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  1. Re: No Foul play... on Grooveshark Co-founder Josh Greenberg Dead At 28 · · Score: 2

    And who gets to decide that someone has been "ripped off"? If instead of there being a privileged class of people "creating" things I like, there was more of an effort to make tools that make it easier to bring things into existence things people like, the world would be a far better place.

  2. Re: No Foul play... on Grooveshark Co-founder Josh Greenberg Dead At 28 · · Score: 1

    It's not my responsibility to see that anybody gets paid.

  3. Re: No Foul play... on Grooveshark Co-founder Josh Greenberg Dead At 28 · · Score: 1

    Since when did rationale become synonymous with excuse?

  4. Re:Sling me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast on Class Action Filed Against Sling Media · · Score: 1

    I moved recently and owned all the equipment I needed. The cable modem I own is an older DOCSIS 2.0 version, and I bridge it to a wifi router. I ordered internet and got it up and running by myself the same day. Comcast didn't say a thing.

  5. Re:Good Idea, and a Possible Modification on Company Aims To Launch Spacecraft On Beams of Microwaves · · Score: 1

    Then there's the song https://www.youtube.com/result...

  6. Poorly described on Company Aims To Launch Spacecraft On Beams of Microwaves · · Score: 2

    I don't think the article described the technology very well. Anybody find a better description elsewhere?

  7. Re:This is outrageous on UK Government Proposes 10-Year Copyright Infringement Jail Term · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure what the right question is that I am trying to ask, but it has something to do with sorting out what has had an influence on you and what is your own unique work.
    Then there is the problem of a variation of the Chinese room argument where you got something you didn't understand at first, but then later it or elements of it showed up in your work.
    Then there's the situation where "creative" people can't or won't inform outsiders how they do what they do.
    It seems to me this might be why the Blurred Lines judgment went against the people who came up with Blurred Lines.

  8. Re:There is no cure for absolute fucking stupidity on Techies Hire Witch To Protect Computers From Viruses and Offices From Spirits · · Score: 1

    I downvoted this story but it still got through. The title overgeneralizes and there's no evidence in the summary that anyone, techie or not, actually uses the service and if anyone does, it's not likely to be a technically literate person.

  9. Re:Points at DuckDuckGo on Popular Torrent Site Disappears From Google After Penalty · · Score: 2

    Not sure what your post has to do with the topic, but for those who are curious you are drawing from the anime, Chobits.

  10. Re:This is outrageous on UK Government Proposes 10-Year Copyright Infringement Jail Term · · Score: 1

    Nobody defines what creation means, like they don't define intelligence, or design. Do parents create their children?

  11. Re:This is outrageous on UK Government Proposes 10-Year Copyright Infringement Jail Term · · Score: 1

    The law seems to have something to say about trespassing onto the premises, but I'm uncertain what it has to say about the situation the book was in. I'm not certain what concepts are even being used much less taking them for granted. Scary thing about society is that they teach nothing about the law in K-12. I would find myself hard pressed to find any debate that isn't about subjective personal preferences are for some conventions but not others.

  12. Re:This is outrageous on UK Government Proposes 10-Year Copyright Infringement Jail Term · · Score: 1

    What is "creative work" exactly?

  13. Re:This is outrageous on UK Government Proposes 10-Year Copyright Infringement Jail Term · · Score: 1

    Care to explain what you mean by "creative" when you call yourself a "creative person"?

  14. Re:This is outrageous on UK Government Proposes 10-Year Copyright Infringement Jail Term · · Score: 1

    Throw "creative" in with create, intelligence and design as words we are all expected to just know what they are supposed to mean without really teaching what it means.

  15. Confused on UK Government Proposes 10-Year Copyright Infringement Jail Term · · Score: 1

    People put "valuable time" into lots of things. Doesn't mean they should get paid for it. And with people throwing around concepts like "the universe creates itself", I'm not sure anyone has a workable meaningful definition of what create or design actually means.

  16. Re:This is outrageous on UK Government Proposes 10-Year Copyright Infringement Jail Term · · Score: 1

    But only if he is a paid assassin.

  17. Re:Of course on A Quick Leak, As Microsoft Tests the Waters For Cortana On Android · · Score: 1

    I know you are being sarcastic, but maybe you really should.
    http://www.bing.com/search?q=m...

  18. Re:Yawn on A Quick Leak, As Microsoft Tests the Waters For Cortana On Android · · Score: 2

    Phone OS's aren't speech recognition. That being said, Microsoft has had limited speech recognition for its desktop for quite awhile.
    http://www.bing.com/search?q=m...
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    The company's research eventually ultimately led to the development of the Speech API, introduced in 1994

  19. Re:Who? on Neil Young Says His Music Is Too Good For Streaming Services · · Score: 1

    I can hear the difference between a low bit rate MP3 and a high bit rate MP3. I think I have a song still that's recorded in both. The funny thing is, that I can't really say that the low bit rate one sounds any worse.

  20. Re:Basic Engineering! on The Missile Impasse In the Iran Negotiations · · Score: 1

    When someone says "For reference" they should really provide references.

  21. Re:Basic Engineering! on The Missile Impasse In the Iran Negotiations · · Score: 0

    Step 1: Define "Scientist" as anyone who dabbles in scientific endeavors.
    Step 2: Leave "peaceful nation" undefined.
    Step 3: ???
    Step 4: Profit!

  22. Re:Country run by oil barons does nothing!!! on How the Biggest, Most Expensive Oil Spill In History Changed Almost Nothing · · Score: 1

    Countries like Russia and the likes probably don't care much about their population's irrational fears and would much rather present a solution, if only for the "Ha ha!" aspect of it.

    Which is why Russia has the most progressive sexuality laws./s

  23. Re: Oh slashdot... on A 'Star Trek' Economic System May Be Closer Than You Think · · Score: 1

    You know what you are doing. Take off every Zig!

  24. Re:Improving the performance by more than 100% on Computer Program Fixes Old Code Faster Than Expert Engineers · · Score: 1

    I find that element in my education frustrating. Too bad one can't successfully sue the government or other providers of education for it.

  25. Re:Support and copyright ... on Computer Program Fixes Old Code Faster Than Expert Engineers · · Score: 1

    How much software do you own and how much software do you only have a license to use?