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  1. Re:Was shutting down Limewire the real cause? on P2P Music Downloads At All-Time Low · · Score: 1

    Exactly. I am listening to pandora now. no need to download music.

  2. Re:I can finally get my business off the ground! on Betty Boop and Indefinite Copyright · · Score: 2
  3. Interesting on Court Rules Photo of Memorial Violates Copyright · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wouldn't this mean then that I can copyright myself, and sue anyone that takes a picture of me?

  4. Re:Good for apple on Apple Voiding Smokers' Warranties? · · Score: 1

    So should a$$holes

  5. Heh heh heh on Bush Website Blocked Outside N. America · · Score: 1

    So if I go down into our NOC and rip out our Akamai servers I will be doing my part to support Kerry?

  6. Re:15 bucks on Bootlegged Music in Russia · · Score: 1

    Actually, I believe allofmp3.com is run out of Russia, and there you pay by the MB vs the song. I believe its like $0.01 per MB or something like that. I think that would make it pretty cheap for them to get music. Of course I cant say whether or not its completely legitimate or not.

  7. Not saying that I want it to happen this way, but on Will Your Next Car Run Windows? · · Score: 1

    It might spell the end of Microsoft, if it causes too many people to die, they will be sued into an oblivion.

  8. Re:Uh-oh on Will Your Next Car Run Windows? · · Score: 1

    Yes you can go into your preferences on the comments tab, and change the Reason Modifier for Funny down to -6. That will effectively hide all the posts moderated as funny.

  9. Re:nope on Will Your Next Car Run Windows? · · Score: 1

    I wish I had a mod point left for this point. Gotta love it.

  10. Re:Overlords on A New Species Of Giant Ape? · · Score: 1

    Hmm, I don't recall, what did Impossible Creatures call this mix?

  11. Bees on The New York Times On Earth's Magnetic Flip-Flop · · Score: 1

    IIRC, I believe that bees also use the magnetic poles as a navagation device.

  12. Re:my MCE experience on TiVo vs. Windows Media Center Edition · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Say what you want about Tivo, but I dont have to worry about my tivo getting hacked because I did visit windows update on a regular basis.

  13. Re:Italian judges... on Northwest Privacy Lawsuit Dismissed · · Score: 1

    Ok, but I guess from now on I will have my 2 year old click the I agree button. He cannot legally enter into a binding contract.

  14. Re:Akamai's DNS black magic on Akamai DNS Outage Messes up Net · · Score: 1

    So should I take a hammer to the Akamai servers in our building?

  15. Re:Akamai is evil! on Akamai DNS Outage Messes up Net · · Score: 1

    I guess we have our first suspect.

  16. Re:Single point of failure on Akamai DNS Outage Messes up Net · · Score: 1

    No, I am posting this by ESP rather than ISP.

  17. Re:actually on Suicide Caught on Surveillance Tape Appears Online · · Score: 1
  18. Re:The greatest threat to my liberty... on Viet Dinh Defends The Patriot Act · · Score: 1

    The government is taking away your liberties, not our fellow citizens. Yes the citizens voted these poeple into power, but there is never any to tell for sure how the representatives will cast their vote for most issues. They say what we want to hear to get elected, but then do what they want later. How often do campaign promises fall through the cracks, and then they use the same promises for the next campaign. I may vote for someone because I like this and this about him/her, but dont like that. The good outways the bad, and they are better than their comptetitor, but that does not mean that because I voted them into office, that I agree with everything that they say or do, nor will I as a citizen be to blame because they are in office. The system is flawed, thats the way it is, the way it has been, and probably the way it is going to be.

  19. Power Outage on Broadband Over Power Lines: Coming Soon? · · Score: 1

    So I guess this means if the power goes out your internet connection goes out as well. Thats terrible, I like surfing the web with no power.

  20. Re:Big ol' steaming load on Anti-Virus Companies: Tenacious Spammers · · Score: 1

    Its nice to see someone on the other side of the argument. One other thing, if the ISP just simply sends these failure notifications into the bit bucket, they will be breaking SMTP protocol, which basically says that the message either has to be delivered or rejected back.

  21. Re:guilty until proven innocent? on Have You Fought Your ISP Over Bandwidth Limits? · · Score: 1

    Not as long as they can be held responsible for what you do!

  22. Re:Reasonable and non-discriminatory on Microsoft Flouting DOJ Settlement? · · Score: 1

    No no no, they spent that much because "the average cisco and microsoft certified system engineer makes $70,000 per year" at least that what the radio tells me.

  23. Re:Is it just me... on Lessig And RIAA Answer NewsHour Questions · · Score: 1
    A good example:

    Q: "Without anti-copyright devices, wouldn't that extend copyright terms for eternity?"

    A: "The DMCA Anti-Circumvention provision is intended to encourage innovation..."

    backed up with

    "Under the DMCA, the U.S. Copyright Office examines every three years whether or not this provision requires additional exemptions.."

    Translation: It was only supposed to do THIS, but it does THIS too, but we can try to fix it, and maybe get it right (or make it worse).

  24. Is it just me... on Lessig And RIAA Answer NewsHour Questions · · Score: 1

    Or did the RIAA guy dodge every question about the DMCA? It seemed every time a legit question about it was raise, he spoke about it's intentions, not about its affects.

  25. Re:In the future on Gecko Feet Inspire Sticky Tape · · Score: 1

    Great, does this mean they can come up with a whole new series of MacGuyver based on what you can do with this geckotape and a swiss army knife?