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  1. Re:Question for /.: does timothy work for Google P on Can Android Revolutionize Spacecraft Design? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps reality has a Google bias. :)

  2. Re:Not what he meant by virtual: on Why Mars Is Not the Limit For Human Space Flight · · Score: 1

    posting to undo typo-mod

  3. Re:Apple stifling innovation in lawsuit on Victory For Apple In "Patent Trial of the Century," To the Tune of $1 Billion · · Score: 1

    I didn't realize Apple existed in the late 1950s. Granted they might have made it work better than it was then, but it's certainly not an innovation.

  4. Re:Fair's fair on Should Developers Be Sued For Security Holes? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps if they they were uneducated in the class and got an A regardless, or the paper containing flaws was given a good grade.

  5. Re:For "sloppy coding"? Definitely! on Should Developers Be Sued For Security Holes? · · Score: 1

    This process would change once companies started to get sued.

  6. Re:Stealing $30, Paying $675,000.... on New Judge Assigned To Tenenbaum Case Upholds $675k Verdict · · Score: 1

    If it's an unlimited license cost, he should be able to distribute/seed those files indefinitely now.

  7. Re:Who cares on New Judge Assigned To Tenenbaum Case Upholds $675k Verdict · · Score: 1

    Baloney. Jokes are still good, and they aren't protected by copyrights.

  8. Re:seriously? on Booted From Airplane For Wearing Anti-TSA T-shirt · · Score: 1

    M'eh. I've gone from store to store on purpose when this happens. It's fun.

  9. Re:Gizmodo has been banned for life from Apple eve on The Worst Apple Store In America — An Employee Confession · · Score: 2

    The cell plans from the big guys, internet, and gas are higher but natural food (not cookies, crackers) and prescriptions tend to be a lot cheaper. If you`re a resident, certainly you don`t have to pay for the doctors or hospitals. Stuff that is handled by the state (such as car insurance) tended to be cheaper when I lived there.

  10. Re:Genetically modified how? on California Wants Genetically Modified Foods To Be Labelled · · Score: 1

    200+ years of cross breeding combined with public scrutiny of the long term effects. It's not just GM foods, but many people have wanted to be cautious with new things that haven't been around for a generation or two for us to know the long term effects. Popular opposition to wi-fi, cell phones, and telephone poles are other examples. There are certainly historical examples of where the worry was warranted, such as radiation.

    Sudden genetic changes in a biosphere adds stress, like any sudden change such as disaster. GM does this far quicker than 200+ years of breeding, which gives time for slower evolving species to adapt.

  11. Re:Undesired Side-Effects on California Wants Genetically Modified Foods To Be Labelled · · Score: 1

    Why would the US consumer buying GM crops stop it from being exported now? It would certainly cause the price to change but I don't see why GM companies would not be selling GM overseas only because there is a local market. What stops them from selling overseas to some countries is because those countries don't want GM foods.

  12. Re:This seems unwise on Hackers Hack Handcuffs at H.O.P.E. (Video) · · Score: 1

    HOPE's been around a lot longer than OWS.

  13. Re:I visited the National Ignition Facility this y on Paul Ryan's Record On Science and Government · · Score: 1

    2nd law of thermonomics

  14. Re:Good luck with that! on Hacked BitCoin Exchange Sued By Customers · · Score: 1

    It's already been done.
    http://chemistry.about.com/cs/generalchemistry/a/aa050601a.htm
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_transmutation

    The costs are too exorbitant today, but fusion should change that.

  15. Re:What is a search engine? on Google To Start Punishing Pirate Sites In Search Results · · Score: 1

    Id actually go for this. I think what they should do is let the users select certain options that they want to use as factors for deranking. Spelling, slow load times, too many big words, etc. I don't think it would work for lowering the ranks of pirate sites though.

  16. Re:And in countries where it's legal? on Bitcoin-Based Drug Market Silk Road Thriving With $2 Million In Monthly Sales · · Score: 2

    Just to pick on your math, your formula is wrong. It should be X * (N + 1)

  17. Re:And in countries where it's legal? on Bitcoin-Based Drug Market Silk Road Thriving With $2 Million In Monthly Sales · · Score: 1

    Ok, so the smoking person costs the govt. less than someone who gets to live to an old age. However, the person that lives longer probably pays more taxes through a longer lifespan. That bbc link doesn't go into productivity of a person, just how much their medical bills cost.

  18. Re:The Answer for $5M on University Receives $5 Million Grant To Study Immortality · · Score: 1

    One of the issues I remember reading about was from Roger Penrose where he laid out a Goedelian proof demonstrating a limit of a turing machine. It was a proof that a human could understand, but the proof itself demonstrated its unknowability by a turing machine, which would be limited to mathematical logic. He argued that since all of known physics can be theoretically modeled on a computer, that the human brain must be using something outside of _known_ physics and there is still more to discover, something that allows the brain to do things related to noncomputability.

    The argument was posed first in "The Emperor's New Mind" and later in "Shadows of the Mind".
    http://www.calculemus.org/MathUniversalis/NS/10/01penrose.html

  19. Re:Bots run by who? on Company Claims 80% of Facebook Ad Clicks Are From Bots · · Score: 1

    Competitors of the company who's ads are clicked. People that have shorted said company's stock. Facebook itself (which it seems you're already acknowledging).

  20. Re:One day it might actually sink in on Company Claims 80% of Facebook Ad Clicks Are From Bots · · Score: 1

    > but I would have to consider just what content I'd put up.

    And the web would be a better place. I assume there is less of that going around in general.

  21. Re:WTF Apple?!? on Company Claims 80% of Facebook Ad Clicks Are From Bots · · Score: 1

    He's probably referring to your .sig. You responded to an AC who posted pr0n.

  22. Re:The next question is... on Political Ideology Shapes How People Perceive Temperature · · Score: 3, Funny

    When it's the only person that responds, then it is 100% of your data. :)

  23. Re:France has a problem on Man Physically Assaulted At McDonald's For Wearing Digital Eye Glasses · · Score: 1

    I would have to agree that a great part of the problem is that new immigrants anywhere prefer to live with earlier immigrants of their own culture even if conditions are horrible in that location. It just compounds the issue that things are usually harder for immigrants anyways, as they are unfamiliar with the systems already in place in the country they have moved to. But humans prefer the familiar rather than the strange, and just make things harder for themselves in this case.

  24. Re:No, it'll just be an OPTION on Will Speed Limits Inhibit Autonomous Car Adoption? · · Score: 1

    In an autonomous system, where cars speak to each other, even manual mode may not require traffic lights. The traffic light signal could be built into the dashboard and communicated with electronically.

  25. Re:Nope. on Is Our Infrastructure Ready For Rising Temperatures? · · Score: 1

    Sorry to nitpick, but -3 and +6 don't average to +3.