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  1. Re:Nerdy is cool but.. on Google Bid Pi Billion Dollars For Nortel Patents · · Score: 1

    The $140 million is less than 5% of the $3 billion.

    And if they thought the value of the patents was $3.2 billion...

  2. Re:So they wont get sued by asshats on Dropbox TOS Includes Broad Copyright License · · Score: 2

    "to the extent we think it necessary for the Service"

    They would have to go to court and argue they were stupid if they wanted to claim they needed to publicly share files you had marked as private.

    (or publicly share files that had not been explicitly marked for sharing, I guess defaulting to private would be more sensible)

  3. Re:PC manufacturers and affiliate marketers on Chrome Hits 20% Share As IE Continues Slide · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Are you an accountant for the MPAA?

  4. Re:Easy - encrypt it on Dropbox TOS Includes Broad Copyright License · · Score: 1

    You aren't denying them access to the encrypted blob.

    And they could just refuse to store data that they can't make any sense of, so hopefully any such case would go no further than amusing the judge.

  5. Re:They all do it. on Dropbox TOS Includes Broad Copyright License · · Score: 1

    Wat?

    They all provide features that allow users to share content with other users. Legal paranoia says they need a license to do that.

  6. Re:Explain California droughts then on Airplanes Cause Accidental Cloud Seeding · · Score: 1

    The planes interact with water that is present in the atmosphere. If there is not much water in the air a plane flies through, it won't cause rain.

  7. Re:Queue the puns. on Bug With "Singing Penis" Is World's Loudest · · Score: 1

    He even typed it with his penis.

  8. Re:Fed. Wiretapping Laws? Really? on Judge OKs Wiretap Lawsuit Over Google Wi-Fi Sniffing · · Score: 1

    I didn't say they should apologize, but the commenter I replied to thought that the SSID sniffing was the issue.

    I don't really see the need to make a bunch of inaccurate analogies about the wireless communications involved, wireless access points that actively exchange packets with any hardware that is in range are clearly not intended to be private (there is room to argue about the intent behind openly transmitting data, but any legal argument about protecting the privacy of unencrypted communications is going to be quite a bit weaker than the encryption technology available to protect those communications) .

  9. Re:Fed. Wiretapping Laws? Really? on Judge OKs Wiretap Lawsuit Over Google Wi-Fi Sniffing · · Score: 1

    It's amazing how much misunderstanding this case engenders.

    Google has been completely unapologetic for sniffing SSIDs. Some people are angry that they would so large scale data gathering, but they generally just think it is improper.

    The real shit-fits are over the unencrypted wifi packets that Google wrote to disk while they were driving around sniffing SSIDs (Google did say "oops-sorry" about that activity).

  10. Re:There is no obscenity exemption on Court on Video Games: Less Cleavage, More Carnage · · Score: 1

    Congress can modify the constitution. So can the states, by calling for a constitutional convention and ratifying the amendments.

  11. Re:A BlackBerry that can't read email on RIM Responds To an Employee's Open Letter · · Score: 0

    If you are going to put the punch line in the subject, why bother following it up with a couple hundred words?

  12. Re:Never mind consumers on Survey Shows Support For New Privacy Laws · · Score: 1

    See Q21:

    http://www.ssa.gov/history/hfaq.html

    Gotta love the internets, where countering a misconception results in yelling for citations when the answer is a relatively simple search away:

    http://www.google.com/search?q=ssn+not+to+be+used+for+identification

    Perhaps you don't think of the period between 2011 and 1972 as decades?

  13. Re:Never mind consumers on Survey Shows Support For New Privacy Laws · · Score: 1

    New ones doesn't.

    (and 'new' here means from the recent several decades)

  14. Re:Never mind consumers on Survey Shows Support For New Privacy Laws · · Score: 1

    How about just changing the system so that knowing a number doesn't give someone the ability to impersonate you?

  15. Re:I thought that was a joke. on 2nd Edition of Learn Python the Hard Way Released · · Score: 1

    The book is aimed at people that don't.

  16. Re:Ok. safe this time. on Flood Berm Collapses At Nebraska Nuclear Plant · · Score: 1

    Abandon all hope, ye who are alive.

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

    Or he just exercised and held.

    But that isn't really the company's fault.

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

    Right, get a lawyer or don't sign the mortgage contract you don't understand.

    Both of those things prevent signing a document that is not well understood.

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

    Only the Federal government.

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

    I did engineering at one of the better state universities.

    The liberal arts classes I was required to take usually had large lectures (with no attendance checks) and meaningful smaller discussions (these were usually taught by graduate students). The 200-300 level classes generally didn't have large lectures.

  21. Re:here's the scale on Power Grid Change May Disrupt Clocks · · Score: 1

    Right. Assertion.

  22. Re:here's the scale on Power Grid Change May Disrupt Clocks · · Score: 1

    So you are simply asserting that the claimed cost savings and reliability increases are imaginary? Because you say so?

    I guess if you want to talk about what is possible rather that what is possible inside of 5 years you can say lots of things.

  23. Re:here's the scale on Power Grid Change May Disrupt Clocks · · Score: 1

    Your comment is weird. Very few clocks actually use the AC phase to keep time, so the intersection of people doing things sensitive to seconds and people unable to buy a $5 quartz watch is pretty small.

  24. Re:Feet above sea level? on Nebraska Nuclear Plant Flood Defenses Tested · · Score: 1
  25. Re:Feet above sea level? on Nebraska Nuclear Plant Flood Defenses Tested · · Score: 1