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  1. The cat is out... on One Musician's Demand From Pandora: Mandatory Analytics · · Score: 1

    'How can I grow my business on this information?' she asks. 'How do I reach them? Do they know I'm performing nearby next month? How can I tell them I have a new album coming out?'"

    I guess the cat is out of the Pandora's box, eh? Well, let's see what else is in there...

    (look what a fool's hope remained locked...) you want that info about me, drop your prices.
    Oh... is it free already? Then... what about starting to pay me for my data?

    (grin)

  2. Re:of course on GOP Study Committee Director Disowns Brief Attacking Current IP Law · · Score: 1

    However, from an ideological perspective, the GOP is more closely aligned with the ethos that could back copyright reform than the Democratic party

    Well, TFA just shows that their pathos and logos are not aligned at all ("as yet" or "forever", who knows?).
    In these conditions: is their ethos still relevant?

  3. Re:Woz's unbiased reviews on Woz Worries Microsoft Is Now More Innovative Than Apple · · Score: 3, Funny

    /.'ers ability to predict product success is about as good as predicting the stock market.

    What about the ability to predict products failure?

  4. Re:What about the patents? on Google Engineers Open Source Book Scanner Design · · Score: 1

    Google has a patent on using structured lighting to determine the shape of the page and correct the image ... is that open too?

    The license section on the googlecode page (scroll to the bottom):

    Additional IP Rights Grant (Patents)

    Google hereby grants to you a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable (except as stated in this section) patent license to make, have made, use, offer to sell, sell, import, transfer, and otherwise run, modify and propagate this design where such license applies only to those patent claims, both currently owned by Google and acquired in the future, licensable by Google that are necessarily infringed by This design.

    Does this answer your question?

  5. Re:Humm.. So we share the same diseases on Sequenced Pig Genome Could Help Combat Human Diseases · · Score: 1

    It's not the eating, it's the living conditions. We've kept pigs sheltered enough that they can experience the same problems as us, and suffer the same consequences.

    Hang on, lady! Don't blame me! Maybe others do, but I swear I don't let (other) pigs on my couch in my basement... is barely large enough for myself!

    (grin)

    It sleeps on the floor and eats French toast.

    Naaah... can't do. Too many empty beer bottles on the floor (belches)

  6. Re:Law Firm: $50 mil - You: $1 off next pizza on Papa John's Sued For Unwanted Pizza-Related Texts · · Score: 4, Insightful

    (hmmm.... can't stop thinking... a dozen more suits like this and the US economy would be growing... right?)

  7. Re:Humm.. So we share the same diseases on Sequenced Pig Genome Could Help Combat Human Diseases · · Score: 1

    It's not the eating, it's the living conditions. We've kept pigs sheltered enough that they can experience the same problems as us, and suffer the same consequences.

    Hang on, lady! Don't blame me!
    Maybe others do, but I swear I don't let (other) pigs on my couch in my basement... is barely large enough for myself!

    (grin)

  8. Re:Humm.. So we share the same diseases on Sequenced Pig Genome Could Help Combat Human Diseases · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Wonder why ? Maybe us eating pigs for the last oh-how-many-hundred-years might have something to do with it ? Wouldn't it be easier to treat these diseases by not eating the pigs in the first place ..

    You are what you eat. If we eat disease carrying pigs, we become those pigs. Have you seen some of the people who eat a lot of pig ? Their faces even start to resemble the animal.

    How would you explain jewish and muslim people that are still obese/diabetic/etc even they didn't eat pig meat?

  9. Re:New project on US Air Force Scraps ERP Project After $1 Billion Spent · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'd like to see them implement a CRM system instead

    Are the victims of drone attacks complaining much about the quality of service?

  10. Re:Simple solution on Airlines Face Acute Pilot Shortage · · Score: 2
    Even simpler: deep freeze and tightly packed container transport.

    (grin)

  11. Re:Looks like it might have been pirated after all on App Auto-Tweets False Piracy Accusations · · Score: 2

    <advocate client="devil"> Note that he does not "legally own" Scanner Pro as he claims, rather he holds a license which permits him to use it under certain conditions. I rather doubt those conditions include "download old versions from piracy apps", so he surely is using it precisely to violate copyright, or in the common parlance, "to install pirated apps", despite the apps not having been taken by force on the high seas.</advocate>

    Copyright law: it's hilariously busted, but let's fix or eliminate it rather than making excuses for violating it.

    <advocate client="devil"> I wouldn't be that sure he's using it precisely in the sense of copyright violation, his description of the problem admits a situation in which he actually has a license for a version that, upon upgrade, failed to work.
    If indeed this is his situation, he has a license to use the application (perhaps even in its newer version, otherwise why try to upgrade?), but the application fails to be usable in his conditions. In which case, what he is doing is not illegal and maybe more pragmatical (than suing the provider for the lack of use).</advocate>

    Maybe it pays to first look at (/get to know) the specifics of a situation before spitting blood in a fight with windmills.
    Granted, addressing the sickness at the source is the actual solution (anything else being palliative) - even though the big but is if you can afford it.

  12. Re:Looks like it might have been pirated after all on App Auto-Tweets False Piracy Accusations · · Score: 5, Informative

    Except that he explained the reasoning for having Installous on a jailbroken phone, and others have rung in saying that Installous isn't what's flagging it, or the only reason.

    There is no rational for having installous on a jailbroken phone other that to install pirated apps.

    TFA:

    When Scanner Pro, which I also legally own, introduced a bug in the app that made the app stop working completely on my device. Installous lets you browse a list of available pirated versions of the app, which also means you can use it to go back to an older version of an app you legally own.

    Does the above says something about your rational abilities? Naaahh... a simpler explanation exists: who the hell bother to actually RTFA?

  13. Re:Looks like it might have been pirated after all on App Auto-Tweets False Piracy Accusations · · Score: 1

    The author of the article admits to using Installous, which is a program for installing pirated iOS applications.

    And a hammer can be used to crack skulls as well as for any problem that looks like a nail. Should we shame the hammer users?
    (my point: don't blame a tool, because a tool is a tool)

    When Scanner Pro, which I also legally own, introduced a bug in the app that made the app stop working completely on my device. Installous lets you browse a list of available pirated versions of the app, which also means you can use it to go back to an older version of an app you legally own.

  14. Re:"FB Trying To Fight Spam"... yeah, sure. on Mark Cuban: Facebook Is Driving Away Brands — Starting With Mine · · Score: 1

    What the hell are Dallas Maverics anyway?

    Texans, I imagine.

  15. Re:Embarassing day for whites on With NCLB Waiver, Virginia Sorts Kids' Scores By Race · · Score: 1

    Being able to think in a system of measurements is such a low level function of the brain its nearly impossible to completely retrain it to fluency levels in the new one. And the use of language related words is intentional because it's nearly at that level of brain function.

    Professor Gerald "Jerry" Crabtree must be right... to what purpose should we educate the kids to use SI units, science doesn't pay nowadays... right?

  16. Re:The actual news here... on Mark Cuban: Facebook Is Driving Away Brands — Starting With Mine · · Score: 1

    ...is that Facebook is actually having to deal with the consequences of their shady shenanigans!

    Somehow I don't believe FB has something like this in their minds. More probable: new shady shenanigans for cash.

  17. "FB Trying To Fight Spam"... yeah, sure. on Mark Cuban: Facebook Is Driving Away Brands — Starting With Mine · · Score: 4, Interesting
    From TFA

    Facebook constantly tinkers with EdgeRank to make it more effective, says product manager Will Cathcart. The algorithm change in September was a bigger change than usual, Cathcart says, but its goal was simply to cut down on spam in people's news feed.

    FB: "Unless you pay for delivery, we'll be fighting your spam".

    End result:
    * the "network socialite" doesn't actually "socialize" anymore - it's advertising
    * the others will still be served spam

    Must be that FB is really desperate for revenue.

  18. Re:Does he run Linux? on CIA Director David Petraeus Resigns, Citing Affair · · Score: 1

    And why is this is slashdot?

    Because he's one of the next potential Cisco's VPs?

  19. Re:Loyalty is not a one-way street on Cisco VP To Memo Leaker: Finding You Now 'My Hobby' · · Score: 2

    And perhaps some day companies will learn that. http://www.inquisitr.com/283632/cisco-firing-1300-employees-2-of-global-workforce/

    But, but... Cisco demonstrated again and again its loyalty to the employees. Want a citation? Here's one:

    I want you to remember that Cisco puts the groceries on your table every two weeks, ...

    What more a human being would want? (stop that subversive BS, will yea?)

    </sarcasm>

  20. Re:THE GUY DRIVES A PURPLE CADILLAC !! on Neil deGrasse Tyson Pinpoints Superman's Home Star System · · Score: 1

    TV does that, you know !! Makes people stupid !! On both ends !!

    Ah, that explains why my feet feel dumber by the day... (of course it started with the head end, long ago!... otherwise why would I bother to reply on /. ?)

  21. Re:In related news... on Neil deGrasse Tyson Pinpoints Superman's Home Star System · · Score: 1

    ... Krypton demoted to "dwarf planet"

    The kryptonians should be grateful for still having one, don't you think?

  22. Re:But, Bush said we could export democracy on Voting Machine Problem Reports Already Rolling In · · Score: 1

    Our number one export apparently, in terms of money spent. And yet, we can't actually have democracy at home.

    After loading so much democracy in them drones, of course there's too little left for the internal market.
    Anyway, democracy is overrated... long live the free market.

    </sarcasm>

  23. Re:What we need is... on A Trail of Clicks, Culminating In Conflict · · Score: 1

    ...less regulation, and better education. Making laws like this won't stop invasion of privacy, the companies will just find yet another loophole to get what they want.

    to slow the deployment of applications that provide tremendous benefits to children, and to slow the economic growth and job creation generated by the app economy

    If job creation is the goal: give them spoons instead shovels.
    If the market is so good of providing tremendous benefits for children, why the hell are parents still needed? Take the children immediately after birth and provide them with tremendous benefits for all their life!!

  24. Re:Unless you have rabbits. on Ask Slashdot: Extreme Cable Management? · · Score: 5, Funny

    You really don't want to be electrocuting rabbits. They are best stewed or braised.

    Argh! What's he doing! Stupid fat hobbit. You ruins it!

  25. Re:What I've seen on What's the Shelf Life of a Programmer? · · Score: 2

    Don't confuse out-of-the-box with "more willing to employ the fad language/framework in fashion".

    FTFY. (I my memory serves, the French people use to spell it "du jour"... unless you wanted to use "de jure"; like in "the officially stated - by law - framework")