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  1. "and having their ability to practice medicine restricted"

    Well, seeing as how they aren't practicing "medicine" in the first place, this doesn't seem much of a punishment.
    They are doing more harm than good by discouraging vaccination.

  2. Please tell me he had someone walk behind the camera swearing profusely at around the 8 hour mark! The he could tell by the rating if they watched the whole thing...

  3. Re:For all those who think he's the citizen's frie on Rand Paul Moves To Block New "Net Neutrality" Rules · · Score: 1

    As are ALL senators and to a lesser extent representatives...

    Proof

  4. Re:This seems appropriate on Copyright For Sale: What the Sony Docs Say About MPAA Buying Political Influence · · Score: 1
  5. This seems appropriate on Copyright For Sale: What the Sony Docs Say About MPAA Buying Political Influence · · Score: 1

    http://www.thewizardsmanse.com/congress-for-sale/

    Congress extends copyright every time Disney throws money at them.

    The Senate killed patent reform because trial lawyers threw money at them.

    Congress is rushing through a bill to kill Net Neutrality because Comcast et al. threw money at them.

    The smartest thing they did was to create lobbying loopholes in the bribery laws so they could accept bribes with impunity. The only way to "fix" the system is to outlaw lobbying and pass an amendment overruling SCOTUS' decision that corporations and PACs can spend as much as they want on reelection campaigns.

    Unfortunately, the Senate has to approve both of those and when they figure out it means they can't accept bribes any more, they will kill it faster than patent reform.

  6. goodbye public domain... on Legislation Would Force Radio Stations To Pay Royalties · · Score: 2
    From TFA:

    Make a clear statement that pre-1972 recordings have value and those who are profiting from them must pay appropriate royalties for their use

    So, royalties for songs that are 43 years old and older... I can hear the founding fathers crying from their graves.

  7. Controversy Manufactured by Republican Sore Losers on Clinton Regrets, But Defends, Use of Family Email Server · · Score: 1

    So, when Colon Powell did it it was no big deal, but Hillary does it and it's the end of the world? Also, no notices the irony of saying she should have used the State Department's server so her e-mails could be archived when the State Department admitted that they lost ALL the e-mails from her term due to a server upgrade. So if she had used their server all her e-mails would have been lost. Because she used her own they exist. How about a hearty "thank you" and STFU from all the repubs trying to contrive a controversy so they stand a chance against her in 2016...

  8. Re:Not surprising on AT&T To "Pause" Gigabit Internet Rollout Until Net Neutrality Is Settled · · Score: 1

    Pure genius!

    AT&T Business Plan:

    1. 1. Sell slowest Internet access possible
    2. 2. Advertise it as "High Speed"
    3. 3. ???
    4. 4. PROFIT!!!

    Seriously, when someone tells me they have DSL, I just laugh at them.

  9. Re:Meh on Internet Sales Tax Bill Dead In Congress · · Score: 2, Informative

    Technically, you still have to pay state sales tax on purchases made over the Internet. You just exploit the fact that the states can't force Internet retailers to collect those taxes and send them to the state as a way to skip out on paying your taxes.

  10. CurrentC save us! on Home Depot Says Hackers Grabbed 53 Million Email Addresses · · Score: 1

    [sarcasm]Man, I can't wait to sign up for Current C and give them direct access to my bank account and all my personal information![/sarcasm]

  11. net neutrality isn't protocol agnosticism on Net Neutrality Alone Won't Solve ISP Throttling Abuse, Here's Why · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Net Neutrality means you don't favor one host over another for the same protocol, not that you treat all protocols exactly the same. In the case of the ISPs vs. Netflix, the ISP's are trying to slow or block streaming videos from Netflix while allowing or prioritizing streaming videos from providers who pay the ISP's fees. This is non-neutral prioritization.

    Neutral prioritization is giving priority to streaming video/music/gaming over other types of data like e-mail without regard to the hosts providing the services.

    This critical distinction seems to be ignored by the poster.

    Net Neutrality doesn't demand that no network optimization by the ISP's ever occur, it states that the host should not be a factor in the ISP's optimizations. If the host does factor into the optimizations, then the ISP's begin extorting hosts to pay for priority service which the ISP's customers have already paid for. Additionally, hosts that can't afford to pay for priority distribution by the IPS's soon find that users can't access their services.

  12. Re:Can't be bothered to RTFA on From MIT Inventor To Tea Party Leader · · Score: 1, Funny

    Since he's running for congress as a republican, I'm guessing he wants to bang male interns...

  13. Tea Party? on From MIT Inventor To Tea Party Leader · · Score: 1

    Everyone knows the Tea Party is secretly run by rich corporate elites like Carter Pewterschmidt who just want to reduce government regulation so they can rape the environment!

  14. The Princess Bride? on Why Are Fantasy World Accents British? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    One of my favorite fantasy movies was The Princess Bride. They had generic/American and Spanish accents. They worked really well for me.

  15. Customers to AT&T... on AT&T On Data Throttling: Blame Yourselves · · Score: 1

    Go sit on a large, dark phallus.

    Seriously, they are all too eager to take our money, but then they get all upset when we complain that they don't deliver what they promised. If they want out of the smartphone game, then all they have to do is STOP SELLING THEM!!!

  16. 1999 Called... on Google Engineer Builds Ultimate LAN Party House · · Score: 4, Funny

    They want their Internet Cafe back.

  17. Re:copyright copout on They Might Be Giants Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    I think his point was that it is what it is and he can't change it i.e. he doesn't deal in hypotheticals.

  18. Correction on BT Ordered To Block Usenet Binaries Index · · Score: 2
    "In addition the court said BT 's customers must foot the bill for the cost of implementing the web block on Newzbin2."

    There, I fixed it for you.

  19. Uranus on Ask The Bad Astronomer · · Score: 2

    How do you pronounce the name of the seventh planet from the Sun? I'm in favor of Futurama's solution: rename it to Urrectum.

  20. Re:In my corporate environment.... on Ask Slashdot: Do I Give IT a Login On Our Dept. Server? · · Score: 0

    Where do you get that it's on the hospital network? When I read his question, I assumed he set up a server somewhere offsite and he has CalDAV listening on port 8443. The needs the hospital to open that port for the people on the hospital network to get to his external server.

  21. Re:Why federal, again? on US Contemplating 'Vehicle Miles Traveled' Tax · · Score: 1

    Maybe instead of just blanket taxing everyone, they should consider turning all federally funded interstates into toll roads. The toll could be based on gross vehicle weight and or number of axles. That's the fairest way to pay for road repair, IMHO.

  22. Re:Obligatory on Wikileaks Opens Official Online Store · · Score: 4, Funny

    I want the T-shirt that says "No means GO!"

  23. Re:Keep up or shut up on Should Younger Developers Be Paid More? · · Score: 1

    Instead of paying a fresh college grad more, why not send the senior developer to training? Oh, that's right, companies HATE paying for training. They would rather pay someone an undeserved exorbitant salary and then discard them when their knowledge is out of date. I think it's the same reason they want to hire upper level people from outside the company rather than promote from within. They know what they already have, but they hope this knew person is better!

  24. Re:Why the Author's Guild Shouldn't Care At All on Authors Guild Silent Over iBooks Text-To-Speech · · Score: 1

    To further this point, turning on the iPhone's "VoiceOver" feature required to listen to audio books makes the iPhone near impossible to use. Maybe the writer's guild decided that no sane person would turn it on unless they were REALLY visually impaired...

  25. Re:Who is responsible for limiting my cable choice on Google Responds To Net Neutrality Reviews · · Score: 1

    Would this be something that can be fought?

    Dude, you can't fight City Hall!