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  1. I'm starting to notice a pattern... on Apple Wins EU Ban of Smaller Samsung Tablet, Demands $2.5 Billion In Damages · · Score: 1

    In the Apple vs Samsung patent war, it seems like almost every Apple initiated suit results in a win or injunction, but a Samsung initiated suit usually results in a loss followed by a judge that questions why a suit like it should even be brought up. The main outcome is stifling innovation and reducing competition for end consumer.

  2. Re:More liberal bullshit. on UCLA Develops Transparent, Electricity-Generating, Solar Cell Windows · · Score: 1

    Why burn them when you can hook them up to a machine running an earth-like simulation?

  3. Re:Goodbye jobs on US Regaining Manufacturing Might With Robots and 3D Printing · · Score: 1

    There are always jobs to do like fixing roads and bridges. The only problem is financing these things.

  4. Re:Please sign in to your cable or sat account on DirecTV Drops Viacom Channels · · Score: 1

    Why would Viacom force you to sign up for a service that can drop them a provider that can unceremoniously drop them? I think the endgame will be providing content over a series of tubes.

  5. Re:Huh? on Chinese Company Sues Apple Over Siri · · Score: 1

    This just in: there are millions of people in China, each with their own hope, dreams, and understanding of intellectual property rights.

  6. Re:Fewer, but more destructive on Nukes Are "The Only Peacekeeping Weapons the World Has Ever Known," Says Waltz · · Score: 1

    There are other models you could use. For example, in the US, the second amendment allows private citizens to arm themselves and we have more guns per capita than other countries as a result. Because of the proliferation of arms in the US, we should have correspondingly low crime rates, since armament is a deterrence.

  7. Re:Oblig: TED Talk on Apple-Motorola Judge Questions Need For Software Patents · · Score: 1

    Calling what the NCI does "basic research" is really glossing it over. It would be the equivalent of saying that once a compound is identified as being approved for use, any shlub could find a factory and mass produce and distribute it.

  8. Re:Oblig: TED Talk on Apple-Motorola Judge Questions Need For Software Patents · · Score: 1

    That's why we currently rely on private companies to make the decisions on who is a good research and who is a bad researcher when a company in total only makes two or three really profitable drugs every decade.

    This is historically false. Oncology is currently the biggest money maker for the pharmaceutical industry, but the field didn't exist before the government established the NCI. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_cancer_institute

  9. Re:Are you sure? on First iOS Malware Discovered In Apple's App Store · · Score: 3, Informative

    Didn't the iOS LinkeIn App get caught doing similar over a month ago? http://blog.skycure.com/2012/06/linkedout-linkedin-privacy-issue.html

  10. Re:DEAR POOFTERS AND RED COATS on Valve Hands Over Its Own Movie-Making Tools To Gamers · · Score: 1

    Oh god, it's a hater. You are worse than a douche.

  11. Re:Why they cancelled the Texas Super Collider? on Texas Scientists Regret Loss of Higgs Boson Quest · · Score: 1

    They were allegedly born in Massachusetts and Connecticut respectively, but are associated with Texas (the latter being elected governor of the state, even).

  12. Re:but... on Comcast Pays $800,000 To U.S. For Hiding Stand-Alone Broadband · · Score: 3, Informative

    No, because they didn't have an agreement with the Government to offer smaller combos when they bought out programming interest of 1/5 of the the OTA television stations.

  13. Re:Young listeners? on Young Listeners Opt For Streaming Over Owning · · Score: 2

    I agree with you. I'll add the fact that due to media consolidation, there are fewer local venues available for artists to gain exposure through traditional outlets. There are new media streams available, but the noise to signal ratio is far higher.

  14. Re:Obviously on House Appropriators May Limit Public Availability of Pending Bills · · Score: 0

    TLDR version: The federal government has authority to regulate health care because people can buy insurance/healthcare services from companies across state lines. The 10th amendment does not apply.

  15. Re:Not Surprising on RIM May Need To Write Off $1 Billion In Inventory · · Score: 1

    They could just as easily switch to a cross-platform alternative like XMPP (Google Talk) or a proprietary alternative on a better platform like iMessage.

  16. Should have used Duck Duck Go on New Jersey Mayor and Son Arrested For Nuking Recall Website · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Using Google for criminal enterprises is bad news bears.

  17. Re:So that's really why he gave up his citizenship on Facebook, Zuckerberg Sued Over IPO · · Score: 2

    B) Wrong, Saverin renounced his citizenship to avoid paying his 15% capital gains tax on his investment in American companies, including his shares in Facebook. Given his financial situation, it is unlikely that he is "working" in Singapore.

  18. Re:Common Sense on SAP VP Arrested In False Barcode Scheme · · Score: 2

    Windmills don't work that way.

  19. Re:That's just part of the concern.. on EU Blocks France's Ban of Monsanto's GM Maize · · Score: 1

    Since Monsanto sues farmers that grow their patented seeds without a license, the danger exists that an independent farmer could end up growing these plants inadvertently and become targeted for lawsuits. This is not a theoretical danger, it is happening now in the US. While the seeds are not necessarily harmful to eat, it is harmful to independent farmers that save their own seeds for replanting the next year.

  20. Re:Oh Geez on Researchers Use Google's Search Algorithms To Fight Cancer · · Score: 1

    There are a few extra layers of abstraction here. They are analyzing genes, which express themselves on a cellular level, which aggregate to form body parts.

  21. Re:10 Amendment on Password Protection Act: Bans Bosses Asking For Facebook Passwords · · Score: 1

    Under the original Confederacy, doing business across state lines was impossible due to tariffs and differing currencies. The fact that interstate commerce is so ubiquitous now is a testament to the Constitutions success. I would argue that since you don't know which state an internet service is based makes holding accounts interstate commerce.

  22. Re:Not perfect???? on Homeland Security: New Body Scanners Have Issues · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just think of it as an oncology research subsidy. Having a larger patient pool will mean more demand and also more research subjects.

  23. Re:Companies do this all the time on NY Times: Microsoft Tried To Unload Bing On Facebook · · Score: 1

    There[sic] Office Suit is getting a run for its money with Oracle Open Office.

    You had me going, but you lost me, bro.

  24. Re:Surely just any thinking at all would do it on Analytic Thinking Can Decrease Religious Belief · · Score: 1

    Hey look! It's the no true Scotsman defense.

  25. Re:Which is why... on Opus Dei To Hunt Down Vatican Whistle-Blowers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Traitor is such a loaded word, and is misused in this context I think. A wife that leaves her abusive husband is a traitor. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and many others were traitors also.