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  1. Re:Mouse Gestures rock on Mozilla Development Roadmap Updated · · Score: 1

    Well all browsers have this by default, except its less of a holding motion than a tapping motion. Try tapping your right mouse button moving the mouse, to the right and slighly down, tap again. Bingo you just went back. A bit farther down, you just went up. Try doing this freqently, and you will find its just as fast as opera gestures. -grin- I'm serious.

  2. Re:Common Sense on Microsoft Settlement Comments · · Score: 1

    I'm sure many people would make copies, its like DeCSS you just can't make it go away. Though I guess if your smart enough you could trick enough people to copy a bad version.

  3. Re:Common Sense on Microsoft Settlement Comments · · Score: 2, Informative

    The law states clearly that all comments are supposed to be printed in the federal register this would cost millions, and would take multiple volumes, and would be very difficult to scan through. Instead they simply are going to print the major comments, and they will at a later date, publish on the internet, all comments. While the law states otherwise the judge can rule that they can follow this plan, and doing such does have presidence. In the AT&T case, because of the cost of publishing all comments in the fed register they just published the main onces, and published all the comments in just enough volumes so that each court house could have one, that was publically accessable to read. They could do that, but with the internet, why should they.

  4. Re:Old-Timers strike back on 82-Year-Old Coder Trumps BT's Hyperlink Patent · · Score: 1

    makes you wonder what people like that could have done with modern technology. Sadly such innovation has been removed from society by lawyers HAHA.

  5. Re:Licensure does not Mean What You Might Think on Losing the War on Patents · · Score: 1

    I'm more thinking of the times when the lawyers are more expensive than settling, and you can't always be garanteed to get legal expensese paid.

  6. Re:If It's broke don't fix it! on Losing the War on Patents · · Score: 2

    Just because the average layman can understand the solution doesn't mean it shouldn't be patentable. There are plenty of very inventive ideas that are perfectly patentable. I would more suggest, if given the same problem, the average layman came up with the same solution, it shouldn't be patentable.

  7. Re:Licensure does not Mean What You Might Think on Losing the War on Patents · · Score: 2, Interesting
    That said, settling lawsuits (also known as ADR, Alternative Dispute Resolution) is a *good thing*. This gets the decision making out of the hands of judges and juries and into the hands of the parties. It allows folks that are at odds to come together on something where they both have *some shot* of going home happy. At the end of a lawsuit, often everyone loses because of the high cost of litigation.

    I'm highly confused by this statement, your saying that if I get sued and settle for a million dollars, in which I was basically blackmailed, because I knew that taking it to court could cause my buisness to go under. So you say we've both won?

  8. Re:That sucks... on Trouble at Stargate SG-1 · · Score: 2

    http://wildcat.arizona.edu/papers/92/152/01_2_m.ht ml
    http://wildcat.arizona.edu/papers/93/30/01_1_m.h tm l
    This was conducted by the "University of Arizona Human Energy Systems Lab," who seem a bit too eager to find this stuff out, so they might not be entirly "impartial" anyways.
    Btw these links are both from the university news paper, and not the best information, but the only thing I could find that wasn't hugly partial one way or the other.

  9. Re:That sucks... on Trouble at Stargate SG-1 · · Score: 1

    saw it on dateline or something like that, but I'll look.

  10. Re:That sucks... on Trouble at Stargate SG-1 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Sidenote, an impartial university did a study with him to test his 'skills' and remarkably in a blind reading (where he was sitting back to back with someone who couldn't say a word to him) he got an extremly high percent of things right. Anyways, the researchers also had their brains wired up highly, and found that an unusual high amounts of matching brain activity was going on. Their conclusion was that hes not jsut making stuff up, but that most likly hes midly telepathic, and reading the stuff from the peoples brains.

  11. Re:Old-Timers strike back on 82-Year-Old Coder Trumps BT's Hyperlink Patent · · Score: 1

    No I believe that mathematical constructs on how to transmit an image in whatever style faxes do it was invented in 1820. Obviously the fax machine itself wasn't possible in 1820.

  12. Re:College course work on a game system? on Serial Cables Illegal Due to DMCA? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just cause everyone pronounces Sega, "Sony," nowadays, doesn't mean you need to spell it that way!

  13. Re:Great, but how about.... on Serial Cables Illegal Due to DMCA? · · Score: 1

    The guy stated that he's already talked to the EFF, and the EFF has done A LOT to fight the DMCA, and many people have given them a lot of money. But getting laws overturned (unless your a huge corperation) is a long and difficult process.

  14. Re:Customs Official or UPS? on Serial Cables Illegal Due to DMCA? · · Score: 1

    No, US Customs regulations told him he should have 90 days. All the can really find out, is that the UPS guy basically said, The US customs office regected it, and we won't give you info on it so you can appeal it. It highly likly that the US Customs office hasn't even seen it, therefor UPS doesn't have any info to give and they are hiding behind that excuse.

  15. Re:Who modded this down? on States Demand Windows Source Code · · Score: 1

    Private documents are freqently demanded in court cases, its called evidence. Nothing abnormal.

  16. Re:Privacy Rights on Surveillance in Washington DC And At Bookstores · · Score: 1

    Well noone should have the "right" to kill another human. But obviously if it comes to choosing the womans life over the childs life, its another story. But the truth is, such a thing happening is much rarer than advertised. Anyways, I should have clarrified. Basically I think its much better to legalize things and regulate than to simply make something illegal if people are going to do it anyways. (Mandating counceling for abortion would help more than any laws banning it, but that suppositivly goes against the "right to have an abortion," which is a discusting use of a made up right, its not a right its just not illegal.

  17. Re:Repeal the 16th amendment and their power to ta on Details of MSFT's Antitrust Lobbying · · Score: 1

    Yea, just making the point that changes like that have to be done over time. For example I live in florida, and right now the government is all really excited about implimenting service tax in order to reduce the tax rate from 6 to 4.25 percent. Well it has its merrits (not many) but whats ultimatly stupid is making any drastic changes in the middle of an unstable economy in which you don't know how the changes will have an effect. People are saying why don't we just tax a few services and drop the percent by an half a point. And if that works out maybe we can go farther. But the law makers arn't listening. Luckly the governer doesn't support it, but the lawmakers are trying to overthrow the veto.. how stupid.

  18. Re:Why doesn't this make me feel better? on Comcast To Stop Tracking Users' Web Habits · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yea, but if you've been involved with Guido for a long time and the service Guido offers is worth the risk, you gotta continue associating with Guido, just make sure you keep friendly with the cop too.

  19. Re:Repeal the 16th amendment and their power to ta on Details of MSFT's Antitrust Lobbying · · Score: 2

    Yes, but immediently changing this would lead to million of fed workers out of a job. Sure there jobs are pointless most of the time, but they are jobs. The only practical solution is to cut the budget until we can afford to get rid of income tax.

  20. Re:Privacy Rights on Surveillance in Washington DC And At Bookstores · · Score: 2

    No, believe it or not the supposed "right to privacy" was a major factor in the trial. This is why most states parental disclosure laws have been ruled unconstitutional because the original findings find for a right to privacy. Though the right itself is not found in the constitution, it is now considered to be in there as the court have ruled it to be interpreted in. Now strangly enough this "right" hasn't extended above abortion rights.

    (Btw legally I'm pro-choice, morally I'm pro-life)

  21. Re:It never really caught on. on California Court: EULAs are Inapplicable in Some Cases · · Score: 1

    Well of course EULAs are nessesarly if source code comes with it. Even if its not "free" software, its important to clear up any misconceptions. Yes I also gave you the negatives to these photos, doesn't mean your allowed to sell copies though.

  22. Re:Just out of curiousity on California Court: EULAs are Inapplicable in Some Cases · · Score: 1

    Wow you trolled, got it to score of 5 and got many comments, congratulations!

  23. Re:A Wrench. on Networks and Studios Against PVRs · · Score: 1

    FCC regulation? HEHE. Quick thought process. Almost all shows begin on the hour. Most 30 minute shows have 3 commercial breaks seem like it would be only logical for most channels to space them out evenly during the show, most likly all at the same time.

  24. Re:Harassment as a business model... on BT Pushing Hyperlink Patent · · Score: 1

    Hu? They are a government inforced monopoly, what do they care about PR?

  25. Re:So . . . on Teaching Fahrenheit 451 and Censorship w/ a Tech Twist? · · Score: 1, Offtopic