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  1. Re:How can a third pary lawsuit change my rights? on Google To Remove "Inappropriate" Books From Digital Library · · Score: 1

    danke schon, quite informative.

  2. Re:Starting to pack my things... on Cablevision To Offer 101 Mbps Down, No Caps · · Score: 1

    "A 100 Mbps last-mile connection isn't worth didly-squat if..."

    All depends on the type of neighborhood. In, for example, my hometown I'd be willing to bet I'd have most of that bandwidth all to myself. Probably less so where I am currently (apartment complex in a "planned" neighborhood full of young people)

  3. Re:How can a third pary lawsuit change my rights? on Google To Remove "Inappropriate" Books From Digital Library · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You know, I thought that when I replied to the OP too, but in, say, a class action suit brought against a company in which I own stock, I get a letter saying I need to opt in (essentially) to be a part of the settlement, if any. If I'm automatically part of the class why is that bit of communication necessary?

  4. Re:If These People Had Been Around Back in the Day on Google To Remove "Inappropriate" Books From Digital Library · · Score: 1

    I think it's time we update Godwin's law to reflect the new millennium.

  5. Re:How can a third pary lawsuit change my rights? on Google To Remove "Inappropriate" Books From Digital Library · · Score: 1

    Given the Cnet link in the summary, I'd say if you haven't heard from Google then maybe they haven't gotten around to you yet.

    As for your other points, I'd be interested in hearing a legally informed analysis too. My guess is that it's due to being a class action suit and how the "class" is defined, but I'm really not very well versed in all that.

  6. Re:Except that it has been used as official policy on California Family Fights For Privacy, Relief From Cyber-Harassment · · Score: 1

    AFAIK families sign a release for usage of those photos, same as when any other identifiable photograph is released on a large scale.

  7. Re:cyber-harassment? on California Family Fights For Privacy, Relief From Cyber-Harassment · · Score: 1

    Except you can't put a restraining order on Anonymous.

  8. Re:Chicken on EFF Sues Apple Over BluWiki Legal Threats · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Chickenshit?

    Oh, you mean "Not willing to go to court with Apple and possibly lose his business in damages."

  9. Re:Well - Joe Dumbass will object on Obama Says 3% of GDP Should Fund Science Research And Development · · Score: 1

    I suspect people unconsciously assume to some extent that someone who "talks plain" can't possibly be bullshitting them, where "talks plain" corresponds with "sounds like the people from my home area"

  10. Let me be the first to say on Universal Design for Web Applications · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    TL; DR

  11. Re:There's only one opt-out on World Privacy Forum's Top Ten Opt-Outs · · Score: 1

    "What is needed is "one-time addresses", or addresses that cease to exist after n messages arrive, where n is some low number suitable for you verification email to be mailed and maybe a couple more. Then it goes dark, and the mail server disavows any knowledge of you."

    http://spamgourmet.org/

    My SG account has eaten on the order of 10 thousand spams over its lifetime (a decade or so)

  12. Re:Tiger direct sucks on Dell Sues Tiger Direct For Misleading Customers · · Score: 1

    You only pay more about half the time in my experience.

  13. Re:Let me be the first to ask... on Appeals Court Stays RIAA Subpoena Vs. Students · · Score: 1

    Definitions of short shrift on the Web:

            * a brief and unsympathetic rejection; "they made short shrift of my request"

  14. Re:Doesn't WOW vindicate his thinking? on Contrasting User-Driven Play With Developer Vision · · Score: 1

    WOW has a very colorful world going for it, but I found the plot quite weak, because in whatever situations you were put in (mostly instanced dungeons) that there is some thread connecting your actions, everything rings hollow because, after all, it IS an MMO, so nothing you do has any effect on the plot at large.

  15. Most of these sound like on Mariners Develop High Tech Pirate Repellents · · Score: 1

    things that can only be used in relatively close range.

    100 yards? That's plenty close enough to be under fire from the pirates. Hope you have brave, or foolhardy sailors.

  16. Re:Ethernet or Token Ring on The Road To Terabit Ethernet · · Score: 1

    Pining, perhaps?

  17. Re:ITIL on Project Management For Beginners? · · Score: 1

    "ONCE THE REQUIREMENTS ARE LOCKED DOWN you do not accept changes to them"

    You forgot: Until Sales pitches a fit and leans on your regional manager, who will lean on you to "work it out" with your team, because this is a very important customer who you can't afford to offend in any way.

  18. Re:Swap/recharge my car on Developing Battery Replacement Infrastructure For Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    If demand really and truly peaks they typically can't handle it. Take a look at the consumer-sparked shortages all across the Southeast in recent times due to "Omg hurricane gonna blow away all our refineries" hysteria.

  19. Re:I don't see how this can work on Consortium To Share Ad Revenue From Stolen Stories · · Score: 1

    The gain is: Your (the advertiser's) network of ad serving doesn't become commonly associated with spam and worthless content because you stop doing business with sites that cause these kinds of issues.

  20. Re:The officials at Monster Cable say.... on Should Network Cables Be Replaced? · · Score: 1

    Dr dre's dead, he's locked in my basement.

  21. Re:Plagiarism takes yet another hit on Fair Use Affirmed In Turnitin Case · · Score: 1

    You're certainly free to declare what you like about your own work, but your stance on the copying has no bearing on the formal definition of plagiarism.

  22. Re:BWM? on How to Charge Your Cellphone Using Wasted Heat · · Score: 1

    http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/

    Slips like that happen more often than I would have ever expected.

  23. Re:Err.. 3? on Windows 7 Starter Edition — 3 Apps Only · · Score: 1

    Well, see if you use Windows Explorer, IE, Windows Defender and MSN Messanger those all are a Part Of Windows (TM) sooooo they don't count.

  24. Re:Hmm, no... on Do We Need Running Shoes To Run? · · Score: 1

    +1 informative, thanks. I wonder if I have been misunderstanding and the folks I'd heard were talking about something else (like maybe not letting your heel "touchdown" after the ball strikes the ground)

    "I find my knees hurt more when I heel strike"

    God I know mine do, which is part of why I've always avoided running as cardio.

  25. Re:Who's Teaching Whom? on Telstra Lays Down Law On Social Media · · Score: 1

    I dare say the 56 year old CEO has a better idea of how to communicate responsibly (in the context of a corporation about one's employer) than the 26 year olds.

    The medium of communication is irrelevant.