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  1. Re:who exactly is ebay trying to protect? on eBay Bans the Sale of Spells and Magic Items · · Score: 1

    No, they were annoyed by the countless disputes they had to remedy. Those things cost their support people time and money that could be bett spent elsewhere.

  2. Re:Does this also include on eBay Bans the Sale of Spells and Magic Items · · Score: 1

    Except that wasn't the problem. eBay didn't want the headache of sorting out disputes for this category of items that they apparently don't have for mainstream religious items. If the selling of holy water caused numerous disputes and caused them a lot of support time they'd ban those sales, too.

  3. Re:Recourse on Joyent Drops Lifetime Account Holders · · Score: 1

    To clarify that is for both the debts and liabilities.

  4. Re:Recourse on Joyent Drops Lifetime Account Holders · · Score: 2

    And in case you don't believe me read here. You only assume debt as a buyer if you agree to do so, it's a de facto merger, if the seller company is really just a continuation of the original company in that most of the people running it are the same or if you don't notify the sellers creditors in a reasonable time period before acquiring the assets.

  5. Re:Recourse on Joyent Drops Lifetime Account Holders · · Score: 0

    Wrong. People buy just the assets of companies and leave behind the debt and liabilities all the time to the original owners.

  6. Re:Does this also include on eBay Bans the Sale of Spells and Magic Items · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This just in: businesses have control of what actions they will allow others to do on their property.

  7. Re:Does this also include on eBay Bans the Sale of Spells and Magic Items · · Score: 2

    When it comes to hiring practices, yes. There is nothing illegal about eBay limiting what things it wants people selling on its property.

  8. Re:Just use micro USB already! on First Pictures of Apple's New Mini Connector · · Score: 1

    It's not just analogue audio it also carries analogue video.

  9. Re:From the rest of the world on US Court Sides With Gene Patents · · Score: 2

    Patenting of genes in the EU is already allowed.

  10. Re:Wait, what? on US Court Sides With Gene Patents · · Score: -1, Troll

    Because someone anti-patent would be "impartial"?

  11. Re:Hmm... on US Court Sides With Gene Patents · · Score: 2

    With these patents, does that mean that they own certain types of cancer?

    No.

  12. Re:... in the US on US Court Sides With Gene Patents · · Score: 3, Informative
  13. Re:The idea is to provide specific instructions on Use Google's Nexus 7 Tablet As a VoIP Phone, For Free · · Score: 2

    and I assume that the Slashdot editors have a pretty good sense of what will be useful/interesting to their readership overall

    You're joking, right? These are the same idiots who came up with turds such as Idle, Slash BI and Slashdot TV that have been almost universally hated. They haven't had a good idea in ages. Let alone the fact that they are too stupid to even properly spell check and fact check the submissions. You give them far too much credit.

  14. Re:Connector Change? on First Pictures of Apple's New Mini Connector · · Score: 1

    And before you try to claim the Galaxy Nexus. It cost $699 unsubsidized when it was released originally.

  15. Re:Connector Change? on First Pictures of Apple's New Mini Connector · · Score: 1

    The iPhone has nothing going for it anymore except that it's made by Apple and costs nearly twice as much as similar smart phones.

    No, it doesn't. New iPhone models have $199 subsidized prices which is exactly the same cost as a new Galaxy S model or any comparable high-end Android phone. Even going by unsubsidized price the difference between the Galaxy S 3 and the 4S is actually $50 dollars in the 4S's favor (16 GB 4S is $649 vs Galaxy S 3 16GB at $699). Comparing against the Galaxy S 2 the price difference is $649 to $549. Last time I checked that's not twice as much but is less than 20% difference. What 'similar smart phone' are you talking about that costs half as much as the iPhone?

  16. Re:Let the lawsuits begin.. on First Pictures of Apple's New Mini Connector · · Score: 1

    Yes exactly as I said 3 posts above.

  17. Re:Just use micro USB already! on First Pictures of Apple's New Mini Connector · · Score: 1

    USB scan carry analogue signals such as the dock connector can?

  18. Re:Just use micro USB already! on First Pictures of Apple's New Mini Connector · · Score: 2

    It's a standard pushed by the EU not a law. Also, Apple sells a mini-USB adapter to comply with the standard.

  19. Re:Why is the home button below the new connector? on First Pictures of Apple's New Mini Connector · · Score: 1

    No, it doesn't. That is a bendable cable.

  20. Re:How the heck do people this dumb... on Ask Slashdot: Protecting Data From a Carrington Event? · · Score: 1

    Because anyone can start a company and declare themselves the CEO.

  21. Re:Let the lawsuits begin.. on First Pictures of Apple's New Mini Connector · · Score: 1

    Apple was part of the group.

  22. Re:Let the lawsuits begin.. on First Pictures of Apple's New Mini Connector · · Score: 5, Informative

    No they won't. They provide an adapter which complies with the rules.

  23. Re:Haven't read the comments but... on Ask Slashdot: Protecting Data From a Carrington Event? · · Score: 1

    Since his game looks like a generic fantasy game I doubt anyone will care about it regardless.

  24. Re:Huh? on Ask Slashdot: Protecting Data From a Carrington Event? · · Score: 1

    I really doubt anyone will care about his crappy looking game even without a Carrington event.

  25. Re:What is wrong with paper? on Ask Slashdot: Protecting Data From a Carrington Event? · · Score: 1

    With MPEG4 compression that could be upped to HD quality, but you would still lose a lot of high frequency movie content (1080i =/= 2000p of today's movies).

    Then encode it to a higher resolution than 1080p. Wow, that was a hard solution...