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Comment Sed pecunia non olet ? (Score 3, Interesting) 79

the smell of money in the afternoon

But... money has no smell !??
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Searching for the translation for the french "L'argent n'a pas d'odeur", it seems the english equivalent has no widespread use? Anyway, I just learned that the expression dates back from almost two thousand years ago.
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For the curious here are the google results:
"l'argent n'a pas d'odeur": About 1,540,000 results (0.21 seconds)
"money has no smell": About 17,000 results (0.22 seconds)
"money doesn't stink": About 155,000 results (0.12 seconds)

Comment Re:False choice society (Score 2) 388

I don't think that represents the mentality of society as a whole. Just the media, because their financial incentive is to lock in an audience by tailoring their message.

It is the society as a whole. Well, 90% to 95% of it. You and and your friends are probably educated people with critical thinking, but you're only a tiny part of "society".

You have to consider that:
_ even educated people can be subject to echo chamber, with the result of being wrong in good faith;
_ some educated people are being wilfully deceptive, because they have some personal interest in doing so;
_ media are propaganda. Most people don't go out of their way to check sources. What the media as a whole is saying, is what the society is saying, and the feedback loop (through the audience / financial incentives) ensures that this works consistently.
_ if you don't notice debate polarization in the population as a whole, it probably means that they just don't really care.

Comment Re:The Problem (Score 1) 332

No, the cat is wrong. He claimed there will be zero, merely because they are being lost. That is mathematically incorrect.

No, you're wrong.

Your math is only correct if the considered quantity is a real number. However bitcoins are a fixed-point number (an integer number of satoshis). Therefore, at some point the last satoshi will be lost.

Comment Re:Does it matter? (Score 1) 380

Aren't false scotsmen the worse true scotsmen haters ?
Or are they just a bunch of true scotsmen fanboys haters and true scotsmen haters fanboys ? In which case, they're also in the same group as true scotsmen fanboys fanboys and true scotsmen haters haters, and I say: Ban them too !

Comment Re:Does it matter? (Score 5, Insightful) 380

Apple fanboys and Apple haters should be banned from slashdot. They have this illusion that they are two separate groups of people. The fact is that they are a single bunch of idiots.

Android fanboys and android haters should be banned from slashdot. They have this illusion that they are two separate groups of people. The fact is that they are a single bunch of idiots.
Microsoft fanboys and microsoft haters should be banned from slashdot. They have this illusion that they are two separate groups of people. The fact is that they are a single bunch of idiots.
Vi fanboys and vi haters should be banned from slashdot. They have this illusion that they are two separate groups of people. The fact is that they are a single bunch of idiots.
Emacs fanboys and Emacs haters should be banned from slashdot. They have this illusion that they are two separate groups of people. The fact is that they are a single bunch of idiots.
Bitcoin fanboys and bitcoin haters should be banned from slashdot. They have this illusion that they are two separate groups of people. The fact is that they are a single bunch of idiots.
True scotmen fanboys and true scotmen haters should be banned from slashdot. They have this illusion that they are two separate groups of people. The fact is that they are a single bunch of idiots.

Who's left ? :)

Comment Re:False (Score 1) 4

There are some dogs, that appear to poop while aligned with the N-S magnetic poles some of the time.

Also, the abstract mentions that "the [magnetic field] is calm in only about 20 % of the daylight period" which "might provide an explanation why many magnetoreception experiments were hardly replicable and why directional values of records in diverse observations are frequently compromised by scatter".

Submission + - Online puzzle has world's codebreakers baffled (irishexaminer.com)

cold fjord writes: The Irish Examiner reports, "In Jan 2012, an image appeared on ... 4chan that set the world’s best codebreakers ... to solve a highly complex and sophisticated puzzle. It was posted by a shadowy organisation ... Cicada 3301. The image of plain white text on a black background looked deceptively simple. It read: “Hello. We are looking for highly intelligent individuals. To find them, we have devised a test. There is a message hidden in this image. Find it, and it will lead you on the road to finding us. ... The hidden message in this case turned out to be a JPEG image file. Those puzzle solvers who succeeded in breaking the code to alter the image were initially disappointed, being rewarded with ... a picture of a rubber duck, and a message that read: “Woops, just decoys this way. Looks like you can’t guess how to get the message out.” ... Joel Eriksson, a 34-year-old computer analyst ... ran the duck’s teasing message through ... an encryption program, and discovered another hidden message ... Like peeling an onion, this led to more messages and clues that mutated hourly, ... a new riddle based on Mayan numerals. By this stage, Eriksson was hooked. ... Like Alice Through the Looking Glass ... cryptographers delved deeper ... discovering more clues ... GPS co-ordinates for locations in Warsaw, Paris, Seattle, Seoul, Arizona, California, New Orleans, Miami, Hawaii and Sydney. Amateur sleuths discovered lo-tech posters pasted to lamp posts in each location, all bearing a QR bar code ... When scanned ... the bar codes led to yet another web address. If nothing else it proved that this was the product of a well-funded global organisation of brilliant people on a quest.

Comment Re:Low Q? (Score 1) 366

Well, your nickname suggests that you might speak swedish, so it would make my previous comment not that funny for you :) Is this an issue of mistranslation, or did you miss the relevant parts ?
In the court ruling, the relevant part seems to be pages 33-34/41, and here are excerpts (and I guess it answers my question):

(All translations are by Google translate, corrected for a few obvious mistakes, including typos in the swedish text)

Ersättning för annan skada
[...]
Marknadsstörningen har värderats till 500 000 kr.

Damages for harm
[...]
Market disruption has been valued at SEK 500 000.

Skada på filmens anseende
Omdömet av en film påverkas tydligt av den tekniska kvalitet, ljud och bild, som den visas i. En film tillgängliggörs först i de sammanhang de tekniska förutsättningarna är bäst, bio eller dvd/bluray och därefter tv och lagliga nedladdningstjänster. Att se en illegalt nedladdad film, ofta på datorskärm med väsentligt lägre upplösning än dvd/bluray och med undermåligt ljud, försämrar filmupplevelsen betydligt. Den som har sett någon av de illegalt nedladdade filmerna far typiskt sett en sämre filmupplevelse än den som har sett originalet och detta påverkar de omdömen som skrivs på internetforum av dem som har sett de illegala filmerna. Dessa omdömen sprids mycket snabbt på internet och far ett stort genomslag. Sammantaget innebär detta en skada på filmens anseende. Denna skada har värderats till 300 000 kr.

Damage to the film's reputation
Reviewed by a film greatly affected by the technical quality of sound and image, as it appears in. A movie is made available first in the context of the technical conditions are best , cinema or dvd / bluray and then television and legal download services . Seeing an illegally downloaded movie , often at the computer screen with significantly lower resolution than the dvd / bluray and with substandard sound, impairs movie experience significantly. Anyone who has seen any of the illegally downloaded movies father typically a worse movie experience than those who have seen the original and this affects the ratings given on internet forums of those who have seen the illegal films . These reviews are spread very quickly on the internet and father a big impact. All this means an injury to the film's reputation. This damage is valued at SEK 300 000.

Ideell skada
Att ett filmverk olagligt tillgängliggörs på ett sätt och i en form som helt strider mot skaparnas och rättighetshavaraas vision innebär en ideell skada. Denna har värderats till 50 000 kr.

Material damage
A film being illegally made available in a manner and in a form that is completely contrary to the creators and rightholders vision implies a moral damage. This is valued at SEK 50 000.

Comment Re:Low Q? (Score 5, Funny) 366

What part of:

I fallet med Beck-filmen beräknas skadeståndet bland annat på kostnaden för att licensiera filmen, på att delningen slagit mot försäljningen och för att den delade filmens kvalitet försämrat filmens rykte.

can't you understand ? :)

In preview mode, UTF-8 codes for å, ä and ö are displayed correctly. I used HTML entities in this note.

Comment Godwin? (Score 1) 698

The essential American leadership secret does not depend on particular intelligence. Rather, it depends on a remarkably stupid thick-headedness. The American follow the principle that when one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it. They keep up their lies, even at the risk of looking ridiculous.

[...] and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously.

Source (yes, I replaced "English" by "American")

See also noble lie.

Comment Re:Deluded ... (Score 1) 376

You should read the correspondence of the founding fathers.

Well, there's a lot of it :) Do you have (links to) specific documents that you think are explicit?

They spell out very explicitly that the right to bear arms applies to individuals,

Is the "individual" explicitly distinguished from a mobilisable citizen / reservist?

The "militia" includes all able bodied men between the ages of 18 and 40, not just members of an established militia.

Which basically is what the Swiss army is, right ? Civilians with a military training than can be gathered / mobilized quickly when in need. If feel that he "established" distinction is only meaningful in the context of a modern state / army (as an example London police was established in 1829, replacing a "disorganized system of parish constables and watchmen").

and that the purpose of that right is to curb an oppressive government.

My understanding is that the opposition is between states militias and federal standing army, not between civilians and either form of government. From Wikipedia, the amendment was basically written to please the anti-federalists.

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