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Comment Re:Better be for Windows 7 (Score -1) 127

It was necessary evil to be able to publish new video driver model architecture with neat features, get over it.

LOL!

People managed to make DX10 run on XP without official support from MS/NVIDIA/AMD: https://www.google.es/search?q...

Later on...guess what? Microsoft decided to allow DX11 to run as well: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us...

There's no relation between an operating system and the feature set exposed by the video driver. It's just another API.

Comment Re:How does evolution work like this? (Score 2) 431

Different species can often interbreed:

Horses/donkeys
Lions/Tigers
etc.

The offspring aren't always sterile, either. Mules are usually sterile but ligers can often be fertile: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Bengal cats are an artificially created crossbreed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The original ("rather stupid") answer assumed the parent was simply a troll who was trying a variant of the creationist's "Irreducible complexity" argument.

Comment Re: If you don't like it.... (Score 1) 431

What if the children are homosexuals and their parents believe that all homosexuals should be stoned to death?

Who should we think of, the children or the parents? Who is the future?

Is it acceptable for a third party to tell the kids that homosexuality is part of being human and that their parents are religious bigots?

Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 465

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If Apple can't plan for a common contingency like this in their security model, then they shouldn't choose to be in control of other people's property.

They HAVE planned for it (duh!)

Their plan was to require a court order, ie. a judge looks at their paperwork and signs off on it as "genuine".

Comment Re:If you don't like it.... (Score 1) 431

What's makes that difference from 17 years, 364 days of age to 18 years of age so magical that it changes the rules completely 180 degrees?

Nothing (duh!)

That's why I said "a bit arbitrary" above.

In some cultures a boy has to do something worthy for his people to consider him a man. Others have special rites of passage that a boy has to complete (hunt/kill a wildebeest). Street gangs have their initiation ceremonies (kill a member of another gang). etc.

In our society we chose "number of days since they popped out of their mother". Not the best way? I agree. Don't like it? Go and join one of those others.

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