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  1. Re:Thank you slashdot! on YouTube Identifies Birdsong As Copyrighted Music · · Score: 1

    "There is clearly no music in your video" vs 'All content owners have reviewed your video and confirmed their claims to some or all of its content: Entity: rumblefish; Content Type: Musical Composition.'

    That sounds pretty much like an admission of fraud to me

  2. Obviously on Open Letter By Eric S. Raymond To Chris Dodd · · Score: 5, Funny

    ” To understand that, you have to grasp that “the Internet” isn’t just a network of wires and switches"

    Well of course not, as every (ex-) politician knows, it's a series of tubes.

  3. Re:Lies on YouTube Identifies Birdsong As Copyrighted Music · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As soon as it came to our attention today that people were drawing attention to the fact that we had made a mistake.

    Fixed for accuracy.

  4. Re:Profit & Lies on YouTube Identifies Birdsong As Copyrighted Music · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You say that the necessary actions were taken shortly after you became aware of the issue, but how can you reconcile that with the "All content owners have reviewed your video and confirmed their claims to some or all of its content" answer that the video uploader was given when he disputed the takedown notice?

    Either Google are lying about you having responded by confirming that you own the copyright to the birdsong, or you're lying about having reviewed the video.

    Which one is it?

  5. Re:Hmm on How the GOP (and the Tea Party) Helped Kill SOPA · · Score: 1

    Yeah, the problem with government mandated insurance purchases is that it's not single payer government provided health cover, like the rest of the civilised world provides.

    And btw, i'm not an American.

  6. Re:Hmm on How the GOP (and the Tea Party) Helped Kill SOPA · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yeah, you most certainly could change your insurance company.

    Unless, of course, you wanted to change because you were dissatisfied with the way your current provider was dealing with your current condition.

  7. Re:Hmm on How the GOP (and the Tea Party) Helped Kill SOPA · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I love how it's always "because the government knows better than you or your Doctor", but I never see "because the insurance company whose main purpose is to make as much profit as possible knows better than you or your Doctor"

  8. Re:Just one question on Star Wars Uncut Project Complete · · Score: 5, Informative

    Han has much nicer boobs than I remember.

  9. Re:Not so fast... on Tech Forensics Take Center Stage in Manning Pre-Trial · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Having worked in a Army reserve unit in the early 90s in an IT-like capacity, we were told if we were overrun, the ammo depot's records had to be wiped by thermite, not "writing zeros" or whatever. This is public knowledge, read the public TMs. There is probably a very good reason when going up against "the bad guys" you only trust thermite, and going up against internal investigators and auditors, "trust us, writing zeros is good enough"

    Of course, that might have something to do with the fact that zeroing out the hard drives takes a not insignificant amount of time compared with just blowing them up. I've never been in the military myself, but I would hazard a guess that you might be under some time pressures if your base is being overrun by the enemy.

  10. Re:Info Doesn't Add Up on Tech Forensics Take Center Stage in Manning Pre-Trial · · Score: 3, Informative

    Somehow you missed the very next line of the article ....

    All the data that Johnson was able to retrieve from un-allocated space came after that overwrite, he said.

  11. Re:hipaa violation as well? on Judge Orders Man To Delete Revenge Blog · · Score: 1

    I'm just not sure I understand the fundamental difference between "you're not allowed to do this, and if you do it you'll get punished" and "you're allowed to do this, but if you do it you'll get punished"

  12. Re:hipaa violation as well? on Judge Orders Man To Delete Revenge Blog · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You know when I look at the Constitution, I don't find in there any place where it mentions a right to be free from libel. I do, however, find a right to freedom of speech. I have trouble seeing how an enumerated right is trumped by an interpreted right.

  13. Re:hipaa violation as well? on Judge Orders Man To Delete Revenge Blog · · Score: 1

    So, as I asked above, what would your recourse be if I decided it would be a fun idea to cover your local neighbourhood with posters accusing you of raping small children?

  14. Re:hipaa violation as well? on Judge Orders Man To Delete Revenge Blog · · Score: 1

    You know when I look at the Constitution, I don't find in there any place where it mentions a right to be free from harrassment. I do, however, find a right to freedom of speech. I have trouble seeing how an enumerated right is trumped by an interpreted right.

    Presumably you'd have no problem with me plastering your local neighbourhood with posters informing everybody that you're a paedophile?

  15. Re:Still not a problem.... on Million Dollar Crowdturfing Industry Dupes Social Networks · · Score: 3

    a) Median is a form of average
    b) If you're measuring intelligence over a large population, the results aren't all that far from a normal distribution, in which case the mean, median and mode will all be the same number anyway /but yeah, I know how you feel :)

  16. Re:Or just maybe... on Are Power Users Too Cool For Ubuntu Unity? · · Score: 1

    No, that's the Chinese version

  17. Re:Problem on Details About Raspberry Pi Foundation's $25 PC · · Score: 1

    More likely is that the TV makers will look at this and put a chip in the display to make sure that you're properly licensed to be viewing whatever content you're passing to it, and DRM strikes again.

  18. Re:Sounds like a load of Web 2.0 bullshit to me. on Schmidt: G+ 'Identity Service,' Not Social Network · · Score: 2

    The 'nothing to hide' argument is perfectly valid when you're talking about a voluntary service that you have chosen to sign up for, as opposed to the government watching everyone

  19. Re:No sense at all on UK Men Get 4 Years For Trying to Incite Riots Via Facebook · · Score: 1

    'fear prosecution for doing their job after Tomlinson'

    Perhaps you could explain exactly how striking an unarmed man in the back for no reason counts as 'doing his job' for a policeman

    Or are you one of those people who thinks the laws shouldn't apply to police officers?

  20. Re:Hmmm on 8 Grams of Thorium Could Replace Gasoline In Cars · · Score: 1

    We've got several billion years until the sun stops giving us power (and destroys the planet, coincidentally), so for all intents and purposes, solar power is limitless.

    That's not to say it doesn't have other issues, but we're not going to run out of it

  21. Re:would somebody tell me on The London Riots and Facial Recognition Technology · · Score: 2

    Better than that, why not actually go there and see for yourself. Oh wait, I did, and there were plenty of black and asian faces in the sea of people helping to clean up the streets after the rioting.

    Go crawl back under your rock.

  22. Re:If this was in the US... on BBC Crowdsources 3G Coverage Map · · Score: 2

    Except that this is, by its very nature, a tracking app, otherwise there wouldn't be much point in it.

    Opening the source might tell you what data the app collects, but it's not going to tell you what the company that collects it is actually going to do with it.

  23. Re:I did a double-take on Anonymous Creates Its Own Social Network · · Score: 1

    Except that's not actually relevant. Those folks snooped the traffic on a tor exit node, which meant they saw whatever it was that the person on the other end of the tor connection was doing, but it didn't let them work out who that was

  24. Re:Why do we need the gas? on Pentagon Developed 'Laughing Bullets' · · Score: 5, Funny

    Or alternatively

    Wenn ist das Nunstruck git und Slotermeyer? Ja!...
    Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput.

  25. Re:DVD zoning on EU Launches Antitrust Probe Into iTunes · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Unless i'm mistaken, all of the EU falls under the same regional zone as far as DVDs are concerned, and thus they won't fall foul of this law as it only regulates sales within the EU.