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  1. Re:Huh? on Is Silicon Valley Morally Bankrupt and Toxic? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    you dont have to be republican to vote for your corporate overlords

  2. Re:not even on DoJ Investigating Samsung For Patent Abuse · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not even sound jurisprudence will get in the way of crony capitalism, the higher you get in the appeals process the more it appears to be a kangaroo court.

  3. a little like the pot calling the kettle black on DoJ Investigating Samsung For Patent Abuse · · Score: 2

    Seriously? you mean thin tablets with rounded corners, is any less worse of an abuse than what samsung has done?

  4. Re:Is there one? on Ask Slashdot: Best Cell Phone Carrier In the US? · · Score: 4, Funny

    SmokeMobile - uses smoke signals instead of cell towers.

  5. Re:Sounds like something from Atlas Shrugged. on New Content-Delivery Tech Should Be Presumed Illegal, Says Former Copyright Boss · · Score: 1

    I think you mean workers that fail to adapt, as the technological changes occur too quickly, and causes a vicious boom/bust cycle of "general glut" in the economy.

  6. Re:Luddism fallacy - time to remove copyrights on New Content-Delivery Tech Should Be Presumed Illegal, Says Former Copyright Boss · · Score: 1

    market socialism would also remove the unemployment incumbency, when disruptive technology affects specific areas of economic activity, by being able to reallocate workers and effort to new markets. Because lets face it the technological singularity is near, and how would capitalism work when vast amounts of work becomes automated, and the labor force which purchases products is largely unemployed.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_unemployment#New-market_engineering

  7. The end is nigh on House Approves Extending the Warrantless Wiretapping Act · · Score: 1

    As the resouce cruch comes ever closer, the rich in this country need the monopolization of force, to keep them sheltered from the huddled masses, the ones that our lady liberty sought to provide refuge for.

  8. Re:drugs on Lance Armstrong and the Science of Drug Testing · · Score: 0

    Except for the fact that it was a psyops plant by he CIA, the person in the video was not OBL but a look alike, do some research on the topic.

  9. Re:What is the difference to the end user? on Nokia Spinning Featurephones as Smartphones · · Score: 4, Interesting

    With that logic, you couldn't have any strongly secured android or IOS phones! Smart phones are about having multiple uses, as opposed to several features, or just being able to make a phonecall.

    Here is an excerpt from nokia in the TFA

    James from Nokia here. One thing this piece overlooks is the web-browsing tech that comes as standard on our Asha models, including the Asha 305 mentioned here. Every time you access FB or Twitter or whatever else, the webpages are rendered in the cloud to keep data traffic very small and browsing fast. This of course does wonders for your phone bill (the Nokia Browser uses up to 85% less data than a competitor’s phone) and tells a little bit more about our strategy with Asha: making the Internet more accessible for people.

    I would consider this as being smart, especially given the region and infrastructure available there.

  10. Re:All of that to develop some ERP systems on 6 IT Projects, $8 Billion Over Budget At Dept. of Defense · · Score: 2

    I guess it take alot of work considering computers aren't very good at creative bookkeeping.

  11. All of that to develop some ERP systems on 6 IT Projects, $8 Billion Over Budget At Dept. of Defense · · Score: 2

    Man someone should have told me that a long time ago, 8 billion is nothing to sneeze at.

  12. Re:The ice cream will melt before simulation runs. on Cray XK6 Supercomputer Used To Simulate Ice Cream · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hopfully they find a way to create instant icecream

    1/2 instant cold pack, 1/2 dehydratated icecream

  13. Re:Meta Judge on Spanish Superjudge To Represent Assange · · Score: 1
  14. Re:needs more prefixes on Spanish Superjudge To Represent Assange · · Score: 1

    Maybe this means that the UK will have assange tried by Judge Dredd

  15. Re:First my beloved Viper fighter, now this on Feds Ban 'Buckyballs' Magnets · · Score: 1

    I remember wanting to know what a small leaf tasted like, and subsequently gagging and puking from it, I'm lucky it wasn't buckyballs instead.

  16. Re:Another case of "do what i say, and not what I on Anti-piracy Group Fined For Using Song Without Permission · · Score: 1

    Your missing an important point of labor theory of value. The price/value of the good is based upon the socially necessary labor time, as in the average amount of time it takes to create the product. If you can create in less than the socially necessary labor time, you can sell it at the same price and make more profit, and the other people may lose money on unsold goods once the price lowers.

  17. Re:Mickey D is definitely *NOT* alone on McDonald's Denies Prof's Claim Staff Attacked Him For Wearing Digital Glasses · · Score: 1

    Ironically I've been to that KFC before.

  18. Re:Another case of "do what i say, and not what I on Anti-piracy Group Fined For Using Song Without Permission · · Score: 1

    And the payment should reflect the amount of labor or investment went into creating and performing the music, not as the means to live without having to work ever again, and not as a means to extract wealth from other creative types wanting to enjoy/learn from his work.

  19. Re:Another case of "do what i say, and not what I on Anti-piracy Group Fined For Using Song Without Permission · · Score: 1

    What is the difference between creative works and labor ? And by patenting it or some other benefit, does it prevent it from realizing its maximum usefulness?

  20. Re:Another case of "do what i say, and not what I on Anti-piracy Group Fined For Using Song Without Permission · · Score: 1

    Yes. thats what college textbooks and the college loans to pay for them, have done to the college students and people who cant afford it, thereby creating a class division of "haves" and "have not's"

  21. Re:Another case of "do what i say, and not what I on Anti-piracy Group Fined For Using Song Without Permission · · Score: 1

    "on a computer" is still overly broad, your not entitled to money, just because you had a good idea.

    "we currently do this thing, so im going to patent doing it on a computer".

  22. Re:Another case of "do what i say, and not what I on Anti-piracy Group Fined For Using Song Without Permission · · Score: 1

    Posted to grandparent.

  23. Re:Another case of "do what i say, and not what I on Anti-piracy Group Fined For Using Song Without Permission · · Score: 1

    Whats better about it:

    The intellectual property realizes maximum utility
    It increases competition in the market place by removing protectionism
    It cant be used as economic/geographical/class warfare
    Intellectual property cannot be leveraged to help increase wealth inequality
    Wealth inequality causes inherent economic inefficiencies

    Where wealth inequality is less efficient because:
    1. The law of diminishing returns occurs, say for example the ROI on college education VS a traditional investment vehicle.
    2. The utility per opportunity cost is lower, for example a Lamborghini vs several entry level sedans.
    3. The total factor productivity of labor time falls, because what good is a bunch of factories, when nobody even knows how to read the instructions.
    4. It increases levels of crime, stress, health problems, lack of trust, social malaise.
    5. The amount of time performing work decreases, for example its hard to find time for school or work, when your sick or dumpster diving.
    6. It increases the amount of non productive consumption, poor people spend money on things they need, wealthy on things they want.

  24. Re:Another case of "do what i say, and not what I on Anti-piracy Group Fined For Using Song Without Permission · · Score: 1

    Intellectual property is in the interests of society, it stops big companies from using people's music on top-selling DVDs all around the world.

    Except that they wouldn't be able to actually sell the content all around the world

  25. Re:Another case of "do what i say, and not what I on Anti-piracy Group Fined For Using Song Without Permission · · Score: 1

    The studio is getting millions of dollars for mass-producing content people wish to buy. His 'minimal work' assisted in reaching those earnings. You're saying you'd rather Warner Brothers just get more money rather than spreading that amongst the people who made it possible. The oddball thing is you're proposing a greater harm to society!

    Those people pay the $25 regardless of whether or not that royalty is paid.

    Some day you need to learn that hours on a time-card do not reflect value of the work.

    I'm saying that warner brothers model is broken as well, and they should work on the charity/patron/client model. If his work isn't worth the amount he wants for it, then the "content distribution 501c3" will choose someone else, and if "content distrubtion 501c3" doesn't produce work I like (emo metal hiphop) I'll donate to someone else who does.