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  1. Re:Alternatives? on Patents That Kill · · Score: 1

    An industry without copyright, and where nothing has been patented for years woudl be without innovation and would not make much money ...

    Except the fashion industry has no copyright, nothing novel enough to patent has been seen for years, yet they do nothing but innovate, and seem to making large profits ...

  2. Re:Experiment not the problem on Why the "NASA Tested Space Drive" Is Bad Science · · Score: 1

    Exactly, this was a test to see if investigating the drive was worth pursuing at all, and if the the inventor was right about how it worked

    The outcome seems to be that as far as they can tell something is going on that might be interesting (but probably will not..) ..and the inventor is wrong on how it works

    If the drive is not exploiting some flaw in current theories, then it will turn out to be just a massively inefficient conventional drive, but if not it will be revolutionary

  3. Re:Hilarious on London Police Placing Anti-Piracy Warning Ads On Illegal Sites · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...and the users using AdBlock will see what exactly ...?

  4. Re:Standards are meant to be broken on Microsoft Opens 'Transparency Center' For Governments To Review Source Code · · Score: 1

    ...multiple international companies... Like Nokia, Skype, Visio ...?

  5. Re:It's a scandal! on Court Allowed NSA To Spy On All But 4 Countries · · Score: 1

    It's not that they don't spy on them (USA, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) it's that they have agreed not to spy directly on them, just to spy on their links to other countries and terrorism ...

    So they will not spy on you if :
    you live in one of these countries,
    and you have no links to any of the other countries
    and you have no links to terrorism
    and you have no links to anyone who has any links to terrorism
    and you have no links to anyone who has any links to any one with links to terrorism
    and you have no links to anyone who has any links to any one with links to any one with links to terrorism.....

  6. Re:Agreement?? on Court Allowed NSA To Spy On All But 4 Countries · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The USA, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand are all members of ECHELON and so already share mutual intercepted data, i.e. the NSA does not need to spy on these ....

  7. Re:Not a damn thing will be done. on Swedish Farmers Have Doubts About Climatologists and Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Keep your lawn so it slows runoff and prevents flash flooding, but accept that it will look like natural grass and not astroturf

  8. Re:Everybody is wrong... on Robert McMillen: What Everyone Gets Wrong In the Debate Over Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    The restaurant does have a drive-thru, they charge you to use it, charge you for the food, charge you to park, and report you to the police if you drive away eating ...

  9. A competition that is dying on Sony Overtakes Rival Nintendo In Console Sales · · Score: 1

    The 3DS is outselling both of these ...

    Smartphones out sell all of these and make more money and sell more games

    The console market is now for gamers only, the Wii was the last console bought by non-gamer

  10. Not a normal car on Tracking Tesla's Quiet Changes To the Model S · · Score: 1

    A Tesla S is not a normal family car, it costs the about the same a Porsche 911, so it firmly in the luxury/sports car bracket, so expensive options are normal, and every car as a custom build is not unexpected, rolling changes are not that unusual (outside the USA)

  11. Re:Regular Wallet on Why Mobile Wallets Are Doomed · · Score: 1

    You mean like the Euro ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...

    and the real problem is not the currency but the technology, I can pay with Dollars or Euros in a street market in Africa, but not with a device they don't have a reader for ...

  12. ISP is an ISP ... on Major ISPs Threaten To Throttle Innovation and Slow Network Upgrades · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They provide a single service, an internet connection, continually reclassifying this depending on if it is Copper, Cable, Broadband, DSL, Fios ... etc is a red herring they provide an internet connection and nothing else ...

    They are already a common carrier, they just don't want the service they provide to be classified as this as it would introduce the possibility of competition into the market ...

  13. "... we are optimistic that there will be a way to do this in Europe"

    We are optimistic that with the DCMA or Canadian equivalent this is not as simple as you think

  14. Re:Singapore on UN Report Reveals Odds of Being Murdered Country By Country · · Score: 1

    Iceland almost manages to be the same at 0.2, and be a democracy ...

  15. Re:shenanigans on UN Report Reveals Odds of Being Murdered Country By Country · · Score: 1

    The rates for the USA are 4.7, the same as Latvia (Semi stable, recently independent from USSR), Yemen (Terrorist training ground), Niger ( lowest-ranked in the United Nations' Human Development Index (HDI) ... also until recently the Ukraine

    Why does the USA consistently have the same murder rate as semi stable, struggling economies ...?

  16. Re:How could it be valid? on Inventor Has Waited 43 Years For Patent Approval · · Score: 1

    If this patent has not been used in a real product in all this time, then it should be thrown out as either unworkable, or just a patent troll

  17. Re:What devices does it affect? on Adobe's New Ebook DRM Will Leave Existing Users Out In the Cold Come July · · Score: 1

    Most of the ebook industry uses either ePub or is an Amazon Kindle, many if not most DRM on ePub is from Adobe

    Note this will also affect some unexpected devices - iPhone, iPad iPodTouch ...

  18. Re:Adobe and ebook DRM? Color me surprised on Adobe's New Ebook DRM Will Leave Existing Users Out In the Cold Come July · · Score: 1

    DRM cannot work (Except in the USA) the logic is, here is a locked box, and here is the key, please only use the key how we say ... (in the USA it can be illegal to use the key except how specified! )

    The fashion industry is an perfect example of why copyright is not needed... there is no copyright on clothing design, yet the fashion industry still exists and makes lots of money ... but is forced to continually come up with new ideas, which because there is no copyright quickly propagate around the entire industry

  19. Re:is this a dupe article? on Man In Tesla Model S Fire Explains What Happened · · Score: 2

    All cars are deathtraps, just go and look at the figures ... most are caused by driver error (as this was)

    It's only news because rather than the engine catching on fire as is usual in cars it was the batteries ...

  20. Re:are French authorities retarded? on Germany: We Think NSA May Have Tapped Chancellor Merkel's Cell Phone · · Score: 1

    The NSA's job is to spy on anyone and everyone who might be a potential threat to the USA .... the only limit on this is when they are specifically told not to ...

  21. Re:I wonder what their real understanding is on Germany: We Think NSA May Have Tapped Chancellor Merkel's Cell Phone · · Score: 1

    The NSA only spies on enemies, or potential terrorists, or people linked to potential terrorists, or people linked to people linked to potential terrorists etc ...... oh that appears to be everyone ...

  22. Re:Office 365 on Forrester Research Shows Steep Decline in Free Office Suite Stats · · Score: 1

    Which will break as well ..."IE 11 Breaks Rendering For Google Products, and Outlook Too"

  23. Re:Why is "monetizing" OS still = "clamping down"? on Should Google Get Aggressive About Monetizing Android? · · Score: 1

    How much do you pay to use Google's search engine ... how much do they make from it ...

  24. Re:Misleading summary on Should Google Get Aggressive About Monetizing Android? · · Score: 1

    Could this just be that Android users are more wary of ads... or that iPhone users click on the ads not knowing they are an ad ....?

  25. Re:One Down on Scientology's Fraud Conviction Upheld In France · · Score: 1

    Some religions are strictly non-violent, but not perfect and have still harmed their followers, and families ...

    Some Atheists are violent, just as some people are violent ... and remember most 'Communists' are/were Socialist republics and the atheist dogma was anti-religion mostly because then the only religion was the state, and the leader was the leader of a cult ....(Stalin, Mao ...)

    Most/All religions say that killing is wrong, but almost all of the allow killing of certain people in the right circumstances ....