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  1. Re:RSS as Fair Use on AP and 28 News Groups To Collect Fees From Aggregators · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Some people have irrational hate. Jane Q. Public has an irrational hate for the US Government and/or the current administration. Thus, no matter how just an action is, he will protest it. It's irrational, so there's no point in trying to explain.

  2. Re:RSS as Fair Use on AP and 28 News Groups To Collect Fees From Aggregators · · Score: 0

    Most of the money given to Banks (and GM and Chrysler) has been repaid. Just thought you should know; that money wasn't a gift.

  3. Re:RSS as Fair Use on AP and 28 News Groups To Collect Fees From Aggregators · · Score: 0

    That's a fucking joke. Only pedants with an axe to grind would claim that a military action against a declared enemy is not a war, whether Congress has officially declared it or not. Or was the American Revolution not a war because there wasn't a Congress around to declare it? Were all the wars not involving the US not wars because the US Congress didn't say so? Stop being a fucking retard and maybe you'll actually make a difference.

  4. Re:Why assassinate if there was proof? on AP and 28 News Groups To Collect Fees From Aggregators · · Score: 0

    He was given a fair trail. He traveled from the US to where ever he was when he was assassinated. The trail he took was very fair.

    It really bothers me that an enemy combatant was killed by the Army and that anyone is up in arms over it. Are you people really so dense as to not understand context? If you don't want to be "assassinated", don't move TO A FUCKING WAR ZONE and plan and execute mass murders of your own country's citizens. This isn't rocket science.

  5. Re:RSS as Fair Use on AP and 28 News Groups To Collect Fees From Aggregators · · Score: 0

    I think only arm-chair shitheads actually care whether or not the war was officially declared by Congress. Everyone in the Federal government, in all branches, are treating as a legally-sanctioned war. There have been no legal or Constitutional challenges of any kind.

  6. Re:RSS as Fair Use on AP and 28 News Groups To Collect Fees From Aggregators · · Score: 0

    If a US citizen moves to another country and spends his time planning the death of US soldiers, I think it's rather obvious that the US army is going to consider him a target, officially declared war or no. In the US, there are other Law Enforcement Agencies that have jurisdiction, but in a war zone, I think the army is fully in its rights to try and take out enemy "officers", no matter their citizenship.

    Please note that the US soldier who went nuts in Fort Hood was not assassinated.

  7. Re:Well that's funny, cos my country just on Vint Cerf On Human Rights: Internet Access Isn't On the List · · Score: 0

    So, in your country, if the entire population decided to stop paying their ISP, would the government step in and pay their bills? Naturally this would be from taxes, so it's not really a right. It's just another government service that you have no choice but to take.

  8. Re:Well that's funny, cos my country just on Vint Cerf On Human Rights: Internet Access Isn't On the List · · Score: 0

    It's also the twisted thinking that makes going out in public bearable.

  9. Re:Why? on Makers Keep Flogging 3D TV, Viewers Keep Shrugging · · Score: 1

    I only use Skype for video. It's great for keeping up with Family who live far away. Seeing someone, even through a camera, is better than just audio for keeping close.

  10. Re:Good luck! on Windows 8 To Include Built-in Reset, Refresh · · Score: 1

    You are a dickwad. The purpose of this system is not to provide a malware-proof restore function. You can't do it on Windows any more than on any other OS. That doesn't mean that there are no legitimate and practical uses for the feature.

  11. Re:Good luck! on Windows 8 To Include Built-in Reset, Refresh · · Score: 1

    That makes no sense. How would a virus insert itself onto a Windows 8 install DVD? That's the same situation you are posing.

    If you create your own ISO from files installed on your own PC, you have the same risk, in theory, on Ubuntu as you do on Windows.

  12. Re:Higher Power on Mathematics Says Romney and Santorum Tied In Iowa · · Score: 2

    Whoa. Talk about confused. North America is a large land mass. The US is a country, an artificial construct that may be formed of multiple land masses. Countries may be republics.

  13. Re:Btrfs on Linux 3.2 Has Been Released · · Score: 1

    How is NTFS not general purpose?

  14. Re:Btrfs on Linux 3.2 Has Been Released · · Score: 1

    That's only a problem because MS doesn't provide a filesystem tightener.

  15. Re:FreeBSD has ZFS on Ask Slashdot: Free/Open Deduplication Software? · · Score: 1

    If you're sitting around all night and you're not duping, you're doing it wrong. Or the wrong "it".

  16. Re:Joke on Filesharing Now an Official Religion In Sweden · · Score: 1

    You can always keep your code hidden, GPL or not, so that's not a valid rebuttal. The only difference is whether it's legal to do so. Even today, the vast majority of software does not come with source, even though that source is protected by copyright.

  17. Re:It could be worse on Filesharing Now an Official Religion In Sweden · · Score: 1

    Vatican City.

  18. Re:Religious Prosecution of File Sharers on Filesharing Now an Official Religion In Sweden · · Score: 2

    Unless under specific contract (with say, a hospital) to provide service, you are 100% wrong. A private practitioner may refuse anyone service, for any reason they desire (except for a few exceptions that do not include the medical condition of a prospective patient).

  19. Re:Religious Prosecution of File Sharers on Filesharing Now an Official Religion In Sweden · · Score: 0

    Only an idiot thinks it should be illegal for private individuals to discriminate.

    (Yes, I know there are laws prohibiting certain forms of discrimination under certain circumstances. That's not the same as a blanket ban.)

  20. Re:Great on Chile Forbids Carriers From Selling Network-Locked Phones · · Score: 2

    Have you driven in most of the US (that gets varying weather)? Government is no better at infrastructure. The commonality to both is that they have priorities that do not include maintenance and upgrades.

  21. Re:What surprises me the most... on Feature Phones Make Java ME, Not Android, the #2 Mobile Internet OS · · Score: 1

    You may not have noticed, but all phone/data carriers in the US essentially operate as cartels, with only token competition between them. Customers have no freedom.

  22. Re:Really? on The Un-Internet and War On General Purpose Computers · · Score: 0

    You are stupid. I turned off Dashboard by poking around in Sys Prefs. Just because Apple doesn't document something doesn't imply that it can't be done.

    You will not get a new EULA for iTunes unless you upgrade it. If you're paranoid about it, why are you upgrading without reading the EULA? It's presented before System Updater will let you procede.

    And yes, you will have access to your local library anyway, but you'll have to find some other tool (or older version of iTunes) because you didn't agree to Apple's terms.

  23. Re:Really? on The Un-Internet and War On General Purpose Computers · · Score: 2

    I see the Apple-hating mods have seen this post.

    Why exactly do you think you can't hook a debugger up to iTunes?

  24. Re:Hmmmmm.... on Ask Slashdot: Best Android Tablet For Travel? · · Score: 0

    and I've yet to find an app on the Android market that doesn't work without issue on my Transformer.

    I don't think this fragment means what you think it means.

    Of course your rant about Cocoa Touch and XCode documentation demonstrates that literacy is not high on your list of TODOs.

  25. Re:Oh good on DigiTimes Lends Credence To Apple-Branded TVs For 2012 · · Score: 1

    Apple bought the firm that designed the CPU in their iDevices, Intel makes the CPUs in their PC lines. Therefore, I have no idea what you're talking about.