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  1. Re:Clean room implementation? on US Justice Department Urges Supreme Court Not To Take Up Google v. Oracle · · Score: 1

    So Apple only then?

  2. Re:Wasn't Java open sourced? on US Justice Department Urges Supreme Court Not To Take Up Google v. Oracle · · Score: 1

    I don't think you can put something in the public domain. Regardless of what you do you still have the copyright on it until it expires.

  3. Re:Out of curiosity on Adblock Plus Victorious Again In Court · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You post a sign on the side of the highway do not think others owe you anything to read it.

  4. Re:F/OSS reality on Mandriva Goes Out of Business · · Score: 1

    " Is the file system root the desktop? " I think that matters fuck all to most users as most users don't know what you mean by "root file system".

  5. Re:Well there's the problem... on Court Orders UberPop Use To Be Banned In All of Italy · · Score: 3, Informative

    Same way here, and it's for a very good reason. Let's take NY, Imagine NYC with twice as many taxi's on the road. It happened and it made it extremely hard for emergency vehicles and anyone who wasn't a tax, or really just wanted to go anywhere. So they implemented a medallion system to limit the number of cabs on the road. See it's not a conspiracy involving the "taxi lobby", in fact it's to protect us from them.

  6. Re:Holy hell on Court Orders UberPop Use To Be Banned In All of Italy · · Score: 1

    Wait, so they have to make back their entire initial investment every year?

  7. Re:that's why i use a bidet on Factory Reset On Millions of Android Devices Doesn't Wipe Storage · · Score: 1

    I hope your not defecating in a urinal. That's really gross, you should really use a toilet.

  8. Re:Android. The "PC" of mobile devices on Factory Reset On Millions of Android Devices Doesn't Wipe Storage · · Score: 1

    I've wiped iphones before and found all my photos still on the phone. So I not sure that's more secure.

  9. Re:Android. The "PC" of mobile devices on Factory Reset On Millions of Android Devices Doesn't Wipe Storage · · Score: 1

    I don't know, I've wiped a few iPhones to find my pictures still on them. Was on of the reasons I left Apple.

  10. Re:Strangely mixed signals here on ESA Satellite Shows Sudden Ice Loss In Southern Antarctic Peninsula · · Score: 1

    And even the graph shows a downward trend.

  11. Didn't we already try this? on US Proposes Tighter Export Rules For Computer Security Tools · · Score: 1

    We did this with encryption and ended up causing a shit ton of problems down the road, problems that are seriously affecting us today.

  12. Re:I can see why they are suing. on Take Two Sues BBC Over Drama About GTA Development · · Score: 2

    I don't know a lot of Biography's have been written without talking to the subject, Maybe the BBC wants the truth and not the spin that Rock Star will give them. Remember Rock Star was behind a lot of the bad press they got, it was mostly marketing, and oh boy did it work.

  13. Re:Turnabout is fair play on Take Two Sues BBC Over Drama About GTA Development · · Score: 1

    Did you not know that none of that would have happened without Max Clifford working on behalf of Rock Star. That was marketing genius is what it was.

  14. Re:Trademark Fair Use on Take Two Sues BBC Over Drama About GTA Development · · Score: 1

    Even the reporter is British, "Daniel is IGN's Games Editor over in London. He writes about movies, too."

  15. Re:Trademark Fair Use on Take Two Sues BBC Over Drama About GTA Development · · Score: 1

    Well considering Take Two is a British company, I am not sure why they would file in the US.

  16. Re:Trademark Fair Use on Take Two Sues BBC Over Drama About GTA Development · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not sure what the First Amendment has to do with laws in England.

  17. Re:Trademark dilution; nominative fair use on Take Two Sues BBC Over Drama About GTA Development · · Score: 1

    So explain how one does a documentary on a video game without being able to say it's name. It's not trademark infringement if you are referring to the actual product .

  18. Re:USAsians are special on Secret Files Reveal UK Police Feared That Trekkies Could Turn On Society · · Score: 1

    Why are American Asians a special bunch?

  19. Maybe I'm Old on AP Computer Science Education Scalability: Advantage, Rupert Murdoch? · · Score: 0

    What the hell is a MOOC? Come on if your going to use a new acronym you should define it.

  20. Re:Fark those clowns on Battle To Regulate Ridesharing Moves Through States · · Score: 1

    Taxi companies do not set the prices that is done by the government sorry to say, in NYC it's the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission. So no they don't use the high barrier of entry for that at all. Any proof of that crazy lobbying? You have made a bunch of accusations but failed to back any of it up.

  21. Re:Mixed reaction on Battle To Regulate Ridesharing Moves Through States · · Score: 1

    You do know why the medallion's exist right? It has nothing to do with your taxi cartel conspiracy. It had to do with too many (over 30,000) taxis on the road causing major traffic problems. In 1937, Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia signed the Haas Act which introduced official taxi licenses and the medallion system that remains in place today. The law limited the total number of cab licenses to 16,900, but the number dwindled to 11,787 licenses over the next six decades until 1996 when the TLC added 133 new licenses bringing the total to 11,920.Since 1996, more medallions have been added to the fleet bringing the total number of cab licenses to 13,237 as of 2009.

  22. Re:Mixed reaction on Battle To Regulate Ridesharing Moves Through States · · Score: 1

    except how many Uber drivers have done the legal thing and gotten a commercial policy? They should require verification of commercial insurance and a valid TL license.

  23. Re:Mixed reaction on Battle To Regulate Ridesharing Moves Through States · · Score: 1

    Great so the passenger is covered, the driver? not so much. http://ridesharedashboard.com/... On a side note, they also refuse to accept service animals so another law they violate.

  24. Re:Mixed reaction on Battle To Regulate Ridesharing Moves Through States · · Score: 1

    Really so the fact that there were son many taxis in NYC that emergency vehicles had trouble getting around had nothing to do with the regs? But you go ahead and make up your conspiracy theories so you can defend the unequal playing field.

  25. Re:Mixed reaction on Battle To Regulate Ridesharing Moves Through States · · Score: 1

    The taxi companies had fuck all to do with the laws in NYC or Chicago or any other major city. The medallion system is to limit the number of cars on the road, so they are not gridlocked with taxis.