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  1. Re:Oh really? on In AU, Film Studios Issue Ultimatum To ISPs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why should an ISP have to do anything?

    Responding to copyright claims is not their job or responsibility. They are a service provider.

  2. Re:Stupidity is not color-blind. on Google Apologizes For "Michelle Obama" Results · · Score: 1

    So racism is dead in America right? Until that happens of course it is still unacceptable to apply monkey parody to black public figures. You cannot ignore America's (or much of the West's) shameful history of racism. Do not imagine for a second that the people who create images of Michelle Obama that make her look more monkey like are doing it simply because they noticed the striking similarity between humans and monkeys. They are doing it because they are racists.

    They are also excising the right to free-speech.

  3. Re:Ahh Slashdot on Police Arrest Man For Refusing To Tweet · · Score: 1

    obstructing government administration

    Wow. The fact that you can even be charged for something as vague and open to interpretation as that is scary regardless of the context.

    I assume voting for the opposition falls into the same category.

  4. Re:$125.00 per hour on Simple, Free Web Remote PC Control? · · Score: 2, Funny

    April the 1st has already been, your a few months late.

  5. Re:yep... It depends on where you live. on Ten Things Mobile Phones Will Make Obsolete · · Score: 1

    I go out of coverage all the time and my phone still displays the correct time. I have never heard of a phone losing it's time just because it is outside the coverage area, certainly it wont be able to update the time automatically while outside the coverage area but for a phone not to remember the time just seems dodgy. Perhaps it's an American thing because all the phones in Australia keep their time irrespective of the coverage, it's totally unheard of for the clock to need the network.

    I've always used Nokia's but I haven't heard of any other brands forgetting the time, so this is rather interesting.

  6. Re:Ridiculous - 2nd attempt on Apple Voiding Smokers' Warranties? · · Score: 1

    Cat and dog hair don't cause cancer. Smoking does,

    GP was talking about smoking and the non-damage has caused to computers, in his own experience. Computers don't get cancer.

    But they do get a tar build up.

  7. Re:Ridiculous on Apple Voiding Smokers' Warranties? · · Score: 1

    Cat and dog hair don't cause cancer. Smoking does,

    GP was talking about smoking and the non-damage has caused to computers, in his own experience. Computers don't get cancer.

    But they do get a tar build up.

  8. Re:Ridiculous on Apple Voiding Smokers' Warranties? · · Score: 1

    If you want a device with a removable battery, then the iPod is not for you. Not sure how Apple are "fucking over their customers" by selling a product that has a non-removable battery - you know before you buy it that this is the case.

    The same applies to many GPS devices.

  9. Re:Ridiculous on Apple Voiding Smokers' Warranties? · · Score: 1

    How is it reasonable to fill a computer with tar and expect a warranty. I bet your one of those dumbasses who wares their watch in a hot shower then wonders why the screen is fogged on the inside.

  10. Re:parent != troll on Apple Voiding Smokers' Warranties? · · Score: 1

    I want to know why it is ok for people to smoke during a fire ban but I can't light the BBQ?

  11. Re:yep... on Ten Things Mobile Phones Will Make Obsolete · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I have never heard of a phone losing it's time when going out of reception.

  12. Re:Garbage on Cyber Attacks On US Military Jump Sharply In 2009 · · Score: 1

    Try actually reading the linked PDF and see if you can take it seriously

    381 pages, most people don't even read the summary let alone the article, let alone a massive pdf.

  13. Kidde ping floods on Cyber Attacks On US Military Jump Sharply In 2009 · · Score: 1

    start>run>cmd

    C:\Users\User>ping defense.gov -t

  14. Re:Wikipedia on Patent Issued For Podcasting · · Score: 1

    The evidence of prior art is everywhere, but that doesn't stop the patent office handing them out. Has the patent office ever rejected anything?

  15. Re:Now just need a bomb-proof wallpaper for window on Bomb-Proof Wallpaper Developed · · Score: 1

    Link doesn't work.

    Copy/Paste = too much effort.

  16. Re:Idle? on Bomb-Proof Wallpaper Developed · · Score: 1

    But wouldn't it be better to protect the outside of your house?

  17. Re:Time for an Amendment? on When a DNA Testing Firm Goes Bankrupt, Who Gets the Data? · · Score: 1

    So sue for copyright infringement.

  18. Re:Before people start complaining that its only 1 on Spain Codifies the "Right To Broadband" · · Score: 1

    rather use one of these web converters than to download something and actually minimise their browsers for two seconds while they use it.

    Have you tried downloading such programs? I agree with most of your post but sometimes a 'web app' makes more sense. If you try downloading video converters all you will get is shit, unless you specifically know what apps you need to use you are out of luck with anything involving video formats. An online tool does not require installation.

  19. Re:Robots.txt on Murdoch To Explore Blocking Google Searches · · Score: 1

    Maybe the answer is robots.txt; but that is not what you tell a billionaire if he asks you.

    Why not? It's a pretty simple concept.

    http://www.fox.com/robots.txt
    http://www.myspace.com/robots.txt
    http://www.newscorp.com/robots.txt

  20. Re:Stupid technology on Tech Allows Stable Integration of Wind In the Power Grid · · Score: 1

    The problems with renewable are not all lies, certainly the coal companies have an agenda but so do the hippies who routinely ignore the economic costs of building solar panels and wind turbines. Our best solution is a combination of Nuclear and renewable. Renewable can't provide the volume of electricity needed on it's own, it also uses allot more resources to produce solar panels and wind turbines than it does to build a nuclear power-plant (for the energy produced).

    Renewable has along way to go before we can use it as our primary power production but Nuclear is a good support for it until it can eventually advance enough that homes may be able to produce their own onsite power.

  21. Re:Pirate Bay? on Norwegian Court Rules ISP Doesn't Have To Block The Pirate Bay · · Score: 1

    So the good guys are the ones suing innocent people into bankruptcy, destroying lives, committing criminal activities and stomping human rights.

  22. Re:Pirate Bay? on Norwegian Court Rules ISP Doesn't Have To Block The Pirate Bay · · Score: 1

    Ok how do we introduce a law without paying congress?

  23. Re:Standard Calculus on Radar Beats GPS In Court — Or Does It? · · Score: 1

    Mine tracks my exact speed in almost real time, with some erratic driving it is possible to put it out by a few mph but normally no more than 5. Even then the error lasts for just a second or less.

    I think the problem is going to be how often the log gets updated.

  24. Re:Pirate Bay? on Norwegian Court Rules ISP Doesn't Have To Block The Pirate Bay · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The good guys always win, well not always but as a collective we pirates are holding our ground pretty darn well. Especially when you consider that we can't afford to buy any of our laws.

  25. Re:Wow, that's impressive on China Bans Physical Punishment For Net Addicts · · Score: 1

    A toddler does not fit C