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  1. that will only make small space junk, and lots on ISS Could Be Fitted With Lasers To Shoot Down Space Junk · · Score: 1

    to get rid of the slop, you have to net it and destroy it. the Japanese have proposed a craft to net the slop and burn it up on re-entry. that's a PLAN.

  2. solution: both get out of the cable business on Comcast and TWC Will Negotiate With Officials To Save Their Merger · · Score: 1

    by providing free services and dealing with the baboons in cuss-at-tomer "service."

  3. I'll take my millions of dollars in research funds on Scientists Close To Solving the Mystery of Where Dogs Came From · · Score: 2

    right now. I have the answer.

    dogs come from puppies

  4. I will be unable to attend on MIT Celebrates 10 Years of SCIgen Bogus CompSci Paper Generator With New Tool · · Score: 1

    I am unfortunately relegated to a matter of higher truthiness for the duration of the esteemed Congress, and therefore must submit my regrets.

    Phineas T. Barnum, esq.
    Head Clown

  5. it's there, if you search enough on Legislation Would Force Radio Stations To Pay Royalties · · Score: 1

    1) if you play music beyond personal enjoyment, which license is inherent in "buying a record," you need to license the play with ASCAP or BMI as appropriate for the song. scale varies depending on audience size; there are deals for radio stations and web usage.

    2) if you wish to license the songs for playing in your own band for public performance, there is a set rate.

    3) if you would like a custom album or CD for a special occasion, you need to license master usage from the Harry Fox Agency. I thought about it for my wedding music, but looked north of $60 a copy. nope.

    4) if by chance you wanted any artwork used on the original album, you would have to negotiate that with the art owner, typically the record company.

    this is why all the record outfits have "special services" departments. correlate it all, make the package, one stop, one check.

  6. Congresscritter Blithering I.Diot on Legislation Would Force Radio Stations To Pay Royalties · · Score: 1

    since the late 40s, ASCAP has required licenses for airplay, and the broadcasters created their own licensing agency, BMI in the 50s. when I was growing up a broadcast brat, the music director weeded out incoming discs that were not of those two organizations (CAPAC in Canada later reached a deal with ASCAP to collect their royalties), and counted up the needle drops. nickle a drop in those days, it was raised to 7 cents a play in the 70s. stations cut their check every month to the agencies.

    in the past dozen-odd years, BMI in particular has been putting boots on the ground, checking restaurants, coffee shops, doctors offices, whatever to see if they had a reuse license for music. if you had Muzak or 3M service, they walked out. if not, and you didn't have a license, it was mafia time... sign a contract right there, or you're sued. it applies whether you have your own discs or tapes, or are playing the radio.

    recently outfits have been putting up their own music streams across their chains... "Subway radio" "LA Fitness Network" and so on. if the HQs don't have their licenses, as Muzak and 3M arranged, they are up shit crick.

    why this bozo congresscritter didn't do any research of his own... oh that's right, their instructions are in the envelope with the cash... well, he's an idiot.

  7. in Oz, everybody is still considered a criminal on In New Zealand, a Legal Battle Looms Over Streaming TV · · Score: 2

    the new offense is "using the internet."

  8. at TEPCO, they create a better fool hourly on Transforming Robot Gets Stuck In Fukushima Nuclear Reactor · · Score: 1

    'nuff said.

  9. they aren't bright enough to have a pullback cable on Transforming Robot Gets Stuck In Fukushima Nuclear Reactor · · Score: 0

    geez, folks, a 1/16 inch steel wire cable along the umbilical would allow the robot herders to pull the clinker back and see what burned up. instead, the Gang That Can't Think Straight just sends haywire crap in and hopes to beat the odds and the physics. this is also a job for a vidicon, tubes, and light bulbs, not solid-state stuff. or considering the heat, an image dissector.

    50 years from now, these guys will be repeating the same sophomoric mistakes and shrugging their shoulders.

  10. use the response "Fuck, No, Idiots" on Japanese Court Orders Google To Remove Negative Reviews From Google Maps · · Score: 1

    why does some nation's law propogate across the entire Internet? it's time to stop this crap. if they block Google, then Google can block all service from .jp domains. let's see who the loser is.

  11. "Reason" is a publisher of nonsense on Reason: How To Break the Internet (in a Bad Way) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    bad writers paid by bad people to promulgate bad policies to screw almost everybody. that is the billionnaires trying to take back the plantations from the 99%.

    if you read that fishwrap, do exactly the opposite.

  12. how about... American English variant on Ask Slashdot: What Would a Constructed Language Have To Be To Replace English? · · Score: 1

    well-known, widely recognized, drawn from basically every other language so everybody has something to like. and I already know it, so there!

  13. hey, just swipe a wallet on Has the Bitcoin Foundation Run Out of Cash? · · Score: 2

    everybody's doing it...

  14. sounds like Egypt, Turkey, Libya, etc etc on Court Mulls Revealing Secret Government Plan To Cut Cell Phone Service · · Score: 1

    all those tin-star dictator countries where people are fed into the meat grinder if they spit on the sidewalk. dude, shut down my iPhone and I'm throwing my sledgehammer right through your blue-tint screen.

  15. "psychologically" resisting Government pap on Outside Beijing, a Military-style Bootcamp For "Internet Addiction" · · Score: 1

    that's what the Chinese are "protecting their ill citizens" from. the name on the top of the form changes, but it's always "you don't believe our crap, so you are nuts."

  16. Prior Art Exists (tm) on Amazon Moves "Buy Now" Into the Physical World, With the Dash Button · · Score: 0

    I present... the Easy Button from Staples. let the lawsuits begin.

    seriously... think about this... you are doing laundry. you set the 3-year-old inside the washer basket because it keeps the little whirlwind out of the way, she/he cannot fall and get hurt, and besides, you know how messy kids get with chocolate. bored kid looks around, up and down, and hey! -- looky! -- there's a little orange button on the wall that looks like a toy. whack-whack-whack-whack for several minutes until you look up.

    how are you going to return three semi loads of Tide Pods?

    BAD idea.

  17. be weasels, be labelled sneaky. I have no problems with this. the whole security thing needs a serious re-engineering. too many sneaky Petes hiding under the CA mechanism, and too many holes in our other security software systems.

  18. government leaks usually mean on Leak Reveals Government Conspiracy, Atrocity · · Score: 1

    they are trickling down on you. so spray back!

    thank you, thank you, don't forget to tip the waitresses, not the cows. I'll be here 5 to life.

  19. yeah, yeah, send more Chuck Berry on V'Ger Source Code Released · · Score: 1

    but the First Rule is harm no carbon-based life forms.

  20. Choose Different on It's Time To Open Your Eyes · · Score: 1

    I'm going to lean back in my chair and look at my Facebook on the phone, instead. screw the choices.

  21. it's HELIUM, you fools. helium doesn't burn. on World's Largest Aircraft Seeks Investors To Begin Operation · · Score: 1

    unless you use it with hydrogen and a nuclear bomb, then it burns (fuses) real good. like this one I happen to have here....
    afd0awre
    a0as8ufaspd[q43wk
    adi

    \-- modem disconnected

  22. damn punks on Tatooine Youth Suspected In Terrorist Attack · · Score: 5, Funny

    at least we know nobody will be making a movie of this tragedy.

  23. clickbait site. on Corporation Investigates Spurious Signal -- What They Found Will Shock You · · Score: 3, Funny

    ha ha can't fool me, I didn't click.

    oh, wait...

  24. I'll buy my watches from the usual sources on If You Want To Buy an Apple Watch In-Store, You'll Need a Reservation · · Score: 1

    out of a trunk at a drive-in, or just inside a dark alley.

  25. chocolate. dark chocolate. on Ask Slashdot: What Makes Some Code Particularly Good? · · Score: 2

    not to be confused with code that sorta looks like it, but surely doesn't smell like it...