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  1. hollywood accounting is stealing on MPAA Agent Poses As Homebuyer To Catch Pirates · · Score: 5, Insightful

    where are the laws to stop that?

  2. Re:Clueless court on SCOTUS Refuses To Hear Tenenbaum Appeal · · Score: 1

    is a financial death sentence really a reasonable punishment? This is worse than many violent criminals get and he will likely live off the grid now and not pay any taxes so the US Gov also loses.

  3. Re:meg whitman, not a job creator on HP To Cut 30,000 Jobs · · Score: 1

    republicans are not financially responsible. They would just rather blow money giving rich companies corporate welfare and more money to the bloated military.

  4. balmer's plan to run microsft into the ground on Aero Glass UI No More On Windows 8 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    is complete.

  5. meg whitman, not a job creator on HP To Cut 30,000 Jobs · · Score: 3, Informative

    think of what she would have done to California if she had been elected. They dodged a bullet with that one.

  6. Re:If you escape, do not return. on Iranian Physics Student From UT Gets 10 Years In Jail For Spying · · Score: 1

    there is always due process. And it is better.

  7. Re:If you escape, do not return. on Iranian Physics Student From UT Gets 10 Years In Jail For Spying · · Score: 1

    you are completely discounting due process. Who decides who gets killed? That is why you cannot just randomly kill the "bad" people like they do.

  8. Re:WTF on From MIT Inventor To Tea Party Leader · · Score: 1

    is that because right wingers only have rhetorical discussions?

  9. Re:If you escape, do not return. on Iranian Physics Student From UT Gets 10 Years In Jail For Spying · · Score: 2

    if you act the same as your enemies you are no better than they are.

  10. Re:Relatively quick disclosure on Kickstarter Leaves Project Ideas Exposed · · Score: 1

    contrast that with the sony security breach. This speaks volumes to me who I would rather spend my money with.

  11. Re:"Exposed" defined: on Kickstarter Leaves Project Ideas Exposed · · Score: 1

    I am actually encouraged by this. The more the marketing drones freak out that people are bypassing them and their flawed understanding of their markets (and greed) the better.

  12. Re:Pedant's corner on UK In Danger From Electromagnetic Bomb, Says Defense Secretary · · Score: 1

    when is the last time the UK military actually defended the UK. It is not defense, it is the UK military and people should start calling it that.

  13. really shows the level of arrogance of the mpaa on DVDs, Blu-Rays To Show 20-Second Unskippable Govt. Warnings · · Score: 1

    The pirate version is better, but they will claim people want it only because it is free.

  14. Re:So what? on NY Times Apple Tax Article Flawed · · Score: 0

    a large part of the problem is not what they are taxed on for profit, it is what they are allowed to write off that makes absolutely no sense unless you are a rich upper level executive (ex airplanes)

  15. this is about money on Homeland Security: New Body Scanners Have Issues · · Score: 2

    if these scanners were really about safety then pass a bill that the makers of them cannot make a profit and no executive in the company can make more than $150k per year (total compensation).

  16. Re:TSA Missed Something on TSA's mm-Wave Body Scanner Breaks Diabetic Teen's $10K Insulin Pump · · Score: 1

    the naked scanners have always been about making rapiscan, the company that makes them, a lot of money. Actual security does not appear to be a goal of the tsa.

  17. doubt this will work with governments on Nearly 150 Companies Show Interest in the Tech Love Boat · · Score: 1

    If governments don't get their cut I could see laws being passed with a 1000% tariff on these organizations.

  18. big publishers might be getting worried on How Long Before the Kickstarter Bubble Bursts? · · Score: 1

    when you can skip the big company markeing drones that have been getting things wrong and don't really know their market you care going to see a lot of talk that their is a Kickstarter Bubble. Even if projects fail, I would rather have the opportunity for passionate people to make something great than more of the same sad crap the big companies will continue to push. And as a bonus, successful games started with Kickstarter will influence the direction of gaming as a whole.

  19. Re:Greyhole! on Ask Slashdot: DIY NAS For a Variety of Legacy Drives? · · Score: 1

    with raid 5 you lose a percentage of the disks you use (like ~25% if you use 4 disks). Maybe I am missing something, but Greyhole looks like you lose significantly more than that making multiple copies of files on different disks?

  20. Re:For once I disagree with Michael Geist.. on Stop Being Poor: U.S. Piracy Watch List Hits a New Low With 2012 Report · · Score: 1

    I agree. It is a badge of honor to be on special report 301.

  21. countries should streisand effect this report on Stop Being Poor: U.S. Piracy Watch List Hits a New Low With 2012 Report · · Score: 2

    if you are not on special report 301 you need to figure out how to get on it. Make sure your citizens are protected from music and movie companies pressuring the US government to prop up their dying business model they refuse to change.

  22. conservatives are frivolous spenders on Congress Wants To Resurrect Laser-Wielding 747 · · Score: 0

    they only thought the deficit was a huge problem when the US was spending to help regular people instead of padding war profiteer pockets.

  23. boarding will be hilarious on Australian Billionaire Plans To Build Titanic II · · Score: 1

    each woman will be given a chunk of blue glass to throw off the back when at sea.

  24. Re:Why Desktop Linux Hasn't Taken off... on Why Desktop Linux Hasn't Taken Off · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Games are still a huge pull on the PC (and a lot of people are sick of the vendor lock-in crap forced on them with consoles). Valve announced that they will be supporting Linux with their Steam Game Service.

  25. Re:Texas gov gives huge corp tax breaks on Amazon To Pay Texas Sales Tax · · Score: 1

    giving huge corporations tax holidays and then raising tax rates on working families in Texas does not help the local economy. Buying stuff helps the economy a lot more than that and people have something to show for it.