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  1. Re:time for copyleft for music on RIAA/MPAA: the Greatest Threat To Tech Innovation · · Score: 0

    When everybody is allowed to act out in their own self interest without limits in a world where we all have to live together and survive on the same scrap of dirt, nobody wins.

    Nature will take care of it, just like in the animal world. And despite our fancy language, we are just animals. It shows in everything we do.

  2. Re:That's a good idea on Leaked Docs Show UK ISP BT Plans Music Service · · Score: 1

    Is a seven year old DSL modem "ancient"?

  3. Re:time for copyleft for music on RIAA/MPAA: the Greatest Threat To Tech Innovation · · Score: 1, Troll

    Anarchy is all there is. Everything else needs to be propped up with heavy weaponry. And that's also very expense, and really a waste of money. Copyleft is the same bullshit as copyright.. It just shifts the power.. It has to be eliminated.. Time to turn the weapons on those who wield them.

  4. Re:Only a week on Robots Find Wreckage of AF447 · · Score: 1

    ...if we stick to comparing Boeing 757s, 767s, 777s and 737 NGs to Airbus aircraft from the same period of time, Airbus have a slightly better safety record.

    They certainly do not... The only mechanical glitch that killed (or even hurt) anybody suffered by any those models was Lauda Air's 767 that kicked a thrust reverser in mid flight, due to a short circuit. Even that is a recoverable situation with a quick acting pilot.. in the daytime, with an easy to see horizon. Reading the accident reports also show there is more confusion in the Airbus Cockpit when a crew member selects the incorrect mode during approach and landing. Look up the most famous one that happened an airshow. I will also grant that almost none of those types of accidents happened with an American crew :-)

  5. Re:IP Laws as a whole are flawed on RIAA/MPAA: the Greatest Threat To Tech Innovation · · Score: 3, Informative

    No, the whole point of IP is to create another commodity, ripe for speculation. It's just business.

  6. Re:time for copyleft for music on RIAA/MPAA: the Greatest Threat To Tech Innovation · · Score: 2

    Even "copyleft" is a license. The entire bureaucracy has to be demolished.

  7. Re:obvious? on RIAA/MPAA: the Greatest Threat To Tech Innovation · · Score: 1

    You have no respect for history.. Humans did roam the earth before 1980..

  8. Re:Simplistic view on RIAA/MPAA: the Greatest Threat To Tech Innovation · · Score: 2

    ...corruption grows and corporations become more powerful.

    In place of "corporations" or "government" (redundant terms actually), just use the term "authority". Authority is a direct function of corruption.

  9. The VCR? No on RIAA/MPAA: the Greatest Threat To Tech Innovation · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The printing press was/is the greatest threat. That's where it all started. The first "Bertamax" case..

  10. Re:Only a week on Robots Find Wreckage of AF447 · · Score: 0

    That's because there's lots of very old Boeings still in service.. It has been a very long time since a Boeing has wrecked due to equipment failure.

  11. Re:That's a good idea on Leaked Docs Show UK ISP BT Plans Music Service · · Score: 1

    I'm discovering how badly bittorrent sucks. It completely disrupts my network, and the downloads aren't very fast. Could be my ISP, but either way, I have to use something else..

  12. That's a good idea on Leaked Docs Show UK ISP BT Plans Music Service · · Score: 1

    Then we can share them more privately with trusted friends through ftp or whatever.

  13. Re:This Is Pointless on US Open Government Sites To Close · · Score: 1

    It's only showing a 'deficit' because it is being robbed to fund other departments

  14. But there's plenty of money on US Open Government Sites To Close · · Score: 3, Insightful

    for social media propaganda and sockpuppet accounts... Eh.. whatever. The whole thing is such bullshit

  15. Re:...liabilities on StunRay Incapacitates With a Flash of Light · · Score: 1

    So cheap you could use it against tank drivers...

    What, is that a problem?

  16. I hope it's not an incandescent lamp on StunRay Incapacitates With a Flash of Light · · Score: 1

    Anyway, I like this one much better..

  17. Re:Firefox5 would be fine if it's a major advance on Firefox 5 Details: Sharing, Home Tab, PDF Viewer · · Score: 1

    Firefox used to be the lean and mean version of Seamonkey.. Now it's just as fat with none of the functionality. So now we need a lean and mean version of the 'lean and mean' version..

  18. Re:Inflammatory headline on Pirated Android App Shames Freeloaders · · Score: 1

    Tell it to the taxman...

  19. Re:...hmm interesting... on Pirated Android App Shames Freeloaders · · Score: 1

    That's pretty cool... Software can 'think' now..

    I think...
    I think I am.
    Therefore I am!
    I think...

    Of course you are, my bright little star...
    I've miles and miles of files
    Pretty files of your forefather's fruit
    And now to suit our great computer
    You're magnetic ink!

  20. Re:In others news .... on Drug Runners Perfect Long-Range Subs · · Score: 1

    "Those guys" ARE the cartels.

  21. Re:Damages? on Facebook, Zuckerberg Sued For $1 Billion Over Intifada Page · · Score: 1

    Furthermore, Facebook is not exactly a hotbed of intellectual activity. Why give these people any attention at all?

    You underestimate their (including Twitter's) value in spreading lies and propaganda, and of course advertising. The papers just reported that most of the traffic comes from very few users, many of them sockpuppets. And I would speculate more than a few bots. It's bright future ahead for this method of dispensing 'information'.

  22. Re:Fail on Facebook, Zuckerberg Sued For $1 Billion Over Intifada Page · · Score: 1

    Who's this guy "Luke"? And why should I believe him? I wanna see his press pass.

  23. Looks like our "anonymous" submitter on Facebook, Zuckerberg Sued For $1 Billion Over Intifada Page · · Score: 1

    Is pimping a ZDNet editorial (propaganda piece). Sure doesn't read like a regular news story.

  24. They found the Huge Bosom, eh? on LHC, CERN Has Found the Hugs Boson · · Score: 2

    How much does it weigh?

  25. Re:Reasons unknown?? on Robots Dive Deep To Solve Airliner Crash Mystery · · Score: 1

    The bottom line doesn't know people. A malfunctioning landing gear light bulb can 'cause' a crash. The word is "situational awareness".. Lose that, and your landing will probably do more than just loosen a few teeth.