is not to compute its result, it is to show how much we do/don't know.

We're slowly, or quickly depending on your outlook, filling in the gaps. We now have enough data on extrasolar planets to do statistical extrapolations.

In the next decade or two, we will have telescopes nearly large enough to do spectroscopic analysis of the atmosphere of nearby extrasolar planets. In particular we will be able to see if they have significant dioxygen, which can only happen as a result of life as far as we know. That will remove another unknown value.

Advances in neurology and evolutionary biology will begin to highlight how likely it is for intelligence to evolve.

Since almost all major publishers use DRM, it's a fair bet they are. Yet they are pirated. How would removing the DRM make any fucking difference?

... has not been a radical party for over a century. It's /always/ been to the right of the Socialists.

That you should stone your wife if she wears clothes made of two different fibers.

Why anyone would ascribe any authority to it, I've never understood.

I'm sure Nambla's chairman could (and probably has) come up with a nicely worded defense of pedophilia. It would be marginally more offensive than this trite, but both just as convincing and moral as this piece of shit.

He learned a french language that's closer to France's than Quebec's.

CDMA as a multiplexing technology is superior to TDMA.

CDMA is not superior to GSM, which happens to use TDMA.

Saying that compression uses the regular "non-sparse" algorithm is rather meaningless; they use what is available, and I don't believe there was a sparse-optimized algo until now.

As usual with Oracle, the patch will be a 4GB download. Considering how much they charge for that junk, it's amazing those morons haven't figured out how to just simply use rpm/yum or apt.

Here in France direct transfer is actually safer in that respect than CC, because chargebacks are even easier to obtain (IIRC a mere phone call as opposed to written complaint, and a longer grace period). This is mostly because creditor-issued transfers have stringent specs, it's open only to established businesses (utilities mainly), and if they don't respect the charter (i.e. delay in chargebacks, abnormally large amounts ...) their authorization can be pulled in a matter of days.

etc.

I used to work in the payment card industry, McD was one of our clients, and I was told that they paid on the order of a few cents or maybe a dozen at most per trx. Might be higher for card not present, not sure.

gfy

You use fresh water in a closed circuit for steam, and you cool _that_ with seawater.

But you're making me change my mind.