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  1. Re:It's not "trade" on A Composer's-Eye View of the Copyright Wars · · Score: 1

    The RIAA and its supporters say that not paying for someone else's work is unusual and wrong. You use someone else's work for free everytime you walk through a building. You don't pay the architect or the contractor anything. Yet that is what the RIAA wants for its goods.

  2. Re:General Relativity? on Inertial Mass Separate From Gravitational Mass? · · Score: 1

    The speed of light in a vacuum being constant means that while the light is in contact with something the speed of that something is 0 (using whatever units you like). As far as I can figure, that means all motion occurs between contacts.

  3. Format on Publishers Campaign For Universal E-Book Format · · Score: 1

    The current readers can read .txt files can't they?

  4. Re:That's too bad then on Inventor Demonstrates Infinitely Variable Transmission · · Score: 1

    Much less a bicycle.

  5. Re:The trend on Nintendo Consoles on Nintendo To Take On Piracy In 3-D · · Score: 1

    He didn't mean a remake of Super Mario Bros 2. There is a game out for the Wii called "New Super Mario Bros." and he meant a sequel to that.

  6. Re:Prior restraint? on ACTA Treaty Released · · Score: 1

    I never did get why they didn't lock him out of the system once he was found to be in imminent danger of killing someone.

  7. Vendors on Best WAP For Dense Crowds? · · Score: 1

    Call the vendors of the type of product you are looking for and ask them what they recommend.

  8. Fuel? on The Arctic Is Leaking Methane · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So can it be capped and used for fuel?

  9. Limited times on Ursula Le Guin's Petition Against Google Books · · Score: 3, Insightful

    But we cannot have free and open dissemination of information and literature unless the use of written material continues to be controlled by those who write it or own legitimate right in it.

    To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.

    So, what in her mind happens when that time expires?

  10. Routers and IPvx on IPv4 Free Pool Drops Below 10%, 1.0.0.0/8 Allocated · · Score: 1

    The way I understand it, routers still use IPv4. Is it feasable for routers to use IPv6 amongst themselves, freeing their IPv4 addresses for use at endpoints?

  11. The only man to have ever beaten Chuck Norris? on Facebook Master Password Was "Chuck Norris" · · Score: 2, Informative

    Norris was defeated in his first two tournaments, dropping decisions to Joe Lewis and Allen Steen and three matches at the International Karate Championships to Tony Tulleners. By 1967 Norris had improved enough that he scored victories over the likes of Lewis, Skipper Mullins, Arnold Urquidez, Victor Moore, Ron Marchini, and Steve Sanders. In early 1968, Norris suffered the tenth and last loss of his career, losing an upset decision to Louis Delgado.
    From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Norris

  12. Instant response? I don't think so. on Tech Tools Fostering "Mini Generation Gaps" · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Dr. Larry Rosen, a professor of psychology at California State University, says that the iGeneration, unlike their older peers, expect an instant response from everyone they communicate with, and don't have the patience for anything less.

    I thought that one of the benefits of texting was that you don't have to have a response immediately, or even read it immediately.

  13. Re:Ob. Matrix quote on 8% of Your DNA Comes From a Virus · · Score: 1

    "Transubstantiation is official church Doctrine" should read Transubstantiation is official Catholic Doctrine

  14. Re:What do you expect? on Software Piracy At the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    But when the owners decide to sell, the builders don't get a cut. When people go in and out of the building the builders don get a cut. Copyright holders are trying to do both. I'm saying this because the builder example is a poor one.

  15. Re:Fairly simple economics on Biofuels Coming With a High Environmental Price? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The economics shift when you consider goods that corn is a cheap substitute for in the United States due to subsidizing corn. When the United States subsidizes corn, that means that corn that would have sold elsewhere goes to the United States, driving up the prices of corn in those places. If biofuel causes the price of corn to rise, goods that would have been better than corn for a given purpose without the subsidy start looking better and better. That then eases the overall demand on corn, but it would help the most if the United States dropped its subsidy.

  16. Re:Happened in the past with renewables on Biofuels Coming With a High Environmental Price? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So we develop tech that allows us to throw some "solar nets" up into space and transfer the energy back to earth. Put them in the L4 and L5 Earth-Solar Lagrange points and we'll be in energy heaven for quite some time.

  17. Infrequently used refutation of 10,000 year theory on 48% of Americans Reject Evolution · · Score: 0, Redundant

    When someone brings up the 10,000 year theory, even though I've heard various long age of the universe statements in refutation, I rarely hear mention of the fact that there is evidence of human culture before 10,000 years ago. Maybe it should be brought up more?

    Wikipedia: 6th millennium BC

  18. Public contracts. on SCOTUS Case May End Sale Prices · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I'm for being able to contract for anything short term, with the added condition that all contracts be public. Private and long term contracts make it substantially harder to determine the value of the contract in front of you.

  19. Re:Welcome to the dawn of the totalitarian era on DMCA Creator Admits Failure, Blames RIAA · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Except as the Chinese seize more and more power, they find that they have to become less totalitarian in order to keep it.

  20. Do as I say or I'll warn you again! on Getting Your Government Files Via the FOIA · · Score: -1, Troll

    No when the executive branch isn't following bills you pass, you don't just pass another bill that it will disregard, you impeach the President and if necessary, the Vice-President.

  21. Re:SCO stock on The Score is IBM - 700,000 / SCO - 326 · · Score: -1, Redundant

    The article was written not to define "correction" but to head of fears that what was happening was much worse than a correction. When you are trying to head off fears, sometimes a little nudge in the right direction works better than a rigid assessment of what's happening, because if what you are saying is happening is too far from their perception of what is happening, they won't buy it.

    Then there is the matter of how close onto the event the article was written. As distance is gained from the event we can begin to apply better analysis as to what happened, but the article was written from a perspective too close to the event to accurately say.

  22. Re:I'm not buying. on DSL Gateways to Fight Piracy by Marking Video · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And this sort of technology is going to be hacked: Honey, why does the TV have this little circular icon with rotating "I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes" on it instead of the show?

  23. Re:Balki on EFF Forces DMCA Abuser to Apologize · · Score: 1

    What do you have against Bronson Pinchot, who has been acting since his role as Balki?

  24. Re:So what? on Billion Dollar Handout To Upgrade TVs · · Score: 1

    I bought a CRT 720p 30" with a digital tuner for $450. That doesn't seem to be that expensive. I think that SDTVs also come with HDTV tuners and then scale it down.

  25. 0 Gain? on TV Airwaves To Deliver Internet? · · Score: 1

    What's the point of 0 gain? How it it better than the input signal be decreased by the same amount as the gain?