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Comment Re:Families (Score 1) 218

I can't quote directly as my phone is playing up, but is the evidence really that clear cut? I found three studies that claimed the opposite: famous controversial one from the 80s, a Canadian one from the 90s and a later American one. I also remember that when we were finding a place for our child there were specific guidelines limiting hours per week at different ages to prevent developmental problems.

Comment Re: SimCity 2000 available for free (Score 1) 393

If I was would that provide a connection between your comment and mine?
If I was not would that provide a connection between your comment and mine?

Is the issue of origin taking information without asking for it related to my comment in any way, or was it specifically about the previous poster doing exactly the thing that he claimed was wrong?

Comment Re:Rewriting history to favor India/Arabs? (Score 1) 187

Sounds kind of strange - America is not the only country in the west and as a brit I learned that the basic concepts of algorithms and algebra were invented in the arab world, although the actual forms that we use today were developed in the 19th century. The eastern front was where nazis were sent to die (from the historical documentry Allo Allo probably), and stirrups came west with the Mongols who used them as a decisive military advantage.

So you could equally conclude that American education is uniquely crap in the western world.

Comment Re:Ya, Sure. (Score 1) 303

The program knows your name.
The program stores your name.

Anthropomorphification is not much terser. However it is wrong - the intentional form implies many things that are not true. The non-intentional form indicates that the program works with a copy of the information. The difference between the two is where most bugs live.

Comment Re:Because it doesn't work? (Score 1) 130

So you mean that they would need some way to stop people from seeing the reports that the torrent is fake?

Kind of like there would be some good content (accurate comments) and they would need to hide it somehow, maybe using some bad content.

Hmmm...... perhaps this is already a solve (non-)problem. We should get the astroturfers on it right away!

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