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  1. How meaningful is it to have a valid copyright over something when someone else can use the entire thing under fair use?

  2. Re:Depends on if Sullenberger is flying on Why Are We Spending Billions and Tons of Fossil Fuel On Search of Lost Planes? · · Score: 1

    "Not going well" is a bit vague, and you risk dropping it on someone's head.

  3. There are substances that expand 200x their size when in contact with water. Combine it with glow in the dark material and you've got 20 giant glowing orbs to find.

  4. Huh? on Apple Not Allowed To Open Stores In India (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    How can you sell 30% locally sourced goods until you open up shop and see what people buy? I mean let's say Apple has for sale some accessory Indian made, maybe it would make up 30% of sales, who knows until you open your doors?

  5. Re:I doubt it was innocent mistake on Too Fat For Facebook: Photo Banned For Depicting Body In 'Undesirable Manner' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Because they are eating the wrong things. Should be eating tofu and lo-GI.

  6. Re:I doubt it was innocent mistake on Too Fat For Facebook: Photo Banned For Depicting Body In 'Undesirable Manner' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    They should have gone on a tofu diet. all protein, no sugar or carbs, zero GI. makes you feel full.

  7. You wouldn't have a problem finding the tits.

  8. Re:How nice of Facebook to take time out of... on Too Fat For Facebook: Photo Banned For Depicting Body In 'Undesirable Manner' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The best thing for this woman would be to accept society's standards, and lose some pounds before the universe does it for her with a body bag.

  9. Re:How nice of Facebook to take time out of... on Too Fat For Facebook: Photo Banned For Depicting Body In 'Undesirable Manner' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Aversion therapy to stop you eating.

  10. Re:Please help me understand on Too Fat For Facebook: Photo Banned For Depicting Body In 'Undesirable Manner' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    So next time a man cat calls a woman saying "show us your tits", he should be praised as a feminist who is merely trying to de-fetishize the female form by making us accustomed to open displays of breasts.

    Nice!

  11. Re:Please help me understand on Too Fat For Facebook: Photo Banned For Depicting Body In 'Undesirable Manner' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    There was a study which showed that women who tick the box of being drinkers or big drinkers get a massive amount more contacts than other women. I guess the guys are looking for a woman who will drink and put out (or pass out?), so the women cater for the demand.

  12. Re:Math doesn't work out on Former McDonald's USA CEO: $35K Robots Cheaper Than Hiring at $15 Per Hour (foxbusiness.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, assuming reasonable rates of return on capital and a 24 hour restaurant the robot might be cheaper than paying 0.30c/hr.

    Of course once everyone is sacked from these jobs there won't be anybody with money to buy the product.

  13. Geoffrey Stone on Civil Liberties Expert Argues Snowden Was Wrong (usnews.com) · · Score: 1

    If Geoffrey Stone was in front of me now, I'd tell him that I don't give a rip if he is right or not right about the NSA's programs. The issue is that neither he, nor secret courts, nor faceless bureaucrats should be making the decisions about what is acceptable or not. If it's truly a democracy and not a sham puppet of dark forces, then the people should get to decide that. The fact that he had to get deep insider knowledge of the NSA to come to his own private conclusions tells you right there and then that something is very wrong.

  14. Linux on Windows Desktop Market Share Drops Below 90% (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    What I don't understand is that now everyone can see that the only non-Windows platform that is making headway is MacOS, why the Linux folks don't make a MacOS clone their aim. Linux was always great when it had something to copy: The UNIX kernel. The UNIX kernel is great, it's a wonderful template. There's now a great desktop template, MacOS. No matter how good or bad KDE or Gnome is, it will never have the mindshare of MacOS, we know that now. If we had a MacOS clone the developers could port to it very easily, or maybe even run native apps. WINE was always a bit awful, partly because Windows itself is awful, partly because windows itself is obsolete, partly because Windows is so full of bugs that must be duplicated. MacOS is cleaner, nicer, it's already UNIX. Copy it, make a free MacOS.

  15. Pinky finger on The Government Wants Your Fingerprint To Unlock Phones (dailygazette.com) · · Score: 1

    Simple solution: use your pinky finger as your unlock finger. By the time the authorities figure out that your index finger isn't working, you will have exceeded the iPhone try limit, and be forced back to using the passcode.

  16. Re:Thanks For Nothing on Craig Wright Claims He's Satoshi Nakamoto, the Creator Of Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    Bitcoins kinda do embody the energy required to calculate their hashes, and they also take little energy (actually less energy) to store than compared to gold.

  17. Re:If he were, why isn't he using the money? on Craig Wright Claims He's Satoshi Nakamoto, the Creator Of Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    If you're a hedge fund wanting to dump a million shares of company X, you don't just run down to the NYSE and say "SELL". You find some other hedge fund or mutual fund, and you make them an offer. Maybe you give them a few dollars off the current price or whatever. Same situation here, there would probably be folks willing to take 50 million dollars of bitcoin off you for the right price and they would hold it or slowly sell it or whatever. Don't bet that 500 million of bitcoin can't be liquidated.

  18. I don't see a problem on Climate-Exodus Expected In The Middle East And North Africa (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Just build more coal power stations and fire up your air-conditioning. Problem solved!

  19. Re:won't work for long on Thanks To Encryption, UK Efforts To Block Torrent Sites Are Pointless (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Mmm, I'm pretty sure sending the hostname is optional, and if a web browser didn't implement it, you'd just get a certificate warning. The user doesn't give a rip about real security, only that the ISP can't snoop and block. Of course if all standard browsers implement it, the average user might find it inconvenient to bypass.

  20. Only if they start blocking at the IP address level, and I'm not seeing that happening because every time ISPs have tried it there was such a backlash they had to back off.

  21. The name is encrypted and the IP address can't be blocked without blocking other non-infringing sites hosted at the same place.

  22. Re:Science Denial on Slashdot... on In Progress: Fastest Sea Rise In At Least 2800 Years (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

  23. Re:It's a matter of time scale [Re:Non-believers] on In Progress: Fastest Sea Rise In At Least 2800 Years (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 2

    You say that, but it's like a 100 year lease. While 100 years might seem a lot, you'll notice when your $100,000 lease is only worth $80,000 in 20 years, instead of $150,000 like most property going up in value.

  24. Re:Load malware? on Mousejack Attacks Exploit Wireless Keyboards and Mice (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    "With no feedback about where the keystrokes and clicks end up?"

    I'm guessing most OSes have a hot key to access the menu, from there you can start an appropriate terminal using just keystrokes, and once in a terminal, well.... it's open slather. Don't dismiss what can be done with just keystrokes.

  25. Re:Everyone "knows", the new legal standard on Stingray Case Lawyers: "Everyone Knows Cell Phones Generate Location Data" (techdirt.com) · · Score: 1

    Plus, the stingray system doesn't work within the GSM / phone standards, they break and degrade the system. They are not normal passive players in the phone system, they are rogue operators. They transmit false signals to elicit data.