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  1. Fuzzball definitions on Donald Knuth Worried About the "Dumbing Down" of Computer Science History · · Score: 1

    Nobody has defined "computer science" in a clear way, at least not with any kind of consensus behind it.

  2. Re:Death by Manual on MIT Unifies Web Development In Single, Speedy New Language · · Score: 1

    They may not compile, but in a cool way. "Yes, Mr. Boss, section X failed to run without warning and lost us 4,000 customers, but it did so in an intellectually stimulating way."

  3. Re:China has to buy US bonds ... on Serious Economic Crisis Looms In Russia, China May Help · · Score: 1

    Just start between recessions, not during.

  4. Not mergers, but purchases. on Comcast-TWC Merger Review On Hold · · Score: 1

    Technically, those are company purchases, not mergers.

  5. Re:China has to buy US bonds ... on Serious Economic Crisis Looms In Russia, China May Help · · Score: 1

    a strange co-dependent relationship

    Yes, they manufacture products and we manufacture debt. A match made in.....well...

  6. Oligopolies usually suck on Comcast-TWC Merger Review On Hold · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Somebody please provide ONE case of a merger making a bad company better.

  7. Don't look down on An Automated Cat Litter Box With DRM · · Score: 1

    And the Schrodinger's version?

  8. Re:Customer support on North Korean Internet Is Down · · Score: 1

    Even Windows could manage the resources of North Korea better than...

    Actually, nobody would know the difference:

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

  9. Re:He's gonna git in trouble on Can Rep. John Culberson Save NASA's Space Exploration Program? · · Score: 1

    I believe you would find that the majority of Republicans reject evolution and human-induced global warming. That's nothing to sneeze at.

  10. Re:Make it easier to hire people? on What Happens To Society When Robots Replace Workers? · · Score: 1

    I'm not stopping anybody from re-examining the various acts.

    And your statement of the reason behind the DB act is only an opinion. Further, even if an act was created with questionable intentions, it may sometimes be kept or used for other purposes beyond the original. Thus, original intent alone is not a reason to keep or discard an act.

  11. Re:Make it easier to hire people? on What Happens To Society When Robots Replace Workers? · · Score: 1

    Robot treatment shouldn't be our baseline for human treatment. If it's pretty obvious that robots will get incrementally better, then it is as somebody else described it: competing directly with robots (and 3rd world labor) will become a "race to the bottom". That's competing with automation, not leveraging it to make our life better.

  12. Re:Blue? on NASA Video Shows What It's Like To Reenter the Earth's Atmosphere · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a reasonable explanation. Thanks.

  13. Re:I doubt it was North Korea on North Korea Denies Responsibility for Sony Attack, Warns Against Retaliation · · Score: 2

    if North Korea was capable of this sort of hack they've got more tempting targets to use that capability on.

    Such as? A commercial company is probably a far easier target than a military institution. And maybe some of the military breaches we've heard about were from them. Many breaches are not even made public.

  14. Re:Make it easier to hire people? on What Happens To Society When Robots Replace Workers? · · Score: 2

    When I ask conservatives what Federal laws to cut, most of them don't have a clue. The few that bother to research often recommend cutting rules that create health, safety, or pollution risk for workers or customers.

    Becoming a 3rd world country to compete with the 3rd world doesn't sound like a good plan to me.

    I'm giving you the opportunity to give substantive suggestions here again...

  15. Re:Wow ... on Calculus Textbook Author James Stewart Has Died · · Score: 1

    He was an integral part of Calculus education.

  16. Celebrate! on Quantum Physics Just Got Less Complicated · · Score: 1

    I'm so happy about this news, I'm gonna shove a cat through 2 slits to see what happens.

  17. Why does the sky appear to so quickly transition from black to blue around the 6 minute mark?

  18. Re:I always thought on The Dominant Life Form In the Cosmos Is Probably Superintelligent Robots · · Score: 1

    They were made out of meat

    If our main goal is to reproduce and spread among the galaxy, then a brain inside a dick will be the quickest route: cut out the middle-men organs. In fact, skip the brain.

  19. Poor Mr. Rocket on India Successfully Test Fires Its Heaviest Rocket · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Isn't it discriminatory to give an employee a pink-slip for being obese?

  20. Please explain on Reaction To the Sony Hack Is 'Beyond the Realm of Stupid' · · Score: 1

    "the ability to steal gossipy emails from a not-so-great protected computer network [at Sony] is not the same thing as being able to carry out physical, 9/11-style attacks in 18,000 locations simultaneously.

    So compromising a not-so-great protected computer network is not the same as compromising a not-so-great protected computer network?

  21. Re:The issue was raised before. on Economists Say Newest AI Technology Destroys More Jobs Than It Creates · · Score: 1

    information revolution is a disappointment. Jobs get slashed, but there is no increase in the creation of actual wealth or value.

    There has been an increase in wealth, but most of it has gone to the top 1%. Trickle-down is not simply not working anymore. Sorry, Republicans, but you have it all wrong. You are applying 1960 economics to the wrong era. Tax the wealthy to fix our rotting infrastructure; then we'll have jobs, consumers, and working roads and pipes.

  22. Re:Don't worry guys... on Apparent Islamic Terrorism Strikes Sydney · · Score: 1

    I was thinking Spanish Inquisition, Crusades, vicious fights between Catholics and Protestants, Galileo, etc. True, that's more of a mid-point than a "start".

    Christianity "matured". Islam seems to still be in the middle stage.

  23. Not a new technique: on Brain Stimulation For Entertainment? · · Score: 1
  24. Re:Sorry... on Curiosity Detects Mysterious Methane Spikes On Mars · · Score: 1

    That explains the No Smoking sign the probe found.

  25. Thanksgiving? Too much of a coincidence on Curiosity Detects Mysterious Methane Spikes On Mars · · Score: 1

    Then, on the day after Thanksgiving in 2013, methane readings shot up in Gale Crater and stayed high while Curiosity made three more measurements over the next 60 days.

    Right after Thanksgiving? I suspect they did it Gilligan's Island-style and the probe really landed on Earth, in middle America.