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  1. Re:It's Chase's money, isn't it? on Charities Upset Over Chase Facebook Contest · · Score: 1

    It's hard to say if its their money or our money now that the two are significantly comingled.

  2. Re:Pro-"Choice" on Charities Upset Over Chase Facebook Contest · · Score: 1

    Fortunately? The exception for rape makes no sense whatsoever. If you believe a fetus is a child and abortion == murder, then the rape exception specifically endorses the idea that it is ok to murder a child if its father committed certain crimes. You are accepting that murdering a child can be ok if it preserves the emotional well being of its mother. That's utter insanity.

    At least in the case of risk of death to the mother, you are trading one life against another.

  3. Re:Google can't stop ad blockers anyway on Google Says Ad Blockers Will Save Online Ads · · Score: 1

    For now.

  4. Re:Google can't stop ad blockers anyway on Google Says Ad Blockers Will Save Online Ads · · Score: 1

    You underestimate google. To defeat privoxy, all they have to do is rewrite the link handling in chrome to go through a google proxy, and compress the data heading into chrome so you can't filter the ads.

  5. Re:Good luck with that on Google Says Ad Blockers Will Save Online Ads · · Score: 1

    That's why basically 100% of content is moving to flash where they can control your experience.

  6. Re:Not even google on Google Says Ad Blockers Will Save Online Ads · · Score: 1

    I see businesses getting listed on search engines, and selling merchandise to consumers for a profit. I know it seems complicated ....

    Maybe you were referring to content providers? They should sell cheap subscriptions, or get on board with a micropayment provider that doesn't suck.

  7. Re:And allow them to collect demographic data... on Google Says Ad Blockers Will Save Online Ads · · Score: 1

    It would drop the customer penetration rate ...
    There are metrics measuring the effectiveness of advertising you know, that's why people use advertising. They have solid evidence that it increases sales. When Google starts reporting that a billion people saw an ad who really did not, their sales team starts having to admit that a billion ad impressions == no sales. How much would you pay for a billion ad impressions that generate no sales?

  8. Re:Marshall, TX on BetaNet Sues Everyone For Remote SW Activation · · Score: 1

    They are in league. They get all sorts of filing fees and court fees. They make thousands in profit per case for their city.

  9. Re:Refunds for broken merchandise. on Are Complex Games Doomed To Have Buggy Releases? · · Score: 1

    Depending on your definition of bug-free, it is pretty much impossible. No publisher can afford to buy all of the hardware their games will be asked to run on. No QA team has the resources, or even the ability to test every edge case of a sufficiently complex game. The test coverage requirements grow so fast it becomes literally impossible to test in the lifetime of the universe. So yes, genuinely impossible.

    Can they do a better job? Sure.

  10. Re:Refunds for broken merchandise. on Are Complex Games Doomed To Have Buggy Releases? · · Score: 1

    I think the core of the problem is: I'd like to play some games. Thanks to the stupids, there are no non-severely buggy games for me to play.

  11. Re:Proposition on Busybox Developer Responds To Andersen-SFLC Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    Yes, clearly I glossed over the legal technicalities. We're surely looking for something like the original modifier or whatever term the GPL actually uses to describe that person. My only real point was that making it non optional makes it easy for the end consumer who wants the source code to know where to go.

  12. Re:Does it really matter? on Busybox Developer Responds To Andersen-SFLC Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    A does not have the right to stop him. A may have the LEVERAGE to stop him, if B happens to have gone crazy violating A's copyrights in the process.

  13. Re:Proposition on Busybox Developer Responds To Andersen-SFLC Lawsuits · · Score: 2, Informative

    Without meaning to answer for the great and powerful Bruce, how does the end user know where to go for the source code? Per the GPL, they can ALWAYS go to the distributor.

  14. Re:Herein lies the answer on Poorer Children More Likely To Get Antipsychotics · · Score: 1

    Thanks, I had not heard that, but several studies seem to back that up.

  15. Re:high quality digital cameras doom textbooks on The DIY Book Scanner · · Score: 1

    Publishers are unnecessary intermediaries. We want to eliminate them for the sake of societal efficiency. All books should be electronic in a few years, and at that point, publishers will go away to be replaced by publicists if anything.

  16. Re:Are there scanners that accept a stack of sheet on The DIY Book Scanner · · Score: 1

    Well, yes, that one word was in jest.

  17. Re:Are there scanners that accept a stack of sheet on The DIY Book Scanner · · Score: 1

    Most of the fields I looked at 2 years ago had books costing between 60 and 150 each, x an average of about 1 & 2/3 per class, x 5 classes to keep your graduation on schedule.

  18. Re:Herein lies the answer on Poorer Children More Likely To Get Antipsychotics · · Score: 1

    Autism != retardation. And to my mind, the question of fault would go to the most direct cause. If you're convinced that autism is genetic, and thus the parents fault, please provide evidence, and explain why the level is on the rise among children of non-autistic parents.

  19. Re:Are there scanners that accept a stack of sheet on The DIY Book Scanner · · Score: 1

    Oh it's absolutely illegal. But how would you ever hope to catch them?

  20. Re:Herein lies the answer on Poorer Children More Likely To Get Antipsychotics · · Score: 1

    I think the GP pretty clearly suggests it is the parents fault when he calls them out for saying 'not my fault' as being wrong.

    But I'd love to hear the GP's answer. Did he really choose his words that poorly and meant something else?

    Autism involves behaviors that look nothing like the retarded. The drop in the number of retarded is much more easily explained by the improvements to prenatal screening.

  21. Re:A bargain on The DIY Book Scanner · · Score: 1
  22. Re:Brave New World on Poorer Children More Likely To Get Antipsychotics · · Score: 1

    Right, but the point being, a teacher who violates that legal fact will not enjoy the time in jail.

  23. Re:Brave New World on Poorer Children More Likely To Get Antipsychotics · · Score: 1

    Sorry, to clarify, I was referring to teachers using CP, not parents. And yes, even for parents, there is a reasonably clear legal limit where it turns into abuse.

  24. Re:Herein lies the answer on Poorer Children More Likely To Get Antipsychotics · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I fail to see how the rise in autism rates can justly be attributed to parenting skills. It may not be the vaccines, but it's almost certainly not the parents either.

  25. Re:Brave New World on Poorer Children More Likely To Get Antipsychotics · · Score: 1

    People don't think that, it's a legal fact, which I'm pretty sure is what the OP meant. (IE he was in FAVOR of returning CP to the set of tools available to disciplinarians).