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  1. Re:Damages on The Patent Mafia and What You Can Do To Break It Up · · Score: 1

    I say drop the first one, otherwise no one will be able to risk suing a large company infringing their patent.

  2. Re:I don't see how this is possible. on Microsoft Makes Ambitious Carbon Neutral Pledge · · Score: 1

    Would an OS that doesn't actually run count?

  3. Re:So what's the answer, then? Never? on Government Asks When It Can Shut Down Wireless Communications · · Score: 1

    I agree that protesting in a relatively dangerous area isn't a great idea. I fail to see how the cell phone blackout makes that better.

  4. Re:No, the answer is "never" on Government Asks When It Can Shut Down Wireless Communications · · Score: 1

    Curtailing protest in the area may be a good idea, but why does that mean shutting off cell service?

  5. Re:How can you quantify the loss? on The Avengers: Why Pirates Failed To Prevent a Box Office Record · · Score: 1

    All I have to say about that is where are you getting in for 7.25? Around here it's 10-11 for a matinee in 2D, more if you want 3D (I don't) or a later show.

  6. Re:new slogan on TSA's mm-Wave Body Scanner Breaks Diabetic Teen's $10K Insulin Pump · · Score: 1

    So the needs of the passengers outweigh the needs of the corporations profiting from the scanners? Guess we'll have to get rid of them.

  7. Re:Time to move. on FBI: We Need Wiretap-Ready Web Sites — Now · · Score: 1

    They theoretically need a warrant to enact the tap, but you'd be required to put the backdoor in regardless.

  8. Re:Sounds like... on Feds Seized Website For a Year Without Piracy Proof · · Score: 1

    How about for bearing false witness?

  9. Re:Sad Day on Rand Paul Has a Quick Fix For TSA: Pull the Plug · · Score: 1

    However, in the market at the time it was enacted the business gained by doing business with the relatively poor blacks was offset by the whites that would refuse to do business at the same place.

  10. Re:Does this apply to all cases? on NY Judge Rules IP Addresses Insufficient To Identify Pirates · · Score: 1

    Except this isn't about the proof needed to close the case, but the proof needed to open it.

  11. Re:Populist security sense? on B&N Pulls Linux Format Magazine Over Feature On 'Hacking' · · Score: 1

    My interpretation is that they used 'hack' the same way you do rather than the traditional sense meaning something more like building custom gadgets.

  12. Re:Darn that internet on Twitter Leaked Obama's Visit To Afghanistan · · Score: 1

    The explanation has already been given, he wanted the meetings to be secret so he wouldn't be killed while he was there.

  13. Re:headline incorrect on Twitter Leaked Obama's Visit To Afghanistan · · Score: 1

    Read it again, as you said they reported that he landed, but they did so while he was still en route.

  14. Re:I doubt they did on 1 World Trade Center Becomes the Tallest Building In NYC · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't know, assuming they didn't die instantly I would guess that most of them were pretty anti-American when they died.

  15. Re:Can people actually tell the difference? on Hobbit Film Underwhelms At 48 Frames Per Second · · Score: 1

    Which is why we have double blind studies.

  16. Re:House of Representatives on House Passes CISPA · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They are representatives, just not of the people that voted for them. They represent the people that paid for their campaigns.

  17. Re:Abusing the law on CISPA Bill Obliterates Privacy Laws With Blank Check of Privacy Invasion · · Score: 1

    While I agree that using it other than in the way it was intended is abuse. My point was more that the way this law was intended to be used is what most of us would consider to be abuse.

  18. Re:Resisting Arrest on CISPA Bill Obliterates Privacy Laws With Blank Check of Privacy Invasion · · Score: 2

    Arrest is what happens when you object to being detained.

    Actually, the difference is when you're detained you have to stay where you are, when you're arrested you go to jail.

  19. Abusing the law on CISPA Bill Obliterates Privacy Laws With Blank Check of Privacy Invasion · · Score: 2

    I see this phrase every time this sort of bill comes up where they claim that one group or another won't abuse the law. After some thought, I decided I agreed with their assessment. All this means is that the law is originally intended to be used in that way, if it's the intent of the law, it isn't abuse to use it that way.

  20. Re:Hmmmm on British MPs Propose Censoring Internet By Default · · Score: 1

    I think if I ran an ISP required to provide censored internet I would use a whitelist consisting of the ISP's website. Attempting to access any other site, or even to get to your ISP provided email (someone could send porn to your children through it) would require opting-in.

  21. Re:Saving Earth is good... on Neil deGrasse Tyson Outlines a Plan For Saving Earth From Asteroids · · Score: 1

    Although if you think about it, most any habitat built on mars or the moon would be far cheaper and similarly effective for protecting humans on earth. (provided it wasn't in the immediate blast radius)

  22. Re:Looks like they beat me to it. on World's Creepiest iPhone App Pulled After Outcry · · Score: 2

    Staring is only considered creepy behavior if it's done by someone on the blacklist.

  23. Re:A voting machine is better than paper on 1.9 Billion Digits: Brazil's Bid For Biometric Voting · · Score: 1

    We don't insist that our accounting programs print us a receipt for everything. Why do we trust accounting software, but not voting software?

    Because the people that write accounting software have a vested interest in it being accurate, while the people writing voting software (who may be the same people) have a vested interest in being able to control the outcome.

  24. Re:GODDAMNIT on 1.9 Billion Digits: Brazil's Bid For Biometric Voting · · Score: 1

    Aside from the problems discussed elsewhere, there's no money in it. People with money are more interested in a system that's efficient and manipulable.

  25. Re:Imagine?! on 1.9 Billion Digits: Brazil's Bid For Biometric Voting · · Score: 1

    Yes you need trust in a paper ballot system, but you get to choose who you're trusting. I generally trust the people around the ballot box to disagree on enough things that they won't let each other cheat.