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  1. Re:ICE is doing what now? on The EFF Reflects On ICE Seizing a Tor Exit Node · · Score: 1

    The warrant was against the computers connected, not the people.

  2. Re:Why.... on Do You Want Best Buy Opening Your New Laptop? · · Score: 1

    Furniture often or usually has a huge markup (100-400%)

  3. Re:Why.... on Do You Want Best Buy Opening Your New Laptop? · · Score: 1

    And you can usually buy third-party warranties at 30-40% of the cost. Personal article coverage can also cover computers, (pro-rated, but still not horrible) in addion to other things under one policy

  4. Re:API Copyright? on Oracle vs Google: Copyright Claims Must Remain · · Score: 1

    That doesn't make any sense to me. If I have perfect pitch and reverse engineered a song and performed it, such and act wouldn't get me around copyright issues. In fact I would be in a better position if the composer had freely given my a copy of his scoresheet instead. API's are really more like a list of word making up the language a computer program "speaks".

  5. Re:doing it wrong on Oracle vs Google: Copyright Claims Must Remain · · Score: 1

    Arguing for lightweight over functionality and coverage is like arguing for a keyboard with fewer keys

    Chording keyboards allow typing speeds of up to 300 words per minute.

  6. Re:API? on Oracle vs Google: Copyright Claims Must Remain · · Score: 1

    You cant' copyright the behavior of a computer function. It's not in a fixed medium. Patents may be on some behaviors, but not a copyright. A name is not copyright-able either. If you invent the word giblywonk to describe the sound a mediocre metal band makes while practicing drunk and stoned and I then trow ten tom cats and a howler monky in a metal garbage can and beat on the lid with a baseball bat, there's no reason I can't use the word giblywonk to describe that sound I just made, as for all practical purposes there is no difference. An API is just a language for describing functions.

  7. Re:API? on Oracle vs Google: Copyright Claims Must Remain · · Score: 1

    An API is a language, a way for one computer construct to talk to another. Can you copyright the english language? French? Latin? Tolkein Elvish? Esperanto? You can copyright particular dictionaries, but not the entire language (even in the case of purely invented languages).

  8. Re:Usually a double-game on Verizon Employees End Strike · · Score: 1

    History doesn't expire. This agitator tactic is often used by the FBI. Anyways google books has the book quoted availible for free, and looks fairly interesting I'm still not sure how often the tactic was used, or weather it ever extended beyond counsel.

  9. Re:LibreOffice vs OpenOffice on 25,000 Danish Hospital Staff Moving To LibreOffice · · Score: 1

    Yep, and the devs are the most important link in most OSS software projects.

  10. Re:An offer you can't refuse. on Verizon Employees End Strike · · Score: 1

    A lot of public unions are non-strike (and usually have some sort of third party to help in bargaining.)

  11. Re:An offer you can't refuse. on Verizon Employees End Strike · · Score: 1

    United States v. Enmons

  12. Re:An offer you can't refuse. on Verizon Employees End Strike · · Score: 1

    In the 1973 United States v. Enmons decision. the United States Supreme Court held that union violence is exempted from the Hobbs Act, which makes it a federal crime to obstruct interstate commerce by robbery or extortion

  13. Re:LibreOffice vs OpenOffice on 25,000 Danish Hospital Staff Moving To LibreOffice · · Score: 1

    FSF guarantees that it will always be under the GPL. Oracle or Sun don't make this promise and don't have quite the same stellar reputation. And even in the case of the FSF, some coders don't like it.

  14. Re:Usually a double-game on Verizon Employees End Strike · · Score: 0

    Please, a citation so people can verify what you are saying, and or do more research if the topic interests them.

  15. Re:An offer you can't refuse. on Verizon Employees End Strike · · Score: 1, Informative

    That's not even the worse of it. Unions leaders themselves are immune for any criminal acts or violence that may be committed upon their encouragement or command.

  16. Re:LibreOffice vs OpenOffice on 25,000 Danish Hospital Staff Moving To LibreOffice · · Score: 3, Informative

    OO required copyright assignment. LO doesn't

  17. Re:Freedom isn't free. on 25,000 Danish Hospital Staff Moving To LibreOffice · · Score: 1

    I always cringe when people do that, as they corrupt easily and are hard to export, plus a huge spreadsheet is far less efficient than a proper database. Although excel is Turing Complete, gnumeric has more functions built in, and and has historically used more accurate algorithms. If you've got more than 10 pages of date you should think about implementing something else. For a hundred pages it should be a top priority.

  18. Re:Stroking a blow! on 25,000 Danish Hospital Staff Moving To LibreOffice · · Score: 1

    Exactly, spending 1-2% of what they were spending on licencing could do a lot of good, and it can be justified as spending for the public (worldwide) good.

  19. An offer you can't refuse. on Verizon Employees End Strike · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Unions committing criminal acts to "bargain". No wonder a lot of people don't like them.

  20. Re:420 HEY BRO ARE MY EYES RED? HEEAHAHEHAHA on Sequencing the Weed Genome · · Score: 1

    I went to go look what they consider current studies, but for some reason I can't access the site used as a citation.

  21. Re:Just to check on Sequencing the Weed Genome · · Score: 2

    1. Genes are by definition the unit of inheritance. 2. No, RNA can be used as well. Really F'd up stuff at that. Some plants can restore copies of genes from their grandparents but were not in thier parents. Copies are kept in cytoplasmic RNA and can be triggered by environmental conditions, or even just randomly turn back on. 3. Depends on what you're looking for. It can be quite usefull if your looking for a biological explanation.

  22. Re:420 HEY BRO ARE MY EYES RED? HEEAHAHEHAHA on Sequencing the Weed Genome · · Score: 1

    However cannaboids themselves are implicating as reducing cancer risks, while nicotine is implicated in the sort of genetic damage that can lead to cancer. It also greatly compound the damage Radon or asbestos can do.

  23. Re:Very narrow definition of intelligence on Genome Researchers Wants Your Genes · · Score: 1

    Not really. People with these sorts of scores are much more likely to have children with autistic traits or be autistic themselves. They are trying to find a gene linked to prosopagnosia, which is a characteristic on the autism spectrum.

  24. Re:But what about integrated circuits? on Appeals Court Makes It Easier To Dump Software Patents · · Score: 1

    I believe circuit layouts weren't protected for a long time but now use a grant similar to copyright. Chip designers would embed trademarks into the silicon, so that any 1:1 copy could be trademark infringement, and patent various aspects of operation (still do for the most part).The main difference here though is that although circuits can be described mathematically, they aren't actually math.

  25. Re:Missing the point. on Appeals Court Makes It Easier To Dump Software Patents · · Score: 1

    Being the first to market is a pretty big reward in itself, as is being the foremost expert on a technology. There is also the extra cost of a monopoly put on consumers, and cost of filing and litigation. All in all, it's not clear that patents create value, even if you limit the analysis to the better 20% of current patents.