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  1. Re:Are consumers that dumb? on Jobs to Labels- Lose the DRM & We'll Talk Price · · Score: 1

    The lower price you never paid for something you didn't want is irrelevant

    Since when was price irrelevant to customers?

  2. Well... on Are End Users to Blame for OS Flaws? · · Score: 1

    Microsoft certainly would like you to think that they are.

  3. Re:He most certainly IS under US jurisdiction on Australian Extradited For Breaking US Law At Home · · Score: 1

    I will say, however, that this is the first time I've heard of anything involving extradition for violating US law when the person involved has never set foot in the US, and the crimes never took place on US soil.

    Have you ever heard of a place called Guantanamo?

  4. Wanna bet... on Australian Extradited For Breaking US Law At Home · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ... the war on terror made this extradition a lot easier?

  5. Re:Let's not be disrespectful... on Jack Valenti, Dead at 85 · · Score: 1

    A human being died

    I believe that is still under debate...

  6. These guys really invented tabs! on Apple Sued For Using Tabs In OS X Tiger · · Score: 1


    I mean come on, their name is IP Innovation LLC ffs.

  7. Re:Get some sense? on NC State Stands Up to RIAA · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because it IS against the law to download Intellectual Property you don't have rights to.

    Really? I thought that it was only against the law to distribute IP you don't hold the rights to. I don't have much knowledge about laws in the USA (which I assume is what you mean) OTOH, so I may be wrong.

  8. Yellow light? on MIT Shows How to Shut Down Brain With Light · · Score: 1


    As in sunlight?

    I think they should take a look outside for once.

  9. Interesting.... on New Inkjet Technology 5 To 10 Times Faster · · Score: 1

    If I make a critical comment on their homepage it doesn't seem to show up (I've waited for 30 minutes for it to show up).

  10. Re:TLA for the KJC on Christian Group Prepares To Mark Wii as 'Porn Portal' · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Rush Limbaugh thinks with his mouth."

    You misspelled asshole.

  11. Unfortunately... on SETI Finally Finds Something · · Score: 1

    ... no

  12. MS infringing on Ballmer Repeats Threats Against Linux · · Score: 1

    So how many patents does MS infringe upon?

  13. Re:Energy efficiency, not generation. on Power Generating Spacesuits · · Score: 1


    There is a lot of complaining that this will make the suits harder to bend and a number of other non-sense.


    Another way of looking at this would be from the viewpoint of redundancy. At some point, the fact that a joint is harder to bend may hinder some important task from being done. You just might need the extra flexibility to prevent an accident, for example. That is not nonsense.

    On the other hand, if they can use astronaut movement to generate energy without making it harder for them to move, this is not an issue.

  14. Coogee on Cloning the Smell of the Sea · · Score: 1

    Apparently they've managed to bottle the smell of "rotting seaweed", or coogee, as I think the australian aborigines call it (it's also the name of a beach on the outskirts of Sydney).

  15. Snap on What Breakfast Gets You Going? · · Score: 1


    The Culture's favourite breakfast drug.

  16. Well... on Crunching the Numbers on a Hydrogen Economy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Stupidity IS more abundant than hydrogen after all...

  17. ACHTUNG! ALLES LOOKENSPEEPERS! on Intel Announces Lasers On a Chip · · Score: 1

    Das computermachine ist nicht fuer gefingerpoken und mittengrabben. Ist easy snappen der springenwerk, blowenfusen und poppencorken mit spitzensparken. Ist nicht fuer gewerken bei das dumpkopfen. Das rubbernecken sichtseeren keepen das cotten-pickenen hans in das pockets muss; relaxen und watchen das blinkenlichten.

  18. I wonder... on The Multi-Pointer X server · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ... when Microsoft will "innovate" this.