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It always amazes me how autistic computer scientists are. But nice article.

the story is nice. But really? You had to read several times a two sentences e-mail to extract some "deep meaning" out of it? Get a grip. Steve Jobs is Apple's CEO, he is not Yoda.

It's obvious that sports evolve. I think my overall feeling about this is that soccer IS evolving. Just not in that particular direction you and many others seem to want (i.e., more clear less-subjective rules, cameras, etc...).

1,3. is already true. There is post-morten review, we do see red-cards being cancelled and players being suspended all the time.

4. It is like this already. FIFA rules says that "when in doubt, favor the offense".

5. There has been some national championships with 2 field referees, it didn't noticeably improve the quality of the calls. FIFA allows rule experimentation from time to time on national fields. We've seen "blue cards" (where players must be replaced by others) for instance, two referees, etc... sometimes those rules end up in the official set: referees telling how many extra minutes of play was one of those experiments.

6. They do. English is spoken among all referees in a world cup game, except when all referees share the same nationality.

7. There are recognizable hand signals for all calls, but not for all rationales which would be impossible.

8. I have no clue what you mean by this suggestion. Just wanted to point out that it includes "discretionary power to the referee" while rule 2 suggested that this is "anarchy".

9. What happened to rule 9? Well, I want to use this opportunity to make a point that your comment (as most of comments suggesting new rules) seems to be sincerely trying to create a better game. But this game is just not soccer.

10. Players are not allowed to return immediately and they do must wait for the referees approval.

Regarding your 1st point, I think the different shades of black on the map reflect the density. Even though we still don't know what a 'light grey' or 'black' looks like in practice.

Well, when you consider BMW cars as "mobile" devices, BMW generates more revenue from mobile hardware than any other company in the world. C'mon, MacBooks as mobile devices? And only comparing with real mobile-only sales?

Also, the tone of the article sounds even a bit religious: "This is something they want us to notice". Looks like one of those apocalypse cults after their expected end-of-the-world day blew off: a bit disappointed but they keep looking for a sign, because there must be one.

Regarding your second point, it is obvious to me that it is related to the bit color issue. I was trying to make a similar point to yours, but maybe I failed. Let me try again: I don't think that making this rationale of "oh, it becomes a number therefore it can't be owned" is a proper argument. Exactly because anything can become a number and we do acknowledge properties to things (like a text of a book) that would be ridiculous for a pure number to have.

My point was that even though the "just a number" argument is bad, there are other points to be made on the stupidity of this particular protection.

I think the real issue is that in the case of prime numbers made "illegal/protected", the absurd is not that they are protected, but that they are not encoding any meaningful information that a human being produced. They are a particular number (probably randomly generated) and the fact that they are used in a particular context (to encrypt data) makes them protected.

If local network admins upgraded to the latest and greatest IE8/9 we would still be in the same horse shit regarding IE not following web standards. We would be free of "IE6 doesn't have a fucking clue about the box model". But we would be at "IE8 doesn't support canvas (or proper event bubble)".

Microsoft has been using this "network admins don't upgrade from IE6" for too long as an excuse for the mess they keep putting web standards into.

A proper solution for Microsoft now would be to completely ditch IE backend and use one of the current available libraries like webkit. And put in place a IE frontend that can have IE6/7/8 tabs and a proper browser (defaulting to a proper browser). Any other move coming from Microsoft is either PR or evilness.

What sort of comment is that? One could create a quote like that about virtually anything in the world.

The article as a whole seems pretty bad. Looks like the author was looking for a reality to support his thesis...

You'd probably do something like: let n - m = ( n + (-m) ) `mod` 6

'let 3 - 4 = 5' is just a non-sense example.

I think Haskell is a very nice language and it's flexibility on definitions is very cool, but I don't think this is a good example of it.

"1 petabyte is a lot of data". Oh rly?