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Comment Re:Who will get (Score 1) 360

US Theaters pulled the plug, not Sony. I also believe there's some weird defense Alliance from some War Japan was in requiring us to do something if they're attacked. I'm all for Japan arming themselves to the teeth as long as we realize it will send South Korea, and China into a panic.

Comment Re:Hardware Security (Score 1) 89

Being able to explain that when it rains the line goes static is one thing. It's another to say every day around 3 oclock the line gets static when there is no rain. All the line tests would say the line was wet, but no indication of where, or why. Arizona doesn't really get a lot of rain ether. We found out when the customer looked out at the pedestal during one of the trouble shooting calls, and saw a kid on his way home from school peeing into pedestal. The older models are ok for rain, but if someone's deliberately spraying liquid at the doors cracks it's going to get wet inside.

Comment Re:Land of the free (Score 1) 580

I did up until the latest round. The minor nothing threats from DPRK were free advertising, and I could see some PR rep trying to capitalize on it. However, once the film was canceled that moved it out of a Sony PR guy trying to get butts in seats. It's still probably just a bunch of hackers using NK as cover.

Comment Re:Religious is better than philosophical? (Score 1) 1051

If the people claiming Philosophical objection were actually able to write up a well reason and argued case I'd personally accept their objection. However, most if not all of these case are hysterical anti-vac nutters claiming something due to mass hysteria and not a well reasoned argument.

Comment In the event I have to prove my innocents (Score 1) 99

I don't like the Guilty Until Proven Innocent mentality. However, since some people are insistent on doing away with the basics of our legal system I do like the fact that my Wii FitMeter could be used to prove my general whereabouts since it records altitude information thought the day. I can easily see in my daily logs when I come home, and leave for work because there are substantial hills on the path. I'm fairly confident that between my phone and FitMeter I could prove my whereabouts with absolute certainty. Since I'm also pinned in a IT room in the back with only one other coworker who doesn't come in till 10, and leaves at 3ish I wouldn't have a provable alibi between 8 to 10 and 3 to 5 without my devices. I don't like having to do that, but since some people insist on Guilty Until Proven Innocent I'm happy that my devices do this.

Comment Re:What service, exactly, is Nielsen providing? (Score 3, Interesting) 55

Yes, but not given publicly. This is so that shows can use the ratings as leverage in negotiating contracts with Netflix. Which is also why netflix doesn't release the data publicly. They don't want some show figuruing out that half the netflix audiance watches the same program every time it's pushed out. They might think they have an angle and try to get more money out of netflix, or more money out of one of their competitors by offering and exclusive deal. Like Downton Abbey giving exclusive rights to Amazon because they needed something to get people to watch Amazon over Hulu.

Comment Re:Bad Headline as Usual (Score 2, Interesting) 335

That's how you read it? I read it as if you create a robot that tries to evaluate weather or not it should kill someone based on ethics the program will never complete. You can certainly make one that can always kill what you tell it to, but not one that can choose whether or not a given human is a rebel to be shot on site, or a human that is apart of the new world order. However, I'm more likely to have it kill all humans not holding an IFF tag.

Comment Re:Another 15 minutes (Score 1) 716

Shall I include the Middle Ages Murder rates as well? London 14th Century Murder Rate of 52 per 100k. Higher murder rate than every single war torn African country. Higher than ever Aisan Country, Higher than every country on the planet except for Honduras, and Jamaica with they're 60 per 100k. I could come up with some pretty raciest Erroneous conclusions with that too, but I'll let your mind fill them in for you.

Comment Re:Another 15 minutes (Score 4, Insightful) 716

Just try and convince me humans have not already crossed the same threshold.

In 1995 the Murder rate in the US was 8.2 per 100k with a population of around 260 million. In 2012 the Murder rate in the US was 4.7 per 100k with a population of around 313 million. In 1980 the rate was 10.2 with a population of 225 million. Shall I now correlate internet usage with troll activity, and erroneously conclude that internet trolling reduces the murder rate? Or should I conclude the Humans are the opposite of rats, and they become calmer in over populated situations? Also Erroneous.

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