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  1. Sound quality like we used to have... on Neil Young Says His Music Is Too Good For Streaming Services · · Score: 1

    Sound quality like we used to have on radio? Right... Twiddle your dial a bit.. You might be able to make out a few words.

    -Walter
    high on top of
    Sugar Mountain Farm
    (Nothing to do with the song)
    (This is Vermont where grow)
    (sugar maples in sugar bushes)

  2. Re:Solution to Legislative Stupidity on Google Accidentally Reveals Data On 'Right To Be Forgotten' Requests · · Score: 1

    Google is a search engine, an index, not the web site. You, and Europe, seem to miss this key point. Banning Google from showing something in their index does not remove that data from the internet nor does it even remove it from search engines. Other search engines still show the data, the data is still on the original web site and linked to by other web sites.

    We're also not talking about false information.

    Your argument is a red hearing and false. Your question is not worth answering because it is moot and a non sequitur.

  3. Throw Out the Bums on Mini Ice Age: Nothing To Worry About · · Score: 1

    If you don't like the conclusion, throw out the data.

  4. Solution to Legislative Stupidity on Google Accidentally Reveals Data On 'Right To Be Forgotten' Requests · · Score: 2

    Google does seem to have the knack for finding the perfect solutions to legislative stupidity. I hope they open source.

  5. Re:Stop the Patents on Google Applies For Patents That Touch On Fundamental AI Concepts · · Score: 1

    Excellent idea. People should stop fighting wars too.

    Don't confuse "America" with "the United States" with "the USA citizens". The laws are pushed by lobbyists for corporations who benefit. Surely you've figured that out by now. The odds of a quiet revolution are nearly zero.

    It is a Brave New World where 1984 came to pass and We all simply accepeted it without any revolution.

  6. Re:The obvious test case for ludicrous copyright on "Happy Birthday" Hits Sour Notes When It Comes To Song's Free Use · · Score: 2

    You're making the classic graphing error of assuming the data set will continue. The reality is hockey sticks and other curves tend to level off at some point. Back in the 1970's they were worried about the Population Bomb. What they didn't account for was that as the level of education went up people had fewer children so the Population Bomb fizzled and the curve leveled off. Same thing with Elvis. He finally realized the error of his ways, got away from all those people who were a bad influence, moved to Vermont, lost hundreds of pounds and is doing great. :)

  7. Taking a good point and stretching it. on Cell Phone Radiation Emission Tests Assume Use of Belt Clip · · Score: 1

    That was an example of taking a good point and stretching it... Even the biggest 'smart' phones are pocket phones.

  8. Re:The obvious test case for ludicrous copyright on "Happy Birthday" Hits Sour Notes When It Comes To Song's Free Use · · Score: 1

    Elvis is alive and well. He lives in the next town over from me. I see him down at the general store time to time. He moved here to get away from all the glitz. Very nice guy.

  9. Stop the Patents on Google Applies For Patents That Touch On Fundamental AI Concepts · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It is way past time to end all patents.
    Ideas are a dime a dozen.
    I have ten before breakfast and at least one is great.
    I invent things. I don't patent it, I implement.
    Time to end all patents.

  10. Re:So will stacking us vertically on Simple Geometry = More Seats In an Airline · · Score: 1

    In trains and busses you look at other people.

  11. Play Money on China's Stock Crash: $3.5 Trillion Wiped Out, $2.6 Trillion Frozen · · Score: 1

    "$3.5 trillion ($3,500,000,000,000) in value has been wiped out by falling prices"

    That wasn't real money. Stocks are imaginary. The losses are not real. It's just a game.

  12. Re:Single currencies never work on Greece Rejects EU Terms · · Score: 1

    And you're abusive. Is this because you think you're anonymous? You're not actually - follow the legal actions and weep.

  13. Re:Single currencies never work on Greece Rejects EU Terms · · Score: 1

    Your geography is odd. The northeast does not include the Rust Belt nor Detroit, etc.

    Your economics are even stranger.

    But then you're an anonymous coward so what more can we expect.

  14. Re:Run of the Mill on When Nerds Do BBQ · · Score: 1

    Yes, that was rather my point. If you go to a commercial smokehouse company who smokes bacon, hams, hocks, trotters, etc you will find they have a box with similar brains that computer controls all the details and has recipes for different products.

    I've read about them a lot, studied them in situ and am working on building one for our on-farm smokehouse. What they hype in the article is quite familiar and not particularly novel. This is just media hype. PR.

  15. Run of the Mill on When Nerds Do BBQ · · Score: 2

    This is much like a commercial meat smoker. They have all of these features. They're completely automated. It's how we're makin' bacon in the modern day.

  16. Use it. on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Way To Hold Onto Your Domain? · · Score: 1

    Actively use the domain.
    Get your email via the domain.
    Have a nice web page there like a blog.
    Sell something through the domain, web page and blog.
    Have ads from Google ads and such on the domain's site.
    Trademark the word.
    Copyright the logo with the word embedded.
    Keep it all active.
    None of this needs to be expensive and it shows that you are actively using it. Then if someone sues you for it you can easily defend yourself and sue back for damages.

  17. Doesn't Go Far Enough on Trolls No Longer Welcome In New Zealand · · Score: 1

    "The bill covers posts that are racist, sexist, or show religious intolerance, along with hassling people over disability or sexual orientation."

    That doesn't go far enough. Some trolls harass over other things. Trolling and stalking need to be clamped down on.

  18. Last Out Queue on Can New Chicago Taxes On Netflix, Apple, Spotify Withstand Legal Challenges? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Will the last person to leave Chicago please turn off the lights?

  19. Piano Drop on Volkswagen Factory Worker Killed By a Robot · · Score: 1

    You are walking along the sidewalk and a piano drops on your head killing you. The dropper of the piano is responsible, not you, not the maker of the piano.

    You are walking along the sidewalk and come to a construction zone, step inside ignoring the warnings and fool around. A piano drops on your head and kills you. You are responsible. You were an idiot. You have been eliminated from the race. Game over.

    You jump out of a skyscraper and land on your head on a piano. You die. The physics were the same. The fault was yours. You are liable for any damages to the piano, the workers moving the piano, emotional trauma to the innocent bystanders, etc. Game over, again, for you.

  20. Too badd about Patches on "Jobs" vs. "Steve Jobs": Hollywood Takes Another Stab At Telling the Steve Jobs Story · · Score: 1

    Too bad Matt Patches can't learn to communicate elegantly rather than using foul language. He has no credibility as a result. Ignored.

  21. Re:Why talk? on Depression: The Secret Struggle Startup Founders Won't Talk About · · Score: 1

    You seem very depressed.
    You have a pattern of negative posts.
    Would you like to talk about it?
    Maybe Dr. Eliza v3.0 can help.

  22. TracFone is Great on TracFone Finally Agrees To Allow Phone Unlocking · · Score: 1

    TracFone is great for what it does. It allows us to have a simple emergency phone in our vehicle. Nothing fancy. Cheap fixed cost annual plan. Easy. It cost us about $100/year. The phones are essentially free. ($0 to $19). If the phone gets lost you call up TracFone and they transfer the minutes to another phone. Easy-peasy. We've had ours for about a decade.

  23. Which Is It? on San Francisco Fiber Optic Cable Cutter Strikes Again · · Score: 4, Funny

    "thousands and millions of people."

    Make up your mind.
    Which is it.
    Thousands or Millions?
    Why not throw Hundreds and Billions into that sentence.
    Might as well exaggerate all the way and confuse.

  24. Re:Why talk? on Depression: The Secret Struggle Startup Founders Won't Talk About · · Score: 1

    It's a form of mania. It often swings between the extremes. The middle is no fun. Bye-bye polar. Some might consider it a fair price to pay for the highs.

  25. Back Door on Cuba Connecting Universities With Fiber · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Is this the same Chinese country that is building back doors into networking and computer equipment so they can later take it over as described in a previous article? Seems everyone's hip to this fun game and playing it out.