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  1. Re:I Would Like To Suggest "Accountability" on USPTO Asks For Input On Software Patents · · Score: 1

    Ah, I wish I hadn't already posted. This is a very reasonable question that any patent system should try to answer.

  2. Re:I Would Like To Suggest "Accountability" on USPTO Asks For Input On Software Patents · · Score: 3, Funny

    Patents are applied for in good faith.

    Your optimism is refreshing.

  3. Re:I Would Like To Suggest "Accountability" on USPTO Asks For Input On Software Patents · · Score: 1

    yes, yes it does.

  4. Re:A 10pm internet curfew? on Teens Drug Parents To Get Web Access · · Score: 1

    "Then you can play at 9am on Saturday and Sunday, since your friend apparently stays up too late to be up at 9am to play with you."

  5. Re:A 10pm internet curfew? on Teens Drug Parents To Get Web Access · · Score: 2

    medical science also indicates that the teenage body's sleep cycle shifts to wake up _later_ than a preteen. Yet high school usually starts earlier. (Yeah, it's kind of off topic but it was one of my peeves at that age :)

  6. Re:I wonder what feels worse on Teens Drug Parents To Get Web Access · · Score: 1

    You missed the part where they bought that after waking up, eh?

  7. Re:What about people who bus, bike or walk? on Oregon Lawmakers Propose Mileage Tax On Fuel Efficient Vehicles · · Score: 1

    that'll cover the long haul part, but to get from the rail yard to the grocery store there's gonna be a truck.

  8. Re:Round 'Em Up on Are Programmers Responsible For the Actions of Their Clients? · · Score: 1

    Don't forget baseball bats. Very dangerous.

  9. Re:Provide and solicit feedback. on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Explain To a Coworker That He Writes Bad Code? · · Score: 1

    Amen. Here, have some coffee cake.

  10. Re:What about Junkmail? on Campaign To Remove Paper From Offices · · Score: 1

    Oh? tres cool. Do you know where I can find the code? I would pay 20/mo for that one. Even if all it does is discard "resident" and "name or resident" (hey, if you don't care if I still live there, I don't care what you're selling).

  11. Re:Take care if you do. You could get sued by trol on Campaign To Remove Paper From Offices · · Score: 1

    My thought exactly :)

  12. Re:What's the impact of those new viruses? on Antivirus Software Performs Poorly Against New Threats · · Score: 1

    ooh, that's an interesting point. I reinstalled my desktop this weekend and I know the main disk has multiple partitions (one in particular is "this space isn't usable because there's not enough to make a full block with these NTFS settings"). How do I check those?

  13. Re:So then they're fine with Windows 8 on FSF Does Want Secure Boot; They Just Want It Under User Control · · Score: 1

    except for the build-it-yourself market, anyway. I expect the same folks who want to be able to overclock their chips are going to want to be able to update their OS. The boards made for prebuilt systems will probably lack such stuff unless someone decides it's cheaper to use the more capable chipset everywhere than to run two lines.

  14. Re:videogames are like #3 or lower on that list on School Shooting Prompts Legislation To Study Violent Video Games · · Score: 1

    I would have thought the attacking people and attempting to kill them was the problem.

  15. Re:TPS on How Experienced And Novice Programmers See Code · · Score: 1

    curse you. Now my afternoon will be spent catching up on the archives instead of anything productive :)

  16. Re:Comments on How Experienced And Novice Programmers See Code · · Score: 1

    Well, I wouldn't comment it that way; I'd do "Attempting to write the OSF flag to logic 1 leaves the local value unchanged so update the local value by pulling that bit out of the nvram buffer" or some such. But maybe I'm too verbose.

  17. Re:The moral of the story is... on Newest Gov't Tracking Threat: Cell-Site Data Without a Warrant · · Score: 1

    I think they're going more on the 'reasonable' angle. Note that the only requirement on the search/seizure activity is that it be reasonable. Once public consensus is that 6 swat guys in riot gear with automatic weapons breaking down the door at 3am is a reasonable response to your IP address showing up on a list, well, there ya go; the 4th has nothing against that.

  18. Re:WTF?!?!?! on SSD Prices Continue 3-Year Plunge · · Score: 1

    okay, you've now outlined the business case for why OCZ keeps going with shitty defect rates. You have not yet explained why I would want to take a 1/20 chance of a defective product over a 1/200 chance.

  19. Re:Excellent. on Swedish Pirate Party Presses Charges Against Banks For WikiLeaks Blockade · · Score: 1

    'charged' is a pretty significant term in that sentence. In contrast with, for example, 'proven'. Or 'convicted'.

  20. Re:USB 2.0 on Open Hardware and Software Laptop · · Score: 1

    how do you define a laptop, then? My main gripe with this is that I'm not sure I consider an ARM chip sufficient, but I haven't kept up with the specs, and it may be that for what I would actually do on a laptop, it'll work. The video transcoding and editing will stay on the desktop with the two big monitors regardless :)

  21. Re:Kudos on Anonymous Hacks Westboro Baptist Church · · Score: 1

    no, because the stereotypical "shouting fire in a theater" involves (a) the statement being inaccurate and (b) the the probable damage being immediate.

  22. Re:It is time. on 27 Reported Killed In Connecticut Elementary School Shooting · · Score: 4, Informative

    indeed, Switzerland is probably the textbook example of a well-regulated militia.

  23. Re:who is using gigabit? on Seattle To Get Gigabit Fiber To the Home and Business · · Score: 1

    depends. Define 'normal'. Remember home businesses, telecommuters, folks who watch a lot of netflix streaming, folks who use dropbox et al for offsite backup of substantial amounts of data, and business ideas that are infeasible right now but could be possible given widespread high bandwidth (3-d hi-def video phone!)

  24. Re:Government solutions kill innovation on Seattle To Get Gigabit Fiber To the Home and Business · · Score: 1

    yep, the government should never have arranged for you to get electricity, sewer lines, telephone, roads, or any of the other widespread physical networks that it makes sense for everyone to have one of but not so much sense for there to be three of.

  25. Re:Question on Schmidt On Why Tax Avoidance is Good, Robot Workers, and Google Fiber · · Score: 2