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  1. Re:BIG Mistake on Netflix Creates Qwikster For DVD Only Business · · Score: 1

    What about losing potential customers? In dont think they have grown enough that, they are content with current subscribers.
     
    The DVD+streaming was a good deal to me, but now, it doesnt sound as good.

  2. Re:perhaps, perhaps not on IT Could Have Caught $2 Billion Rogue Trader · · Score: 1

    A large part of what investment banks do (on the "prop trading" side) is attempting to exploit market inefficiencies via various kinds of arbitrage plays.

    Thereby, making it efficient?

  3. Re:Lack of evidence of damage.... on Seismologist Manslaughter Trial Begins Next Week · · Score: 1

    Some of the dead might have heeded.

    Thats sounds emo-ish, but I do know people who take into consideration how disaster prone area is before they buy a house there.

  4. Re:Get a new roommate. on Ask Slashdot: P2P Liability On a Shared Connection? · · Score: 1

    Er, I though you were talking about Child Porn and Meth labs. Why would the landlord care about copyright infringement?

  5. Re:Get a new roommate. on Ask Slashdot: P2P Liability On a Shared Connection? · · Score: 1

    . Follow them or I will call 911 and have you sent to federal prison.

    FTFY

  6. Re:and my boot! on AT&T Responds To DoJ Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    I am pretty sure the prices will go down, for a very short while after the merger. It makes AT&T look good. Once the merger has been forgotten (read the very quarter), the price will be raised heavily.

    Be ready to eat your hat, sir!

  7. Re:Taco Bell on Defunct Satellite To Fall From the Sky · · Score: 1

    When did that, they found someone to insure it. So if it ever happened, the insurer will bear the costs. I doubt they can find someone to insure, in this economy.

  8. Re:There are no accidents on Russian Space Agency Determines Cause of Soyuz Crash · · Score: 1

    Er, no it means: Capitalism often picks cheap over reliable. The AC alluded that other economic system favour reliability more than capitalism.

  9. Re:Terrible summary, decent blog post on Krugman On Bitcoin and the Gold Standard · · Score: 1

    'shutdown -p now' Get Out Of My Head

  10. Re:Bahahahahhahaaaaaa on Bezos Discloses Failure of Blue Origin Rocket Test Flight · · Score: 1

    Yeah, why dont they just license the tech from NASA, or get some of off-the-shelf components and just fly away.

  11. Re:Velocity != Mach on Bezos Discloses Failure of Blue Origin Rocket Test Flight · · Score: 1

    No one said they. Read carefully.

    It was traveling at 1.2 times the speed of sound at the time.

  12. Re:Infringing material... on Atari C&Ds Emulators, Site About Asteroids · · Score: 1

    BTW, IANAL!

  13. Re:Infringing material... on Atari C&Ds Emulators, Site About Asteroids · · Score: 1

    To be fair, a few of them do link to Copyrighted ROMs and some give instructions on where/how to obtain copyrighted ROMs. It can be argued that links themselves do not constitute infringement, but they are not always upheld. I have never heard of instructions, being considered infringement. I guess they just wanted to bully people into removing stuff they didnt like.

  14. Re:Obligatory? on Russia Close To Findings On Soyuz and Proton · · Score: 2

    After considerable research and development, the Astronaut Pen was developed at a cost of $1 million.

    You seem to imply NASA spend money on R&D and developed it. A guy called Paul Fisher spend money, developed it and gave it away to NASA. The Graphite Pencils were a hazard (would burn in 100% oxygen env, broken tips can fly into your eyes, electronics and cause a short etc) and this guy, simply had the desire and passion to invent a better solution.

  15. Re:Oh dear on Will Climate Engineering Ever Go Prime Time? · · Score: 2

    Its already being done in most parts of the world. Lookup Cloud Seeding

  16. Re:quit saying the cloud on James Gosling Leaves Google · · Score: 1

    Okay, make that "a cloud". Now it could be anybody's cloud. Happy?

  17. Re:Security concerns on Pakistan Bans Encryption · · Score: 2

    Not to worry. His passwords will be unecrypted too. So all you have to do is sniff his packets and you can get back your money and more!
     
    For the humour impaired, that was a joke.

  18. Re:Storm A Pretext for Testing Mass Evacuations? on When Did Irene Stop Being a Hurricane? · · Score: 1

    What the public reaction would be, and the amount of compliance

    Now that you brought it up, anybody know what the level of compliance was?

  19. Re:Makes sense. on Gut Bacteria Exert Mind Control · · Score: 1

    No

  20. Re:Legal implications on Adrenaline May Damage DNA · · Score: 1

    Another reason as to why I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

    Whats makes you think other planets are better?

  21. Re:13 milion is nothing compared to what on Coordinated, Global ATM Heist Nets $13 Million · · Score: 2

    First, most of these banks paid back the bailout money early, with interest. It's not like the money went into a black hole.

    Banks still borrow at practically 0% interest rate from the Fed. How else do you think they paid back the bailout money? Fed low-interest rate loans FTW.

  22. Re:Restocking fee on Do You Want Best Buy Opening Your New Laptop? · · Score: 1

    Actually, they make sure, you dont find the same model elsewhere, so that you cannot price match it.

  23. Re: US Ponzi on SEC Hit With Data Destruction Complaint · · Score: 1

    Too bad, at this rate, at the end of his 8 years term (assuming he will get reelected of course), he would have surpassed debt under GW, by another 50%.

  24. Re:Slow Internet is not the problem on Can Google Save Us From Slow Internet · · Score: 1

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    Go away filter error!

  25. Re:Slow Internet is not the problem on Can Google Save Us From Slow Internet · · Score: 1

    It's surprising that there isn't more outcry from the FSF crowd over the fact that a closed-source platform now drives almost all web traffic.

    Because it wouldnt work. Even if you release only parameters (and not the values you set them to) and people will still manage to game the system.