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  1. Re: on UK Musicians Back Watered-Down "Three-Strikes" Rule · · Score: -1

    Lets take the closest physical thing to the music industry, a book store. I can go into almost any book store and read the entire thing if I so please. Guess what? They don't come running over to you screaming "thief!" and press charges when you do that. In fact, many book stores actually -encourage- reading by providing comfortable chairs and tables for reading and having coffee shops so you can drink coffee while you read.

  2. Re: on UK Musicians Back Watered-Down "Three-Strikes" Rule · · Score: -1

    So does 150 year+ copyrights, but i don't see them *****ing about that. To all those that think copyrights as they are is a good thing I have one sentence for you: Steamboat Willie is STILL under copyright. The man has been wormfood(or a Popsicle) for nearly a half a century, yet one of his FIRST works, made when airplanes were made of cloth and antibiotics were just a dream, is STILL under copyright. I think we can all agree that is pretty ****ed up.If we had SANE copyrights there would be no reason why I

  3. Re: on SpaceX Announces Dragon As First Falcon 9 Payload · · Score: -1

    I would categorically disagree with you, sir. NASA has been in the manned military business for years. One of the stipulations (aka limitations) that the Pentagon placed on the Space Transportation System program was for the Space Shuttle to have low-earth orbit capability for satellite retrieval.

  4. Re: on Ballmer Admits "We Screwed Up Windows Mobile" · · Score: -1

    Didn't those all die, at the same instant due to a software bug?

  5. Re: on South Africa's TB-Infected Saliva Trade is Booming · · Score: -1

    Having grown up in south africa and recently left, I have to say this doesn't surprise me at all. what honestly surprises me(and will also surprise my sister when I go tell her about the latest za scam) is that there's medical grants? o_O seriously? medical grants? Holy crap, THAT should be news.

  6. Re: on Microsoft Says Google Chrome Frame Makes IE Less Secure · · Score: -1

    you're one of the rarest groups of all the fish in the pond, so to speak, per-se.Most of us like companies that patch vulnerabilities much faster/make browsers that are standards compliant, both from a legal perspective (meaning our employers are happier -not for me personally), and also from a safety/update perspective.

  7. Electrical!? on Data Center Flood Captured By Security Cam · · Score: -1

    It is not exactly rocket surgery, is it? Or even "brain science".

  8. Re: on AMD's DX11 Radeons Can Drive Six 30 Displays · · Score: -1

    Your real doll?

  9. Re: on AMD's DX11 Radeons Can Drive Six 30 Displays · · Score: -1

    Most games in multimon scenarios really need odd number of displays; 5 is better than 6 in this case

  10. What? on South Africa's TB-Infected Saliva Trade is Booming · · Score: -1

    yes, and the vast majority of them are better people than you, cowardly ****head.

  11. Re: on The Perils of Ramming Products Down IT's Throat · · Score: -1

    Sound about rights. When I received the email from my manager (who also happened to be a contractor) which said, "Where's that circuit card design? If you can't do it, I'll find somebody who can," I knew for certain my time was up. I finished the design on Sunday morning and then sat-around surfing the net and watching my paycheck climb at $75 each hour. The axe fell two days later.And I don't blame my manager, although that email threat was uncalled for. I blame the manager-of-the-manager-of-the-man

  12. Oops! on Data Center Flood Captured By Security Cam · · Score: -1

    I largely agree. When we moved to Texas, my wife wanted a house by a creek. Everything we looked at was built above the flood line, but by quick inspection I could see which houses were going to be undermined by repeated flooding of their creeks. (For some houses the "upper" backyards were already peeling away.)Once we moved into a place (with a very solid retaining wall just where it needs to be) I had to convince my wife that we shouldn't put in benches or swing sets in the "lower" back yard. She thou

  13. Re: on Data Center Flood Captured By Security Cam · · Score: -1

    I beg to differ on the current. If you look at the buildup of the water on the door and window supports, it looks like there's at least half a foot of pileup due to water velocity. There are some pulsating waves so you know it's not just head difference between inside and outside. That water appears to be moving a couple of feet per second, especially after the breakthroughs. It's not a seeping flood, they're getting real velocity.I don't think I've ever heard of flood water velocity as a measure of dis

  14. Re: on Data Center Flood Captured By Security Cam · · Score: -1

    Don't worryIts standard procedure when dealing with 'lp0 printer on fire!' errors

  15. Overreaction much? on South Africa's TB-Infected Saliva Trade is Booming · · Score: -1

    Am I the only one that is completely confused?

  16. Re: on Mozilla Firefox Not In Violation of US Export Rules · · Score: -1

    If all they succeed in doing is reducing legitimate commercial trade in such products, they're hurting themselves but at the same time improving the market tremendously for illicit dealers (note this observation applies to drugs as well, hmm).Yeah, that's why the export restrictions were lifted in the late 90s. Because all it was doing was hurting our domestic encryption companies. Back then, when Mozilla was still Netscape, you had to assert that you were in the U.S. or download a version with weaker encryption. Free software that used strong encryption had to be hosted on sites outside the U.S.That was over 10 years ago. Now we still have restrictions about exporting to certain not-our-friend countries, but ultimately that's because (despite more cynical interpretations) we know that they can get this technology without our assistance, but that doesn't mean we're going to hand it to them.But while that makes sense for some technologies, it doesn't make much sense for a free software browser implementing SSL because for one there are plenty of other SSL implementations out there and for two us not handing it to them only leaves, oh, about a billion others more than happy to allow downloads from Iran.So look at that

  17. Re:free speech on Mozilla Firefox Not In Violation of US Export Rules · · Score: -1

    Crypto just takes some smart folks to create it. I get the impression that the US Government doesn't believe that people outside its borders are capable of developing their own.

  18. I don't know why one would imply the other. The underlying laws (copyright law vs. defamation laws) are completely different in terms of rationale and of what constitutes an offense.

  19. Re: on Man Accused of Really Liking Piggy Back Rides · · Score: -1

    Am I the only one that is completely confused?

  20. Re: on Fungivarius Beats $2 Million Stradivarius Violin · · Score: -1

    Hmm...It would be cool to seem them use the 'wood' to create super versions of say...a Telecaster that would be a perfect specimen in the future...

  21. Re:Reminds me of on Fungivarius Beats $2 Million Stradivarius Violin · · Score: -1

    Any time I see someone playing a violin I ask if they can play "Devil Went Down to Georgia." I usually don't get positive responses...

  22. Re: on Congress Mulls Research Into a Vehicle Mileage Tax · · Score: -1

    No.. Oregon's biggest city sits right across a bridge from the state of Washington. Supposedly, in the study, you would only be taxed for driving in the state of Oregon, however, one of the things they envisioned was getting rid of gas taxes, and tollbooths, and if you drove between states, you would pay to each state based on how many miles you drove in it.

  23. Re: on Low-Tech Centrifuge Made From An Eggbeater · · Score: -1

    BooooooI guess the yolks on me.

  24. SAS not SATA on Start-up Claims SSD Achieves 180,000 IOPS · · Score: -1

    The 12 independent channels can be accessed as RAID-0 if needed, giving upwards of 12x the speed of a single channel, but this is done by the onboard controller, not by anything else.Intel uses 10 independent channels to achieve their speeds, also in a "RAID-0" like setup.

  25. Re: on Low-Tech Centrifuge Made From An Eggbeater · · Score: -1

    BooooooI guess the yolks on me.