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  1. Re:Who wants to help start our own party in the U. on Swedish Filesharers Start 'The Piracy Party' · · Score: 1

    YASQ, I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
    Are there any sites?
    How will the fact that, with the current election method, it will remove votes from other parties be remidied?
    At best I would suggest trying to coerce the Rebublican party of less gov't and more libertarain to more laws, isn't that what they want, to deal with IP that way.
    I know many people would become 'R's if they started acting that way rather than the exact opposite they are.

  2. Re:Denial of the addiction on Are Americans Addicted to Technology? · · Score: 1

    The problem with saying denial equals addiction is that it works other ways as well.
    If I ask you if you are addicted to drugs you will say no.
    I will too.
    Does that denial mean I am addicted?
    I don't take them so addiction is impossible.

    Now it is most likely a problem as you described but the emailing to the next person could be in fact because they can't talk normally.

    Like Cyrano de Bergerac having someone else do it for him, though in the case email rather than a human.

  3. Re:Are wiki's above the law? on John Seigenthaler Sr. Criticises Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    A wiki runs somewhere. Someone comes along and enters something illegal: how to be a sniper, slander or liber about a certain person, excerpts from a book against copyright, you name it.

    It's odd that you put sniping in the same sentence as copyright infringment. Yea they are just possibilities but still.

    Other than that I agree.

  4. Re:Easy Fix for Wikipedia on John Seigenthaler Sr. Criticises Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    Yes that would probably be a good way to solve that. I wound say that one reason Wikipedia is good is because anyone with good information can edit it as opposed to just a few who want to pay.
    To me it is like a library but in reverse.
    It's like a global blog but factual.
    Plus there is the fact that many people don't do enough of it to make paying worth it. Maybe a few edits a month. Still enough to help it but not for them to pay.
    Removing the anonymous access could work though.

    EDIT: I just reread your comment. It is actually better that I read it the first time,

    If many people marked a article as one of those you suggest then it does become "special."
    Then your idea might work. At least without anonymous editing.

    Even just requiring those types of articles, i.e. marked by other users, be edited a certain amount of time after registering, pethaps a few months.
    Especially with the "specified as more opinionated" or something like that.

  5. Re:We should invade canada on Canada Moves to Keep Skilled Workers · · Score: 1

    Everyone always makes sense of the Canadian Army.
    It probably it small but I remember reading about their help on D-Day.
    They had 5 carriers bring troops over.
    I believe 2 were British, 2 American, and 1 Canadian, or something like that.

  6. Re:Some numbers to compare Canada and USA on Canada Moves to Keep Skilled Workers · · Score: 1

    @GDP per capita Canada: $29,700
    @GDP per capita USA: $37,800
    What's the standard of living?

    @National average total taxation Canada: 48.2 %
    @National average total taxation USA: 41.4 %
    What about local?
    Where does the money go.

    @National unemployment rate Canada: 6.6%
    @National unemployment rate USA: 4.9%
    Do the unemployed live in slums?
    Are they as bad?
    Well that is probably but it might not be.

    @Total Violent crime per 100,000 people Canada: 963
    @Total violent crime per 100,000 people in USA: 466
    Where are those crimes? Small towns or large? East or west?
    Maybe most the violent crimes in Canada happen in Toronto.

    Everything can't be compared simply with 2 percent numbers.
    Give me a little more information, well alot, and I can turn the apples and oranges into green apples and red apples, i.e. better to compare.

  7. Re:Freezing you Ass Off on Canada Moves to Keep Skilled Workers · · Score: 1

    I personally like the cold weather.
    You can snuggle under a warm blanket with a roaring fire.
    "White Christmas" wasn't written in the south.
    In some summers it is very humid and you can't do much.
    Or it is very dry and that isn't much better.
    Plus I like the fact that bugs aren't crawling everywhere.
    I even think brushing snow off my car is fun.

    As for health care, what if you are poor?
    They can't aford it much here. Except for emergency.
    Yeah it isn't as good but at least they have it.
    It's for the same reason people go to third-world countries for stuff like operations.
    Rather than paying 100k, more than a year's salary for many people, they go to Mexico even, pay 5k, and 5k for travel, with only slightly less quality. Really good quality if they can't afford it here.

    French people in Canada, Quebec somehow got the entire country to make French an offical language. At least they use the metric system. hehe

    What is roots clothing?

  8. Re:Gah. on The Prisoner To Be Remade On U.K. TV · · Score: 1

    Luckely they are showing them. Or at least here they are.
    BBC america usually has them in the middle of the night.

  9. Re:Who are Spike TV? on Spike TV Video Game Award Winners · · Score: 1

    What gives anyone any credability for judging anything. I know I don't care about the Acadamy awards. Does what a random group of people know better than me?
    I don't listen to awards. They are just what people think which is often wrong, at least it is until the shows come out and people believe it.

  10. Re:What an aweful thing to say... on Drink Decaf and Die · · Score: 1

    Where was that?
    Is it online?
    What was the article acutally about?
    In any case it is a funny name.

  11. Re:this is good news on US Keeps Control of the Internet · · Score: 1

    What about for example Slashdot about Scientology where it actually had to remove, i.e. censor, a comment?
    What about all the illegal IP sites?
    Yes other countries prevent people from seeing stuff too.
    Most may even be more.
    It doesn't mean the US is innocent.
    If the US did no censoring, even highly illegal, completely immoral, or against national security, then I wouldn't mind if it had control. I would even be for it controling it.
    The "Great Firewall of America" doesn't prevent anti-gov't info from going out but it doesn't allow some things.
    Even simple things like encryption methods.
    Again the badness of the UN doesn't imply the goodness of the US.

  12. Re:Fixing Gov't on FBI Widens Use of National Security Letters · · Score: 1

    First that assumes most of the reps are good enough to re-elect. I don't agree with that. I would rather keep 90 bad senators out then keep 10 good in. Plus most people definately think their reps are the best so they will elect them in anyways.
    Plus if there is a limit, even of one year, then they don't have to do what the populous wants so they can be re-elected but what they think is right.
    I wonder of the state can determine that seperately from an amendment. From the rules of who can be elected, e.g. age, it seems like they can.

    The problem is that corps., and any association, are groups of people. Would that mean if a company, corp and not sole propriatorship, wanted to make an ad the gov't could prevent them but if a person or sole propriatorship, since they aren't groups, the gov't could stop them?

  13. Re:IANAA on Telecommuters May Owe Extra State Taxes · · Score: 1

    That's because they are stupider and deserve to have laws applied to them when they don't even know if it is good for them.
    Like drug laws and other personal ones people just think it's bad without a good reason.
    I mean what is the real difference between a child versus an adult?
    What is the difference between a land-owner and a non? If you aren't smart enough to even get land then you probably don't know what all these issues are about.

  14. Re:We already know how to stop Malaria!!! on Bill Gates Donates $258 Million to Fight Malaria · · Score: 1

    I was thinking along time ago about pollution. First world countries already have the required factories to produce without pollution. Third world do not. That's why we should make eco limits less there than here. Eventually when they improve their industry the laws can be more strict.

  15. Re:In further news... on Bill Gates Donates $258 Million to Fight Malaria · · Score: 1

    I just gave 44 dollars to some charity. I already gave a bigger percent of my net worth then he did. This doesn't even count the fact that he still has billions left. I only have thousands.
    I computed that for every cent, negligible to you and me, I have he's got 60,000 dollars, I wouldn't mind a hummer and the cost to increase it's MPG to at least 1 mile per gallon.
    Next time he gives 35 billion I will be a little more impressed.
    In other words I agree. 2.58e8 is alot to the people but not to him.
    100$ is alot to me but not to them.

  16. Re:Outrageous measures require outrageous response on The RIAA's Halloween Tricks · · Score: 1

    But I need the boxed set or Lord of the rings.
    I like the Slashdot FAQ talkinf about this.

    http://slashdot.org/faq/slashmeta.shtml#sm1100

    Or people will ignore you even though you make perfect sense.

    Why can't people get songs from indie bands that don't support the RIAA?

  17. Re:A means to no end? on Everything Bad is Good for You · · Score: 1

    If I wanted to dress like how society thinks I should then yes the frat guy should. Just because "worst dressed" lists don't like it as well as frat guys doesn't mean it's wrong. Just because I disagree with the popular opinino doesn't mean I am wrong.
    In general people of a similar intelligence or whatnot as me will dress like how I want to. I would guess that is true of most people.

  18. Re:A means to no end? on Everything Bad is Good for You · · Score: 1

    WARNING troll alert
    If reading is better then not reading does that apply to any kind? What about reading a KKK book?

  19. Re:Lesser of two evils? on Answers From The Civ IV Team · · Score: 1

    On my desktop I have no problem with that. I would easily rather have cd-checking instead of DRM.
    On a laptop maybe not. They are already limited in space of various kinds so it might make sense.
    Of course if they did choose that way then people might be used to DRM, oh rights-good, on some computers and want it on ones that don't have it. Slippery slopes are hard to predict.
    I still like the registering method. You can either play with the cd in like now and Civ3. Or you can register it with the company and play without the cd. That way my presious resources won't be used if I can't have them be but DRM isn't present either.
    In all cases, cd-present or registering, without DRM, a crack would work.

  20. Re:Advanced data compression in Civ IV on Answers From The Civ IV Team · · Score: 1

    I am thinking two things.
    First a function sin(x) can be infinite. I don't need a lookup table to find the value of any arbitrary 'x.'
    Second maybe it can only be infinite in certain conditions. A worker could be assigned to build roads until there are no more places. It then stops when that happens but starts again when a new spot occurs.
    It's not quite the same as an infinite list but it requires less then 7e80 particles of the universe to store.

  21. it helped me on Web Chats Help the Chronically Ill · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It actually helped me. I seemed to talk less before I was on the web conversing with others, though I don't know if /. users are robots who can pass the Turing test. Since I am more introverted it actually help me become less.

  22. Re:An ethical question regarding privacy on Google Terror Threat · · Score: 1

    Are the cameras real time? Gmaps isn't.
    I wouldn't mind if there was some way of having a 3D map of my city. I could zoom aroung the streets and such. Of course I personally, as a human, wouldn't want to be present. Though if all they saw was a car, that looks like mine, then I wouldn't be sad. It's like some games. GTA has realisitic buildings but has no people. If it were a real city it would be the same in my eyes.
    I think it is the fact that Google Maps only stores building and large objects and can't make out people's faces.
    It can't be used to catch a robber or to spy on someone who is doing something competely legal but embarresing. All it knows is that the Adult store is there. It can't tell if the mayor or president, ohh cool subliminal insults to the pres, or your neighbor is buying anything.

  23. patents per employee on Happy 60th Birthday IBM Research · · Score: 1

    It talks about 29021 patents. Beside the fact that one, a while ago since it is changing, of the heights of Everest was 29,028 feet, I wonder what that is in PPE, patents per employee. For a big company more patents doesn't mean as much when thought of this way.

  24. Re:Ackkk I hate freaking subjectivity on California Passes Violent Games Bill · · Score: 1

    No. There should be no law that prohibits the sale of anything to anyone. Especially stuff that you don't like and hasn't even been proven to be bad.
    Wine and nudity are a little more common in Europe. The only effect of them is to continue it to the next generation. There is no substantially higher rape or drunkeness there. They just don't "hate" it like many Americans.
    Now at best there should be a law that prohibits everything of that nature without some sort of test, like a driving licence.
    In any case, why does 19 or 16 not work instead?

  25. discrimination on California Passes Violent Games Bill · · Score: 1

    How come people can't prevent purchases from black people but not young? Does young mean stupid? Does old mean smart?
    How can a law be passed by people to affect people without representation?
    Does that fact that they are young, any arbitrary age depending on the gov't, mean they don't deserve rights? What if the age were set to 30?
    Why is this discrimination good but others bad?
    What discrimitation good and what is bad?