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  1. Re:Because Cisco would never do such a thing on Senators Want To Punish Nokia, Siemens Over Iran · · Score: 1

    No - they just back North Korea in their nuclear exploration and their invasion of South Korea. Don't forget their backing of other rebels in the SE Asia area.

  2. Re: A shame and ironic on US Manned Space Flight Taking a Budget Hit · · Score: 1

    NASA is currently designing & developing yet another heavy lift rocket system. Why build Ares when they could use Delta IV. Oh yeah - because NASA is an agency which employs contactors to do all its work (Boeing, Lockheed Martin, etc) , so they need something new to syphon off all the money.

  3. Re: A shame and ironic on US Manned Space Flight Taking a Budget Hit · · Score: 1

    But then if we had sent robotic missions then our understanding of AI, remote sensing, minuturisation, etc would have improved (as the rovers on Mars have done).

    What actual benefits did we get from sending people to the Moon rather than robots? A few photo ops....

    Where is the progression in the US space program? Constellation is a step back to the Apollo days, apparently canning the whole of the Shuttle's last 30 years.

  4. Playlists are copyrighted data on Last.fm User Data Was Sent To RIAA By CBS · · Score: 1

    A playlist is copyrighted information. Small and generally insignificant, but still copyrighted by the original creator.

    If you select a number of unrelated tracks together into a playlist, then that data is copyrighted to yourself. Slap Last.fm, CBS & RIAA with copyright infringement notices if you were crazy enough to use Scrobbler.

  5. Re:Little use as legal evidence on Last.fm User Data Was Sent To RIAA By CBS · · Score: 3, Interesting

    But seeing as the last.fm data was obtained in an underhand manner and then released to an unrelated 3rd party, does that mean that the RIAA pirated the data? :-)

  6. Re:Not worth it on Mississippi Passes Law To Ban Traffic Light Cameras · · Score: 1

    So change the contract so that the city pays more upfront for the system and then receives more of the money from the tickets.

    Unmanned police cars? The British police went one step further and had cardboard cutouts of police cars stuck on bridges over their motorways/freeways.
    Because people noticed the police car colour & space on the bridge they slowed down.

  7. Re:Different approach... on Mississippi Passes Law To Ban Traffic Light Cameras · · Score: 1

    The problem seems to be that private industry profits from the cameras. How about the city/state buys the camera systems and doesn't need to pay the private company any more money. There are some things that industry should not be actively profiting from and this is one of them.

  8. Re:Not to mention that they might be dangerous on Mississippi Passes Law To Ban Traffic Light Cameras · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    All that shows is you need more driver education around your town.

  9. Re:On one hand... on Harlan Ellison Sues For "Star Trek" Episode · · Score: 1

    Early TV did not employ artists, it employed workers - which is why Ellison is annoyed. Workers don't get residuals.

  10. Re:On one hand... on Harlan Ellison Sues For "Star Trek" Episode · · Score: 1, Funny

    I so need to become a plumber or electrician in Hollywood - just so I can demand due credit & payment for my work and get residual payments everytime someone uses a tap or flicks a switch....

    These residual payment demands by writers and actors for work that they've already been paid for is starting to really annoy me. If you've been paid for the work then shut up and go do something else more productive than whine about how nobody has paid you yet again for something you were paid for back in the 1960's.

  11. Re:Astrobiology paper is not an experimental resul on UV-Resistant Micro-Organisms Discovered In the Stratosphere · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Random motion might be a method if it wasn't for the tropopause - which they mention. What they do not mention is the other more likely cause - the amount of stuff humans throw up into the atmosphere, as all of their data comes from after the start of the Space Age.

    Space craft, supersonic aircraft and weather balloons all regularly go into the stratosphere and could carry particles. 10 years of bacterial evolution would be enough to develop some UV resistance (if we work from the bacteria being deposited there in the late 60's and then sampled in 1978).

  12. Re:Meh on Libel Suits OK Even If Libel Is Truthful · · Score: 1

    During the disciplinary procedure before getting fired he would have had the chance to defend himself from the allegations made by the company. Large companies have clearly laid out procedures, including allowing union reps or friends to represent you in the hearing or sit in as a witeness.

  13. Re:Entitlement Mentality, again on A Short Summary Following the Pirate Bay Trial · · Score: 1

    But the studios paid the artists for their time and work. So should the plummer get a percentage when you sell or rent out your house then?

  14. Re:I always buy boxed games on How Much Longer Will Physical Game Distribution Survive? · · Score: 2

    But who thought the banking system would collapse, or that Atari would be bought by the French, or that Commodore would have gone under after the Amiga. Just because Steam is going OK now doesn't mean they will stick around.

    I like physical media - same as I dislike online activation. If I've bought it I want to play it and not be reliant on an external company to allow me to play something I've paid for.

  15. Re:Entitlement Mentality, again on A Short Summary Following the Pirate Bay Trial · · Score: 1

    Actors get paid a fee for performing in a work. They they get additional 'repeat' fees everytime that work is then shown. They get additional fees for it being on the internet, on DVD, etc.

    Does a plumber get additional fees everytime you flush?

  16. Re:Of course on A Short Summary Following the Pirate Bay Trial · · Score: 1

    Nearly all the material is copyrighted. Remember - even Linux and GNU is copyrighted, just that the copyright holders have given permission for copying. In the western world, the act of creating something instantly gives it a copyright. So perhaps it would be better to describe the files highlighted by the **AA as copy restricted?

  17. Re:No swaggering... on A Short Summary Following the Pirate Bay Trial · · Score: 1

    This is similar to a magistrates court in England (3 judges, 1 professional, 2 laymen) - they don't have jury. However, they can move the case up to Crown court which can have a jury.

  18. Re:Local law can still be a problem on Creative Commons Releases "Zero" License · · Score: 1

    You mean something like the FSF, EFF or CC who you can assign your copyright to and they look after it and deal with the abuse by other parties.

  19. Re:Not just the military on US Army Files Found On Second-Hand MP3 Player · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Except they would like you use the USB mouse, USB keyboard to actually do some work :-) Easier to just lock the PC itself inside a cabinet so the end user doesn't have access to the box itself, just the keyboard, mouse, monitor.

  20. Re:Year of the Linux camera? on A Sony Camera Running Linux · · Score: 1

    My 9 year old car stereo has a waving pengiun at startup. Its an Empeg.

  21. Re:Is groklaw aware of this new development? on SCO Proposes Sale of Assets To Continue Litigation · · Score: 1

    It depends on which company they sell the assets to. Just suppose they create a new unrelated company which just so happens to have almost the same board of directors which then buys all the 'valuable' assets from SCO leaving Darl with the debts and the law suits. Then the rest of them can continue without the debts and the court cases hanging over them. This way they can control which company obtains the assets, otherwise they'll end up being transferred to Novell or eventually the Administrators will sell them on for whatever they can get.

  22. Re:World Records.... on Bones Found Near Crash Site Confirmed Fossett's · · Score: 1

    He was actually looking for a site to run the Land Speed Record car that he bought from Craig Breedlove. Now the Brits are starting on another car to beat their own record (and 1000mph)

  23. Re:Are they distributing the software? on Suit Claims Diebold Voting Machines Violate GPL · · Score: 1

    The license for Ghostscript is ONLY GPL if the rest of the stuff it is being shipped with is GPL, otherwise you need a commercial license. So if they want to ship Ghostscript using the GPL license then that means the whole voting machine software has to be GPL. http://www.artifex.com/indexlicense.htm

  24. Re:BBC Confirms It on BBC Profiles Extradited Cracker Gary McKinnon · · Score: 2, Interesting

    They weren't in America when they were extradited, they were in Libya. The USA won't even send people over to give evidence (even remotely via CCTV) to a coroners inquest. Thats how screwed up and unbalanced the system is. Also don't forget that no matter where you are, you are subject to US law - the USA says so.

  25. Re:Privacy? on Where To Draw the Line When Punishing Email Snooping? · · Score: 1

    So are they going to start hitting private investigators who are 'pretexting' with the same level of charges? What is the difference between pretending to be someone else to access their email, be it with cracked passwords, and pretending to be someone else to access their finance, phone and utility records. Could you also hit MediaSentry (or whatever the RIAA snoopers are called these days) with the same charges?