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  1. Re:it flies in the face of common sense on RIAA Wants To Bar Jammie From Making Objections · · Score: 1

    Jack Thompson is a public figure. The RIAA lawyers don't really do anything outside the court.

  2. Re:First Post on German Interior Ministers Seek Ban On Violent Games · · Score: 1

    A government cannot "allow" anything, just like I can't "allow" you to enter your own house. By default we have the right to do whatever we want, and the only thing a government can do is forbid something.

  3. Re:Already have Safari, kbyethnx on Google Announces Chrome For Mac and Linux Dev Builds · · Score: 1

    I always thought Safari sucked a lot of RAM, especially on Windows.

    That's like saying "IE sucks, especially on WINE".

  4. We need an new abbreviation on MS Issued a Fix For Its Unwanted FireFox Extension · · Score: 3, Funny

    LATFDBS - Look At The Date Before Submitting

  5. Re:Riiight... on Russia Launches Anti-trust Probe of Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Technically all those rights exist in the constitution, but de facto you need to make sure you can fit the constitution on some thousand ruble bills first.

  6. Re:Did you know? on Russia Launches Anti-trust Probe of Microsoft · · Score: 1

    They should show the rest of the world how fair they are by fining themselves 900 million dollars.

  7. Wait, a POWER SURGE? on Hospital Turns Away Ambulances When Computers Go Down · · Score: 1

    You can't be seriously telling me that critical systems in a hospital that takes in emergency patients are so weak that a single power surge can take them all down? What happened to redundancy?

  8. This is the only good way to compete with piracy on Music Streaming to Overtake Downloads · · Score: 1

    The one disadvantage of the pirate bay is that you need to wait hours after the release until the movie is on there, and no matter when you want to watch it you need to wait hours to download it. With streaming, you can just go to the website and start in two minutes. Seems like an excellent way to take advantage of our instant gratification culture.

  9. Re:Better Idea on City Slicker Birds Shun Their Country Cousins · · Score: 1

    http://tashian.com/multibabel/ is a good site too. It turned this:

    Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put Humpty together again.

    Into this:

    Configurations of Humpty Dumpty to the pagination in the wall. Great rectangle of the passages of Humpty Dumpty. This king' whole; Malese and whole S that king' Team of the employees couldn' of S; Period of Humpty of the collection of T in which it is according to place.

  10. Don't keep anything on your drive on UK Police Want Plug-In Computer Crime Detectors · · Score: 1

    Keep it all on various web hosting services with encryption and steganography, and use a ubuntu livecd to access it, so no permanent evidence that you have any online data ever exists. For bonus points, keep a folder on your actual hard drive called "Child Porn" and fill it with screenshots of naked children in Disney movies.

  11. Re:A year? on UK Police Want Plug-In Computer Crime Detectors · · Score: 1

    We can make it exponential. One cent for one day, two cents for two days, four cents for three days, 10 dollars for 10 days, 10000 dollars for 20 days...

  12. Re:Another kind of Twilight Zone on Tetris Turns 25 · · Score: 1

    No, no, no. Individuals are allowed to violate copyright, even if its some indie developer living on $15k/year. Once two individuals formally declare themselves as a corporation, however, it becomes a horrible crime* *Unless the copyright holder is an even bigger organization

  13. Re:Unethical, but not illegal on Investing In Lawsuits Beats the Street · · Score: 1

    Laws are not optional. They're protected by force and imposed on everyone in the area. And they have penalties, too.

    He didn't say that it's in a company's best interest to break the law. He said that it's in their best interest to do a certain action which is legally dubious probably because it harms other people while simultaneously following the letter of the law. Thus, it is in their best interest to twist and tangle the law to meet their own interests. In a technical document, however, you want to get the result that the manufacturer intended, so you don't try to find loopholes in the technical document.

  14. Good, keep regulating TV into oblivion on US DTV Patent Royalties Are $24–$40 · · Score: 1

    Everything will just migrate over to the internet even faster.

  15. Re:Why would last.fm, a UK based site on Last.fm Strongly Denies Sharing Data With RIAA · · Score: 1

    It's the "Recording Industry Ass. of America". Learn your abbreviations, you M$ shill.

  16. Re:free beats fee most of the time on When VMware Performance Fails, Try BSD Jails · · Score: 1

    I don't know, you should go set your CSS and SMTP preferences and the SLA servers should give you the correct BDSM.

  17. "It broke" on Keeping a PC Personal At School? · · Score: 1

    One day, come to class without it, and tell them it broke. Go without a computer for 2 weeks, change your computer's appearance a little and tell them "this is my brother's and I have to be super-careful about it. He even told me no lending whatsoever"

  18. Re:not the first on Cancer Sufferer Wins £5,000 After Bet to Stay Alive · · Score: 1

    This would be a good type of bet to make, and you can do lots of fun stuff with it. eg. I sign a contract where I get $1000/year for the rest of my life and in exchange you get 50% of my property when I die. If I live, I get a nice boost to my income, if I die, I'm too dead to care (and if you believe in quantum immortality, the second case doesn't even exist!)

  19. Re:Present Imperfect on Copyright Protection Business Model Expands, Plagiarizes Others · · Score: 1

    You seem to be in an indicative mood today.

  20. Re:escape on Making a Child Locating System · · Score: 1

    You mean the girl whose abduction got all over the news because it was such a rare and unusual event, unlike the thousands of children that die every year by getting run over by a car?

  21. Cellphone on Making a Child Locating System · · Score: 1

    So if something happens to her she can phone you. Completely voluntary, so there are no ethical objections to this, and it works just fine in situations like her getting on the wrong bus.

  22. Re:There is always an easier solution... on University Gives Away iPhones To Curb Truancy · · Score: 1

    That should have read accidentally actual assignments (isn't it ironic that the tag needed to do what I did there is "/b"?)

  23. Re:Sad Irony on Microsoft's Bulk Deal With New Zealand Collapses · · Score: 1

    Microsoft Visual Studio Team System :(

  24. Who needs flying cars? on Why Our "Amazing" Science Fiction Future Fizzled · · Score: 1

    When you can get around the world in 400 ms with the Internet?

  25. Re:Pfft, give me a break on Why Our "Amazing" Science Fiction Future Fizzled · · Score: 1

    I get so very tired of this canard.

    I know. Ducks can be so annoying sometimes.