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  1. Re:Anybody with knowledge in the field.. on Oxford University Tests Universal Flu Vaccine · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Oddly enough, reducing mortality rates goes a long ways towards lowering population growth. People who expect their children to survive will have fewer of them and invest more resources into the ones they have.

  2. Re:anime may be a bad sample subject on Piracy Boosts Anime Sales, Says Japanese Government Study · · Score: 2

    While fansub viewers may greatly outnumber buyers, buyers who watch fansubs greatly outnumber those that don't. Without fansubs there would be almost no market for anime outside of Japan. Even the shows that actually make it to regular television generally have fansubs to thank for their popularity.

  3. Re:Cool idea on Hotmail Launches Accounts You Can Throw Away · · Score: 1

    And any emails received without dots go directly to the trash.

  4. Re:Two very different things on British ISPs Embracing Two-Tier Internet · · Score: 1

    In the US ISPs are currently in a gray area, they get the protections of being common carriers without the obligations.

  5. Re:Mod parent down. on Bombay High Court Rules Astrology To Be a Science · · Score: 1

    There's no way of scientifically evaluating the chance of it being right or wrong. It is unscientific and should not be taught as science but calling it wrong requires as much faith and assumptions as calling it right.

  6. Re:Mountain out of a molehill. on N.C. Official Sics License Police On Computer Scientist For Too Good a Complaint · · Score: 1

    Well, to make it more accurate, the passerby would have to tell you exactly why your car wasn't properly parked.

  7. Or they could review his work, decide it has merit and have a PE examine the situation, being sure to account for how traffic will change in the future.

  8. Both sic and sick are valid ways to spell the verb.

  9. Re:It's simple, really on N.C. Official Sics License Police On Computer Scientist For Too Good a Complaint · · Score: 1

    Correction, that means that the majority of the people that voted voted for them, nothing more. Some people don't (or can't) vote, people that do often vote for people they don't really support, just because they are less opposed to them than to their greatest opponent.

  10. Re:I'm sorry, that's it. on N.C. Official Sics License Police On Computer Scientist For Too Good a Complaint · · Score: 1

    If someone without certification can spot flaws in a licensed professional's work, the work should be reexamined by another licensed professional. The homeowners association wasn't trying to submit this as an engineering report but as a request for a new examination, complete with enough detail to make their point.

    The alternative would be that no one is allowed to disagree with someone who has a license in their field unless they also have a license in that field.

  11. Re:Two very different things on British ISPs Embracing Two-Tier Internet · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I say we offer them the choice, they can be classified as common carriers and thus carry everything equally or they can discriminate and be responsible for everything that they carry.

  12. Re:Responding professionally to bad customer reque on DSL Installation Fail · · Score: 1

    Contractors who are paid by the hour wouldn't be the ones that try to save ten seconds, they would be the ones who take 4 hours to do a 30 min install. Its the ones that are paid by the job that will try to finish as fast as possible and get out.

  13. Re:Done before on Man Tunnels Into GameStop, Steals Games · · Score: 1

    However, for copyright infringement it would likely be treated as one instance per game while for burglary it would be one instance per break in.

  14. Re:WTF on Program Uses GPS To Track Sex Offenders · · Score: 1

    If you can make a case that ensures, absolutely positively ensures, that the defendant did the crime then I would not be closed minded to expanding the death penalty.

    Isn't that supposed to be the case anyway? To secure a conviction the jury is supposed to be convinced that no reasonable person could doubt that the defendant committed the crime. The problem isn't with the 'required' level of evidence, but with the mentality of the average juror.

  15. Re:Yes it does. on Why Published Research Findings Are Often False · · Score: 2

    In these cases you break the data up into randomly selected smaller sets. This allows you to test a hypothesis developed from looking at one set against other sets to see if there really is a pattern.

  16. Re:This seems counter productive? on Court Rules Website Doesn't Have To Remove Defamatory Comments · · Score: 1

    Not exactly, you can still be held responsible for the content of your post and be required to remove it if you are able. The website, however, cannot be required to remove it as a result of the findings against you.

  17. Re:but it was false anyway? on Court Rules Website Doesn't Have To Remove Defamatory Comments · · Score: 1

    1. Only most of those people were actually criminals, some were falsely convicted.
    2. Anything can be made a criminal act if enough people with power want it to be.

  18. Re:Are you guys really loosing it in the U.S? on Is Reading Spouse's E-Mail a Crime? · · Score: 1

    In the case of parents who access their kids' accounts without their knowledge, McKelvy has a point, if this case stands up, so should the kids' grievances. If the parents required their kids to allow them access it would be a different matter.

  19. Re:Interesting story behind MegaUpload on MegaUpload Dares RIAA To Sue Them · · Score: 1

    Well, in a way he's right, we start throwing nukes around, other people start throwing nukes around, before you know it, world peace as assured by MAD.

  20. They aren't going after the users under the DMCA, they're going after the writers. Writing the bot in the first place required circumventing the DRM and reverse engineering the client. Blizzard would have to acquire a copy of the bot and reverse engineers it to improve Warden to be guilty of the same thing.

  21. Re:DMCA is useful? on Court Upholds Blizzard's Anti-Bot DMCA Claim, Denies Copyright Infringement · · Score: 1

    Not horribly difficult to bot, just pointless. Without something carrying over to the next game the bot is just a computer opponent.

  22. Re:Not unprecedented on How a Leather Cover Crashes the Kindle · · Score: 1

    Yea, you could formulate a request that would explain a bit of why you wanted it, but how often do you get to ask for invisible paint to paint glass?

  23. Re:May it be the first of many on Torrent Users Fight Back · · Score: 1

    They aren't going after people infringing their copyright, they have no intention of following up on their threats. It would be more accurate to say that they're extorting money from people who don't want to pay more money to lawyers to fight the charges.

  24. Re:Well Duh on Firefighters Let House Burn Because Owner Didn't Pay Fee · · Score: 1

    While the fire was burning the firefighters had to sit at the house and watch it to ensure that it didn't spread and since they weren't putting it out, it would take longer to burn out. If someone else had a fire, they would take longer to respond as a result.

  25. Re:Anonymous Coward on Blizzard Sues Private Server Company, Awarded $88M · · Score: 1

    $20 for an account with one month of play plus the client, if you just want the client, it's available on the WoW home page.