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  1. Re:If the tables were turned? on Consumer Technology Bill of Rights? · · Score: 2

    Whether it's happening or not is irrelevant - the problem is that it is possible! We should have technicians constantly monitoring the newsfeed, at his expense of course.

  2. Re:If the tables were turned? on Consumer Technology Bill of Rights? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wow. Mr. Chernin has just admitted that his network could be used for piracy! I guess we need to cripple his network to make it impossible for newscasters to read technical information.

  3. Re:I am not "stealing" a damn thing. on Chained Melodies · · Score: 2

    If no CDs are sold, then the record publishing companies will fail. The sound studios will then have to charge the artists directly, so they will get a cut of the $5 that was sent directly to the artist. This presupposes that home audio equipment will never be good enough to produce the music. If that assumption is wrong, then the studios will not be necessary, and they will join the buggy whip producers and blacksmiths in niche-markethood. And the operator of the home audio equipment will be part of the band, recieving a percentage of that $5.

  4. Re:why google is flawed on Google's Weakness, AltaVista's Strength · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just have all of the geocities pages link each other, too.

  5. Re:Who has Responsibility? on EFF Takes Bnetd Case · · Score: 2

    What if they use the same barrel design, teamster unions, cargo train companies, and nozzle manufacturer, so they can interface with the same end users and national transportation systems?

  6. Re:Who has Responsibility? on EFF Takes Bnetd Case · · Score: 2

    What about Exxon, BP, Shell, Texaco, etc? Are they illegal because they compete with Amoco?

  7. Re:Not a good defense. on EFF Takes Bnetd Case · · Score: 2

    Careful, if you do that, you are circumventing the effective access control for digital data!

  8. Re:Geekiness factor only gets an 8? on TRON 20th Anniversary Edition DVD Reviewed · · Score: 2

    With bonus points for having early appearances of Londo (accounting program) and Sheridan (Tron) from Babylon 5.

  9. Re:Abstain or Protection? on Examining Religious Bias In Filtering Software · · Score: 2

    Remember, there is no disagreement, because they all of a sudden became followers in the same religion!

    Would they also forbid anyone from a different religion from moving in later? Because that is illegal, too.

  10. Re:Seperation of Church and State on Examining Religious Bias In Filtering Software · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Now why are *you* insisting the government *force* its anti-religous view on the schools?

    Anti != Non.

    Let the schools decide.

    How would a school decide? By vote? So if there were 30 Catholics, 20 Baptists, and 20 Jews, then the school should teach Catholic dogma? It's much better if the parents and religious leaders teach religion during services/sunday school/home sessions/etc.

  11. Re:Seperation of Church and State on Examining Religious Bias In Filtering Software · · Score: 2

    But what I am really trying to ask is why can't the US ammend the laws to allow each school to decide for themselves on what they want to do? I realize that this opens a whole can of worms, but the free market allows each company to set its own prices. Why can't the schools have the same freedoms?

    There isn't a free market on public (gov't run) schools. There often isn't any overlap between the served areas of schools, much less enough for one school per major religion plus an extra for the odd ones out. Are you assuming that all communities have only one religion, and people should segregate themselves by the local school's religious affiliation? Private (non-gov't) schools are free to have any religious affiliation they wish. They provide the alternative for people who want religious instruction to be part of their school's curriculum.

  12. Re:Surprised? on DOJ Argues in Favor of MS Settlement · · Score: 1

    What's the difference?

  13. Re:A quick solution on LED Lights: Friend or Foe? · · Score: 1

    Thanks, I didn't want to mention it...

  14. Re:A quick solution on LED Lights: Friend or Foe? · · Score: 3, Funny

    As I stare intently into the glowing eyes of your bear, I can almost make out a message...

  15. Re:Good but........ on Columbine Video-Games Suit Dismissed · · Score: 2

    Which came first?

  16. Re:the irony of the situation... on The Customer is Always Wrong · · Score: 2

    We need MS media to criticise media companies, and the media companies to criticise MS.

  17. Re:OK, Folks (addressing the Flash-haters) on Macromedia Pushes Flash For All Things Web · · Score: 2

    Because there are other reasons for using Flash, and your limited example of instructional exams isn't enough to justify disabling the back button. You've even admitted that you could handle it.

  18. Re:OK, Folks (addressing the Flash-haters) on Macromedia Pushes Flash For All Things Web · · Score: 2

    Um, "Reload" will start the test over completely. There's no reason you couldn't do after each question the same thing you do at the end of the test to record the score.

  19. Re:OK, Folks (addressing the Flash-haters) on Macromedia Pushes Flash For All Things Web · · Score: 2

    Third -- the "usability" whiners. No, you can't use the back button, and that's a good thing when you're talking about instruction. Did you give a wrong answer? Well oops, I guess you just hit the back button and do it again -- that sounds like a really bad way to give tests to me.

    Why? That's how paper tests work, unless you require an uneraseable ink pen and no whiteout or scratchouts.

  20. Re:AntiHydrogen atom? on Antimatter Atoms Captured · · Score: 2

    It makes German zeppelins sink.

  21. Re:I hope the mainstream press picks this up on Details of MSFT's Antitrust Lobbying · · Score: 2

    Cold fusion, perpetual motion, or FTL travel. Note that they must be making the product, not just researching it.

  22. Coincidence? (yes) on 13 Nominations to Rule Them All · · Score: 2

    One:
    Best picture

    Three:
    Actor in a supporting role
    Directing
    Writing (adapted screenplay)

    Nine:
    Art direction
    Cinematography
    Costume design
    Film editing
    Makeup
    Music (score)
    Music (song)
    Sound
    Visual effects

    The big one, three major ones, and nine techncal. I guess the dwarves get no respect, just as in the books.

  23. Re:Um.... (NOT a troll) on Lab Develops Artificial Womb · · Score: 2

    I mean most of us here are pretty firm believers in Darwinism,

    Believe that it happens? Yes. Believe that it's a good way to set up a society? No way. I don't think that many people would want to live in a Darwinian society.

  24. Re:I'll believe when..... on Still More Evidence for Evolution · · Score: 2

    Ahem... My post was in response to someone who was using that argument, so you are making my point for me.

  25. Re:I'll believe when..... on Still More Evidence for Evolution · · Score: 1

    I'll believe Creation when I see God create a CAT from nothing.