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  1. Re:Way to go Red Hat! on Red Hat Prevails Against Patent Troll Acacia · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Better still, how about making 'stifling innovation through frivolous patent suits' a Federal / criminal offense?

    Just what we need, a law to compensate for the failure of the federal employees at the patent office.

  2. Re:Connect the dots on Steve Jobs Hints At Theora Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    They probably know that they're a lawsuit magnet. They probably know that h.264 has a patent pool which makes it easier to counter sue and negotiate. They probably know that theora doesn't have that patent pool behind it. They probably know that most people don't give a shit about theora.

  3. Re:While I personally didn't use the service... on Apple To Shut Down Lala On May 31 · · Score: 1

    You can also bet that non-compete clauses are unenforceable in California.

  4. Re:KOffice 2 on Tom's Hardware On the Current Stable of Office Apps For Linux · · Score: 1

    Do you know what else isn't polished? A turd. Think about it.

  5. Re:Good filters have hidden the problem on The US Continues Its Reign As King of Spam · · Score: 1

    beakerMeep (716990)
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    You were saying?

  6. Re:HP still around? on HP To Buy Palm For $1.2 Billion · · Score: 1

    Yep, last I checked, 124 billion is over 124 million.

  7. Re:Sold Stolen Property to Highest Bidder on The 4G iPhone's Finder Reportedly Located · · Score: 1

    Too bad he didn't use the installed facebook app to check out who the phone belonged to before it was bricked. Oh wait, he did.

  8. Re:Sold Stolen Property to Highest Bidder on The 4G iPhone's Finder Reportedly Located · · Score: 1

    Aside from California (or other state) statute laws, it would have also been a crime under common law for dealing with lost and mislaid property.

  9. Re:No shock there... on No Verizon Partnership For Google's Nexus One · · Score: 1

    Even more telling: Old droid was from motorola. New droid is from HTC. Motorola put all their chips on the droid. buh-bye!!!

  10. Re:Definition of PII from the text of the law on Mass. Data Security Law Says "Thou Shalt Encrypt" · · Score: 1

    when I worked at a business doing e-commerce, we stored name, email, telephone, and address. No cc numbers, no ssns, no driver's license, no bank account numbers. Storing that shit is just plain stupid.

  11. Re:Play with fire on Russian Hacker Selling 1.5M Facebook Accounts · · Score: 1

    corporations are already on facebook. Look at the slashdot homepage sometime. And facebook does advertising, somewhat like google ads but less relevant (for now...)

  12. Re:Can someone please tell me... on Russian Hacker Selling 1.5M Facebook Accounts · · Score: 5, Funny

    1. collect facebook ids
    2. ???
    3. profit!

  13. Re:iFrame? on Proof of Concept For Ajax Without JavaScript · · Score: 2, Interesting

    going backward and forward updates the has component in the url. A timer event monitors the url. If the hash changes, then you update your app state, etc.

    The iframe is a hack for IE. IIRC, If you programmatically set the url hash, it doesn't go into the IE browser history, so back/forward are broken. But if you update the iframe address, it does update the history.

  14. Re:Why choose Ubuntu? Why not something else? on Ubuntu Linux Claims 12,000 Cloud Deployments · · Score: 1

    He might have meant using PHP (on slackware) to connect to MS SQL (on a windows box).

  15. Re:Open filesystems for digital cameras? on Microsoft Gets Back Its FAT Patent In Germany · · Score: 1

    except for the one benchmark that matters -- using it with windows.

  16. Re:Very good. on WhiteHouse.gov Releases Open Source Code · · Score: 2, Funny

    What the fuck planet are you living on? Nancy Pelosi drained the swamp and has given us the most ethical, open, and transparent congress ever!

  17. Re:You don't say on South Park's Episode 201 — the Expurgated Version · · Score: 1

    I thought the censored speeches at the end was funny (no doubt better than the original feel good stuff) but I think it was wrong for Comedy Central to have done it.

  18. Re:Show ID on Seattle Hacker Catches Cops Who Hid Arrest Tapes · · Score: 1

    The Washington state supreme court says otherwise.

  19. Re:Pointless. on Treasury Goes High-Tech With Redesigned $100 Bills · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private." -- US money.

    Note the word "debts", which has a very specific meaning. To quote wikipedia, "Debt is that which is owed" -- past tense. Current or future transactions are not debt.

  20. Re:Insufficient data for meaningful answer on More Evidence For Steam Games On Linux · · Score: 2, Informative

    steam doesn't include linux libraries, the OS X beta version includes a bash script which checks for darwin/os x and also has a couple lines checking if it's linux.

  21. Re:Lawsuit in the oven on Google Acquires Chip Maker Startup Agnilux · · Score: 1

    Aside from the fact that non-compete agreements are unenforceable in California, their employment contract (if any) was with (and written by) PA Semi.

  22. Re:Unfortunate on EFF Assails YouTube For Removing "Downfall" Parodies · · Score: 3, Informative

    The videos are using one scene, not the entirety. And people watch the videos *for* the subtitles.

  23. Re:Slackware on Good, Portable "Virtual" Linux Distro? · · Score: 1

    We've already tried live USB drives, but we ran into many issues with non-supported hardware on students' home computers.

  24. Re:Let's look at what JWZ said... on Cross With the Platform · · Score: 2, Funny

    just think of how many more iphones they would have sold if it had a scroll ball/mouse instead of this touch shit. Users don't want to run a single application, they want to move windows around and navigate menus and right click on shit. lame.

  25. Re:Yes you have no idea on Hardware-Accelerated Ogg Theora For Firefox Mobile · · Score: 1, Troll

    Firefox isn't FREE software. Both the name and icon are closed source. If you modify, recompile, and redistribute your own version of the firefox code, you need to give it a different name and a different icon (cf Ice Weasel, Ice Cat).