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  1. Re:This was not censorship. on Wikipedia Censored To Protect Captive Reporter · · Score: 1

    You don't have the right to know all indisputable facts.

    Exactly. Well said!

  2. Re:Doubt it's pirates on What Can I Do About Book Pirates? · · Score: 1

    If I'm looking at the correct book, it was published in 1999. I would assume resales would increase in some sort of exponential fashion over 10 years.

  3. Doubt it's pirates on What Can I Do About Book Pirates? · · Score: 1

    I doubt it's pirates. Your decline in sales is most likely due to students re-selling your used textbooks. Change a word (or two) and release a new edition to put a damper on used textbook sales. Students will love that. Probably so much that they would actually start to pirate your book...

  4. It's because... on Only 2 in 500 College Students Believe in IP · · Score: 1

    kids don't care that Britney is not able to keep a Gulfstream IV, and has to replace it with a smaller Gulfstream III, which doesn't have a remote control for its surround sound DVD system.

  5. My high school was stupid too on Kutztown Students get Felony Charges · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This reminds me of a time in High School when I was called to the office and told my network folder had been cleared and my login disabled for downloading MP3s. What were these MP3's that I downloaded? JFK's speeches for a final project in one of my classes.

  6. Do what amazon.com did on Large-Scale Paper-To-Digital Conversion? · · Score: 1
  7. I had a great time on FIRST Robotics Championship Underway · · Score: 1

    I was the lead programmer for our team, 1240, and I had a really great time participating in the Midwest Regional Competition. We ended up getting third to last (we were under manned and under budgeted), but it isn't about winning.

    What was so cool about this whole thing was, if you needed help with your robot, there were literally 2 or 3 teams coming to help you, because teammate selections were random it was to your best interest that everyone's robot worked! Everyone there was so nice and easy to talk with.

    I just wish I wasn't a senior when our school started to participate with this, because I would definitely do it again!

  8. Re:No big changes on Biometrics in the Workplace · · Score: 1

    You can't. It checks for body heat too.

  9. Re:archive.org cache on Free-Floating UNIX · · Score: 3, Informative
  10. archive.org cache on Free-Floating UNIX · · Score: 1

    http://web.archive.org/web/20020210134518/http://c m.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/otherunix.html (has some pictures)

  11. Re:Huh... on RIAA Parses 'P2P' As 'Peer 2 Porn' · · Score: 2, Informative

    Before. http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,60318,00 .html

  12. Re:Downloaded Music has NO copyright notice on Filesharing Up 10% After RIAA Threatens Users · · Score: 1

    Good point, much better than listening to something before each track :) Anyway this document would provide any more answers about this question: Digital Audio Recording Devices and Media It also explains though "Nothing in this chapter requires any person engaged in the importation or manufacture of digital musical recordings to encode any such digital musical recording with respect to its copyright status" You just can't tag inaccurate copyright information... but yeah, when you make the MP3 files in the first place you should notice the copyright on the back of the cd case ;)

  13. Re:Downloaded Music has NO copyright notice on Filesharing Up 10% After RIAA Threatens Users · · Score: 1

    "The use of a copyright notice is no longer required under U. S. law" Plus when you pop in your music CD would you want to listen to a copyright notice before every song? I think not.

  14. Text Ads on Are Plain-Text Ads Doomed? · · Score: 1

    I tend to ignore graphical ads automaticly, text ads (such as the ones on MSN and Google) actually stand out for me. Plus they take less time to load ;)

  15. It happens to the best of us on My Short Life As An Unintentional Porn Spammer · · Score: 1

    Some spammer also used my email address in their reply-to field, and I was surprised that I only got one human reply asking me to take them off 'my list'. I did however get hundreds of "failed mail" messages and auto replies. Darn spam.

  16. W3C can _say_ whatever they want but... on W3C's New XHTML 2.0 Draft A Mistake? · · Score: 1

    I still fail to see the reason why change is needed. There are billions of websites out there, and they all seem to work fine for me. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Long live HTML 4.01 :D

  17. Its fiction but quite informative... on How An Andromeda Strain Might be Strained · · Score: 1

    Michael Crichton's "Andromeda Strain" is a great book on this topic.