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  1. Re:Might be incentive to buy American? on Supreme Court To Decide Whether Or Not You Own What You Own · · Score: 1

    Except that Kelo was completely constitutional. It says right in the constitution that the government can seize property as long as they properly compensate the previous owner. If the government abuses this right, throw the bums out.

  2. Re:Good. on Laser Strikes On Aircraft Becoming Epidemic · · Score: 1

    There's a good example of language trouble: nobody thinks they are trying to take down an aircraft. So that warning will do no good. The problem is the temporary and permanent eye damage.

  3. Re:Good. on Laser Strikes On Aircraft Becoming Epidemic · · Score: 1

    Not a ban, but education absolutely. Perhaps licensing. For sellers too. I don't like the idea of a technological future where only our betters (the cops) can get cool technology. It has already happened with some guns, it's going to happen with the lasers, it's going to happen with remote control helicopters. The only solution is to educate the public.

  4. Re:Simple reason on Why Are We So Rude Online? · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    They tented during the game because they thought his fat mother had big tits. Nobody liked Dave.

  5. Re:Fondue party! on What Happened To Diaspora, the Facebook Killer? It's Complicated · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Information isn't private if your friends have it.

  6. Re:aborning? on The Most Important Meeting You've Never Heard of · · Score: 1

    Upon further review, I guess it's a matter of opinion whether or not it is a stupid word. But there can be no disagreement that the usage of it in that sentence was stupid and ignorant. It isn't a verb, for christ's sake.

  7. Re:Fondue party! on What Happened To Diaspora, the Facebook Killer? It's Complicated · · Score: 1

    Your information isn't private on Facebook because you gave it to them.

  8. Re:aborning? on The Most Important Meeting You've Never Heard of · · Score: 2

    Regardless, it's a stupid word that seems to have been used simply because someone's thesaurus suggested it. It's one of those word-salad words you see in power supply reviews, used simply to adhere to the fake rule of not using the same word twice.

  9. Re:it became what it is.... on The Most Important Meeting You've Never Heard of · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Ridiculous. The content wasn't regulated, but the nuts and bolts are. Things like TCP/IP and routers and shit. You are confusing the roads for the route.

  10. Re:Romney *is* a moron on Torvalds Uses Profanity To Lambaste Romney Remarks · · Score: 1

    I've heard that Romney's "tell" for when he is uncomfortable is to laugh. Partially because he can always claim that the next thing he vomits forth was "just a joke".

  11. Re:Unionize on Ask Slashdot: When Does Time Tracking at Work Go Too Far? · · Score: 1

    Depends on how you define peaceful. Hint: blocking the fucking street is not.

  12. Re:THIS is how you validate votes on Federal Judge Says No Right To Secret Ballot, OKs Barcoded Ballots · · Score: 1

    That's way easier than just folding a piece of paper in half and slipping it into a locked ballot box.

  13. Re:Barcodes on Federal Judge Says No Right To Secret Ballot, OKs Barcoded Ballots · · Score: 1

    and If you can get a barcode reader working you can get OCR working.

    Sure thing, champ.

  14. Re:Freedom on Federal Judge Says No Right To Secret Ballot, OKs Barcoded Ballots · · Score: 1

    There is a right to not be denied the right to vote...

    The right is implicit.

  15. Re:Freedom on Federal Judge Says No Right To Secret Ballot, OKs Barcoded Ballots · · Score: 1

    They might as well have said "poll taxes are legal if you can get a refund on your taxes for the cost". The Supreme Court screwed that one up.

  16. Re:Try "zero" hours a week for the DMV on Federal Judge Says No Right To Secret Ballot, OKs Barcoded Ballots · · Score: 1

    It doesn't really matter too much who turns up to vote, since each registration can only be used once per election. And you have to know the name and signature used to register to vote. So if I don't vote and someone goes in and votes using my registration, there are no extra votes.

  17. Re:LOL, American "democracy"! on Federal Judge Says No Right To Secret Ballot, OKs Barcoded Ballots · · Score: 1

    More like Capitalist Hill, amiright?

  18. Re:Museums don't let you on Art School's Expensive Art History Textbook Contains No Actual Art · · Score: 1

    I don't think you know what those words mean.

  19. Re:Museums don't let you on Art School's Expensive Art History Textbook Contains No Actual Art · · Score: 1

    You might have a copyright on the images that you created with the Xerox machine, but you wouldn't have a copyright on the content.

  20. Re:Museums don't let you on Art School's Expensive Art History Textbook Contains No Actual Art · · Score: 1

    Your photo is an original work, just as if you took a pencil and drew your own copy. But the difference is subtle; the copyright is for "a photograph of the Mona Lisa" not "the Mona Lisa". Your copyright only covers your rights concerning your particular photo, and has nothing to do with the Mona Lisa.

  21. Re:Museums don't let you on Art School's Expensive Art History Textbook Contains No Actual Art · · Score: 1

    That argument might work for things like strict liability and other things for which it is in the public interest to not allow the public to waive or that do not affect a regular person's rights and ability to enjoy their end of the contract, but not for something like commercial photography. You agreed to it when you didn't ask for your money back. As with so many other things, when you enter the commercial realm, you are burdened with a stricter responsibility to know what you are doing than the general public.

  22. Re:Museums don't let you on Art School's Expensive Art History Textbook Contains No Actual Art · · Score: 1

    Yes, the photo belongs to you, but they could potentially sue you for ownership of the copyright, since you created that work only through violating their rights or contract of admission.

  23. Re:History repeats itself on How Big Pharma Hooked America On Legal Heroin · · Score: 1

    Not to mention, oxycodone and heroin are two different drugs with different methods of delivery.

  24. Re:They're all scams anyway. on Ask Slashdot: Best Protection Plan For Your Phone? · · Score: 1

    It is if someone is willing to buy an insurance policy to replace it.

  25. Re:Show em your previous work. on Ask Slashdot: How To Prove IT Knowledge Without Expensive Certificates? · · Score: 2

    Because some people think IT/web development work is easy. "Oh, I'll just build some servers and websites."