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  1. Re:Time for the old Dead Man's Switch on Controversial Section of PRO-IP Act Cut · · Score: 1

    Who says the evidence will incriminate you?

  2. Re:Time for the old Dead Man's Switch on Controversial Section of PRO-IP Act Cut · · Score: 3, Informative
    Do you have any case law to back this up or are you just talking out of your ass? Seriously, the courts see it no different to requiring you to hand over the keys to a filing cabinet. You're free to refuse, at which time you are in contempt of court and will be spending the remainder of your life in jail, except for every 30 days, when you will be brought before the judge to be asked if you are now ready to hand over the keys.

    or the copyright holder Huh? What do you think we're talking about?

  3. Re:Time for the old Dead Man's Switch on Controversial Section of PRO-IP Act Cut · · Score: 2, Informative

    When it comes to complying with a court order to turn over computer files, turning over encrypted computer files is not complying with the order. It's really not that hard.

  4. Re:Time for the old Dead Man's Switch on Controversial Section of PRO-IP Act Cut · · Score: 1

    and rot in jail because it is impossible for you to prove that you have complied with the court's order to give over evidence.

  5. Re:Hmmm on Neither Intellectual Nor Property · · Score: 1

    So you're quite happy to stand on the shoulders of giants but hey, if you want MY contribution then you better pony up.

  6. Re:Wonderful, but... on Rings Discovered Around a Moon for the First Time · · Score: 1

    dont. apt-get install openarena

  7. Re:Dumb question: Why are they 2 dimensional? on Rings Discovered Around a Moon for the First Time · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.faqs.org/faqs/astronomy/faq/part4/section-15.html

    Will answer your question much better than I could.

  8. Re:Tax Intellectual Property on Neither Intellectual Nor Property · · Score: 1

    The patent system is wholly fucked up for many reasons. The cost of entry *is* extremely high.

    But mainly I was thinking of copyright.. which is another problem with the blanket term "intellectual property", no-one knows if you are talking about copyright, patents, trademarks or trade secrets.

  9. Re:Tax Intellectual Property on Neither Intellectual Nor Property · · Score: 1

    Sigh. Charging a fee for sending an email will stop spam, yes, but it will also drastically reduce the number of emails that are sent and therefore the entire utility of the email system. That's the analogous argument.. that's the entire argument.. don't go reading some other argument into it.

  10. Re:For heaven's sake... on Neither Intellectual Nor Property · · Score: 1

    Definitely not debating that TFA is barely an article.

  11. Re:Tax Intellectual Property on Neither Intellectual Nor Property · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is similar to the suggestion that charging a fee for each email sent would stop spam.

    And about as practical.

  12. Re:For heaven's sake... on Neither Intellectual Nor Property · · Score: 1, Insightful

    property in the layman terms of "it has an owner" as in the "copyright owner" but not "property" in the correct technical sense of the word.

    I don't know why that is so difficult for you idiots to comprehend.

  13. Re:Hmmm on Neither Intellectual Nor Property · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So you're saying that you owe society nothing for providing the stimulus to your amazing brain? That everything that comes out of my brain is MINE MINE MINE and has nothing to do with the world I live in? You know this kind of bullshit thinking harks back to Aristotle right? and that even he decided it was wrong.

  14. Re:The real story... on NASA to Test Emergency Ability of New Spacecraft · · Score: 1

    Yes, sudden outbreak of common sense. We were talking about the shuttle.

  15. Re:The real story... on NASA to Test Emergency Ability of New Spacecraft · · Score: 1

    I'm reading a book at the moment about the Shuttle-Mir program. Along with all the other crazy shit the Russians did, one of the stupidest, I think, was trying to dock the Progress with the station using only dead reckoning and, when it works, a camera *on the progress*. I'm reading this book wondering why they don't have 30 CCD cameras scattered around the outside of the station and some system for selecting 4 or 5 of them to output to monitors simultaneously. Then I remember that it is 1992 and a Russian station.. their CCD cameras, rated for space, probably cost a million each.

    These days, if you were building a space station, I wouldn't even recommend putting windows on it. There's no need to mess with the structural integrity when you can get perfectly good visual feedback from a bunch of cheap cameras and a flat panel monitor.

  16. Re:Another way of saying that on Jobs Says Flash Video Not Suitable for iPhone · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Ignoring for now that you're not only a troll but also off-topic, and an AC, I'm going to reply and say that I don't even know what window manager I'm using. It's the makers of my distro chose for me. If I don't like it I can go dig for a replacement, but frankly I'm quite happy with it. Does this mean it was pointless having all those different window managers out there? No. Because I am not the only person on Earth.. my choice, or absence of one, is not the only one that counts. Besides, someone made a choice of what window manager to ship to me.. and they had a choice of many window managers to decide from. As I'm typically happy with their choices, it seems that having a choice of window managers is working out for me, even if I couldn't be bothered making it myself.

    Now back in your box.

  17. Re:I mean... on Will Mars be a One-way Trip? · · Score: 1

    Mars Gravity: 0.376 g

    For future reference, a tenth is 0.1.

  18. Re:The real story... on NASA to Test Emergency Ability of New Spacecraft · · Score: 1

    Or just send people and cargo in different vehicles.. not only do you save yourself the trouble of man-rating a beast like the Saturn V but you also learn to say no to the committees that want to make your vehicle everything for everyone.

  19. The real story... on NASA to Test Emergency Ability of New Spacecraft · · Score: 1

    The shuttle had no escape system.

  20. uh huh.. on Will Mars be a One-way Trip? · · Score: 1

    However, one former NASA engineer believes a human mission to Mars is quite possible, and such an event would unify the world as never before. like two people who commit a murder together are "unified" like never before?

  21. Re:Re-using, Re-using, Not re-inventing the wheel, on Security Holes In Google's Android SDK · · Score: 1

    And someday people will stop thinking of Java as a panacea for security issues.

  22. Re:Re-using, Re-using, Not re-inventing the wheel, on Security Holes In Google's Android SDK · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Re-implement it and you'll likely have the exact same problems as this.. or worse.

  23. yawn on Security Holes In Google's Android SDK · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Security holes in beta software you say? Wow.

  24. Re:Psychologist? on Psychologist Beating Math Nerds in Race to Netflix Prize · · Score: 5, Funny

    Alternatively: It's a bit hard to argue with you when you keep making sense.

  25. Re:You don't know they are in violation on Dealing With a GPL Violation? · · Score: 1

    Go find an actual customer and get remote access to the machine they have installed the software on. Look for copies of your software and whether that software is in compliance. Once you have the information, draft an email requesting compliance and outlining how the company is not in compliance and send it to the SFLC with a kind request for them to look it over before sending it to the company.