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901.
by shasta 16y ago
> Neither major US political party seems to do better than 50/50 overall I'm not sure what that even means or how you could measure it. Most political policies don't have tangible win/lose results. There are not often going to be act
902.
by shasta 16y ago
First let me complain about the rule that says I cannot reply to a direct descendant post. But I'm apparently allowed to reply to you here. Anyway, IANAL, but a google search turned up this, which looks relevant: http://www.justice.gov/c
903.
by shasta 16y ago
Google likely wanted to keep this quiet, but if they'd turned this over to the FBI, I'm sure there would have been no trouble finding laws he'd broken.
904.
by shasta 16y ago
Thanks, joke explainer. The parent version is a little more subtle, but has the same implication and is less heavy handed.
905.
by shasta 16y ago
Guns are pretty irony
906.
by shasta 16y ago
As dctoedt notes, this needn't work in general. Contracts can distinguish between corporate entities and individuals.
907.
by shasta 16y ago
With the increasing ubiquity of "online activation", the legal status of the first sale doctrine is of decreasing importance, anyway. There is a satisfying (if not practical) way to fix this problem: require that all such commercial licen
908.
by shasta 16y ago
Your math assumes that there is no per traveler cost to the airline, which seems unlikely. Extra people increase the weight (lowering fuel efficiency), slow down boarding times, drink extra soda, etc.
909.
by shasta 16y ago
Myth: GPUs are not more awesome than CPUs Status: Busted Next up: Is the taste of Cheerios really unsinkable?
910.
by shasta 16y ago
Dijkstra (eventually at least) distinguished between computer science and software engineering, about which he wrote disparaging things.
911.
by shasta 16y ago
Does anyone actually use these web based drawing tools?
912.
by shasta 16y ago
How much dirt isn't excess?
913.
by shasta 16y ago
> Were I a particularly evil warden, I could meticulously place all the boxes in the same such "jumble" after each prisoner left. That's nothing. I'd make all of the boxes too small to even see, and I'd turn out the lights. Oh, and I'
914.
by shasta 16y ago
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915.
by shasta 16y ago
Blockbuster will be thrilled to learn that they're not competing with Netflix. You should hurry up and tell them before they go out of business.
916.
by shasta 16y ago
Well, you can parameterize this strategy with an arbitrary permutation P of {1, .. 100} in the following way. If you open box containing N, instead of next opening box N, you open box P(N). If the warden's placement of numbers defines per
917.
by shasta 16y ago
It sounds like we agree - programs aren't theories. Something else is required that relates the program to the real world. Note: you could have a programming language whose semantics specify a proposed relationship to reality, just as we p
918.
by shasta 16y ago
Programming languages generally don't have semantics that include claims about the physical world.
919.
by shasta 16y ago
I think the argument being made isn't that "theories in computational form" are inferior, but rather something more pedantic - that there's no such thing as a "theory in computational form". Theories are about nature. A computer program t
920.
by shasta 16y ago
For the common case of a large rectangle with small radius corners, you can even just draw 3 rectangles and 4 ovals and have a tolerable amount of overlap.
921.
by shasta 16y ago
That's why there's statute of frauds ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_frauds )
922.
by shasta 16y ago
Well, you can add temperatures. Temperature is defined to be average kinetic energy of particles, and addition of kinetic energies is well defined. The way Google does the addition is in this sense correct - there's a reason it's called
923.
by shasta 16y ago
How is this double speak? If every state in the US had its own standard for gas pumps, and everyone traveling had to maintain a collection of nozzle adapters in their trunk, that would impede freedom of travel. Fragmentation and non-sta
924.
by shasta 16y ago
I had decided the weird indentation of bullets 5 & 7 was too small to mention - until I got to recommendation #10.
925.
by shasta 16y ago
The above is the actual first claim from the patent. Of course it's subject to interpretation in context, but that is the text of the first claim.
926.
by shasta 16y ago
Well, here's claim 1: In a computer system, a method for increasing the execution speed of virtual machine instructions, the method comprising: - inputting virtual machine instructions for a function; - compiling a portion of the function i
927.
by shasta 16y ago
Oracle may claim that Google infringes on all those patents, but they'll never sue. Patents are just a nuclear deterrent. Edit: Wow, -7 and dropping. I guess I should have included a sarcasm symbol. Spoiler: My point was that patents d
928.
by shasta 16y ago
If you want your volume buttons to stay volume buttons, I recommend not going out of your way to reprogram them. Or did you mean that you want MY volume buttons to stay volume buttons?
929.
by shasta 16y ago
Submissions in .doc format can also be immediately judged with near 100% accuracy.
930.
by shasta 16y ago
Yes, if you spend no more than 10 minutes with them daily, it stands to reason that you're not addicted or have your addition well under control. Unless you have a TV. ?

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