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  1. Re:Dual screen on New Sony OLED Display Can Roll Into Cylinder · · Score: 1

    The actual prop must have had a workable rail, even if it didn't have a real screen.

  2. Re:Cure? on Cheap Cancer Drug Finally Tested In Humans · · Score: 1

    Is that in the US?

  3. Re:Hooray! on The Telcos' Secret Anti-Net Neutrality Strategy · · Score: 3, Informative

    Except for the ones in states where that is restricted or outlawed at the behest of the telcos.

  4. Re:Another Stab At a Canadian DMCA on Another Stab At a Canadian DMCA · · Score: 1

    That reflects badly on both of us, Patty. This record should be held by an American.

  5. Re:PREDICTIONS ARE IN on FCC Allows Blocking of Set-Top Box Outputs · · Score: 1

    Nothing which makes major campaign contributions is harmful.

  6. Re:Another Stab At a Canadian DMCA on Another Stab At a Canadian DMCA · · Score: 1

    Impeachment is NOT a vote of no confidence. It is the legislative equivalent of an indictment. It isn't saying "fuck this guy," it's saying "this guy should be in prison."

  7. Re:Another Stab At a Canadian DMCA on Another Stab At a Canadian DMCA · · Score: 2, Informative

    The armed forces that got the longest distance sniper kill ever recorded.

  8. Re:pattern? on Mayan Plumbing Found In Ancient City · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Somalia is under-polluted.

  9. Re:pattern? on Mayan Plumbing Found In Ancient City · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you don't have to go outside to shit, you grow complacent and weak.

  10. Re:The question isn't on Can Oil-Eating Bacteria Help Clean Up the Gulf Oil Spill? · · Score: 1

    If the bacteria are anaerobic, they could get into the oil field itself and deplete it.

  11. High Ping Bastards on UK Docs Perform First Remote-Control Heart Surgery · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Until I can get reliably get pings low enough to play intercontinental TF2, I won't want anyone playing Operation Online in my guts, thanks.

  12. Dr. Moller Need Not Apply on At Last, Flying Cars? · · Score: 1

    see title

  13. Re:News Flash: Apple limits app store! on Apple Blocks Cartoonist From App Store · · Score: 1

    If this becomes the business model of choice for more hardware companies, or MOST hardware companies, it will matter. A lot.

  14. Re:Too bad Obama doesn't share the American dream on Obama Outlines Bold Space Policy ... But No Moon · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And while we're at it, he's no true Scotsman, either.

  15. You know what else is lacking? on Woman Creates 3-D Erotic Book For the Blind · · Score: 1

    Audio porn. I don't mean pornographic audiobooks. I mean something like this famous holophonic recording: http://www.holophonic.ch/archivio/testaudio/voce.mp3 Except not just sexy but explicitly sexual.

  16. Iphone search data = Pornography for Advertisers on Talk of an Apple Search Engine To Thwart Google · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No kidding that data is valuable. I mean iphone users have proven that they are easily led bandwagon jumpers with plenty of money to spend on crap they don't need. Advertisers are jizzing all over themselves to get at that data.

  17. Re:This will fail on Talk of an Apple Search Engine To Thwart Google · · Score: 2, Funny

    Bing was created mainly as an attack on Google and an attempt to get into the search business, not because Microsoft had something new to offer in search.

    Wrong. Microsoft's first legitimate innovation ever is Bing's video search's startling proficiency at finding porn. Google doesn't even come close.

  18. Re:Never work for free on Regulators Investigating Unpaid Internships · · Score: 1

    I can see the value in certain limited fields (such as animation, mentioned in the article) if they follow the specific rules laid out for under-paid or unpaid interns, but there is absolutely no reason it should spread to the general business community.

    You're making a moral argument and attempting to apply it to amoral entities. The reason for it to spread to the general business community is that it saves them money. That is the only reason there needs to be for it to happen.

  19. Re:I always got paid internships on Regulators Investigating Unpaid Internships · · Score: 1

    http://www.epi.org/publications/entry/pm160/
    Internships—the vast majority of which are unpaid—have become a staple of the college experience. In 1992, only 9% of graduating college students had participated in internships; by 2006 that figure increased nine-fold to 83% (Ortner 1997/1998; NACE 2008), representing at least 2.5 million student workers each year

    People are desperate, and companies know they can do this. Note that that 83% figure is for 2006. If it isn't close to 100 percent now I'd be shocked.

  20. Re:Harmful competition on Regulators Investigating Unpaid Internships · · Score: 1

    Um, excuse me, but the role of the state is to fund a ridiculous overkill military, and to protect the wealthy from the poor (using that military if necessary). Also it is to get out of the way of businesses because they are inherently good and nothing they do could therefore be wrong.

  21. Re:Dangerous move on Regulators Investigating Unpaid Internships · · Score: 1

    RTFA.

  22. Re:So now they'll get minimum wage on Regulators Investigating Unpaid Internships · · Score: 1

    Better than getting nothing, and while the perverse incentive is still there, it is reduced.

  23. Re:Quick on Japan To Standardize Electric Vehicle Chargers · · Score: 1

    If Tesla follows the lead of that one Tesla owner and starts installing charging stations around the country, they could still win (in the US at least, which could help give them the rest of the world) and own the standard.

  24. Re:5 dollar patch on BioShock 2's First DLC Already On Disc · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You win, because you actually got the goddamn meme right. It isn't rocket surgery. "Yo dawg, I heard you like so we put in your so you can (different, but related) while you !"

  25. Re:We should all copyright... on Obama Backs MPAA, RIAA, and ACTA · · Score: 1

    If your contract has a clause that anything you create on the clock (or off it) belongs to the company, you just patented yourself out of your own way of working if you go anywhere else.