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  1. Re:What makes someone a Troll? on East Texas Judge Throws Out 168 Patent Cases · · Score: 1

    Look at the industries without IP like restaurants and fashion.

    Not really comparable. Restaurants have limited capacity and automation, so McDonald's cannot be 10 times cheaper than Papa Joe's Fries, so no winner-takes-it-all problem there. Fashion-aware people don't want to be seen in the same clothes as everybody else. In IT you do want to use whatever everybody else uses, it makes your life easier.

  2. Re:How much will it cost. on Elon Musk Predicts 1,000km EV Range In Two Years, Autonomous Cars In Three · · Score: 1

    Charging at home every day, assuming an outdoor parking spot in the yard. he certainly spends more than that untangling the cables, plugging in, putting the cables back...

  3. Re:If your boss was just as understanding for on Starting Now At Netflix: Unlimited Maternity and Paternity Leave · · Score: 1

    Just the breeders. Because it will be the breeder's children treating your cancer and changing your diapers once you get old, your turtle won't do that. Even your money will only do that if there will be the breeder's children around to work for that money.

    Of course, the cost of the leave is more fairly distributed if paid by the state from taxes, rather than by the company directly.

  4. Re:It is what it is on Twilight of the Bomb · · Score: 1

    In a full-scale war like WWII, most of the soldiers are just civilians drafted into military service, or else they be shot. So killing 80 000 Japanese soldiers would not really be that much better.

  5. Re:Outside help on Software Devs Leaving Greece For Good, Finance Minister Resigns · · Score: 1

    But not any better in spelling.

  6. Re:They're bums, why keep them around on Greece Is Running Out of Money, Cannot Make June IMF Repayment · · Score: 1

    they promised to live within budget when they joined the monetary union

    So did the Germans, who were one of the first countries to break the deficit rules. They were lucky that this wasn't followed by a global recession.

  7. Re:It's not a networking issue. on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Solve a Unique Networking Issue? · · Score: 1

    I do want to be remembered for having my two sons, but if my mom was watching... no way!

  8. Re:What does it say about you? on Does Using an AOL Email Address Suggest You're a Tech Dinosaur? · · Score: 1

    ... it does not display pubic transport correctly. (Depends heavily on the zoom factor,

    Indeed, you have to zoom quite in to see the pubic transport.

  9. Re:Pressuring the majority? on Religious Affiliation Shrinking In the US · · Score: 1

    Does that mean you can refuse to testify just by being/claiming to be an atheist?

  10. Re:Does it matter? on TeslaCrypt Isn't All That Cryptic · · Score: 1

    And this is why I regularly back up my two sons!

  11. Re:*Grabs a bowl of popcorn* on Can High Intelligence Be a Burden Rather Than a Boon? · · Score: 1

    If the meaning of your life depends on your children, then the meaning of their lives must depend on the meaning of their children, etc. etc.

    Exactly. Because the species with other priorities went extinct already.

  12. No, no, you've got it wrong. Living in a hurricane zone is OK, it's dying in a hurricane zone that you want to avoid.

  13. Every year... a couple of GBs... of most important financial data? Who are you? Citibank?

  14. Re:other stuff matters also? I claim it does on Inexpensive Electric Cars May Arrive Sooner Than You Think · · Score: 1

    Or Dubai?

  15. Also, never buy your wife any gifts, since it comes off the common family budget anyway. Just give her cash instead.

  16. Re:Come on... on $10K Ethernet Cable Claims Audio Fidelity, If You're Stupid Enough To Buy It · · Score: 1

    The recording room has grown

    I guess renting a recording room is quite expensive... so if you can just rent a really small one and "grow" it with these cables, they easily pay for themselves.

  17. Re:I fail to see how it's any worse than other UIs on The Uncanny Valley of Voice Recognition · · Score: 2

    but when I click a button the button is bloody well clicked

    Looks like you don't have much experience with cheap touch screens.

  18. app permissions on Smartphone Attachment Can Test For HIV In 15 Minutes · · Score: 1

    The app requires access to:
    -your identity
    -your contact list
    -your call history
    -full internet access
    By using this app, you agree to our privacy policy.

  19. Re:The biggest failure of science: on Too Much Exercise May Not Be Better Than a Sedentary Lifestyle · · Score: 1

    10.3 km/h on a 3.5% incline is cardiovascularly equivalent to running much faster on level ground. So no, you're not below that threshold. But it is easier on your knees & stuff.

  20. Re:Money *needs* to be removed from Politics ... on Comcast Ghost-Writes Politician's Letters To Support Time Warner Mega-Merger · · Score: 1

    It's what can be called, "Fuck your neighbor".

    I tried that, but she wasn't interested.

  21. Re:And we are back to them again... on The Untold Story of the Invention of the Game Cartridge · · Score: 1

    USB storage requires an entire operating system to even access.

    Nope. Computers can boot off USB. But of course the technicalities of how this is done are different.

  22. Re: So we'll get a camara as good as the iPhone? on Samsung's Advanced Chips Give Its Cameras a Big Boost · · Score: 3, Funny

    Blind testing cameras? Hmm...

  23. Re:Charging time still issue on Toyota Opens Patents On Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology · · Score: 1

    The electric could charge for a 50 mile range, the hydrogen could kick in for extended trips.

    In this case, quite a small part of driving will be on hydrogen. So it doesn't really make that much sense to go hydrogen, fuel cells etc when you can just add a small gasoline-powered generator, like the BMW i3 range extender. 20 kW would be more than enough, even 10 kW would be acceptable (enough to sustain an average speed ~100 km/h, the battery will buffer accellerations and uphills).

  24. Re:They're not gamers. on Among Gamers, Adult Women Vastly Outnumber Teenage Boys · · Score: 1

    My aunt was a runner.

    She was late for a bus once in the seventies...

  25. Is it a bigger sin than drawing Muhammad? on UK Police Warn Sharing James Foley Killing Video Is a Crime · · Score: 1

    We should announce an international "watch James Foley killing day".