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  1. Re:So... on New EU Legal Privacy Framework: We're Not Kidding · · Score: 2

    So it's roughly a five strikes law, that's seems pretty lenient.

  2. Re:Idiocy on Anonymous Takes Down DOJ, RIAA, MPA and Universal Music · · Score: 1

    No, this would be like protesting the TSA by groping or irradiating TSA employs without justification.

  3. Re:My preview of ReFS on Microsoft Announces ReFS, a New Filesystem For Windows 8 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    http://slashdot.org/~bonch Note the collaboration between this, and numerous other "contributors" between extremely verbose first posts submitted within the same minute as their submitted articles. How much are you getting paid to game slashdot? Evidence: check how many contributors defend first posts that are clearly prepped to send immediately after a story goes live. Humans don't tend to type more than 200 words per minute in response to actual news. But shills who get paid to post do.

  4. Re:[condense]Syria[/condense] on Blue Coat Concedes Its Devices Operating in Syria · · Score: 1

    Syria's business

  5. Re:Customers on Netflix Kills Qwikster · · Score: 1

    Especially since it likely would've been pronounced "Keister" based on the reputation it'd've inherited.

  6. Fractal Geometry of Nature on 13-Year-Old Uses Fibonacci Sequence For Solar Power Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    It's good to see an iterated function system being used in a practical manner. They looked pretty on computer screens back in the 90s, but it's much more impressive to see someone make a useful gadget with the idea. I bet with a couple more iterations of the stem/branch/leaf model he could bump up the energy collection even more. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iterated_function_system

  7. Re:Version numbers on Google Releases Chrome 12 · · Score: 1

    Has anybody patented the business method of "Chome numbering"? It's clearly a way and a method to increase customer confidence in a congested market.

    It's better than MS numbering, everyone realeasing version '12 next year might cause more confusion than help.

  8. Finnish music industry on Finnish Record Labels Want To Block Pirate Bay · · Score: 1

    How else are we going to get such wonders as this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHReqKRvonE

  9. Re:the statistic is meaningless on Chinese iPad Factory Staff Forced To Sign 'No Suicide' Pledge · · Score: 2

    It was out of 8 people, that's why they're concerned.

  10. Re:wipe it on Aaron Computer Rental Firm Spies On Users · · Score: 1

    So you need to brick it with a failed BIOS update when you receive the item, problem solved!

  11. Equal value on NVIDIA Gets Away With Bait-and-Switch · · Score: 1

    The laptop replacement seems to be of equal value to the video card being replaced.

  12. Doing it wrong on Tasmanian Dept. of Education Wants Anti-Virus for Linux, OS X · · Score: 1
  13. Prior Infringement on Google Loses Bedrock Suit, All Linux May Infringe · · Score: 1

    I'm hoping that this sets a precedent for invalidating software patents in general by demonstrating that you were infringing on the patent years before it was granted.

  14. Re:We'd never do such a thing on Is Your Antivirus Made By the Chinese Government? · · Score: 1
  15. Improper review on Blogger Sued By Restaurant For Bad Review · · Score: 1

    He's getting sued for recommending the competitors instead of writing a professional review of the restaurant itself. By the sound of the lawsuit, that amounts to libel in Kuwait. I hope Benihana wins on this point, the reviewer has clearly acted in an unethical, and damaging, manner. He's also getting sued for displaying Benihana's logos in video footage. In this case Benihana ought to lose soundly because it's their publicly viewable advertising that they want hidden from the public. If the reviewer loses the case, Benihana ought to be forced to remove the offending signage and relocate it where customers cannot view it. If Benihana does win, the reviewer should either need to pay them damages, or correct the review. Granting both would be unreasonable. Free speech doesn't prevent anyone from the consequences of that speech, otherwise it could be abused to prevent the free speech of others.

  16. Re:Sorry, no "dirty tricks" campaign here... on Wikileaks Founder Arrested In London · · Score: 1

    As ratified during the Ikea convention.

  17. Prior Art on Apple Patents Glasses-Free 3D Projector · · Score: 1

    And here is a description of the product from 1981

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_Park

  18. Three China Policy on Google Publishes Censorship Map · · Score: 1

    I like that Mainland China holds state secret status, but both Taiwan and Hong Kong are listed in the 2010 update of the report. Gratuitous addition of the keywords reunification, Tibet, and "grass mud horse" added for seasoning.

  19. Re:Does this smack of a hidden agenda to you? on DX11 Coming To Linux (But Not XP) · · Score: 1

    You people and your decimal system. He could be talking about binary. It could be slightly more than a 50% improvement.

  20. Re:Java in the Box? on Introducing JITB — a Flash Player Built On the JVM · · Score: 1

    Could call it Jitterbug after the late 1930s swing dance style.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jitterbug

  21. Re:Spot the prior art on Microsoft Applies For Page-Turn Animation Patent · · Score: 1

    Fine. did anyone play any of the examples on a tablet PC with a touch display circa 1993?

  22. Re:Spot the prior art on Microsoft Applies For Page-Turn Animation Patent · · Score: 1

    How about 1983, Penny's Computer Book on the cartoon show Inspector Gadget?

  23. Re:How about lying? on Pirate Party Pillages Private Papers · · Score: 1

    Then it could be published as a work of fiction, allowing the author to copyright it.

  24. Re:Naming on NZ School Goes Open Source Amid Microsoft Mandate · · Score: 1

    Maori

    from the Mandarin Chinese for Caturday

  25. By any other name on Scientists Unveil Lightweight Rootkit Protection · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A root kit is just a sandbox that someone else has set up for you on what is now his or her computer.