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  1. Re:Appeal? on Yahoo Beats Patent Troll That Beat Google · · Score: 1

    It's a stretch to imagine how Yahoo would use linux in a way that wouldn't exercise the parts of linux that violate the patent, same as google.

  2. Re:Appeal? on Yahoo Beats Patent Troll That Beat Google · · Score: 0

    The point is that since American public school students can't add 2+3 and get 5, you can't sue them for violating the patent.

  3. Re:2 questions for the TSA on Baby's First TSA Patdown · · Score: 1

    The point is precisely that we grab only a small fraction of the passengers by the balls. The Israelis work over every single passenger, and only have to do so at 3? airports.

  4. Re:2 questions for the TSA on Baby's First TSA Patdown · · Score: 1

    But they stopped over a thousand terrorist attempts from even considering going through their heightened security measures. Plus, the theater is just that, theater. The real security improvements are secret and invisible.

  5. Re:and? on Engineers Find Nuclear Meltdown At Fukushima Plant · · Score: 2

    More like skittles. Meaty skittles.

  6. Re:nuclear can be safe; short term profit preferre on Engineers Find Nuclear Meltdown At Fukushima Plant · · Score: 1

    I think most people would probably prefer some dead birds over radioactive waste spewing into their environment, but that's just a guess. Plus, with the dead birds, you just wait for evolution to do its magic, and your problem goes away. Plus, modern designs kill far fewer birds.

  7. Re:If I worked at wikileaks on How WikiLeaks Gags Its Own Staff · · Score: 1

    Their confidentiality agreement is backed by guns only if they can find a country who will enforce it for them. They don't currently seem to have a lot of countries in such a mood.

  8. Re:It's not just gas and electric meters on Is Your Electricity Meter Spying On You? · · Score: 1

    1 gpm is a really fast leak. You would almost certainly notice that (assuming you were home). And the $60 it would cost you, while significant, is also not a killer for most people's budgets, at least not people who leave home for long enough for this to matter, and who have both smart meters and a way to get informed of a leak.

  9. oxymoron on Is Your Electricity Meter Spying On You? · · Score: 1

    Privacy invasion on a massive scale. Hilarious.

  10. Re:Nope on Ask Slashdot: Is It Time For SyFy To Go Premium? · · Score: 1

    I have to suspect that's part of the military mindset. I've been working with the same people doing the same thing for 6 years, and I see nothing like that going on here.

  11. Re:Nope on Ask Slashdot: Is It Time For SyFy To Go Premium? · · Score: 2

    Or it could be that people who tuned into the other two stargates to see interesting interactions with alternative societies and aliens in a big open world didn't find a claustrophobic ship with episodes almost completely restricted to humans and their emotional dramas interesting.

  12. Re:Diablo 3 Forever? on Blizzard Aiming For Q3 Diablo 3 Beta, 2011 Release · · Score: 1

    English, as a non-dead language, is defined by usage. Since most of the replies agreed with me, I win.

  13. Re:Busy Work... on 23,000 File Sharers Targeted In Latest Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure you'd be out of luck on selective prosecution. Because the 'prosecutor' in a civil dispute is not a state actor, they have no responsibility to be non-selective. Even if there were, there's nothing, legally speaking, to prevent them from licensing everyone they don't want to prosecute after the fact.

  14. Re:Busy Work... on 23,000 File Sharers Targeted In Latest Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    I think another thread really captured it though ... any such case would get dropped, and I am sure that the AAs have their lawyers at least doing a cursory check to try and make sure that no such embarrassing/risky case gets filed in the first place.

  15. Re:What protects your social identity? on Who Owns Your Social Identity? · · Score: 1

    Why, the same thing that protects you if someone steals your identity in the real world.

    Unicorns, vigilante superheroes and the goodwill of corporations like Mastercard - all in equal measure.

    That's ridiculous. Because every knows that even if the other two are imaginary, there are, in fact, a few vigilante superheroes.

  16. Re:money on Who Owns Your Social Identity? · · Score: 0

    Mod parent up. Not only was this a good post, but the poster used effect correctly. A rare double whammy of a post.

  17. Re:money on Who Owns Your Social Identity? · · Score: 1

    Very few murders result in federal prison sentences.

  18. Re:Diablo 3 Forever? on Blizzard Aiming For Q3 Diablo 3 Beta, 2011 Release · · Score: 1

    You definitely delivered that message oddly. Your phrasing ("that's even accepting") strongly implies that one should NOT accept the premise. And if one does not accept the premise, one believes Blizzard is a shit developer.

  19. Re:Comcast isn't a monopoly everywhere on Netflix CEO Hesitant To Fight Cable · · Score: 1

    We're within a binary order of magnitude class of ids. If you want to call me a n00b, you should really get a 4 digit id.

  20. Re:Comcast isn't a monopoly everywhere on Netflix CEO Hesitant To Fight Cable · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's more of a proxy. But it does have a relationship to Slashdot experience level.

  21. Re:Vertical Integration on Netflix CEO Hesitant To Fight Cable · · Score: 1

    http://www.google.com/search?q=cable+franchise+agreement

    Looks like a lot of cities have as little as 10 year terms, but they typically renew without competition.

  22. Re:Comcast isn't a monopoly everywhere on Netflix CEO Hesitant To Fight Cable · · Score: -1, Troll

    Awww ... you get hopeful when you feel the line pull, but then you reel in the catch and it's and ID over 2M, and you have to throw them back. ;-)

  23. Re:New Peanuts movies? on Netflix CEO Hesitant To Fight Cable · · Score: 1

    Sicko. Posting links to peanut snuff films on slashdot. This is a family venue!

  24. Re:New Peanuts movies? on Netflix CEO Hesitant To Fight Cable · · Score: 1
  25. Re:Comcast isn't a monopoly everywhere on Netflix CEO Hesitant To Fight Cable · · Score: -1, Troll

    Atheists still have souls, they just don't care what happens to them.