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  1. Re:Tit for Tat on Canadian Border Tightens Due to Info Sharing · · Score: 1

    Out of curiousity, do any lawyers out there know what sort of jurisdiction US agents would even HAVE for an international flight touching down WITHOUT MEMBERS PASSING THROUGH US CUSTOMS? if they were passed through customs i would understand as they would then officially be on US soil, but until that point isnt their airplane and international gates considered an international territory?

  2. Re:Well then, send me a recruiter and ROLL ME IN ! on Ohio University Leads U.S. Colleges in File Sharing · · Score: 1

    Now we know that liberty can be quantified by RIAA notices, and tallying the drunken shouts of WOOO down the avenues!

    Course if R.K.L. Collins and D.M. Skover are correct on that front, then this IS a useful measure =)

  3. Re:"Reasonable attorney fees"... on RIAA Appeals Award of Attorneys' Fees · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sadly i do not see this flying, although it'd be a nice jab to the RIAA collective chin. If someone attempted that, all the RIAA would have to do is cite "reasonable and customary costs" with regards to the legal fees.

    Sadly, their music has a long history of being overvalued, and have a lot of "process" related costs they can use to confuse or distract from the true "cost" of the intangible good. This makes it possible for them to make ridiculous claims while being safe from feedback in return.

  4. Re:Waits for it.. on Ex-judge Gets 27 Months on Evidence From Hacked PC · · Score: 1

    There isn't, if they're intelligent.
    You dont catch the offenders who know how not to get caught.

  5. Re:So Our First Sign of Extraterrestrial Civilizat on First Exoplanet Atmospheres Analyzed · · Score: 1

    I think we'd be more amazed to discover a planet with an ozone layer, period. Add a spun-iron-core magnetic field to it and we'd be ecstatic.

  6. Re:Vista security is.. on Vista Security — Too Little Too Late · · Score: 1

    Definitely even worse, just like the article states, as it allows microsoft to say "well our OS _ASKED_ if you wanted to!" regardless of obvious human psychology issues.

  7. Re:heh heh on 4 GB May Be Vista's RAM Sweet Spot · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You sir are the scourge of offices at 6am, there should be no horrible humour before people manage to wake up enough to notice its horrible straight off!

  8. Re:it's just politics on Europe Moves To Track Phone and Net Use · · Score: 1

    Reasonable people are almost by definition less vocal than the completely irrational. Please advise your reasonable people to give voice to their rationality.

  9. Re:remember the Gold Box games? on 'Losing For The Win' In Games · · Score: 1

    Not at all for BG2, since BG2 started your characters at about the level range you would need to compete in that first dungeon, your characters from bg2 should at least have their stats and skills.

    However, if you were kidnapped by a crazy amoral elvish outcast, i'm pretty sure he'd take your gear too.

    heh

  10. Re:Baldur's Gate and NWN on Why Computer RPGs Waste Your Time · · Score: 1

    heroes of might and magic

  11. Re:Ringed black hole on Atom Smasher May Create "Black Saturns" · · Score: 1

    I have this strange feeling that the prev parent is using an internet cafe. I cant imagine why i would think this.

  12. Re:Captain Copyright Farewell Message on Captain Copyright Expires · · Score: 3, Interesting

    as well as the positive feedback and requests for literally hundreds of lesson kits from teachers and librarians See, now I know we canadians are small in terms of demographics, but I do not see how one could be so pleased about "literally hundreds" of lesson kits. How many primary and secondary educational instutitions do we have in canada again?

  13. And in... on Social Networking Sites Opening Their APIs · · Score: 1

    other news, Marketing data miners wring their hands and cackle with glee. Coming up at 11.

  14. Re:And the point is? on Motorola Unveils Phone That Bends · · Score: 1

    That is because you don't think like an evil marketing director. If you want to add artificial obsolescence to your devices, why not add moving parts. Stress points? Why yes, the more the merrier, thankfully cabling and such will snap sooner.

    Whats that? You're on a 36 month contract and do not want to pay for your service with no device to use the service? Well you're in luck, You can buy another! No cash on hand? Thats ok, just sign on the dotted line.

    I mean, having a difficulty caused by a contract is definitely a reason to sign a longer contract....isnt it?

  15. Re:What? on Google Accused of Benefitting From Piracy · · Score: 1

    Imagine complaining to google about them making piles of cash from the KKK website Correct point concerning the fact that it is entirely unethical for them to have worked so closely with criminals, but poor choice of analogy. Since Google is an American company they could just cry freedom of speech on that front (however, they'd still have some 'splainin to do if they did, as you said "See china"). Bigots and idiots arent illegal everywhere, and I dont know whether to append sadly to that or not.

  16. Re:botnet on US Planning Response To a Cyber Attack · · Score: 1

    But...But....

    You can't hug your children with nuclear arms!

  17. Re:Father knows best... on Canadian Government Rejects Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 1

    "Oh i'm sorry, there arent any notes on the account about that"

  18. Re:wow... on Psychoanalyzing Resident Evil and Silent Hill · · Score: 1

    seconded, albeit s/[.]/ that wasnt work related./

  19. Re:Scientology isn't a Religion on Scientology Critic Arrested After 6 Years · · Score: 1

    It is a shoe!!

  20. Who's the @**hole now! on Aqua Teen Hunger Force Brings Boston to a Halt · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Think what would happen if administrators in vegas turned paranoid of every blinking light. I can understand checking on it, even applaud it despite the oddity of it all, but I dont understand why anyone would be irate when it turned out to be nothing.

  21. Dangerous Thinking. on Why You & Yahoo Should Like This Human Rights Law · · Score: 1

    It's painful to give a pass to countries like Germany that also censor political speech, but I think that the situation is so much worse in places like China that we should do what we can in the short term. Its very dangerous to set precedents where certain groups are excluded from the wording. It might be more difficult than one thinks to expand a definition concerning who is an internet restricting country.

    IANAL as per most such comments =)
  22. Re:individual doing this would go to jail on Sony Settles With FTC Over Rootkits · · Score: 1

    oh, i also forgot two words: Legal Department.

    Not many individuals have one.

  23. Re:individual doing this would go to jail on Sony Settles With FTC Over Rootkits · · Score: 2, Informative

    Because avoiding jail time is expensive, and how many individuals have deeper pockets than even an average sized corporation?

    Sad, but true.

  24. Re:Good job, /. on Interview With "Switcher Girl" Ellen Feiss · · Score: 1

    Seems the best analogy for Apple advertising that I can think of, thats for sure. Only appropriate given the articles content =).

  25. Re:Dune on Water From Wind · · Score: 1

    I've always wondered what would happen if OPEC just stood up and said "The spice will NOT flow."