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  1. Re:With any luck on Mass Piracy Lawsuits Come To Australia · · Score: 1

    Hopefully everyone with access to an email account has been given the warning about giving money to people making wild claims.. but if not, tell your mother.

  2. Re:With any luck on Mass Piracy Lawsuits Come To Australia · · Score: 1

    It doesn't cost anything to ignore toothless threats.

  3. Re:what!? on Bethesda's 'Scrolls' Lawsuit Going Ahead · · Score: 1

    It's blatant trademark infringement.. why do you think Notch is adding all the RPG adventure elements to the game before calling it "Scrolls". The only people who can't see this are the same idiots who think he's a good programmer.

  4. Re:Slippery slope? on Global Mall Operator Starts Reading License Plates · · Score: 2

    protest

    People keep using this word.. I'm pretty sure it doesn't mean what they think it means.

    You can petition your government for grievances.. you can take your grievances with Woolworths and shove 'em where the sun don't shine. Ya know, we tried to give you a word that means what you want.. "boycott", but that actually requires you to go without and that's not what you want is it? You just want to whine and throw tantrums when you don't get your way.

  5. Re:No surprise on How the Webb Space Telescope Got So Expensive · · Score: 1

    See the previous Slashdot story. GRAIL is an example of a program that should be rewarded while JWST is an example of program that should be cancelled. But in the bazarro world of NASA, programs that come in under budget on development get cut in operations to pay for the programs that are struggling in development. From each according to their ability, to each according to their need.

  6. Re:Sounds like a load of Web 2.0 bullshit to me. on Schmidt: G+ 'Identity Service,' Not Social Network · · Score: 1

    Other services which are also free? Anyone who allows you free access to a service has the right to remove that access at any time, or change the terms, or *gasp* start charging you money. If you don't like it, you don't have to continue using the service. A "bait and switch" requires that you *actually part with some money* first, otherwise you have no standing.

  7. Re:Those Kids in the Garage on Schmidt: G+ 'Identity Service,' Not Social Network · · Score: 1

    Only if they start their business in the US.

    And who'd be stupid enough to do that?

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

    There's nothing hamfisted about it.. people just don't understand that they have no right to demand Google make their products the way *they* want them to be. You don't pay them.. they don't owe you shit. If you don't like their free service then don't fucking use it.

    If anything, they're guilty of being too politically correct. They should be just telling the whiners to fuck off.

  9. Re:The Supreme Court Corporate Five on Mass. Court Says Constitution Protects Filming On-Duty Police · · Score: 1

    Sounds like someone didn't go to college.. or even live near a college.

  10. Re:The Supreme Court Corporate Five on Mass. Court Says Constitution Protects Filming On-Duty Police · · Score: 1

    And then what? You think you're going to seize their assets and begin the great worker revolution or something? Heard of offshoring? Watching how much faster it happens as soon as a government turns against industry.

  11. Re:Missed one... on Mass. Court Says Constitution Protects Filming On-Duty Police · · Score: 1

    Except she's not "protesting" anything. You have a right to peacefully assemble and petition your government for grievances. You don't have the right to invade private property, bar entrance to private property or create a public disturbance.

  12. Re:Great News! on Mass. Court Says Constitution Protects Filming On-Duty Police · · Score: 1

    That only applies when there's actually people in uniform who you're fighting against.. usually in some sort of declared war.

  13. Re:I really really hope this is appealed on Mass. Court Says Constitution Protects Filming On-Duty Police · · Score: 1

    Exactly.. it's amazing how instantly people forget everything know about language when having pointless semantic arguments.

  14. Re:Copyright Theft? FAIL! on BitTorrent Trial Makes Australia's High Court · · Score: 0

    Heard of the first sale doctrine? Hint, copyright is about copying.

  15. Re:Nonsense on BitTorrent Trial Makes Australia's High Court · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm totally ignorant of the issues but I still have an opinion.. welcome, this is what Slashdot is for :)

  16. Re:iiNet on BitTorrent Trial Makes Australia's High Court · · Score: 4, Funny

    wow, it's like a battle of wits between two unarmed opponents.

  17. Re:LOL, "really inflammatory, inaccurate" messages on UK Police Arrest 12 Over Facebook Use Inciting Riots · · Score: 0

    I think it is, yes. The problem is that I don't believe in universal morals.

    Then you're a fucking retard.

  18. Re:LOL, "really inflammatory, inaccurate" messages on UK Police Arrest 12 Over Facebook Use Inciting Riots · · Score: 0

    And in the UK you'll go to jail for it.. that's why these riots have been going on for *days*. In other countries the rioters would have dispersed after the first two or three were shot dead.

  19. Re:The Road Not Taken on The Most Expensive One-Byte Mistake · · Score: 1

    Where are threads like this in the space stories?

  20. How would I know? on How Google+ Measures Up On Privacy · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't I have to sign up to the service to discover what they're doing with my non-Google+ profile? I hear that if you have a public Google Profile then you can be added to the "circle" of a Google+ user. I have no idea if others can see that someone has added my profile to their circle. So far as I'm aware, Facebook has never done anything like this.. pulled in profile information from other services to add to their social network. I expect the inevitable result of this will be an automated service to badger me to join.. or just an attractive slippery slope of integration.

  21. Re:As much Deisseroth at Stanford as Boyden at MIT on The Birth of Optogenetics · · Score: 1

    So far this is the only intelligent comment. Congratulations.

  22. Re:Of Course Drone Attacks Are Hostile on Military Drone Attacks Are Not 'Hostile' · · Score: 1

    Easy, just authorize Jericho to loot.

  23. Re:No kidding on Teen Builds Nuclear Bomb Detector · · Score: 2, Informative

    Fusion is actually trivial to achieve. Thousands of people have built units in their garage.. it's a common science fair project.

    Perhaps you're confused because you've heard that an effective fusion power plant is an area of active research and not currently available and have incorrectly assumed that this somehow implies that fusion must be hard.

    You're wrong, and I hope you feel like an idiot now for being so smug.

  24. Yeah, that's it on The Internet Is Killing Local News, Says the FCC · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's not that the majority of local businesses are multinational franchises with no need for local advertising.

  25. Re:That explains everything on 8 of China's Top 9 Govt. Officials Are Engineers · · Score: 0

    Hey! My crazy stalker is back! I missed you so much! :)