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  1. Re:must be slow weekend on SCOTUS Set To Examine Combinatory Patents · · Score: 1

    You open seam tube, you, and this on the internets!

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  2. Re:must be slow weekend on SCOTUS Set To Examine Combinatory Patents · · Score: 1

    annology

    It is annoylogy, you insensitive clod :)

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  3. Re:I live in EU on So What If Linux Infringes On Microsoft IP? · · Score: 1

    Duh - poor me, not yet conscious again :(

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  4. Re:I live in EU on So What If Linux Infringes On Microsoft IP? · · Score: 1

    Probably windows Services For Unix. Google is your friend (OK, has been, maybe).

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  5. Re:This shows ... on Do You Own Your Native Language? · · Score: 1

    Public domain - OK - but a language usually has some consistent grammar.

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  6. Anyone ... on UK Schools Bans WiFi Due To Health Concerns · · Score: 1

    with concise clinical studies that give evidence that exposure for approx. one decade (with effects probably showing up 50 years later) is safe around?

    So let us take the risk, we will see later. Yes, this is the scientific method.

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  7. Re:One Microsoft Way on The Long Arm of Microsoft · · Score: 1

    jerry-rigged

    No I am not familiar (beyond my skills of the idiom). But the explanation you give reminded me of American cars (no insult intended either - and this I wrote before being aware of the jerry-semantics).

    As I do not know the term - and must only infer that "jerry" somehow refers to Germans (looked it up meanwhile and found that it is German soldier) - I feel I cannot be insulted (and I guess that there are very few of "us Germans" who know the term). On top of it, it may be the appropriate term for what they did in the former GDR - being creative in repairs while lacking resources (the corresponding bias is that the Americans can only achieve something if they have big supplies - and - if we enter the war scheme - 10 in supplies for 1 soldier in the field). I am sure that this bias is/was condensed into a term as well - that I am not aware of now, but I will find out.

    Though this is not a final comment (2 a.m. and my wife visiting me), do not bother to use "jerry-rigged". And (or but) I am for sure not representative for the majority of "us Germans" (now this almost was an insult, taking me for a prototype :).

    Take care. I come back to the topic.

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  8. Re:One Microsoft Way on The Long Arm of Microsoft · · Score: 1

    We might miscommunicate our sarcasm due to a different cultural background, thus infering in a false manner. I am German and you perhaps American, but I guess we play in the same league.

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  9. Re:One Microsoft Way on The Long Arm of Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Like Halliburton?

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  10. Re:Your PD uses a lot more than just MS products. on The Long Arm of Microsoft · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I doubt that will have much impact on where most of the phishing originates, though, which is overseas.

    If we believe this map and if we are African, Australian or Eurasian, overseas is indeed worst.

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  11. Re:One Microsoft Way on The Long Arm of Microsoft · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Microsoft will have more power to get the world's police "see things it's way".

    In my days, this was called legislative power.

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  12. Re:Torn on The Long Arm of Microsoft · · Score: 1

    So while there's a lot of good reasons for Microsoft to do this, I still feel a tiny bit afraid that an already very powerful company is becoming a lot more powerful by gaining international recognition as a crime buster.

    And once they have achieved a good reputation as a crime buster they go after people violating M$ patents - voice of the public opinion: "Fine, these bastards who steal IP deserve that!".

    Another instance of Big Brother.

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  13. Re:This shows ... on Do You Own Your Native Language? · · Score: 1

    However

    Why this wording? - not a native speaker with regard to any dialect of the English language I would have chosen "but indeed".

    Furthermore, I totally second you. And did you ever have a look into the consequences of patented seed? Even more horror there.

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  14. Re:Huh? on Scientists Try To Make Robots More Human · · Score: 1

    Nope, I stopped gaming in the Leisure Suit Larry 3 days :)

    I however admit that I can imagine a hyper-meta-ctl-alt-shift-Simulacron 3 in which our universe is the simulation :)

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  15. Re:slownewsday on Mystery of Ancient Calculator Finally Cracked · · Score: 1

    Really, we need a new word, for news which isn't functional information, but just amusing/entertaining.

    I thought it was "news show" - you just perhaps have to create some variations along the lines of "net news show" (or should it read "tube news show"?).

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  16. Re:This has a European scope ... on French National Assembly Embraces Open Source · · Score: 2

    In general, I am with you. I might add, though, that IMHO greater control (thus a better planning reliability) in the end leads to increased profitability (or efficiency with regard to the public sector, where all your arguments hold even more) which then via translates into money gained or saved.

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  17. Re:Language name incorrect on Do You Own Your Native Language? · · Score: 1

    http://www.microsoft.com/chile/mapuzugun/

    Google thinks Mapudungun too :), but M$ thinks otherwise. Actually, the spelling seems to differ depending on your own language.

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  18. This shows ... on Do You Own Your Native Language? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    the absurdity of the contemporary take on IP, and perhaps the idea behind is to demonstrate this.

    To me, a language clearly is in the public domain.

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  19. This has a European scope ... on French National Assembly Embraces Open Source · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ... and, as far as I could understand (I lack some French) is focussed on a better usage of economic resources - that is - why pay M$ Euros. Good move.

    And my bias is that France (for short) will not be bribed by M$s.

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  20. Re:Huh? on Scientists Try To Make Robots More Human · · Score: 1

    trying to design and create an even more advanced model

    So the creationist are right, aren't they? </sarcasm> More seriously, the real fun only starts when unforeseen emergent properties insidiously creep in and suddenly erupt - a theme of many SF-stories, for instance.

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  21. Re:Huh? on Scientists Try To Make Robots More Human · · Score: 1

    How much dehumanized can we get? ( A _lot_ more, I know.)

    I guess the word that you were looking for is "superfluous" ;)

    And I wonder how long Sherry Turkle -- "Her point is that when you are sick, hurt, or elderly, "you really do want a person," not a robot." will stay director.

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  22. Re:Profit? on LSI Patents the Doubly-Linked List · · Score: 1

    Profit also implicitely comes if you are threatening potential competitors in such a way that they go away (or even do not enter the scene).

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  23. How to obtain a U.S.-patent: on LSI Patents the Doubly-Linked List · · Score: 4, Insightful

    1. Take a fundamental concept
    2. Describe it as complicated as possible
    3. Put the result through a patent-lawyers office in order to make sure the claims get even more obfuscated
    4. Apply successfully for a patent
    5. Profit!

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  24. Re:shocking on Microsoft Hands Over Docs To EU · · Score: 2, Informative

    no presents for Bill's kids this Xmas

    Probably xtra presents, maybe it is cheap for the effect: (from TFA) " At this point, some of the major commercial businesses which needed the documents have exited the market."

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  25. Re:So who the fuck cares on Silicon Superconductors · · Score: 1

    That's a common misconception.

    At least a misconception that NASA also publishes.

    Quote: "If we put a thermometer in darkest space, with absolutely nothing around, it would first have to cool off. This might take a very very long time. Once it cooled off, it would read 2.7 Kelvin. This is because of the "3 degree microwave background radiation." No matter where you go, you cannot escape it -- it is always there."

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