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  1. Copyright infringement? on Some Hotspot Operators Secretly Intercept, Insert Ads In Web Pages · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Wouldn't this be copyright infringement? The web page as you intended is your creative work, they are altering and distributing your work. I don't think you are allowed to do that.

       

  2. Re:One word on Domestic Drilling Doesn't Decrease Gasoline Prices · · Score: 1

    "Monopolies should be public. Leave the rest to the market if you don't know what is optimal. If you do, get rid of the market."

    Absolutely, on any given day, in the small city where I live, the posted price of gas is exactly the same at every single gas station. This is a market that is broken. That not one guy is willing to offer a penny, or a fraction of a penny to sell a more gas than the other guy is a sign that this is not a real market.

    Markets should exist where markets work, but if it's not a real market than it should be a regulated service. A broken(non competitive) market is like a tax, but without the benefit to society. Markets that aren't competitive should be regulated to encourage competitiveness, or they should be replaced with public utilities.

  3. Re:BSD license was always more permissive, so grea on GPL, Copyleft Use Declining Fast · · Score: 5, Insightful

    gpl first freedom (0):
    "the freedom to use the software for any purpose"

    "we encourage people who redistribute free software to charge as much as they wish or can."
    from http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html

    The cost of distributing someone else's gpl work is licensing your derivative work under the same license. The face up fairness of this deal is what appeals to so many developers. Every license has rules.

  4. Re:To some SJ was like a god on Jobs Wanted To Destroy Android · · Score: 1

    Nobody calls him SJ.

  5. Re:Just more Florian Mueller FUD on Did Google Knowingly Violate Java Patents? · · Score: 1

    Seems like a sexist prick thing to say.

    Just sayin,

  6. Where is Attila Dimedici to back this up? on Tesla Will Discontinue the Roadster · · Score: 2

    Where are Attila Dimedici's comments where he can justify such an outrageous summary? I think if I submitted a story, I would at least follow the discussion. The impression he is leaving about Tesla closing it's doors is irresponsible at best.

  7. Re:Woah the kid is 15 years old? on The Ambiguity of "Open" and VP8 Vs. H.264 · · Score: 1

    Maybe when you get older you will understand, and situations like this will not seem so weird.

  8. Re:Saw this one coming on Sony Must Show It Has Jurisdiction To Sue PS3 Hacker · · Score: 2

    you mean this quote from the article you linked to

    "Mr. Hotz expressly tells people on his website not to give him donations for his efforts," Kellar explained. "Even more harmful to Sony's personal jurisdiction argument, the only evidence put forward of Mr. Hotz' PayPal account appears to be a transaction initiated by the plaintiff."

    Why would you say what you said when the link you posted as evidence says the opposite?

  9. Re:opposing piston, opposing cylinder engine on Looking To Better Engines Instead of Electric Vehicles · · Score: 1

    I don't think you don't lose energy speeding up and slowing down pistons, they are on a rotating assembly and their momentum caries them around.

  10. Congratulations UofT on First Human-Powered Ornithopter · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Incredible!

  11. Also... on Microsoft Backs Down On Making IE8 Default At Upgrade · · Score: 1

    Also, all the people I have helped by installing and defaulting to Firefox, are now wondering why they have 15 search bars and half an inch of actual browser window. These are the users microsoft wanted back.

  12. Speaking of Astroturfing on Sothink Violated the FlashGot GPL and Stole Code · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If my code gets 'stolen', used without my permission, breaking the terms of the license; what difference does it make as to the license I chose to release it under.

  13. what kind of donuts are you offering? on One-Tweet Wonders · · Score: 1

    what kind of donuts are you offering?

  14. "the nation's current demand" ... brutal! on Offshore Windpower To Potentially Exceed US Demand · · Score: 2, Funny

    That is just awful.

  15. Re:Only the paranoid survive (not) on Are My Ideas Being Stolen? If So, What Then? · · Score: 1

    This is some great advice, the value of an idea is in its execution.

    Good ideas are often bigger than one person any way, do what you can to bring smart, mature people along with you. Dont be so small minded to think you have to be %100 of the implementation. It will be better to be %10 of a success than %100 of an idea that sits in your secrets.

    Like many many people I see 'MY' ideas all the time in Popular Science or on the web. I may(doubtful) or may not(likely) have had the idea first, it doesn't matter now, I don't admire their idea, I admire their abillity to execute.

  16. Over fishing? on North Pole Ice On Track To Melt By September? · · Score: 1

    Could just be over fishing, my uncle went out ice fishing and caught 72 pounds. I think that is totally unreasonable myself.

  17. They sure make Balmner look stupid. on Is Google Making Us Stupid? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Chasing after everything they do.

  18. Re:No free lunch on Microsoft Demos "Deep Zoom" Technology · · Score: 1

    Almost all non trivial data structures implore some level of cleverness to get the most out of the technology we have at the time. I don't see it as a trick, just one way to do it.

  19. Google? on 500 Thousand MS Web Servers Hacked · · Score: 1

    >> Plus, Google is hardly a live metric for the state of the internet.

    You lost me there, can we go back a bit?

  20. Add more shows! on Canadian TV to Adopt DRM-Free BitTorrents · · Score: 3, Insightful

    22 Minutes and jPod would be excellent!

  21. Kind of sad on Secret Printer ID Codes May Be Illegal In the EU · · Score: 1

    We think our human rights stem from what someone has written down? Do we attribute our freedom to what no one else has taken from us? "even in the US constitution" wtf man, live free or die!

  22. I think you mean "Open Source" on 10-Year Anniversary of Open Source · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not open source.

  23. DirectX 10 introduced by WHO? on DX10 - How Far Have We Come? · · Score: 1

    When DirectX 10 was first introduced to the market by graphics manufacturers?

    I guess it was technological innovations brought to us by the graphics card manufactures. Thank goodness Microsoft was able to provide us with a platform that implements this great new and improved gaming API. No wonder the other vendors in the desktop OS industry are falling behind in the market.

  24. I love my MonopoLiniux on openSUSE 10.3 Public Release · · Score: 0, Troll

    I love my MonopoLiniux, keeps me free from lawsuits of MS IP!

  25. The First Groklaw article you have read? on Groklaw Guts the Novell/Microsoft Deal · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What planet have you been on man?

    For one thing, I don't believe you, this statement really makes me question your intentions.