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  1. Re:Knowing VM on Virgin Media UK Pilots 200Mbps Broadband Speeds · · Score: 1

    My ISP has no business cutting off my supply of tentacle porn, thank you.

  2. Re:Why compete? on CA Vs. MA In Battle Over Non-Compete Clause · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Upstate New York has a teeny weeny tech company called IBM.

  3. Re:California is right on CA Vs. MA In Battle Over Non-Compete Clause · · Score: 1

    Let's not forget that DEC was a Massachusetts company. So was DG. So was Lotus. So is BBN. So are many other MIT-spawned entities.

  4. Re:Maybe they're both right on CA Vs. MA In Battle Over Non-Compete Clause · · Score: 1

    Pot
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  5. Re:non competes only make sense when... on CA Vs. MA In Battle Over Non-Compete Clause · · Score: 1

    The guy in this case made enough money to not have to work...

  6. Re:Harlan Ellison on Google To Remove "Inappropriate" Books From Digital Library · · Score: 1

    Bleh! Bleaah! Bleaaaaaaah!!!

  7. Re:How can a third pary lawsuit change my rights? on Google To Remove "Inappropriate" Books From Digital Library · · Score: 1

    No, because Google will continue to maintain rights even on those books they consider inappropriate.

  8. Re:What kind of books are inappropriate? on Google To Remove "Inappropriate" Books From Digital Library · · Score: 1

    If it's based on slashdot users, it includes:

    Anything that disproves global warming. Anything critical against Barok Obama. Anything about programming perl.

    So... factually incorrect, right-wing propaganda and soul destroying. (in that order) Sounds reasonable to me.

    It doesn't sound unreasonable to me. Anytime ANY work is censored, WE ALL LOSE. Lose, as in, lose our freedom of expression .

  9. PHB on Handmade vs. Commercially Produced Ethernet Cables · · Score: 1

    Sounds like your boss has a pointy head to go with his pointy hair.

    I can terminate an ethernet cable and have it working in about a minute. If I was more practiced with it, I'd bet I could get that below 30 seconds.

  10. Re:How much is your time worth on Handmade vs. Commercially Produced Ethernet Cables · · Score: 1

    In the OP's case, he has a main T1 VPN line, so perhaps that weights the answer toward "yes".

    It doesn't.

  11. Re:Well on Wikipedia Threatens Artists For Fair Use · · Score: 1

    Wikipedia DOES exist so it can be used as a person's playground and for their pet projects. It's just that none of the people behind wikipediaart are that person.

  12. Re:One problem on Using Light's Handedness To Find Alien Life · · Score: 1

    Mass doesn't increase at *non*-relativistic speeds. At non-relativistic speeds, the conservation of mass applies.

    Anyway, it wouldn't require anything like blowing up a giant bomb. You don't need to get the rate of acceleration of the projectile very high. You just need to accelerate it for a long time.

  13. Re:Where there's a will... on Nintendo and the Decline of Hardcore Gaming · · Score: 1

    Plenty of players play dungeons. Fewer play end-game dungeons.

  14. Re:I nominate... on Biden Promises 'Right Person' As Copyright Czar · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Capitalism did implode. We were only hours away from the failure of the banking system. Without the govt. safety net, the largest banks and insurers would have failed, taking people's life savings with them. There is no question about that.

    Citation please.

  15. Re:I nominate... on Biden Promises 'Right Person' As Copyright Czar · · Score: 1

    We're fighting in SIXTEEN hemispheres!

  16. Re:I nominate... on Biden Promises 'Right Person' As Copyright Czar · · Score: 1

    I could make digital copies of CDs 15 years ago. For that matter, I could make digital copies of CDs 20 years ago. And I could do it without a computer, only with consumer audio equipment.

  17. Re:I nominate... on Biden Promises 'Right Person' As Copyright Czar · · Score: 2, Funny

    Fine. You stay at home. I'll keep going to the theater.

  18. Re:Inc. China on Germany Institutes Censorship Infrastructure · · Score: 1

    I tell you that I am the emperor of all creation. Do you believe me?

  19. Re:Clearly Erroneous on Germany Institutes Censorship Infrastructure · · Score: 1

    It seems to me that erroneus was being fecetious.

  20. I'm a developer, on First Android-Based Netbook, Set-Top Box · · Score: 2, Insightful

    so rather than having to go through the rigmarole of developing for this tiny set of Java classes, I'd much rather just develop for the Java SE and ME APIs with which I am already familiar.

    One of my favorite features of Java is its cross-platform compatibility.

  21. Rushing to Death on Hawking Expecting To Make Full Recovery · · Score: 3, Insightful

    But still, there's not reason to help death on its rounds...

    I, for one, am glad Professor Hawking is expected to recover.

  22. Re:Plagiarism takes yet another hit on Fair Use Affirmed In Turnitin Case · · Score: 1

    There's an old saying, "I love this fucking university, and this university loves fucking me."

  23. Android Java on First Android-Based Netbook, Set-Top Box · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'd be much more impressed with android if there was a full JRE available.

  24. Re:I beg to differ on The Taste Of Space · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Can vacuum have a smell? Might the lack of any matter provide a certain stimulus to our olfactory receptors? Similarly, might a vacuum have a taste?

  25. Copyright? Or privacy? on Fair Use Affirmed In Turnitin Case · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I understand and largely agree with the ruling, but isn't there another issue? Do I have any right to have my (quite possibly deeply personal) ideas kept private from this company (TurnItIn)? Do I have an expectation of any level of confidence between my teacher and myself?

    Might this lead to another argument in this kind of case?