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  1. Re:Explanation on Robotic Audi To Brave Pikes Peak Without a Driver · · Score: 2, Informative
  2. Re:Before the arguments start? on Fair Use Defense Dismissed In SONY V. Tenenbaum · · Score: 1

    The defense actually has to submit a summary of the defense strategy they want to use in the pre-trial stage. It saves a lot of time if the judge is not going to allow the defense in the end. If the defense isn't able to convince the judge in the summary they won't be able to convince the judge at trial and the jury will not be allowed to clear the defendant based on that defense even if they agree with it.

  3. Re:Halfway Competent on Undercover Cameras Catch PC Repair Scams, Privacy Violations · · Score: 3, Informative

    Plenty of old cars shared a reservoir for the brake and power steering fluids.

  4. Re:Selective Values on The Technology Keeping Information Flowing in Iran · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You mean besides for the LA Times and every other major newspaper in the US? And Slate? And a million other blogs with admins who have an interest in these events? It isn't tech related at all, there's no great cry for democracy. It's just another coup in an insignificant country.

  5. Re:Unethical, but not illegal on Investing In Lawsuits Beats the Street · · Score: 1

    Borders should be defined strictly. If they are not, the law is faulty and needs to be fixed.

    That is precisely what happens when a Judge hands down a decision on a border case. That judgment becomes a precedent which is as good as law in a courtroom unless the previous judgment is overturned. There are too many possible border cases, consider V&T laws, custody battles,corporate fraud, etc...; situations where the human element introduces a mind boggling number of variables. Lawmaker cannot possibly define a law that covers every contingency. That is the Judges job.

  6. Re:I hope they make the plug stronger on SATA 3.0 Release Paves the Way To 6Gb/sec Devices · · Score: 3, Informative

    Same here. I plugged in a drive a few weeks ago with a regular straight cable and bent the cable up to fit in the case and the connector promptly snapped off.

  7. Re:Easy solution on Internet-Caused Mistrials Are On the Rise · · Score: 1

    Because there is a slim to none chance that 12 random people on a jury all have the same agenda.

  8. Re:Attention all personnel on State of Colorado Calls Firefox Insecure, IE6 Safe · · Score: 2, Informative

    VB.NET and C#.NET produce identical code once compiled. That may not be a good thing in and of itself but I use VB.NET for small modules myself when getting it done fast is more important than clean, compact code (one time use scripts, reports, etc). Whoever did this is clearly an amateur, but not because they use VB.

  9. Re:Blow to "Fine print" contracts? on "Do Not Call" Violators Fined $1.2M · · Score: 1

    "Privacy Policies" and "Terms and Conditions" have no legal clout on their own. You can't violate a law because you state that you're going to in your privacy policy, which is exactly what has happened here.

  10. Re:US Corp. Tax Load VS Other Countries is... on GAO Reports Bailout and Tech Firms Love Tax Havens · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The billions and billions of dollars that sit in corporate bank accounts shouldn't be taxed? CEOs will just start using expense accounts for everything instead of multi-million dollar salaries.

  11. Re:Geolocation libraries on Making BitTorrent Clients Prioritize By Geography? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The 99.5% accuracy number is considerably greater than 1/200. The accuracy figure is not a percentage of lookups that are incorrect, but of how close to the correct physical location the query result will be. Even the .5% of wrong locations won't be on the wrong side of the planet so it still makes for a very useful resource for figuring out regions.

  12. Re:a way to make money on Apple Quietly Recommends Antivirus Software For Macs · · Score: 1

    Market share may not have anything to do with the ease of breaking into a system, but it certainly makes it a desirable system to break into.

    Market share + flaw = exploit

    A coder trying to build a bot-net most definitely cares about market share, as does anybody who is profiting from compromising computers (spyware/adware).

  13. Re:Most important app didn't require software on (Useful) Stupid BlackBerry Tricks? · · Score: 1

    If you have the video camera app you can hit spacebar twice to turn on the flash permanently. A real flashlight.

  14. Re:Yes/No on Should Companies Share Criminal Blame In ID Theft? · · Score: 1

    Can you cite any database that uses the SSN as a primary key? You'd have to be a pretty dumb database designer to do that. Even if the database doesn't allow for duplicate SSN's, it would be accomplished with a constraint on the SSN field with a normal, auto-incrementing integer as the primary key.