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  1. Re:If this can happen ... on Site Copies Content and Uses the DMCA to Take Down the Original Articles · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Detroit had a rash of fake cop cars pulling people over and robbing them. At one point they just said if a cop wants to pull you over, drive to a police station.

    So is the penalty for fraudulently making a DMCA claim essentially zero? Atheists on YouTube get harrassed when religious people lie that they own the atheist's videos, then any response requires paperwork saying the atheist's real name and address, which is what some of these angey, murderous people are looking for. No legal penalties for such lies?

  2. Re:Been saying that...Wrong, Simply Wrong. on Economists Argue Patent System Should Be Abolished · · Score: 2

    History does not warant a government-only solution. Indeed, it strongly suggests against it.

    Typed from a smart phone that probably wouldn't exist even 75 years from now if left up to government.

  3. Re:I get the impression that on Python Gets a Big Data Boost From DARPA · · Score: 0

    Python, the indent-based, block-structured language? I have about 6 months experience with it, I guess it's not enough to see the advantage of it qua-number crunching syntax.

    Oh well, it's just 0.75% of one day's borrowing.

  4. Re:It is Psychology, Science! Fact! on Paper On Conspiratorial Thinking Invokes Conspiratorial Thinking · · Score: 1, Interesting

    In the late '60s, it was predicted that ecology, as the study of the environment was then called, would be latched onto by the far left who, being denied more and more detailed economic control, would readily jump on an alternate rationale for control.

    Well, look at that. There is a difference between science and what politics wants to use it for, even if the science is accurate.

  5. Re:So, do something on Software That Flagged HBO.com For Piracy Will Power U.S. 'Six Strikes' System · · Score: 1

    How about if these automated trolls incorrectly flag people six times, which is under penalty of perjury, they, i.e. their owners, go to jail?

  6. Re:Demands to be asked. on Ask Dr. Robert Bakker About Dinosaurs and Merging Science and Religion · · Score: 1

    Why is Raptor Jesus "off topic"? The man is a world-class dinosaur scientist, and Christian minister to boot. You'd be hard pressed to find anybody on the surface of the Earth better qualified to discuss it.

  7. Re:Privacy And Sin on HR Departments Tell Equifax Your Entire Salary History · · Score: 1, Troll

    This is modded +5, but any defense would be molded -1 troll. Thus does your online tribal moral society shut down debate, giving you an even more false sense of security in your positions.

    I could grant you every last thing you said, and we're still spending well over 2x what we need. Also, your laws mentioned, every one of which you claim has rational basis, could net produce enough slowdown in the economy that people are harmed over a faster-moving one.

    This doesn't enter into your calculus. You can't give out fast, cheap wi fi for free until trillions have been invested in private tech development.

  8. Re:Other software does the same thing... on Piriform Asks BleachBit To Remove Winapp2.ini Importer · · Score: 1

    So no patent or copyroght on the format or importation process. Only thing left is the winapp people are scraping the professional product's database. €So clarification would be useful. Hey, I typed Euro degrees on my clumsy smartphone keyboard.

  9. Re:Who knows, I'm not a lawyer... on Piriform Asks BleachBit To Remove Winapp2.ini Importer · · Score: 3, Informative

    From the "community" web site:

    What is Winapp2.com?
    Winapp2.com is the official website of Winapp2.ini, an addon for CCleaner, System Ninja, and
    BleachBit
    that adds support for over one thousand additional programs. For more information about the project, its authors, and the website, click on About in the site navigation.

  10. Re:Are we all supposed to know what Airbnb is? on Amsterdam Using Airbnb Listings To Identify Illegal Hotels · · Score: 1

    4-year waiting list

  11. Re:Are we all supposed to know what Airbnb is? on Amsterdam Using Airbnb Listings To Identify Illegal Hotels · · Score: 1

    Rent control leads to shortage, news at 11.

    I moved to the Netherlands for a contract 20 years ago. They had a 4-waiting list for apartments. Fortunately they had some set aside at higher price just for people like me who couldn't wait (or afford a hotel for a year and a half, note effectively a higher rent too).

  12. Re:Dont need to reduce overall traffic on Why Australian Telco's Plan To Shape BitTorrent Traffic Won't Work · · Score: 2

    Bittorrent is designed as a slow backgroung grind, distributing things. That it works fast, kind of, sometimes, is due to mighty infrastructure investment. IF you really NEED that movie in half an hour that damned bad, go to Best Buy or a Red Box.

  13. Latest but not greatest on Wireless Carriers Put On Notice About Providing Regular Android Security Updates · · Score: 1

    "Hardware vendors must make a unique version for each device and they have scarce resources."

    Google, Samsung, and Verizon have scarce resources? Are earning little from this? Bitch, please x2

  14. Re:Last name is black on Racism In Online Ad Targeting · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    As a kid, my dad rear-ended a black guy named Green, which was also the color of his van. I was 5. Never did find the toy that flew out of my hand.

  15. Re:Is the Censorship free too? on FCC Proposal Would Cover the US With Public Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Why is this a troll? With government control comes regulation at the behest of power-hungry politicians leading people on cruscades.

    Mandatory online IDs will follow, with tracking of everything you do, and not for something relatively harmless like selling your habits to advertisers.

  16. I want LISP!!! on Gnome Goes JavaScript · · Score: 0

    What's with the perverse fetish with Java on all these platforms? What freaking difference does it make? Everything runs on a virtual processor of a JRE, I suppose. :(

  17. Re:Why? on DNA Confirms Parking Lot Remains Belong To King Richard III · · Score: 2

    He didn't have a withered arm. He made guests touch his "funny arm", which back then was referred to as the whither arm.

  18. Re:Economy is not a science. on Australian Economists Predictions No Better Than Flipping a Coin · · Score: -1, Troll

    Your underpants stains are showing.

    They're trying to predict weather. Climate in economics is much more predictable -- there is a strong correlation between economic freedom and wellbeing of the average citizen. Goobers like you don't realize that a "safety net" serves to take the rough edges off this economic powerhouse, instead fancying it is the only thing good that's going on.

    If you were actually interested in statistically solid and demonstrated economic models instead of fantasy worlds in your mind that "work" the same way 2 + 2 = 7 works in the mind of a young child, instead of looking at the normal, i.e. failboat east-west political axis, you would at least look at the highly predictive axis of economic freedom, with good protection of property rights on one end and lack of protection, be it from anarchy or warlord or mafia or out of control socoalism on the other.

    You believe in a religion, sir. This is why it seems magical and unpredictable to you. I've described the formula, the theory, which successfully makes predictions as to wellbeing and advancement.

    I further predict you will ignore it. That's two
    successful predictions about you and your economic religion.
     

  19. "Stylish" primates don't do well in Iran anyway. on Iranian Space Official: Photo Shows Wrong Monkey · · Score: 1

    I doubt they even sent a monkey up at all. If he knew what was good for him, he'd have scrammed.

    I knew it!

  20. Re:Offer them a percentage of profit? on Ask Slashdot: What To Do About Patent Trolls Seeking Wi-fi License Fees? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This assumes the troll is being honest.

    They could be building a case for attacking deep pockets later by assembling a history of knocking off a bunch of little guys first.

  21. Re:People are generally good on Virtual Superpowers Translate To Real Life Desire To Help · · Score: 1

    Yes, people are generally good and desire to help.

    However, the cancellation of City of Heroes just fills me with desire to hurt.

  22. Taylor likes me too much to bitch, too. on Virtual Superpowers Translate To Real Life Desire To Help · · Score: 1

    "The results have researchers wondering if our brains might react to the memory of a virtual experience as though it had really happened."

    Fuck off. I distinctly recall fucking about 2/3 the women in Hollywood over the years.

  23. Re:Simply put... No. on Missile Defense's Real Enemy: Math · · Score: 1

    Thanks. It is for that idiot to contemplate before shooting.

    Religious insanity is for the commoner, the yokel, the True Believer, the Useful Idiot, to get them behind various Dear Leaders.

    Dear Leaders are in it for the money and power, not because they drip with religious fervor. They will not shoot where a religious goober would.

  24. Re:tangent on Missile Defense's Real Enemy: Math · · Score: 1

    ...and less.

    > "Simply put: does math win?"

    Does our enemy really want to get into an all-out war vs. the US' productivity?

  25. Re:iterative innovation on Are There Any Real Inventors Left? · · Score: 1

    Internet was just incremental over already-existing networks.

    GPS was same over existing Earth-based things like LORAN for ships.

    The closest new invention would be the Segway tech, built by the same company for stairs-climbing wheelchairs.