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  1. Re:Wait, what? on NZ Police Got PRISM Data Before Raid On Dotcom · · Score: 1

    It could be worse.

    What if they sent Kirk Cameron after him?

  2. Re:No incentive to lower costs on The College-Loan Scandal · · Score: 1

    Because they can?

  3. Re:GOVERNMENT CONSPIRACY on Cybercriminals Has Heroin Delivered To Brian Krebs, Then Calls Police · · Score: 1

    So he has a secret base in the K-Man Islands?

  4. Re:My bad - will try harder on Cybercriminals Has Heroin Delivered To Brian Krebs, Then Calls Police · · Score: 1

    I clicked on your "working link" and it did, in fact, work.

    To be nitpicky about it, I right-clicked and clicked "open in new tab".

    But it might have been better to have written

    Over the past six months, “fans” of this Web site and its author have shown their affection in some curious ways...

    And I just screwed up my own editing.

    Meant to say

    But it might have been better to have written

    "Security researcher Brian Krebs writes

    Over the past six months, “fans” of this Web site and its author have shown their affection in some curious ways...

    "

  5. Re:My bad - will try harder on Cybercriminals Has Heroin Delivered To Brian Krebs, Then Calls Police · · Score: 1

    I clicked on your "working link" and it did, in fact, work.

    To be nitpicky about it, I right-clicked and clicked "open in new tab".

    But it might have been better to have written

    Over the past six months, “fans” of this Web site and its author have shown their affection in some curious ways...

  6. Re:Krebs is a scam. on Cybercriminals Has Heroin Delivered To Brian Krebs, Then Calls Police · · Score: 1

    ... Questioning the Pope's authority over church matters doesn't even make sense, because it's an unquestionable authority....

    Can I question whether it's unquestionable?

    Would that be okay?

    Or is it unquestionably unquestionable?

    And is it only unquestionable because it refuses to answer any questions?

  7. Re:Krebs is a scam. on Cybercriminals Has Heroin Delivered To Brian Krebs, Then Calls Police · · Score: 1

    Maybe one of his foes hacked in and removed your insightful little gem before he saw it, leaving no trace, so as to deprive him of the improvement he would otherwise have derived from it.

    They are true fiends, I tell you, and there are no lengths to which they will not go, nor any concern for collateral damage such as that which was inflicted on you.

  8. Re:Working link to editor on Cybercriminals Has Heroin Delivered To Brian Krebs, Then Calls Police · · Score: 1

    Usually I call for cutting /. editors slack, as they weren't English majors, but COME ON... "Cybercriminals has?" Guys, lay off the beer when you're at work.

    Yeah, that really "clanged" in my mind's ear as well, but then I thought, "Hey, maybe these guys have incorporated, and 'Cybercriminals' is the name of the business", which would make the headline acceptable in the US.

    Of course in the UK it'd still be wrong.

  9. Re:Picking winners and losers on Congress Wants FCC To Auction TV White Spaces · · Score: 4, Informative

    no, all frequencies are sold off to the highest bidder to do with as they please as long as they follow the rules for that block. only reason TV frequencies were free was because the stations agreed to free broadcasts

    When TV first came along, TV frequencies were licensed to broadcasters to operate "in the public interest", same as with radio.

    That was back before some gang of idiots got the idea to sell irreplaceable spectrum instead of just license or lease it.

    May they suffer many various and sundry unpleasantries the rest of their days.

  10. Re:I agree and stop the racism! on Congress Wants FCC To Auction TV White Spaces · · Score: 1

    to be fair, the red space will always be at the bottom of the pack. violet space FTW!

    Bottom of the pack?

    Let's unzip and compare wavelength.

  11. Re:Don't be evil (some of the time) on Google Argues Against Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Apparently some connections are more equal than others...

    And, of course, more expensive.

  12. Re:Don't be evil (some of the time) on Google Argues Against Net Neutrality · · Score: 2

    All your Google Base (and copyrights) are belong to us?

  13. Re:Not sure why ASCAP is the bad guy here. on ASCAP Petitions FCC To Deny Pandora's Purchase of Radio Station · · Score: 1

    They won't be a member as an artist.

    Although some might well be members as composers.

    And in most cases they don't distribute, a record company does it.

    If somebody else wrote the song, and somebody else owns the publishing, and all the artist does is go into the studio and sing or play an instrument, ASCAP doesn't represent them or work for them or look out for their interests.

  14. Re:Praise Legacy Data on How Outdated Data Distorts Doctors' Pay · · Score: 1

    But if the brake shop was in the same situation as the hospitals, asking for $9000 wouldn't necessarily mean getting all of it, and they wouldn't be able to slap a mechanic's lien on the car to keep you from driving away, either.

  15. Re:Praise Legacy Data on How Outdated Data Distorts Doctors' Pay · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I see it as the hospital trying to cover some of the bills on which they never collect.

  16. Re:Not sure why ASCAP is the bad guy here. on ASCAP Petitions FCC To Deny Pandora's Purchase of Radio Station · · Score: 1

    American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers.

    See the word Artists in there anywhere?

    Actually it's all about who owns the publishing rights to a song. That's who gets the money.

    In this case publishing means not just sheet music but copies of recordings of performances as well, and the playing of those copies.

  17. Re:Wha...? on ASCAP Petitions FCC To Deny Pandora's Purchase of Radio Station · · Score: 1

    Are you saying they're exempt from being stopped from running a station to make money?

    Or that it doesn't matter because they already aren't making any money from those stations?

    Considering the stories I see at radiodiscussions.com (formerly radio-info) about staff cutbacks in many markets, I'm guessing the latter.

  18. Re:Royalties on ASCAP Petitions FCC To Deny Pandora's Purchase of Radio Station · · Score: 1

    Well, I only worked at actual radio stations, and what we had to report was title and composer(s).

    Which meant reporting the same thing whether we played, for example, Twist and Shout by The Isley Brothers, or by The Beatles.

    Of course this was between '77 and '94, when it was all played off of phonograph records or, later, cd's, and had to be logged by hand.

    Fotunately it was only required for 7 days out of the year.

  19. Re:Every other day delivery is much better..... on Door-To-Door Mail Delivery To End Under New Plan · · Score: 1

    BULL!

    It's not the postal worker's union, it's Congress trying to murder the post office.

    In 2006 they passed a law that, among other things, has them having to, in a 10 year period, set aside enough money to cover pensions 75 years into the future.

    That's practically funding the pensions of employees who haven't even been born yet.

  20. Re:DVDs only live for 7 years on Ask Slashdot: Keeping Digital Media After Imaging? · · Score: 1

    By 198 I think they were already up to parchment and sheepskin, although papyrus hadn't totally fallen out of favor at that point in some parts of the world.

  21. Re:bits and bytes on Small Town Builds Its Own Gigabyte Network; Cost To Citizens $57/month · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately it also puts a Host Protected Area on any hard drive with which it comes in contact.

  22. Re:Hah on Ask Slashdot: Light-Footprint Antivirus For Windows XP? · · Score: 1

    We cannot (yet) get a STD on porn site.

    But I thought a computer virus was a Serially Transmitted Disease?

  23. Re:Man the FL state attornies just want to fuck up on Whistleblowing IT Director Fired By FL State Attorney · · Score: 1

    Both Witness 8 and Zimmerman said that Martin confronted Zimmerman.

  24. Re:Man the FL state attornies just want to fuck up on Whistleblowing IT Director Fired By FL State Attorney · · Score: 1

    Go read all of Florida's Justifiable Use of Force law. 776

    The state had the burden of proving that it was not self-defense.

  25. Re: Man the FL state attornies just want to fuck u on Whistleblowing IT Director Fired By FL State Attorney · · Score: 1

    There were no cuts on his knuckles.

    There was a small abrasion in the ring area between knuckles.