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  1. Re:Information wants to be free on Library Journal Board Resigns On "Crisis of Conscience" After Swartz Death · · Score: 2

    I never typeset my papers myself. Many Journals offer special templates for Word and Latex to use, but I never even look at them. I pay US$ 100,- per page on average and I refuse to do all the work a publisher has to do beside that. I never had any troubles with that.

  2. Re:Information wants to be free on Library Journal Board Resigns On "Crisis of Conscience" After Swartz Death · · Score: 0

    Information does not want anything. Some people want information to be free, usually because they're too cheap to pay for the Justin Bieber songs they download.

  3. The research has profound implications for privacy, suggesting that the use of mobile devices makes it impossible to remain anonymous – even without the use of tracking software.

    We've known that since the 1990s. Why get all upset about that now?

  4. Re:This could be a boon to semiconductors and MEMS on Nanoscale 3D Printer Now Commercially Available · · Score: 1

    This thing can only print certain materials so I'm not sure it works for electronics. And the resolution is 30 nm according to the Technology World article. The press release doesn't say anything about the resolution though.

  5. Re:iOS-ification? on Ask Slashdot: Mac To Linux Return Flow? · · Score: 1

    What's with my UID then? Except that it shows that I was here long before the TSA existed...

  6. Re:iOS-ification? on Ask Slashdot: Mac To Linux Return Flow? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I also don't see the problem. A few changes to the UI and people scream and shout as if the world ends. Grow up, choose the tool you need and get to work.

  7. Re:Better off enforcing an EA boycott on Is It Time To Enforce a Gamers' Bill of Rights? · · Score: 1

    You should never read the reviews with more than half the maximum score. Astroturfers will always give the game higher than half maximum.

  8. That is not true in case of the EU. Many European firms were fined millions of euros because of their breaking European law.

  9. Re:Ahhhhhhh.... on The Pirate Bay Claims It Is Now Hosting From North Korea · · Score: 1

    The Pirate Bay has been hunted in many countries around the world. Not for illegal activities but being persecuted for beliefs of freedom of information.

    Ohh, BARF!

    Indeed. Whoever came up with the idea that "information wants to be free" should be shot. Information doesn't want anything, and many people do not want their information to be free at all. It's also quite hypocrite that many slashdotters are very much pro Pirate Bay because it makes downloading copyrighted movies and music so much easier, but when the GPL is infringed they start to whine and moan and want the people who did that to be thrown in jail.

  10. Sort of like they did with the Burj Khalifa?

  11. Re:Of course on Six-Strikes System Starts In U.S. · · Score: 1

    They send you letters and throttle you. That costs money. So, indeed they are siding with the RIAA and the like.

  12. Re:YouTube on You Can Navigate Between Any Two Websites In 19 Clicks Or Fewer · · Score: 1

    It's true, even if you don't have a Google account it does that now. But still it's a fun game to play, and it should still find related videos, even of stuff you never watched before.

  13. YouTube on You Can Navigate Between Any Two Websites In 19 Clicks Or Fewer · · Score: 1

    I often go to a random video on YouTube and then try to get to a certain video just by clicking the suggested videos on the right side of the page. You must try it with videos you normally never watch, otherwise it's too easy. It's fun, you never know what you find on your way.

  14. Re:Thats how civilized countries do it! on Dutch MP Fined For Ethical Hacking · · Score: 3, Informative

    No and no. All people are equal for the law here, and the guy is quite popular so this will not cost him many votes.

  15. Re:Showoff Gets Off Easy on Dutch MP Fined For Ethical Hacking · · Score: 4, Informative

    We don't have juries in the Netherlands.

  16. Re:The World's gone mad! on Australian Federal Court Rules For Patent Over Breast Cancer Gene · · Score: 1

    Have I got to patent myself now to stop anybody else from 'owning' me?

    I'm not sure about patenting yourself, but of course you can claim intellectual property ownership on yourself becouse you grew and made the shape you have all by yourself.

    But maybe the patent owner then claims that you copied a gene that they have patent on billions of times and thus you have to pay them trillions of dollars.

  17. Re:Christians, physicians and hospitals on Missouri Legislation Redefines Science, Pushes Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    We have them too here in the Netherlands. They won't vaccinate their children against contagious and dangerous diseases, thereby making sure that these diseases stay alive in the wild. Thanks people.

  18. Re:Australia on Pepsi To Release New Breakfast Mountain Dew · · Score: 1

    Because caffeine is a stimulant and it's not good to give people too much of it.

    There. FTFY.

  19. Re:The funny thing at my university on Professors Rejecting Classroom Technology · · Score: 1

    My prof wants everything you want to show him on paper just because of this. It takes far too much time to fiddle with computer files on whatever medium.

  20. Re:Captain Obvious strikes again on How Not To Launch a Gadget · · Score: 1

    Oh man! Nightmares will haunt me for a long time now. I do not thank you, unkind sir. ;)

  21. Re:Captain Obvious strikes again on How Not To Launch a Gadget · · Score: 2

    Which is exactly the reason why we don't see scantily clad males in booths. They scare away your clientele.

  22. Re:Sucks, I guess, on The Only, Lonely Protester at CES (Video) · · Score: 1

    WHOOSH!!! on you :)
    I said, I would be very rich then because I can't replace tires, because I don't have that awesome set of tools (I also lack the skills to use those tools). So I would have to buy a new car every time there was a little bit wrong with the old car. It was a joke.

  23. Re:Sucks, I guess, on The Only, Lonely Protester at CES (Video) · · Score: 1

    I was referring to this.

  24. Re:Sucks, I guess, on The Only, Lonely Protester at CES (Video) · · Score: 1

    Woosh?