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  1. Re:Time to Learn Limits on Canadian Court Orders Google To Remove Websites From Its Global Index · · Score: 1

    MS - International Company
    Apple - International Company

    How else are they going to offshore their profits to avoid taxes?

  2. Re:Doesn't work that way on Ikea Sends IkeaHackers Blog a C&D Order · · Score: 2

    They are already retaining that lawyer whether they license the trademark to that site or not. And if it costs them a few dollars, it's still relatively cheap advertising by a willing volunteer.

  3. Re:If generic and common behavior patents are... on Chinese Gov't Reveals Microsoft's Secret List of Android-Killer Patents · · Score: 1

    OK - it's a big part of the Communist Party of China's practices. Better?

  4. Re:Ikea evil? on Ikea Sends IkeaHackers Blog a C&D Order · · Score: 1

    It's free advertising for IKEA - the last thing they want is for the site to just disappear. But they still have to defend their trademark.

  5. Re:Ikea evil? on Ikea Sends IkeaHackers Blog a C&D Order · · Score: 1

    For a few dollars, you buy a new domain and the old one redirects for 6 months before disappearing. I would be surprised if IKEA wasn't fine with that.

  6. Re:Confusion? Really? on Ikea Sends IkeaHackers Blog a C&D Order · · Score: 2

    If you have 19 inches between the legs, you probably don't need to worry about a rack mount.

  7. Re:Confusion? Really? on Ikea Sends IkeaHackers Blog a C&D Order · · Score: 1

    Or licensing it for $1/yr.

  8. Re:If generic and common behavior patents are... on Chinese Gov't Reveals Microsoft's Secret List of Android-Killer Patents · · Score: 1

    This list is also from a nation that's famous for its industrial espionage, which is a big part of communism.

  9. Re:Noah's Ark Story on New Evidence For Oceans of Water Deep In the Earth · · Score: 1

    Oh, sure. A 5.3 million year old flood is much more likely to have survived by oral storytelling tradition.

  10. Re:Old bible scolars on New Evidence For Oceans of Water Deep In the Earth · · Score: 1

    Literal or not, it's still interesting to bring up. There are a lot of insights that were ahead of their time - such as the avoidance of pork (a meat that's far worse than average in harboring parasites).

  11. Re:300 miles down... on New Evidence For Oceans of Water Deep In the Earth · · Score: 1

    Line it with man-made diamond. And then when you hit a certain depth, you have to find a way for all the molten rock under pressure not to shoot out of your artificial volcano.

  12. Re:Ingredients for water? on New Evidence For Oceans of Water Deep In the Earth · · Score: 1

    Spelling variations don't make it a different measurement.

    Especially when you're going to pick on a nit as small as -re vs. -er (which is really a french-spelling rather than British English specifically). In English, words have slowly been switching to the latter form for centuries. Words like enter among the first. American English is changing more quickly simply by not being close to France, I assume.

  13. Re:"Safety Requirements"? on California Regulators Tell Ride-Shares No Airport Runs · · Score: 2

    But the word Republic is right on California's flag. As residents of a Republic, they are Republicans.

  14. Re:Ultimately useless? on Theater Chain Bans Google Glass · · Score: 1

    Right - certainly coming soon, but I'm not sure it's actually here yet. I was thinking more of people who were confusing the idea that digitally shot movies couldn't be transferred to film.

  15. Re:scabs suck. next you'll skip paying bribes. on Uber Demonstrations Snarl Traffic In London, Madrid, Berlin · · Score: 1

    Can you really deny the hilarity of your post? It only said two things - it's deregulated. Here are the regulations.

    We're not all in the field of Economics, but yes, I do know what deregulated means. Even If you were speaking only to economists, that irony wouldn't go unnoticed.

  16. Re:Disruptive technology on Uber Demonstrations Snarl Traffic In London, Madrid, Berlin · · Score: 3, Informative

    Those pages are about pickets, but refer to laws that cover any demonstration.

    Article 11 of the Convention of Human Rights (1998):

    (1) Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and to freedom of association with others, including the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.

    (2) No restrictions shall be placed on the exercise of these rights other than such as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society in the interests of national security or public safety, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others. This Article shall not prevent the imposition of lawful restrictions on the exercise of these rights by members of the armed forces, or the police, or of the administration of the State.

    The important part of this is "for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others." In UK law, use of the highway is considered a legal right. A partial blockage of a road is OK, but a total blockage infringes on the rights of others.

  17. Re:That's great, but... on HP Unveils 'The Machine,' a New Computer Architecture · · Score: 1

    The question is...will it be a Social Security Number or the number 42?

    Either way, you're going to need memristors when you're processing that much data.

  18. Re:With a name like that... on HP Unveils 'The Machine,' a New Computer Architecture · · Score: 1

    Probably better than using the theme music from Person of Interest. Naming anything "The Machine" while that show is still going seems like poor marketing to me. Unless they're shopping it to the NSA.

  19. Re: A publicity stunt that marred by busted search on Project Un1c0rn Wants To Be the Google For Lazy Security Flaws · · Score: 1

    If the 3rd-party software is extensible in any way, making it so that a period is not considered a space/separator character would do the trick for almost all these sorts of problems.

  20. Re:show me on Uber Demonstrations Snarl Traffic In London, Madrid, Berlin · · Score: 1

    Burden of proof is on you here. Show a definition of scam loose enough to include any law violation.

  21. Re:scabs suck. next you'll skip paying bribes. on Uber Demonstrations Snarl Traffic In London, Madrid, Berlin · · Score: 1

    Those 4 rules are called regulations. They were just pointing out your nonsense wording.

  22. Re:Disruptive technology on Uber Demonstrations Snarl Traffic In London, Madrid, Berlin · · Score: 1

    But by blocking the road, which is explicitly illegal - at least according to the UK Government's own interpretation:
    https://www.gov.uk/industrial-...
    http://www.bis.gov.uk/assets/b...

  23. Re:Alama being sensationalist again... on Theater Chain Bans Google Glass · · Score: 1

    Forget attention. The point of watching a movie in a theater isn't attention, it's immersion. If cell phones had a near-zero brightness level that could be enabled that would be a start (they don't - because users wouldn't be able to see well enough to turn it off in normal room lighting). A cell phone screen is always distracting and annoying. It may not break attention, but it breaks immersion - something that makes or breaks theaters. The ideal field of view for proper film immersion is 30 to 40 degrees (depending whether you ask SMPTE or THX). Setting this up at home with the proper sound is not easy. People pay for a movie for what they can't get at home.

    There are very few reasons that require checking a cell phone once that can't simply wait until the movie is over. If you suspect an urgent situation involving one or a few persons, set the phone to vibrate for those contacts, silence for all others. No need to check the phone - just leave if that call comes in. Anything else is pure impatience. Zero tolerance is because when you multiply that "once" by 200 people, there's a light popping on every minute. It seriously adds up.

  24. Re:Alama being sensationalist again... on Theater Chain Bans Google Glass · · Score: 1

    The ones with zero tolerance have something wrong with their ability to direct attention.

    Are you sure it's not the cell phone users that have a problem keeping their attention directed?

  25. Re:Alama being sensationalist again... on Theater Chain Bans Google Glass · · Score: 1

    You can't just mark up a movie ticket and fix your profit margin. After a fixed allowance ("house nut"), most movie theaters lose 85-90+% of the ticket price to the distributor during opening weekends as part of their agreement. So to get a decent amount of profit, ticket prices would have to way more than double. I'd rather leave it to the person who buys way too many concessions to subsidize my visit under the current system.

    The other fix is to have a dozen screens so that you're making profits on running older movies that are much cheaper to show. Which is being done these days. But that has a limited audience.