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  1. Re:My goodness on MPAA Chief Dodd Hints At Talks To Revive SOPA · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The common factor is that they are both filthy rich and consider themselves far too poor.

  2. Re:Book this! on Facebook Asserts Trademark On "Book" In New User Agreement · · Score: 1

    They've already moved away from .com domains in droves.

  3. Re:Double irony award? on Kazakh Gold Medalist Is Played Borat Anthem · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And playing the wrong anthem is an exceedingly impolite thing to do.

  4. Re:They aren't "defending rights of users" on Google Files Amicus Brief in Hotfile Case; MPAA Requests It Be Rejected · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You mean "Google owns several services that allow user-submitted content".

    Because this is the current angle the MPAA is attacking competitors from. And we all know the MPAA won't be satisfied until every site has either shut down or been bought by their members.

  5. Re:Evil and stupid, good work guys... on Belgian Rightsholders Group Wants To Charge Libraries For Reading Books To Kids · · Score: 1

    This is a recording industry association shutting down books.

    Evil yes, but stupid? Maybe not.

  6. Re:Bogus article on US, EU, Japan Complain To WTO Over China's Rare Earth Ban · · Score: 1

    In the US, for example? No, the government has basically zero influence over industrial policy and basically every bit of industrial law is lobbied in by other companies.

    The major companies in the US have major influence - far over the influence of the people - on policy.

  7. Re:so it begins on California To Join Nevada With Rules For Autonomous Cars · · Score: 3, Informative

    Computers are perfectly able to see what is going to be on the road, all you need is more sensors and better shape recognition.

    Better than humans, in fact. Humans can't see infrared so well, and it's going to be a heck of a lot more useful in the Canadian wilderness than normal sight. Your concerns are a design problem.

  8. Re:Criminals are unlikely. on NASA Boss Says Mars Colonization Will Be Corporate Only · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because some people deserve only death for what they've done, and the justice system never makes any mistakes, right?

    Worse yet, the kind of people you hate aren't the kind of people the prisons are full of - true monsters are very rare, and keeping them locked up isn't a major expense. Unlike locking up potheads, who are a large part of the current prison population.

  9. Re:China on NASA Boss Says Mars Colonization Will Be Corporate Only · · Score: 1

    Frankly, given the current situation, growing population also has it's problems. Implying shrinking or flat population is worse than the current widespread starvation sounds a bit weird.

  10. Re:First post on How Steve Jobs Patent-Trolled Bill Gates · · Score: 2

    Do you have Netcraft confirming that Windows is dead?

    Because every OS out now has been "dead" according to the internet since it was made.

  11. Re:Bender would be great for head of the school bo on Voting System Test Hack Elects Futurama's Bender To School Board · · Score: 5, Funny

    Because "Insightful" is Secret Slashdot Code for "Funny, but enough so it deserves karma". And "Funny" is Secret Slashdot Code for "So painfully unfunny it induces groaning."

    Or possibly Groening. Not precisely clear on that.

  12. Re:Tools on Bacteria-Killing Viruses Wield an Iron Spike · · Score: 2

    Archery is a Stone Age technology! Gandhi of the French will have your head for this!

  13. Re:who's paying for it? on France's Bold Drunk-Driving Legislation - Every Car To Carry a Breathalyzer · · Score: 1

    To be fair, there are other options - designated drivers are also very common, as are public transport options. And even walking.

  14. Re:Oh No on Siri To Power Mercedes-Benz Car Systems · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Set me a wake-up alarm at 9am". And Siri dutifully sets "me a wake up" alarm at 9am.

    Siri could be smarter. Siri could also understand me with accuracy that doesn't force me to hover my finger over the edit query button.

  15. Re:who's paying for it? on France's Bold Drunk-Driving Legislation - Every Car To Carry a Breathalyzer · · Score: 1

    Bzzt.

    Quite a few Europeans are pragmatic - and call a cab when they've drunk, no matter how much.

    This is nothing but a cash grab by the people making breathalyzers. The kind of person to drink and drive probably won't think to use their breathalyzer anyway.

  16. Re:There is no solution on YouTube Identifies Birdsong As Copyrighted Music · · Score: 1

    Before it was the copyright owners getting ripped off left and right by the users.

    Now it's the copyright owners getting ripped off left and right by scam artists and larger copyright owners.

  17. Re:Adobe complaining about bloat? on A Rant Against Splash Screens · · Score: 0

    100Gbit connections do exist. Internet connectivity, surprisingly enough, is not restricted to cable and xDSL. Thus, it is a valid answer to the grand-grandparent.

  18. Re:Adobe complaining about bloat? on A Rant Against Splash Screens · · Score: 1

    Not only are you entirely off about the latency of SSD drives, you would be about a third the way around the Earth in 50ms at speed of light. Even assuming the routers would slow you down, it's still easy to get under 50ms ping to a server anywhere on the same continent.

    Not that it supports your point - SSD drives can do a lot better than millisecond level speeds.

  19. Re:Wouldn't it just be easier to plant a microphon on Brain Implants Can Detect What Patients Hear · · Score: 1

    Being able to reconstruct the sound from analyzing electrical signals in the brain, however?

    This could be groundbreaking research. Especially for hearing implants.

  20. Re:Why is this modded flamebait? on Should Next-Gen Game Consoles Be Upgradeable? · · Score: 4, Funny

    You know, originally that post was without that last part. Then I added a line about "costing billions of Americans their jobs" and saying it's justified to cut off the hands of people who criticize Sony online.

    And people still take me seriously. What is this, YouTube?

  21. Re:Doubt Sony will on Should Next-Gen Game Consoles Be Upgradeable? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh give it up. So Sony disabled your hardware's capabilities. So what? At least they didn't totally disable the hardware, which they could. You should be grateful for that. You'd have a right to complain if Sony goons came to your house and cut your hands off, at least if you aren't a pirate. If you're a pirate or complain online about Sony, it's totally justified to cut your hands off, because you are hurting Sony and costing billions of Americans their jobs.

  22. Re:I wonder .. on Lenovo Ordered To Refund 'Microsoft Tax' · · Score: 2

    Usually yes, by now. iOS phones do, at any rate.

  23. Re:Execution on How Far Should GPL Enforcement Go? · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't know what the suitable punishment for such poor punsmanship would be - probably something appropriate but not poetic, like a gag and a straitjacket, just to keep you from making puns about your punishment.

  24. Re:Dying from lack of surprise... on White House Refuses To Comment On Petition To Investigate Chris Dodd · · Score: 2

    Ugh, contraction. Apparently I can't do modern English today.

  25. Re:Dying from lack of surprise... on White House Refuses To Comment On Petition To Investigate Chris Dodd · · Score: 3, Informative

    And truly, the English language is and always has been set in stone, handed over by God himself to the early man.

    Wait, no, that's not it: "it's" was the possessive of "it" - and the contradiction of "it is" was "'tis".