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  1. Re:Where does the money go? on Choruss Pitching Bait and Switch On P2P Music Tax · · Score: 5, Informative

    Let me guess: the artists don't get a dime.

    And why should they? It's the MAFIAA doing all this hard and expensive work. You think running a nationwide/worldwide mob is cheap?

  2. Re:Easy solution on Internet-Caused Mistrials Are On the Rise · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And people like OJ are free because Furman said the N word (slight over simplification). That's the system. Everyone knows OJ did it.

    Everyone? I've never been to the city he lived in, nor was I in the courtroom. I'd rather have some guilty people go free than have an innocent person be put in prison.

  3. Re:Learn to drive. on Auto Safety Tech May Encourage Dangerous Driving · · Score: 1

    I would love to have a place I could go to learn driving in adverse conditions. When I was learning, there were a few days where the parking lots iced over. I took this opportunity to get a feel for how the car handled when it lost traction. I wish I could have done more of that.

  4. Re:The simple one. on What Filters Are Right For Kids? · · Score: 1

    Think back to when you were ten, you put a random term into Google, and clicked the first link.

    Let's see, Google is currently about ten years old, so...

  5. Re:You kids! on Brain Decline Begins At Age 27 · · Score: 1

    Get off my... uh green thing, with the, um little plants? What's it called?

    Uhhh... Link?

  6. Re:Congrats! on Rocket Hobbyists Prevail Over Feds In Court Case · · Score: 1

    One of many of those steps forward, among the hundreds of steps backward between each. Sorry, I'm a pessimist in this regard. The bad guys have more resources, and will keep pushing their agenda until it sticks.

  7. Re:if they do that on Intel Threatens To Revoke AMD's x86 License · · Score: 1

    I, for one, welcome our new strong ARM'd overlords.

    You'll be happy to know that Intel can provide you with those chips too.

  8. Tweet, as in the sound a bird makes? on Juror Tweets Could Create Mistrial · · Score: 1

    Sorry, did I miss the memo where "tweet" as something other than the sound a bird makes entered mainstream language? Ahhh, the last usage listed on Wikipedia: A micro-blog post on the Twitter social network site. So in other words, it's another way of saying "message posting"? As in, Jurors posting about unfinished trial could cause mistrial?

  9. Re: brilliant and dangerous? on Are Quirky Developers Brilliant Or Dangerous? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Being required to produce documentation along with one's design often makes the design better, because it encourages a design that's easy to document clearly. The lazyness principle makes you want to avoid tricky things that take pages of documentation. So even if you think the documentation as some crap that goes along with your nice, clean design, think of the task of writing it as no different than a unit test or other QA; it exposes problems you might not otherwise notice.

  10. Re:Isn't this simple? on AMD — "We're Not Entirely Honest" About Batteries · · Score: 1

    By advertising minimum battery times, you encourage them to remove features, since this penalizes anything extra inside, even if it doesn't normally use power. Average use is a much better figure, though you need a somewhat arbitrary definition to use for "average".

  11. Re:Big arrows on Clear Public Satellite Imagery Tantamount to Yelling Fire · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I couldn't do the middle-eastern accent, so I just chose German. Maybe I was thinking of the old Die Hard movies or something.

  12. Re:From across the pond on March 14th Officially Becomes National Pi Day · · Score: 1

    We're planning a big party on 31 April 2015 (31/4/15), starts 9:26.

    And those who know how to round will start a minute later.

  13. Re:Big arrows on Clear Public Satellite Imagery Tantamount to Yelling Fire · · Score: 3, Funny

    No, but you see the point is to trick the terrorists by making them think they ALREDY blew it up. "No, ze building zis is already in a blurry pile of ruins. Ve must move on."

  14. Re:How Do Militaries Treat Their Nerds? on How Do Militaries Treat Their Nerds? · · Score: 1

    Well duh he was supposed to take the ammo from people he had killed, haven't you ever played an FPS?

    But don't try upgrading your weapon with their super-powerful one; for some reason you can't use it. But luckily the ammo works in yours just as well.

  15. Re:Can someone define 'libel'? on Libel Suits OK Even If Libel Is Truthful · · Score: 1

    Rather than wait for a lawyer, you can just read the relevant part of the article.

    IANAAR*, you insensitive clod!

    *IANAAR = I Am Not An Article Reader

  16. Re:Um, what? on So Amazing, So Illegal · · Score: 1

    78 minutes when they push the spec to its limits and shorten the lead-out or something stupid (which I hate, BTW, especially since it's harder to get 650 MB CD-R media anymore).

  17. Re:Also... on FBI Is the Worst FOIA Performer · · Score: 1

    I think he ended up filing three or four FOIA requests, until someone from the FBI came around and explained, very carefully, that he really wasn't very interesting.

    I think he can rest assured they have a file on him at this point. Win-win situation!

  18. Adblock more damaging? on Adbusters Suggests Click Fraud As Protest · · Score: 1

    Assuming Adbusters' goal is to eliminate ads, wouldn't something like Adblock be a more productive approach? Or at the very least, just clearing all but whitelisted cookies every session? When the technological solution works, there's no need for protest or laws.

  19. Re:Very suspicious site... on EFF Launches Surveillance Self-Defense Site · · Score: 1

    Sorry for the late response. What's funny is that I never even visited the EFF site; I just made up some anti-Microsoft junk that sounded obviously fake (I never try to mislead), in one of my many neutral to dumb attempts at being funny. I like that you pulled up quotes from the site that directly contradict what I wrote, since the facts can never be repeated often enough. I had no intention of smearing the site, as I'm sure it's a solid resource for information.

  20. Re:3 people on board, not 18 on Satellite Debris Forces ISS Crew Into Rescue Craft · · Score: 1

    There are 3 individuals on board: 2 Americans and 1 Russian.

    So that leaves 15 unaccounted for! Did they fall out a hole made by the debris?

  21. Re:But without copyright protections... on So Amazing, So Illegal · · Score: 1

    nobody would ever produce music, art, or literature. Which is also why works need to be protected for a century or longer.

    This is, of course, why no one ever produced any music, art, or literature before copyright protection was in place. *ahem*

    Ever been to a book/music store and seen anything that's not copyrighted? There you go, nothing was made before copyright.

  22. Re:Um, what? on So Amazing, So Illegal · · Score: 5, Funny

    You can buy CDs with music already on them?

    Yeah but the guy who burns them has like never heard of mp3s. He burns them as uncompressed WAV files or something, so you only get like 78 minutes per disc. On the plus side, he has a badass label printer.

  23. Re:If Obama were serious about his duty on Microsoft Executive Tapped For Top DHS Cyber Post · · Score: 1

    If Obama were serious about his duty then he would be hiring Bruce Schneier for this job.

    Actually, Bruce Schneier would probably hire himself by forging a message from Obama that he should be hired, one so good that Obama even believes he wrote it.

  24. Faster? What about average time? on Microsoft Says IE Faster Than Chrome and Firefox · · Score: 1

    The summary lists IE as loading some number of pages faster than the others. What about the average times for the brwosers? After all, IE could load more pages faster, but absolutely suck on a few pages, while another browser loads them all in reasonable time, and is only slightly slower than IE for some of the pages.

  25. Picture of one on New Electrode Lets Batteries Charge In 10 Seconds · · Score: 1

    Wikipedia has a picture of one. These can even charge and discharge in less than a second.