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  1. Re:unreasonable pricing encourages copyright viola on Black Market Database Access To Scholarly Journals · · Score: 1

    Yeah, exactly, for example:
    (3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and

    Clearly indicates that a full copy is not going to qualify, and every element must be met for fair use.

    "In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include"

  2. Re:unreasonable pricing encourages copyright viola on Black Market Database Access To Scholarly Journals · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure you have a misunderstanding of fair-use there. Care to cite the copyright code that allowed you to do that?

  3. Re:Taxpayer Information on Black Market Database Access To Scholarly Journals · · Score: 1

    It's usually not, but it's only searchable on the major databases (journal compilations), and it's the databases/journals that are private. To do what you'd like, we'd have to do in the journal system, and replace it with a government run journal, and I'm sure it would be impossible for centralized governmental control of publication to be any sort of problem for science.

  4. Re:Working for stock options on If You're Working For Stock, Read the Fine Print · · Score: 1

    Really? You consider 2 hours for an agreement that is worth tens of thousands of dollars non-trivial?

  5. Re:Been there, done that on If You're Working For Stock, Read the Fine Print · · Score: 1

    You filed your capital loss later, right? Capital gains isn't a one-way road.

  6. Re:...opaque language is the norm. on If You're Working For Stock, Read the Fine Print · · Score: 1

    I just leave it where my kid will accidentally click on it, and let nature take its course.

  7. Re:...opaque language is the norm. on If You're Working For Stock, Read the Fine Print · · Score: 1

    That wouldn't have helped this guy, it was what they didn't tell him that mattered.

  8. Re:Working for stock options on If You're Working For Stock, Read the Fine Print · · Score: 1

    You worked for Intel, a giant, well established company. Stock is much more often given out at startups where they have a very limited cash budget, and significant upside potential for the stock. I'm at a former startup now (former in the sense of now we are pretty big, headed for fortune 500 territory), I got in early enough to get a pretty significant stock grant, and there is basically no doubt that we're going public at this point, the only question is when can we get the most out of the market.

  9. Re:Working for stock options on If You're Working For Stock, Read the Fine Print · · Score: 1

    Define hidden. He acknowledges it was in the contract. Do people seriously not take the 2 hours it will take to read their employment contracts before embarking on a year+ of work?

  10. Re:Working for stock options on If You're Working For Stock, Read the Fine Print · · Score: 1

    My stock agreement at my current company was trivial to understand. It took me about 2 hours to read. If you are investing thousands of dollars in stock options over salary, you should either understand the agreement, or pay a lawyer to explain it to you. The cost to do this with a lawyer should be <$1000.

    If you are going to work for a company with an incomprehensible stock agreement ... maybe it is time to reconsider.

  11. Re:Working for stock options on If You're Working For Stock, Read the Fine Print · · Score: 1

    I would say it is the norm for them to expire. Non-expiring options are rare.
    Usually, you have 6 months after you leave the company to make your buying decision.
    But this article is actually about a repurchase agreement, not expiration.

  12. Re:You underestimate the value on Ask Slashdot: CS Degree Without Gen-Ed Requirements? · · Score: 1

    Humorously enough, I made up one of the two things you learned about in high school.

  13. Re:Too Many on The Intentional Flooding of America's Heartland · · Score: 1

    Good luck with that plan. Humanity has wiped out two pathogens in all its history, and only one was actually a human disease! There's no way we'll accomplish your goal in time to do anything for population control, and it both wouldn't matter and would be politically nonviable because of the racial implications, as you mention. (And those racial implications are real, not imagined). Just because you'd hit a small number of whites doesn't change the fact that you'd hit 95% blacks.

  14. Re:News Flash on The Intentional Flooding of America's Heartland · · Score: 1

    I certainly think the 9/11 victims took their risks working there. What fool wouldn't acknowledge that reality? I'd certainly put a bigger bet into life insurance if I worked in a target like that.

  15. Re:News Flash on The Intentional Flooding of America's Heartland · · Score: 1

    ISO is standardization, not regulation. The states and feds do the regulation, and they do a lot of it.

  16. Re:News Flash on The Intentional Flooding of America's Heartland · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The insurance business is probably the most heavily regulated business around.

  17. Re:Too Many on The Intentional Flooding of America's Heartland · · Score: 1

    The link is pretty obviously between the consequences of floods and population growth.
    But just to make the case: more people, more AGW, more floods.

  18. Re:Too Many on The Intentional Flooding of America's Heartland · · Score: 1

    Calling it stealing their land requires a legal framework that recognizes their ownership of it. Otherwise, it's just land up for grabs.

  19. Re:Too Many on The Intentional Flooding of America's Heartland · · Score: 1

    Sterilizing carriers for those conditions would have a negligible impact on population growth. No, if you want to do something about the population, you have to convince/force perfectly healthy people not to have children.

    And then you mention sickle-cell, which has a proven genetic benefit to go with its downside, so you wipe that out and hope the challenge never comes again, right?

  20. Re:You underestimate the value on Ask Slashdot: CS Degree Without Gen-Ed Requirements? · · Score: 1

    The problem is you need gen-ed to do higher-level courses. What good is an engineer who can't write understandable English so he can communicate his ideas to other engineers or customers? What good is an engineer who doesn't understand trigonometry or calculus?

    But you should also ask: What good is an engineer who doesn't know about the Siege of Yorktown, or the reason Shakespeare uses excessive alliteration in Hamlet.

    Because engineers get forced into that stuff with the general ed requirements too.

  21. Re:"Screaming, Mindless Christians" ?? on Politics: Paul-Barney Bill Would Legalize Marijuana Federally · · Score: 1

    That there was a person named Jesus who lived at a certain time is an extraordinary claim? I can point you to several who live within a few miles of me.

  22. Re:"Screaming, Mindless Christians" ?? on Politics: Paul-Barney Bill Would Legalize Marijuana Federally · · Score: 1

    Then feel free to fix wikipedia.

  23. Re:"Screaming, Mindless Christians" ?? on Politics: Paul-Barney Bill Would Legalize Marijuana Federally · · Score: 1

    The evidence that Jesus was a real person is pretty strong. The evidence for anything beyond that is nonexistent.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus#Mythical_view

  24. Re:Why the anti-litigation jab? on SpaceX Sues Valador For Defamation · · Score: 1

    Having lived in both states:

    Georgia: Better weather, unless you're into winter sports. People are really racist, but otherwise friendlier.
    California: More crowded in the living areas, but more empty in the open spaces, and a better variety of them. People are more creative, but there are a much higher number of mentally ill.

  25. Re:Bitcoin is worthless in the long run on Friday's Big Swings, Mostly Down, Illustrate Bitcoin Value Volatility · · Score: 1

    The property tax is universally based on the estimated value of the property and improvements. So unless you buy a house in a no-property-tax location (and the few places like that ... you don't really want to live there), you are out of luck.