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  1. Price Fixing Illegal Market Manipulation on PlayStation 4 'Orbis' Rumors: AMD Hardware, Hostile To Used Games · · Score: 1

    It is legally required to allow first sale. It is an anti-trust violation to interfere with secondary markets. What these publishers are atempting to do is a form of price fixing.

  2. Give them a Google+ password on Facebook: Legal Action Against Employers Asking For Your Password · · Score: 1

    Better to be a hipster Googler than a technophobe. They still may think your lying.

  3. Re:i would love to sue my boss for that on Facebook: Legal Action Against Employers Asking For Your Password · · Score: 2

    Why sign up for social media as yourself in the first place? Yes I'm on FB, but not as me so no one that doesn't already know my ident can find me.

    So that people who don't know your ident can find you. Facebook will use the info you type into your profile and try to match you with high school classmates, college friends, and coworkers. Friends of your Friends will also not be able to identify you.

  4. Is the following program a mathematical proof? on Supreme Court Limits Patents Based On Laws of Nature · · Score: 1

    Sit, Rollover, Play Dead, Good Boy

  5. Re:Goodbye software patents? on Supreme Court Limits Patents Based On Laws of Nature · · Score: 1

    meh compiled binaries are proofs of mathematical statements. Computer programs in text form are specialized form of speach. The computer can be micro processor, a person with a calculator, or a pet dog.

  6. Re:Goodbye software patents? on Supreme Court Limits Patents Based On Laws of Nature · · Score: 1

    Better examination would have to be a lot more restrictive than it is now. Currently the PTO grants so many patents that there are not enough lawyers to review them for each company that could be effected. It is currently mathmatically impossible to comply with patent law if your a software developer.

  7. inventive step on Supreme Court Limits Patents Based On Laws of Nature · · Score: 1

    You can patent a use of the gene. So long as the use is an inventive step. One that did not exist prior to your patent. So combining the gene with a virus to create a cure is patentable. (provided that step is not obvious to one skilled in the art) Simply using existing techniques to identify the gene and using medical knowledge to propose a known treatment is not patentable.

  8. Aggression == Bad??? on All Video Games Cause Aggressive Behavior, Say Two US Congressmen · · Score: 1

    Since when is aggression a bad thing? I get violence being bad. But aggression?? I always viewed aggression as being the opposite of passive. Can we get the following label instead.
    'WARNING: Exposure to violent video games has been linked to non passive behavior.'

  9. Cloud Computing == Banking on The Risk of a Meltdown In the Cloud · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think the best metaphor for cloud computing is banking. There are risks for doing it yourself and risks in trusting a bank. If you hold your money in a safe then you may be robbed by a family member, employee, or petty theif. If you keep your money in the bank you may be robbed by the goverment, bankers, or by proffesional bank robbers. This same dynamic is true of storing data. The big difference between cloud computing and banking is regulation. Federally insured banks are heavilly regulated. There are laws about home much money they can lend, who they can hire, and what rates they can charge.

  10. Re:That article. on 51% of Internet Traffic Is "Non-Human" · · Score: 1

    Is such a huge load over advertising.

    It doesn't link to any research, its simply and in house "research" after which they also suggest you that you really should use their service. So its to be taken with a grain of salt. There is no research method described, or anything else.

    Yeah there is nothing in that article that tells who the fuck Incapsula is. Do they have people with doctorates and PHD's doing their "research." Or are they just pulling numbers out of their butt. Smells like a fly by night scam.

  11. Re:In France book prices have always been fixed on Swiss Voters Reject Book Price Controls · · Score: 1

    But apparently not books exported lol.

  12. Re:Freedom vs. localism on Swiss Voters Reject Book Price Controls · · Score: 1

    France has a law in place, established in 1981, that requires all booksellers in the country — big-box stores, independent stores, online retailers — to sell a given book at the same price as all their competitors.

    It is basically the Agency model enforced by the goverment. All french publishers are colluding on price.

  13. Don't commute Work From Home on Google 'Wasting' $16 Billion On Projects Headed Nowhere · · Score: 0

    Work From Home. Or live near a small office and work from there. Why have driverless cars and still have a 2 hour commute??? It seems the commute is the easier problem to solve.

  14. Re:"Crashing the system... Yeah, right" on How To Crash the US Justice System: Demand a Trial · · Score: 1

    The stuff you say is true. It has always been true and it is true all over the world. Butt.... The point is that incarceration rates in the USA are at record highs. We currently have the highest incarceration rate in the entire world. There is a real problem in the USA. You can't hand wave it away.

  15. Re:Denial of Service attack on How To Crash the US Justice System: Demand a Trial · · Score: 2

    Denying bail is a two edge sword. It is more expensive to hold people in prison than to hold their money. You crash the system quicker if bail is denied.

  16. If we don't eat meat who will? on Solving Climate Change By Bioengineering Humans? · · Score: 1

    So if humans are not eating the cows how will their numbers decrease? Are we just going to kill them all? Planned extinction of species that product too much CO2?

  17. Injury depends on length of exposure. on Journalist Gets Blasted By the Pentagon's Pain Ray — Twice · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I last maybe two seconds of curiosity before my body takes the controls and yanks me out of the way of the beam

    The person who was injured in the testing was overexposed. So if used outside the lab your going to have injured people. People will fall down and if the machine is ran to long they will be burned. This is similer to the LRAD system that uses sounds instead of microwaves. It has already been used by law enformcement and has caused hearing loss on someone who fell down.

  18. Re:Cyber Cafe on Is Onlive Pirating Windows and Will It Cost Them? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Windows desktop operating system and Microsoft Office system licenses do not permit renting, leasing, or outsourcing the software to a third party. As a result, many organizations that rent, lease, or outsource desktop PCs to third parties (such as Internet cafés, hotel and airport kiosks, business service centers, and office equipment leasing companies) are not in compliance with Microsoft license requirements. Rental Rights are a simple way for organizations to get a waiver of these licensing restrictions through a one-time license transaction valid for the term of the underlying software license or life of the PC.

    Nevermind I looked it up at https://partner.microsoft.com/40104043

  19. Cyber Cafe on Is Onlive Pirating Windows and Will It Cost Them? · · Score: 1

    Would this mean a Cyber Cafe is also in violation? Is the license saying you can't rent out Window 7 machines? Or just that you can't rent out Window 7 machines over a network?

  20. Re:What is "agency model"? on Publishers Warned On Ebook Prices · · Score: 2

    The deal the publishers made with Apple includes a requirement that none of the publishers sell e-books to any other company at a price lower than the publishers charged Apple. This is where the focus of the Anti-Trust will be. Having an Agency model between a publisher and Apple by itself would not be a anti trust violation. The fact that the deal forced other companies into that model is the Anti Trust issue.

  21. I'm not a lawyer on Publishers Warned On Ebook Prices · · Score: 2

    The button you click says "Buy" therefor it is sale regardless of what the publisher thinks they did. The Clayton Act makes these EULAs illegal anyways.

  22. Agent and Banks on Publishers Warned On Ebook Prices · · Score: 1

    An agent can set you up with an editor. Your agent can also take over marketing. There are things called banks that provide loans to buisnesses to help pay for things.

  23. Re:ahhh, that's why... on Publishers Warned On Ebook Prices · · Score: 1

    Physical stores discount hardcovers when they want to clear inventory to make room for new books. They are basically selling the book at cost. There is no inventory problem with ebooks.
    Physical stores also discount a best seller as a loss leader. They are hoping you will buy something else when you are in the physical store when you go to buy the loss leader. Before the Agency model Amazon did this with ebooks. Publishers are ok with this in book stores because all the book in the store are published by them. On the Kindle though these sales were driving people to purchase books from self published authors who sold at a lower price. You came into the store to buy The Girl With The Dragon Tatoo and wind up purchasing a 99 cent book from Amanda Hocking.

  24. Re:Why does an e-book need a publisher? on Publishers Warned On Ebook Prices · · Score: 1

    But having a publisher doesn't do that. People don't look to see if a book has a publisher when they buy it. They look at author name, reviews, advertisements, and the book cover. I have two bookshelves full of books and I have no idea who published those books. The only people looking at the publisher name is physical book stores.

  25. Re:Logic seems flawed on Why Distributing Music As 24-bit/192kHz Downloads Is Pointless · · Score: 1
    No. He is showing that if you include the audio that a person can not hear then it causes noise when played back on your stereo. Distortion that isn't on the original recording but is an artifact of the way stereos treat really low and really high frequencies.

    Neither audio transducers nor power amplifiers are free of distortion, and distortion tends to increase rapidly at the lowest and highest frequencies. If the same transducer reproduces ultrasonics along with audible content, harmonic distortion will shift some of the ultrasonic content down into the audible range as an uncontrolled spray of intermodulation distortion products covering the entire audible spectrum. Harmonic distortion in a power amplifier will produce the same effect. The effect is very slight, but listening tests have confirmed that both effects can be audible.