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  1. Re:Vote with your wallet. on Canadian DMCA Won't Include Consumer Rights · · Score: 4, Interesting
    It's supposed to work that way, but it doesn't. If we want to reverse the course on something as far along as this is we need to
    1. Engage the media - get this to be a big topic in editorials, etc... get it in front of the general public's eyes
    2. Get access to the analysts that are proposing this type of policy in the first place. This is hard and requires people with access to the bureaucracy. People like the ones that the **AA have bought.

    I know that the EFF has some kind of presence up here, but we really need a Canadian group that can do the leg work in Ottawa. (As great as the EFF is, anything American based will be ignored.)
  2. Re:Hrm-High Ranking??? on Canadian DMCA Won't Include Consumer Rights · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In Canada there are only two kinds of elected officials: The Prime Minister and everyone else. Only one of those has any power. It's always been a problem, but it's been ten times worse with this government.

  3. Re:"Hoisted on their own profits" on High Earning Spammers Face Tougher Sentences · · Score: 2, Funny

    I assume you're talking about those very important "forward this to 10 other people or you will die in seven days" e-mails. Life and death indeed.

  4. Re:Wow shortest Ask Slashdot ever. on Old Software or Open Source? · · Score: 1

    ...not many highschool kids in my experiance have the money to drop on the latest and greatest Adobe produce...
    Agreed. The price tag on Creative Salad 3 is over the top.
  5. Re:Ron Paul on Presidential Candidates and Online Privacy · · Score: 1

    ...and give the Taleban a juicy new recruitment stream.

  6. Re:Faraday cage on Stopping Cars With Microwave Radiation · · Score: 1

    For the record he linked to some kind of diode array, not a flux capacitor. Way to get my hopes up megaditto.

  7. Re:Faraday cage on Stopping Cars With Microwave Radiation · · Score: 2, Funny

    What you really need is a flux capacitor. As an added bonus it will limit any high speed pursuits to a maximum of 88mph!

  8. Re:Cash them in!!! on Even the Masseuse is a Multimillionaire at Google · · Score: 1

    He seems to have more of a clue than you. As far as risk goes, it depends upon which index the index fund is supposed to track. Similarly, a managed fund's risk will depend on the strategy of that particular fund. The only rational equity portfolio is to diversify it as much as possible. Buying a unit of an actively managed fund does not necessarily make your portfolio more diverse, they could be the exact same stocks for a certain period of time, but it does tack on management fees. I know several finance professors and their major holdings are index funds (the lower the fee the better, Vanguard funds are a favourite).

  9. Re:I like this on Femtosecond Laser Shatters Viruses · · Score: 1

    I don't think they meant cleaning the wound. Rather, they'll do it to the blood after it's out of you.

  10. Re:Keep it a Secret on New Robots Hunt Pirates by Sea · · Score: 1

    If a AUV ship is sent out, it can pick up survivors (if it is a genuine distress call) or shoot the **** out of the pirates.

    Or
    It could just shoot the **** out of the survivors. Robots are a good solution for some tasks. However, none of those tasks involve firearms.
  11. Re:Licence? on Citizendium After One Year · · Score: 2, Insightful

    For the love of God and all that is holy, why does every story have to be about licenses?

  12. Re:Psychology on Geek Stars From Atkinson to Zappa · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There is real science being practiced under the heading of Psychology. There is also pseudo-science people call psychology. What we really need is for a particular geeky slashdotter to track down her papers and have a look at the analysis.

  13. Galaxies didn't fail, Sony did. on Pondering EA's Move Towards Hardcore · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Even if there's no movie out I think a Star Wars theme will provide a much larger potential market than most other MMOS. I don't think the Galaxies failure will stop anyone that was completely due to Sony and had nothing to do with it being a Star Wars themed MMORPG.

  14. Re:Rumors on Court Strikes Down Age Verification For Adult Sites · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Interesting troll.

    The first link that you would assume is dangerous is in fact completely benign. The reader, now less concerned, is more likely to click on the signature link right below, which logs you out. Not that bad. Still, this fails because it's all transparent to anyone who can mouseover the links. If you want to be successful you'll need to learn to mask your URIs.

  15. Re:the media is lazy on Greenpeace Admits Targeting Apple Grabs Headlines · · Score: 2, Insightful

    To be fair, Nike was one of the pioneers in the Japan-South Korea-China factory moves. That said, I agree with you.

  16. Re:Youtube on Viacom Wants Industry Wide Copyright Filter · · Score: 1

    No more pirated Windows? That would give Apple the numbers it needs to be more successful in the desktop market! ;)

    Fixed it for you. Linux won't win until linux is as useable as a mac.
  17. Re:WTF? on Canada May Tax Legal Music Downloads · · Score: 1

    From what I've read, it will be charged to every company that has sold legal music online, not the users. I also heard they're not going to bother with any small players, just the big corps (Apple, Puretracks, etc...)

  18. Re:The Right Solution on Star Wars Television Series Moving Forward · · Score: 1

    And for the director, get Joss Whedon. Seriously. I can't stress this enough. He would do it exactly right.

    Because Joss Whedon has such a great record extending venerable series. Granted, he was a writer in that case.
  19. Missing Option on Australians Running On-Line Poll Based Senators · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So will the missing option meme suddenly create a massive influx of amendments onto the Australian Senate floor?

  20. Re:New Movie Title on Indiana Jones Gets Robbed · · Score: 5, Funny

    Marcus Brody: "You see... the pen is mightier than the sword!"
    Dr. Jones, Sr.: "I'll take the Penis Mightier..."
  21. Re:So that means... on MMO Bans Men Playing As Women · · Score: 1

    When Hu got to first, everyone was laughing. However, when he tried to round the bases things started to get weird...

  22. Re:Adjustments on UK Schools Will Fight Cyberbullying · · Score: 1

    Come to think of it, if people need parenting advice, they shouldn't be having kids.

    Why? Because everyone is born a child-rearing expert? I think society should be encouraging parents to seek advice, not shun them for it.
  23. Re:Will he dump her now? on Canadian Copyright Official Dumped Over MPAA Conflict · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well yeah, but the point is that she's now a sleazy, corrupt EX-politician, so the situation has changed for the lobbyist.

    Sleazy or not, she's wasn't a politician. She was a Director-General, part of the civil service; a bureaucrat. She's not even an appointee, order in council doesn't kick in until ADM.
  24. Re:Precedent on First US GPL Lawsuit Heads For Quick Settlement · · Score: 1

    If thoughts about the GPL are keeping you up at night, I think you have a problem...

    Don't worry too much. If that problem is the lack of an SO to be waking you up instead; it's a slashdot wide problem.
  25. Re:They can just say that they fired him for lack on GameStop Manager Suspended After "Games for Grades" · · Score: 1

    Your argument has a flaw. I believe that any reasonable person would consider achieving high grades in school as a good thing. They would also consider achieving poor grades as a bad thing.

    When looking at your example we have to ask: Will most reasonable people believe that being married is good and unmarried is bad? Probably not, at least not in North America.

    This is about using their management authority to promote a social goal at the possible expense of sales. In the article it is a universially held goal, in your's it's that of only a segment of society.