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  1. Re:Too big to fail on Plan To Run Anti-Google Smear Campaign Revealed In MPAA Emails · · Score: 1

    "Back in the Founders day, there was the East India Tea Company, but still governments were unquestioningly the shot callers."

    Back in the Founders day, the East India Company literally owned the armies and the governments for a major part of India.

  2. Re:already late on NASA Funded Study States People Could Be On the Moon By 2021 For $10 Billion · · Score: 1

    That's pretty good... except they would have no problem leaving their moles unprotected if it suited them.

  3. Re:already late on NASA Funded Study States People Could Be On the Moon By 2021 For $10 Billion · · Score: 3, Informative

    "It gets pennies compared to orgs who want to ensure that some mole that no one has ever heard of remains protected."

    The EPA has less than half the budget of NASA. "Beggar thy neighbor" is a sucker's game.

  4. Re:everything is known on Preserving Radio Silence At the Square Kilometer Array · · Score: 1

    "That Socrates was a bit over-rated, don't you think?"

    I drank what?

  5. Re: Why not just use English, and only English? on New Unicode Bug Discovered For Common Japanese Character "No" · · Score: 1

    Note that problems also involve Korean, which is written with an alphabet not ideographs.

  6. Re:The Elephant in the room on Apple Patents Bank Account Balance Snooping Tech · · Score: 1

    What makes you think that Apple has your available credit balance or is trying to get it?

  7. Re:Can I do my groceries with bitcoin yet? on Bitcoin Exempt From VAT Says European Court of Justice · · Score: 2

    An actually informative post about nanocard would include a link to nanocard: https://www.ccedk.com/nanocard

  8. Re:Except on Bitcoin Exempt From VAT Says European Court of Justice · · Score: 1

    "economically and technologically flawed" ...which is also just like a normal currency. ;-)

  9. Re:Meanwhile, dating scams targeting men... on Internet Dating Scams Target Older American Women · · Score: 1

    "don't seem to garner nearly the same media attention as those targeting women"

    Here is *one* story of women being targeted. The only way there could be fewer stories about men is if there had never been any at all.

  10. Re:Sling me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast on Class Action Filed Against Sling Media · · Score: 1

    The question of rebroadcasting rights is irrelevant to this case, since the class does not contain broadcasters and thus would have no standing on that issue.

  11. Re:kind of a crappy deal. on Google To Provide Free Internet For Public Housing Residents To All Fiber Markets · · Score: 1

    "wasnt this kind of connectivity the sort of rate-limited and overpriced stuff the FCC railed against a few months ago?"

    No, the FCC railed against putting substandard infrastructure in public housing so that residents could not possibly upgrade their connection no matter how much they were willing to pay.

  12. Re:What does Oracle do well? on Oracle Bullies Enterprise Clients Into Cloud Purchases, Consultant Claims · · Score: 1

    " they have something nobody else has, they know it, their customers know it, and the customers pay. Bullies, one and all, with none to push back."

    And you said they were terrible at marketing. ;-)

    Marketing is not about creating a positive attitude, it is about creating a positive incentive. That can be a positive attitude, or it can be the edge of a cliff.

  13. Re:Copyright? on Automakers Unwilling To Share Driver Data (Yet) · · Score: 1

    or are they facts, and not covered by copyright at all?

  14. Re:What does Oracle do well? on Oracle Bullies Enterprise Clients Into Cloud Purchases, Consultant Claims · · Score: 1

    What does Oracle do well?

    Sales and Marketing.

  15. Re: does not sell to repressive regimes on The Guardian Looks At Hacking Team's Client List, Internal Communications · · Score: 1

    If they were worth what they charge they would be able to get their payments whether the client liked it or not.

  16. Re:Some precedent in the claimed wrongdoing on FTC Officials Looking Into Apple's Streaming Business Model, Say Sources · · Score: 1

    But there are not other ways to *buy* the product from the label, and the labels contracts with Apple fix the prices for other purchasers with them being a party to the negotiations.

  17. Re:Some precedent in the claimed wrongdoing on FTC Officials Looking Into Apple's Streaming Business Model, Say Sources · · Score: 2

    " If they aren't colluding with other companies"

    Except they already are, so we can skip this clause. They are making contracts with their suppliers that fix the prices for other people who are not a party to the contract negotiations.

  18. Re:Not a record, not even close on New Record For Solar-Powered Autonomous Flight: 28 Hours Without Refueling · · Score: 2

    From the article:
    "thereby setting a new *Swiss* endurance record for unmanned solar-powered flight, and improving upon the previous internal record (ASL’s Sky Sailor) by a over an hour."
    (emphasis mine)

    So the summary overstates the record by most of a planet.

  19. Two cloudy days in a row.

  20. Re:I'm all for it on Simple Geometry = More Seats In an Airline · · Score: 1

    They would have to flip up like the seat bottom to fit them in: http://www.flyertalk.com/wp-co...

  21. Re:I'm all for it on Simple Geometry = More Seats In an Airline · · Score: 1

    "this means not sharing arm rests with people."

    You have not looked closely enough at where each passenger's parts go:

    http://cdn.travalliancemedia.c...

  22. Re:I'm all for it on Simple Geometry = More Seats In an Airline · · Score: 1

    'It's harder to accomplish this in a "air conditioned" air terminal'

    Is actually not harder, it's just that no one can be bothered to do it if the terminal space offsets the airframe utilization. Also, while it does reduce complains of boarding/alighting time it increases complaints due to the walking and/or bussing.

    If you look at old photographs of LAX, from before the build the ground level connectors buildings, planes would pull up parallel to the sides of the rotundas and a jetway connects both in front and behind the wing. Some of the west remote gates still operate like this, where a very large plane actually connects to two remote gates. Currently, LAX TBIT has gates with multiple jetways that can meet multiple doors in front of the wing as is done in many other places with large planes with high-prices premium traffic. (The jetwways are often split between first/business/economy classes.)

    Some airports AMS and even little ALB have dual jetways where one extends over the wing. However, AMS has had incidents where the jetway has struck the upper surface of the wing causing damage.

  23. Re:I'm all for it on Simple Geometry = More Seats In an Airline · · Score: 1

    "Airports would need several cabins per flight per aircraft model, plus room to store them, plus machinery to handle them..."

    All of this this actually exists. Just pack all of the passengers into LD2s.

  24. Re:Damages Costs Absurd on Judge Tosses Jury's $533M Patent Verdict Against Apple, Orders New Trial · · Score: 1

    "Why does the USA have such ludicrous damages amounts?"

    Because we have companies pulling in insane revenues. iPhones alone are on the order of $100 billion per year, and the infringement was claimed for multiple products for multiple years.

  25. Verdict stands on Judge Tosses Jury's $533M Patent Verdict Against Apple, Orders New Trial · · Score: 4, Informative

    As any that read past the inflammatory headline will know the judge did not throw out the verdict. The ruling of patent infringement still stands.

    As such, the case is being sent back to the lower court solely to rehear the damages portion, i.e.not further argument about whether or not infringement occurred will be considered there.