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  1. Bull hockey on Tech Companies Set To Appeal 2012 Oracle Vs. Google Ruling · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Copyright covers creative expressions, not functionality. If I write code identical to yours given only a description of what the code should do, the code is not creative enough for copyright.

  2. Re: follow the money on NYT: Healthcare.gov Project Chaos Due Partly To Unorthodox Database Choice · · Score: 1

    We have a winner! No, really, it makes so much sense now!

  3. Roll your own on Tor Now Comes In a Box · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Wireless Tor AP built with a Raspberry Pi: http://learn.adafruit.com/onion-pi/overview

  4. Re:so tell me again... on Microsoft, Apple and Others Launch Huge Patent Strike at Android · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No, I'd prefer an intelligent discourse of experts, perhaps moderated by a competent paralegal with years of experience researching such things.

    PJ, this post is for you. We NEED you. Please reconsider.

  5. Re:Does the order matter? on Ministry of Sound Suing Spotify Over User Playlists · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well, the recent Google/Oracle case pretty much decided that "Structure, sequence, and organization" is not a copyrightable element of Java. Why would it be copyrightable in this case?

  6. Re:This is why my car is airgapped on Hackers Reveal Nasty New Car Attacks · · Score: 2

    OF COURSE if you give real-time access to the OBD-II port, you can have all kinds of shenanigans. So don't do that!

    How many people would notice an ODB-II Bluetooth adapter plugged into the port? http://www.amazon.com/Soliport-Bluetooth-OBDII-Diagnostic-Scanner/dp/B004KL0I9I

  7. Re:A fleeting moment of rich irony. on Discovering NSA Code Names Via LinkedIn · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Submitted earlier with a better headline. (sigh)

    No, the gotcha is not revealing project code names. Why post code names if the names are secret? The gotcha is...(ahem)

    REVEALING THE NAMES OF ANALYSTS WITH ACCESS TO TOP SECRET PROJECTS!

  8. Re:Well they COULD put a backdoor in some OSS... on NSA Backdoors In Open Source and Open Standards: What Are the Odds? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Reflections on Trusting Trust (PDF alert). Required reading for anyone with interest on that very topic. Written by Ken Thompson, in fact.

  9. Re:Good for the economy. on Use Tor, Get Targeted By the NSA · · Score: 1

    "Just keep in mind that a government at 1990's prices would provide half the defense and services that it did in the 1990's due to 20 years worth of inflation."

    And if you reduced US defense budgets to 25% of current, you still be spending more than the next largest spender (China). But don't take my word for it.

  10. Re:Bitcoin mining is not capital gains on BitCoin Mining, Other Virtual Activity Taxable Under US Law · · Score: 2

    But it's not an asset until it's sold. Until then, it's a number with no intrinsic value. Now if you BOUGHT BitCoins instead of mine them, it would be capital gains when you sold them.

  11. Re:Troubling signal, why? on Facebook Shares Retreat Below IPO Price · · Score: 4, Insightful

    >Facebook is not a company known for it's good faith or concern for their customers.

    Wait now. If you are a Facebook user and you don't pay them anything, you're NOT the customer, you're the product!

  12. Damage is already done on Univ. of Florida Announces Plan To Save CS Department · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why would you even consider getting a CS degree here now?

  13. Re:Not about copyright on Magician Suing For Copyright Over Magic Trick · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you would like to understand WTF you are talking about. A performance is not copyrightable, as it has not been fixed upon tangible media. A script? Yes. A film? Absolutely. But not a performance.

  14. Re:Very sad on Magician Suing For Copyright Over Magic Trick · · Score: 1

    Not quite. If you do not publish, you have nothing to copy. Copyright is, literally, the right to copy.

  15. Re:Vegas huh? on Magician Suing For Copyright Over Magic Trick · · Score: 1

    Um, could you please point to the tangible media to which the copyrighted work is fixed?

    (TL;DR: Magic tricks are not copyrightable material.)

  16. Re:Everyone ignores Commodore on Jack Tramiel, Founder of Commodore Business Machines, Dies At Age 83 · · Score: 2

    Yup, that was David Small's "Magic Sac". You had to find your own Mac ROMs, though.

    How about PC-Ditto, a daughter card with a NEC V20 processor on it so your ST could be a PC as well.

    Yes, my Atari 1040ST was a Mac and a PC. And the Atarti ST wasn't too shabby either.

  17. Re:The crux of the matter on Major Textbook Publishers Sue Open-Education Textbook Start-Up · · Score: 2

    "Analysis" sounds like someone's ideas. Ideas are not copyrightable, only expressions of ideas.

  18. Re:Boo hoo for the dinosaurs on Major Textbook Publishers Sue Open-Education Textbook Start-Up · · Score: 1

    More specifically, you cannot be guilty of copyright infringement without having copied anything.

  19. Re:Serious addicts who "decide to use" it? on Vaccine Could Cut Heroin Addiction · · Score: 1

    Read the Wiki link. I'm sure the forced sterilizations of the early to mid 20th century were "safe". Didn't make them right.

  20. Re:Serious addicts who "decide to use" it? on Vaccine Could Cut Heroin Addiction · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Since you have no problem with violating human rights, why not just kill addicts? Perhaps eugenics is your thing.

  21. Re:Norton Disk Doctor on Ask Slashdot: Recovering Data From 20-Year-Old Diskettes? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Somewhat better than Norton is Spinrite. Remember Steve Gibson's hard disk utility? The one that could recover "unrecoverable" errors? Works on floppies too.

  22. Re:Ethernet, the early days on The History of Ethernet · · Score: 1

    This is the best "back in my day" story I've read here in years! ;p

  23. Re:Waht should Sony do? on Ask Slashdot: How Should Sony Compensate PSN Users? · · Score: 1

    0/10: Troll FAIL.

  24. Does it matter? on Google Engineers Deny Hack Exploited Chrome · · Score: 1

    If it shipped in Chrome, it's code Google distributed. Google-pwn.

  25. Re:Yeah right on FSF Suggests That Google Free Gmail Javascript · · Score: 1

    Yeah, try parsing the Javascript Google shoves down, then reconsider the issue. While I'm sure one could de-obfuscate it, that they obfuscate it to begin with is a problem. "Do No Evil" my ass. Secrets imply deception.