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Comment Entitled Intelligence (Score 1) 492

Actually, as much as I hate to admit it, from my experience, Intelligence is more of an entitlement then beauty or knowledge. While a person with ugly genes can be made more beautiful with surgery, makeup, exercise, proper lighting, paper bags, etc... a dumb person is pretty much stuck that way. They can increase their Knowledge (capital K), and through lots of hard work and application of that knowledge show improved reasoning... but I think the variable factor here is much smaller.

Given:
(Max Nurturable Beauty) / (Natural Beauty) = (Beauty affectability)
(Max Nurturable Intelligence) / (Natural Intelligence) = (Intelligence affectablity)

It's been my experience that:
(Beauty affectability) > (Intelligence affectability)

Which can be summarized as:

Can't fight dumb.

Comment Re:Absolutely not (Score 1) 375

I think the key here (and likely what Apple plans to do), is to avoid having the honey pot in the first place. The iCloud service has no need beyond the original matching to keep a record of what Hash was used by which user to get which legal version of what music file. By not retaining any personally identifying information (beyond what legitimate songs a user is entitled too)... Apple could truthfully and fully comply with any subpoena without giving away anything.

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