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  1. No Model M on Logitech Releases Washable Keyboard · · Score: 1

    It's real steel springs or nothing, baby.

  2. Re:History on Why Apple Is Suing Every Android Manufacturer In Sight · · Score: 1

    You can unlock the phone that way in ICS (and in iOS).

  3. Re:Is it worth it? on Patient Just Wants To See Data From His Implanted Medical Device · · Score: 1

    It's only legal to hide certain information from patients, such as information disclosed confidentially to a doctor.

    Federally, right to access is guaranteed by HIPAA (though entities can charge a "reasonable" fee for access). There are also variety of state medical access laws. In New York, for example, a doctor may elect to redact information about a minor to prevent parents access, if they believe release would be harmful to the patient.

  4. Re:Is it worth it? on Patient Just Wants To See Data From His Implanted Medical Device · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You would think that you would have a right to any data produced by your body or devices used in keeping it alive and it would be available to at least you or your doctor

    You already have a right to all of your medical records. I don't understand how this data is not a "medical record."

  5. Re:These type of patents are bad on Google Granted Cloud OS Patent · · Score: 1

    New software is not new invention. You are just using the same old universal algorithms over and over again.

    That's my opinion - but regardless, the real problem is that the patent office must generate its own funding via fees, creating an incentive to approve every patent (so the fat reexamination fee can be collected later).

  6. Re:Sock Puppet for Wallace Breen on Nathan Myhrvold, Do-Gooder · · Score: 1

    Our money is created. It's a fiat currency created by the government, which then generates demand for said money by levying taxes which can only be remitted in that currency.

  7. Re:But the real question is... on Koch Bros Study Finds Global Warming Is Real And Man-Made · · Score: 1

    Don't be so sure. Read primary sources before judging what is most supported by evidence.

    This study in PNAS shows something different, that diversity has historically suffered around all or nearly all global temperature peaks.

  8. Re:System is broken. on High-Frequency Traders Are the Ultimate Hackers, Says Mark Cuban · · Score: 2

    You're creating a catch-22. If the document can be produced (and is valid) there is no perjury, but if the document cannot be produced then the document cannot be validated yet is presumed so.

  9. Re:System is broken. on High-Frequency Traders Are the Ultimate Hackers, Says Mark Cuban · · Score: 1
    He said:

    If a mortgage holder cannot produce the note to a court, the mortgage is null and void

    So we should just take the lender's word that they own the debt? Because that would be the alternative.

  10. Re:A trading tax on High-Frequency Traders Are the Ultimate Hackers, Says Mark Cuban · · Score: 2

    It varies, but the actual trading fees are currently about twice what you suggest.

  11. Re:Easy to be a critic, harder to suggest alternat on High-Frequency Traders Are the Ultimate Hackers, Says Mark Cuban · · Score: 2

    I agree...but their seem to be real downsides to having this purely financial component of the economy be so large relative to the part that is production and exchange of actual goods and services.

  12. Re:System is broken. on High-Frequency Traders Are the Ultimate Hackers, Says Mark Cuban · · Score: 1

    Is the problem really the rate of trades, or is it the relative proportion of the economy that has no basis in reality (i.e. actual goods and services)?

  13. Re:System is broken. on High-Frequency Traders Are the Ultimate Hackers, Says Mark Cuban · · Score: 1

    No, he just said that a bank should have to prove they own my house if they want to repossess it. Quick, why should they not have to prove their documentation is valid?

    Hey, look, I own msauve's house, hand it over!

  14. Re:Peacetime? on How the Militarization of the Internet is Changing Warfare · · Score: 1

    Go back just a little farther, and the threat of actual invasion was believed to be imminent.

    FTFY. Unless you really meant just the threat was imminent.

  15. Re:This will be really interesting on Bev Harris of Black Box Voting Releases Accenture's Voting Software · · Score: 1

    "Functioning?"

    In any event I think devaluation will always be more likely than default.

  16. Re:What the...!? on Posner Dismisses Apple/Motorola Case, With Prejudice · · Score: 3, Informative

    At least two, anyway.

  17. Re:Draw me a line on RIAA Goes After CNET For Media-Conversion Software · · Score: 2

    The best part of this boycott is that you don't have to go without.

  18. Re:Draw me a line on RIAA Goes After CNET For Media-Conversion Software · · Score: 1

    How about evading web paywalls by refusing or deleting cookies?

    I think it's an interesting case since on some sites all that means is you are actually downloading less data. New York Times and The Economist provide good examples of this.

  19. Re:This will be really interesting on Bev Harris of Black Box Voting Releases Accenture's Voting Software · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I know right? That's why Sweden and Norway are about to default on all their debt.

  20. Re:"because it is built on MS Access." on Bev Harris of Black Box Voting Releases Accenture's Voting Software · · Score: 1

    Woosh. He was making fun of your grammar; technically it's "must have been."

  21. Re:for artists? on David Lowery On the Ethics of Music Piracy · · Score: 1

    I hate to break it to you - but where you live isn't the whole of the world.

    I'm aware. That's (one of the reasons) why I live here (a major cultural center).

  22. Re:for artists? on David Lowery On the Ethics of Music Piracy · · Score: 1

    The concert halls, musical theatres, etc... etc... that provided a bare living a century ago are all but gone - not only physically, but from our culture as well.

    Not where I live. If you want to enjoy live, new, local music, move to a cultural center.

  23. Re:for artists? on David Lowery On the Ethics of Music Piracy · · Score: 1

    I don't know a single musician under the age of 35 (or, for that matter, over the age of 100) who views government granted monopolies as their "incentive to keep making music."

  24. Re:The big difference here is on History Will Revere Bill Gates and Forget Steve Jobs, Says Author · · Score: 1

    Three billion people in Africa and Asia aren't going to know anything about Bill Gates except that he paid for the mosquito nets and antimalarial drugs that saved their children.

  25. Re:The big difference here is on History Will Revere Bill Gates and Forget Steve Jobs, Says Author · · Score: 1

    But when you are publicly charitable, you get to do this. And that is why Gates does it like that (and yes, it does encourage others to get involved).