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  1. Re:Why? on MediaDefender Buys MediaSentry For $136,000 (Not $20M) · · Score: 1
  2. Re:Why? on MediaDefender Buys MediaSentry For $136,000 (Not $20M) · · Score: 1

    Hmmmm. Wouldn't she have to file for bankruptcy AFTER the judgement? Or at least after some lawyer fees? I'm not sure how the court would see her filing for bankruptcy prior. Might be seen as a sign of guilt?

  3. Re:Why? on MediaDefender Buys MediaSentry For $136,000 (Not $20M) · · Score: 1

    Does extradition have anything to do with civil suits?

  4. Re:Why? on MediaDefender Buys MediaSentry For $136,000 (Not $20M) · · Score: 1

    But....this is a civil suit right? Does it really matter if you flee?

  5. Re:I run Debian, and I run FreeBSD. on Debian Gets FreeBSD Kernel Support · · Score: 3, Insightful

    At the risk of burning some karma, I have to agree with you. Now, it's cool w/ the Linux BIOS that supports quite a bit of main boards, but really when I have to turn on my computer, after I restarted it or whatever, I use that time as I would a commercial on TV. Go take a leak, get a coffee, something like that. I can understand some times where a non-embedded system would want an instant-on type boot. Like a computer I want to install in my Jeep to run my mp3's and GPS. I don't want be driving and not have it booted until I get to my destination. Unless we're looking at the boot part wrong and people refer it to once the computer is started, and then all the programs that automagically start take a long time?

  6. Re:you can buy Android apps from outside the marke on Google Bans Tethering App From Android Market · · Score: 1

    That was mentioned in the article actually that that would be a way around it.

  7. With different carriers on Google Bans Tethering App From Android Market · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This incident raises some interesting questions, the developer notes in his blog. 'Does this mean that apps in the Market have to adhere to the ToS for only T-Mobile, even when other carriers sign on? Will all apps have to adhere to the ToS for every carrier that supports Android phones?'"

    I would think, and it's only a guess here, that once other carriers come on board w/ the Android, they would have a notice by the app if it would violate the ToS of the carrier. I don't know how they would enforce it, though.

  8. My work schedule is really killing me on Warner Bros. Acquires The Pirate Bay · · Score: 1

    I keep forgetting today is April Fools day dammit!

  9. Re:Yeah, April Fools... on Conficker Worm Strike Reports Start Rolling In · · Score: 1

    They do have to dial out to check your account # and PIN against your bank. So there is communication.

  10. Re:LOL on Slashdot Launches User Achievements · · Score: 1

    What the hell, why not try it.

  11. Solar Cycle 24 on The Underappreciated Risks of Severe Space Weather · · Score: 1
    has recently begun. From the link:

    The onset of a new solar cycle is significant because of our increasingly space-based technological society. "Solar storms can disable satellites that we depend on for weather forecasts and GPS navigation," says Hathaway. Radio bursts from solar flares can directly interfere with cell phone reception while coronal mass ejections (CMEs) hitting Earth can cause electrical power outages. "The most famous example is the Quebec outage of 1989, which left some Canadians without power for as much as six days."

    Scientists also say this is the worst one in decades.

  12. Re:This is M$ double speak for "Finding Free Sofwa on Microsoft Unveils Open Source Exploit Finder · · Score: 1

    Or maybe you're an educated user and know what you're doing and know how to safely use the the internet and install programs. I haven't had any malware or viruses either, because I know not to install questionable programs and go to questionable sites.

  13. oh the irony on Wal-Mart Shopper Finds Human Teeth In Wallet · · Score: 1

    The store was in Falmouth, MA.

  14. Re:Recourse on Student Satirist Gets 3 Months; the Judge, Likely More · · Score: 1, Informative

    Could it be I just got home from working all night and I was typing fast and every other fucking time I wrote suit in a comment in this story I got it right? Go away.

  15. Re:There is actually on Student Satirist Gets 3 Months; the Judge, Likely More · · Score: 0

    I get the Standard Speaker and the Pottsville Republican every day on the way to work, they have good articles about this. If you want more information from a local paper here try scouring The Morning Call.

  16. Re:There is actually on Student Satirist Gets 3 Months; the Judge, Likely More · · Score: 0, Troll

    But you have to remember that a cop has to press the charges to be heard before the judge, and a prosecutor argue the case. So I would think if the case was worth trying or pressing charges, then the crime did happen.

  17. Re:Satire? on Student Satirist Gets 3 Months; the Judge, Likely More · · Score: 1

    Well the Public Defendant or Lawyer could have appealed the sentencing.

  18. Re:worst scum on Student Satirist Gets 3 Months; the Judge, Likely More · · Score: 1

    The Standard Speaker and Pottsville Republican had some really good articles on this the last few days. I live in Schuylkill County, they're the best papers we have.

  19. Re:There is actually on Student Satirist Gets 3 Months; the Judge, Likely More · · Score: 1

    The proper sentence in this case should have been an ARD program and probation. In PA ARD (Accelerated Rehabilitation Disposition)will allow you to expunge your record if after probation if it's your first offense.

  20. Re:Only 87 months? on Student Satirist Gets 3 Months; the Judge, Likely More · · Score: 5, Informative

    2. Now every single case that ended with juveniles sentenced there should be reviewed. (Looks like they're only looking at the one judge's 5000 cases. They need to look at all of them.) The former judge should be billed for all expenses.

    They are all being reviewed.

    3. Whoever paid the bribes, and whoever authorized them, and whoever knew about this business model and kept quiet, also need to be tried.

    They are actually the ones that turned them in.

  21. Re:Recourse on Student Satirist Gets 3 Months; the Judge, Likely More · · Score: 4, Informative
  22. Re:No... on Student Satirist Gets 3 Months; the Judge, Likely More · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They'll plead to a minimal security facility and won't be in gen pop, much like cops are when they go to jail.

  23. There is actually on Student Satirist Gets 3 Months; the Judge, Likely More · · Score: 4, Informative

    A class action lawsuit being brought against the judges. Here is a link to the local paper, The Standard Speaker, about the pleas.

    The judge has has his pension and pay terminated. I'm from around that area and it's actually big talk. If you search through the Standard Speaker site you'll see some comments from kids that were sent there.

    An AC says before if these marks are still on the records for the kids. Well why wouldn't they be? Just because the sentencing was wrong doesn't mean the crime wasn't committed.

  24. Re:You will be called a troll on Draconian DRM Revealed In Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    Well, we already have The Filesystem Hiearchy Standard. But as much as I love choice and choice is good, there needs to be a set standard set by some kind of governing body. Any movement, with no leader, gets chaotic. Now, I'm not calling for dictatorship or anything like that. But even among free software with free choices needs to be standards set to abide by. Not just guidelines, but actual standards. HTTP/FTP files go in /srv or /var/whatever_service configs need to go in a certain place, etc. It would make writing scripts easier and installing software easier. Making your packages available easier too since you don't have to rely on where this distro puts that or this, but you just package it and install and we're up and running. Isn't this what people are mostly complaining about in Linux? I don't want to have to edit config files just to make things compile or get applications to work w/ my mail server or web server or what have you because Suse puts it here, and RH puts it here, and Slack put its here and Debian puts it here and so on.

  25. Re:Why this could be good for Linux on Draconian DRM Revealed In Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    And this is one of the biggest things holding back Linux on the desktop. While things are changing, they're not changing enough, or not fast enough any way.