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  1. They couldnt afford a pyrrhic victory on RIM Settles Long-Standing Blackberry Claim · · Score: 1

    Sure they could fight it out and possiblu win in 8 years after all appeals are through but theyd be dead as a company,600 million is 1/3 of RIM's cash reserves for peace of mind.

  2. Im sure W has memories of Pong on Father of Pong Honored At White House · · Score: 1

    Among all his battles in Texas and Alabama, his
    battles with the Pong were his most fearsome.
    He was missing in action in Alabama shortly after the
    Battle of the Pong began...and was discharged a year later
    after the charge of the pong brigade.

    "Paddle to the left, Paddle to the right, bright ball streaking across the black
    field of glory"

  3. If your boss is such a great guy... on Would You Take A Paycut for More Interesting Work? · · Score: 1

    tell him how you feel and ask for more challenging work.

  4. These people are stupider than the RIAA on Newspaper Lobbyists Take Aim at Google News · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I would NEVER read their newspaper websites if it were not for
    Google News. Google news gives them free pagehits which exposes
    their newspaper and their web page ADVERTISERS to a larger audience.

    If I were a newspaper publisher I wouldnt be angry about my newspaper
    being in Google news, I would be angry about my newspaper not listed
    among the first three sources.

    All google news is a News search engine with links to news sites.

    My god Google news is GIVING YOU BUSINESS without charging you....
    Google news has your newspaper websites RELEVANT again...more so
    than TV news. Are you newspaper publishers really that fracking
    STUPID as to punish them for it?

  5. What have we learned? on Toy Story 3 Scrapped · · Score: 1

    Its much easier to have integrity when you already have a billion dollars and
    full control of production than when you dont! :)

  6. Re:I remember exactly where I was... on Challenger Tragedy - In Depth, and Deeply Felt · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Youre taking it too LITERALLY. Im not comparing loss of life.
    You can tell most of the people responding negatively dont
    remember it directly. If you were a teenager who dreamed
    of going into space....it was traumatic.

    There is a moment that defines your youth
    for people in the early 40s it was pearl harbor
    in the 60s it was the Kennedy Assassination
    in the 70s it was the day Nixon resigned.

    In the 80s it was either the challenger explosion or the day the berlin
    wall fell.

    In 2001 it was 9/11

    The challenger explosion was far more traumatic than merely the loss of 7 lives,
    to young people who looked to the heavens it was the day their innocence was lost.

  7. I remember exactly where I was... on Challenger Tragedy - In Depth, and Deeply Felt · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I was in class, when they announced it over the intercom. For the Generation X'ers this was our 9/11. The moment that replayed in our minds for years to come.

    I suppose I'll remember those last words

    "Go at throttle up"

  8. blame it on everyone except Linux... on State of WLAN Support on Linux? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    The chipmakers...the dogwalkers whomever...but dont ask companies
    like Novell and Redhat to spend a little bit of money to make wireless
    networking actually work on linux. Dont ask the linux community to stop
    putting in new whizbang features and get the existing features to actually
    work as they are supposed to and dont you DARE question why wireless support
    isnt part of the kernel instead of some extra add-on that gets ignored.

    The 802.11 standard has been around since 1997, the 802.11a and b standards since 1999.
    Even 802.11g is mainstream now and I still cant take my laptop to a hotspot turn it on
    and it just work...

  9. when does this become collusion? on New RIAA/MPAA "Customary Historic Use" Plan · · Score: 1

    The DVD forum wont allow new high definition DVD players to send true hi-def content to
    be sent over component video which was the standard for HD sets from 1990s until mid 2004.
    You cant even buy a dvd player that upconverts regular DVDs over component video.

    Because of this people are going to have to replace perfectly good HD sets in order to
    view high-def content which is why they bought their HD sets in the first place.

  10. You could just get Linux and DSL... on Is Obsolescence Good Computer Security? · · Score: 2, Informative

    That way you can keep a high speed connection and not have to worry about it.

  11. Big difference between World war II and today on Cringely on Domestic Eavesdropping · · Score: 1

    1) In World war II congress DECLARED WAR and completely mobilized the entire nation including a draft. The congress committed "the entire national resources" to the war.

    2) In World War II The United States had actually been attacked by hostile military forces, half our pacific fleet was destroyed in one day, US territory was actually occupied by the enemy(phillipines at the time was a US territory) , and hostile military forces were launching continual attacks upon US shipping and ports. Many of the phone calls and letters referred to came from countries actually involved in the war.

    A series of small terrorist attacks with one large scale attack four years ago does not constitute a continuing war being waged on us. More US soldiers died on D-Day than the number of people killed in 9/11 and the whole iraq war combined. The Bush had the authority BEFORE 9/11 to get wiretaps on phone calls from Al Queda suspects to the US all they had to do was make a quick email over to the FISA court to get a faxed warrant or even AFTER the fact. Considering the FISA courts grants 99% of all requests I really dont see why Bush is asking for MORE power.

  12. Gresham's law applied to politics on Washington Post Shuts Down Blog · · Score: 1

    If there is an oversupply of loud bullshit it will drive the truth off the front pages.
    At that point all you will see and hear is puff pieces and press releases. Its much easier
    to sell the public bullshit they want to hear and if you have politicians selling the bullshit
    the public wants , the media will eat it up.

  13. Anyone want to know how many visted... on DoJ search requests: Yahoo, AOL, MSN said "Yes" · · Score: 1

    goatse.cx from Yahoo, MSN and AOL?

    Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act you will be able to find out! :)

    God Bless America! ;-)

  14. Mod me down some more...Tron was a public figure. on German Wikipedia Threatened w/ Injunction · · Score: 1

    Actually you can become a public figure involuntarily by being reported in the press. So yes "Tron" was at least a limited public figure. An article about him was published in "Wired" magazine a magazine with a circulation of over half a million subscribers that is sold in germany among other countries.

    The distinction between wikipedia.de and wikipedia.org is a semantic one justifying it because it only happened inside of germany. The article in question is on a NON-GERMAN server editing the article even if only because of fear of the court ruling in effectively extends the range of the german courts beyond germany.

    If it was the reverse my opinion would be exactly the same, US like German courts have no business telling websites in other countries what they can publish.

    There is no privacy right here except the embarassment of the family, well too bad it was
    BORIS FLORICIC not wikipedia or wikipedia.de that caused the embarassment to his family through HIS crimes, and HIS behavior. If his parents were embarassed by him they should have talked to HIM while he was alive.

    Excuse me for saying this but modern Germans seem to scream for human rights around the world while excusing any infringement of personal liberty done within germany as long as its done for politically correct reasons. I say that as someone whos great-great grandparents sailed from the german port of Kiel to america in 1856.

    If I offended some people by bringing up nuremburg(thats the english spelling)...oh well. I consider free expression a universal human right more important than the privacy rights of a dead person or the embarassment caused to his family because of his own actions.

  15. considering his real name was in WIRED magazine... on German Wikipedia Threatened w/ Injunction · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Doesnt that make him a public figure under US law where wikipedia is located?
    He also was a convicted of a crime so his name was a matter of public record in germany.

    I couldnt imagine any US court enforcing
    an injunction of that nature.

    I just imagine the judge saying "Do you also want us go around and collect all the issues of Wired Magazine with his name in it?"

    Message to all Germans...the last time Germany could tell other countries what to do was 60 years ago...there was also a court that settled that issue it was in Nuremburg.

    Heres the Wikipedia link

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Trials
    or the german one
    http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%BCrnberger_Proze sse

  16. Wow...Imagine what they could do with that? on U of Michigan creates first Quantum Microchip · · Score: 1

    A commodore 64 the size of a grain of rice!
    Unfortunately plugging in the joystics becomes harder. ;-)

  17. I bought an HD set three years ago... on Toshiba Introduces U.S. First HD DVD Players · · Score: 1

    If they think Im gonna buy a brand new set just to have an HDMI port...
    Wrongo! If they had put an HD signal over component video I would have
    spent the $500 on an HD-DVD player.

  18. integrated P2P is not a good idea on Is AllPeers FireFox's P2P "Killer App"? · · Score: 0

    As long as Mozilla does not endorse or support or link 2 it on their web page im ok with it.

    We do not need Recording industry suing Mozilla for offering P2P plugins.

  19. Most logical solution...the seller pays the tax... on U.S. Ecommerce To Be Broadly Taxed? · · Score: 1

    ...where he does business. If his business is located in California, he pays taxes for his sales to california. A department store doest charge different sales taxes based on where their customers live
    Its a SALES tax, its the seller who collects the tax and the sale is made wherever his business is located regardless of where the customer is when the sale is made.

    Dont treat sales to distant customers any differently than local ones.

  20. Re:Maybe if they hadnt spent half a trillion.... on NASA to Privatize ISS Missions? · · Score: 1

    Maybe some of the Metamodders could look at the parent post and decide for themselves.
    Since I have never previously posted a troll post...

  21. Maybe if they hadnt spent half a trillion.... on NASA to Privatize ISS Missions? · · Score: 0, Troll

    On Iraq...they could have sent a man to mars 2 years ago.

  22. At least Viruses dont spontaneously mutate on Sober Code Cracked · · Score: 1

    If you think upgradeable viruses are bad...wait until you see computer
    viruses self-mutate and evolve. Laugh if you want...it will come one of these
    days.

  23. Nonsense! Re:Remember what Hihgways are on India's Road To The Future · · Score: 4, Informative

    Many of Americas highways were built BEFORE WWII. The interstates may have been a defense related project but the Turnpikes werent. Commerce is a far bigger motivating factor than war. War is often just the
    excuse to get the road built then the military abandons it.

    And you are wrong about Hitler, the Autobahn projects were actually started (1926) BEFORE hitler came to power and Hitler didnt think of them he had really nothing to do with their conception. The first autobahn was started in 1929 and was completed in 1932 BEFORE hitler came to power. Oddly enough the war actually STOPPED contruction of the autobahn.

  24. Star Trek: New voyages is not a spoof on Star Trek Spoof Top Finnish Movie · · Score: 1

    In fact its probably the best Star Trek to come along in quite some time(despite some of the low budget special effects). Id put the two episodes above the first three seasons of enterprise and anything from Voyager(mind you thats not saying much)

  25. Its called "deterrence" Re:How much?!? on Court Finds For Student In Web FOS Case · · Score: 1

    When school districts are aware they can be successfully sued regarding the issue then they are less likely to be idiots regarding the topic