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  1. Re:This is fubar on Storing Personal Music Online Is Illegal In Japan · · Score: 1

    Right, because "secret" identifiers like private RSA keys are the same thing as creative works.

  2. Re:IIT = MIT? ha on Robot for India's Moon Mission by IIT Kanpur · · Score: 1

    The biggest problem with the comparison is that MIT isn't "America's MIT." It's MIT, a world-
    renouned institute. Oxford isn't Britain's Harvard, or vice-versa, they're both famous and
    similarly ranked.

  3. Re:This is an outrage on Site Claims to Reveal 'Tattle-tales' · · Score: 1

    Brilliant! Because you choose to live someplace where your activities are illegal,
    or are unable to effectively lobby for the change of the relevant penal codes,
    you condone the bodily harm of others whom report your so-called victimless crime?
    How deligthfully ironic and ill-conceived your logic is.

  4. Re:why is it so hard to check citizenship? on Congress Debating "No-Work" Database · · Score: 1

    Umm, you have to register to vote before hand. That's typically done through the
    Department of Motor Vehicles whom will require several forms of identification.

  5. Re:Judge won't end suspension, saying it's punishm on Student in Court Over Suspension For YouTube Video · · Score: 1

    And it rather sounds like you're a kid of the same age with that "logic."

    Seems to me the judge is simply saying that the litigant did not meet his burden
    of proof and therefore the judge has no recourse but to leave well enough alone.

    As for the chip on your shoulder about authority figures, get over it Mr. McQueen.
    In particular, I'd recommend you try working with some of today's youth. Are they
    all monsters? No, but enough of them are that you could almost mistake a pack of
    junior high students for kindergartners with cell phones. Of course, this is coming
    from someone who didn't appreciate the incredible childishnes of his classmates in
    his own recent youth either.

  6. Re:Gallium too expensive for this. on Aluminum Alloy Releases Hydrogen From Water · · Score: 1

    ICE is the standard acronym for internal combustion engine.
    I'm saying that the status quo isn't exactly cheap if you take a broad systems view.

  7. Re:Gallium too expensive for this. on Aluminum Alloy Releases Hydrogen From Water · · Score: 1

    That's fine, but compare the cost of a fuel cell and electric motor versus a full ICE
    with power train and get back to me. Don't forget to compare the weights to gauge
    efficiency impacts too.

  8. Re:Ah yes, Hydrogen Junk Science! on Aluminum Alloy Releases Hydrogen From Water · · Score: 1

    You're a moron. Hydrogen is an energy storage and conveyance medium. Energy storage
    is the main problem stymieing wider adoption of many alternative energy sources as
    they aren't generally dispatchable.

    As for your general ignorance and obsession with SUVs and horsepower, why don't you
    respond to KennyCohen66@yahoo.com's offer to sell you some c1al1s and let the rest
    of us move on to the 21st century.

  9. It's not property! on The Case For Perpetual Copyright · · Score: 1
  10. Re:Sounds like MRI on Researchers Put 'Spin' in Silicon · · Score: 1

    MRI has nothing to do with blood per se (PET is what you use to image activity).
    It's just the medical/consumer friendly term for NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance).
    It also has nothing to do with electromagnetism (e.g; ferromentism), but instead on
    the magnet moment resulting from unpaired nucleons that occur in some isotopes of
    various elements e.g; 1H and 13C.

  11. Re:That seems kind of excessive.. on Broadband isn't Broadband Unless its 2Mbps? · · Score: 1

    Yes. MIT's campus uses POTS in the dorms and ISDN in the offices. They are planning to
    switch to VOIP and claim will save money, but I'm sure they left some things out (like
    all the damn wallwarts).

  12. Re:Newspapers on Hearst's Seattle PI to Test Market E-Paper · · Score: 1

    >Besides, the print industry plants more trees than it cuts down and uses lots of recycled paper :)
    On some places, not everywhere, and even then it's not necessarily as good of a thing as you think.
    If you intend to get a lot of use out of it, durable and recyclable beats disposable and recyclable.

  13. Re:Eh? on Driver's License to be the Next Debit Card · · Score: 1

    Actually, yes. We're both partially right (according to wikipedia and other sources).
    As for PIN and transaction amount, nobody said anything about these and the possible
    reason to bring them up is to muddy the matter.

  14. Re:Eh? on Driver's License to be the Next Debit Card · · Score: 1

    In the U.S. a debit card is a special flavor of service offered by the major credit
    card companies (Visa and Master Card) to draw directly on your checking account.
    They already had the infrastructure setup to handle POS and aggregation, so they
    implemented debiting rather than individual banks.

  15. Re:Aluminum on Simple Chemical Trick To Boost Battery Efficiency · · Score: 1

    They'd waste a little more time and toner typing and printing out the recipe :-P

  16. Re:What is a web site? on Judge Doesn't Know What a Web Site is · · Score: 1

    "depends on what the definition of is, is"

    Feh.

  17. Re:So? on Judge Doesn't Know What a Web Site is · · Score: 2

    Nerds? This isn't is 1992. You're not a nerd for knowing what a web site is.
    For knowing what Apache is, and how to build and configure a secure installation
    from scratch, sure. But for knowing what a web site is? Fuck no. You must've had
    your head in the sand or up your ass for the past decade to not have the faintest
    clue of what everyone else has been yammering on about.

    "Horseless carriage? I'm sorry Mr. Ford, I just don't understand all them fancy
      words you're using."

    Seriously, he should just recuse himself for cluelessness and maybe consider
    retiring. Or at worst consider putting himself in a position where he'll be given
    cases he can comprehend.

  18. Re:10-250 blows on MIT Hacks XKCD Talk With AACS key · · Score: 1

    Not a prof., but what the heck is your gibberish-laden point?

  19. Re:10-250 blows on MIT Hacks XKCD Talk With AACS key · · Score: 1

    Then why do you say such stupid things you silly millenial super-frosh?
    And why do you gripe about one of the nicer halls, when the real back-breakers are 26-100, 4-270, etc.?

    Things could be worse. You could have to treck out to E50 or climb the three flights of stairs to 54-100.

  20. Re:Some notes on MIT Hacks XKCD Talk With AACS key · · Score: 1

    They rent 2nd and 3rd run reels, as well as do advance screenings.

  21. Re:10-250 blows on MIT Hacks XKCD Talk With AACS key · · Score: 1

    a) We have new lectures halls (See the white elpehant known as Stata)
    b) You should try 26-100
    c) The reason 10-250 blows for this, or rather why LSC sucks, is that this was not a large enough venue.

  22. An acquaintance's video on MIT Hacks XKCD Talk With AACS key · · Score: 1
  23. Re:Hell yes. on Congress May Outlaw 'Attempted Piracy' · · Score: 1

    Nope, see felony murder. A 14th century law from England which has since been repealed there.

  24. Re:Let the punishment fit the crime on Teachers Fake Gunman Attack · · Score: 1

    And you are ignorant. Halloween is for ghouls, ghosts and goblins.
    It just so happens that it's been commercialized into a kiddie holiday.

  25. Re:please pass the kool-aid on Could Global Warming Make Life on Earth Better? · · Score: 1

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