on Google's 'ID Validation' Is a Joke, But Not Funny · · Score: 2

    Have you tried FML.* ?

  4. Re:kilometer conversion for the math impared on Mars Rover Opportunity Surpasses 30km Driving · · Score: 1

    How fast is that in parsecs?

  5. Re:And two factor authentication... on Sophos Slams Facebook Security In Open Letter · · Score: 1

    If someone breaks into your WOW account then the vendor has to investigate and correct it etc. as there is "real life" money involved. You can get your credit card company involved, or your bank, or even the police.

    If someone breaks into your facebook account who are you actually going to call? Who will care?

  6. Re:And two factor authentication... on Sophos Slams Facebook Security In Open Letter · · Score: 1

    How much do you pay for your WOW account? And how much do you pay for your facebook account? I imagine part of a WOW subscription pays for the outlay in cost for the authentication. Would anyone be willing to pay a small fee to get two-factor authentication to Facebook? I wouldn't and I very much doubt many other people would either. And there isn't much incentive for Facebook to wear the costs of it.

  7. Re:Redundancy and good planning. on Net Sees Earthquake Damage, Routes Around It · · Score: 1

    rescuing Chilean miners

    Are you referring to Americans as in USA here (rather than Nth+Sth Americans together)? I was under the understanding the rescue was overseen by Chilean government and mining representatives with multiple international governments and companies assisting. Are you claiming the rescue as a success for USA alone? American (USA) ingenuity has provided a lot of things over the years but that seems a very strange example.

  8. Re:Think about it from an owner's perspective. on Pub Patrons Down Under Subject To Biometric Datamining · · Score: 1

    So, in theory, a brawler might be facing 20+ years if the judge decided to drop the hammer and have sentences serve consecutively.

    This is why for the most part, brawls in the US are pretty rare.

    And why the gaols are full.

    Yeah, yeah - I said gaol.

  9. Re:Tabs on Pub Patrons Down Under Subject To Biometric Datamining · · Score: 1

    Tabs are non-existent in Australian pubs/clubs. You pay for drinks as you get them. You can put you credit card behind the bar in some places but must pay using the card before you leave.

  10. Re:Haha, lawyers. . . on The Prospects For Lunar Mining · · Score: 1

    Which would work if it's an American company. What would happen if it's China (or even India) that is doing the mining? I can't see the USA invading either country waving lawsuits around.

  11. Re:Known it for years.. on You Have Taste Receptors In Your Lungs · · Score: 1
    You know this from first-hand experience? From the research it seems that wouldn't be possible.

    in the lung, the taste receptors are not clustered in buds and do not send signals to the brain

  12. Re:This is simply misguided -- don't we know bette on The Future of the Most Important Human Brain · · Score: 1

    But there IS a physical difference between two formerly identical PCs that have different OS's installed on them. You can't see it on the outside but its not magic and pixie dust. The magnetic properties of the IDE drive are changed in distinct and decodeable ways that dictate how the OS works and operates the rest of the hardware of the PC.

    Studying the brain in this way is to try and figure out what the equivalent is to the magnetic storage method of the hard drive and then to somehow decode that storage method.

    Even if every brain were physically identical (which it's quite obvious they aren't) the "combination of upbringing, willpower and education" that makes you you must be stored somewhere inside you in some way. It's a pretty fair assumption that it is in the brain somewhere and somehow.

  13. Re:Different in the USA? on British Teen Jailed Over Encryption Password · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think I'll make my passphrase "I don't remember". That should make for a fun interview.

  14. IMDB refute the claims on Torrent-Only Movie Denied IMDb Listing · · Score: 1
    According to this article http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/torrent-of-data-not-enough-to-get-aussie-movie-on-imdb-20100930-15yk6.html

    IMDb's head of public relations and marketing said the company would "review this specific case", but brushed off the producers' claims of bias.

    "To the contrary, we already list many titles that were initially or solely distributed online and/or via BitTorrent," Emily Glassman wrote in an email from Seattle, where the company is based.

    "As a pioneering internet company - we are celebrating our 20th anniversary on 17 October! - we are fully aware of and totally embrace digital distribution."

  15. Re:For what purpose? on EU Surveillance Studies Disclosed By Pirate Party · · Score: 1

    Or during a "War on Terror" perhaps?

  16. Re:5 page paper? on Facebook Post Juror Gets Fined, Removed, Assigned Homework · · Score: 1

    They can and will ruin your life if they feel like it.

    Not if THEY feel like it. If YOU allow it.


    And off-topic and not directed at you specifically but that whole FTFY bullshit is not clever or funny. It's annoying.

  17. Re:And so we take another giant step on NIH Orders Halt To Embryonic Stem Cell Research · · Score: 1

    Fucking SERIOUSLY?!

    Are you against menstruation as well?
    How about all the poor little sperm that don't make it to fertilizing an egg, do you mourn their loss as well?

  18. Re:Escapeing your past? It's been done. on Google's CEO Warns Kids Will Have to Change Names to Escape "Cyber Past" · · Score: 1

    Exactly. You change your name, go to a job interview and show you University degree and transcripts, awards, training certificates etc and they all have your original name on them.

    So Schmidty is saying that your potential employer is only going to google your NEW name? What a joke!

    If someone came to an interview with a new name the very first question I would be asking in my head is why did they change it. If anything this will make them dig DEEPER into your previous name than they otherwise would.

  19. Re:escalators too on Should Cities Install Moving Sidewalks? · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't the people that just want to stand there move to the faster lane as well? So you end up with them standing still in the fastest lane.

    It's not like they don't want to get there faster too - they just don't want to actually have to work to do it.

  20. Re:Indeed, it is like AT&T doesn't have Androi on Man Emails AT&T's CEO, Gets Threatened With C&D Order · · Score: 1

    Or maybe your lady is cheating on you with the same guy!

  21. Re:Much like violence, on Caffeine Addicts Get No Additional Perk, Only a Return To Baseline · · Score: 1

    speak for yourself.

  22. Re:Fire them on Doctor Slams Hospital's "Please" Policy · · Score: 1

    past muster.

    The saying is actually "passed muster" as in to pass muster (meaning to be judged acceptable)

  23. Re:It's like dejavu all over again! on Google Defends Privacy Policies · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Lawfully issued from which country?

  24. No Moon? on Obama Outlines Bold Space Policy ... But No Moon · · Score: 4, Funny

    So if it's not a moon, then I guess it's a.....Space Station?

  25. Re:GM's eyes are bigger than its stomach ... on GM Unveils Networked Electric Mini Cars · · Score: 1

    I already read books while driving. Audiobooks, of course. *MAYVIN*