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  1. Re:[Don't] Profit! on No More D&D PDFs, Wizards of the Coast Sues 8 File Sharers · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If I wasn't going to buy it in the first place, it doesn't matter if I download it. No harm, no foul.

  2. Re:Change? on Obama Administration Defends Warrantless Wiretapping · · Score: 1

    When have the trains ever ran on time?

  3. Re:without interruption of its primary function... on Apple Patent Claim Threatens To Block Or Delay W3C · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You don't have to implement an idea to patent it. In fact, you can't patent an implementation of a concept, only the concept itself. Copyright covers specific implementations.

  4. Look on the bright side. on Obama Administration Defends Warrantless Wiretapping · · Score: 1

    At least this will help his popularity amongst not-partisan non-racist Republicans.

  5. Re:new kind of evil? on Google's Plan For Out-of-Print Books Is Challenged · · Score: 1

    Overcharging for books we otherwise would be unable to buy at any price is a non-issue. The issue is one of the effect on Google's competition.

  6. Re:Methinks... on Harvard Law's Nesson Says P2P Is "Fair Use" · · Score: 1

    The difference is that the judge will actually listen to his argument, instead of dismissing a caricature of his argument.

  7. Re:MS-PL on Microsoft Open Sources ASP.NET MVC · · Score: 1

    Being a monopoly tends to make it easy to stay on top.

  8. Re:Hardly open source on Microsoft Open Sources ASP.NET MVC · · Score: 1

    Last I checked GPL3 was compatible with the licenses that make up the vast majority of open source projects. Whether it's compatible with most open source licenses is irrelevant since almost nobody uses anythin but apache, gpl and bsd.

  9. Re:Yeah, April Fools... on Conficker Worm Strike Reports Start Rolling In · · Score: 1

    You say that like talking to a human being is preferable.

  10. Re:Math? on Wolverine Film Leaked a Month Before Release · · Score: 1, Informative

    No, and neither is reading comprehension apparently. The leaked film is marked May 1st, that's not when it was leaked. It was leaked in April, a month before the film's release.

  11. Re:Yeah, April Fools... on Conficker Worm Strike Reports Start Rolling In · · Score: 4, Funny

    They run Windows.

  12. Re:Random Ubuntu/Linux question on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope Now In Beta · · Score: 3, Informative

    Ubuntu ships with an RDP client.

  13. Huh? on Valve Claims New Steamworks Update "Makes DRM Obsolete" · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In what sense is this not DRM?

  14. Re:Yes. on Red Hat Claims Patent On SOAP Over CGI · · Score: 1

    Any entity legally compelled to maximise profits behaves in a manner indistinguishable from evil. Corporations are sociopaths.

  15. Re:WTF? on Latest World of Warcraft Expansion Blocked In China · · Score: 1

    An M or an AO ensures Walmart won't sell the game, which ensures no publisher will touch it. That would pretty much prevent it's sale. Sure, it may not be illegal to sell, but that's little consolation.

  16. Re:Why do I need Javascript to vote? on ISS's Node 3 Might Be Named "Colbert" · · Score: 1

    There's nothing wrong with surfing with Javascript on if you're not using Windows.

  17. Re:At Least It's Humorous on Star Trek Fragrances · · Score: 1

    Precious ambergris? I thought I smelled porpoise hork.

  18. Huh? on Sony Blu-spec CD Format Detailed, Hits Stores · · Score: 3, Insightful

    h the intention of eliminating reading errors that occur as a result of being authored with traditional red laser technology.

    I thought commercial CDs were pressed, not burnt.

  19. Re:Block The Internet on Australian Internet Censorship Plan Torpedoed · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's not such a bad idea, then.

  20. Re:Block The Internet on Australian Internet Censorship Plan Torpedoed · · Score: 1

    And yet they already have abortion websites on the block list.

  21. Re:Don't want one on Why Kindle 2's Screen Took 12 Years and $150 Million · · Score: 1

    So don't buy native Kindle books.

  22. Re:Kindle 2 got your tongue? on Why Kindle 2's Screen Took 12 Years and $150 Million · · Score: 1

    Its hard to share a copy of a book, other than by sharing the reader. Actually you can move a book to the SD card, and move that to another Kindle. Its not hard.

    Really? What's the point of the DRM, then?

  23. Re:While good in one way on Why Kindle 2's Screen Took 12 Years and $150 Million · · Score: 1

    The parable of the broken windows is more about fairness than anything else. Whether the shopkeeper or glazier spends the money is irrelevant to the economy.

  24. Re:Oh noes on Why Kindle 2's Screen Took 12 Years and $150 Million · · Score: 1

    How will we start beach bonfires?

    Potassium permanganate, magnesium, aluminum iron oxide and glycerin.

  25. Re:purell on Why Kindle 2's Screen Took 12 Years and $150 Million · · Score: 1

    Planting new trees you're going to cut down in a few decades to replace old growth forests is a retarded management strategy.