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  1. Sizes of industries on Report From RIAA v. Verizon Case · · Score: 1

    industry doesn't hold a candle to the revenue or power of the music industry.

    I thought I read somewhere that the computer industry was bigger than the entertainment industry. Flexing your muscle in Congress doesn't necessarily mean you are the biggest industry.

  2. Someone should release the IP on Report From RIAA v. Verizon Case · · Score: 1

    that way the user can check and be aware that they're after him.

  3. Cherry blossoms on Slashback: Cinelerra, Dolphiname, Phoenix · · Score: 1

    It translates in Enlgish usually to Cherry blossoms.

  4. Pronounciation of Door? on Slashback: Cinelerra, Dolphiname, Phoenix · · Score: 1

    So you're saying that "door" should be pronounced like Homer's "doh"... Is that what he's been saying all this time...

  5. Vague sentence on Sputnik's 45th Anniversary · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually the choice of HAM Radio Broadcast frequencies was neither small nor harmless.

    I'm not entirely clear as to what this refers to, but are you saying that the frequencies that the people who worked on Sputnik decided to have it broadcast on were ones in use by Ham Operators?
    The FCC was created in 1934. I found this link that may shed some light on the radio frequency situation around that time.

  6. Knowing what a tree looks like... on 22lb Ice Blocks From the Sky · · Score: 1

    He was the first eviromentalist tree-hugger. after hugging all those trees, when he had to guess what they might look like, and saw people, his brain said to him- "Hey, that about the shape trees felt like."

  7. Mod parent up as informative... on 22lb Ice Blocks From the Sky · · Score: 1

    because I just realized... Neither do I!

  8. Protection for trademark using speech on EBay Subject of Patent Action · · Score: 1

    It makes sense to me that using a trademark in parody would more likely be protected when the trademark is used to parody the corporation in question, than to parody soemthing else entirely.

  9. Did he actually have a device capable of doing on EBay Subject of Patent Action · · Score: 1

    this, or is he just patenting the goals a system for buying and selling should achieve.

  10. Intentionally Vague Patent Wording... on EBay Subject of Patent Action · · Score: 1

    Alright you two Einsteins below reminding him that Seattle is a city and all other comers, consider for a moment that "state of Seattle" could mean a state with a city called Seattle in it, a city in a Seattle condition, or even a Seattle state of mind, thus allowing him to apply his patent to a much wider category than if he had said the city of Seattle.

  11. Compatible means that on Software HDCD Decoding? · · Score: 1

    it will play as a regular CD on a normal CD player and thus compatible with it.

  12. Outlook Express scripting feature on When Do You Really Need a Lawyer? · · Score: 1

    So you're saying that the hobbyist has no legitamate reasons to use scripting...interesting.

  13. How the Klez virus works... on When Do You Really Need a Lawyer? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Someone with both him in their Address book and the CEO in their address book got the Klez virus. The Klez virus looks in the currently infected victim's address book for an e-mail address to pretend to be from and sends a message to another address in that address book.

  14. Legal system on Eldred vs. Ashcroft · · Score: 0, Redundant

    If the legal briefs said vs DOJ then I'm sure that Slashdot would say vs DOJ, but they don't, they say vs Ashcroft.

  15. So, whose idea was it... on For Want Of A Soyuz · · Score: 1

    to use a craft that has to be destroyed every 6 months as a lifeboat anyways?

  16. Short-sighted vision of the future on Microsoft's Vision Of Future Workplaces · · Score: 2, Funny

    What, no Evangelion, no Lain concepts?

  17. This feature almost already exists. on Microsoft's Vision Of Future Workplaces · · Score: 1

    make sure that one of the computers has a shared folder. Give yourself the necessary privleges to copy a file. Navigate to that folder using network neighborhood. copy the file.

  18. Names, names, name on FSF Issues GNU/Linux Name FAQ · · Score: 1

    So, uh, what do I call Cygwin?

  19. Banjo-Kazooie and Conker showed up in a promo for on Microsoft Buys Rare · · Score: 1

    X-Box Live. TechTV had it.

  20. No, Nintendo still owns that, but... on Microsoft Buys Rare · · Score: 1

    look for Banjo Kazooie and that squirrel Conker, and perhaps even the fairy on Rare's front page

  21. The granting of rights on Directors Counter-Sue Movie Bowdlerizing Company · · Score: 1

    Forget the rights of the original creator.

    You seem to be unaware that when you grant someone a right, you are taking a right away from someone else, or several someone elses.
    Giving the original creator the right to have his vison remain untouched means taking away the right from everyone else to touch it. Shall we forget their feelings, or that they're even human beings at all, because it's so much easier to think of them as the Evil Vision Destroyers, whose editing are so damaging to our visionaries.

  22. Copyright designed to prevent this? Wrong! on Directors Counter-Sue Movie Bowdlerizing Company · · Score: 1

    Copyright was designed to give people an incentive to produce things, not this specifically.

    When the revolution comes, your works will be edited, and you will like it

  23. Thats why there needs to be more moderators... on Running 100,000 Parallel Threads · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    so that the moderation can't be swayed by bad moderation. As it is, any given post gets affected by at most about 10 moderators.

  24. Re:Weird units: What a small star on A Shocking Space Movie · · Score: 3, Informative

    From: "Koczor, Ron"

    To: 'Robert Claypool '
    Subject :
    RE: Crab pulsar article

    Actually, based on the comments we've received from readers, the
    comparison was a good one. Our intention was to demonstrate to people the
    "size" of the star. And I think most people understood that we were talking
    about size as the diameter of the star. Most people think of the size of
    astronomical objects in linear dimensions, not volume.

    When people think of stars they think of massive objects bigger than
    earth. By comparing it to a well-known earth landmark, the imagery of size
    becomes clearer.

    I'm sorry the comparison didn't work for you.

    Ron

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Robert Claypool
    To: ron.koczor@msfc.nasa.gov
    Sent: 9/20/02 6:34 PM
    Subject: Crab pulsar article

    This article:
    http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2002/ 19sep_crab movie.htm?list139810
    lists you as the responsible NASA official. It doesn't make sense to me why
    there is a comparison between the Crab pulsar and Manhattan, especially in
    the light of a lack of conventional figures, such as cubic kilometers and
    kilograms. Further the Crab pulsar is a small star, while Manhattan is a big
    city. Comparing them creates a dissonance in the sense of size one usually
    tries to create when making such a comparison. I would appreciate it if NASA
    took these into consideration in future articles.

  25. Re:PS2 Firewire Port... on New Tech - What is RCA's VPORT? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes 1394, and Sony calls its implementation the i.Link
    Sony's Playstation Website's Comment on the connecter