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  1. Re:Thinkpad still the best laptop on Has Lenovo Taken the Top PC Manufacturer Spot From HP? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I dont have mod points, so let me just repeat that, "Great Keyboard!". They simple have best tactile feedback I have seen.

  2. Re:Issues on Why Do So Many Liberals "Like" Mitt Romney On Facebook? · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately the soap dish is not up for election this year, Obama will have to do.

  3. Re:90% of 0.01 cents is far worse than 1% of 99 ce on Dotcom's New Site "Megabox" Almost Ready · · Score: 1

    Er, nobody is the forcing the artists to put up their songs on Megabox. So the point is moot.

  4. Re:Oh who gives a fuck? on Pressure Rises On German Science Minister In Plagiarism Scandal · · Score: 1

    The experimental method, for example, empiricism, skepticism, many basic classificatory schemes, and actually even the groundwork for modern discoveries such as the atom.

    I read this thrice, and I am pretty sure there is a verb or two missing in the statement.

  5. Re:I get it. on Counterfeit Air Bag Racket Blows Up · · Score: 1

    Dead person's estate does sue though.

  6. Re:Mr. Shuttleworth's car needs a new set of wheel on Ubuntu Asks Users To Pay What They Want · · Score: 1

    Nah, he just wants to visit the ISS again.

  7. Re:Responsibility? on Judge Orders Piracy Trial To Test IP Address Evidence · · Score: 1

    It does not.

  8. Re:Responsibility? on Judge Orders Piracy Trial To Test IP Address Evidence · · Score: 1

    If you loan them your car then you're an accessory to the crime.

    No you are not. If you knew that he is going to rob a bank and still loaned him the car, then you are an accessory (for obvious reasons).

  9. Re:Responsibility? on Judge Orders Piracy Trial To Test IP Address Evidence · · Score: 1

    But this is a civil lawsuit, not a criminal investigation.

  10. Re:First-to-file isn't a problem on Microsoft Patents 1826 Choropleth Map Technique · · Score: 4, Informative

    Exactly. Prior art is still considered when awarding a patent. If the map really is prior art, the patent can be invalidated (through courts or through the patent office). What first-to-file solves is having two inventors almost simultaneously filling for a patent. They may have never heard of each others work, and it becomes difficult to find who really invented it first. The only sane thing is to award it to the first person to file.

  11. Re:As Designed on Flaws Allow Every 3G Device To Be Tracked · · Score: 1

    Sometimes, you dont want the telecoms to know what you are looking for.

  12. Re:Darwin sleepily lifts his head on Supersonic Skydive Attempt Delayed 24 Hours · · Score: 1

    I would take that bet. These things are very much predictable. You can simulated all the scenarios, and test it before hand on the guy. The guy has done similar jumps before. He has never broken sound barrier, but the simulations and testing should take care of it.

  13. Re:Why is the Obama administration objecting ? on Supreme Court To Decide If Monsanto GMO Patents Are Valid · · Score: 1

    I have heard people calling this a myth. But I dont find credible sources for this, only scaremongering blog posts. If you remember any sources for it, can you please post them here.

  14. Re:Stanford on Take a Free Networking Class From Stanford · · Score: 1

    This is better because you have a online course with a decent curriculum, assignments and exams. I wouldnt say this is better because it is from Stanford.

  15. Re:Stanford on Take a Free Networking Class From Stanford · · Score: 1

    It is the experience of being at stanford and your peers that matter. Not taking courses from the same profs.

  16. Re: For Credit? on Take a Free Networking Class From Stanford · · Score: 1

    Nope, you can get a certificate at the end of the course though. Stanford makes it pretty clear, they dont offer credits for these courses.

  17. Re:the solution is called TLMC - The Last Mile Cac on The Coming Internet Video Crash · · Score: 1

    Sounds interesting, I will keep an eye out. Thanks for posting it out here.

  18. Re:crime? on Kim Dotcom Apparently Spied On For Longer Than Admitted · · Score: 1

    That is their DMCA page, and yes they respected DMCA (and every file locker does). But they payed people who violated DMCA. Other file lockers, will ban and close the account if one repeatedly violated copyright, and would definitely not count the downloads of copyrighted material towards their payouts. The FBI believes this amounts to paying pirates and encouraging pirates.

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

    Wow, I dont even believe in God (and I have never read a line of the Bible). It was just the easiest way to the point across. What I mean is, by nature you have the right to do anything you want. You give up some of the rights to live in a civilized society, which is trade most of us are willing to make. But you are inherently born with these right, no one really gave it to you.
     
    To be more specific to this case, yes I have the right to wield a laser pointer. But I have already given up the right to point it at your eye, by being part of the society. I would also not like to give up my right to wield a laser pointer, just because there are some assholes, do point it at someone's eyes.

  20. Re:Short Term Laser Epidemics on Laser Strikes On Aircraft Becoming Epidemic · · Score: 1

    Did they shine it at the projectors or at the screens? I not familiar with these, and am just curious?

  21. Re:Just compared the quality on Nokia Keeps Quietly Mapping The World · · Score: 1

    Er, yahoo (and bing while we are it) use Nokia Maps. Do you see a difference between Yahoo maps and maps.nokia.com?

  22. Re:Who needs maps? on Nokia Keeps Quietly Mapping The World · · Score: 1

    Do they speak English in "fuck"?

  23. Re:LIDAR: brilliant addition on Nokia Keeps Quietly Mapping The World · · Score: 1

    Bing pretty much completely depends on Nokia maps. You can find a semi working bing app for Android. I hope bing comes with a proper app soon, I am tried of relying on Google.

  24. Re:Find a technical solution, not a legal "solutio on Laser Strikes On Aircraft Becoming Epidemic · · Score: 1

    Mod UP! It really is a solution that will work pretty much perfectly.

  25. Re:Find a technical solution, not a legal "solutio on Laser Strikes On Aircraft Becoming Epidemic · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Not all are green lasers. You only have to go wicked lasers to find lasers of all sorts of frequencies. One of your sibling posters suggested, combing these filters with legislation to only sell lasers at specific frequencies. That would eliminate most of these complains (unless the pesky chinese start selling these lasers directly from china, aliexpress anyone?). But I am not a fan govt interference and I would rather they spend time educating people/children and making the punishments well known, than legislating laser frequencies.
     
    And you are assuming, it is easy to build such filters. It is not that easily to build analog filters that block a very narrow range of frequencies. It would very very difficult to build and would still result in loss of light in other frequencies. If you are talking about blocking multiple frequencies, you might as well forget about this idea.