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  1. Re:honest reform = kill all patents by bloodstar · · Score: 1 · on Legislation To Overhaul US Patent System

    Millions in development costs? You seem to think that somehow that is a lot of money. Please, let me correct you on where the real costs for drug companies are.

    Think of the implications of the 100 plus million spent in lobbyists to get new bills passed. http://skeptically.org/polrec/id14.html

    Or the nearly 5 Billion spent in advertising, which averages to an average TV Viewer sitting through 30 hours of drug ads per year.http://www.wtop.com/?nid=106&sid=1117765

    While profits aren't a dirty word, your millions of dollars in development costs pales to the 8 billion plus *increase* in profits the pharmaceutical companies had in only 6 months since January 1, 2006, http://oversight.house.gov/Documents/2006091911562 3-70677.pdf (PDF Warning!)

  2. Re:Try listening to DC-area drive-time radio somet by Leebert · · Score: 1 · on Unisys Targets Just 20 Execs With Ad Campaign
    Do you really expect anyone on Slashdot to know what 'littoral' means?


    Nope. I expect people who listen to WTOP to have heard the commercials for Lockheed's littoral combat ship and thus cackle madly at my witty joke. Or maybe not. :)

    Or the Secure Border Initiative. etc. etc.
  3. It was an external harddrive by bhmit1 · · Score: 1 · on Forensic Analysis of the Stolen VA Database

    It was an external harddrive that they were searching for, and presumably found, separate from the laptop:

    http://www.wtop.com/?sid=813030&nid=25

  4. I doubt it by douglips · · Score: 1 · on General Motor's EV1 Electric Cars Scrapped

    There was a story that went around about a year ago about how the power lines for the hybrid drive went through the doors. This makes zero sense - my fuel and brake lines don't go through the doors of my standard car.

    A few days later, a correction was issued:
    http://www.wtop.com/index.php?nid=333&sid=201268

  5. Federal Law Will Stop This Abuse by the States by WryCoder · · Score: 1 · on Virginia Arrests Man For Spamming
    Kilgore said although these are the first indictments, it is likely his computer crimes unit will be busy for an extended period to come.

    The CAN Spam Law gave an unintended meaning to the word "CAN". Kilgore may have to find something else to do.

  6. This is old news... by chunkwhite86 · · Score: 2, Funny · on Convergence of Biology and Computers?

    We already know about the convergence of computing and biology. ;-)

  7. AP interview with poster printer by tadas · · Score: 1 · on Bert Is Evil
    Here's an excerpt from an AP report (swiped from DC's all-news radio station, WTOP ) in which the guy who printed the posters is interviewed:
    Mostafa Kamal, production manager of Azad Products, the Dhaka shop that made the posters, told the AP he had gotten the images off the Internet. "We did not give the pictures a second look or realize what they signified until you pointed it out to us," he said The company had printed about 2,000 posters, and they were snapped up by the demonstrators, who were angry over the U.S.-led attacks on Afghanistan. Kamal said he would leave out the controversial images from his next posters.