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  1. Re:Copyright haven, eh? on Antigua Looks Closer To Legal "Piracy" of US-Copyrighted Works · · Score: 1

    Also it's not unlimited, but only up to $21 million annually, the extent of the damages. Indeed:

    What I can't figure out is why the likes of the RIAA and the MPAA aren't lobbying to get the US to reverse it position! It's unfathomable that these fearless protectors of copyright who have made a business out of harassing consumers under the banner of defending their members' rights can't see the incredible financial black hole their government has allowed to open and is willfully unwilling to deal with.

    Probably because it's only $21 million annually. The RIAA and MPAA have bigger fish to fry than trying to kick their Congressional protectors in the balls over online gambling for that relative pittance, when they know those same pandering Congressmen rely on the votes of the religious and other busybodies to hamper sinful gambling.

    But it's not $21 million divided by $9.95 CDs. It's $21 million of $9.95 CDs sold at fire sales of 99 cents. Does Slashdot recognize the cent symbol? Let's find out! 99

  2. Or they could do this on Google Updates ReCAPTCHA With Easier CAPTCHAs For Humans · · Score: 2

    1. Google uses analytics and other techniques to find the IP addresses that are "captcha-busters".
    2. Automate their captcha generator to feed into these with honeypot pages to see which ones they can bust.
    3. Assemble lists of ones they cannot.
    4. Profit!

    It's a dynamic, revolving door, but when automated it's great. BTW I wouldn't mind a new job there, hint hint.

  3. Industrial-strength on Google: Our Robot Cars Are Better Drivers Than You · · Score: 1

    'We don't have to rely on eyewitnesses that can't be trusted as to what happened — we actually have the data. The guy around us wasn't paying enough attention. The data will set you free.'"

    That's the only way this is going to work with thousands of predatory, fraudulent lawyers waiting to pounce with clients in cahoots. I would also recommend a video log of forward and rear for the inevitable Russian-like heaving yourself onto the car pretending to be hit.

    It's also a huge concern for household robots that may clean your house someday.

  4. Re:Another EVE online? on Star Citizen's Crowdfunding-Driven Grey Market · · Score: 1

    Star Trek Online failed miserably in my mind because I had to micro-manage the damned shields, "reinforcing" them, all the while mashing other buttons to fire phasers or torpedos as soon as they recycle, can't automate any of that crap. 100% console type design.

    Please tell me this isn't that. God almighty please tell me it isn't that.

  5. Re:Another EVE online? on Star Citizen's Crowdfunding-Driven Grey Market · · Score: 1

    Eve requires you to noin big, mrderous bands to build essentially persistant space cities in fully PvP space.

    While that is fun, it's difficult for autists to make headway by themselves.

    And now there's voting, so not only do you have to worry about seizures through force -- you habe to worry about seizures by way of charasmatics leading voters.

    Waitress, can I get another tallboy? Thanks.

  6. Re:yet the only technology I ever noticed on Computers and Doctor Who · · Score: 1

    Indefinite. The interior of the ship has many bubbles the size of the Death Stars all over the place. It is basically smart matter that can be rearranged by computer at will.

    "Journey to the center of the TARDIS" would take months on foot without shortcuts, which the computer can provide.

    There's a diagram online of its size. It dwarfs the Death Stars in size and power.

  7. Out of the frying pan... on F-Secure's Hypponen: The Internet Is a 'US Colony' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The solution is to bring our own US government back in line with the Constitution, and recognize the spurious nature of arguments about mass and warrantless surveillance.

    Making chunks amenable to foreign countries, with less protections (see arguments about Europe spying being literally 100x more intrusive) is just an insensate knee-jerk reaction: it is useful in practice only to bring pressure to bear against the US government to be more open and restricted.

  8. Re:Hangings on US Executions Threaten Supply of Anaesthetic Used For Surgical Procedures · · Score: 5, Funny

    > Hangings

    And with Europe cutting off rope supplies, this is another good reason to invigorate our domestic hemp production.

  9. Bring it on NSA Monitored Calls of 35 World Leaders · · Score: 1

    > "eavesdropping on the numbers had produced 'little reportable intelligence."

    Of terrorism, of course not. But what's to stop US factions from reporting conversations to favored parties in those countries, of their opposition's activities?

    What's to stop them from doing the same thing in this country? "You're supppsed to get a warrant" is like telling a kid "you're supposed to ask me before sneaking a cookie. I'm going to the store now bye."

    With little to no technological barriers and hundreds of agents with fingertip access, it is almost certainly happening here already -- not just spying on girlfriends. Yet these same people tell you not to worry -- while with the other side of their mouth say you need donation restrictions to stop just the appearance of corruption, mch less actual corruption.

  10. Re:But can you trust xavier2dc? on How I Compiled TrueCrypt For Windows and Matched the Official Binaries · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yah, really.

    Wait! But what if I, myself, am an NSA stooge and don't realize it?

  11. Only cab consortiums! on What If the "Sharing Economy" Organized a Strike, and Nobody Came? · · Score: 1

    The free market (a subset of freedom, and, as China is showing, possibly the single most important one, if measuring increasing lifespans is your primary metric, as all caring folk do) responds to inefficiencies.

    Once again the difference between the concepts of freedom and democracy appears.

    You regularly see politicians talk about the holiness of spreading democracy, and rarely of freedom, because freedom means freedom from them. "Democracy" is just the modern twist where they have an additional vote layer to jump thru before wielding power they shouldn't.

  12. Like this is news? on The Fascinating Science Behind Beer Foam · · Score: 1

    > A cloud of very small daughter bubbles are generated upon these collapses, that expand much faster than their mothers

    Sociologists have long known that mothers who collapse typically have daughters that rapidly expand themselves.

  13. An obvious solution on How Safe Is Cycling? · · Score: 1

    Robot-controlled bikes that do the driving. You just sit back and pedal.

    And it you truly wanna be green, you can get a little gas engine, which is much better for the environment than the food for the additional calories you need, especially if it's "local grown" snotty stuff you drove to a farm to go get.

    Just sit back and be green and safe and smugly cool at the same time!

  14. Softly now on Blackberry BBM App and Suspicious Google Play Ratings · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of the negative review wars, too. Antivirus reviews frequently exclaim it installs virus, even of legitimate products.

    This on top of normal reviews where people are more likely to go bitch over minor problems than praise -- the one in a thousand guy wins.

  15. Re:Can be intellectual property next? on MEPs Vote To Suspend Data Sharing With US · · Score: 1

    I don't think that phrase means what you think it means. The right of freedom of apeech and the right to speak privately have nothing to do with artificial property rights created to provide invention incentive by restricting copying.

  16. Re:I want my games to have all the pixels! on 4K Ultra HD Likely To Repeat the Failure of 3D Television · · Score: 1

    It was HDTV that made 1080 monitors be suddenly mass-produced, causing that to be the new default for computer monitors. You could still get the bigger ones, it jist cost a lot more because they weren't being popcorned.

    My main monitor is still a 1900x1200 from this era. It was a floor model and the salesman said 1900x1200s was discontinued.

  17. Re:Why should not the loser always pay? on Finally, a Bill To End Patent Trolling · · Score: 1

    Hopefully the judges woll be able to see the difference between a troll who loses and a real, small inventor who loses.

    Mostly these cases are about spuriously-granted patents, though. Does this help that?

  18. Go for broke on Rental Business Aaron's Admits Role In Spying On Customers · · Score: 1

    Finance-charge heavy rent-to-own place that used spy techniques to get "images of private intimate moments"?

    Looks like they figuratively have your balls in their hand two ways.

  19. Re:I may be missing something, but... on Knight Capital Fined $12M For a Software Bug That Cost $460M · · Score: 1

    If the accident was due to you being sloppy with maintenance, the punishment should be less than if you delinberately ran someone down.

    If you lost your car, destroyed $460 million of someone's fence, and already paid to repair it, is more than a ticket warranted?

  20. Re:Massive US land grab on First New Top-Level Domains Added To the Root Zone · · Score: 0

    Given these 3 new languages are 90% covering dictatorships, I'm fine with the US controlling them.

    The only thing worse than the US, as far as land grabs and world domination goes, are Russia, China, and almost everywhere they speak Arabic.

    Go ahead, fap. You know you want to.

  21. Re:lobbying is bullshit on Google Leads Among Consumer Tech Companies Lobbying Congress · · Score: 2

    > Lobbying should be outlawed, because it's doesn't fairly represent the people

    Oh silly, young little one.

    The purpose of power is to get yourself in the way of people who want to get business done, so they will pay you to get back out of the way.

    "For the people" is fraudulent hot air designed, meme-style, to get you behind those who seize power, so they can get in the way of your businessmen betters, to get the businessmen to pay them to get back out of the way.

    This parsimonious explanation needs no additional entities to provide a complete description of political reality.

  22. Re:45 years ago... on 5-Year Mission Continues After 45-Year Hiatus · · Score: 5, Funny

    I miss Richard Nixon, too.

  23. Re:I think... on First Experimental Evidence That Time Is an Emergent Quantum Phenomenon · · Score: 1

    Computational theory shows time must exist. Thereare certain complexities that simply cannot just appear -- there is no sbort-circuit calculation significantly better than try all possibilities. This requires a computational model with at least a finite number of steps per a finite unit of time.

    You simply cannot get to the answer by any short-circuit formula or calculation. A universe without time would have to perform such a calculation via magic. Which would be an interesting implication.

    Anyway, such devices can and are constructed and run on such problems, and solutions achieved. Ergo time, the substrate for this computational model, must exist.

    Someone go formalize that and write up a paper with me as lead. Make sure you misspell my name right.

  24. > "'Was Huma Abedin wearing beer goggles the night she met Anthony Weiner,' he tweeted"

    Good question. I assume they were both building their political careers. Easy for him to fall in love with her, but her? His level is more Honey Boo Boo's mom.

  25. Re:First Post! on First Experimental Evidence That Time Is an Emergent Quantum Phenomenon · · Score: 1

    What a tiny, weak god is your god!