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  1. Re:The law always favours the criminals on Spyware Maker Sues Anti-Spyware Maker · · Score: 1

    Yeah, because causing someone to be racked with needless intense physical pain is exactly the same as spyware. A physical addiction is more than a "craving", it causes you to become very sick if you stop suddenly. It can even kill you.

  2. Re:OMG... The headache... on Texting Teens Generating OMG Phone Bills · · Score: 1

    You think bandwidth is free?

    Every site DOES pay for every spam recieved. Sure it's a fraction of a penny, but it adds up.

  3. Re:an argument does exist on The Case For Perpetual Copyright · · Score: 1

    $1 is enough.

    Really, it doesn't have to be anything huge. Hell even a penny is probably enough.

  4. Re:Victory! on Google Wins Nude Thumbnail Legal Battle · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No.

    Just because one part of a law is good, doesn't mean the entire thing is good. Especially with the federal government and their tendency to cram 100 unrelated issues into one act.

  5. Re:Don't believe the hysteria on 26 Common Climate Myths Debunked · · Score: 1

    Broken windows.

    That is not real economic growth. It is money wasted, lost forever.

  6. Boucher no slouch on USPTO Examiner Rejected 1-Click Claims As "Obvious" · · Score: 3, Informative

    That jab at Boucher is probably unfounded. He's definitely concerned about "IP" laws run amok, contributions notwithstanding.

  7. Re:Why not document MS patents flaws/problems? on Microsoft Says Free Software Violates 235 Patents · · Score: 1

    That's right, do their homework for them so they know exactly which patents are probably going to stand up in court. No thanks.

  8. Re:No matter what, the ping times are going to suc on DoD to Put Internet Router in Space · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yes, but that's irrelevant.

    The article didn't say it was going to be in geostationary orbit. Don't assume that just because a geostationary satellite internet satellite has 650ms pings that all satellites will.

    A satellite could orbit as low as 100 miles. The latency could be a few ms.

  9. Re:Please, give us better layout tools on Apple, Opera, and Mozilla Push For HTML5 · · Score: 1

    CSS is terrible at layout. His point remains, using CSS for any nontrivial layout is a complete bitch. It obviously wasn't designed with that in mind. It works great for styling a flat page, but doing layout in it is terrible.

  10. Re:Forget HTML, it's CSS that's Broken, deal with on Apple, Opera, and Mozilla Push For HTML5 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You are very correct. CSS gets much more hacky than "legacy" layout if you try to do any significant layout with it.

    I tried to make a simple 3 column table with CSS only. After struggling with that for an hour, I said fuck it, and put an old style table in there. It was much easier.

  11. Re:silly patents on Amazon Patents Humans Assisting Computers · · Score: 1

    Rajaraman; Anand (Palo Alto, CA),
        Ranganathan; Anand (Mountain View, CA)


    These two are obviously biosynthetic clones. You can tell because they share the same first name.

  12. Re:this is not the hotcake you're looking for... on PC Makers Say Vista Is Not a Seller · · Score: 1

    Large portions have been re-written as managed code

    Call it what it is: Scripted in interpreted code. When you use their words you let them control your mind.

  13. Re:Not far enough on Lawsuit Against Google Dismissed · · Score: 1

    How does this differ from the SCO case?

    Kinderstart isn't funded by MS.

    And SCO's lawyers are at least somewhat competent at making claims that could possibly have some merit, if they weren't complete fabrications.

  14. Re:What's going on with my state? on Washington State To Try RFID Drivers Licenses · · Score: 1

    "I own I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive." -- Thomas Jefferson

  15. Re:Did anyone search there for the missing Apollo on A Space Junkyard · · Score: 1

    Is there some place where Subject is mislabeled "Beginning of body"? Because I really don't get why you people do that stupid crap.

  16. Re:I don't get it on RIAA Balks At Complying With Document Order · · Score: 1

    Stood up to in what way?

    You really think federal congress is going to right the wrong the supreme court did in Wickard v. Filburn and Raich v Ashcroft? The courts have consistently given federal congress more and more power over things they have no constitutional right to regulate, and ever expanding police power to the executive branch.

  17. Re:What needs be specified... on Judge Strikes Down COPA, 1998 Online Porn Law · · Score: 1

    meant was "full citizens of the United States."

    Which means, white landowners. The founding fathers never intended trashy and ignorant lower classes to vote.

  18. Re:Political Statements beget Unemployment? on Maker of Anti-Clinton Video Outed, Loses Job · · Score: 1

    He's just mad he wasn't presented as the big brother socialist overlord in the video.

  19. Re:Occassional Honesty on ISPs Fight To Keep Broadband Gaps Secret · · Score: 1

    Why should they get immediate ROI on their cable pull? No other industry gets productive assets for free. They should have spread out the cost of the new cable pull over 15 years or whatever its useful life is, and just added it to their bill.

  20. Re:I don't get it on RIAA Balks At Complying With Document Order · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The executive is damn close to taking over.

    We have administrative agencies making new laws (CPSC, FCC, US Mint). The congress does whatever the president wants them to do. It's basically absolute authority.

  21. Re:Calculated Prius cost on Hummer Greener Than Prius? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Assuming it will last 250,000 miles

    There is no way in hell those batteries will last that long. You'll be lucky to get 100,000 on the battery. That's another $3000 each replacement, at 2.5 that's $7500 more over your lifetime.

    You left out other significant wear parts too, like brakes.

  22. Re:No. on Most Digital Content Not Stable · · Score: 1

    Disk-disk backups are very popular too.

    Tape is slow, sequential, and smaller than modern disks, and cost more per gig in a lot of cases once you take the very expensive drive (and regular replacements of the drive and tapes which fail constantly).

  23. Re:Most interesting part on "Market Share" "Installed Base" and Consumer Electronics · · Score: 1

    Apple doesn't sell computers either. They sell software with a $2000 copy protection dongle attached.

  24. Re:The most important safety benefit... on Peer to Peer Networking for Road Traffic · · Score: 1

    You obviously didn't live through the late 70s and early 80s. EVERYONE had CB, at least around here.

  25. Re:The most important safety benefit... on Peer to Peer Networking for Road Traffic · · Score: 1

    Wow, that is high tech.

    Imagine if there were some kind of wireless device that could connect all the people in nearby proximity in a single broadcast voice channel. It could be a sort of band set aside for citizens to use. They'd just have to think of some kind of catchy name for it.