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  1. Re:Pipe dream on Microsoft and GE Partner On Healthcare · · Score: 2

    Affordable capitalist health care is a pipe dream.

  2. Re:Friggen finally on TSA Facing Death By a Thousand Cuts · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It takes a very long time to effect change.

    Only if that change would increase the power of the people.

  3. Re:It's not (so much) the ads... on Google, Facebook Upset By Ad-Injecting Apps · · Score: 1

    That's a good thing. This way, no matter how many ads you see you're not going to spend any extra money. If they had better ads, you'd be more likely to be conned into spending money that you didn't need to.

  4. Re:Said it before and I'll say it again ... on Google, Facebook Upset By Ad-Injecting Apps · · Score: 1

    Such as a digital watch. Status symbols are for tools.

  5. Re:Said it before and I'll say it again ... on Google, Facebook Upset By Ad-Injecting Apps · · Score: 1

    How do you know which elements are ads unless they're hosted on well known ad servers or obviously named sub directories? Host your ads in the same path as your content and there's no way to automate ad removal.

  6. Re:Java == Training Wheels on Java Apps Have the Most Flaws, Cobol the Least · · Score: 1

    You have a point. But in that case, how bad are Java programmers that they need TWO sets of training wheels?

  7. Re:Don't want on Draft Alternative To SOPA Released · · Score: 1

    No, it has not. Not yet.

  8. Re:Don't want on Draft Alternative To SOPA Released · · Score: 1

    So in other words, nothing?

  9. Re:Don't want on Draft Alternative To SOPA Released · · Score: 1

    And what have your letters accomplished? You probably get a warm fuzzie from writing them. What else?

  10. Re:Repressive? on EU Moves To End Surveillance Tech Sales To Repressive Regimes · · Score: 1

    Oh, so like the US crack down on Occupy Wall Street, the journalists arrested during the crackdown, and the US confiscation of domain names they have no jurisdiction over?

  11. Re:Perfect american corporate business practice on Cnet Apologizes For Nmap Adware Mess · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Nmap is distributed with clarifications to the GPL that explicitly define bundling the software as a "derivative work". Since the bundled software was not also GPL licensed, this was in fact contrary to the license.

  12. Re:Perfect american corporate business practice on Cnet Apologizes For Nmap Adware Mess · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They distributed nmap in a manner inconsistent with its licensing, running afoul of copyright law. They should be forced to pay applicable statutory damages.

  13. Re:What happened to Russia? on Twitter Bots Drown Out Anti-Kremlin Tweets · · Score: 1

    So it's about as socialist as Obama is then?

  14. Re:Government action on Ask Slashdot: Is Your Data Safe In the Cloud? · · Score: 1

    You can legislate all you want, you can't change the nature of property. Non-rivalrous goods are not property, period.

  15. Re:Government action on Ask Slashdot: Is Your Data Safe In the Cloud? · · Score: 1

    The fact of the matter is that no information is "your information". Information simply cannot be owned.

  16. Re:Shouldn't it be fairly simple to determine that on Genome of Controversial Arsenic Bacterium Sequenced · · Score: 5, Informative

    They know that this bacteria lives in an environment of Arsenic and may use it in its cell process. So any Spectrometric study will show Arsenic as contamination.

    What matters is whether the arsenic is covalently bound to functional groups like adenosine, which mass spectrometry is able to detect.

  17. Re:They have it backwards on Bloggers Not Journalists, Federal Judge Rules · · Score: 2

    Indeed. It's "Freedom of the Press", not "Freedom of Journalists". The Press is used for tabloids and fiction as well as journalism.

  18. Re:If not the government, then who? on Bloggers Not Journalists, Federal Judge Rules · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The press is an item. Everyone who owns one has freedom of the press. Computers are the modern equivalent of the press, they serve the same fundamental purpose, disseminating information. So everyone who owns a computer has freedom of the press.

  19. Re:It's Not ALL Bloggers on Bloggers Not Journalists, Federal Judge Rules · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This blogger does not rise to the level of journalist, because she fails to meet this list of qualifications we expect traditional journalists to have. Very few other bloggers have those same qualifications, so they can expect to not be treated as journalists by this court.

    Defendant fails to bring forth any evidence suggestive of her status as a journalist. For example, there is no evidence of (1) any education in journalism; (2) any credentials or proof of any affiliation with any recognized news entity; (3) proof of adherence to journalistic standards such as editing, fact-checking, or disclosures of conflicts of interest; (4) keeping notes of conversations and interviews conducted; (5) mutual understanding or agreement of confidentiality between the defendant and his/her sources; (6) creation of an independent product rather than assembling writings and postings of others; or (7) contacting "the other side" to get both sides of a story. Without evidence of this nature, defendant is not "media."

  20. Re:Sponsorships? Really? on Ask Slashdot: Is Your Data Safe In the Cloud? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Slashdot is a geek tabloid. Don't expect journalistic integrity. Do expect entertaining discussion.

  21. Re:It's not worded very well, but... on Red Cross Debates If Virtual Killing Violates International Humanitarian Law · · Score: 1

    Defamation requires a reasonable explanation that the statements are intended to be taken factually. No such expectation exists in fictional works.

  22. Re:This is a basic intelligence test for SCOTUS on Supreme Court Legitimizing Medical Patents? · · Score: 1

    Sorry, we passed that bar a long time ago. There is no limit to the ignorance and malfeasance of the SCOTUS.

  23. Re:Two thoughts on Red Cross Debates If Virtual Killing Violates International Humanitarian Law · · Score: 1

    I think a shooting game in which one has to choose who to shoot would tend to be a better game than one in which you shoot everything that moves

    You might think that, but there still hasn't been a better first person shooter than Doom.

  24. Re:It's not worded very well, but... on Red Cross Debates If Virtual Killing Violates International Humanitarian Law · · Score: 2

    It could be fair that developers are barred from using real armies in games branded as realistic if they do not take into account the doctrine of these armies.

    No it could not, as that would violate free speech.

    That could be considered as slander
    Fiction cannot be slanderous.

    I am not sure what my opinions are on this one but I think that it shouldn't be dismissed as a silly one.

    No, it absolutely should be dismissed as silly. There are no worthwhile issues to be discussed here.

  25. Re:I wonder... on Voyager 1 Exits Our Solar System · · Score: 1

    We should send more.