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  1. This is anymal cruelty on Demand for Kopi Luwak May Be Threatening Wildlife · · Score: 0

    Never mind that this is gross.

    Trapping and force-feeding something that the animal would not normally eat is just wrong.

  2. Re:Age old "issue" on "Micro-Gig" Sites Undermining Workers Rights? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You cannot watch the car repair guy do the work to see if he is goofing off or taking a dump. You cannot have a legal way of automating this either.

    Oh, you are a computer programmer. Install this big-brother app as terms of your employment contract and THEN we'll pay you.
    BTW: If the camera can't see your eyes while the keyboard is being used, you don't get paid.

    1984 has arrived!

  3. Re:The more frivilous applications you make... on Study Suggests Patent Office Lowered Standards To Cope With Backlog · · Score: 1

    Until you can sue the USPTO for granting a bad patent, this will never change.

  4. Re:Was USPTO sleeping? on Uniloc Patent Case Against Rackspace Tossed for Bogus Patents · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Because it needs the cash and it has never been sued for approving a bad patent.

    I hope Unilock sues the USPTO. Regardless of the outcome it might fix things.

  5. Meanwhile it's a waste product of a LFTR reactor. on NASA Restarts Plutonium Production · · Score: 1

    https://www.google.ca/search?q=lftr+Plutonium-238

    But US laws exists to prevent developing the technology created in the 70s in the US.

  6. Re:Temporary Rights Permanent Rights on European Human Rights Court Rejects Pirate Bay Founders' Appeal · · Score: 1

    but Copyrights are: Life of the author + 70 years in the US.

    Therefore, by enforcement of the World Police (tm), this is law everywhere!

    Corporate profits must flow exponentially, at all costs and forever.

  7. They want it both ways on Apple and Amazon Flirt With a Market For Used Digital Items · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They say own it now which implies resale is allowed.
    If you try (like on Ebay with Windows CDs) you get told no, it's licenced only. you do NOT own it.

    So if it's licensed, you should have access to replacement media when you trash your disc.
    If you try they tell you go buy a new copy like the others.

    They want it both ways
    and terms of life + 70 years is not long enough.

  8. Re:Uninstall on Oracle Rushes Emergency Java Update To Patch McRAT Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1

    The don't use Open Office.
    Use LibreOffice instead. (https://www.libreoffice.org/)

    You don't need Java to install or to run it UNLESS you use BASE.

  9. Re:Confused on White House Urges Reversal of Ban On Cell-Phone Unlocking · · Score: 1

    Yes, right after he regulates Hemp.

  10. Re:original assignee.. on New Bill Would Require Patent Trolls To Pay Defendants' Attorneys · · Score: 1

    Not your problem since it is sold.

    It's the Troll's problem.

  11. Re:Long live TPB on Pirate Bay Shifts Connections From Sweden To Ease Heat on Pirate Party · · Score: 1

    You forget, for copyrights:

    Time = Infinite

  12. Re:Would be the same in the US on Windows 7 Still Being Sold On Up To 93% of British PCs · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Of course Microsoft is listening.

    They know that they can make regular people buy 2 OS' for each laptop. What else are lemmings to do? Install Linux? (Maybe in 2015 after Linux gaming takes off.)

    It's like corporations buying PCs with OEM windows installed and then get wiped to install their Corporate image using another license. So each PC uses 2 licenses: OEM (non-transferable) and Corporate.

    It's win-win times 2 for Microsoft. They can abuse their customers and still roll in it. They have a monopoly.

  13. Re:Define 'everyone' on Oracle Open Sourcing JavaFX, Including iOS and Android Ports · · Score: 0

    Java's technical merits are moot.

    Oracle's has tarnish Java's good name.
    Between the cross-platform exploits, Oracle's lack of eagerness to plug them until recently, and their attempts to monetize anything Open-Source from Sun that had no-strings-attached, people are running away from Java.

    E.g. People don't want to touch LibreOffice because it has ONE dependency on Java in its BASE application.

  14. Harper wants a police state like the US has. on Canadian Internet Surveillance Bill Could Come Back In New Form · · Score: 2

    Why else would you want no court oversight?

    After the G8/G20 secret laws being enforced, you have to wonder:

    What the fsck are they doing on parliament hill?

  15. Re:Where's the accountability? on Fox News: US Solar Energy Investment Less Than Germany Because US Has Less Sun · · Score: 1

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axU9ngbTxKw

    With this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axU9ngbTxKw it became official that it's not illegal to report false news in the US. Since then ALL news reporters don't give a fsk to be 100% sure of their facts.

    Since then, Fox has been operating on the the corollary:
    " It is *legal* to make up news in the US. "

    If normal people tried to do the same, they'd call it slander.

  16. Re:MS Office mewlers and shills, queue here! on LibreOffice 4 Released · · Score: 1

    The resulting code base is rather different from the original one, as several million lines of code have been added and removed, by adding new features, solving bugs and regressions, adopting state of the art C++ constructs, replacing tools, getting rid of deprecated methods and obsoleted libraries, and translating twenty five thousand lines of comments from German to English.

    RTFA

  17. Re:Why this dilution? on LibreOffice 4 Released · · Score: 5, Informative

    Oracle tossed OpenOffice to the Apache Foundation after LibreOffice took-off in terms of features, bugfixes and mind-share.

    OpenOffice is about 2 years behind thanks to Oracle.

  18. Re:Like policians care on $616.57 Three Strikes Verdict Cost RIANZ $250,000 · · Score: 1

    Nothing a few "contributions" wont fix.

  19. The reason why journalists are useless on Prosecution of Swartz Typical for the "Sick Culture" Pervading the DOJ · · Score: 1

    The reason why journalists are useless is because of this:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axU9ngbTxKw

    Since this case, ALL news reporters don't give a fsk.
    All because it's not illegal to report false news in the US.
    (it is in Canada, BTW. That's why Fox News North got canned!)

    The problem now is that they are operating on the the corollary:
    " It is *legal* to make up news in the US. "

    Joe six-pack is too busy looking at dashian tatas on TV.
    The elite love it because it gives them a license to print propaganda under the pretext of "news".

    If normal people tried to do the same, they'd call it slander.

  20. Re:Isn't banning unlocking anti-competitive ? on What You Need To Know About Phone Unlocking · · Score: -1, Troll

    land of the free is only applicable if:

    -You can afford it (Laws, Lawyers, Bribes, Politicians, regulators, etc.)
    -you have connections or material to blackmail with
    -You are not Islamist and preferably Christian (Sic) (Atheist may not be good enough)

  21. It's all about liability on Edward Tufte's Defense of Aaron Swartz and the "Marvelously Different" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    *IF* something would happen, OMG, someone could sue us!

    Today, they find ways to make you regret you were even born.

    So what's left to blow steam?
    Doing bad things because that's all there is left.

    You can't sneak into a flooded quarry to swim that's on private property.
    You can't jump your bike into a river for fun.
    OMG, someone could sue...

  22. Re:Reminds me of a cartoon on Soot Is Warming the World — a Lot · · Score: 1

    Sell it this way:

    If you want to keep your private island from sinking in the ocean, stop the planet from warming up.

    It doesn't matter how the planet is warming up.
    If we know we can prevent some or most of the damage by not use using dirty combustion methods,
    Why wouldn't we?

  23. Re:There's no time for reason... on Why Scientists Should Have a Greater Voice On Global Security · · Score: 1

    And there you have it.

    Scientists do not pay politicians. (Above or under the table)
    Crooked people do.

    So why should a politician listen to a scientist for free?

  24. Re:Apophis larger than we thought on Asteroid Apophis Just Got Bigger · · Score: 1

    especially in the beginning.
    1st season sucked until it became OK by the end
    then by the middle of the 2nd season it got really good.

    Then the ghost/wrestling channel didn't renew it.

  25. Re:If they are smart... on Adobe's Strange Software Giveaway: Goof, Or Clever Marketing? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Activation servers only come into play with CS4 and above.