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  1. BREIN are complicit on Anti-Piracy Group BREIN Demands Torrents Time Cease and Desist · · Score: 4, Informative

    Let's not forget that BREIN pirated music for use in commercials. Pot, kettle.

  2. Re:Cats & dogs living together on Samsung's AdBlock Fast Removed From the Play Store (androidheadlines.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Google's customer base is advertisers. Android users, which pay nothing to Google, don't mind the advertisements.

  3. Re:Isn't the current mouse protection rule ... on Lawsuit Claims Buck Rogers Is In the Public Domain · · Score: 1

    Or they can get it in through an NDAA renewal or a Protecting Children From Abuse Act

  4. Re:Named after the product of corrosion? on Criticizing the Rust Language, and Why C/C++ Will Never Die · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nothing screams efficiency, well maintained, clean, and smooth running software like calling it "Rust"

  5. Re: FTYF, Submitter on The Medical Bill Mystery · · Score: 4, Informative

    Unexplained amnesia; unexplained edema; loss of eyesight or hearing; urinating blood; post transplant fever; chest pain; ischemic attack; blackening or other discoloration of body part; loss of sensation... all trump simple bleeding

  6. Re:Invite Only on Google Insiders Talk About Why Google+ Failed · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And when that didn't work, they tried to force it upon all their users, even the ones who didn't want to join in. That is not how you get people to like your product.

  7. Re:Note to all governments on Amazon To Pay Texas Sales Tax · · Score: 1

    So, Texas has a tax on articles exported from another state?

  8. Re:Good! on Australian WiFi Inventors Win US Legal Battle · · Score: 0

    I would have to say this is patent trolling. They waited until the technology was global before pursuing litigation. There is no reason to have waited this long unless the only motive was profit.

  9. Re:Subsidize the USPS on USPS Ending Overnight First-Class Letter Service · · Score: 1

    I do a lot of shipping between east coast US and asia-pacific. Packages coming from Japan arrive faster and for far cheaper than the same delivered by USPS domestically via first class standard. Fedex and UPS also have the courtesy to knock before affixing the "sorry we missed you" sticker and vanishing into the night. If they didn't have massive pensions, stopped stealing packages, honored insurance claims, and stopped forcing people to travel to the post office to pick up packages that were supposed to be delivered, USPS wouldn't be sinking like the Titanic. The problem with the postal service isn't the finances. The problem with the postal service is that it's filled with postal employees.

  10. Re:Obama's no longer using his Blackberry? on First Android Device Certified For DoD Personnel · · Score: 1

    I'd question the government taking information assurance seriously. Manning obtained hundreds of thousands of classified docs undetected, and was only caught when he bragged to an outsider who ratted him out. If anything, information assurance in the government is pretty much nonexistent.

  11. Re:Incorrect summary on Dutch ISP Files Police Complaint Against Spamhaus · · Score: 1

    They did block an IP. But then they gave the spammer a block of new IPs to use. They're trying to use legitimate customers as shields for their spam support service.

  12. Re:When Can They Force Decryption? on DOJ: We Can Force You To Decrypt That Laptop · · Score: 2

    They are incompetent because they have no evidence, not because they can't crack encryption. If the entire case hangs on the ability to decrypt digital data (which really has no verifiable chain of custody), then the prosecution isn't doing that great of a job.

  13. Designed to fail on Tornado Risk Seen For Social Security Data Center · · Score: 1

    If it's designed to fail, it means someone is going to get repeat business.

  14. Re:Dupe -- yes. Good to repeat often. on The Government Internet ID Proposal · · Score: 1

    Depending on the criminal, encryption might just offer a delay, not prevention to the release of data.

  15. Re:pdf on Firefox 5 Details: Sharing, Home Tab, PDF Viewer · · Score: 1

    A PDF looks the same in IE, Chrome, Firefox, Seamonkey, Safari, Opera, etc. HTML does not.

  16. Re:and not origianlly on Firefox 5 Details: Sharing, Home Tab, PDF Viewer · · Score: 1

    Mozilla. Mosaic Killer. Learned that from a bloomburg channel show about mozilla.

  17. Re:Why would you refuse a breathalyzer? on 'No Refusal' DUI Checkpoints Coming To Florida? · · Score: 1

    A cop's job is to enforce law, not save laws, not prevent crime. If a cop's actions are being easily overturned, then they really aren't enforcing the law, so either they fabricate evidence, or make it virtually impossible to defend.

  18. Re:Sour grapes? on Peter Sunde Wants To Create Alternative To ICANN · · Score: 1

    ...except in domain disputes, average joe never wins.

  19. Re:Theft should be treated as theft... on Cooks Source Magazine Apologizes — Sort Of · · Score: 1

    Duplicating data when there's no money exchanged as a condition: ok. Sharing physical means of information (books, cds, dvds, etc), with or without fee: ok. Taking someone's work, and selling it as your own: wrong.

  20. Re:The bad PR that Verizon would get? on Wikipedia Could Block 67 Million Verizon Customers · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's more about getting VZ customers to complain to VZ customer service. However, just like their wireless IRC ban, they'll place the blame everywhere but where it belongs, with VZ's network littering the internet with abuse. Not that long ago, they were the world's largest source of spam (a title now held by a PA company called BurstNet). To this day, they still provide bulletproof hosting to botnets, script kiddies, and spammers.

  21. Re:It's not mined out. on The Ascendancy of .co · · Score: 1

    If it has a for sale page up the week after registration, or it's hosted via sedo or information.com or other popular cybersquatters, that is a good indicator it's not in use.

  22. Re:ActiveDirectory - the last missing piece on Linux To Take Over Microsoft In Enterprises · · Score: 1

    Server 2008 CALs have to be validated against Microsoft, much like any other product validation from them. This is new, where 2003 just trusted you.

  23. Re:T-Mobile has exclusivity of iPhone in Germany on Can Apps Really Damage a Cellular Network? · · Score: 1

    Small country, I'll bite. What's their excuse for New York, Los Angeles, DC, Philadelphia, Houston, etc?

  24. Re:What happens if you destroy it? on College Student Finds GPS On Car, FBI Retrieves It · · Score: 1

    Isn't the 9th circuit also one of the most overturned in the country? Kinda makes you question the competency of its judges.

  25. Re:I don't feel sorry, but... on Canadian Spammer Fined Over $1 Billion · · Score: 1

    Should have double checked that before posting. Either the various computer crimes laws were repealed, or LII has an incomplete/inaccurate database.