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  1. Re:Yet Another Format on Five Top Publishers Plan Rival to Kindle Format · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The don't own it and can't control who uses it.

  2. Re:Not more safe on Malware Found Hidden In Screensaver On Gnome-Look · · Score: 1

    Which is a great argument against monoculture, something the "linux zealots" have been warning us about for years.

  3. Re:Sounds like the Court got it right. on Court Says Fair Use May Hold In Some RIAA Cases · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't see how this is a good thing, making file sharing and fair use synonymous.

    The Court, deeply concerned by the rash of file-sharing lawsuits, the
    imbalance of resources between the parties, and the upheaval of norms of behavior brought on
    by the internet, did everything in its power to permit Tenenbaum to make his best case for fair
    use. Over the record companies’ strenuous objection, the Court allowed the fair use defense to
    be added at the eleventh hour.

    Making a small clip of a copyrighted work so the work could be discussed is one thing, but at the last minute when you are loosing to cry "fair use" looks disparate and only makes fair use a future target.

  4. Re:Consumed...? on Each American Consumed 34 Gigabytes Per Day In '08 · · Score: 1

    At least he's keeping a balanced diet.

  5. Re:Definitions so broad as to be pointless on Each American Consumed 34 Gigabytes Per Day In '08 · · Score: 1

    Since all the visual information has nearly-infinite resolution and analog color depth is infinitely-nuanced, your grandma is consuming +infinity bits of information at any given time. Sound and smell data...who knows.

    Someone should throttle her connection, she's hogging all the bandwidths.

  6. Re:It was the blurst of times. on Monkeys With Syntax · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    For the record, that isn't my blog. And I only agree with 75% of the blog author's opinions.

    But let me please get this straight: according to you, anyone who disapproves of socialism is incapable of humor? Or anyone who dislikes Obama is undeserving of positive feedback from this group?

  7. Re:It was the blurst of times. on Monkeys With Syntax · · Score: 1

    For the record, it's not my blog. (:

    But excellent points you made there.

  8. It was the blurst of times. on Monkeys With Syntax · · Score: 4, Funny

    FP!

  9. Re:Animals eat other animals.... on UK Celebs Charged For Eating Rat · · Score: 1

    The real news here is that the RSPCA has the power to bring criminal proceedings against you. That they don't like it is their business, that you can still do it should be everyone's business.

  10. Re:Obvious (?) question on Super Strength Substance Approaching Human Trials · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I would guess the researchers are interested in the multi-billion-dollar weight-lifting supplement market.

    There...

  11. Re:Privacy for what? on A Look At the Safety of Google Public DNS · · Score: 1

    You are really that worries about privacy?

    Every time you google, you need to be logged out of all google services: includes blogger, blogspot, picassaweb, youtube, and all the others like analytics, adsense, gmail....

    Clear all your cookies.

    Then reboot your home cable/dsl modem or whatever to get a new IP.

    Then go ahead and do you searches.

    Clear all your cookies.

    Then reboot you home cable/dsl modem or whatever to get a new IP.

    Then it's safe to log back in to google services.

    That should cover you for all googlespying that involves google analytics and tieing your search queries to you.

    Oh, what's that? You aren't THAT worried?

  12. Re:I Second this on What Do You Do When Printers Cost Less Than Ink? · · Score: 1

    "tend to?"

    An HP 3700cn costs around a 1.5 cents a page compared to an HP PSC 1300xi, which we found to be close to 15 cents a page.

  13. Re:Free vs. Paid on Brain-Control Gaming Headset Launching Dec. 21 · · Score: 1

    Which is funny, the raw data SDK would take much less work than the free one to develop.

  14. Re:Code Name is Offensive on Intel Shows 48-Core x86 Processor · · Score: 1

    Bangalore torpedoes are still in use today, and one of the most effective man-portable wire breaching techniques.

    They are basically 3ish-foot long pipe bombs filled with Comp B, which can be connected end-to-end creating a pipeline bomb to/thru the target area. Great for clearing a lane thru mined/wired obstacles.

  15. Re:Cammel sez... on Camels Gone Wild · · Score: 1

    >>dude, camels aren't cheetahs.

    No, but a camel can change it's spots.

    >>They HATE getting hit on the nose.

    Well, for the record...so do I.

  16. Cammel sez... on Camels Gone Wild · · Score: 1

    Gun control FTW!

  17. Re:Que? No comprede! Chromium OS doesn't make sens on What Google's Chromium OS Is Reaching For · · Score: 1

    The ability to block an ad one at a time they can prolly handle. An addon that completely prevents their profit, easily enabled for the masses? Another matter.

  18. Re:Que? No comprede! Chromium OS doesn't make sens on What Google's Chromium OS Is Reaching For · · Score: 1

    I agree with what you are saying, but do you really think Google would like everyone blocking their adsense placements and undermining their adwords program?

    What business do you think Google is *really* in?

  19. Re:Rule #1 of government.... on SarBox Lawsuit Could Rewrite IT Compliance Rules · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'll field that one:

    Unions are irrelevant.

  20. Um. on Sprint Revealed Customer GPS Data 8 Million Times · · Score: 0, Redundant

    So what?

  21. Re:No shit, sherlock. on Lifecycle Energy Costs of LED, CFL Bulbs Calculated · · Score: 1

    Hmmm.... Am I too late for the 4:30 autogyro?

  22. Re:No shit, sherlock. on Lifecycle Energy Costs of LED, CFL Bulbs Calculated · · Score: 1

    If you actually pay to have a single CFL delivered to your door, does that count against your carbon footprint?

  23. Re:Wat? on Lifecycle Energy Costs of LED, CFL Bulbs Calculated · · Score: 1

    Well-built ones could even last more than the life of the owner.

    And what if the owner is Schrodinger's Cat?

    fixtures [...] often trap heat.

    But LED's don't even make enough heat to melt the snow off the traffic lights without added heating elements. google

  24. Re:Those onion belts are going bad on Microsoft's Top Devs Don't Seem To Like Own Tools · · Score: 1

    The scene where the consultants figure out the one guy (the jump to conclusions guy) just takes the specs from the customer and gives it to the engineer. Or actually not even that.

    which just reminded me of

    what it is the accountant wants in terms of inputs, outputs, retention, and quality assurance. Then the code cutting can be done by specialists

  25. Re:Those onion belts are going bad on Microsoft's Top Devs Don't Seem To Like Own Tools · · Score: 1