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  1. Re:To be fair, here is link with ads on A5: All Apple, Part Mystery · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's not the advertisements that tend to make people link to the print version, it's when they spread the article out over several pages. I don't mind advertisements at all, but I hate the online equivalent of turning to several different newspaper pages to finish a single article.

  2. Re:NZL? WTF? on NZL Govt Rushes Thru Controversial Anti-Piracy Law · · Score: 1

    NZL is the 3-character country code. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-3

  3. Re:Like PayPal is a bank? on Facebook To Be 'Biggest Bank' By 2015 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I agree. What a terrible prediction. Facebook trying to make it easy to exchange Facebook credits for currency doesn't make it a bank in any way that a normal person would consider a bank. They don't offer credit lines. People aren't sending money to each other through it. They're not even at PayPal levels of bank functionality.

  4. Re:hmmm... on Senator Wants to Tax Internet Shopping · · Score: 1

    We're required to report unpaid sales taxes (for purchases made out-of-state, like from Amazon, for use in-state) on our yearly state income tax return forms. It's supposed to be collected at tax time for out-of-state purchases, since out-of-state businesses aren't required to do the legwork of collecting it.

  5. Re:Internet shopping was NEVER tax-free. on Senator Wants to Tax Internet Shopping · · Score: 1

    Think of our states like countries in the EU. That's how our system was originally set up.

  6. Re:Another extension? on Denmark Now Supports EU Copyright Term Extension · · Score: 2

    Well what motivation would they have to create if they couldn't be assured that their ancestors will be able to make money off of it until the heat-death of the universe?

    I presume you're implying that they'll invent time-travel, and that will in turn require the use of very strange verb conjugations.

  7. Re:I know it's petty... on Fermi Lab May Have Discovered New Particle or Force · · Score: 1

    It's been a long time since I laughed at a grammar joke.

  8. Re:As usual on MythBuster Developing Light-Weight Vehicle Armor · · Score: 1

    The rigor also is only useful for negative results. For positive results, rigor is unnecessary; if you aim to prove that something is possible, and you can make it happen, then it's possible.

    2 words: Cold Fusion

  9. Re:I think I heard of this somewhere before... on Interpol Wants a Global Identity Card System · · Score: 1

    Read Foundation sometime.

  10. Re:pseudocode on RIAA Lobbyist Becomes Federal Judge, Rules On File-Sharing Cases · · Score: 1

    Nice timing, you got in immediately prior to the person who posted the "Blame Obama" comment.

  11. Re:If you're taking a game that serously, you fail on Top French Chess Players Suspended For Cheating · · Score: 1
  12. Re:Unexpected benefits on Google Won't Pull Checkpoint Evasion App · · Score: 1

    To be clear, that can also be a signal that something's wrong with your car (like that you have a headlight out or your lights aren't on).

    I just wish there were a reliable way to indicate to people that their taillights aren't on, those utter idiots.

  13. Re:I think most of it is crap... on Gadgets For the Ghosthunter · · Score: 1

    "Ok, now I want you to call in if you're the Antichrist."

  14. Re:Public Information on Senators To Apple: Pull iPhone DUI-Check Alerts · · Score: 2

    Similarly: Just because I'm driving the speed limit, I stay between the lines, my registration's up to date, and I'm not under the influence of any drugs, it doesn't mean I'm comfortable having a police car right behind me for 10 miles. I try to look for the first non-suspicious location to get out of the way.

  15. Re:"rationing" healthcare on System Measures Stress In Emergency Callers' Voice · · Score: 1

    In the US, your wealth probably plays in a lot more (i.e. can you afford the surgery?)

    It's actually, "Can you afford the private jet to make yourself a possible candidate in a wider area given the short life of donor organs?" Same idea, though.

  16. Re:5..4...3... on ICANN Approves .XXX · · Score: 1

    There is no right not to be offended.

  17. Re:Finally... on Visa To Offer Person-To-Person Payments · · Score: 1

    In the US, Paper checks are free and transferring money electronically costs us money.

  18. Re:Warez on White House Wants New Copyright Law Crackdown · · Score: 1

    I would have to accept it. I'd then find another job where I consider it worth my while, or find a way to make myself worth higher pay to my employer. Nobody has an implicit right for things to stay the same. Only explicit contracts provide that.

    Nobody has the right to be paid. Someone has to decide to pay you for what you're offering. If your offering isn't worth the cost, people won't pay it.

  19. Re:Warez on White House Wants New Copyright Law Crackdown · · Score: 1

    Because it destroys small businesses and seriously hurts medium sized business.

    If a small-to-medium business's leadership has chosen an unsustainable business model that's disconnected from reality, then it's their own fault if the business goes under. There can be new businesses if a given model doesn't work out. That's how our economic system works.

  20. Re:Warez on White House Wants New Copyright Law Crackdown · · Score: 1

    Thanks. I was going to reply, but yours is more concise.

  21. Re:WTF on White House Wants New Copyright Law Crackdown · · Score: 5, Insightful

    3) is "Receive Campaign Contributions" or "Accept Lucrative Revolving-Door Job". It's actually not a mystery in this situation.

  22. Re:Warez on White House Wants New Copyright Law Crackdown · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You have to admit that copyright infringement is a major problem that needs to be handled one way or another.

    Why? If people create content regardless of copyright infringement, which is the purpose of copyright, I fail to see why it's a major problem that needs to be handled.

  23. Re:WANT! on $30 GPS Jammer Can Wreak Havok · · Score: 3, Informative

    They continue to be extremely illegal. Tread softly.

  24. Re:For what reason? on Posting AC - a Thing of the Past? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why does that need to be a crime? I could understand being charged with your complicity in the trampling deaths (say, some degree of negligent manslaughter), but why should yelling fire itself be criminal? That just sets up the government to decide other things are also illegal to say.

  25. Re:Half GB worth of pictures? on A Half-Gigabyte View of the Moon · · Score: 1

    It's actually a single, gigantic .tif file.