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Comment Re:Waiting for this... (Score 1) 154

Nissan UK at a trade show demoed this tech in 2013, so I'm guessing they're mentioning this again for PR purposes. It's not a technology breakthrough or anything like that. That said, the UK trade show was probably a simplistic case (afaik they only had a few things plugged into it), so there are probably complicated scenarios for production use.

Comment Re:Lying about lying (Score 1) 157

You've got the timeline wrong. Joe Biden made his action a year after Biden's Son's investigation had been shelved.

President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer is raising the specter that Joe Biden intervened in Ukrainian politics to help his son’s business.

But if that was Biden’s aim, he was more than a year late, based on a timeline laid out by a former Ukrainian official and in Ukrainian documents.

https://news.yahoo.com/timelin...

Comment Re:There was an Amiga based game console... (Score 3, Interesting) 221

The CD32 sold for about 9 months and due to a trademark dispute they couldn't sell it in the United States.

Most games were ported from the A1200 (disk-based) but with a CD soundtrack or maybe some FMV, but the software was essentially the same.

So the CD32 never really had enough time to become its own system, and Commodore was already dead in the water at the launch time of the CD32 so publishers largely stayed away. The A1200 was really the last Amiga with its own software.

People into Amiga should really check out YouTube as there are a lot of interesting channels there like Kim Justice with her history of the platform...and Retro Recipes.

Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft caught with hand in cookie jar (nzoss.org.nz) 1

dlane writes: "Representatives of the NZ Open Source Society have successfully opposed a Microsoft software patent application related to XML use in representing productivity data. This was a very broad patent, found subject to prior art: i.e. a very low quality patent that shouldn't have been submitted much less granted. As it was, it took the NZOSS members and their legal team 8 years to get MS to abandon the application.

This isn't the first time they've tried this: another bad application (http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/F68C4D35A4AE5DD5CC257038000F4A24) was submitted to NZ's patent office although it had been disallowed in other jurisdictions (including US) due to prior art. NZOSS representatives challenged the application and were able to force MS to change the wording to the point where it was no longer seen as a threat to developers.

Whenever Microsoft claims support for "improved quality patents" realise that what they mean is "other people's patents". Feel free to highlight their hypocrisy."

Comment Re:What scientists... (Score 1) 726

A lack in knowledge does not point to Irreducible Complexity. A lack of an explanation doesn't point to Irreducible Complexity. It's simply an unknown. Trying to say that an unknown means Irreducible Complexity is all in the imagination.

How does evolution explain a four chambered heart?

A possible explanation is 3 to 4 chamber heart.

Whole organs systems can not be formed by random mutation, and they don't work without the entire system.

Behe's previous failed proposal, the bacterial flagellum, was a type III secretory system before it was a bacterial flagellum. It was a different thing entirely. Whole organs can evolve separately and then join to take on new roles as the above link proposes.

Evolution can explain one step at a time changes, but some changes have to come in sets or they never work. Evolution will never explain that.

Modern evolutionary theory already explains that and -- wait for it -- there are already lab tests by Professor Lenski where sets of changes occurred via evolution. Do remember that Behe disgraced himself in court and this was obvious to everyone.

Software

Submission + - Software Patents in New Zealand Dead. Again. (computerworld.co.nz)

Hairy1 writes: Wellington, New Zealand. Minister of Commerce Simon Power confirms that software will be included as an exception to the Patent Bill currently before Parliament. After the initial announcement made earlier this year that software patents would be excluded from patentability significant pressure was applied by "NZICT", an organisation representing the major multinational IT vendors. After a meeting with NZICT on June 9 the Minister initially appeared to change course, saying that a modification may be made and raising fears that behind the scenes lobbying had derailed the transparent Select Committee process. Those fears are now quiet after the Minister confirmed that the Bill would be adopted by Parliament as recommended by the Select Committee.

Comment Re:Peter Wayner (Score 3, Insightful) 256

Because the hypertext transfer protocol was designed to transfer hypertext documents. It was not designed to be a remote application protocol.

Irrelevant. If it can be evolved to work well enough for people then it is suitable. The Type-III Secretory Gland evolved into the Bacterium Flagellum without any design, but it happened to work well enough to survive and so it did.

Design helps cause effects but it doesn't prevent useful side-effects.

Comment Re:"Faith Science Basis?" (Score 1) 714

I see it as all fitting together, really quite neatly, something that the suposed randomness of evolution doesnt really explain

Evolution isn't (just) random, it's also natural selection. It's a myth that Evolution is random. This means that when there's a niche (Eg, a food that no one else is eating) then a creature whose DNA/RNA mutates and is able to use that niche will thrive and have more children than one that doesn't. Evolution is perfectly compatible with everything fitting together.

Comment Re:Moving to other ISPs (Score 1) 54

Doesn't mean much when your choices are the local cable monopoly or the local telco monopoly. It just makes three strikes into six.

Incorrect. As far as I know the proposed law doesn't say that you can't sign up at the same ISP again. Effectively internet termination is more akin to the fine where you'd inconvenienced by the reconnection cost and the time without internet.

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