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  1. Re:Earth Simulator on Supercomputers Race to Predict Storms · · Score: 3, Informative

    Nope, the Earth Simulator is to predict overall climatic change, not specific weather conditions.

  2. I don't understand on Microsoft Opens MSN Music Store · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Aren't the specifications of "160kbps" and "VBR" mutually exclusive?

  3. Re:Electricity Bill on Composite Of Earth At Night · · Score: 1

    That's not Cuba, it's a space station.

    But seriously, I think you're looking not at Cuba, but at Puerto Rico.

    Cuba's that big one right south of Florida that's slightly lit throughout, with a concentration at the top-left. To the left is Hispaniola, home of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The really bright bit is Puerto Rico.

  4. Re:A brief history of SUDO on Microsoft Patents sudo · · Score: 1

    You would file where the events took place. That means that jurisdiction would probably lie in DC, Redmond and whereever MS is incorporated (lots of corporations are incorporated in Deleware).

    The thing is that the venue statutes would pretty much force you to litigate in the US District Court for the Seattle area.

  5. Re:Horseshit on Alabama IT Whistleblower Fired For Spyware · · Score: 1

    Fiduciary duty *is* a legal duty, and it's not traditionally owed to investors by workers. It's for situations like lawyer-client or doctor-patient.

  6. Re:I believe that GPL is pretty clear on this on Is Sveasoft Violating the GPL? · · Score: 1

    You can't place arbitrary amounts in contracts as "liquidated damages." You have to come close to what the damages would actually be. Too large, and it's void as a penalty.

    In other words, unless you're talking $50, Sveasoft couldn't put in the "violation == $$$$$ fine" and have it enforced by a court.

  7. Re:Oh wow, good call. on 419ers Diversify Into Assassination Threats? · · Score: 1

    Because the Model Penal Code is in such widespread usage. =)

  8. Re:Ridiculous. on Is Math A Sport? · · Score: 1

    What about the "my kid is on the honor roll" bumper stickers? Don't we still have valedictorians, etc? I think that the real problem is that people just don't see it as often. There's a football game every week, but honor roll comes but once a term.

  9. Re:As someone 34 years old... on When Videogames Publishers Go 'Street' · · Score: 1

    That's different; Shrek and the Pixar films are already set in an imaginary land where suspension of disbelief is a given. It's when things get too close to reality and yet are decidedly still fake that it grates.

  10. Re:Look at it this way... on When Videogames Publishers Go 'Street' · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure that game publishers don't care about long-term potential. They're in the game for what sells at the moment. Hell, any given platform doesn't last any more than a few years, why should the games that run on it be made to "span the ages?"

  11. Re:A solution in search of a problem on Diebold Sued (Again) Over Shoddy Voting Machines · · Score: 1

    I should clarify: the federal constitution does not go into such specifics, state constitutions might indeed and those would need amending before a chage in counting systems could take place.

  12. Re:A solution in search of a problem on Diebold Sued (Again) Over Shoddy Voting Machines · · Score: 1

    Actually, it would only require that each state adopt such a scheme. The Constitution does not speak to how elections should be held in such detail.

  13. Re:News?!? on They Might Be Giants Open Their Own Music Store · · Score: 1

    Because we're nerds and TMBG, by the nature of their music, appeal to us. When the intersection of a popular (among us) band and current happenings in online music coincide, it's "News for Nerds," and thus /. fodder.

  14. Re:What about outside the US? on They Might Be Giants Open Their Own Music Store · · Score: 1

    That was Spinal Tap. I don't remember which consonant to put the heavy-metal umlaut over, so "Spinal Tap" will have to do.

  15. Re:So... on Build Your Own FreeBSD-powered Motorcycle · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Come on, now. Pay to see the damned movie. Whether you agree with Moore's politics or not, you will probably agree that the US could certainly stand to have some seriously different views brought to light. By paying for the movie, you'll give studios an incentive to make more politically risque films.

  16. Re:So what? on Boucher's Anti-DMCA Bill Gets High Profile Allies · · Score: 0

    Parent isn't funny, it's insightful (look past the names)!

  17. Two big things to remember on U.S. Supreme Court: Public Anonymity No Right · · Score: 1

    This is bad, sure, but there are two big things to remember.

    First, a state or municipality must, in order to arrest you, have a statute that makes it a crime to not give your name to a police officer. I can imagine that certain, more libertarian states, e.g. New Hampshire, won't be enacting a similar statute. I'm screwed as I live (currently, only) in Massachusetts.

    Secondly, the submitter is only half right when he says that, "someone will have to bring a separate case. And the SCOTUS is at liberty not to hear any case it doesn't like." It's wholly possible that a second case, one testing the exact point of law put forward will be interpreted in a more libertarian light by a Circuit Court of Appeals, thus creating binding precedent in that Circuit. If the Supreme Court doesn't grant certiorari, it stays precedent. Of course, different circuits may draw different conclusions, that's where we get the phrase "circuit split."

  18. Re:50/50 on Marking 50 Years Since Alan Turing's Death · · Score: 1

    And 50 minutes since this story was posted.

    There is something strange afoot.

  19. Re:No! on Is Caps Lock Dead? · · Score: 1

    You do realize that you used uppercase "I" many times in that, right?

  20. Re:Availability on Brew Your Own Auto Fuel For 41 Cents A Gallon · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yes, but if everyone in America were to convert to using biodiesel, then there'd be an impetus to make it commercially on a large scale. Essentially, we'd have farms producing either vegetable or soy oil for use as fuel. You can make biodiesel out of fresh oil even easier than out of used oil.

  21. Re:Expensive Hobbies on Build Your Own Model B-52 · · Score: 1

    But with the little ones, there's such a high power to weight ratio that you can get yourself out of a lot of bad situations. With this beast (BUFF, actually), you have to fly perfectly all the time.

  22. The real Springfield on A Complete Map To Springfield · · Score: 2, Informative

    People should know that the real Springfield is in Oregon, the kind of run-down suburb of Eugene. I call it a suburb, even though it's really just anothe town.

    The name of Eugene is the same as the Bart's principal, whose last name is Skinner, just like a certain Butte in Eugene, Oregon. Groening did go to the University of Oregon in Eugene after all. There's also a statute on the university campus that's really all too similar to that of the pioneer Springfield in the cartoon.

    There are a lot of other similarities as well, but I don't have time to go into them.

  23. Re:No name? on Area 51 Hackers Map Buried Surveillance Network · · Score: 1

    Dude, you're referring to the district of columbia (which is indeed within the 10 square mile limit). Read the sentence after that one.

  24. Re:No name? on Area 51 Hackers Map Buried Surveillance Network · · Score: 1

    Ahh, but the rules are different when you're talking about abandoned government property. There's an applicable statute, although I don't remember which. It's around the Federal Tort Claims Act, if you want to look it up.

  25. Re:Uh oh, We've got to the explaining to do... on Japanese Digital TV Viewers Complain About DRM Restrictions · · Score: 1

    It's not stealing; it's copyright infringment. There's a big difference.