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  1. A Pattern on Yahoo Files Patent Infringement Suit Against Facebook · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yahoo typically likes to bring suit at the time a large IPO is going on figuring that this is when a company is most likely to bend over rather than have a stain on the IPO.

    They did the same thing to Google.

    I'm glad that Facebook didn't knuckle under and is going to fight. Ideally the end result will be a financial loss to Yahoo.

  2. Re:Incandescents are 100% efficient heaters on ESL — a CRT-Based Replacement For CFL Lights Without the Mercury · · Score: 1

    Yes they are.

    Which really sucks if you are trying to air condition your living space and illuminate it at the same time.

  3. CRTs eh? on ESL — a CRT-Based Replacement For CFL Lights Without the Mercury · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Didn't CRTs have to use leaded glass to prevent the users from being bathed in X-Rays?

    Seems to me a small detail or two is being overlooked here.

  4. Re:Ummm .... on Ruling Prohibits Kaleidescape From Selling, Supporting Movie Servers · · Score: 1

    Lots of people have juke boxes. I used to have two 400 DVD carousels. These would work fine if you had kids who you didn't want to handle the media.

    The Kaleidescape is (was) unique in that it allows you to insert a DVD, rip it and then remove the DVD from the system and still be able to play the DVD because it copied the CSS keys.

    Other DVD jukeboxes copy the DVD titles but don't copy the CSS keys so they require the physical DVD in order to play back the movie.

    I imagine this is where Kaleidescape will have to go. I understand their BluRay systems already work this way.

  5. Re:Law has nothing to do with ethics. on Accused LulzSec Members Left Trail of Clues Online · · Score: 1

    What feels right is based on evolutionary psychology; human nature as determined by the physiology of the brain. Religion has nothing to do with it. Morality is all science of the structure of the human brain. Religion is just another way of expressing this structure.

  6. Re:Why innovate on X-Prize Founder Wants Ideas For Fixing Education · · Score: 1

    The reason the US scores poorly is the low end of the spectrum does very poorly. The top 10% of US students are as good or better than the top 10% from anywhere in the world.

  7. Re:Looking in the wrong places on X-Prize Founder Wants Ideas For Fixing Education · · Score: 2

    You don't need to adopt the asian cram school model. The Finns get better results with far less child abuse. Heck US suburban schools do as well as any schools in the world.

    It's all about the total environment.

  8. Re:Works for me on Bing Now Nearly As Good As Google — Says Microsoft · · Score: 1

    I can't imagine a hijink worse than Intellectual Ventures.

  9. Re:Market Analysis on Publishers Warned On Ebook Prices · · Score: 2

    You are talking about an economy that has free and open competition.

    Obviously that isn't the publishing industry. THAT is an oligarchy with a few large entrenched businesses that have obviously colluded to set prices.

  10. No on LED's Efficiency Exceeds 100% · · Score: -1

    It isn't true.

  11. Re:Market Analysis on Publishers Warned On Ebook Prices · · Score: 1

    More robust than print? What could more ephemeral than a thin layer of rust with some magnetic fields recorded on it?

    Paper can last thousands of years if cared for. Let me know when e-anything looks like it will archive that well.

  12. Re:Why does an e-book need a publisher? on Publishers Warned On Ebook Prices · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Knowing the book industry, the people you have listed are paid a pittance. I used to work with Steven Hawking's ghost writer, and for him it was strictly part time pay for a lot of work.

    Where the money goes is to management and marketing.

  13. Hugo Gernsback who else on Ask Slashdot: Good, Forgotten Fantasy & Science Fiction Novels? · · Score: 2

    Ralph 124c41 arguably the first modern sci fi novel.

  14. Theodore Sturgeon and Harlan Ellison on Ask Slashdot: Good, Forgotten Fantasy & Science Fiction Novels? · · Score: 2

    Great writers, wrote the best Star Trek episodes and Ellison also did some Outer Limits episodes. Demon with a Glass Hand maybe the best made for TV SciFi episode ever.

  15. Re:Van Vogt on Ask Slashdot: Good, Forgotten Fantasy & Science Fiction Novels? · · Score: 1

    Voyage of the Space Beagle
    Slan

  16. Re:Hillarious Bias on China May Restrict Genetically Engineered Rice · · Score: 1

    Modern agriculture has nothing to do with what is going on in Alentejo. Modern agriculture has is rarely practiced in this area. Crop outputs have always been at the low end of the scale for Europe. This is a very dry region which has always been subject to drought. Combine this with deforestation, overgrazing by goats and overplanting of traditional crops like cork and eucalyptis and voila deforestation.

  17. Re:An agenda on Virginia High Court Rejects Case Against Climatologist Michael Mann · · Score: 1, Informative

    Phrenology and cold fusion were never widely accepted scientific views.

    Eugenics is scientifically valid, and repugnant politically.

    Aether was always a problematic idea. Read the history; the properties needed for it to be real were always contradictory to observations.

    The only idea that you listed that was in fact widely accepted that doesn't fit what is known now was the fixed universe.

  18. Re:personhood on Virginia High Court Rejects Case Against Climatologist Michael Mann · · Score: 4, Informative

    UVa is an agency of the state of Virginia. It is not a corporation, it is a part of the government which means it can assert sovereign immunity.

  19. Re:Can't be sued? on Virginia High Court Rejects Case Against Climatologist Michael Mann · · Score: 2

    UVa is a state school, not a private entity. As such it enjoys sovereign immunity.

  20. Re:Two separate things here on Photographing Police: Deletion Is Not Forever · · Score: 1

    Conceding your freedoms today may mean you'll be around tomorrow to take them back under circumstances more likely to give you a better chance of winning.

  21. Re:Slouching toward Fascism on Photographing Police: Deletion Is Not Forever · · Score: 1

    The Continental Congress was holding regular sessions in June 1776 (and prior over a year prior). That to me is a United States. One of my relatives was President of this Congress, His job was in part gathering resources from states in order to supply the Continental Army (founded by an act of said Congress on June 14 1775) which a few months earlier had forced the British to withdraw from Boston (look up the Siege of Boston).

    If I was going to pick a date it would be the first session of the Continental Congress which was September 5, 1774.

  22. Re:Editorializing on The Specter of Gasoline At $5 a Gallon · · Score: 1

    Editorializing is one thing, but this is just making up false quotes. That is called lying.

  23. Re:Hillarious Bias on China May Restrict Genetically Engineered Rice · · Score: 2

    So lets just stop making that nasty polluting artificial nitrate and let 2 billion people starve.

  24. Re:Genetically Modified Food. on China May Restrict Genetically Engineered Rice · · Score: 0, Troll

    If your corn or soy gets contaminated by GM corn or soy then you have to pay for a license from Monsanto plus purchase seed from them.

    Liar.

  25. Re:Class? Really? on Are Rich People Less Moral? · · Score: 1

    Since we don't do peerage and the laws allow anyone who can pass a test in what do you expect?