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  1. Obligatory.... on GRAIL-A Enters Lunar Orbit · · Score: 2

    That's no moon...

  2. Re:Not quite punitive on Actual Damages For 1 Download = Cost of a 1 License · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So why does a special privilege exist, letting the software creator seek damages many times higher than 3x? Why does somebody like me have to prove criminal negligence, or other fully criminal level of responsibility, while various copyright holders have a special private law that means they only have to prove a lesser standard such as'willfulness', and why does 'willfulness' sometimes multiply the already ultra-high damages by 5x, not just 3x?

    It's called the "Golden Rule". As in, "Them what has the gold, makes the rules."
    They paid good money for that law.

  3. Re:Understanding of Apes... on Orangutans To Skype Between Zoos With iPads · · Score: 1

    Now the Orangs are going to spend all their time playing Angry Birds!

  4. Re:SIgn of the "times" on Samoa and Tokelau Are Skipping December 30th · · Score: 4, Informative

    No change in time. -11 = +13 mod 24.
    The only change is the date.

  5. Re:Probably too late on Ebert: I'll Tell You Why Movie Revenue Is Dropping · · Score: 2

    In addition, Drive-ins are the best thing ever, if you're a parent with small kids.

    Put them in their jammies, hit KFC or McD's on the way, and you're set.

  6. Re:I guess I've been lucky on IT Managers Are Aloof Says Psychologist and Your Co-Workers · · Score: 1

    I was a dev, and we had a QA guy like that. The guy used to be a Lt. Colonel. If you let him walk all over you, he had no respect for you. Stand up to him, and he was a great guy to work with.

  7. Re:Maskelyne, also great inventor of the pay toile on Progressive Era Hacker Griefed Marconi Demonstration · · Score: 1

    I thought that police boxes usually have a Doctor (and maybe a companion) in them.

  8. Re:In a nutshell: on Christmas Always On Sunday? Researchers Propose New Calendar · · Score: 1

    Thanks. I should have known that... I had to study the calendar 35 years ago for my Ner Tamid award back in Scouts. It's been years since I've thought about it, though.

    Appreciate the reminder.

  9. Re:In a nutshell: on Christmas Always On Sunday? Researchers Propose New Calendar · · Score: 1

    Hebrew calendar does this, on either a 17 or 22 year cycle (I can't remember which, off the top of my head).

  10. We're all thinking it, so I'll say it... on Warner Bros Sued For Pirating Louis Vuitton Trademark · · Score: 2

    Bwahahahhahahahahahah!!!!

  11. Re:Bored of the Rings on Hobbit Film Trailer Posted Online · · Score: 1

    Actually, I left out a "Clean, clean, clean for Gene" in the middle of that.

    A shadow seems to pass over sconeu's face

    I would say more, but a shadow seems to have passed over my face.

  12. Re:Broken business model on Hobbit Film Trailer Posted Online · · Score: 0

    Damn straight. GP is right.

  13. Re:Bored of the Rings on Hobbit Film Trailer Posted Online · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the Nozdrul on their farting pigs, and the Riders on their sheep!


    Tim, Tim, Benzedine!
    Hash! Boo! Valvoline!
    First, second, neutral, park,
    Hie thee hence, thou leafy narc!

  14. Re:Federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison on X-Men Origins Pirate Draws a 1-Year Sentence · · Score: 4, Funny

    And they all moved away from him over on the Group W bench....

  15. Re:Seems like an obvious money-maker to me on Inside a Last-Ditch Effort To Save the Space Shuttle · · Score: 1

    One guy lands, using some custom balloon type thing. Unfortunately, it gets wrecked upon landing, and they jury-rig the Apollo 17 descent stage to get back to lunar orbit.

    He walks around, and uses the Rover from 17 to go to the crater where the He3 firebeads were found.

  16. Re:Seems like an obvious money-maker to me on Inside a Last-Ditch Effort To Save the Space Shuttle · · Score: 1

    I've read it. It's a fun read, if an obvious "Mary Sue" type story.

    Of course, Hickam had two guys swap out the SSMEs ... mid flight. A bit unrealistic, if you ask me.

  17. Re:Lawyers, Judges, Representatives, Senators, ... on Law Professors On SOPA and PIPA: Don't Break the Internet · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They do get such opinions. From the following Networks:

    CBS, NBC, ABC, etc...

    Unfortunately, that's what Congress considers to be Network experts.

  18. Re:Seems like an obvious money-maker to me on Inside a Last-Ditch Effort To Save the Space Shuttle · · Score: 2

    He didn't take them to the moon. He took them to a gigantic space station in LEO.

  19. Re:That's because on Congress's Techno-Ignorance No Longer Funny · · Score: 1

    I'm sure OP meant the Iran Hostage Crisis, rather than the Beirut problem.

  20. Re:Fuck them on Congress's Techno-Ignorance No Longer Funny · · Score: 1

    Sure you do. Stuck to the asses of their corporate donors.

  21. Re:pointy sticks on The Future of Battle Tech · · Score: 1

    Don't make me pull the lever and release the Bengal Tiger at you!!!

  22. Re:pointy sticks on The Future of Battle Tech · · Score: 1

    Don't forget Bananas or the box of raspberries!

  23. Re:I don't understand the issue on Firefox Too Big To Link On 32-bit Windows · · Score: 1

    I remember the AN-UYK. Once upon a time, I got dragged onto a project where some idiot had specified the PDL (pseudocode) as a deliverable.

    I wound up writing something that translated AN-UYK/23 asssembler into PDL.

    It generated stuff along the lines of "SET REGISTER 1 TO the contents of REGISTER 2"... Created about a 5 foot stack of fanfold. The DoD loved it, of course...

  24. Re:a simple ban won't work alone on NTSB Recommends Cell Phone Ban For Drivers · · Score: 1

    So your solution is to pay MORE for emergency services.

    Also, you haven't addressed the fact that passengers will be affected by the jammer or cage.

  25. Re:Public Transit on NTSB Recommends Cell Phone Ban For Drivers · · Score: 1

    Los Angeles, actually, but same thing. I have the same style of commute as you do.

    In LA, transit trains are inbound only in the morning, and outbound in the evening. I need to go the other way.

    As I said, the public transit is predicated on a faulty assumption.