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  1. So again the victims are left out on BitTorrent Trial Makes Australia's High Court · · Score: 1

    The people who can have their internet connection ended without trial are of course no party in such cases. Silly me. How could they?

  2. Naming suggestion on Oracle Acquires K-splice For an Undisclosed Amount · · Score: 1

    If the combination of a spoon and a fork is a spork, I suggest you name it "splork".

  3. Understatement on Google Acquires G.co Domain · · Score: 1

    That means you can visit a g.co shortcut confident you will always end up at a page for a Google product or service.

    I'm only confident that I will be tracked, photographed, my wifi details leaked and/or x-rayed. Privacy stops wherever you g.co?

  4. Let me get this straight on Mozilla BrowserID: Decentralized, Federated Login · · Score: 4, Insightful

    My browser will automatically provide my e-mail address? The very thing I do NOT want to provide when signing in with the majority of sites?

    Also, as a web developer, I think it is a real bad design error to use an e-mail address as a login. What happens if you change your provider? Do you log in with your new (thus unknown) e-mail address? Or do you want to send the lost password to the no longer existing one?

  5. Re:ah just what we need on Is the Military Prepared For Cyberwarfare? · · Score: 2

    But the US really wages war. Drugs are fought with jet bombers. Terrorism is fought with jet bombers - heck, two whole countries are almost wiped off the map to find two terrorists. Even international justice will probably fought with jet bombers. The threat has been issued already. I wish the USA would see that the War On [please fill in here] were not meant literally.

  6. Re:Riverworld on Belgrade Hosts First Public Solar-Powered Cell Charging Station · · Score: 1
  7. Internet café on Belgrade Hosts First Public Solar-Powered Cell Charging Station · · Score: 2

    Some internet cafés already do this. There is an internet connection and a wall socket. And coffee and good company.

  8. Re:I chose to opt out on Banks Find Way To Sell Consumers' Shopping Data · · Score: 2

    Same here. But the banks have fought back. Banks are not open anymore outside office hours, so I have the choice to either take a day off to get my money or to use an ATM. Where I live, you cannot even bring cash to a bank anymore. You read that right: banks don't accept cash. Banks' terms of service include sections on how you MUST cooperate into investigations about where your money is from. And our government made a bank account compulsory for the payment of salaries. You are very lucky to live in a place that allows such free behaviour.

  9. Errr, no. on Apple Ordered To Pay $8M For Playlist Patents · · Score: 1

    Look at what happened to the small aircraft industry in the USA. It has completely vanished. No smaller-than-huge company can survive a law suit anymore. Just one stupid "cat in the oven" suit can completely ruin a company and deter all the others in the field. In the end, it is only the big companies that survive.

  10. Re:storing personally identifiable information 101 on UK Police Database Abuse 'Hugely Intrusive' · · Score: 1, Insightful

    3) Now find the obvious analogy with fire arms.

  11. Storm computing on Facebook Blocks Google+ App, Google Removes Twitter From Real Time Search · · Score: 2

    Is when cloud computing is done by thunderclouds - battling each other!

  12. Re:Software Innovation Is Evolutionary on More Oracle Patents Declared Invalid · · Score: 1

    Maybe it is the world we live in. There are also great patent difficulties in DNA engineering, and a hardware factory is built before you can say "oops". So if you invent a nice structure and want to build it yourself, your competitors can often beat you in mere days. Even if you license the production to a factory, you can be beat before you know it.

    But I don't think that was any different in the old days. Maybe there weren't that many patents and maybe it was expensive even for a company to have a "defensive portfolio", but when the steam engine became economical enough for commercial production, none of the manufacturers could (or wanted to pay up to) build a state-of-the-art machine. There's always a technology that is "hot". Now it is bio-engineering and software engineering, back then it was steam power. It is these "hot" technologies that suffer. Nothing has changed, really.

  13. Re:So... on Japanese Team Finds New Source of Rare Earth Elements · · Score: 1

    So the US threatening to attack the Netherlands with military force if any american must appear before the International Court of Justice is NOT a declaration of war? Then what is?

  14. Re:So... on Japanese Team Finds New Source of Rare Earth Elements · · Score: 1

    Neither off course.

  15. Re:anyone really surpriced? on Law Professors vs the PROTECT IP Act · · Score: 1

    No. there is nothing civil about that union.

  16. Re:Software Innovation Is Evolutionary on More Oracle Patents Declared Invalid · · Score: 2

    Absolutely true. But the very same applies to any technology. The steam engine wasn't invented in one go either, and patents hindered its development also as different "inventors" did not want to pay for each other's patents.

  17. Re:Fees? on More Oracle Patents Declared Invalid · · Score: 1

    Who else? Isn't the USPTO a government organization?

  18. Re:another win! on More Oracle Patents Declared Invalid · · Score: 1

    Even better: patents are not transferable period. You can't give the fact that you've invented something away. This does not hinder the fact that the inventor is not a full-size factory: the inventor can always grant a factory a license to manufacture under his patent.

  19. Re:Cartelized education on South Korean Textbooks to Go Digital by 2015 · · Score: 1

    Which means they don't. If only megacorps can compete, something's awfully wrong with the market.

  20. Re:Why would I want an arm operated by a monkey? on Bionic Body Parts For the Disabled · · Score: 4, Funny

    The bionic brains of politicians are already operated by monkeys for years. That is why they talk sense once in a while. It is only natural to extend that success to other implants.

  21. New excuse on South Korean Textbooks to Go Digital by 2015 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I did not do my homework because my batteries ran out.

  22. Correlation and causation on Is There a Formula For a Hit Song? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Did they only look at the hits or also at the misses? There are bound to be enough songs that abide the "formula" but lack enough musicality to become a hit.

  23. Probably not on Survey Shows Support For New Privacy Laws · · Score: 2

    Probably not, Because such a list should at least identify you. I find such a list just too stupid for words, because you first have to be identified to be looked up on the list, while I don't want to be identified at all.

  24. Wrong line of thought on The Lesson of Recent Hacktivism · · Score: 1

    The first law of security is that if anyone get in, anyone can get in. If you make sensitive data available via the web, it is accessible via the web. By anyone. You can make it hard to access, even extremely hard to access, but not impossible. So the very first step in security is the question why the hell you would want to hand over your responsibilities to some automaton that can be accessed by anyone.

  25. Re:Second-hand??? on Capcom Announces Unreplayable Game · · Score: 1

    Indeed. This is discrimination. We who have no long-time memory also have rights!