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  1. Re:Declan McCullagh didn't RTFL on P2P File Sharing Could Cost You A Bundle · · Score: 1

    The value's likely to include all the studio time, hookers and weed for the band, agents, and studio execs, Lear Jet time for transportation of the glass master . . . you get the idea. Sort of like the valuation of the E911 document used in one hacker persecution (that isn't a misspelling).

  2. Re:Electronic? on P2P File Sharing Could Cost You A Bundle · · Score: 1

    Unless you plan on listenings to those MP3z in the photonic domain, I imagine they've still got you :).

  3. Re:I refuse to buy Sony on Sony to Stop Producing Smaller CRTs · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure what, if any action, the FSF ever took. The POSE author's account is here. Since then, the released source to an older version of their modifications. On this page, Sony is taken to task for withholding source to their modifications until a "final" version--while distributing a not-so-final version.

  4. Re:my way works...and pisses of spammers on Plan for Spam, Version 2 · · Score: 1

    Heh. Looks like you've reinvented the bitch list. Give 'em hell!

  5. Re:Difference between modifying and stealing? on How to change your Radeon 9500 into a 9700 · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Remember the iOpener? Later versions were made almost impossible to modify by sealing the components in epoxy. ATI can do the same thing

    And perhaps enjoy the same fate!

  6. At last! on Web Site Sues Annoying Pest Troll · · Score: 1
    A working business model for Slashdot. If this precedent gets set, Taco will be richer than Bill Gates.

    OTOH, the Justice department will probably find that Slashdot has a monopoly on trolls.

  7. Re:Klerk on Web Site Sues Annoying Pest Troll · · Score: 1
    No shit! I haven't made anything available on the Internet to indicate whether I even have a family, never mind names, ages, and other demographic information about a wife, life partner, other significant other or any children.

    Like Poindexter said, information is power. And information on the Internet is information in the hands of one's enemies.

  8. Re:Klerk on Web Site Sues Annoying Pest Troll · · Score: 1

    And I'm sure that neither the comment nor the resultant ass-kicking would have been a constitutional issue.

  9. Let's start a PayPal fund on Disney Wins, Eldred (and everyone else) Loses · · Score: 2

    to collect money to provide an all expenses ski trip, complete with a lift ticket good for the intermediate run at the California/Nevada Heavenly Ski Resort (which Sonny Bono was known to frequent), for a certain seven Supreme Court "justices."

  10. Re:Then You Win on Disney Wins, Eldred (and everyone else) Loses · · Score: 2
    Unless Disney can persuade your local law enforcers to drop the war on drugs and the war on terror to start a war on piracy, then they are restricted to the civil courts. Disney cannot choke the court system with millions of civil lawsuits.

    Only one problem: the DMCA and the NET (No Electronic Theft) Act. Both of which made copyright violation something which can land you in federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison.

  11. Re:Sucka MC! on Case to Step Down from AOLTW · · Score: 1
    Excuthe me, I find the termth "sucka" and "bend over" homophobic and offenthive. Pleathe moderate the parent down.

    The one posting about "homophobia" got what he deserved. No sense of humor and whining about moderation in the same post. Too bad he couldn't go below -1.

  12. Re:i'll take the convienence, thanks. on Many Tools of Big Brother Are Up and Running · · Score: 1
    Where I live, even if you go through the change lane, the cameras still record your license plate, time, and all that.

    But that still makes it a tad less convenient than

    select name, ssn, ezpass_no
    from tolls
    where gate = 13 and window_tint = 'Y'

    It wouldn't protect a criminal against a manhunt, but it might be just enough to keep Joe or Jane Doe from being caught up in someone's trawl for a new girlfriend or blackmail fodder.

  13. Re:Less privacy is what I'm shooting for... on Many Tools of Big Brother Are Up and Running · · Score: 1
    . . . or activate a new pre-paid phone.

    Do you mean that after paying for a pre-paid phone, one still has to give up personal information to use it? Sort of defeats the purpose.

  14. Re:The reason Linux isn't in the workplace on Linux in the Workplace · · Score: 1
    How many "average" people would purchase a brand new TV with no after sales support?

    That depends. How many merchants are giving away a free TV, with the right to do whatever you want with it, with "no after sales support?" Dumbass troll.

  15. Re:Fast Enough on China Forges Ahead With 'Dragon' CPU · · Score: 1

    Ouch. And so true.

  16. Re:My bad experience with Inuit products on Updating Quickbooks Forces Online Membership? · · Score: 2, Funny
    . . . I have some high school-level accounting experience under my belt.

    Not me. I learned my accounting on the street.

  17. Re:Appgen on Updating Quickbooks Forces Online Membership? · · Score: 2
    For added entretainment, Microcenter has a no refund policy on opened software.

    Did you pay with a credit card? It may not get you your money back, but it would at least cost Micro Center some if you disputed the charge.

    If you live within 50 miles of Micro Center, purchased a product with which you have a problem, and made a good faith attempt to solve your problem with them, the Fair Credit Billing Act is on your side.

  18. Any minute now on The Apple Name Game · · Score: 0, Troll

    Slashdot will explode under the weight of Apple apologists saying there was nothing wrong with Apple's actions, and that despite appearances to the contrary, Apple is all sweetness and light and nothing like the corporate scum their actions indicate.

  19. Re:Tivo Hack -- MILF Hunter on When Profiling Goes Wrong · · Score: 1

    What is a MILF?

  20. Re:Google Zeitgeist on Slashback: Newton, Wal-Mart, Eats · · Score: 1

    Why wouldn't they? In any case, if they're spoofing a lower version of IE, they still won't count as Mozilla.

  21. Re:We shouldn't even be asking this question on Should Voting Software Be Open Source? · · Score: 1

    I violently agree. I also believe that we should not encourage couch potatoes who don't care enough about the process to get out and vote (absentee ballots are available for those with genuine conflicts or hardships). Not to mention that any sort of net voting would facilitate the sale of votes, never mind undermining the secrecy of the ballot.

  22. Re:Reason why P3P doesn't work... on Is W3C's P3P Good Privacy? · · Score: 1
    P3P Seal of trust? Good and strong as the weakest link of chain. Just think Thawte or Verisign.

    Or worse, TRUST-E.

  23. Re:Spam will be spam on Working Bayesian Mail Filter · · Score: 2

    I try the creative step of prepending common Chinese names, e.g. zhao@chinacenter.com, chen@chinacenter.com, lchen@chinacenter.com, chang@chinacenter.com. Along with a nice "Thank you" for the beautiful picture of the Dalai Lama they sent me, and good wishes that the freedom of information contrary to the PRC's politics continues.

  24. Re:Now all we need... on Blender Is GPL · · Score: 1
    Someone's got a recipe on his sig:
    Blend one part each: Bailey's, Kahlua, vanilla ice cream. Drink responsibly.
  25. Re:It is amassing to me on Lessig's Thoughts On Eldred v. Ashcroft Arguments · · Score: 1

    It should really go "Any man who is not a liberal at age 20 has no heart." then "Any man who has become rich and powerful by age 40 and who is still a liberal has no head."