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  1. Re:We don't bother with sidearms, we use BIG GUNS on British Police Foil Alleged Mall Massacre Copycat Plot · · Score: 1

    Never mind trying to suggest that a 5.56 round from an SA-80 hits harder than a 9mm pistol.

  2. Re:Bail Out on BlackBerry Founders May Try To Take Over the Company · · Score: 1

    And that attitude is probably why they have a billion dollars to throw around and you don't :p

  3. Re:What?? on Passenger Lands Plane After Pilot Collapses and Dies At the Controls · · Score: 1

    He did not have instrument lights.

  4. Re:BT's "cease charge" on The Ridiculous Tech Fees You're Still Paying · · Score: 1
    Always cancel the direct debit before they can take these charges. Then it's their problem to convince you, and not vice versa.

    If you've already paid, usually small claims works.

  5. Re:Doesn't mean you can copy it. on First Few Doctor Who Episodes May Fall To Public Domain Next Year · · Score: 1

    Yup. Most likely bogus, but unfortunately it comes down to who's got the biggest dick to swing around in these situations.

  6. Re:Time for an Election in the USA... on Slashdot Asks: How Does the US Gov't Budget Crunch Affect You? · · Score: 1

    Your country has not passed a budget since 1997.

  7. Re:How much did it cost on Bennett Haselton's Response To That "Don't Talk to Cops" Video · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And why does anyone think the musings of some random asshole are better informed than an actual, y'know, law professor?

  8. Re:And we're reading about it here why? on US Forces Undertake Two African Raids, Capture Embassy Bombing Figure · · Score: 1

    The US tries and knocks down your door and fails, you're the winner. Not that hard.

  9. Re:Technology usually makes workers more disposabl on The Luddites Are Almost Always Wrong: Why Tech Doesn't Kill Jobs · · Score: 1

    No. The factory revolution preceded the revolution in agriculture, which didn't really get going until the 1830s. People were still harvesting crops with sickles until the mid-Victorian era. Up until the 1930s, anyone with two strong arms could easily get a job working the land in any temperate climate.

  10. Re:Technology usually makes workers more disposabl on The Luddites Are Almost Always Wrong: Why Tech Doesn't Kill Jobs · · Score: 1

    And yet they freely migrated from the land to the factories. Might have been hard but they made a choice.

  11. Re:This article assumes... on The Luddites Are Almost Always Wrong: Why Tech Doesn't Kill Jobs · · Score: 1

    People have been fretting about this since the Industrial Revolution. Back then, they had no need of "Social Media Marketing Co-ordinators", or "Chief Imagineers", or whatever else. Jobs appear, because ultimately we all want to improve our standard of living and we can all improve that by, ultimately, the haves transacting with the have-nots.

  12. Re:What? on The Luddites Are Almost Always Wrong: Why Tech Doesn't Kill Jobs · · Score: 1

    What the hell? Industrial weaving caused absolute chaos for the cottage weaving industry. Thousands of weavers would be replaced by a few hundred (relatively) unskilled workers.

  13. Re:Another alternative would be... on California Outlaws 'Revenge Porn' · · Score: 1

    Sometimes existing law is simply not adequate for changing technology or new social norms. For example, many jurisdictions did not criminalise marital rape until relatively recently, so the law had to change. And in fact, this law is proposing to use the framework of an existing law, and simply includes new behaviour in its scope.

  14. Re:Luddites aren't obsolete yet on The Luddites Are Almost Always Wrong: Why Tech Doesn't Kill Jobs · · Score: 1

    Thing is, that "underclass" is also shrinking fast. The truth is, supply and demand will adjust the labour market to sources of new jobs, though there's a strong argument that a lot more could be done to ease transition.

  15. Re:Doesn't mean you can copy it. on First Few Doctor Who Episodes May Fall To Public Domain Next Year · · Score: 1
    Because Steamboat Willie & Fantasia are not covered under the broadcast copyright. They may though be public domain in the UK, though I don't think so - they depend on the lives of authors, screenwriters, and no doubt one of them lasted until relatively recently. There is also they issue that they include trademarks, which complicates matters slightly.

    You may have slightly misunderstood your lawyer - the copyright in underlying scripts, music, etc, survives the work, but you still have the right to make copies of the fixed work. So you can't copy the script from one of these episodes, but you can (shortly) distribute a copy of the episode.

  16. Re:Yeah. Window dressing. on California Outlaws 'Revenge Porn' · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that's kinda how law-writing works. The alternative is writing laws that catch things you did not intend.

  17. Re:Doesn't mean you can copy it. on First Few Doctor Who Episodes May Fall To Public Domain Next Year · · Score: 0

    No, you need to read the legislation. You can't re-record the music or scripts, but you most certainly can make copies of the tapes and do whatever you wish with those copies.

  18. Re:IANAL but...This law doesn't seem to address th on California Outlaws 'Revenge Porn' · · Score: 1

    I think the intent is to keep the offence relatively narrow, since there are a lot of ways these images could come to be public, and not all - probably most - do not seserve or require the full majesty of the law. As for questions of intent, well, that's why we have courts.

  19. Re:Nudes do more than humiliate you... on California Outlaws 'Revenge Porn' · · Score: 1

    And I had a friend who worked her way through college by stripping. Now happily married. Sorry to hear your friend's a dick, though :-/

  20. Re:How about on California Outlaws 'Revenge Porn' · · Score: 2

    What the hell? No, it's really fucking obvious that she didn't consent to having them broadcast on the net. Really fucking obvious.

  21. Re:Twitter? Really? on Tom Clancy Is Dead At 66 · · Score: 1

    Given the young age at which he died (in mortality terms), he probably dropped dead without warning. That's quite a traumatic and busy time for those around you, and press releases may may not be top of your list.

  22. It's fucking horrible on Come Try Out Slashdot's New Design (In Beta) · · Score: 1

    Do this and you've lost another reader.

  23. Re:Hold up. on Physicists Discover Geometry Underlying Particle Physics · · Score: 1

    Umm, you're doing science wrong. Hypothesis, then measure, please. There's no point measure without having a question to answer.

  24. Re:Autistic huh? on Arrest Made In Webcam Highjacking Extortion Case · · Score: 1
    Better or worse than OMGZ FEMALE MUST MAKE STUPID JOKE?

    lameness filter does not undertand point i make must write more in small caps.

  25. Re:Now it just remains to be seen... on Nissan's Autonomous Car Now Road Legal In Japan · · Score: 1

    Or a motorcyclist. Are those acceptably non-toy-like? And I quite enjoy not spending thousands every year on a transportation device, and spending it instead on *real* toys.