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Comment Re:What are natural flavors, really? (Score 1) 163

It's possible strawberries taste like beetle wings rather than beetle wings taste like strawberries.

Many flavors you like probably evolved in response to various insects back in the primate days and earlier, back to the vole things that survived the dinosaurs.

Bacon tastes like worms, not worms like bacon. Or whatever that is. X 1000 flavors.

Comment Re: Nothing that money can't buy (Score 1) 65

In decision theory, a partitioning algorithm that guesses 100% of a population is in one group, and is right 98% of the time, is in one sense a very good algorithm. It's useless for sorting, but it is very accurate.

I am fine with assuming the vast majority of people, and their lawyers, in this type of situation are useless leeches looking to get pay-ay-aid to go away.

Comment Re:TNSTAAFL (Score 3, Insightful) 272

Do you seriously think you would have an octocore Galaxy S6 in your hand if it were all government?

Go look up a Trabby car, as governments tried to keep up with the free west. And if not for the west, they wouldn't have even bothered.

I can handle Government Should Do More types, who look to safety and safety nets and such, but your type is found exclusively in cloistered areas of the free west.

Comment EWWWW EUUUUUU (Score 1) 301

This does not stop the UK from allowing private backups and copies -- many EU states* do. This is a violation of EU regulations, where, if such copying is allowed, there must be compensation from government.

This typically takes the form of an extra blank CD or DVD tax, or tax proportional to the memory size of the device (bigger can hold more copying.) Presumably direct payments taxed some other way are also acceptable.

But sorry, welcome to...

* The United States of Europe! All mere States shall be broken to the saddle of the Federal Government. Muahahahahaha

Canada

Canadian Government Servers Compromised By Anonymous 79

An anonymous reader writes: There was a cyber-attack on Wednesday by the activist group Anonymous, aimed at the Canadian government. Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney says no personal information was compromised. Anonymous claimed responsibility for the attack in protest against the recent passing of the government's anti-terror Bill C-51. "Today, Anons around the world took a stand for your rights. Do we trade our privacy for security? Do we bow down and obey what has become totalitarian rule? Don't fool [yourselves]. The Harper regime does not listen to the people, it acts only in [its] best interests." the group wrote in an online post.

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