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  1. 1 million dollars er years on Extending Pop Music Copyrights · · Score: 1

    In the US the Const. says that IP must be for a limited time. Why can't it just be set to some huge amount like 1e6 years? Then Congress can stop spending so much time on copyright laws and spend more on so-called terrorism laws.

  2. Re:If your a Geek, your DNA says... on Genetic Testing For Geekiness? · · Score: 1

    Is that random or does it mean anything? It doesn't have the correct number of bits for 8-bit Ascii, it equals gibberish in 7-bit Ascii though.
    '*PU)pTS%*PTA*rZ' doesn'y seem to mean much.

    P.S. Does anyone capitalize ASCII completely anymore?

  3. Re:zerg on Terrorist Link to Copyright Piracy Alleged · · Score: 1

    I made a JE a month or so back that I appropiated from "1984."
    Instead of "Eastasia" and "Urasia," I put "communism" and "terrorism."
    It goes:
    Actually I have to confess. I was the one who made the mistake and said we are fighting communism. We are actually fighting terrorism.

  4. Re:sample pic on Airport Screeners could see X-rated X-rays · · Score: 1

    First, why did they specifically mention the flag pin? Does that mean it American to do it and un-American, hence terroristic, to not want to?
    If so then that really is propaganda at least my definition of it. If not then it just looks like it.
    Second, it looks lile a ghost. I wonder what it's HP is.

  5. Re:They Are Putting Themselves out of Business on Airport Screeners could see X-rated X-rays · · Score: 1

    That is actually true of me. I don't fly, not because of some highly unlikely terrosism even but because of waiting half an hour, at best, to get on. And I only live on a city of 600k.
    This was true before 9/11 as well.
    Since I will more likely die on the way to the airport then in the plane shouldn't I stop driving there and increase my chances by at least 50%.
    Of course the fact that prices, for both the airlines them selves, and for the security methods, keep going up, and the fact that I have no place to go doesn't help. But it still isn't the most important reason.

  6. PDA lite on A Cheap and Portable Word Processor? · · Score: 1

    Is there anything like he is asking for but allow you to read as well. Sometimes I like to view a computer page like a book but obviously can't leave the monitor. It's like a PDA but only has text editing and viewing capabilities. It could be PDA sized but only have scrollbars but with a mini-KB attachable to write as well.
    Do stores sell anything like that? Or would I have to get it on something like Ebay? I just like getting it new.
    If not then is there a real PDA that does little but that. It would be more like a palm, et al. but much less powerful.
    Are there any new store-bought ones that are $50 or less? Or at least less that $100?

  7. Re:I have seen it on Ebert Gives 'Sith' Positive Review · · Score: 1

    Without buying of course, is there any easy way to see the Clone Wars? I've seen a few on Sci-Fi but they are erratic. Will there be a big compilation of all them at some point?
    There wa a group of the first set which I saw but the next hadn't come out yet. Does anyone know when all of them is there, including ones that may not exists right now?

  8. Re:Drugs and geometry on Email Worse Than Marijuana For Intelligence? · · Score: 1

    I though do get the reference to Zelda. Maybe I can learn new stuff to rid my mind of that trivia.
    So have you watched "The Nature of Things" by him as well? I liked that show but it isn't on anymore.

  9. Re:High IQ == High Intelligence? on Email Worse Than Marijuana For Intelligence? · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately you are right. Having charisma, ohh D&D, helps more than intelligence, more D&D. Machiavelli was correct in that aspect. Luckely some skills that it measures, or at least attempts to, are almost useful. Of course most Nobel Prize winners don't make money from competance but from the prize itself.
    I do remember a test of some sort where they asked who the author of some book like "Faust." I don't remember the book and didn't know the author but none of that is related to anything unless I am a librarian. They didn't even tell me the answer after the test was done.
    I hope humor is a form of IQ. If not then I may not be good in life.

  10. Re:Is it April Fools Day? on Offshoring to a Ship in International Waters · · Score: 1

    I heard at some point that cruise ships aren't "American." That means they don't need normal minimum wages and such. That itself means lower prices for passenger and worse conditions for work.

  11. Re:The whole Star Trek needs to be saved on TrekUnited Campaign Ends · · Score: 1

    I personally like the relativally utopian aspect. All the other sci-fi's are dark. You can watch one of those for societies where millions of people hate each other and are fighting all the time.
    Yes it could bring more ideas but so could making it a teenage drama.
    Now whether this particular series, or others, is good is a different story. But at least it doesn't have ships that have wires and tubes everywhere, a ship being shot at every episode, or fire fights all the time
    Even games are too distopian for me in many cases.
    In summary, keep the friendliness and remove any suckiness.

  12. Re:Armaments, Chapter Two, Verses Nine to Twenty-O on Breakthrough Decodes 'Classical Holy Grail' · · Score: 1

    [voice=in "The Fly"]Don't eat me.[/voice]

  13. between high school and doctorate on Math Awareness Month · · Score: 1

    Are there any books/sites/et al that start from "simple" math like advanced trig and go to the highest forms? So far most places I go start at a certain place, like Wolfram's site, and go up.
    If you don't know exactly what they mean it is basically useless. I even know the general ideas of stuff but then they add more.
    E.g. they give a page on conic sections. We all know that. But then they add stuff like R and sets and other things but miss the stuff in between.
    It's like they have high school stuff and doctorate stuff with nothing in between.
    Even some college books I have either stop too short or start too high. It's like trying to learn relativity with only simple calculus.

  14. ad hominum on Paris Hilton Recruited to Publicize Linux · · Score: 1

    Well I thought Linux was cool but since she is endorsing it, it must not be. Well there's always BSD or OS/2 or even DOS.

  15. 5 key pads on How the Secret Service Cracks Encrypted Evidence · · Score: 1

    I was at a job and we got one of the 5 key pads for doors. Before it was changed I found out the combo. At some other point in my life I saw someone do that same combo. Appearently it seems they didn't change the default.

  16. Re:An end to word-based passwords! on How the Secret Service Cracks Encrypted Evidence · · Score: 1

    Let's say I have trained my hands to type inhevnuhvg0- quickly. I don't remember it, almost like my PIN number, I even forgot that, but "finger remember" it. How would the various programs find out what it is?
    Yes the number of next possible characters is smaller but it is also more random. 'V' doesn't usually have 'n' after it.

  17. Re:Secrecy - because we are at War on The War on Public Knowledge · · Score: 1

    I made a journal entry about that but instead of eastasia and urasia(sp) I used communism and terrorism.

  18. Re:How to teach people to use a two button mouse. on Apple Developing Two-Button Mouse · · Score: 1

    So just to confuse people, the default default at fast food places is everything. Some fast foods might have a default of nothing.

  19. Re:Forget seeing this on Broadway... on Lord of the Rings Musical to Open in Toronto · · Score: 1

    I liked the "Planet of the Apes" musical better. Hows come they never make a real show like that?

  20. Re:My only dislike on Sunlight in a Tube · · Score: 1

    Eccentually you would put the dish on a clock. Instead of a spring though a larger weight, like a grandfather clock, would turn the dish to always face the sun. You would only need to wind it once a day. You could power it but then you wouldn't get all the good exercise "lighting" the building.
    Or you could have some kind of warped dish that can collect light from different directions at once. A hyperbola or something instead of a parabola.

  21. Re:Two alternatives on Sunlight in a Tube · · Score: 1

    Combined with Mr Burn's sun blocker would there be an explosion? Could he focus light onto the blocker?

  22. MS owns IBM on French Designer Ordered to Give up milka.fr · · Score: 1

    So she has to give up the domain? That is like IBM happening to use a trademark similar to MS's and therefore MS sues and get to claim all of IBM's assets, stock, and property. Even if there is a trademark dispute, which I don't think, the only think that should happen is a change required. If not then maybe a money fine, If that can't occur then assest should be taken, though Milka decision, to pay it off.

  23. Re:Here in Brazil... on Apple Wins Against Bloggers · · Score: 1

    So who detertmines what a journalist is? Is it someone who presents facts? Someone who has millions of people watching or paying? Some who is at the actual scene of the crime/whatever? What about a parent who has a website to report info about their children? They seem to be, oddly enough, reporters, to me at least.
    Why should only them get to keep info they have secret anyways? And why should I have to tell? If the "right to see your accuser" is applied to "non-journalists" then why not journalists as well?
    Why does a blog not count as a press system? Is it because it is "op-ed?" What about things like "Ask Abby" which are also opinion from but from the askee.

  24. Game from Bible on Views on Violence in Video Games · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Actually I had the urge to commit violence and did it. But not by playing a game. I just read a book. In fact I duplicated various human sacrifices mentioned in the Bible. Actually I was playing the game, "The true Bible," and got it from there.

    *Not this is not really true but what if someone said that.

    ** This game does not exist but if it did then it would contain more violence than most movies. If, "The Passion of the Christ," the game came out, that depicts torture, though it was for "good" reasons. Would playing that be a factor? Is it because it is real? Because it is religious or Christian? What about a game where Christians fought back against ancient Romans in the 100's AD? You try to kill as many Roman guards to allow you religion, Christianity, to flourish.

  25. trading actual cds on UK Record Industry Starts Suing Filesharers · · Score: 1

    If a bunch of people get together and mail each other, and strangers as well, CD's can it be illegal? If not then "fileshare" that way. If so then how can mailing them be bad? What about mailign books so they can be copied? Or records? Or even just handing them personally but copying them when you have it? Can giving it, not lending, to strangers be illicet?