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Comment DRM is fine. Piracy is theft. (Score 1) 281

The basis of our economic system is our right to sell our products in the way we see fit. Thus, content providers have the right to put any DRM system they want on their products. If we don't like DRM, then we simply shouldn't buy those products.

We don't have any right to pirate content, because piracy is theft: for any pirated product in use, the creator is missing a certain amount of money.

The argument "a pirated product is not a lost sale" is a bad argument, because it is a tautology: "a lost sale is a lost sale".

Comment Re:We've all seen the pie chart. (Score 1) 246

Holding a gun to people's heads and demanding money does not make you liked.Finding what they like is tough, and getting tougher every year

So, according to you, it would be ok to get a Ferrari, ride it for as long as I like, then dump it because it did not like it after all, withouit paying a dime, right?

Comment Re:Surprised people still use... (Score 2) 192

My experience is different. I had a lot of dates with women from dating sites, and I met my wife that way. I have a kid, after 5 happy years of married life.

I think what matters is the initial approach. Many men go for an impressive opening line, but women don't really want that. My approach was very simple. My initial message was: "hi, how are you?." Most women replied back, and then the conversation started.

Comment So why everyone still uses C-style buffers? (Score 1) 165

I would have expected, in this day and age, where computers are supposed to be much more powerful than needed for the majoirty of users, that C-style management of buffers would have been a thing of the past, especially in major software like Office and browsers.

But, judging from your post, it seems that is not the case. People still use raw buffers without bounds checking.

The principle "peformance first, safety second" has not done good. The majority of problems like this come from the programming language C which does not mandate bounds-checked array access.

Comment How this doesn't contradict Relativity? (Score 1) 530

Since time is an emergent property of entanglement, and since particles can be entangled no matter what the distance is between them, then there exists a common clock for entangled particles, thus proving that the theory of Relativity is wrong, since these particles can be light years away.

If the above is not correct, then entanglement must break at the point of one of the particles exiting the light cone of an event, and after that there cannot be a common clock between them.

Comment The bacteria are like the Borg. (Score 2) 110

In TNG, Starfleet made it a regulation to alternate phaser frequences in order to fight the Borg. The Borg soon adapted to that strategy.

It would be strange for the bacteria not to adapt to the strategy of alternating antibiotics as well. It seems the bacteria have a very good pattern recognition mechanism.

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