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  1. Re:Creators wishing to control their creations... on Microsoft Files a Copyright Infringement Lawsuit For Activating Pirated Software · · Score: 1

    "I have taken nothing from the creator." Incorrect, you have taken their right to decide distribution. That's what copyright is about.

  2. Re:They can go bite a donkey on French Publishers Prepare Lawsuit Against Adblock Plus · · Score: 1

    Pedantry in both directions.

  3. Re:Dear Mr. Popinjay on Displaced IT Workers Being Silenced · · Score: 0

    I love reading ACITSJW posts. Starts, fills and ends with ad hominem and indirect self-aggrandizement against someone who at least has a posting history to check out.

  4. Re:Is it legally binding on Displaced IT Workers Being Silenced · · Score: 1, Informative

    Absolutely false. I've used several that were honest and straight up.

  5. Re:A felon with misdemeanor convictions on Ask Slashdot: Can a Felon Work In IT? · · Score: 2

    Better to be fully honest. If a felon, a prospective employer will check that. When checking, the misdemeanors will appear. Unmentioned, it could look like trying to hide the garnish.

  6. Unless you've got a Sugar Daddy shoveling money into the organization, you absolutely must make money to pay your bills and feed your staff.

  7. Re:"Working hours: Get a life" at economist.com on Should IT Professionals Be Exempt From Overtime Regulations? · · Score: 1

    Working better will do even more.

  8. Re: Are they really that scared? on Why Elon Musk's Batteries Frighten Electric Companies · · Score: 1

    Does the law actually prohibit your installing an alternative? If not, all you need is the line and an account, not any consumption.

  9. Re:Willpower on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Electronics-Induced Inattentiveness? · · Score: 1

    It's not so much that they've forgotten things, it's more that they don't want to accept that it's their fault, not someone or something else.

  10. Re:Boy who cried wolf on New Virus Means Deadlier Flu Season Is Possible · · Score: 1

    "if it weren't for vaccinations we would have already had a flu epidemic on the scale of the 1918 Spanish flu." An example of the hyperbole being pointed out.

  11. Re:CDC needs more funding than the DoD on New Virus Means Deadlier Flu Season Is Possible · · Score: 1

    *All* government is bloated. Reducing bloat is non-partisan and not anti-scientific.

  12. Re:CDC needs more funding than the DoD on New Virus Means Deadlier Flu Season Is Possible · · Score: 1

    He didn't say that at all, don't project. If anything, he said hold *all* departments accountable.

  13. Re:It's possible..(or not)...but you should be sca on New Virus Means Deadlier Flu Season Is Possible · · Score: 1

    Step one, disarm public. Steps two through n, tell them what to do.

  14. Re:Medical records? on The Sony Pictures Hack Was Even Worse Than Everyone Thought · · Score: 1

    This undoubtedly refers to the insurance carried, what it covers and so forth. Those are medical records. It's not referring to MRI scans and detailed physical information.

  15. Re:what about the first neighbor requirement? on Aliens Are Probably Everywhere, Just Not Anywhere Nearby · · Score: 1

    Your last sentence is no more based on reality than someone insisting we can't be. Neither of you have anything to base it on.

  16. Re:Just like in my personal life... on Aliens Are Probably Everywhere, Just Not Anywhere Nearby · · Score: 1

    Once we have a reliable means of providing it on a sun-scale then we can do anything we want.

    I'm thinking that didn't work out all that well for the Krell.

  17. Re:Drakes Equation is bullshit on Aliens Are Probably Everywhere, Just Not Anywhere Nearby · · Score: 1

    Please. We *can* measure the sides of a triangle and affirm the Pythagorean Theorem. With Drake's, you have literally no hope of filling in the variables. At best one could call it an equation to come up with the answer you want to come up with.

  18. Re:How smart does a chimp have to be? on New Effort To Grant Legal Rights To Chimpanzees Fails · · Score: 1

    I'm unconcerned about that particular "if" because it simply isn't going to happen in our lifetimes. Let's start pondering the needs once they reach the level of communicating and understanding on the level of say a ten year old human child.

  19. Re:How smart does a chimp have to be? on New Effort To Grant Legal Rights To Chimpanzees Fails · · Score: 1

    First you'll have to prove humans have them. It makes no sense at all that suddenly in evolution, with the appearance of our species, souls sprang into being.

  20. Re:Hail Caesar! on New Effort To Grant Legal Rights To Chimpanzees Fails · · Score: 1

    Seriously yourself. There was an experiment done by a college grad - meaning it was probably for a paper and not actually necessary - in which the front paws of baby mice were cut off to determine if this affected their grooming habits. Ethics board approved. What friggin' moron who had *ever* watched a mouse groom itself couldn't have given the answer?

  21. Re:Damn Dirty Apes on New Effort To Grant Legal Rights To Chimpanzees Fails · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Indeed there is someone home. That someone however, cannot and will never be able to grasp the structure of our society and the laws within it. So, no personhood. Treating them with kindness doesn't mean extending them human rights.

  22. Re:I know, let's ask an actual female programmer.. on Programmer Father Asks: What Gets Little Girls Interested In Science? · · Score: 1

    There is no spoon. It's the question that's at fault.

  23. Re:I know, let's ask an actual female programmer.. on Programmer Father Asks: What Gets Little Girls Interested In Science? · · Score: 1

    It's *all* anecdote. Why are her's less valuable? That central idea, research and sense of perspective you talk about is "tech guys don't like gals", "I'll craft my questions and cull the answers" and "there, I've proven my incoming bias".

  24. Re:What about men going to college? on Programmer Father Asks: What Gets Little Girls Interested In Science? · · Score: 1

    So 56/44 isn't "roughly" 60/40? In a graph. Take that chart, reverse the colors and tell me truthfully if that wouldn't raise a hue and cry about discrimination.

  25. Re:She's _4_ on Programmer Father Asks: What Gets Little Girls Interested In Science? · · Score: 1

    I'm hoping by "trolling" you simply meant feeding her info. Grace is actually a pretty good example of a princess. Have you told her that England's queen was a mechanic and refused to leave London during the blitz because it would be demoralizing to her country folk?