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Comment Including science?? (Score 1) 124

If you're going to take this thought experiment, a theoretical problem, and bring various other scientific beliefs to bear on it, like to limit the duration to a finite period due to scientists estimate of the end of the universe, then shouldn't you also include other scientific processes that are widely held?

For instance, if you believe that humans evolved from lower life forms, then wouldn't it be likely that monkeys would evolve into more intelligent beings over the millions of years as they are typing away?

Comment Re:Clownstrike is not a legitimate parody. (Score 1) 96

He's publicly documenting Crowdstrike's proprietary internal management policies and techniques. Take him down - hard!

Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see any proprietary information on the Clownstrike.lol site.

What did he specifically publish that you think is illegal or immoral?

Comment List of links to "forgotten" pages? (Score 1) 81

I see the linked "Notices received from search engines" page has several low quality screen shot images showing the Google "notice of removal from Google Search". The links can barely be made out from these images. How about actually copying and pasting the list of URLs as text? Let's crank the Streisand effect up to 11!

Comment Upverter is a dead end for your project? (Score 4, Informative) 38

It looks to me like the Upverter web site stores your design in the cloud, using their own proprietary web based tool, and you can't save or edit it on your own machine. So it Upverter's site goes down, or if they decide to make you pay for it, or they go out of business, or whatever, your design is lost! I would much prefer to use a truly open solution like gEDA or KiCAD. At least with proprietary and limited Eagle, you can save stuff locally and use it forever.

Comment The U.S. Customary system of units must die! (Score 1) 94

modern imperial system

That, sir, is an oxymoron.

I put forth a compelling argument for the United States to join the world with the International System of Units. Forward this to your friends who still think that ounces (fluid ounce or international avoirdupois ounce? British or U.S. fluid ounce? Apothecary ounce?), pints, and inches are the way to go.

Comment Title case vs. sentence case (Score 5, Interesting) 275

After giving it some thought, I have decided that "Sentence case" is superior to "Title Case" from the viewpoint of precision. By capitalizing words in headings and titles of publications (of which there are many different ways to do it!), information is lost as to whether a particular word was a proper noun or not.

Furthermore, there are words (capitonyms) that completely change meaning and possibly pronunciation depending on the capitalization. For instance, "polish your shoes" vs. "eat a Polish sausage", or "measure the mass" vs. "go to Mass".

Using title case is a lossy operation.

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