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  1. Re:Competition? Who'd a thunk. on EU Court Rules Against Exclusive TV Licensing Deal · · Score: 1

    Bits and bytes are not durable either but they sell them, too.

  2. Re:NoScript might save FireFox on NoScript For Android Devices Released · · Score: 1

    What version are at now? (I'm at 3.6.??)

    Do you run any of the following?:
    -Nuke Anything Enhanced
    -Password Exporter or Fubu
    -Secure login
    -unMHT (or equiv)
    -BetterPrivacy (super-cookie safeguard)

  3. NoScript might save FireFox on NoScript For Android Devices Released · · Score: 1

    With FF devs alienating their user base on the desktop side, the mobile version might have a chance to stick around if extensions don't break the same way.

  4. Re:When they Ask, Where were you. on NASA Charters Flights Aboard Virgin's SpaceShipTwo · · Score: 1

    Money money money money, MONEY

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sVUvpdT-NY

  5. Re:Corruption at the highest level on US Copyright Czar Cozied Up To Content Industry · · Score: 2

    GREED:
    Governments and Rich people Exploiting Everyone to Death

  6. Re:This is nuts on VeriSign Wants Ability To Suspend Domains Without Court Order · · Score: 1

    That's where Social engineering comes in.
    The same system that decides which DNSname belongs to which IP will have to Tamper/Troll proof.
    -What happens when a Name changes hands?
    -What happens when Judge decides to show the world he knows nothing about the DNS system to please the Rich/Gov?
    That's the the fun part.

    Gee, I just proved your point!

  7. Re:This is nuts on VeriSign Wants Ability To Suspend Domains Without Court Order · · Score: 1

    The protocol between DNS servers would have to be changed in a P2P DNS system.

    The protocol between DNS Server and clients would not have to change at the onset. Only once Corps and Govs decide to go MAFIAA on the new DNS system will the Client/Server protocol need to go Encrypted/Obfuscated. /RANT
    My grand-children will not believe me when I'll tell them that DNS requests and answers used to be plain text and handled by a monopoly.

  8. Re:Hollywood accounting on EU Parliament Group Opposes Long Copyrights and Oppressive DRM · · Score: 2

    With Hollywood accounting, all movies are failures on paper.
    http://www.google.ca/search?q=star+wars+david+prowse+profit

  9. Re:A necessity? on FCC Wants To Shift Phone Subsidy Funds To Broadband · · Score: 2

    They don't cut your electricity when you burn DVD copies.

    If all billing goes electronic and they cut your internet (to support a failing business model) then you cannot pay or even SEE your bills.
    Bill collectors cannot even call you on your VOIP phone line.

  10. This is like GM removing the spare in trunk on Microsoft Killed the Start Menu Because No One Uses It · · Score: 5, Insightful

    When you can't figure out the easy way to launch stuff, look in the Start Menu.

    This is change for change's sake.

  11. Re:how dare they! on Belgian ISP Ordered to Block The Pirate Bay; Telecomix and TPB Offer Workarounds · · Score: 2

    The problem is that Copyrights are meant to be temporary.
    DMCA/ACTA/DRM is being used to circumvent the temporary aspect.

    Life + 70/90 years + future extensions make public domain a thing of the past.

  12. Re:50,000 a day? on So Far, More Than 50,000 Kindle Fire Pre-Orders Per Day · · Score: 2

    Hence the 'If".

    Nobody has cracked one open.
    If the chip is there, Amazon might have it just turned off.
    Time will tell.

  13. Re:No on China's Alibaba Interested In Buying Yahoo · · Score: 1

    Nothing a few bribes or lobbyists won't fix.

    If the RIAA/MPAA have proven anything, The US government is for sale to the highest bidder.

    The "Occupy Wall Street" thing might change things but only if they go totally "muslim spring".

  14. Re:50,000 a day? on So Far, More Than 50,000 Kindle Fire Pre-Orders Per Day · · Score: 1

    If it has a IMEI number, this will be hacked within months.

  15. Re:One Wish on Sony Ericsson Helps Out FreeXperia Developers · · Score: 0

    Once the racist got him beer, mixed race man who saw all this picks up the lamp. "I WILL GRANT YOU ONE WISH" says the genie. The man says: "I want these racists bigots to see what they despised the most when they see other racists like themselves." Then all the bigots, closet KKK members and racists turned on themselves thinking each other was black, Hispanic or Jewish.

  16. Re:Good for them on China Launches Space Station Laboratory Module · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The states had the money, too.
    But they just spent it on more important things:
    -Liberating oil in Irak.
    -Molesting the terrorists out of our shorts.
    -Covering rich people for bad bets in the stock market

  17. Re:Makes sense to me... on FBI Leaves Cleared Names On Terrorist Watch List · · Score: 1

    This makes senses since the USA has nothing but Good Guys(tm) running the government. Therefore the list is perfect and is never used to punish people that pissed off people in power or money.

  18. IOW: used to harass people on FBI Leaves Cleared Names On Terrorist Watch List · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This just confirms the fears of such a list at the time it was created.

    We have a police state.

    If you don't have a badge, you have no rights.

  19. Re:Yes, we get it on Mozilla Foundation Releases Firefox 7 · · Score: 1

    The problem is that the new FF versioning is scaring any corp or user that want stability/predictability. The new FF look and feel experimental. See the market share trending down (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Usage_share_of_web_browsers_%28Source_StatCounter%29.svg)

    We know that corps are not your target or concern but I as a user like to wait a few months when a new major version of ANYTHING comes out. The bugs are worked out by version x.01 and the plugins that don't use Add-on SDK (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/developers/docs/sdk/1.0/) that matter are fixed.

    Many sites (e.g.: Banks) like to test browsers and block out known bad versions or unknown version. And this is when FF gets fsk'd.

    At the rate FF is going, FF3.6.x will become the lowest common denominator. And that's were I am b/c I know it works.

    Once the main addons start going away, I will follow the addons. Not FF.

  20. Re:Huh? I'm on Firefox v3.6.20 on Mozilla Foundation Releases Firefox 7 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    At least banks will let you use their web site because 3.6.x is tested.

    v4 to Infinity? not so much.

  21. Re:contradiction per se on The NSA Wants Its Own Smartphone · · Score: 2

    schizophrenic ? No.

    Hypocrite? YES

  22. Re:He's Right on Verizon Chief Defends AT&T-T-Mobile Merger · · Score: 1

    Then the industry will have to be regulated, Again.

  23. Re:Don't hate the player, hate the game on Samsung Plans To Block the iPhone 5 In Korea · · Score: 1

    It won't happen until this Imaginary Property theatre goes on entertainment news shows

    Nobody watches/reads the news. It's all the same filtered stuff.
    And anybody who wants real news has to surf for it b/c it's censored.

  24. Re:Microsoft on Windows 8 Won't Support Plug-Ins; the End of Flash? · · Score: 1

    RE: we don't want the flash ads

    No problem!
    We'll just have HTML5 ads, instead.
    And there is no such thing as a HTML5 blocker.

  25. Re:USPTO on Two Rambus Patents Invalidated By USPTO · · Score: 1

    But that would also kill USPTO's main profit center.