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  1. Re:woo! on RIAA Loses $222K Verdict · · Score: 5, Informative

    Not so much; they will try her again, but they have to prove actual distribution. Note that the judge also lowered the bar for actual distribution, in a sense. Our pet theory of MediaSentry acting as an agent of the RIAA, and therefore doesn't constitute distribution, was also explicitly discarded:

    âoedistribution to an investigator, such as MediaSentry, can constitute unauthorized distribution.â

  2. Re:So What's Next? on RIAA Loses $222K Verdict · · Score: 4, Informative

    Thomas will face a new trial, in which the RIAA will have to prove actual distribution.

    It's in the first fucking paragraph of the article!

  3. Re:She tried to do something about it on Studies Say Ideology Trumps Facts · · Score: 1

    the same thing that caused her to push through measurements requiring rape victims to pay for their rape test kits.

    I haven't heard this one before, do you have a supporting link for that story?

    Tons of them.

  4. Re:See Kidz on NASA Produces Rap Video On Astrobiology · · Score: 1

    I knew this would get all the hep-cats to think we're keen!

  5. Re:Children on Popup Study Confirms Most Users Are Idiots · · Score: 1

    That's how I lost my Metroid 3 save file :(

  6. Re:Yahoo! Mail on Email-only Providers? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well..... I AM just a one-person "company". If they are expecting the kind of service from me they receive from an amazon or other major corporation, then maybe I'm not the right fit for that customer.

    Maybe you aren't, but may I suggest not using "Worse customer service than Amazon.com" as your slogan?

  7. Re:sensors... on Homeland Security Department Testing "Pre-Crime" Detector · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Actually, the real purpose is to pull out those kids who are nervous about leaving home for the first time going to college or something. That way they can scare them into not turning into one of those dirty liberal elitist intellectuals that would dare question the authority of the system.

    Because nothing turns a kid into a conservative like a bad run-in with the cops, right?

  8. Re:who is it on Stephen Hawking Unveils "Time Eater" Clock · · Score: 4, Funny

    He's Stephen Hawking's non-union equivalent.

  9. Awesome on Stephen Hawking Unveils "Time Eater" Clock · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That's just awesome. It looks like a grasshopper walking along the top. Lights spiral out from the center, until it reaches the creature, and then it starts again.

    But it says that it doesn't have hands - it has LEDs all around it, which displays the time. I think that's pretty much the same thing, no?

  10. Re:Creative Commons Attribution on Open Source Licenses For Academic Work? · · Score: 1

    But at the same time, if this software, or the algorithm it uses, is important to the methodology that the researchers use, it would almost certainly be mentioned anyways. If it's an otherwise trivial implementation of some common principles, then there's nothing to take credit for.

  11. Re:So? on Activision Goes After Individual Game Pirates · · Score: 2, Funny

    He took the risk to write out a post like that, so he deserves the mod points :P

  12. Re:Here's the deal on Breakthrough In Use of Graphene For Ultracapacitors · · Score: 2, Funny

    We don't seem to have expanded to use all oxygen yet, we don't seem to have used up all the salt water, both are freely available to a great many people.

    We're working on it. :)

  13. Article is a little sparse on Cognitive Radios Could Increase Wireless Spectrum · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Although it seems like a neat idea, in general, the article seems to have the stink of "buzz" around it.

    It's cognitive radio! It adapts, intelligently! If you go somewhere with a weak signal, your radio would get that signal some other way, intelligently! Wait, we mean broadcast towers would change their output and frequency whenever it gets crowded, and this allows things to be more crowded, but not in a bad way! The whole thing adapts, intelligently!

    I would love to see details, instead of vague descriptions about how things might work. Also, who profits, and how?

  14. Re:Just checking... what's the primary anger here? on Scribbling On Digital Photos · · Score: 1

    I don't think there's any conflict in saying "You aren't playing by your own rules, which are stupid in the first place."

  15. Re:Can't wait to see... on NASA Developing Small Nuclear Reactor For the Moon · · Score: 1

    If I may add to that approximately 61 MJ/kg from gravitational potential energy, we have a total of 133 MJ/kg.

  16. Re:We have a system to protect against this on Video Shows Easy Hacking of E-Voting Machines · · Score: 4, Funny

    "The 1790 law remained in effect until the Naturalization Act of 1795 superseded it. The 1795 law removed mention of natural born citizen status"

    So he just barely got in then?

  17. Re:OT: Article submitter links to fascist rhetoric on Why Is the Internet So Infuriatingly Slow? · · Score: 1

    Anti-Globalism and Anti-Fascism face off! This Sunday at 8!

  18. Re:its more about the reality of modern politics on Sarah Palin's Stance On Technology Issues · · Score: 1

    The simple fact is, if she came out and said creationism was bullshit, she'd lose tens of thousands of votes. Actually, likely a lot more if she said it during the presidential election.

    She would lose the vote to whom? That dirty liberal with the terrorist's name?

  19. Re:Hello... Evolution? on Sarah Palin's Stance On Technology Issues · · Score: 1

    What's "moral" or "right" by the lights of one religion may very well be heresy in another.

    That's why I eat a hotdog every Friday.

  20. Re:Multiwave on Which Vendors Do You Trust For PC Parts? · · Score: 1

    I'll second that. Usually I go down the list:

    1. newegg
    2. zipzoomfly
    3. tigerdirect
    4. have the local retailer (Stone Computers) order it
    5. eBay
  21. Re:Science is never objective. on Huge Arctic Ice Shelf Breaks Off · · Score: 1

    Alfred Wegener's theory of plate tectonics, was proposed in 1912, and considered a crackpot theory until 1954 - 24 years after his death.

  22. Re:This is not how you stop riots... on In MN, Massive Police Raids On Suspected Protestors · · Score: 1

    From an interview I watched earlier, the cops arrested a few, didn't book anybody, took a bunch of computers and diaries, and then produced their warrant on their way out.

  23. Re:Oblig. on In MN, Massive Police Raids On Suspected Protestors · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't give him any, he's a mole!

  24. Re:Should have gone to A.B.C.D.E.F.G format. on Level of IPv6 Usage Is Vanishingly Small · · Score: 1

    Half-assed python:

    address="1080:0:0:0:8:800:200C:417A"
    consonants = "bdfghjklmnpstvxwz"
    vowels = "aeiou"
    squibble = ''
     
    # parse the address
    chunks = address.split(':')
    n = len(chunks)
    x = ''
    for i in range(0,n):
            if chunks[i] == '':
                    x += chunks[i].zfill(4*(9-n))
            else:
                    x += chunks[i].zfill(4)
     
    # change to base 10
    x = int(x,16)
     
    # change to base 85 syllables
    while x != 0:
            m = x/85
            r = x - m*85
            x = m
            squibble += vowels[r%5]
            squibble += consonants[r/5]
     
    # string is built backwards, so fix it
    squibble = squibble[::-1]
     
    # print out in pretty groups
    print squibble[0:8] + ' ' + squibble[8:16] + ' ' + \
    squibble[16:24] + ' ' + squibble[24:32] + ' ' + squibble[32:40]

  25. Book Reviewers List on Bottom of the Barrel Book Reviews — The Lost Blogs · · Score: 1

    What is the Book Reviewers List and who do I have to fellate to get on it?