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  1. Re:Awesome on Universities Hold Transcripts Hostage Over Loans · · Score: 1

    Now I can convince employers I have a degree law from Harvard. I am just behind in my loans.

    I suppose they could run a credit check to see who I owed money too. Ohh well, I guess I will have too settle for a degree in medicine from my actual school. Time to start defaulting on my loans.

  2. Awesome on Universities Hold Transcripts Hostage Over Loans · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now I can convince employers I have a degree law from Harvard. I am just behind in my loans.

  3. is more the equivalent on Finally, a Shark With a Laser Attached To Its Head · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "is more the equivalent " not sure what is wrong here but something sounds off

  4. Don't Impliment that Interface or da terrorist win on Oracle and the End of Programming As We Know It · · Score: 1

    Yes for example if your class impliments Comparable. Then it would be a derivitive work of the the Comparable interface with this logic.

  5. Congress Doesn't Get It on Congress Asks Patent Office To Consider Secret Patents · · Score: 1

    The majority of patents are never read. 382,679 patents were granted in 2011. Most of those are effectivily sercret simply because they are a needle in haystack of 400,000 things.

  6. Textbooks on the Nook on Microsoft Invests $300 Million In Nook e-Readers · · Score: 1

    Regardless of why this agreement came about it is a good sign that B&N is filling the Textbook gap on the Nook. Currently their eTextbooks only work on the PC or Mac. They don't work on the Nook at all. So more money getting that fixed is a smart move.

  7. Re:B&N Lawsuit on Microsoft Invests $300 Million In Nook e-Readers · · Score: 1

    Yeah this is likely about settling the lawsuits. There is no money to be made suing B&N over patents. There is no money to be made suing Microsoft over anti-trust.

  8. Re:you can save a ton of $ on Technology Makes It Harder To Save Money · · Score: 1

    I am not talking about a 1 to 1 replacement. You can go into any Grocery and buy 10 single servings pizzas for $10. Or spend a tad more and get get a TV dinner for 2-3$ Or you could start using alot of rice in your meals. Or cook up a large pot of soup and eat it for a week. A large jar of peanut butter and bread can last a long time too.

  9. Re:you can save a ton of $ on Technology Makes It Harder To Save Money · · Score: 1

    True but if you were suddenly unemployed you would get a lot more value out of a cable package. Your use of it could go from a 7 hours a week to 40 hours a week.

  10. Re:you can save a ton of $ on Technology Makes It Harder To Save Money · · Score: 1

    By cooking your meals and not eating fast food for every meal. Suppose you save $3 a meal and $1 by eating less snacks. That is $10 a day or $300 dollars a month. The extra time investment is no big deal if your unemployed.

  11. IPA worthless in a bankruptcy on Twitter: 'We Promise To Not Be a Patent Troll' · · Score: 1

    Note I am not a lawyer. But I would assume this IPA would not be inforcable in the event the Patent was sold in a bankruptcy. Twitter is only likely to sell its patents if the company is going under. So it only really protects the inventor from changes in Twitter's management.

  12. Re:iTunes needs to be split on iTunes' Windows Problem · · Score: 1

    Windows already has that stuff. They just need to get away from using their own Itunes specific version of it. Itunes on windows should just be a store. Google and Amazon don't bother with installing a bunch of vendor specific crapware. Why should Apple do this?

  13. Re:Why an app at all? on iTunes' Windows Problem · · Score: 1

    Why can't syncing your device be an open standard that anyone can impliment? If they want to solve the issue they need to loosen their grip some.

  14. Sony Strawman or No True Scotsman? on iTunes' Windows Problem · · Score: 0

    Sony wasn't a cloud system. It was a mishmash of about a dozen companies doing their own thing without oversight. Your equating cloud computing with purchasing things on the internet.

  15. Re:College now days is more about profit now days on Student Charged For Re-selling Textbooks · · Score: 1

    So the high price of textbooks is to inflate some proffesors ego?? Wonderfull.

  16. Drone as good as your communication network. on Why Drones Could Be the Future of Missile Defense · · Score: 1

    How effective are drones if no one is guiding them? Do your drones still work when you satalites are shot out of orbit? Do they still work when an EMP blast from a nuclear explossion takes out terrestrial communications?

  17. Comcast is a monopoly on Netflix CEO Accuses Comcast of Not Practicing Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    There is no market preasure for Comcast to provide fast access to Netflix. You either get access from Comcast or slower DSL. If Comcast doesn't peer with Level 3 then Level 3 goes out of buisness in the regions Comcast controls.

  18. Re:$600,000 is a ridiculous, ridiculous fine... on Student Charged For Re-selling Textbooks · · Score: 2

    I hope the court ignores the whole import export questions and just tosses the fine as unconstitutionally large.

  19. Re:I'm all for net neutrality, but... on Netflix CEO Accuses Comcast of Not Practicing Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    I think your really confused. If ISP's pay for packets going out then Netflix packets coming into Comcast would be free. The control packets you send to Netflix telling Netflix what video you want is tiny. But that ignores the fact that ISPs don't simply pay for packets coming in or out. They have peering agreements that state that traffic is free so long as it is balanced. In this case the traffic is not balanced. Comcast has an agreement with Netflix's CDN (Level 3) that states the CDN pays Comcast a fee because it send an unbalanced amount of packets into Comcasts network.

  20. Re:Why not redefine "CAP"? on Netflix CEO Accuses Comcast of Not Practicing Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Hardley any packets leave Comcast network when you stream video from Netflix. Instead you have packets entering the network from a regional CDN located on the backbone. Comcasts Xfininity videos are also stored on CDNs. In both cases packets leave the CDN travel over Comcasts last mile and are then viewed by the user who is paying for the connection. Very little is sent over the backbone.

  21. Re:Its like it costs Comcast less to stream their on Netflix CEO Accuses Comcast of Not Practicing Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Nope, both are transmitted from a regional CDN (Content Delivery Network) to the user.

  22. Re:This really is a bizare course of action for Or on Oracle and Google To Finally Enter Courtroom · · Score: 3, Interesting

    No the patent side of the lawsuit is pretty much gutted. The patents Oracle was suiing over were mostly tossed by the patent office. That is why the $$ went from billions to millions.

  23. Re:Gather evidence. on Whistleblower In Limbo After Reporting H-1B Visa Fraud At Infosys · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They should feel stupid for hiring an American IT worker and placing him in a management position. An Indian dev lead would not have reported this.

  24. Re:First? If the public airwaves are free already on Major Networks Suing To Stop Free Streaming · · Score: 1

    Your saying this company should be able to legally create DVD's of programs broadcast for free on the airwaves and then be able to sell them? Because that is basically what they are doing. Just replace DVD with IPad Streaming with a rental fee. If a user was doing it in their home then it would be non comercial fair use.

  25. Bribe Yourself Lol on Portugal Is Considering a "Terabyte Tax" · · Score: 1

    Mitt Romney doesn't need donations for his campain. Even before this ruling he was free to spend his own money on his campain. You can't claim Mitt Romney is bribing himself. He does fund raising because there are stupid people willing to give him money he doesn't need.