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  1. Re:Good on Court Allows Case Over Violating Open Source License (lexology.com) · · Score: 1
  2. Fair's fair on California Seeks To Tax Rocket Launches, Which Are Already Taxed (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think it's fair to count the miles of road traveled just like the other forms of transportation. Travel off road should be exempted.

  3. Re:Glad I'm not interested in the movie on 'First Pirated Ultra HD Blu-Ray Disk' Appears Online (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    How is South Korea treating you?

  4. Re:Suing over other people's criminal actions? on Intel-Powered Broadband Modems Highly Vulnerable To DoS Attack (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    Since your analogy has nothing to do with the linked class action lawsuit I'm guessing you didn't read the article. It pertains to latency issues under typical use that prevent normal function. Third party criminal actions aren't relevant.

  5. The first step is admitting you have a problem on Advertisers Are Still Boycotting YouTube Over Offensive Videos (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Advertisements accompanying actual content should always require opting-in, not opting-out. Both on the producing/selling and consuming/purchasing sides.

  6. Dear Amazon on Italian Police Say Amazon Has Evaded $142 Million of Taxes (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    If you're going to steal tax money, you have to have the word "police" somewhere in the name of your business.

  7. Re:No, because they'll have H1B's do the conversio on Should Banks Let Ancient Programming Language COBOL Die? (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    The lie being that money isn't being lost/stolen with existing code.

  8. The first 12 months of a child's life they're probably not over 18 years old or emancipated, making them ineligible for their own welfare benefits. Reach harder.

  9. Re:bad precedent - it will go both ways on Can Parents Sue If Their Kid Is Born With the 'Wrong' DNA? (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    In the same way that suing a bank for giving someone the wrong safety deposit box means that next time customers can pay for better safety deposit boxes. The logic you suggest doesn't follow from the evidence.

  10. Re:How many Chromebook buys are accidental? on Are Chromebooks Responsible For PC Market Growth? (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Posting from an Acer Chromebook 11 running GalliumOS (https://galliumos.org/). Much assuredly not something much less than a Windows laptop, unless you mean the price(~ USD $160after tax, new about a year ago). The only accident was I bought it to try out Crouton (https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton) and ended up with more than I'd anticipated. I would be more than happy to gift it to a child as an educational toy if and when I decide to try something else.

  11. Better headline on Bitcoin Exchange Sues Wells Fargo Over Massive Wire Transfer Suspension (bitcoin.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Rival money laundering groups don't see eye to eye.

  12. Re: Stuff from our past, when we grew up... on Die-Hard Sysops Are Resurrecting BBS's From The 1980s (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If by "real soon now" you mean since the '70s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  13. Re:What would be a more fitting sentence? on A Prenda Copyright Troll Finally Pleaded Guilty (popehat.com) · · Score: 2

    http://www.americanbar.org/con... If you're going to be pedantic, at least correct it to the more commonly used "pled".

  14. I'll bite... Name one device that presents itself as one type of device to the user and then presents itself as a different type of device to the USB subsystem inside the computer that could be described as "a legitimate purpose". Some devices do, but that doesn't fit any definition of the word "legitimate" that I've encountered. Intentionally hiding things from users is the opposite of legitimate.

  15. Will it have Clippy? on Windows 10 Build 15048 Has a Windows Mixed Reality Demo You Can Try (betanews.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    It looks like Second Life and Microsoft Bob had a child.

  16. Sure, sending a polite email to Adobe for you. I'm sure they'll get right on that.

  17. There's a word for that in English: "rental".

  18. Blaming economics on God, that's a new low.

  19. And there's the alt-right dog whistle. Trying to lump in eugenics with the rest. It's an actual philosophy that people keep trying to sneak into practice. Whether it works is immaterial. People trying to selectively breed certain genes out of a population using laws and regulations isn't some historical relic. It's an ongoing atrocity.

  20. "Therefore, all men are Socrates." -- Woody Allen, 'Love and Death'

  21. Re:I'm not surprised. on Former Engineer Says Uber Is a Nightmare of Sexism; CEO Orders Urgent Investigation (susanjfowler.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    You've limited the scope to "quid pro quo" sexual harassment. The article demonstrates "hostile environment" sexual harassment. There's no requirement that "compliance is made a condition of continued employment or advancement". https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/type...

  22. Re:Linus is a dumb ditch digger on Linus Torvalds: Talk of Tech Innovation is Bullshit. Shut Up and Get the Work Done (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Informative

    386BSD initial release: March 12, 1992 Linux initial release: September 17, 1991 Unless you're suggesting Linux wasn't bootable for about half a year after it was released, your claim is false.

  23. Are we alone in the University [sic]? on Lost Winston Churchill Essay Reveals His Thoughts On Alien Life (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    A brave little theory, and actually quite coherent for a system of five or seven dimensions -- if only we lived in one. Academician Prokhor Zakharov, "Now We Are Alone"

  24. Ideal test case on Google Brain Creates Technology That Can Zoom In, Enhance Pixelated Images (softpedia.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Feed it minecraft screenshots and japanese porn, and see what the result is.

  25. Followup video on You Can Make Any Number Out of Four 4s Because Math Is Amazing (youtube.com) · · Score: 0

    How to make anything from 4 beryllium atoms. Any operations are allowed, including operations that include other elements or that remove any of the beryllium atoms.