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  1. Re:Prepare for it to get even muddier... on Turing Archive Director Questions Alan Turing Suicide Report · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That his personal and professional life was destroyed by bigotry due to his homosexuality is well established and uncontroversial. If he did commit suicide, then the existence of a causal link is nearly inevitable. The part that hasn't been well established is whether he did, in fact, commit suicide.

    (Correlation can imply causation if there is no other viable cause and the absence of a cause is unlikely. He could have suffered a devastating mental illness that made him suicidal, but there is no evidence of this, whereas the discrimination is well documented.)

  2. Re:Stay grounded on Microsoft Blocks FSF Donation Website As a 'Gambling Site' · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Frankly, the idea that this could be accidental in the first place is ludicrous.

    Antivirus vendors classifying the competition as malware is an easy mistake due to antivirus software employing similar methods to viruses in examining memory. Classifying a non-profit organization as a gambling site? Not an easy mistake. Doing it to a site belonging to a rival organization? Yeah, no.

  3. Re:Since when... on Fires Sparked By Utah Target Shooters Prompt Evacuations · · Score: 1

    At least nobody ever seems to argue that the right to guns includes the right to start a fire in a crowded theater.

  4. robots.txt on Hacker Group Demands "Idiot Tax" From Payday Lender · · Score: 1

    Not only was this page unsecured, it was actually referenced in their robots.txt file.

    I.e., they left the front door open and attached a post-it saying "please don't look under the shelf".

  5. I feel very secure... on Chuck Schumer Tells Apple and Google To "Curb Your Spy Planes" · · Score: 1

    [I]f highly detailed images become available, criminals could create more complete schematic maps of the power and water grids in the United States.

    ...knowing that the only thing standing between us and a crippling attack on infrastructure is that terrorists don't have maps.

  6. I am shocked on US, Israel Behind Flame Malware · · Score: 2

    Utterly flabberghasted.

    Who could have guessed this? Noone, that's who.

  7. Re:A series of tubes? on NYC's Trash-Sucking Tubes May Be Upgraded, Expanded · · Score: 3, Funny

    They wanted a series of tubes to replace the big-truck system they currently have in place.

  8. Re:Not really a Turing machine, but no surprise on A Turing Machine Built With Lego, And a Place To Put It · · Score: 1

    The mindscrew is that every physical machine, including the microcomputer (as well as this "Turing machine" itself, with its finite tape), is technically a finite state machine. The theoretical model of a true Turing machine requires the availability of infinite memory.

    You could say that the deterministic finite state machine can be any (deterministic) physical device conceivable, while the infinite tape is the one part that cannot be built in reality.

  9. The government really cares about my privacy... on NSA Claims It Would Violate Americans' Privacy To Say How Many of Us It Spied On · · Score: 1

    It won't tell anyone whether it spied on me. They really do care. I'm touched.

    PRIVACY: The psychological discomfort associated with awareness of personal & possibly embarassing information becoming known to others. Respect for privacy thus defined as not making concerned parties aware of said knowledge.

  10. Re:Six TLDs on How Would You Redesign the TLD Hierarchy? · · Score: 1

    Don't forget to modify the standard to allow the slash in names.

    Then you also get ./ ./slash, .slash/slash///slashslashslash/...

  11. Re:I wouldn't on How Would You Redesign the TLD Hierarchy? · · Score: 3, Informative

    non-Uniform Resource Locators?

    These disparate groups may never communicate, but if you divide the network in any place, geographic or not, you are going to end up with a border somewhere. Across this border, it will be impossible to exchange a hyperlink with the expectation that it consistently identifies a single resource.

  12. Re:How stupid, and useless on Google Bars Site That Converts YouTube Songs Into MP3s · · Score: 1

    If you're already on Linux and using ffmpeg, why not encode it as .ogg? Unless you have to accomodate a poor portable media player, but even most of those support it now.

  13. Re:Inscrutable on Joe Cornish To Write and Direct Snow Crash Movie · · Score: 1

    (That's from Diamond Age though.)

  14. Re:Just...... on Joe Cornish To Write and Direct Snow Crash Movie · · Score: 1

    Considering the theme of viral religion, that would be some neat meta-irony.

  15. Re:Dwayne Johnson as Raven. on Joe Cornish To Write and Direct Snow Crash Movie · · Score: 1

    Their numbers have dwindled to about 2,000 as a consequence of disease and disruption of traditional lifestyles, though people with partial Aleut descent may number around 15,000.

  16. Re:Cloe Moretz as YT on Joe Cornish To Write and Direct Snow Crash Movie · · Score: 1

    Unless they cut the hell out of the story, YT will not be played by a kid. Doubt even the character could remain a minor in the movie version.

  17. Re:reinventing the wheel on Google Blockly — a Language With a Difference · · Score: 1

    Every single thing you just said is wrong.

    In particular, ISPs have nothing to do with running a webserver on your computer; the most they can do is prevent others from accessing it. Secondly, Javascript has nothing to do with webservers.

    (For the record, PHP, which does run on webservers, doesn't require a webserver either.)

  18. "Flame" Malware is made out of ones and zeros on Fox News Ties 'Flame' Malware To Angry Birds · · Score: 1

    The latter of which are also used to staff Fox News.

  19. Your defamation accusation constitutes defamation. on FunnyJunk v. the Oatmeal: Copyright Infringement Complaints As Defamation · · Score: 5, Funny

    Pay $40,000 in damages in order to avoid a suit; then I will comply with your demand for $20,000.

  20. Re:Why is CP illegal? on FBI Hunt For Child Porn Thwarted By Tor · · Score: 3, Funny

    killing ... the corpse

    Well yeah, because fuck zombies.

  21. Re:Does it "stay the same" ? on DNA Modifications Change As We Age · · Score: 2

    No more adept at biology, but I read that the replication is most susceptible to errors at the ends, which is why there are chunks of non-coding DNA (telomeres) there which get shorter with each replication.

  22. Re:Quite obvious for security reasons on Why Your IT Department Needs To Staff a Hacker · · Score: 1

    You're thinking of the wrong kind of hacker.

  23. Re:Proprietary Hardware on Neal Stephenson Reinventing Computer Swordfighting, Via Kickstarter · · Score: 1

    Plus, fencing is to swordfighting as dancing is to sex. ... You usually don't cut off the other person's head or limbs in fencing.

    ... yeah well.

  24. Re:HTTP 451 on An HTTP Status Code For Censorship? · · Score: 1

    The 7xx block could be "third party error" to go with 4xx "client error" and 5xx "server error". The 706 and 707 doen't really fit in, though; and why wouldn't they assign 6xx first?

  25. Re:Exactly on An HTTP Status Code For Censorship? · · Score: 1

    450: Blocked by parents
    451: Blocked by government
    452: Blocked by employer
    453: Blocked by ISP
    454: Blocked by school
    455: Blocked by RIAA
    456: Blocked by MPAA ...