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  1. Re:If I was blowing whistles... on US Democrats Accidentally Publish Whistleblowers' Email Addresses · · Score: 1

    The guy I'd br more likely to believe is the one that's treating the communications like a CIA graduation exercise; take a look at the uber-whistle-blower Deep Throat if you have any questions

  2. Re:If I was blowing whistles... on US Democrats Accidentally Publish Whistleblowers' Email Addresses · · Score: 1

    you could have some fun with "email lost passwords"

  3. Re:Could be worse on US Democrats Accidentally Publish Whistleblowers' Email Addresses · · Score: 1

    Well your assuming that they did something stupid, if you put your tin-foil hat on, you'll see that the whistle-blowers have already served their purpose except finally being outed and then fired by the big-bad republican giving the Dem's another boost in PR; still the Dem's maybe assuming that they're a shoe-in for office and getting rid of the whistle-blowers now when the republicans are in office will only save them embarrassment later.

  4. Re:Could be worse on US Democrats Accidentally Publish Whistleblowers' Email Addresses · · Score: 1

    illegal weapons (white phosphorus, depleted uranium)
    Really was there a law passed that I'm not aware of? Was a treaty ratified by the Senate? From what I remember, and I have been out of the loop a while, was that WP was not being replaced as stocks were consumed or reaching end of life because red phosphorus smoke has better IR suppression than WP and the handling was easier, and I've never heard anything about depleted uranium.

  5. Re:Both the Dems and the Reps... on US Democrats Accidentally Publish Whistleblowers' Email Addresses · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I saw a program on the History channel and the Saudi's basicly offered him to us under the table so we could have just disapeared him but Clinton was too busy getting his willey wet and just said we didn't want him, so they let him go.

  6. Re:Both the Dems and the Reps... on US Democrats Accidentally Publish Whistleblowers' Email Addresses · · Score: 1

    Did they start a war for profit in the 80's?
    Silly boy Viet Nam was during the "60's, that would be JFK and LBJ(both Dem) with a dab of Nixon (Rep) getting us out. Bush/Clinton are rank armature compared to those three, hell JFK is almost worshiped and he all but started WW-III with his obsession with piss-ant Cuba.

  7. Re:In other news... on Using Old Medications to Defeat Tuberculosis · · Score: 1

    There really is no need to heat the honey to dissolve it at least not to the point that I'd expect it to denature the mystery agent in the honey. The original ideas behind mead was to get the last bit of honey out of the combs, which is now unnecessary with centrifuge extraction. I always added enough vitamin C to lower the pH enough so I wouldn't worry about botulism in the mead used 3.5 lbs to the gallon and pitched with champagne yeast.

  8. Re:Legal Precedence? on Mom Sues Music Company Over Baby Video Removal · · Score: 1

    I think what is really galling the slashdot crowd is that if she took the video, then using an editor she dubbed in the music as background music, we'd have clucked our cheeks and said how thin skinned of the industry. What we have here isn't that, the baby heard the music that was legally purchased playing in the other room and started dancing, Mom though "How cute" and taped it and posted it where family and friends could get it easily. Now she's getting abused because the big-corporate media monsters is saying she share her content with who ever simply because a barely audible piece of their music is playing in the background.

  9. Re:How to get permission on Mom Sues Music Company Over Baby Video Removal · · Score: 1

    I took it as teaching the child that the music industry thinks she is a piss-ant unworthy of the common courtesy of a response to a legitimate request and to seek out a free music release.

  10. Re:Are you totally fucking retarded? on Mom Sues Music Company Over Baby Video Removal · · Score: 1

    well all I can say is they should go with a judge rather than a jury trial, it's the jury with 7 housewives, 3 men on welfare and 3 business men pissed of that they're stuck on jury duty instead of make commission is what makes it fickled.

  11. Re:Uncorroborated claims newsworthy on Mom Sues Music Company Over Baby Video Removal · · Score: 1

    An industry that issues take down notices for videos of babies danceing to garbbled legaly purchased music playing in the background, has bigger things to worry about than file sharing.

  12. Re:Offense is the best defence? on Mom Sues Music Company Over Baby Video Removal · · Score: 1

    Irregardless of what the law does or doesn't say, mean, or is interperted, when this goes to trial and the jury or judge watches a video of a baby dancing to a low volume, distrorted redition of a Prince song Universal Music Publishing Group/Prince et. al. had better have plenty of anal lube.

  13. Re:Prince? on Mom Sues Music Company Over Baby Video Removal · · Score: 1

    Let this be a lesson to anyone signing Contracts or giving out Powers of Attorney, you may discover that you are doing something that you would never do as a fleshy. Terrible things can happen when you sell your soul for a record contract.

  14. Re:dated copyrights on Mom Sues Music Company Over Baby Video Removal · · Score: 1

    why should it be so easy for some multinational corporation to shut it down without them incurring any penalty?
    That's what the lawsuit will determine, whether the label/Prince can imprpoperly take the video down without penalty and the label/Prince have pockets deep enough to actually pay the penalty.

  15. Re:Tag goodforher ! on Mom Sues Music Company Over Baby Video Removal · · Score: 1

    Views: 135,684 at 0830 EDT on a Saturday!

  16. Re:Tag goodforher ! on Mom Sues Music Company Over Baby Video Removal · · Score: 1

    Well they are trying to stop her kid from hamming it up in front of the camera by dancing to legaly purchaed music is playing in the background for her freinds and family to see. If you don't see that isn't harming as child, you should spend more time with a child's mother and less time shilling for the record labels. The good news is the kid is into punk now, and since punk isn't Britney Spears/American Idiol crap, the record lables don't want to deal with it so you can get pretty good punk under creative commons licenses on the free music sites and tell the Prince and the RIAA to eat shit and bark at the moon.

  17. Re:Self counter-suit mayhem on Thompson Sues ESRB, Best Buy · · Score: 1

    maybe he thinks the ESRB got one right by accident and bestbuy didn't enforce it?

  18. Re:IANAL on Thompson Sues ESRB, Best Buy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I believe his ability to practice law in Alabama was removed, this was under a reciprical agreement so I not sure if it counts as an actual disbarment or not, still it should count as a bitch slap.

  19. Re:Assumed Guilt on NY Wrests $1 Million From Verizon Wireless · · Score: 1

    The settlement follows a nine-month investigation into the marketing of NationalAccess and BroadbandAccess plans for wireless access to the internet for laptop computer users. ... Verizon Wireless fully and voluntarily cooperated with the Office of the Attorney General throughout this inquiry. Since April of 2007, Verizon Wireless has voluntarily ceased cutting off customers based on their data usage and no longer prohibits common internet uses.
    if your a verison wireless customer take a look at http://www.oag.state.ny.us/press/2007/oct/oct23a_07.html .

  20. Re:Sigh on Congressman Tells Comcast, Hands Off BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    I'm not a network guy, so any real network guys feel free to chime in and help out, but the way I understand it is they buy bandwidth and the up/down of it don't matter. The transit service is typically priced per megabit per second per month, Internet transit Anything going up subtracts from what's available coming out. The real problem is the ISP's local network is designed for primarily downloading, which is frequently in bursts. A T1 line don't sound like a lot bandwidth-wise but it will run 1.544 Mbit/s 24-7.

  21. Re:Sigh on Congressman Tells Comcast, Hands Off BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    At least when SMTP to foreign mail servers is blocked you can easily use the ISP's mail server, perhaps I'm thinking its an enforced route rather than a blockage. If you really need to get the mail out and have it originate at your site IP address there are answers involving non-traditional ports.

  22. Re:Comcast seems to be fast on Congressman Tells Comcast, Hands Off BitTorrent · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm a comcast customer and have never used bittorrent until comcast started this BS; now I running BT out of spite.

  23. Re:Nice glasses on Congressman Tells Comcast, Hands Off BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    And Nixon lied about some clueless toadies, doing something insanely stupid on their own initiative.

  24. Re:Petty cash on NY Wrests $1 Million From Verizon Wireless · · Score: 1

    yeah they stopped DCing customers in April until the suit was settled and have agreed not to advertise unlimited plans with caps and prohibited uses. Also the NY AG's press release wasn't completely clear but I read it as Verizon was going to divide the $1M among the 13,000 customers disconected and that the $1M was an estimate rather than a hard numbers so they are probably paying per DC, disconnect.

  25. Re:Assumed Guilt on NY Wrests $1 Million From Verizon Wireless · · Score: 1
    If they are it could be wash, rinse, repeat! already they

    Verizon Wireless fully and voluntarily cooperated with the Office of the Attorney General throughout this inquiry. Since April of 2007, Verizon Wireless has voluntarily ceased cutting off customers based on their data usage and no longer prohibits common internet uses.VERIZON WIRELESS AGREES TO SETTLE DECEPTIVE MARKETING INVESTIGATION