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ryanc | 15 years ago | on: FBI seized PokerStars.com, FullTiltPoker.com, UB.com,... domain names

If you pay attention to the commas the structure of the law is:

If you do A OR B based on C

A: Deprivation of rights B: Different punishments

where C is on account of such person being an alien, or by reason of his color, or race

I removed B to make it more readable in my initial comment because you were only talking about A.

ryanc | 15 years ago | on: FBI seized PokerStars.com, FullTiltPoker.com, UB.com,... domain names

This law refers to race discrimination and isn't relevant to your argument.

Key part with lots of sub clauses removed for readability: "Whoever, under color of any law, willfully subjects any person in any State to the deprivation of any rights, on account of such person being an alien, or by reason of his color, or race, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both;"

ryanc | 15 years ago | on: IBM's Watson starts on Jeopardy Tonight

This is a significant disadvantage for some categories. For example one category from Friday was "WARE"-ING with each question containing "ware" in the response.

After typing out this comment it occurs to me that if you carefully consider each answer there is only only logical question for all the answers in this category. Although I don't have any specific examples, there are times when a question is ruled incorrect because of the category name (e.g The category called for a specific number of letters in the response).

ryanc | 15 years ago | on: The piece of paper that fooled Hitler

Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett is a great fictionalized spy novel centered around Operation Fortitude and spy catching in the UK during the second world war.

ryanc | 15 years ago | on: How to Fly 35,000 Miles, Visit 4 Continents, 9 Countries, and 15 Cities for $418

The article implies he simply used the cards to buy stuff he would buy normally which put him over the threshold dollar amount to earn the bonus miles. If this is true it's equivalent to getting the miles for free since he didn't buy anything out of the ordinary. I'm assuming he paid the cards off in full each month

ryanc | 15 years ago | on: TextCAPTCHA: 180 million simple logic questions

Not only do they follow a small number of patterns, most that involve subject matter rather than simply logic are part of a small number of categories. Almost all involve body parts, colors, names and days of the week.

ryanc | 15 years ago | on: The epic demise of Realtime Worlds, maker of Crackdown & APB

APB was a good game with a lot of potential but it was plagued by two issues. The first being a total lack of variety in regard to story content and the second being that the matchmaking system was horrible. When playing that game I was constantly paired up against people who were a much higher level effectively doing the same mission I had done a bunch of times already.

ryanc | 15 years ago | on: Tell HN: Please stop offering your services

I think Offer HN is appropriate in some situations where the offer is something particularly unique you wouldn't be able to find elsewhere on the Internet such as the Ivy League UG Application reviewer. The rest of it is offering info you could probably learn through Googling.
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