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  1. Re:In other words, we should give up. on Ron Paul Suggests Axing 5 U.S. Federal Departments (and Budgets) · · Score: 1

    those common law constructs were also not corporations.

    a corporation is a protection from tort claims of the stock holders of a company for a joint venture.

    i would be fine with eliminating them and having holders of stock joint and severally liable for debts of a business which has failed or which is failing to pay it's debts, this is the way liability works under a partnership

  2. Re:Why Not Android Already? on RIM Unveils New OS Based On QNX · · Score: 1

    considering how long RIM has been in this game they probably have enough patents to make MS apple and samsung brown their trousers

  3. Re:RIM is in Danger on Android Phones Get Dual Accounts · · Score: 1

    this function provides nowhere near the same level of security

    a physical world analogy would be comparing a sheet metal locking cash box to a time locking bank vault with glass and thermal re-lockers

  4. Re:why not encrypt everything? on Android Phones Get Dual Accounts · · Score: 1

    because if you wanted your phone to be actually secure you would have gotten a blackberry anyway, android security is skin deep and physical access long enough to install a hostile rootkit will bypass userland security anyways. though this is better than IOS which does not even pretend to be secure

  5. read down the main page a bit on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Old Webcams? · · Score: 0
  6. Re:Verizon cannot install FiOS without blackberry on BlackBerry Outage Spreads To North America · · Score: 1

    you sound like you would be happier with an iphone, it does not have confusing "options"

  7. Re:No love here. on BlackBerry Outage Spreads To North America · · Score: 1

    it also works where reception is bad but wifi is available

  8. Re:this makes me wonder.. on NASA Sues Apollo Astronaut To Return Moon Camera · · Score: 1

    the right way to do something like that would be to approach NASA and get the OK

    however it would make no sense as the rover was not designed as a construction vehicle and it's current condition and potential for salvage is unknown, an additional mission to evaluate it plus the cost of new parts for it plus the time cost of devoting so much time from missions evaluating it and doing needed repairs and modifications on the moon would be a badly losing proposition compared to hauling in a newly built craft for the purpose.

  9. Re:crime on the moon? on NASA Sues Apollo Astronaut To Return Moon Camera · · Score: 1

    actually 6 would apply

    (6) Any vehicle used or designed for flight or navigation in space and on the registry of the United States pursuant to the Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, Including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies and the Convention on Registration of Objects Launched into Outer Space, while that vehicle is in flight, which is from the moment when all external doors are closed on Earth following embarkation until the moment when one such door is opened on Earth for disembarkation or in the case of a forced landing, until the competent authorities take over the responsibility for the vehicle and for persons and property aboard.

    legally the vehicle is considered "in flight" even while landed on the moon

  10. Re:Its about the sale not the possession? on NASA Sues Apollo Astronaut To Return Moon Camera · · Score: 2

    no, it's not his, it's the property of the US government. there is a lot of precedent for the government recovering their stolen property even generations later.

  11. Re:Not bound by the statute of limitations? on NASA Sues Apollo Astronaut To Return Moon Camera · · Score: 1

    but that seems to be the only way the government can actually surrender ownership of stuff that was purchased with taxpayer money. Rules do not typically generate themselves, every stupid rule comes from a past abuse of position or incompetent mistake that was not technically against the rules and someone got away with it so the rules were changed.

    a likely source of such a rule would be some moron throwing out perfectly good and costly / valuable things to free up space because it was inconvenient or "throwing out" perfectly good stuff in order to "recover" it from the dumpster later.

    as for why all the paperwork, how else do you formally determine what is valuable and what is worthless

  12. Re:Phoronix? on Kernel Bug Means Linux Power Usage Remains High · · Score: 1

    there should be little if any major differences between the linux and osx versions

  13. Re:absolutely....buggy BIOS's are the problem on Kernel Bug Means Linux Power Usage Remains High · · Score: 1

    seems to me that such features could be set up using a function probing tool that tested the function of each command and logged it so they system could know what does work, what does not work, and what crashes the system, submit results back to t he repository and linux will have a more complete and accurate database than windows has (include information on lower value probabilistic errors rather than just does/does not work, warn the user when yea this model is supposed to work but there is a 1/2000 chance each time it is called of crashing instead of working.

  14. Re:not enough on Oracle To Pay US Almost $200M To Resolve False Claims Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    better would be a do not purchase order, all agencies prohibited from buying anything new from oracle and can only expand an oracle installation if it would be more than 50% more expensive to use a suitable alternative

  15. Re:Has to do with TZ change dates on Civil Suit Filed, Involving the Time Zone Database · · Score: 1

    the pre-restoration version would have to be submitted

  16. check the buyer's financials. on Ohio Supreme Court Drawn Into Magnetic Homes Case · · Score: 1

    look into the homeowners financials, i bet anyone $100 that these people cannot afford their payments and are trying to use ignorant courts to defraud the builders.

    nothing in this case makes sense

  17. Re:Highly Suspect on Ohio Supreme Court Drawn Into Magnetic Homes Case · · Score: 1

    if the field were strong enough to have an effect on the platters or the circuits of the hard drive while it was inside the computer and inside the room they should be suing for the MRI machine hidden in their walls

  18. Re:the end of timezones? on Civil Suit Filed, Involving the Time Zone Database · · Score: 1

    days would still end at midnight, midnight would no longer be at 12AM

  19. Re:All 65k+ of them? on Iran Blocks VPN Ports · · Score: 1

    counter with a VPN tunnel that formats it's messages as HTTP GET commands, with the GET URI being the send and the reply as the receive

    if paranoid such exchanges could be coded in the form of words rather than hex data, it would be slower to process but almost impossible for a network monitor to find or filter without breaking all internet access

  20. Re:Has to do with TZ change dates on Civil Suit Filed, Involving the Time Zone Database · · Score: 1

    a simple amendment to copyright law requiring that copies of out of copyright works be submitted to the LoC in order for a derivative of such a work to be eligible for new copyright.

  21. new start menu blows on Microsoft Killed the Start Menu Because No One Uses It · · Score: 2

    usage fell because the start menu with the scroll interface blows, to start a program that does not start with A i have to click the start menu, click all programs, drag the scroll bar looking for that shit, then click the program folder then click the program.

    it would seriously take less time usually to winkey+R then type the path.... IF m$ had not decided to separate 32 and 64 bit programs by default install folder (what the fuck?) so in order to manually launch an app i have to remember WHICH folder it's installed in

    it's a shame, aside from that BS windows 7 is overall rather nice, reliable and i like the libraries function to provide convenient lists of folders holding similar content on different drives or otherwise in different places on your drive for whatever reason

  22. Re:Xiaomi Phone on Ask Slashdot: Advice For Using a Cell Phone In China? · · Score: 1

    Sorry BES not BIS

  23. Re:Xiaomi Phone on Ask Slashdot: Advice For Using a Cell Phone In China? · · Score: 1

    If you are using a smartphone get a blackberry with a bis account so you don't get rootkitted, android and ios are insecure against a determined attacker and webos is unproven and I don't know if you can get a webos phone with the right radios

  24. Re:criminal corporations on Hitachi-LG Fined $21M For Price-Fixing Optical Drives · · Score: 1

    "Criminal" for corporations should be handled as probation, where a corporation once convicted or pleads guilty and put on probation for a term, during that term has no privacy or right to refuse inspection or investigation by government officials. This would extend to all operations and investigations of all things not just ones related to the original complaint. Just like a probationer or parolee has essentially no right to refuse any level of investigation by their PO.

  25. Re:What about bad apps? on Facebook Adds Malicious Link Protection · · Score: 1

    They will collect their cut of the profits