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  1. Re:An important part of the ruling on Federal Judge Rules Against Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    I don't understand what you're saying. Its no different then if I left my door open with a sign saying welcome and a pile of CDs and CDburner inside. As long as you brought your own blanks and you're not breaking'n'entering its perfectly legal for you to make copies.
    No advertising, you looked thru my pile of CDs and found something you liked.
    I didn't authorize you to copy it, just gave you the means.
    To me it seems the judge made the right decision even if you don't agree with it.

  2. Re:and wow- what the alternatives have wrought on Telcos Propose 2-Tier Internet · · Score: 1

    Sounds like they made more then one mistake. 150 minutes for 1.06 gives just over .7 cents a minute.
    I just got my phone bill, since privatation it has doubled. Call display now $7.95. One long distance call, pretty cheap until I noticed the $4.95 long distance administrative charge which seems to be pretty new.

  3. Re:The crime is in getting caught... on Barcode Scam Redux - Target's $4.99 iPod · · Score: 1

    Actually here in Canada it seems to be legal to make employees pay for stolen property. eg gas station employees often have to pay for stolen gas though after that kid got dragged to death (http://newsbc.ca/index.php?title=maple_ridge_arre sts_in_gas_station_fatal&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 )the gas companies are backing away from this practice

  4. Re:Forgetting the most basic right: property[OT] on The Grateful Dead vs. Archive.org · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The illeagalization of hemp was protested by the AMA, at that the only ones who showed up at congress to argue the illegalization of hemp were doctors.
    The main reasons for making hemp illegal was that it threatened industry. Hearst was bringing pulp wood paper out and hemp threatened the pulpwood paper industry by producing more paper per acre and also higher quality paper.
    Dupont was branching out from being mostly a pure military supplier and hemp fiber threatened their new product called nylon (also rayon).
    Hemp seed oil competed with the oil industry.
    Also there was a lot of unemployed G-men after prohibition ended who needed a new job.

  5. Re:Put up or... on Diebold Threatens to Pull Out of North Carolina · · Score: 1

    Socialism doesn't work. The USSR, Mao's China, Castro's Cuba, Kim's North Korea. Does any of that ring a bell?
    Sure, the USSR went from very poor to space fairing in 40 yrs. China did the same in 50+ years. Cuba managed to give all its people shoes, healthcare and the freedom to walk down the street at night. Don't know much about Kim's Korea.
    This seems pretty successfull. Can't think of to many countries that have so successfully pulled themselves out of such lows as Czarist Russia, Imperial China, and preCastrol Cuba. I'd say that Socialism has worked very well in giving citizens of the above countries a much better life.
    There biggest problem seems to be the state not knowing when to fade away.

  6. Re:Tea Party? on The Demise of IP? · · Score: 1

    MS already has readers for it's office documents that are free thus it has NOTHING to do with accessability.

    Windows costs about $200 here. Sure doesn't seem free to me. Or perhaps you mean they have free readers compiled for other OSes besides Windows hiding somewhere?

  7. Re:Not Quite on Truckers Choose Hydrogen Power · · Score: 1

    Various forms of nitrous oxides from atmosperic nitrogen getting burnt in the very hot combustion. Some OH from incomplete hydrogen combustion and various hydrocarbons from whatever oil leaks past the rings.

  8. Re:need more slave labor on Stiffer Penalties for Copyright Violations · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Also has the benefit of making sure those evil pirates can never vote.

  9. Re:It seems to me ... on Stiffer Penalties for Copyright Violations · · Score: 1

    Well this is good for the prison industry. I mean if you were running a prison and selling the prisoners labour,would you want a bunch of hardened criminals or a bunch of geeks in your jail?
    Another side benefit is all these new prisoners are disenfranchised and can not vote to change the situation

  10. Re:Choice on ABC Affiliates Grapple With TV-Show Downloads · · Score: 1

    They sure sucked here using a nonmicrosoft version of Windows running on a non MS OS (winos2 running under OS/2, and yes it was an official version of Windows). I spent hours trying to install both 2.0 and 3.0. Never could get them to install.
    At least itunes runs on non apple hardware/software

  11. Re:It is still in doubt actually on Cannabinoids Induce Brain Cell Growth? · · Score: 2, Informative

    You do realize that there are other ways to ingest pot besides smoking it don't you?
    I've known a few people who won't smoke anything but they sure loved their marijuana cookies.

  12. Re:My reasons on Why Do You Block Ads? · · Score: 1

    Not the poster but myself I use privoxy http://privoxy.net/ and it is much faster then any Mozilla extension plus I can filter (and keep logs off) my sons computer.

  13. Re:My reasons on Why Do You Block Ads? · · Score: 1

    The posting page displays fine here after filtering with privoxy. And yes I have to filter with a 26.4 dialup connection and a 300 Mhz K6-2 and Seamonkey.

  14. Re:The RIAA is irrelevant. on Record Labels Unveil Greed 2.0 · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, this will soon be fixed by the music labels suing all independent bands for copyright infringement.
    There is only so many ways to arrange music and most are copyrighted and in the USA it costs a hell of a lot of money to defend yourself when accused of copyright infringement.

  15. Re:Welcome on eDonkey Tells Congress It's Throwing in the Towel · · Score: 1

    You have to remember that the main corporate giant (IBM) had just gone thru its anti-trust suit and were on their best behaviour. So partly the success of MS, Dell, etc is a direct result of the government acting against IBM.

  16. Re:Pork Delivery System on Broadcast Flag Back in Congress · · Score: 1

    Isn't there a clause in the constitution that allows the citizens to bypass politicians and ratify an ammendment to the constitution?

  17. Re:Ha! on Federal Agencies To Collect Genetic Info · · Score: 1

    From a logical standpoint, this DNA initiative is really no different than keeping the fingerprints of those who are detained but not convicted and I've heard little outcry about this.
    Do you guys really keep prints from people who have been cleared (or at least not convicted) in a court of law? I thought you were a free country with a bill of rights including a clause about undue process. Here (Canada) if you're not convicted the crown only keeps your prints for 6 months. Only convicted people have their prints on file forever.

  18. Re:no treaty obligations on U.S. Army To Ramp Up Anthrax Purchasing · · Score: 2, Informative

    The North American Free Trade Agreement. http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/HET/Softwood/ or google for softwood lumber dispute.
    Of course it could be argued that a trade agreement signed by congress and the president isn't a treaty but it still shows how little the USA obeys international law and why they are untrusted.

  19. Re:OSX Virus on Computer Security Still Totally Inadequate · · Score: 1

    Is rm -rf ~ that much better then rm -rf /
    Operating Systems are a simple reinstall, home contains my stuff. Same with spyware running as me instead of root.

  20. Re:Wait a minute on Open Source Code Finds Way into Microsoft Release · · Score: 1

    I read a good comment in a book today. "Everyone who works hard should be entitled to a decent life"
    Not excellent but all their basic needs met. Of course some people who have something special will have a better then decent life.

  21. Re:actually. on Patch & Workaround for Firefox Flaw Available · · Score: 1

    The suites still alive, just renamed to Seamonkey. Uses the same Gecko engine as Firefox and works the same as always.
    Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050909 SeaMonkey/1.1a

  22. Re:Sure, if they get the budget on Visiting Our Red Space Neighbor · · Score: 1

    Glad to hear that all those rumours of your government running a huge deficit are false.
    Revenue is up spending (in keeping with republican ideals) is down, great. Perhaps you could return that 5 billion you stole from us (illegal softwood lumber tariffs)

  23. Re:256MB of video memory? on Bulky System Requirements for Windows Vista · · Score: 1

    Huh? Quake 1 didn't even run under Windows (had to go to DOS mode) and could get by with 8MB (16MB recommended) http://www.idsoftware.com/games/quake/quake/index. php?game_section=sysreq
    I remember giving it 16MB in a DOS session on OS/2 on an 8 MB 486/100, took forever to load or change levels but the actual game ran perfectly fine (full screen)

  24. Re:Apple's chance to get the business market stymi on The First Killer App: VisiCalc · · Score: 1

    The first Apple ][ clones were sued out of existence by Apple and by the time Laser did a clean room rom the Apple ][ was on the way out. Also Apple came down very hard on any authorized repair centre that worked on clones.
    Also the Mac was Jobs baby and my feeling is that he hated the ][ as it was Wozs baby.
    Back then Jobs believed users didn't need colour or an open expandible system.
    Also with the slow 140 kb drive a GUI on the // was horrible.
    There also was a time when a souped up GS was superior to the MAC. Colour, Faster, expendable and the same GUI but Jobs killed the GS in favour of the MAC, its a shame and I'm still pissed off a bit at Jobs for this

  25. Re:Kudos Opera and quickie registration link on Opera Turns 10, Gives Away Free Registrations · · Score: 1

    Not load at all. Didn't like my dialer+firewall (injoy). I think it (and slashdot) think I'm an open-proxy. Connecting with plain PPP fixed it