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  1. Re:Motion for Summary Judgment on Judge Wipes Out Safe Harbor Provision In DMCA, Makes Cox Accomplice of Piracy (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The Fully Informed Jury Association would like a word with you.

  2. Re:Good on "Clock Boy" Ahmed Mohamed Seeking $15 Million In Damages · · Score: 1

    The rights of children are not the same as the rights of adults. The parents' responsibility for their children gives them special proper powers over their children, a subset of which, in loco parentis, are temporarily extended to schools.

    Using their best judgement, parents may spank their children to prevent them from running in front of cars or kicking the neighbor's pitbull. This is not a violation of a child's rights.

  3. Re:If they thought it was a bomb... on "Clock Boy" Ahmed Mohamed Seeking $15 Million In Damages · · Score: 1

    They didn't evacuate the school because it was easier and safer to remove the child and his device from the school than to remove everybody from the school.

  4. Re:Dad of Ahmed is an Islamic Supremacist on "Clock Boy" Ahmed Mohamed Seeking $15 Million In Damages · · Score: 1

    All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. (Edmund Burke)

    Ignoring loud people with dangerous stands gives ignorant bystanders the impression that there's nothing wrong. There's no requirement that I actively oppose villains, but I'm not improving the world when i fail to do so.

  5. Re:Damn straight he should sue for 15M. on "Clock Boy" Ahmed Mohamed Seeking $15 Million In Damages · · Score: 0

    Nice job of selective reading. You ignored all the clues that he and his father were trying to cause trouble in an Islamic manner. He deserves a crippling accident followed by weeks of intense pain and death.

  6. I've had the firefox history file get corrupted more than once. Firefox doesn't try to recover any of it, just rejects it and starts a new one. There's no reasonably easy way to merge the good parts of the corrupted file with the new one.

  7. Re:Godwin on Donald Trump Obliquely Backs a Federal Database To Track Muslims · · Score: 1

    If "the" dictionary claims fascism as "right wing", it's wrong. Fascism is characterized by nationalism and government control of property (especially business) with property ownership remaining in private hands in name only. Since "right wing" is based first on the right to life and second on property rights, fascism and the right are mutually exclusive.

  8. Re:Trump? on Donald Trump Obliquely Backs a Federal Database To Track Muslims · · Score: 1

    At this time, it looks like we'll have a choice between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Since it doesn't make sense to elect someone who has committed treason and is a habitual criminal, we ought to know as much as possible about the alternative, Trump.

  9. Re:This might put him over the top in the polls on Donald Trump Obliquely Backs a Federal Database To Track Muslims · · Score: 1

    Good statistics are hard to come by, but best estimates are that the percentage of millionaires is higher among Democrats than Republicans.

    Jackson's Democratic Party was founded in 1828 to preserve and promote race-based slavery, and that remains its goal in modern disguise. In 1896, William Jennings Bryan added theft to the Democrat arsenal.

  10. Re:Hmmm interesting on Donald Trump Obliquely Backs a Federal Database To Track Muslims · · Score: 1

    Libertarians understand that Atlas Shrugged is fiction.

    For what it's worth, a major part of the theme of Atlas Shrugged is the heroes removing themselves from the realm of the villains. This is a wide separation from the Koran and a great deal of more aggressive literature.

  11. Re:Hmmm interesting on Donald Trump Obliquely Backs a Federal Database To Track Muslims · · Score: 1

    The rights have, by and large, already been decided and codified into law. "Who decides they're being violated?" depends on timeframe and other bits of context, and includes such possibilities as "whoever's there", "the cop on the beat", "the judge", "the prosecutor", "the jury", "the legislature", et alii.

    Muslims as a group have a history of threatening and attacking everyone, behavior which started with the founding of the religion and continues through this very day. Their holy book calls for the enslavement or murder of everyone else, and thus every avowed Muslim is threatening everyone else. Threatening someone with enslavement or murder is a clear violation of rights.

    If Islam weren't a religion, tracking them would be properly understood to be necessary and proper. That Islam is a religion is not grounds for not doing what is necessary for any other group with the same beliefs and behaviors.

    Islam is unique among major modern religions in its murderous intent and actions.

  12. Re:That's what Daniel Craig said on George Lucas: "I'm Done With Star Wars" · · Score: 1

    Never Say Never Again.

  13. Re:Why? on George Lucas: "I'm Done With Star Wars" · · Score: 1

    Doesn't that violate the Geneva Convention?

  14. Re:Awful UI, buggy, doc out of date on 20 Years of GIMP (gimp.org) · · Score: 1

    When used in the traditional gimp multiple-windows mode, the layers list has a separate window shared with paths, channels, and undo history. It's always there, ready for quick use without going through the menu.

    Dealing with text in gimp is very inconvenient at best. A completely new technique is needed, something like "text objects" that could be moved, resized, and edited long after their original creation.

  15. Re:Tried it, couldn't use it on 20 Years of GIMP (gimp.org) · · Score: 1

    Documentation is a severe problem. The basic stuff is there, but about half of the trickier stuff either has incomplete coverage or is missing altogether. Most plugins have no documentation at all.

  16. Re:Sadly.. on 20 Years of GIMP (gimp.org) · · Score: 1

    When gimp finally completes the transition to 16-bit internals, many visible problems are going to disappear. Blocks or banding as a result of color adjustments should go away.

  17. Re:Sadly.. on 20 Years of GIMP (gimp.org) · · Score: 3, Informative

    You don't even need to patch. Shortcuts are configurable.

  18. Re:Sadly.. on 20 Years of GIMP (gimp.org) · · Score: 1

    winehq claims that Photoshop CS6 runs under wine at the gold level (i.e. most things work but there are some problems). Practically, that means if photoshop has some function you really need and you absolutely refuse to use Microsoft, you can get it under wine but it won't be convenient.

  19. Re:Fork on 20 Years of GIMP (gimp.org) · · Score: 2

    There's a lot going on in gimp. Multiple plugin mechanisms, hundreds on add-ons. There's layers, selections, paths, undo, channels, and even some video functions. A complete rewrite without losing functionality would be a major unpaid commitment for one person.

  20. Re:Ban all the brooms on Controversy Over High-Tech Brooms Sweeps Through Sport of Curling · · Score: 1

    Calvinball.

  21. Re:Internet News on Controversy Over High-Tech Brooms Sweeps Through Sport of Curling · · Score: 1

    I love curling. I think it's hilarious.
    The rules seem straightforward, but the strategies baffle me.

  22. Re:Looking forwards on Controversy Over High-Tech Brooms Sweeps Through Sport of Curling · · Score: 1

    No one is arguing that you should handicap more talented athletes.

    Some horse races handicap superior horses with additional weight. Some golf contests use calculated handicaps, also some league tenpin bowling.

  23. Re: Strange first sentence on Reuters Bans RAW Photo Format (petapixel.com) · · Score: 1

    OK. A new drug relieves a doctor from choosing between an old, expensive, and ineffective treatment versus no treatment at all.

  24. Re:Terrible summary on Reuters Bans RAW Photo Format (petapixel.com) · · Score: 1

    The murderer's face is in deep shadow. The camera's JPEG shows nothing but uniform black there, but the raw file has enough shadow detail to give a recognizable image. You and Reuters insist on the camera's JPEG. C'est la vie.

  25. Re:OMG Pacific Rim on Structural Engineer On the Fallacies of Movie Bridge Destruction (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    If they're AC motors, a variable autotransformer (Variac®) would suffice. For electronic control, thyratrons have been around since the 1920s. Air motors and hydraulic motors with appropriate control technology are other possibilities.