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  1. Not really on Diamonds As Room-Temperature Superconductors · · Score: 1

    Artificial diamonds aren't really that expensive.

  2. Activity X? on Ethical Dilemmas Related to Technology · · Score: 1

    Of course Activity X is immoral, it's constantly crashing my browser and is a huge hole in IE.

    Oh, wait.

  3. No license == no copying on Microsoft Pirating Their Own Software? · · Score: 1

    Without a spesific license, the software would revert to standard fair use. You can copy the software for yourself and your family as much as you want, but can't distribute it en masse.

  4. Re:Huh? on Habeas Seeks Poetic Justice for Trademarked Spam · · Score: 1

    Unauthorised use of a Trademark is illegal.

    It's not illegal to use trademarked text in other works.

  5. Trademark on Habeas Seeks Poetic Justice for Trademarked Spam · · Score: 1

    God. Why is it so hard for people to understand the diffrence between trademarks and copyrights. I can use all the trademarks I want as long as I don't use them as my own name or the name of my products/services!

  6. Huh? on Habeas Seeks Poetic Justice for Trademarked Spam · · Score: 1

    it's illeagal for a company to hire someone else to do the dirty work, much like it is illegal to hire anyone to commit crime, and afaik, here even if the company doesn't know they're hiring them to do something illeagal they're still guilty

    Yes, they would be guilty, if spamming were illegal. But spamming is not illegal, so you really don't have a point.

  7. trademark? on Habeas Seeks Poetic Justice for Trademarked Spam · · Score: 1

    Intresting that the people filing the suit don't even understand trademark law. This is a copyright issue, not a trademark one. There's nothing illigal with using someone else's tradmark in a string of text, just using that trademark as a name for your product or service.

    I can say "google" all I want, but I wouldn't be allowed to start my own search site called "google"

  8. that dosn't make any sense on Pennsylvania Refuses to Disclose Banned Website List · · Score: 1

    if they don't tell you what sites are on it, how can they block them? Are they going to make everyone in the state use their DNS servers or something?

  9. uh huh on Former Intel Employee 'Disappeared' by U.S. · · Score: 1

    . And we'd be stuck with an algore in the White House. Remember when that survellience plane got shot down by the Chinese? Gore probably would have surrended the whole fleet to China with remorse.

    You mean as opposed to how the bush admin asked china to send them a bill for the "repair work", got one for over a million dolars, and then paid it without complaint? I'd hardly call that showing a backbone with the Chinese.

    On the other hand, we wouldn't have broken the back of NATO and the UN, we wouldn't be in a constly and pointless war, have alienated 90% of the rest of the world, etc, etc, etc.

  10. Re:Speaking as a Canadian on Former Intel Employee 'Disappeared' by U.S. · · Score: 1

    Osamma isn't exactly denying the charges and working through the media to clear his name.

    Well, he was before he whent into hiding. What's your point? Also the Reichstag fire was started by real-live communist, it doesn't change the fact that Hitler used it to gain power.

    Bush won the popular vote along with the electoral college.

    Bush lost the popular vote by about 100,000 votes across the country. He did win the EC, but the Florida thing was totally fubared.

  11. Bush EXICUTES the laws on Former Intel Employee 'Disappeared' by U.S. · · Score: 1

    He signs them but your representatives make them.

    Well, if we are talking about the PATRIOT act then Bush and the people who work for him did write the law, and then submitted it to congress. So Bush and Ashcroft did make the law.

    Secondly, Bush is the one executing the law, and Aschroft (who reports to Bush) is the one directly responsible for seeing this crap through. If a law is unconstitutional, it's not supposed to be enforced.

    So bush wrote the law, and is causing these things to happen of his own volition.

  12. WinCE on Complex Language Support for PDA's? · · Score: 1

    uses unicode for all internal character representation, so all apps that use standard functions should be able to use all language features supported by unicode.

    Beyond that, I really have no idea.

  13. So they can get laid off instaid? on Post-crash Salary Survey · · Score: 1

    That seems pretty damn stupid to me. I'd rather have a paycut then a lose my job, but then again england does seem to have a better unemployment system.

  14. Oh please on Microsoft Wants to Take on Google · · Score: 1

    The reason winCE won out was becase it was better. Deal with it.

  15. Liquid oxygen on New XCOR Rocket Engine Passes First Test · · Score: 1

    The EZ-Rocket carries the O2 tank in place of the passenger seat, primarily because it won't kill the pilot if it vents.

    Well, what if they frezee to death?

  16. Wow on New XCOR Rocket Engine Passes First Test · · Score: 1

    Lox with kerosene. Sounds incredibly powerful, and cheap and easy to get as well. I doubt carmack will be able to beat them with his' team's Hydrogen Peroxide engines.

    Any stats on the energy/gram of that stuff?

  17. karma whoring? on LCD Price Fixing? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    (posted as AC to avoid karma whoring, I have better things to do with my time).

    Although only by a minute amount, the time you spent posting this AC compared the time you would have spent posting this under your own name was greater.

    What the fact that I took time to point this out says about me is an excersize left up to the reader.

  18. That's not the point on Google Tries To Silence IPO Rumours · · Score: 1

    The point is, dispite being publicly traided, they can still prettymuch whatever they want.

  19. $0.85! on Google Tries To Silence IPO Rumours · · Score: 1

    lol. That would make ESRs 'vast fortune' what, $10k or something?

  20. Heh on Snag the Red Hat 9 ISOs, via Cash or BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    A couple months ago I got an email from someone working on that project asking if I could help test their servers by linking a video from my page.

    I had to write the back and explain that I didn't get anywhere near the traffic levels they would have needed in order to perform a useful test. Ah well.

  21. Well, of course on Paypal Charged Under PATRIOT Act · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't exactly associate his term in office with terror, although perhaps it was terrible at times.

    That's because you didn't live in south america.

  22. "flash shouldn't work"? on Flash Memory And Its future · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "(Flash) shouldn't work," said Stefan Lai, a vice president in the technology and manufacturing group at Intel.

    What the hell is this? There's no physical reason that voltage can't be stored for years. And flash obviously does work, so to say it 'shouldn't' is stupid.

  23. Think about it on Fighting the Hydra -- A Spam Warrior's Tale · · Score: 1

    How many spams do you get per day?

    How many times per day do you email someone you've never emailed before?

    If the second number is higher, then you're probably a spammer and even if you're not an email from you wouldn't be very special. If the first number is higher, you would have far less annoyance in your life if everyone adopted this system.

    I'd rather have a few people's computers think I was guilty of spamming until proven otherwise then have to deal with deleting Spam, and for me, its a choice I'll make for everyone who wants to communicate with me.

  24. Re:Whitelisting is unethical on Fighting the Hydra -- A Spam Warrior's Tale · · Score: 1

    And how do you feel about making all innocent senders of mail do extra work, while spammers simply ignore it and move on?

    Well, If someone took the time and extra work to send me an email in the first place, then I think they can take a few seconds to verify their humanity.

    If you think spending a few seconds for each person (not each message) you want to communicate with is to much work you're obviously trying to mail to many people (and thus, are a spammer). If I had to verify myself to everyone I mailed before I mailed them, and I never, ever got a spam again it would be a huge net benifit, timewise.

  25. Yeah, but on Fighting the Hydra -- A Spam Warrior's Tale · · Score: 2, Interesting

    1) you would have their real email address and
    2) you could use a 'what number is this a picture of' type questions. The problem is figuring out how to make it multilingual.

    But really it dosn't need to be standardized at all, since these things are going to have to be handled by real people, rather then computers.