katyngate - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Have you not seen (Score 1) 312

by katyngate on Monday July 25, 2011 @08:30AM (#36869400) Attached to: Can AI Games Create Super-Intelligent Humans?

You take red blue pill and read some comics.

Comment Re:Misleading (Score 3, Interesting) 197

by katyngate on Saturday July 16, 2011 @07:18AM (#36784476) Attached to: Judge Says You Can't Know If Google Spies For NSA

How do we get all these rights as we are born?

Comment Re:Maybe they'd like us to code.. (Score 1) 84

by katyngate on Friday July 01, 2011 @05:00AM (#36631488) Attached to: Source Engine SDK To Be Free

The episodes for HL2 are essentially HL3.

Comment Re:Taxpayer Information (Score 0) 209

by katyngate on Sunday June 26, 2011 @06:34PM (#36578942) Attached to: Black Market Database Access To Scholarly Journals

undoing wrong moderation

Comment Re:Dear Winklevii (Score 1) 90

by katyngate on Saturday June 25, 2011 @11:58AM (#36568732) Attached to: Winklevoss Twins To Continue Fighting Facebook

What crime? Good for him, they just want to latch onto his good idea.

Comment Re:Serious Definitional issues... (Score 1) 79

by katyngate on Friday June 24, 2011 @04:38PM (#36559958) Attached to: Trust Is For Suckers: Lessons From the RSA Breach

The former is socially valuable, and societies become dystopian hellholes without it

why so?

Comment Re:New Books Maybe Old Books Never (Score 1) 669

by katyngate on Monday June 20, 2011 @02:19AM (#36496940) Attached to: The End of Paper Books

Just because you can't appreciate quality cinema doesn't mean books are inherently better.

Comment Re:Makes sense (Score 1) 168

by katyngate on Sunday June 19, 2011 @02:16PM (#36492172) Attached to: Online Poker Legalization Bill Coming Next Week

You don't know for certain that it's better if the money goes to the government either. Pointless discussion, true.

Comment Re:I see the golden lining (Score 1) 96

by katyngate on Sunday June 19, 2011 @02:11PM (#36492130) Attached to: High Tech Elder Care May Be Mixed Blessing

Letting the old folks live out their lives and die at home is a good thing; they'll enjoy a better quality of life and they won't be stuck with crippling medical bills.

But I'm having a little trouble figuring out how a few dozen kilobucks worth of GE and Intel stuff is going to do anything to improve their lives.

Did you even read what you wrote?

Comment Re:Makes sense (Score 1) 168

by katyngate on Sunday June 19, 2011 @01:34PM (#36491904) Attached to: Online Poker Legalization Bill Coming Next Week

I just want to point out it's hardly better if the government gets a cut.

Comment Re:Makes sense (Score 1) 168

by katyngate on Sunday June 19, 2011 @12:22PM (#36491416) Attached to: Online Poker Legalization Bill Coming Next Week

I guess the casino owners who can use that money to stimulate the economy don't mean shit.

Comment Re:Makes sense (Score 1) 168

by katyngate on Saturday June 18, 2011 @07:43PM (#36487668) Attached to: Online Poker Legalization Bill Coming Next Week

So, the money illegal casinos get is all going to be spent on terrorism, child porn and drugs?

Comment Re:They cannot possibly get it right (Score 1) 264

by katyngate on Thursday June 16, 2011 @09:20AM (#36461814) Attached to: Iceland Taps Facebook To Rewrite Its Constitution

Doesn't what you said earlier (no monopoly on police) descend into mob rule?

Comment Re:Do they have the truth about electricity? (Score 1) 119

by katyngate on Saturday June 04, 2011 @07:15PM (#36338806) Attached to: National Academies Release Over 4,000 Free Science Books

Is there anything exactly wrong in the posted jpg?

Comment Re:There is no right more personal (Score 1) 184

by katyngate on Saturday June 04, 2011 @02:55PM (#36337498) Attached to: Jack Kevorkian Dead at 83

I say my freedom (in the sense of doing what I want with my body and life) trumps the life of a person who will be pressured into suicide. Such reasoning (that some people will fall prey to something (like drugs)) is very dangerous to personal liberty.

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