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  1. Re:Why do I get on Library Groups Ask DOJ To Oversee Google Books · · Score: 1

    Indeed its like these people almost have devoted their lives to free repositories of information to educate society...what would a place like that be called?

  2. Re:Why do I get on Library Groups Ask DOJ To Oversee Google Books · · Score: 1

    That or scaremongering and presenting a face of someone the voter thinks they might like to have a beer with.

    No side is innocent.

  3. Re:Why do I get on Library Groups Ask DOJ To Oversee Google Books · · Score: 1

    I doubt it. Most of these library groups are just that groups that represent public and semi-private libraries who exist with a non-profit mandate and purpose.

  4. Re:I thought it was mostly about the scam stuff... on Facebook Mafiosi Go To the Mattresses vs. Zynga · · Score: 1

    Oh there are plenty more deserving.

  5. Re:So let me get this straight... on Hackers Counter Microsoft COFEE With Some DECAF · · Score: 1

    For your private information it is too late. Your info is already on closed source and quite probably badly maintained/secured computers.

  6. Re:I'd much rather... on "Loud Commercial" Legislation Proposed In US Congress · · Score: 1

    Depends on the signal source. Over the radio spectrum the tv stations are renting the airwaves from the people of the US as no one owns the spectrum, and so the gov I see as being perfectly in the right mandating certain restrictions on that broadcast such as mandating that some news be put up, emergency signals be sent or in this case relative volume levels be kept within certain parameters. Cable and wired broadcasts are a different matter entirely, and while there should be some right-of-way regulations(aka net neutrality) control of the content of the broadcasts should be left up to the broadcasters/purchasers because of the lower requirements to broadcast/purchase.

    You see more people can broadcast over cable/wire than can over the air and the cable/wire has a larger private ownership/maintenance stake than the radio spectrum.

  7. Re:Myspace is fast losing relevance on MySpace Buys and Then Takes Down Imeem · · Score: 1

    Yeah but if the companies allowed that they'd lose their customers.

    The only way is for you personally to use sites other than those that you dislike or else nothing will change. Users have to move away from the sites, because if the users don't show themselves to be mobile the sites won't improve.

  8. Re:Separate Workspaces? on Multiple-Display Power Tools For Linux? · · Score: 1

    I mean why not have both?

  9. Re:Linux just isn't ready for the desktop on Multiple-Display Power Tools For Linux? · · Score: 1

    Indeed. And why is the use of multiple monitors the domain of the desktop? I know many work environments where multiple monitors are used, even when they are all text.

  10. Re:Separate Workspaces? on Multiple-Display Power Tools For Linux? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Why not just learn the console? Why not just get used to two colors? Why not just manage punch cards?

    Because there could be a better way.

  11. Re:Issues I've had. on Multiple-Display Power Tools For Linux? · · Score: 1

    I am an avid Ubuntu linux user with two screens, of different sizes, and I assure you it is not fud.

    It took quite a bit of trial and error and I ended up having to settle between one of two evils, with some minor work around bugs. Granted overall the performance of my ubuntu desktop is far superior to my windows XP install, but for split-screen control and ease of use I have to give the point to Windows, or rather to the fuller NVIDIA support and tighter integration with a single distro Windows provides.

  12. Re:Well..Term limits. on Modded Xbox Bans Prompt EFF Warning About Terms of Service · · Score: 1

    No it isn't a question just ask MS if they will let another network work with their systems. Cease and Desist will be the first thing that happens.

  13. Re:Well.. on Modded Xbox Bans Prompt EFF Warning About Terms of Service · · Score: 1

    Aye and with all networks playing by the same basic tos and the internet and other networks increasingly becoming part of everyday life and an increasing requirement for employment and business allow said companies to arbitrarily dictate who/how/when their services are used is completely fair.

  14. Re:I am shocked! on Obama Wants Computer Privacy Ruling Overturned · · Score: 1

    No. Many of us just hoped that it might change.

  15. The same should be done on Inside England and Wales' DNA Regime · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In the US too, and for fingerprinting as well.

    Such evidence should only be collected without consent with a warrant and if the individual is not charged and convicted with a crime such evidence should be removed from any database/storage and destroyed/deleted. If it is taken with consent then the individual should have the right to ask that it be destroyed after the investigation is complete.

    On a wider note many such police/law enforcement databases need to be more thoroughly regulated, including things such as "Do Not Fly" lists and terrorism suspects. There needs to be a clear legal way for both puting someone's name on the list, and removing it, as well there also needs to be a way for individuals to know why they are on any such list.

  16. Re:It is? on Bing Cashback Can Cost You Money · · Score: 1

    Uhm plain is not always User friendly.

  17. Re:Bide your time on Software Piracy At the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    Seems like there should be a way to document this kind or thing and report on it. Come to the boss with it needing to be fixed and that you are going to report on it if it isn't. If you get fired you have documentation as to why, and (I am not a lawyer) that might be able to stand in court.

  18. Re:Bide your time on Software Piracy At the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    Just like you're supposed to shut-up and dump toxic waste illegally, or bar exit doors during working hours, or a multitude of other things that don't make waves. Eventually something goes bad, and you are sitting infront of the barrel waiting to see if the bullet spins into the right hole.

  19. Re:Video demo on Fujitsu's Latest Mobile Phone Splits In Two · · Score: 1

    I'm still wondering what functionality it brings. Why do you want that much bulk? What does it give you the ability to do other the detach keyboard?

  20. Re:Bah! on Whistleblower Claims IEA Is Downplaying Peak Oil · · Score: 2, Informative

    There is more than one version of Godwin's law. You quoted a depreciated version that only applies to Usenet.

  21. Re:Bah! on Whistleblower Claims IEA Is Downplaying Peak Oil · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It doesn't matter if there is more or not. The total determines the price. THe more simply means we'll be the last to fall, assuming an equal rate of use. However we use a lot more oil than other similar countries so that oil is a mitigating factor and if you think it's going to be sold at a discount to those in the US w/o some sort of government intervention then you are going to be in for a rude surprise.

  22. Re:first post on NASA Reproduces a Building Block of Life In the Lab · · Score: 1

    It doesn't but since it is an Agency it can have more than a single mission? What you think the FBI or CIA should ONLY investigate a single case at a time?

  23. Re:Why complain about choice? on Lulu Introduces DRM · · Score: 1

    1. People will be allowed to do unethical things in any reasonably free society, at least according to some people's ethics.

    2. They have and will continue to be in DRM and most other "free market situations.

    3. Isn't this the same as 1?

    The fix for all 3? Government and when "free marketeers" complain it is usually against such government programs limiting the free market.

  24. Re:Socialism does the same things. on Lulu Introduces DRM · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Socialists deliberately derailed? Please take your medication before posting.

  25. Re:So.... on Lulu Introduces DRM · · Score: 1

    No it has been answered. There will always be at least one over-powerful entity. In an unrestricted free-market situation this entity will be the largest corporation(s).

    The answer is to have only one of such evil. It will be called the government and ideally its people will be armed against it both through tradition, force, and the arrangements of its inner mechanisms.